theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 4/6/2009
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You know there's serious disarray afoot among a party's Congressional leaders when the principals and their staffs start leaking genuinely damaging info about each other, and that now seems to be happening among House GOP leaders.
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 4/2/2009
washingtonmonthly.com - 4/2/2009
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REPUBLICANS JUST LOST THE DEBATE OVER THE ECONOMY....
Once in a great while, there are key turning...
points in a policy debate. This might be one of them. GOP Whip Eric Cantor ... accused Democrats of "overreacting" to the economic...
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Republicans just lost the debate over the economy
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Internal GOP leaks
Political Animal —
... last week. Greg Sargent noted , "You know there's serious disarray afoot among a party's Congressional leaders when the principals and their staffs start leaking damaging info about each other, and that now seems to be happening among House GOP leaders." Right. There was ...
Will GOP Infighting Help Democrats Pick Off Vulnerable Republicans In Red Districts?
DownWithTyranny! —
... With Republican "leaders" in disarray and at each other's throats, 2010 is looking like the kind of replay of 1934, the first midterm after FDR's first election. The 1934 election followed two years of vicious Republican obstructionism and finger-pointing and resulted in another 10 GOP Senate seats lost (leaving them with an impotent rump of 25 Republicans-- which sunk still further in 1936) and another 14 House seats gone (leaving the once dominant GOP House caucus with a mere 103 members, which eventually sank down to 88 as the obstructionism and petty intra-party bickering ...
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