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What a big waste of time. Thanks for nothing GOP. You would think that the election told them something but I guess not. I can't imagine what the US would look like if these people ever got back into the white house.

I'll listen to their ideas only if they can express them without using the words "deregulate", "faschism" (including all alternate spellings), "tax cuts", "socialism" "trickle down", or any eupemism for the word "torture".

May I suggest you recruit some basic, real, everyday conservatives that pay their taxes, pay their bills, and cling to their God and guns.......................

You guys that are bashing the Obama administration, have you looked at the poll numbers? Oh, that's right its a conspiracy. Keep believing they are not true. Coming up with new ideas from the same old guys. Are you kidding? This will be like digging a dry well. Doesn't work very well in corporations and won't work here as well.

Hmm, a "factory". The definition of factory is "any place producing a uniform product, without concern for individuality". That sounds about right for the Republicans at this stage of the game.

Seriously, Republicans, what you need is NEW ideas, not a replay of old ones. 1) stop being the party of NO, and instead actually come up with real alternatives; 2) stop being the party of exclusion and start including more diversity; 3) stop being the party of right-wing religion (we know they are your base, but they are a shrinking minority) and remember that this country was built on the principle of separation of church and State; and 4) stop being the party that says you are the party for smaller government and lower taxes - face it, that pig won't fly anymore.

We always hear what the GOP is against, but rarely hear what they are FOR. And don't cry me the abortion river, guys, you are just against abortion, not really pro-life or you wouldn't be so adament against teaching responsible sex education in schools or supporting social services that place children resulting from your anti-abortion stance! They are against gay marriage, against raising taxes (at least on the rich and companies), against social services, against a national health care program, against helping the poor and unemployed, and against regulation of businesses.

Great way to achieive a bunch of nothin, pretty much what the party has done for years now...

If its anything like their current contributions, their "new idea factory" will be more like a "recycling plant"

lower taxes and economic growth, and strong national security policies.
So lower economic growth and Lower strong national security.
Smells like fear to me. fear of a better nation without republicans.

They want new ideas? Here are some – honor the 10th amendment about states' rights, push for preventive healthcare – perhaps lower rates for those in good health, offer incentives for people to get in shape and take care of themselves; shut the southern border to illegal immigrants/drug and gun trafficking; stand up and say while we believe that abortion is wrong, we honor the rights of an individual; civil unions – yes, marriage – no; (that cuts off those debates).
Oh, one more thing – push for a complete audit of all defense contracts for twenty years. Cancel contracts if the company did one of the following – traded with China, even through an intermediary (that's already illegal for computer systems); didn't deliver the product on time and on budget; or if they've had any trade with Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Zimbabwe or the Congo.
And Halliburton is not allowed to have any contracts for ten years.

The Republicans say they're for smaller government. I say 'put your money where your mouth is.'

We need a NEW Party for fiscal conservatives without the govern by religion planks in the platform.

Here's a "new idea" for the Republican party, come up with a plan to help the shrinking middle class and expanding lower class who have had years of stagnant or shrinking incomes, a declining public school system, skyrocketing healthcare costs that leave more and more uninsured each year and are crippling small business, college costs that make advanced education impossible for so many....free market arguments and trickle down economics haven't worked for the majority of Americans, the money trickles up to the few and the weight of their wallets are pushing the rest of us down. People aren't stupid, either put up or shut up because we voted for change, hope and help and you aren't it!!!

An "ideas factory"? Sounds titillating!

" ... The organization emphasized that it would help "promote market-oriented policies, lower taxes and economic growth, and strong national security policies."

Now where have they been for the past 8 years? I thought that was what Bush and the GOP Congress critters had been doing all along? That's what the GOP said they were doing? How come "trust me" doesn't sound so comforting coming from conservative lips...

I love the name! They can't even come up with a name that doesn't bring visions of the Iraq war. The American people do not like INsurgents or REsurgents. Maybe they can waterboard each other so they can come up with a new name for it.

Oh, Oh; a resurrection or erection of the PNAC!
We hear tell Ruppert is selling the "Times" and the "Journal" !

