An Addiction to Zealotry

Virginia Republicans delivered a rousing surprise at their gubernatorial nominating convention this month. They chose E. W. Jackson, an African-American minister and lawyer, as their candidate for lieutenant governor after he delivered a thunderously right-wing speech.

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Mr. Jackson is known for his signature rants: that gays are “perverted” and “very sick people”; that Planned Parenthood has been “far more lethal to black lives” than the Ku Klux Klan ever was; and that Democrats are “anti-God” and “partners” in black genocide. Democrats, of course, instantly flashed Mr. Jackson’s record of hateful bombast through the state. Faced with his past words, he said he had nothing “to rephrase or apologize for.” Attacking him for his principles, he tried to argue, was to attack “every churchgoing person.”

No one could have been more surprised by the convention’s upset choice than State Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli II, the Republican nominee for governor. Mr. Cuccinelli will probably have to try to moderate some of his own extreme positions (he is dogmatically opposed to the health care reform law, measures tackling global warming, immigration reforms, gay rights, etc.) in his search for the Northern Virginia vote. But there he was, yoked to Mr. Jackson by the heavy sway in the party of conservative zealots. “We are not going to be defending our running mates’ statements, now or in the future,” Mr. Cuccinelli briskly announced.

The Virginia race should be a prime test of national Republican vows to reconnect with the mainstream majority. Heavyweight donors are lining up to defeat Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat candidate for governor who was President Bill Clinton’s fund-raising guru. Money may not win the election when Republicans can’t seem to resist a beguiling extremist who must face mainstream reality.

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Obama’s Strategy Shows Misunderstanding of Terrorist Threat, Republicans Say

Republican lawmakers on Sunday criticized President Obama’s vision for winding down the war on terrorism, using talk show appearances to accuse him of misunderstanding the threat in a way that will embolden unfriendly nations.

“We show this lack of resolve, talking about the war being over,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “What do you think the Iranians are thinking? At the end of the day, this is the most tone-deaf president I ever could imagine.”

In his first major foreign policy address of his second term, Mr. Obama said last week that it was time for the United States to narrow the scope of its long battle against terrorists and begin a transition away from a war footing.

In addition to renewing his call to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, he said he would seek to limit his own war powers. He also issued new policy guidelines that would shift the responsibility for drone strikes to the military from the Central Intelligence Agency, and said there would be stricter standards for such attacks.

Mr. Graham, a strong supporter of the drone program, said he objected to changing the standards. Separately, he called for a special counsel to investigate both the Justice Department, which has come under scrutiny for seizing journalists’ phone records, and the Internal Revenue Service, which has acknowledged that it unfairly targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

Democrats, including Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, praised Mr. Obama for what they said was a necessary rebalancing of civil liberties and national security interests. “We have to balance our values,” Ms. Wasserman Schultz said Sunday on the ABC News program “This Week.”

But at least two lawmakers — the current and former chairmen of the House Homeland Security Committee, Representative Michael McCaul of Texas and Peter T. King of New York — complained specifically about the president’s remarks about Guantánamo Bay.

Mr. McCaul warned against closing the detention center, especially if it meant moving prisoners to the United States. “Name me one American city that would like to host these guys,” he said on the CNN program “State of the Union.”

More than half the remaining 166 detainees at Guantánamo Bay are Yemeni; of these, 56 have been cleared to go home. Mr. Obama has proposed repatriating detainees when he can, but will still face the thorny question of what to do several dozen men who cannot be prosecuted and who have been deemed to be too dangerous to release.

Mr. King, appearing with Ms. Wasserman Schultz on “This Week,” said the detention facility had been a success. “Many experts believe it did work,” he said, adding that he was “very concerned about sending detainees back to Yemen.” Noting that Mr. Obama had campaigned on a promise to close the prison, he said the president “could have done a lot more than he has done if he was serious about it rather than just moralizing.”

In calling for a special counsel, Mr. Graham said the Justice Department had begun to “criminalize journalism” and had engaged in “an overreach” in investigating leaks of classified national security information. He also complained of an “organized effort” within the I.R.S. to target political opponents of the president. “I think it comes from the top,” he said, although current and former I.R.S. officials have said Mr. Obama did not know of the targeting.

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GOP: Draw voters in without irking base

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON The Republican Party, having lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, confronts a dilemma that's easier to describe than to solve: How can it broaden its appeal to up-for-grabs voters without alienating its conservative base?

There's no consensus yet on how to do it. With the next election three years away, Republicans are tiptoeing around policy changes even as they size up potential candidates who range from tea party heroes to pragmatic governors in Republican- and Democratic-leaning states.

