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GOP Agenda in Congress May Be at Risk
Washington Post ^ | 8/4/05 | Jonathan Weisman

Posted on 09/04/2005 12:03:30 AM PDT by Crackingham

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1 posted on 09/04/2005 12:03:30 AM PDT by Crackingham
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To: Crackingham

Just before the President got everything he wanted last term, this very paper predicted he was a lame duck who would get nothing. Keep that in mind.


2 posted on 09/04/2005 12:14:01 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: Crackingham

No way am I going to be a part of rebuilding a city-in-a-bowl, run by Socialists.


3 posted on 09/04/2005 12:17:06 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: Crackingham

It's like christmas for liberals! The MSM is making big wishes!

When this all settles, the truth will get out, like with the national guard story, and both the MSM and the liberals who run LA/NOLA will be tarred and feathered.


4 posted on 09/04/2005 12:18:31 AM PDT by flashbunny (Defending the free market on free republic is like having to defend the flag at a VFW convention.)
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To: Crackingham

Rescue, Recovery, Relief - Spend what you need.

Rebuild - Only if you rebuild somewhere above sea level, and no money to be spent on non-infrastructure costs. Private residences, and commercial/industrial buildings can be built using private funds.

How do they say it? Zone it and they will come?


5 posted on 09/04/2005 12:26:19 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Crackingham

Dream on, Qumquats.


6 posted on 09/04/2005 12:27:16 AM PDT by Waco
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To: the Real fifi
Just before the President got everything he wanted last term, this very paper predicted he was a lame duck who would get nothing. Keep that in mind.

All well and good, but don't underestimate the size and scope of this disaster.

7 posted on 09/04/2005 12:29:09 AM PDT by zarf (***)
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To: Crackingham

More MSM wishful thinking.


8 posted on 09/04/2005 12:30:57 AM PDT by FairOpinion
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And the conclusion:

"None of that will necessarily mean the abandonment of tax cutting and cuts to Medicaid, student loans, farm price supports and other popular programs. Conservative activists hotly denied that there had been any slackening of will.

"I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts," said Grover G. Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, who castigated Reid for "using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires."


9 posted on 09/04/2005 12:32:42 AM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion

Exactly what I was coming to post, word for word.


10 posted on 09/04/2005 12:32:43 AM PDT by JLS
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GMTA. :)


11 posted on 09/04/2005 12:33:15 AM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
Marshall Wittmann, a former Republican political strategist now with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council

They dredge up one fossil RINO staffer and "attribute" a quote to him, and build a story out of it to claim "Republicans" are abandoning their strategy.

And then they claim to be objective?

Yep. As unbiased as Al-Jazz AL-Jaizeeria Ali-baba The Muslim Network.

12 posted on 09/04/2005 12:40:04 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Crackingham
The President should use this opportunity to exercise Executive Authority in authorizing the EPA to grant construction permits for more nukes, refineries, LNG terminals, drilling in ANWR and offshore CA/FL, wind farms, etc.

The energy dividends to the country in a few years will erase any deficit quickly.

13 posted on 09/04/2005 12:44:07 AM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: Crackingham

Congressional Republicans did not plan to cut spending, ever.


14 posted on 09/04/2005 1:00:04 AM PDT by GeronL (Leftism is the Cult of the Artificial)
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To: flashbunny

The GOP has already surrendered, AGAIN, on tax cuts... I will probably never vote again.


15 posted on 09/04/2005 1:03:19 AM PDT by GeronL (Leftism is the Cult of the Artificial)
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To: GeronL

Really? Practice saying Presideent Clinton..Imagine Majority Leader Kerry or Kennedy..


16 posted on 09/04/2005 1:12:50 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: the Real fifi

Please, if they're gonna be big spending tax raisers it doesn't matter if there is an R or D by the name.


17 posted on 09/04/2005 1:18:56 AM PDT by GeronL (Leftism is the Cult of the Artificial)
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To: GeronL

Please, don't be fool! Let's imagine the Rats in power... it would be a fiscal, social, judicial and political nightmare!


18 posted on 09/04/2005 1:41:37 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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Fiscally, there would be little difference, except the Congress under Clinton had a lower rate of growth.

socially we have open borders, anyone and everyone can get in-even terrorists

judicially they'd pass their judges, not like we're gonna be allowed votes on anyone 'conservative' during 8 years of Bush, political nightmare, read 2008

19 posted on 09/04/2005 1:48:12 AM PDT by GeronL (Leftism is the Cult of the Artificial)
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To: Crackingham

"We in the media hope....".


20 posted on 09/04/2005 4:10:50 AM PDT by GungaLaGunga
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