Between this "New Ideas Factory" and the "Tea Parties" I can only come to one logical conclusion: whoever is running the GOP is a first-rate moron. That said, anyone in the middle or lower class buying this nonsense should really check themselves into a mental institution.

Let me try posting again.........

GOP's 'ideas' are the same tired old ones, with a new spin.

The GOP does not "get it" ........ AMERICA is sick and tired of their hate, lies, fear and division!

All one has to do (if you can stand it) is listen to Hannity-the-hater on 'Faux News' and ask yourselves IF their 'vision' for our Nation is the type of country you want to live in?

Thanks but NO thanks.......... Grand Obstructionist Party!

It would be funny to be there...while GOP "thinkers" try to re-invent new stone tools for their Stone Age philosphy.

Haley Barbour? Mary Freaking Matalin?!? Talk about rounding up the usual suspects. Add in a mission statement that sounds like it was lifted directly from W's campaign book, and you've got a recipe for failure here. The GOP really just doesn't get it.

Can we unionize the factory?

Whether you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.

Well now, there's factory that'll close due to lack of innovation and production.

Isn't GOP an oxymoron to "new ideas"... very funny...what a joke.

In order to have ideas you need brains. Sorry

Republicans are trying to make an 'idea factory?' Bwa-ha-ha-ha! These guys haven't had a new or creative idea in decades! They're still pushing for cold wars, hot wars, trickle down economics, tax breaks for the rich, gutting health care and destroying our economy! Any 'new ideas' that they propose will undoubtedly be as pathetic, unworkable and damaging as their last 'new ideas,' which probably came in 1908.

CONSERVATIVE AND CREATIVE at the same time????? Yea – right! Just let the party fall apart ... it's inevitable.

What is it they say about people in large groups?

Ah, it looks like the Republicans just built their own fort to play in, with a sign on the door that reads "Bullies Only".

When they're ready to join the others in class, let me know.

Attendee's;

Please as you enter the facility check your coats and pick up your white hoods and sheets in the lounge area....

We'll be opening up with some remarks from Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheneny, and Sean Hanity....

Special guest Sarah Palin will make a cameo appearance, and she'll be showing the proper way to portray "REAL AMERICA" as opposed to "Regular AMERICA", you know most normal thoughtful people that are not filled with HATE......

Boy, some of you people are never satisfied. You complain that the Republicans have no ideas; then when they work on that you complain again. Truth is, ANY ideas have to be better than the crap coming from this administration.

Here a "new idea" try getting back to work.
Voters appreciate politicans who can get things done and be honest about what works and what does not.
Stop this party line stuff, red state , blue state stuff.

Isn't this completely against the basis of conservative philosophy as apposed to progressive philosophy? The vast majority of the conservative politicians and speakers I have had the opportunity to read of hear, condemn the idea of progressive politics. Yet, the basis of progressive politics is advocating reform, change, improvement (aka, new ideas), instead of keeping the status quo.

The very foundation of the GOP is based upon old ideas and values.

New idea 1) tax cuts for the rich
New idea 2) criticize Democrats
New idea 3) invade a random country
New idea 4) more tax cuts for the rich
New idea 5) make immigration and homosexuality illegal
New idea 6) allow fat, white guys younger than 60 to join
New idea 7) install Jesus Christ as "science" czar
New idea criticize Democrats as being both fascists AND socialists
New idea 9) how about some more tax cuts for the rich
New idea 10) make being poor illegal

The republican idea factory is a forum for coming up with new names to call the president i.e. fascist, marxist, communist, socialist.

Resorting to name calling is a sign of how truly weak and desperate the GOP has become. It pushes a corrupt and ineffective philosophy which the vast majority of americans reject.

Well I hope they get some magical ideas out of their "factory," because so far they are starting with the same tired old Republican policies that left us with so many problems: free-market fundamentalism, trickle down economics, and neo-con foreign policy.