There's a partial road map, but it's more than two decades old, and the other party drafted it. Democrats, sick of losing elections and being tagged as out-of-touch liberals, moved their party toward the center and rallied behind Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton in 1992.

Strategists in both parties say Clinton's achievement, however impressive, may look modest compared to what a Republican leader must do to construct a new winning formula, given the nation's changing demographics.

"Our challenge was to get voters back," said Al From, a chief architect of Clinton's political rise. "Their challenge is harder: get voters to come into a new coalition."

An array of Republican campaign veterans agree. They say the party's loyal base of conservative activists -- including evangelical Christians, anti-tax crusaders and anti-abortion advocates -- is too big, ideological and vital to be treated with anything but great care and respect. Republicans will go nowhere if they lose a hard-core conservative every time they pick up a new unaligned voter with a more moderate message.

While they circle that conundrum, Republican leaders hope for a charismatic nominee.

Several veteran strategists say Republicans should focus less on modifying their ideas than on improving their campaign mechanics and finding nominees with broader personal appeal than Mitt Romney, John McCain and Bob Dole.

"The foundation of the party as a conservative party hasn't been the principal liability, but the principal asset," said GOP campaign strategist Terry Holt.

Arizona-based Republican consultant Eddie Mahe said finding a charismatic candidate is more important. Given Americans' low opinion of politics, he said, "to sell the party as a party is nonsensical."

A 97-page post-mortem, commissioned by the Republican Party after Romney's loss last fall, said the GOP "is increasingly marginalizing itself, and unless changes are made, it will be increasingly difficult for Republicans to win another presidential election in the near future."

The report emphasized messaging and outreach more than possible changes to policies and proposals. "The party should be proud of its conservative principles," the report said, but it also must be more "welcoming and inclusive" to young voters, minorities and women.

From -- who founded the Democratic Leadership Council, a key proponent of Clinton's 1992 agenda -- says Republicans are on the wrong track. They must be more open to adjusting their policies, he said, if they want to win presidential elections.

Clinton's 1992 team believed "if you get the argument right, people will vote for us," From said. "Republicans don't have the argument right."

Clinton campaign aide Paul Begala said parties that win presidential elections are "always more mainstream and more unified. Right now, the Republicans are neither."

Begala said liberal activists made only modest complaints about Clinton's shift toward the political center because they were sick of losing elections with nominees such as George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis.

Begala said Republicans might need one more presidential loss to create a similar level of frustration, which can open the way to pragmatism and moderation. Nominating a tea party-leaning "true believer" such as Sen.

Ted Cruz of Texas could do the trick, Begala said.

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Senate backs Medicaid expansion

The Arizona Senate on Thursday approved expanding the state's Medicaid program, capping a rancorous debate that had split the Republican Party and had been building since January, when Gov. Jan Brewer issued a surprise call to increase Arizona's health-care program for the poor.

How they voted on Medicaid expansion

YES

Sen. Ed Ableser, D-Tempe

Sen. David Bradley, D-Tucson

Sen. Olivia Cajero-Bedford, D-Tucson

Sen. Rich Crandall, R-Mesa

Sen. Adam Driggs, R-Phoenix

Sen. Steve Farley, D-Tucson

Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix

Sen. Katie Hobbs, D-Phoenix

Sen. Jack Jackson Jr., D-Window Rock

Sen. Leah Landrum Taylor, D-Phoenix

Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Tucson

Sen. John McComish, R-Phoenix

Sen. Barbara Maguire, D-Kearny

Sen. Robert Meza, D-Phoenix

Sen. Lynne Pancrazi, D-Yuma

Sen. Steve Pierce, R-Prescott

Sen. Michele Reagan, R-Scottsdale

Sen. Anna Tovar, D-Tolleson

Sen. Bob Worsley, R-Mesa

NO

Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix

Sen. Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert

Sen. Judy Burges, R-Sun City West

Sen. Chester Crandell, R-Heber

Sen. Gail Griffin, R-Hereford

Sen. Al Melvin, R-Tucson

Sen. Rick Murphy, R-Peoria

Sen. Don Shooter, R-Yuma

Sen. Kelli Ward, R-Lake Havasu City

Sen. Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler

Sen. Kimberly Yee, R-Phoenix

A handful of Senate Republicans teamed with Democrats to approve the fiscal 2014 budget plan and overcome a flood of amendments intended to scuttle Medicaid expansion, pushing through the governor's top legislative priority on a 19-11 vote after three hours of debate.

