Word: gop
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will be a short-lived victory for supporters. Bush plans to veto the bill later this week, and the Republican-led House, according to House Majority leader John Boehner, will uphold the veto. The doomed bill is more than just another round of conservative vs. moderate battling in the GOP. It is the latest bet in a high-stakes gamble pitting the Republicans' short-term electoral tactics against their long-term strategy of building a permanent majority...
...turnout for the Republicans this fall. But long-term party growth can't be found among those voters. Republican leaders have declared suburbanites and Hispanics to be key constituencies that need to be cultivated for the party's long-term health. But both groups oppose key elements of the GOP's conservative agenda...
...possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack. After 9/11, that's all too easy to imagine. No, I'm talking about a thought that even now seldom forces its way into respectable conversation: the quite reasonable suspicion that the Bush Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to goose the GOP's poll numbers...
...Senate lining up behind the net neutrality effort, they may have enough votes to block any telecom bill that doesn't include it from going forward. But the key to actually getting the net neutrality language into the bill will be getting some Republicans to support their cause. (Moderate GOP Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine is one of the few who currently does.) Republicans have plenty of their own potential 2008 candidates who appreciate the power of blogs. Bill Frist posts on his own site frequently (volpac.org) and John McCain made his first foray into blogging last week, posting...
...stronger supporters of net neutrality. The issue hasn't become a major rallying cry on conservative blogs; some oppose the net neutrality proposal and supporters like Reynolds say it's not one of the issues they're most passionate about. Barring any support from the right - or a GOP senator like Frist or McCain - net neutrality proponents will continue to outgunned by the phone and cable companies, who have much more experience, money and staff devoted to lobbying on Capitol Hill than the new media does right...