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...recognized the shift early and focused its energy on blocking Democratic attempts to placate gas-pump shock through legislation that did not include expanded drilling. The more the Democrats tried, the harder the Republicans hit back. The GOP liked the issue so much that Republicans even stayed on Capitol Hill for part of the August recess demanding a vote on drilling...
...pass any sort of drilling bill was not easy, after years of reliance on electoral support for conservation over extraction. "It's like a Republican waking up one morning and realizing that suddenly Americans don't want lower taxes; they want higher taxes," said a senior Republican aide on Capitol Hill. "It would take awhile to get your head around...
That's not just political double-talk. With two or three debatable exceptions, McCain has abstained from pork for Arizona, and he's been a principled gadfly objecting to the pork-making process. For example, McCain has consistently voted against Army Corps of Engineers water projects, Capitol Hill's most popular form of pork; he and Democrat Russell Feingold have fought a quixotic battle to reform the dysfunctional Corps and the haphazard process by which its projects are funded. McCain has even argued that water pork contributed to the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, another argument I have made. But that...
...same time, however, the Pentagon is in no rush to hand over responsibility for defending the country to Iraqis. Many on Capitol Hill and in the Pentagon had expected sharp cuts in U.S. troop levels there to begin this fall, but instead, the Pentagon is urging a more gentle paring of its 146,000 troop complement in Iraq. Following the Defense Department's recommendation, President Bush is expected on Tuesday to announce an 8,000-troop cut due to occur by the time his successor is inaugurated on January...
...This is not going to get a Grammy," says Huckabee, the second-place finisher in the Republican primaries, after playing the song at an after-hours convention party with his band Capitol Offense on Tuesday...