Although the legislation faces an uncertain future in the House, its passage late Thursday was a key victory in the governor's effort to bring health care to an additional 350,000 Arizonans.

Brewer and her supporters -- including some who, like her, oppose the federal health-care overhaul that makes expansion possible -- said Arizona could not afford to reject the billions of federal dollars that come with it.

But opponents of expanding the state-federal health-care program for the poor and disabled, including Republican legislative leaders, said it goes too far, beefing up an already unaffordable, unsustainable government entitlement program that goes against GOP principles and discourages people from taking responsibility for their own health care.

A standoff set in for weeks, with Senate President Andy Biggs, who was an early and ardent expansion opponent, saying he would not bring a Medicaid expansion bill to the floor and House Speaker Andy Tobin saying he didn't like Brewer's plan and was working on alternatives.

On Tuesday, Biggs cranked the legislative machinery into gear and started moving toward a vote on the fiscal 2014 budget without Medicaid. By bringing it to the floor, it allowed proponents of Medicaid expansion the opening they needed, setting up what Biggs called "the most consequential decision of a generation."

Weighing down the bill

The maneuvering began the evening before the vote, and it could be heard as the copy shop in the state Senate buzzed with activity.

As soon as the Senate Appropriations Committee finished its work Wednesday afternoon, setting up Thursday's vote, lawmakers started flooding staffers with budget amendments for the floor session.

By 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sen. Kelli Ward, R-Lake Havasu City, had filed seven amendments designed to weigh down the expansion proposal. Ward, a physician and freshman lawmaker, is one of the Senate's most outspoken Medicaid- expansion opponents.

Biggs came in with 13 anti-expansion amendments.

Majority Leader John McComish, R-Phoenix, filed two amendments, which contained the heart of the fight.

Though he had not publicly expressed support for the plan, he was thought to be on board and, in the end, became the spear carrier for Medicaid expansion.

In all, there were 24 Medicaid-related amendments, and 34 were related to other parts of the budget.

Decision day

Thursday opened with a tense Republican caucus meeting. GOP senators aired their differences on the the expansion proposal as a crowd of lobbyists, reporters and Capitol regulars listened in.

Sen. Rick Murphy, R-Peoria, called McComish's sponsorship of the Medicaid-expansion amendment a "betrayal" because most of his GOP colleagues were opposed to it.

And, he predicted, the move would be an incentive for more Arizonans to take a cut in pay so they would qualify for state-sponsored health coverage.

Sen. Al Melvin, R-Tucson, urged his colleagues to reject the lure of the federal money that would pay for most of the expansion.

"To me, it's immoral and unethical to accept this money," he said.

The meeting lasted an hour and a half. McComish held his comments to the end.

"People of good faith and good conscience differ," he said. He wanted a civil debate.

With that, the meeting ended, and members filtered out of the room and up to the Senate floor, where proceedings opened with debate and voice votes on all the budget bills except the Kryptonite that is Medicaid expansion.

Other proposals pass

Proposals to increase spending on K-12, child welfare and universities passed with support from a changing array of three to six Republicans, who were joined by all 13 Democrats. Their amendments added about $34 million to the $8.8 billion budget, frustrating conservatives in what just two years ago was called the "tea party Senate."

Conservatives attempted to pressure their colleagues by forcing formal votes on motions to cut some of the spending.

They failed.

Ward, who is among the chamber's conservatives, tweeted: "The rolling of the conservative majority has begun."

Medicaid debate

Biggs had saved Medicaid for last and was ready with his amendments intended to kill, or at least weaken, the bill.

But again and again, McComish and four other GOP senators -- Majority Whip Adam Driggs and Sens. Rich Crandall, Steve Pierce and Bob Worsley -- stood with the chamber's 13 Democrats to defeat most of Biggs' amendments. And they teamed with Democrats to approve the Medicaid amendment on an 18-12 vote.

Democrats remained mostly silent, letting McComish do most of the work defending the governor's plan.

"We're faced with two unpleasant choices," he said. "If we don't do Medicaid expansion, our rainy-day fund will be totally wiped out."

Biggs chided his colleagues for not taking more time to consider such an enormous public-policy issue and warned that they would regret their decision for generations to come.

There had been no hearings, not even a proper bill, he said, just an amendment tacked on during floor debate -- hardly befitting a decision of this magnitude.

"This is the most important policy decision that we've encountered in a generation," Biggs said during a rambling floor speech that included lessons about why the federal government -- "a dubious partner" -- should not be trusted.

