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The Note: The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, October 29, 2009
Think Progress: Limbaugh blames Newt Gingrich for screwing up the NY special election.
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Time: House Republicans Hope the Economy Will Help Overcome the 'Party of No' Label http://bit.ly/1Pi2Ju 29 days ago |
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House Republicans Hope the Economy Will Help Overcome the 'Party of No' Label: So the group has been lo.. http://bit.ly/1Pi2Ju 29 days ago |
The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Note —
... Brooke gets gold medal of Congress" LINK
USA Today's Andrew M. Seaman: "Congress honors former U.S. senator Brooke" LINK
The Hill's Silla Brush: “Reps. Frank, Waxman square off over new consumer agency ” LINK
The New York Times’ Robert Pear: “Pelosi backs Off Having Set Rates for Public Option” LINK
DEMOCRATS / REPUBLICANS:
Time’s Jay Newton-Small “House Republicans Hope the Economy Will Help Overcome the 'Party of No' Label” LINK
The Hill's Sam Youngman: “Lobbyists receive DNC fundraiser invites” LINK ...
Signal Visit: Powerful images as president prepares weighty decision
The Note —
... Time's Jay Newton-Small: "In an effort to counter the criticism that the party doesn't stand for anything but opposing President Obama, Cantor has reconvened the working group that came up with the GOP's alternative to the White House's stimulus plan. That wasn't exactly a big success -- the proposal was widely panned for relying too heavily on tax cuts -- but Cantor is convinced that taking the long view is the path to success: health care and global warming may be the topics du jour, but ‘the narrative next year leading into the election, will be all about the ...
4 for 2010?
Swampland —
House Republicans are starting to pull together an agenda for 2010 . It's not as sweeping as the Contract with America, or, even, Six for 06. But if you're a small businessman with a commercial real estate problem or a company wondering how you're going to pay for mounting unemployment insurance costs -- than this plan's for you. Once, you know, they figure out solutions and all ( ...
Limbaugh blames Newt Gingrich for screwing up the NY special election.
Think Progress —
... Newt screwed the whole thing up from the get go.
Listen here:
The war between Newt and Rush extends back to earlier this year, when Limbaugh said Gingrich was tearing apart the conservative movement by trying to embrace “better policy ideas.” Gingrich had argued that the “era of Reagan is over,” and that Republicans needed more than simply being the “party of no.” Limbaugh is of course quite comfortable with the “party of no” status.