It seems like every week the republicans are reinventing themselves. Maybe if they would actually change instead of just window dressing, it might work. The problem is that they do not want to change, all they want to do is try to convince everyone that they are new and improved so once they get elected they can to back to old business.

The organization's correct name is "Resurgent Third Reich"

When are Republicansgoin to understand that they can not sell as a NEW IDEA the same old – low tax, small gov,,,This is hysterical that they belive that is" factory " what they need and only missing, so they are going to repack old junk. They actyaly need minds able to create a new, minds that are capable to understand that hystory is going on and is not possible to aplay what worked loooooooooong ago( even if it was righ).The most hysterical that main actor in the new factofvy is G. W.Bush adviser!!!!!!!!!!!!!They must be kiding.....I was not aware that republicans are gone and lost so far , all what is left is Fox, Limdaugh., Palin....and conservative shamefull fraction.Bad, bad,bad,............

GOP ideas?!?! Talk about an oxymoron!

Republican new ideas factory???

Wouldn't that be a Xerox machine?

"....promote market-oriented policies, lower taxes and economic growth, and strong national security policies."

Translation

1. government that is so small that it can't oversee what Wall Street is doing. After all, Wall Street can police itself.

2. Lower taxes – lower the taxes for the rich, cut all programs essential for the survival of the middle class. After all, we need to decrease the revenue coming in at the same time 2 costly wars are going on.

3. Economic growth – the rich will reinvest the money into great-paying jobs and will therefore trickle-down onto everybody else

4. Strong national security policies – keep a war going so Halliburton and other corrupt contractors while make out like bandits.

It's the same ol song and dance from the GOP. After the last 8 years, they have no credibility on anything. People won't be fooled again. They are just trying to figure out a way on how to fool America again into believing that they actually care about them when they don't.

The only Republican with any sense at all is Ron Paul, a man conspicuously absent from this charade.

I'll bet you could hear a pin drop in one of their meetings.

Good idea. You guys are running out of people to hate and discriminate against.

Have you tired some people from history? You have pretty much ruined the next several decades of the future, why not do the same with the past?

Opps. Sorry. I forgot. You guys control the textbooks in Texas. You are already attacking the past.

Why does the Republican Party gain by changing the words "think tank" to "idea factory"? Maybe "factory" is more people friendly than "tank"?

Sounds very un-patriotic to go against the president. If you're not with us...you're against us....sound familiar

This won't be necessary in order to defeat Obama in 2012. Obama will take care of that himself.

I am afraid it is too late for the Republican Party. It has abandoned its conservatives values and cause the election of a big-spending, socialist president and congress. With all the federal money going out to the financial sector and the manufacturing industry, I fear the approach of Faschism in our nation. The federal government will own 99% of the shares of stock in General Motors. Who is next? Chrysler, Boeing, Lockheed, Ford? A very dangerous precedent is being set. I hope it doesn't get out of control.

I really like the "new ideas" factory! But how 'bout focusing the "new Ideas factory" on helping the AMERICAN PEOPLE (who are suffering) instead of focusing it on stopping Obama.

Don't you get it?? New ideas on stopping Obama still makes you the PARTY OF NO.

The Republicans need to come up with some realistic ideas that offer solutions to actual problems. Yes, I'm a Democrat but I've voted for various Republicans along the way (including last year's Republican congressional candidate).

I'm willing to listen but so far the alternatives to Obama's policies have been "No", generalized platitudes like "fiscal responsibility", and a budget with no numbers. Come on! Get real.

I'd listen if conservatives would explain – specifically – what "market oriented policies" would be used to expand health care to the uninsured. Or offer a realistic fiscally responsible budget (sorry, but deciding to eliminate Medicare/Medicaid isn't realistic).

Is there any truth to the tumor that they've located the factory in Bangladesh?

While I would welcome new ideas from the right side of the aisle, I find it hard to believe that the same old operators in the party (Barbour, Macaca Allen, Matalin et al) are suddenly going to become a wellspring of innovation. I anticipate calls for lower taxes, no healthcare and blustering about the myth of global climate change.

