Signs there’s still life in the leaderless GP
The News Review:
- Signs there’s still life in the leaderless GP
- Minnesota Recount Update: All Eyes on Pawlenty
- Pundit David Frum says Republican party needs change
- Congress: Unity or division?
- New role for president: fundraiser in chief
- Political Memo Budget Has bama Courting Fellow Democrats
Signs there’s still life in the leaderless GP
Examiner.com
Two recent reports show that the GP — leaderless and reeling from eight years of un-Republican behavior— has surpassed the Democrat Party in two key categories. First comes a poll from Rasmussen. No surprise that 81% of those polled in a national telephone survey don’t think the Democrat-dominated Congress has improved life over the last year. In other words Congress is as incompetent now as under GP leadership.
Minnesota Recount Update: All Eyes on Pawlenty
Washington Post
Posted by: dug2008 | March 26 2009 12:19 PM To SB52 – Two words: Jesse Ventura. By the way I think Franken will make a fine Senator for the folks in Minnesota. Posted by: scobamagirl | March 26 2009 12:20 PM The one truely consistent value of the Republican Party is unabashed anything-to-win selfishness. Posted by: abetterfuture | March 26 2009 12:27 PM If they elected him they get what they deserve. Jesse Ventura Al Franken.
Pundit David Frum says Republican party needs change
Toronto Star
Bush world is healthy and important for the party but there's no need to talk about reforming Canada's conservative movement commentator David Frum said today. Frum launched a maelstrom of debate among American Republicans two weeks after penning a Newsweek magazine cover story that attacked the divisive rhetoric of popular and influential radio personality Rush Limbaugh. In the story headlined "Why Rush is Wrong" Frum argued Limbaugh's acerbic views threaten to sink the party at a time when Republicans should be reaching out beyond their traditional core of voters and he called him "a man who is aggressive and bombastic cutting and sarcastic who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as `losers. "' "It's triggered a very tense but I think healthy debate in the United States" Frum said in an interview.
Congress: Unity or division?
msnbc.com
?Democratic leaders in both chambers are pushing packages that call for narrower deficits and less spending than proposed by the White House? Significantly both the House and Senate decided to abandon a White House request for additional money for the Wall Street rescue. The two chambers also don’t intend to invoke special legislative powers — known as ?reconciliation? — that would allow climate-change legislation to avoid a filibuster in the Senate. ? ?Still up in the air is whether legislation designed to expand access to health care another major bama administration priority will receive those filibuster-proof protections. The House budget does provide such protection and sets a Sept.
New role for president: fundraiser in chief
CNN International
It wasn’t until the 2004 cycle that the DNC was able to barely out-raise the RNC. So the fact that Democrats haven’t brought in as much this year as the GP isn’t necessarily a huge surprise" said Rob Yoon the CNN Political Unit’s research director. The president’s appearances at the fundraisers come on the same day he spent some political capital for the first time since taking over the White House in an effort to get another Democrat elected.
Political Memo Budget Has bama Courting Fellow Democrats
New York Times
The divisions are no greater than those that existed within the. bama’s ability to win the main elements of what he is seeking in his budget.
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