Word: gop
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...many politicians, my own commitment to this cause doesn’t ebb and flow with the dawn of each new election year. From the time my mother started a local recycling program long before it was cool, to the fight I led in the Senate to block the GOP from drilling in the National Arctic Wildlife Refuge, I have been fighting to protect our environment for over 30 years...
From Day One as a Democratic presidential candidate, Wesley K. Clark, the retired general, has had to defend his past praise of the president's national security advisers-some of those compliments coming in a speech Clark gave at a GOP fundraising dinner in Little Rock in May, 2001. At that event, he singled out top officials from Vice President Cheney to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, calling them a "great team" and saying that "we need them there...
...line item veto to get things done his way. The results of the recall help him too: 44% of Californians voted against the recall, but Arnold won 49% of the vote - a solid mandate. Republicans may not trust him fully because he?s a moderate and most GOP legislators are conservative, but he won hands down in their districts, which gives them enough reason to stay on his good side. And Schwarzenegger won in most Democratic districts too, except for the Bay area, so Democrats can?t give him too hard a time either. ?A lot of Democrats will...
...Riley is a sinner. He?s a conservative Republican and a born-again Baptist who had been proud of the fact that during his three terms in Congress he?d never voted for more taxes. Now, just six months after becoming Alabama?s governor, Riley is committing the ultimate GOP heresy: trying to ram through a $1.2 billion tax increase that would hit hardest the state?s wealthiest Republicans - who enthusiastically backed him during the campaign because he promised never to do such a thing. State GOP Chairman Marty Connors is beside himself. ?It?s too big, too fast...
...When Tennessee was staggered by budget shortfalls in 2001, then Republican Gov. Don Sundquist proposed an income tax for state residents instead of another hike in the sales tax, which was already one of the highest in the country. The GOP all but disowned him, conservative talk show hosts began vilifying him and a mob gathered on the Capitol?s steps in Nashville hurling rocks that crashed through his window. An embittered Sundquist settled for another penny hike in the sales tax then left office when his term ended last January, refusing to campaign for the Republican candidate who wanted...