Dust off that old chestnut repubs, you have nothing new, no change, no ideas, no perspective, no fondness, no compassion, no morality in money, no bipartisanship, no tolerance, no love, no religious freedom, no second plan, no, just no no no no... they say it themselves... if you agree with that, vote republican, if you don't... vote anything else.

The GOP is the party of wealth and the richest, luckiest few in our Nation. Jesus would never have voted for a party of white, rich old men that use his name to propogate their agenda to disenfranchise the poorest amongst us and dictate how we live our lives in our own bedrooms.

There is nothing moral about the current GOP and I hope to the Heavens they never get another chance to show their form of "compassionate conservatism" again!!!!

The "factory" building may be new, but the ideas are not.

* waits with interest to hear a new idea from the Insurgent Republicans *

Will this new factory creat jobs?

Weren't all of you mewling about how the GOP doesn't have any new ideas? Now you are criticizing them for being creative. Admit it, you hate capitalism, free speech and freedom of religion, the things the GOP stands for.

Here's an 'idea;' why don't Republicans find a factory in TEXAS and move there...Too late to re-invent the wheel...

Has anyone told the Republicans the "Resurgents" are the Taliban in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghan and we don't want them here.

Even republicans posting here have no new ideas. All they can do is psychoanalyze the other posters. Get a grip people, this is a debate site not a love fest.

This "factory" will produce the exact same defective product previous conservative "factories" have, and will end up every bit as bankrupt.

Rather than a new "ideas factory" they could actually use a "new ideas" factory. Good luck with that one.

A "Conservative 'ideas factory'." Hmmm. Imagine it: a factory the size of a small - empty - matchbox. Open it, nothing's in there; try to put something in it, nothing fits (well, except for perhaps some foul smelling hot air). Interesting, but not very.

These Republicans are so irritating, why won't they just shut up and help our new bus drivers steer us off the cliff.

Here's an idea for you conservatives: Start thinking and governing like conservatives again instead of like watered-down democrats. (God I miss Reagan.)

geel lower taxes more national security...

new ideas for the GOP.

NOT

These guys are just desparately clutching on to their shredded coats of clue teflon.

Sheesh

Sounds like somebody in the republicants feels that "lipstick on a pig" concept might work after all. God help us and keep us from the intolerant war monger profiteering fundamentalists! Once again they prove the ONLY thing immoral to a Neo-Con is losing elections!

What academics are in the gop? The loudest voices in the gop are college dropouts with drug and alcohol problems. Limbaugh – dropout, Beck – dropout, Hannity – dropout, Rove – dropout.

There is no need for an "idea factory." ...for EITHER party.

The best ideas, the ones that actually work, were laid out more than 200 years ago in the Constitution. All you have to do is follow them.

Of course, that would require ousting the sycophantic leeches from both parties who have permantly affixed their probosci to the government trough.

Jefferson would truly roll in his grave if he could see that all of his countrymen's sacrifices were made for nothing, for we have truly turned our backs on their ideal of small, limited government, responsive to the several states, not the other way around.

Light your torch and sharpen your pitchfork before November 2010, because its time to force this beast from the castle.

I notice it's a new "IDEAS FACTORY".

Alas, not a "NEW IDEAS" factory.

and also the whole point of their conservative values is that they keep things the same....how do come up with new ideas to promote the status quo for the past few decades...yeah that is what some people would call an oxymoron....just because you wrap a piece of junk in nice paper, doesn't change the fact that it's a piece of junk to begin with

The GOP should try and come up with NEW ideas rather than try and repackage the same OLD failed ideas that, over the past eight years, have gotten us in our current predicament.

Great ! Then we can get back to good ole FLAT EARTH thinking !

ummm again GOP cannot say they know what to do because they already messed up...sorry but that ship has sunk and exploded and frozen near the iceburg

The could debate if FOX NEWS is good or bad for the GOP. They could start with the terms homicide bomber, used only by FOX NEWS and suicide bomber, used by everyone else.

The debate may or may not involve that the news readers on FOX News read what they are told by a higher power.....

