Word: gop
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...surprisingly comfortable four-point margin over Democrat Francine Busby, a local school board member, his party was quick to exult. "National Democrats did not discover their shock wave in San Diego," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds, who runs the House election effort for the GOP, said in a statement that landed in the e-mail boxes of political reporters shortly after dawn on Wednesday. "National Democrats must come to terms with the fact that momentum for the midterm elections will not materialize simply because they preordain it in the media or because they ask their special interest friends...
...Pelosi told TIME last week, "It's not about the Republicans anymore, now [the voters] will make a judgment about us." As party leaders debate just how Democrats should present themselves as the alternative to the GOP, Pelosi has been pushing to talk more about their vision for the country and recently put out a list of initiatives Democrats would pursue were they to seize control: raising the minimum wage, cutting student loan interest rates, reducing government subsidies to oil companies and instituting so-called pay-as-you go budget principles, meaning every increase in spending would be offset...
...biggest issue of the day, Iraq, Democrats have said little that distinguishes them from the GOP. After two months of discussion earlier this year, the party announced a platform that offered little beyond pushing for the Iraqis to make moves toward their own sovereignty, a policy the Bush administration is already pursuing. And the loudest voices in the party on Iraq have been people pushing for an accelerated pullout, such as Pelosi and Senator John Kerry, which worries some strategists who think those positions reinforce the views of many Americans that Democrats aren't as strong on security issues...
...President Bush. At the same time, John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat who has been the most enthusiastic supporter of that idea, took down a reference to impeachment from his website. Democratic strategists have advised the party to use the term "oversight," suggesting they will be a check on the GOP, rather than the more ominous "hearings...
...Republicans privately chastised Warner. They complained that the hearings became a forum for Democrats to attack Rumsfeld, the President and the war. By contrast, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter largely ducked any public probe of the prison abuses. But the courtly Warner seems willing to anger his GOP colleagues once more and shine a public spotlight on another Pentagon scandal...