Word: gop
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...President. "Senator Gregg made a principled decision," crowed House Republican leader John Boehner in a press release. "The Administration is taking another one on the eyelid here," said Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, in an interview with Fox News. (Read "How Maine's GOP Senators Are Key to Obama's Agenda...
...bill is expected to draw at least a few GOP votes in the House, reflecting just how far to the center the measure has moved in passing the Senate. The final cost, $789 billion, is well below the $800 billion ceiling that the three Republicans and a group of 15 centrist Senate Democrats had demanded in exchange for their support. Even so, House Republicans complained bitterly about being left out of the process. "Some have said that we don't want to see anything done. Nothing could be further from the truth," said Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House...
...Republicans voted for the House bill, and the meager GOP support in the Senate - just those three votes - prompted Republican complaints that the Dems were not living up to Obama's campaign promise of bipartisanship. But in voting en masse against the bill, the GOP is making a risky long-term bet, said Clyde Wilcox, a political science professor at Georgetown University. "The GOP is gambling here that the stimulus does not work, and they can make big gains in 2010. Given the sticky economy, that is certainly a possibility," Wilcox said. "But all it took for Ronald Reagan...
...schedule victory gives Obama a massive running start on much of his campaign promises, from investments in clean energy and education to health-care reform. But given how hard it was for the President to win the backing of enough members of his own party, let alone the GOP, the stimulus fight showed the limits of his seemingly enormous electoral mandate. Many Democrats, for instance, felt the White House tried too hard to win the favor of Republicans, who in the end didn't lend their support. "I am not happy with it," said Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa...
...Obama wins, big," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist for Stanford Washington Research Group. "He needed a victory. The GOP got some sound bites for 2010 if this doesn't boost the economy, but they looked obstructionist and negative." Still, if the $789 billion stimulus was a tidal wave, the next item on Obama's to-do list is a tsunami - a $2.5 trillion bank bailout. Fortunately for the President, little of that plan requires congressional action. Unless - or until - the Administration ends up needing more money for it, at which point no one will expect Congress to move...