LOL..factory...further proof of old tired thinking.

Last I checked, most American factories are shutting down.

The Reps need to come into the 21st century.

a new ideas factory

well if it helps the GOP to be more human I am all for it

but I had previously given up on the GOP displaying humanity so I will continue to be a skeptic

A new ideas factory. What the heck is that. To me it means that they have to manufacture any new ideas as their ideas are old, divisive, racist, and set equal rights back 20 years. A "factory" isn't what they need, they need to clean house and get rid of all the right wing evangelical mouthpieces who have pirated the GOP from the moderate middle that it needs to be embracing.

They should also push for the prosecution of the perpetrators of turture:-Bush et al

What I would like the GOP to do is take a long hard look at why we are were we are today versus where we were 8 years ago. Two wars, international reputation shattered, worst economic recession in decades, personal intolerances near epidemic levels, and job loss totals that I have never seen before.

What I want to see from the GOP party is perhaps more regret, and more ownership of the past 8 years, and a great deal less of the arrogance, the demands, and the continual disdain for our new president who is, might I add, working round the clock to simply keep this country above water.

Funny, Its an oxymoron. The party of no ideas creates an ideas factory. And yet, if they would bother listening to what people have been saying instead of just inventing stuff so they can feel superior, they'd know what people actually want.

Yet again another worthless move by a dying party.

I get it. The currently elected Republicans don't know what the Republican platform is so other non-elected outsiders will now dictate the rules. Is this some bizarre form of Cliffs Notes? So when people vote are they voting for the Republican Party or the Resurgent Republic Party? Sounds like a split to me.

hmmm that's refreshing, new ideas–good–lets take a closer look. I'll bet that 95% of their and budget and staff is devoted to, or made up of consultanting/marketing firms. Thats what it really is. They plan to "repackage" the old tired mantras of the conservative movement to once again fool some of the people, some of the time. Lets see: smaller gvmnt, tax cuts, individual responsibility and strong national defense. There is a problem however, you see when you implore smaller gvmnt and tax cuts for the wealthy 1%–the rich never get these memos, and so 90% of the wealth gets "transferred or redistributed" upward instead of trickling down to the workers. Also they ship jobs overseas to further avoid taxes and they also hoard their cash overseas in foreign accts. Yes they really do care for America-NOT–They will most likely put out feelers and talk about the wedge issues that seem to distract the public from going forward like: "gay-marriage", abortion, gun control...that kind of stuff–to appeal to the working poor of their base. Hmmm that sounds like a good platform–I think I'll start a political party and call it ???????-lets see
–Oh the Republican party!

I would say "Take Haley, and don't send him back", but then we'd be left with Phil Bryant for awhile.

By having Haley at it's core, this group will never be taken seriously by anyone but the faithful 20 or so percenters.

For you social conservatives out there, do you know what the first bill signed by Haley was after Katrina hit? Hint, it wasn't for emergency relief, or for better protections against future hurricanes. It was a bill authorizing casinos to build on land.

Wow sounds liek all you responders are for higher taxes, stagflation, and a weak America. Sounds like a recipe from the 70's. The only think tank ideas from Democrats are ones that makes us like France...a weak, secnd rate country, overrun with immigrants trying to change the culture, and moral and finanically bankrupt from government largess

Here's how it works:

"The market will magically regulate and fix itself!!!"

becomes

"The market will magically regulate and fix itself, bro!!!"

We're not buying.

Don't kid yourselves. The formed this group to find new and creative ways to slam Obama. They have no ideas. At least the let a few women in.

Who wants to bet all the GOP will be able to come up with are attacks on everything and anything Obama does and more tax cuts for the rich? The GOP is becoming a complete joke.

Great just what we need, another PNAC (Project for a new american century) a right wing conservative group with as much compassion for others as a bag of bricks, and if bones were brains they would all be bananas.

New ideas? Watch out for code words.

I guess they think it's better to stick their head in the sand and create their own world. Maybe they can base their new idea factory in Texas, once they get that secession thing worked out. Of course, then they'd be a foreign entity, with all the ensuing complications that could arise.

