Senate Finance Committee Won’t Vote n Reform Bill Before Recess
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- Senate Finance Committee Won’t Vote n Reform Bill Before Recess
- Republican Party: North vs. South in GP
- Some in GP hoping Baker frees party from shadow of Romney
- Sen. Jim Bunning to Retire Due to Slow Fundraising
- The Republican Recovery
Senate Finance Committee Won’t Vote n Reform Bill Before Recess
Kaiser Health News
They are offering policy-based critiques and alternatives to Democratic health proposals. They are looking for openings that might undercut an inexperienced but popular new president without getting too personal. In the meantime Senate Democrats are blaming the media for creating the August deadline for reform in the first place. ) said reporters created a fictitious deadline of a successful vote by the August recess and downplayed the fact that the chamber won?t meet that mark.
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Republican Party: North vs. South in GP
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
George Voinovich (R-hio) talks to reporters. If the signs are right the Republican Party already reeling from a series of national election reversals is flirting with a re-run of the civil war that it surely doesn’t need. George Voinovich of hio in a kind of Fort Sumter moment fired the first public shot in telling the Columbus (hio) Dispatch that the downfall of the GP is attributable chiefly to its takeover by Southern conservatives. “We’ve got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns” Voinovich said a reference to conservatives Republican senators from South Carolina and klahoma both outspoken and intensely conservative. “It’s the southerners” Voinovich added.
Some in GP hoping Baker frees party from shadow of Romney
Boston Globe
Some in the GP though had a different message: Good riddance. They thought he had been selfish that he had furthered his own political career at the expense of the Republican Party in his home state. They felt that Romney’s growing focus on social issues – namely his outspoken opposition to gay marriage abortion rights and stem cell research – damaged the GP brand in the Bay State which had historically emphasized fiscal conservatism and moderate social positions. “ne thing that hasn’t worked well for Republicans all across New England is the tilt toward social issues that the national party has taken’’ state Senator Richard Tisei then the incoming Senate minority leader said as Romney was preparing to leave the State House in 2006. “I think the governor in his attempts to position himself in the Republican primary has highlighted a lot of social issues and I think quite frankly that hurt [Lieutenant Governor] Kerry Healey and it also.
Sen. Jim Bunning to Retire Due to Slow Fundraising
Washington Post
Jim Bunning bowed to political reality today announcing that he would not seek a third term in 2010 — a move that drastically increases Republicans’ chances of holding the seat next fall. "ver the past year some of the leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate have done everything in their power to dry up my fundraising" said Bunning referring to his testy relationships with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky. ) and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas). "The simple fact is that I have not raised the funds necessary to run an effective campaign for the U.
The Republican Recovery
American Spectator
The danger of an opposition-based strategy that doesn’t address any of the GP’s long-term problems is obvious: if the economy begins to recover if bama’s approval ratings improve following a major legislative victory Republicans are still powerless to deny him if the party peaks in 2010 and forces the president to tack to the center before running for re-election Republicans won’t be left with much to say. Bill Clinton’s liberal overreach doomed the Democrats in 1994. Triangulation and a Republican Party that couldn’t find more inspiring leadership than what Bob Dole had to offer saved them in 1996. Yet even with those risks it is possible that the Republican Party’s epitaphs following 2006 and 2008 will look as premature as the talk of a permanent Republican majority was after 2004.
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