Word: gop
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...Democrats from taking control in the November election. Before getting down to business, though, they have to settle a nasty squabble among conservative and moderate activists in their ranks. The Club For Growth, which calls itself a Ronald Reagan-style pro-tax cut group that raises money for conservative GOP candidates, plans to pump more than $100,000 into a Maryland primary Sept. 10 in order to oust moderate Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrist, who's seeking a seventh term. Alarmed that their thinning ranks might get even thinner, the House Republican Main Street Partnership, made up of moderate GOP members...
...Club President Stephen Moore. Desperate to protect all their incumbents, House Republican leaders are privately furious with the genetic engineering plan. "The Club has lost track of Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment - not to speak ill of fellow Republicans," gripes Main Street Executive Director Sarah Chamberlain Resnick. But even GOP presidents tend to ignore that commandment when it's convenient. President George W. Bush, for example, has broken it several times this year, taking sides in several GOP primaries...
...heart, the Republican fight about Iraq is also a battle about Israel. GOP critics of a rush to military action say that if the Bush administration is serious about going after Saddam, it had better push Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table first. Advocates of a quick and decisive war counter that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can't be resolved right now, and therefore shouldn't be an obstacle to action, and, they say, the Middle East will actually be safer without Saddam around...
...argument from the GOP foreign policy old guard is based on the premise that if the U.S. invades Iraq with no Arab allies in support, the consequence could be a long-term violent backlash against American interests throughout the Middle East, including the overthrow of pro-U.S. governments by extremist elements. Also, they argue, Arab support may be even more critical in the task of stabilizing a post-Saddam Iraq, which could require a long-term occupation of the country by U.S. forces. But the Arab allies that supported the U.S. in the Gulf War have rejected...
...President Bush's latest comments on Iraq follow a week of strong and public warnings by GOP strategic thinkers against a hasty march on Iraq. Former Reagan and Bush 1 aide Lawrence Eagleburger said the U.S. had no grounds to take out Saddam unless Baghdad was about to attack America or its allies. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Gulf War hero General Norman Schwarzkopf recognized the importance of ousting Saddam, but cautioned against the U.S. acting alone. The harshest warning of all came from former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, still a close associate of the President...