This just tickles me to death!!!! New Ideas???? The party of NO??? Right!!!!!!!!!!

"promote market-oriented policies, lower taxes and economic growth, and strong national security policies."

That first comma is aptly placed, since 'lower' refers to taxes and economic growth. We've seen the kind of growth that's occurred over the past eight years with these guys at the helm. We also saw how effective it was during the Hoover administration.

I think this is great!! The Republicans need to get back in charge in this country. I will back a party that believes abortion is wrong, gay marriage is wrong, Christians have a right to their thoughts and opinions without being called dirty filthy names by a closed minded, lost individual like Perez Hilton. The Republicans believe in the American way and that God is real and that He is in control!!

Wow, are they actually going to put words on their pages? (see gop budget)

GOP new ideas: Say No, Tax cuts for the rich, spread democracy (start more wars), continue to run 'fear and smear' campaigns.

This would preume that the GOP had an original idea....

And they got a great deal on their factory facility! It used to make Edsels, so they didn't even have to retool!

It should be titled "How to create the New Theocracy".

Just read all the comments from Democrarts or die hard Obama supporters and you will see how divided USA still is and they are helping and making that reality stronger.

What is wrong with a Party trying to look for new ideas to appeal to the average American. Let the people to decide if it will work or not but do not kill the initiative before it is born guys.

I find that USA is a more divided country now than before after all we have to start from the fact that 47% of voters did not support Obama so the challenge is to gain more people and show them that the country is on the right direction with all these comments of hate for Republicans we are not achieving that.

Do we want to turn the Obama administration into another Governemnt of hate for the opposition. An administration of the elite, blacks, highly educated Urban citizens, celebrities like Oprah and Matt Damon and occassionally minorites.

now republicans are growing up and loving ideas and debate i only fear after they bring forth good ideas LIMBAUGH will be against and they will call to apologise. i suggest they just get together organise a TEA party, talk TX SECESSION AND TAX CUTS HO HO HO...

Some good choices, some GOP wonkers, some I don't know.

However, if they come up with ANY ideas, complete with at least a broad description of how the ideas could be implemented and what the benefits would be, it would be helpful.

Any attempt at "bipartisanship" is completely derailed when one side only comes up with "I don't know how to do it, I just know that ain't the way."

Give 'em a chance to bring on the ideas. People of good will may disagree, but people of goodwill can also brainstorm. UP to now the Republicans have been more in "braindrizzle" mode.

Great, more of the same old ideas from the 50's and 60's tendered up as "thoughtful new solutions" by the same group of neocons, war mongers and bible thumpers that got us into the current mess we're in...
Way to go repulicants...

Just what America needs... A new organization dedicated to pandering flawed ideas, failed policy. Organizations like this really furthers the notion that the republican party is the party of yesterday! Instead, lets create organizations who can work on a non-partisan basis to create the real change American needs. It has become painfully obvious that the notion of "free-market" in its current form is not working – it's not efficient, effective, and at some points in time, it is counter-productive. It is hurting our environment here and abroad, the "free-market" of today has created a system of supply and demand which CANNOT be maintained in its current structure. Lets focus on the American, and in fact the Earth, of tomorrow, and not how to make that extra dollar today. In the end, it will be worth the time, cost, and effort!

Meet the new ideas, same as the old ideas. Conservatives are against change and newness, that's what conservative means. Find the cheapest way out of any problem, while assuring the rich get richer. Do not plan, or think, ahead to see what the outcome of your ideas might be for the world or its people, just make all the money you can right now. That about sums it up, doesn't it?

Why do the republicans refuse to acknowledge that the American people do not want their politics as usual? They continue with the
same old unworkable, unacceptable, outdated ideas and do not
face or try to help resolve all the problems.
There has to be some intelligent, patriotic, honorable republican politicians out there. Why are they allowing their so called leaders
try to destroy everything our president is trying to do, and, in the process destroy our country and what we have always stood for?