Unfair 'burden'

"This is not about expanding health care because it's some kind of altruistic program. It's about expanding health care to get federal money," Biggs said. "The money will unfairly burden our children and our grandchildren."

Sen. Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler, made an impassioned plea for an amendment to require a two-thirds majority vote in keeping with a 1998 voter-approved law intended to curb tax and fee hikes.

The assessment on hospitals, although it would be implemented by the state's Medicaid program, is clearly a tax, he said, adding that failing to require a supermajority approval is unconstitutional and sets a dangerous precedent.

Two of Biggs' amendments were successful, including one requiring a three-year "sunset" review by the Legislature of the expanded health-care program. That provision also is contained in a package of bills unveiled this week by House Speaker Andy Tobin, R-Paulden.

The second amendment requires the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state's Medicaid program, to report each year how much uncompensated care hospitals are claiming and the amount each hospital pays in provider taxes.

The debate went on for three hours, then ended abruptly after the underlying budget bill, with the Medicaid-expansion amendment, won approval on a voice vote.

In a statement, Brewer thanked the Senate "for acting in a bipartisan, courageous and collegial fashion …. to approve the single most critical policy issue that has faced our state in years."

Next steps

House Speaker Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, said he has not studied what he calls the Senate budget and can't yet say what he'll do with it. But, he said, he won't move a budget along unless he has Brewer's support. And he won't take up Medicaid expansion unless he has the support of at least half of his 36-member Republican caucus.

If he sends the Senate budget to the House Appropriations Committee, it appears a hostile welcome awaits it.

Chairman John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, called the Senate legislation so loaded with personal vendettas that have resulted from a rift in the GOP caucus in the Senate that he may just toss the whole proposal and start over.

"This is not policy, this is politics," he said.

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At the capitol

(PNI) TODAY'S AGENDA

Topic: Dueling Medicaid rallies.

What it's about: Gov. Jan Brewer headlines rally with supporters of Medicaid expansion. Rep. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, conservative blogger Bill Whittle and Republican Party officials rally against expansion.

Details: Brewer pro-expansion rally, 11a.m., House lawn; Petersen anti-expansion rally, noon, Senate lawn.

BILL TRACKER

Today's spotlight:

Summary: House Bill 2144, CPS omnibus.

Sponsor: Rep. Kate Brophy McGee, R-Phoenix.

Status: Scheduled for debate in the full Senate.

-- Mary K. Reinhart

TODAY'S TALKER

There IS a doctor in the House …Rep. Eric Meyer, D-Paradise Valley, was on the case on Tuesday when a legislative assistant had a seizure. Meyer, a physician and former emergency-room doctor, has an office just around the corner from the incident, and was in the House when the call went out for help.

He got oxygen to the patient and helped stabilize the assistant before an ambulance arrived.

For his efforts, he got a shout-out from Rep. Doris Goodale, R-Kingman, when the House met on the floor.

-- Mary Jo Pitzl

QUOTES OF THE DAY

"We're simplifying, very complexly."

-- House Speaker Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, on efforts to streamline the state's sales-tax code.

"This is the beginning of the end." -- Gov. Jan Brewer on Senate President Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, breaking the budget and Medicaid-expansion stalemate with his 2014 spending plan.

KEEP TABS

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Gun-buyback stand shows Brewer is 2-faced

(PNI) Our governor has been saddled with many labels during her reign, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to add another: hypocrite.

This freedom-loving, finger-waving defender of personal liberty, individual initiative and the American way has signed into law a bill that denies the right of an individual to dispose of his/her personal blunderbuss as he or she chooses. If you want to get it off the streets through a buyback program, for whatever reason, you can't. It has to be resold! Big sister has spoken.

For shame, governor. Your effort to elevate the lowly firearm into the equivalent of religious icon is turning our state into the butt of late-night jokes. Keep your hands off my guns -- coming, or going.

--Mike Sheehan,

Grand Canyon

Rep. Issa, look in mirror

While Benghazi was and is a tragedy, I wonder where the concern from Congressman Darrell Issa was when, in 2011, he voted to deny the State Department's request for increased funding for the embassy security budget.

Keep in mind that Issa's vote to deny this request was as the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Now as the chairman of this same committee, he is asking how the Benghazi tragedy happened! If you want to talk about knowingly placing embassy personnel at risk, you need to look no further than this vote.

The State Department can only spend money as appropriated by Congress. Had this money been approved, the Benghazi fiasco might not have happened.

