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...been one of the party's stronger suits: House Republicans voted unanimously to reject Obama's stimulus package and budget, and the Senate lost only a handful of members on the votes. "I think the Republican Party has hit the lowest point," says former House majority leader Dick Armey. "They're on their way back. It's already evident in the show of unity on the votes on the stimulus and the budget." (Read "Why Would a Governor Spurn Stimulus Money...
...Republicans have really badly lost their bearing on that issue," Armey says. "It's absurd that they'd ever allow themselves to devolve into a circumstance where Democrats are more trusted than we are [on government spending]. And President Bush has to be held principally responsible for that. You cannot lead with your chin on social issues; they tried that a few years ago and got themselves in trouble," he says, referring to episodes like the Terri Schiavo controversy, when Congress tried to prevent a brain-dead woman in Florida from being taken off life support...
...Armey, Dick • delight of at not being married to-and therefore not having to endure the "prattle" of-Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh is spontaneously expressed...
...there is precious little that President Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson or Boehner has left to threaten them with, as the three leaders are already an endangered species. "It is a tough deal; there's no safe way to do the wrong thing," says former Republican majority leader Dick Armey. "The majority of the Republicans in the House understand the gravity of this situation: a fundamental realignment of the political and economic structures of this country, which diminishes role of the markets and increases the role of the government...
...many observers, like Dick Armey, the current situation recalls an effort by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 to hammer out with congressional leaders another unpopular bill, this one to raise taxes to cope with budget shortfalls brought on by the recession. Bush, you may remember, was never forgiven by conservatives for breaking his "read my lips" no-new-taxes pledge, and he went on to lose his re-election bid two years later. The moderate Republican minority leader Bob Michel faced his own insurrection from conservatives, including Armey and Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker when...