Typical comments from the left. What is wrong with a counter POV. What are you so ascared of. Shout people down, don't even let them be heard. What are you so ascared of. When you brain storm something you uaualy come up with a better solution. Why are you guys so afraid to do that. The answer is obvious.

LOL! Gotta do something I guess. Why create a factory when their answer to everything is two words, ‘tax cuts’?

If this is the best the Republicans can offer, I truly am concerned about our two-party system. I am a Republican at heart, as conservative as the next person, but I also can see where people are hurting. Wake up guys, Bush, Cheyney are history, and you will be too. Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican, too, and one of the most progressive thinkers that there was. Nelson Rockefeller was a progressive thinking Republican, and an eminently sucessful governor of New York. Get off the ideaolgy thing and get practical.

Years after this debacle started now they think they have an idea on how to fix our country, seeing as how they're party screwed it up.

"Our nation is at an historical junction and the actions we take today with regards to promoting free market principles will have an impact for a generation or more,"

In other words, let's find more ways to cause young white males to want to kill cops because their 'rights' will be taken away under the new Administration.

GOP and "new ideas"? Sounds like an oxymoron to me.

Here's an idea. Drop the radical-religious right as your base.

How to promote :Tax Cuts"...LOL

Does this instantly cause laughter in no one else but myself? They're just going to rephrase all their old tired, disproven maxims and try to cut down the President with them. So I guess you could say they might embrace recycling, which would be a new idea. I wonder how long before this "factory" starts laying off workers.

A new organization to promote old ideas. How innovative!

Truth in advertising would be "Insurgent Republicans".

The Republican representatives are just a bunch of un-Patriotic spinless thugs without any integrity or morales to guide them.

A new factory that delivers the same old parts such as "tax breaks for the rich" and "trickledown or voodoo" economics with a shiny new finish is not going to help either.

Kinda like that whole technology upgrade.

You can send tweets on Twitter but if it says the same old thing, your just using a new medium for the same tired message.

Plus the management of the "new factory", such as Haley Barbour(???) is pretty much like the old management.

The behavioral scientists may be a good idea as long as you do not assume they are a plant by the MSM "conspiracy" when they tell America has passed all of the repubs by and it is not going back to get you..

What is it with you Democrats? Does anything make you happy? You complain the Republicans do nothing and you complain when they do do something.

Give it a rest and go out and walk your dog. Maybe that might make you happier.

I would not raise my hopes if this bunch are going to be incharge of the new ideas, these folks still do not get it. May be when they lose more seats in 2010 and 2012, they'll finally wake up from their STUPOR................

Yes - and this factory, like most others in our country, is being shipped overseas. The difference?

WE WANT IT SHIPPED OVERSEAS.

I would value new ideas from the GOP, because it's not healthy for the country to only rely on one subset of ideas for it's future.

That said, it's been quite awhile since the GOP has had any new ideas.

I think you mean, the party of NO ideas

Don't they realize – been there, done that, failed miserably? It's a group of greedy, small minded old white men. Oh teah, the ones that got us into this mess.

Same Old Same Old BS Out of the Republicans

What principles and morals? The conservatives principles and morals are being a bunch of bigots!! What a idea!! LOL.

Another example that the GOP does not get it. We want our elected officials to do for the people not promote some ideology ( only tax cuts for the rich/ no abortions/no gay rights/ no universal health care/ fossils fuels only energy.) People are seeking problem solving not ideologies.

Our military has the capabilty to fight any kind of war except economic and the conseravite left us a national security probelem that will be with us a long time.This have been the down fall of many a country through out history.

Odds on this resulting in yet another round of 'Obama bad. Tax cuts good'? Pretty good, I think.

As Ross Douthat said in his New York Times Op-Ed piece today, "real conservatism" is just like Dick Cheney: " . . . it means a particular strain of right-wingery: a conservatism of supply-side economics and stress positions, uninterested in social policy and dismissive of libertarian qualms about the national-security state – for tax cuts at home and pre-emptive warfare overseas, {infused with a good dose of torture, I might add} anything else is disdained as sentimentalism."

