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...feuds with the father of her daughter's baby. And two unpopular figures from the last Administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Bush adviser Karl Rove, have rarely missed an opportunity to attack the new President. Most recently, House Republican leaders botched the rollout of the party's budget alternative, and then, naturally, blamed one another for it. (See pictures of Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston...
...Perhaps, but it's not at all clear that internal divisions are the biggest problem. So far, in fact, unity of the congressional conferences has 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...
...minority. "The Democrats in 2000 and 2001 were effectively labeled the 'party of no' because they had no plans of their own whenever they were asked why they opposed something," Bonjean says. "GOP leaders recognize that pitfall. That's why they tried to come up with a budget, for all that it was rolled out ineffectively...
...That may be an understatement. House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan was frustrated when GOP leaders, ahead of schedule, rolled out a "blueprint" of his alternative budget without consulting him. The broad outline was deemed a flop because it lacked specifics, and Ryan and the leaders engaged in some public finger-pointing, effectively stepping on the substance of the detailed plan when it was released a week later. As former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie noted in a National Review editorial, the GOP should expect to be mocked in the media these days. "It was Barack Obama who proved...
...budget is crucial, and not just because the country's troubled economy has more than ever put the spotlight on government spending. Along with strong defense and social issues, fiscal conservatism is one of the three pillars of the Reagan Republican coalition; yet thanks to the free-spending Bush years, it's also the one with which the party has the least credibility...