Word: gop
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...White House been sitting on a credible proposal for serious intelligence reform for more than two years? Knowledgeable government sources say that a classified March 2002 report from GOP foreign policy eminence Brent Scowcroft, produced for President Bush, proposed reforms similar to key recommendations of the 9/11 commission. Among them: making the current position of Director of Central Intelligence into the national intelligence czar, with authority over a separate CIA director and all or most of the $40 billion annual intelligence budget. One government source said the document contains little sensitive national security information and that its secret status...
...protesting. She pointed out, as I did above, that members of your party don’t care what I have to say, and that even if they did, inevitably my message will get drowned out in the cacophony of dissent. Surely it is better to simply let the GOP convene in peace and go about my own business. She has a point...
...converge they did—150 of them, according to those who attended—to take back the streets for the silver-spoon set and present a symbolic check in the amount of “whatever it takes” to the local GOP headquarters. Dressed nattily, traveling by limousine whenever possible, courting the camera’s admiring gaze, the average Billionaire could easily be taken by a casual observer for a particularly attention-hungry, slightly mad arch-paleocon...
...GOP side, Silvestri confirmed last week that the HRC will ask the IOP for funding in the fall...
...clear: We are in this bind because voters have bought into the credo that, when it comes to taxes, What Goes Down Must Not Come Up. Perpetual and irreversible tax cutting is a recipe for a fiscal crunch, and we’re hurtling toward one now, as the GOP pursues ever more tax cuts and Democrats feel compelled to follow...