Expect pretty much this approach from any conservative group, regardless of what they call themselves.

Ha ha ha ha ha, new ideas from conservatives? Isn't that an oxymoron? I'll stick with getting new ideas from progressives.

First order of business: figure out how to distance themselves from Rush, Hannity and the rest of the rabid right wing!

The GOP doesn't really need to do anything. Obama and Pelosi are running their party into the ground as it is. The GOP will swing back into power by default just to get away from the mess of this current administration/congress

Breaking New! The GOP Ideas Factory just closed down due to lack of raw material!

Ok i read this and it just seems very stupid to me. They claim that they will "promote market-oriented policies, lower taxes and economic growth, and strong national security policies." These are the exact same things that they have always stood for. How are they going to be any different? Maybe they should call it an idea graveyard.

Do they mean insurgent Republic? The republicans are running around like blind mice....

Yes their ideas are "how to be cheap, and help no one". How to pout politicaly. Taught by Boehner.

The Republican Party is still operating on "stupid". Once again...a day late and several billion dollars short. Where in the world have you people been? Where were you during the Bush Administration? You had to wait until you got thumped in the election and you still haven't learned anything. You are horribly disconnected from the public and from what is really going on on the everypersons' level. HELLO???!!!!

The republican agenda:
Strong defense means keeping a war going somewhere 24/7, to ensure that Halliburton and assorted thug contractors will make a very good living. Cutting taxes is only for the big corporations and the filthy rich, which means themselves. Small government means the poor are on their own. No skin off repubs backsides if they can't pay medical bills and have to do without medicine. No money for education, get out there and hold two jobs and put yourself through college. In the meantime the republicans will enjoy the fruits of the poor and middle class labors by stealing as much of it as possible.

They can go out looking under rocks for more things to say no to.

In an age where climate change, healthcare, and energy are also top concerns, no scientists on the list? As always, give the group a chance and see what ideas come out of this, but they should keep in mind that good ideas involve the world outside of politics. Given conservatism's inherent resistance to change, my guess is that this will be little more than "idealogues factory."

Maybe all those PhDs can decide if evolution or global warming or gravity are real.

What a bunch of whiny losers all assembled in one place.

And gee, they already have a report on Obama's budget. Guess they didn't wait to figure out what their ideas are before wading into issues.

Here's a clue, geezers. Real think tanks think first, THEN speak.

I see George Allen is a member of this so-called "ideas factory." Will he be bringing the crayons or the coloring books?

They're probably planning open rebellion.

Sounds to me like they will introduce "new" Bush policies to go along with Newt, Karl, Rush, etc.

My God, they just don't get it do they? They just can't seem to get their little brains around the fact that this is a brave new world that demands brave new answers. Look at this list of uptight, old-fashioned, backward, prehistoric-thinking, dinosaurs. And, they think that these people are going to come up with NEW ideas??? I think we dems are pretty safe.

First question for the "Conservative Ideas Factory":

How to maximize private profit at the expense of the public?

"promote market-oriented policies, lower taxes and economic growth, and strong national security policies."
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So, the ideas won't be any new ideas lol.

If Haley Barbour is on that committee, the only new ideas it'll come up with are new ways to steal government funding and scam the American taxpayers. I'd never put Haley Barbour in any group if I wanted it to have any legitimacy. That man is the worst, crookedest governor my state's had in my lifetime... and you really have to be doing something to be worse than Cliff Finch.

i have a great idea: get rid of all the old white men in the republican party and bring in fresh young ideas that know how to be team players. take NO out of the vocabulary and have them be part of the obama think tank. the GOP is doomed to fail unless all the old 'party first' foggies are made to retire and a new generation take over.

"market-oriented policies, lower taxes and economic growth, and strong national security policies"

Translation: outsourcing jobs, tax cuts for the rich and intimidation of other nations. Great new ideas. Have a nice day!

FIne, they can sit around and yell "cut taxes" at each other for a change.

Sounds more like an "ideas landfill".....