--Scott Peterburs, Mesa

Benson exploits 3 victims

Shame on Republic cartoonist Steve Benson for using the story of the three kidnapped victims in Cleveland to make comment about the Republican Party (Opinions, Friday).

These three women in Cleveland went through hell for nearly 10 years. One reportedly was beaten to force five miscarriages. To equate the Republican Party with the diabolical actions of the captor is beyond imagination.

Benson should let these women come back to some kind of a normal life and not use them for his political agenda.

--Joe Callahan, Peoria

A pension-reform idea

Pension plans for public employees do not focus the employee on saving for retirement. This is unfair to the employees who are "dependent" on the taxpayer while they are working and then are "dependent" on the taxpayer, and the pension plan's investments, for their future.

Promising police, firefighters, teachers and other municipal workers an absurd retirement income does not encourage those workers to take even a modicum of responsibility for their own futures.

We would be much better served -- and public employees would be much better served -- if we structured a sound retirement strategy that included saving and personal investment, without limiting contributions and taxing away profits made by employee investments.

If we did this smartly, with the focus on the future rather than the immediate benefit, thewhole system would function better, which is good for all!

--Scott Keeffe, Scottsdale

Comparing cover-ups

Do you remember what led to impeachment proceedings against President Nixon? It was a cover-up of a break-in of a Democratic Party office.

Does that have the same weight as an administration that stood by and watched an ambassador and three others die and then lied to the American public about it?

Amazing how our values have changed in such a few years!

--Gary Yohe, Phoenix

Stay to right, slow driver

Regarding "Like to speed? Go around" (Opinions, Thursday):

The problem is not necessarily speed but traffic flow. While the posted speed is 65 mph, that does not mean you should labor in all the lanes going 65.

Most states have signs indicating "Keep to the Right Except to Pass" or "Slower Traffic Keep to the Right." However, Arizona's Legislature, with its Wild West mentality, will not post those signs.

I already leave 15 minutes early to dodge the inconsiderate slow driver, cellphone talker and texting hog and broken-down handyman and landscaping trucks in the left and middle lanes. It is dangerous to pass these self-centered people.

I want to be able to choose whether or not I want a speeding ticket.

Think about other citizens. Keep to the right.

Another problem is traffic-light synchronization. I encounter 24 lights on my way to work. I don't care what speed I travel, I will hit 18 of them. Talk about safety, environment and pollution.

--Bob Lament, Phoenix

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GOP's ad blitz targets 2 Ariz. Dems

National Republicans, getting a jump on 2014, are sending two trucks carrying campaign billboards around Arizona targeting congressional Democrats they believe are vulnerable in the midterm elections.

The ads attack U.S. Reps. Ron Barber and Ann Kirkpatrick and seize on President Barack Obama's health-care program and recent controversy over the Internal Revenue Service.

Arizona is a top priority for Republicans, after the party lost all three of the state's toss-up congressional races last year, handing Democrats a majority of the state delegation. The billboard blitz is part of a National Republican Congressional Committee initiative to go after seven House members across the country, including Barber and Kirkpatrick, whose toss-up districts went for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last year.

"The point of these is a very public display of how highly we are targeting these districts," Annie Kelly, an NRCC spokeswoman, told The Arizona Republic from the party's offices in Washington on Tuesday.

The billboards, along with a recent spate of online ads, represent a trickle of money that is expected to turn into a deluge by next year.

The ads are meant to drive home that Barber and Kirkpatrick are too liberal for their constituents, said Kelly, who already is traveling to Arizona to recruit opposition candidates. The ads warn that the members of Congress will "put the IRS in charge of your health care" because they voted against repealing "Obamacare" and because the IRS will play a role in enforcing rules in the health-care law.

Spokespeople for Kirkpatrick and Barber said the GOP attacks are off base.

"These folks have no clue about rural Arizona," said Jennifer Johnson, spokeswoman for Kirkpatrick of Flagstaff. "While (Republicans) were gathering in Phoenix to launch a traveling circus, Congresswoman Kirkpatrick was hard at work in her district, honoring our veterans and talking jobs and economic development with small-business owners."

Barber spokesman Rodd McLeod said the Tucson Democrat is trying, along with some Republicans, to change controversial aspects of the Affordable Care Act.

Barber signed on to three such bills, which McLeod said the Republican Party should focus on passing instead of putting splashy billboards on the road.

"They should be focused on trying to deliver more value to Arizonans than a cheap political stunt," McLeod said.

Arizona's third swing-district Democrat, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, was not included in the blitz -- her district leans further left and supported Obama -- but the Republican campaign committee has pledged to target her with other efforts.

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