Word: gop
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...caused his fellow Republicans one headache after another, and it appears that the tide of support for DeLay within the Grand Old Party is beginning to ebb. Admonished last year by the House Ethics Committee, DeLay has recently been facing renewed questions about more improper dealings. In January, GOP leadership rammed through legislation altering ethics rules—changes which many Democrats felt served only to protect DeLay from a full-blown ethics investigation. Last Wednesday, however, the Republican-dominated House voted to repeal these changes. We applaud the Republican decision to stop defending DeLay from his deserved investigation through...
...charges against Congressman DeLay are mounting, and the time has come for DeLay to be held accountable for his actions. At last, Republicans have begun to realize that this majority leader is garnering more bad press for their party than he is worth. If they are wise, GOP leaders will press for DeLay to be replaced by someone who can restore integrity to the Republican Party and earn the trust of the American people...
Worse still, the tactics of Leahy, Harkin and others go far beyond what the GOP did under Clinton’s tenure. Republicans certainly did stall floor votes on nominees in ways that can only be described as undemocratic, but they never ventured beyond well-established delay procedures that majority parties have used for decades. By using the filibuster throughout Bush’s term, though, Democrats broke 214 years of tradition stipulating that only a majority vote was needed for confirmation. In fact, many current and former federal judges were approved with fewer than 60 votes...
...good candidates for blocking—lists which were heavy on sensational allegations and light on reasoned critiques. Bill Pryor was accused of racism despite his record of fighting for civil rights, while others were blocked because they did not pass the litmus test on abortion. If the GOP fails in its attempt to “go nuclear,” one can only imagine the obstruction techniques it will use when it is once again in the minority...
...choice Republicans are thriving in New England, the Midwest, and on the West Coast. Savvy GOP leaders recognize that supporting stronger candidates who happen to disagree with their platform on abortion is the means to an even larger victory: majority-status, and policy-making power, for a still fundamentally anti-choice party. And the Patakis and Murkowskis are useful symbols in getting millions of abortion rights supporters to vote against their own interests...