Posted on 11/04/2004 6:38:56 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
Per Foxnews. President Bush will be holding a news conference. His mandate is expected to be central to the conference.
George Allen talking on Fox now. We now have the votes for the energy bill. We also have the votes for class action reform. We now have the votes for drilling in Alaska.
The Democrats have learned a lesson. Time to renominate some of these judges as well.
This is gonna be good!
Time to start drilling Anwar!
Republicans have strengthened their control of Congress, but that won't necessarily mean smooth sailing for the agenda of Bush and the GOP.
The Senate - described by House Republicans as the place where good bills go to die - will now be more open to passing long-stalled bills on energy and highways. New tax cuts look more likely. Republicans will feel emboldened on everything from cutting regulation to stepping up the war on terror.
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The new GOP freshman class in the Senate also includes conservatives with strong ideological credentials, such as Reps. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and David Vitter of Louisiana, and, especially, former Rep. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
As an outspoken, self-term-limited member of the insurgent House "Class of '94," Dr. Coburn has already proved he can be as formidable an opponent to the GOP leadership as the Democrats when he believes conservative principles are at stake. When GOP leaders abandoned term limits or perpetuated pork-barrel spending, he called them hypocrites. "By the end of my time in Congress, careerism had trumped fiscal conservatism," he writes in his 2003 book, "Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders."
No surprise, then, that the White House did not initially back his candidacy. But conservative groups did and bankrolled his run.
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Any move to push a hard-right agenda in the Senate - on issues from the judiciary to budgets - could prompt resistance from within the Republican caucus, as well as from the Democrats.
"The moderate wing of the Republican party may be increasingly uncomfortable with the issues that these new, very conservative senators will be raising. It could even drive a couple of them out of the party," says Alexander Lamis, a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University.
BTTT!!!
GAAHHH! Could someone please ping me if it's something big? I'm at work and will have limited access at that time.
Start with drilling.
Time to kick gum and chew ass.
Specter should be the FIRST on the list.
Then he needs to appoint Rice as Sec State.
Pres. Bush believes that a politician has to spend political capital or it will be lost. This presser should be interesting.
bump!
New congress and senate won't be seated until January. I think it's going to be about the WOT.
Oh boy!
I'm on Cloud Nine still and the very thought of having to see Helen Thomas so soon is more than I can take.
UGH!
New cabinet announcements perhaps?
Will do Randall..
You know it!
Thanks.
We'll try to have your back. ;)
Thanks.
Wouldn't it be icing on the cake to annouce Osama's demise..the day after!
Hey Patty Murray! We had him before the election...but Bush didn't NEED to annouce it!!
Might be announcing Ashcroft's resignation also.
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