Word: gop
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...White House, meanwhile, day-to-day responsibility for coordinating policy on Iraq and Afghanistan has been taken from long-standing National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and handed to a three-star general, Doug Lute, who opposed the surge from the start. The political team is molting too: longtime GOP operative Ed Gillespie is set to replace Bush senior adviser Dan Bartlett...
...these moves suggest--but hardly guarantee --a course correction on Iraq by September, when the patience of even GOP lawmakers will probably run out. Talk of a partial U.S. drawdown or a new acceleration of Iraqi-troop training increases with each day. A senior Administration official who participates in foreign policy meetings chose his words carefully last week: "It will be easier to execute a change in direction if the people who have to decide on it do not feel bound by things they have said and done in the past...
...years the GOP has stood still as history has gone charging past. In last week's CNN-sponsored debate, every Republican presidential candidate said he supports "Don't ask, don't tell," the arch compromise of 1993. This ridiculous policy allows servicemen and -women to be gay in some existential sense but tosses them out if they talk about it or do anything about it. Most congressional Republicans voted for "Don't ask, don't tell," but the party platform for the 1996 presidential election retreated from it: "We oppose Bill Clinton's assault on the culture and traditions...
...that he was unable to personally lobby for the bill last week (as he was out of the country at the G-8 summit), the bill's collapse will be seen as a significant administration failure unless the President manages to sway Republican lawmakers at Tuesday's lunch. A GOP senior staffer close to the negotiations over reviving the immigration bill said that Republican supporters are pleased that President Bush is showing some belated commitment to the legislation by traveling up to Capitol Hill. "It's great, it's a big deal," says the staffer appreciatively. "What...
Thompson has devoted a lot of time to studying why previous GOP hopefuls imploded. He spent part of last week in his Washington-area office, meeting with veteran campaigners while his aides figured out how to find office space, hire advance men and ride herd on financiers. By jumping into the race in early July (and signaling his intentions widely now), Thompson hopes to slow the fund raising of his embattled friend John McCain...