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Rebel conservative Republicans and Senate Democrats handed George W. Bush a major defeat Friday, but GOP officials insist it will end up backfiring in next year's mid-term elections. Despite intense pressure from the White House and Senate Republican leadership to extend for 4 to 10 years parts of the USA Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the month and make other parts permanent, civil-liberty-minded opponents of the bill brought it down Friday by sustaining a filibuster. Revelations in Friday's New York Times that the White House had secretly authorized...
...Democrats are speaking different languages? The staff of The Nation is sure of it. With the help of thousands of readers who submitted entries on the magazine's Website, longtime Nation editor (and newly-named publisher) Katrina vanden Heuvel has written Dictionary of Republicanisms, a liberal take on the GOP. A sampler...
...GOP-Open Email List (Monday afternoon...
...know they first must prove their capabilities to students.So far, their campaign of reaching out to individuals has turned some heads and won support. The Harvard Republican Club (HRC), in addition to other groups including the Nordic Ski Team, have endorsed the ticket.In an e-mail sent to the GOP open, the HRC labeled Grimeland and Hadfield “the most qualified candidates for the job.”“Their platform, which includes the creation of a $10 million investment plan for the UC and a $2 million endowment for student groups, is certainly ambitious...
...actually successful bid on Affleck’s part. Rather, Benator will be a political success for Democrats if he manages to make the race contentious enough that George Allen will have fight for his seat. Allen, a staunch and partisan conservative, has been mentioned as a possible GOP presidential candidate for 2008; any such plans, however, could easily be thwarted by a tough re-election bid in 2006. Here Affleck has a chance. Certainly he has name recognition, he is photogenic, and he has more than enough money to run a powerful campaign. Most importantly, Virginia Democrats...