Posted on 11/12/2005 5:03:53 PM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- A year's work hangs in the balance for the Republican-controlled Congress, its conservative agenda sketched confidently last winter: cut taxes, open wildlife refuge in Alaska to oil drilling, and hold down the cost of health, education and nutrition programs that serve millions.
The agenda is the same. But the confidence is shaken by President Bush's sagging poll numbers, an unstable leadership lineup in the House and growing concern about congressional elections less than a year away.
"Where you stand depends on where you sit," says GOP Rep. Rob Simmons. In his case, it's a district in Connecticut that Democrat John Kerry captured handily in the 2004 presidential race.
Simmons, in his third term, also is unhappy with the deficit-cutting bill ardently sought by the conservatives who hold sway in his party.
Across the Capitol, moderate Sen. Olympia Snowe balks at extending reduced rates on income from investments, leaving Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee without a majority to advance $64 billion in tax cuts.
"We're in a different economic environment," said the Maine Republican, who so far has no Democratic challenger in her 2006 race. "We've had three back-to-back hurricanes" that have cost billions.
The Finance Committee chairman, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, said: "If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes."
The same predicament applies in the House, where the leadership is short of the votes needed to cut projected deficits by $50 billion or more over the next decade.
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The 3rd party whackos, lefty subversives and weak willed cannibals have finished their handiwork.
Does the AP just write whatever the DNC tells them or do they actually produce their own material?
David Espo is a detestable lib.
Move to FRANCE and poll me.
Jerk Espo.
Is AP even taken seriously by anyone besides Howard Dean?
What, no mention of RINOs or spineless Republicans?
Honestly, WHAT GOP legislative agenda? I sure wouldn't be able to define it. It seems to be totally ad hoc without strategy, direction or purpose. Bring back the Contract With America.
To every extremist, noone ever has enough of a spine or is pure enough....
"Does the AP just write whatever the DNC tells them or do they actually produce their own material?"
I think they just spell-check their DNC faxes and post 'em as "news".
Won't be long now before you'll be accused of being one of those "extremists." Then the rest of the RINO jackasses will pile on with charges that you're a "Hillary supporter" for not loving their Liberal RINOs.
Been there, seen that. Seems those idiots won't be happy until their dumbassed "big tent" bullcrap turns the Republican Party into the GOP wing of the Democrat plantation.
... except another "extremist"...
Got another label? Constitutionalist? Conservative perhaps?
Yeah, little wonder the conservative agenda is losing steam - the RINO's have been knifing it full of holes for years.
Happens all the time. Not only here on FR but also in my daily life. Being "PC" gives me a rash, so I don't do it. Some folks don't like that.
I guess a soft lie is just ad good as a hard one...
Does Olympia Snow ever vote with the Republicans?
Hey, I'll go for both of those labels! If they think I'm going to support RINOs just because they have a "R" behind their name, guess again.
What, no mention of RINOs or spineless Republicans?
Paging Mclame and his leader Trent the annilid Lott.
I dispise Trent Lott more every day, in the past I was merely disgusted, now I am flat out disgusted. Piss Poor Leadership for Years, now he has more in common with Ted Kennedy than with President Bush and he seems to revel in it.
TT
No, the AP embellishes liberal lies to such heights of fibdom that the DNC can only bow in adulation.
and it better be soon and it better be often.
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