If the Senate cannot pass this, it was a safe, winking gesture for Bush. "That was for the base," Dole would say, winking at the press. They smiled back. Of course, he lost big time.
One big roadblock is Arlen Spectre. Let's see. Who pushed for him to be re-elected? That was Bush. Who backed him to be chair when he did not deserve to be chair of Judiary? Oh, Bush again. So this was pre-determined. Very clever, I will think when I fail to give the GOP money.
I am not failing to give the "GOP" money.
I am not giving money to the national GOP campaign committees and particularly not to the GOP Senate committee (as a party-wide committee, they have no party-base legitimacy to interfere in state GOP primary elections - as they are doing in Rhode Island now). I am, instead, giving to individual GOP candidates, directly.