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...selection on Friday of Michael Steele, 50, as the Republican National Committee's next chairman is remarkable not merely because he is the first African American to head the party of Lincoln. The former Maryland lieutenant governor's selection is an acknowledgment by the party's leadership that the GOP must quickly recast itself if it is to remain relevant to an increasingly diverse electorate no longer moved by divisive social issues...
Gettelfinger also said he believes several of the loan provisions were especially punishing to the UAW. The reason for such harshness, he says, is that Republicans in Congress were angry over the GOP's defeat in November. "We didn't sign the term sheet," Gettelfinger says, defiantly...
...Biden said in an interview Thursday on CNBC. "And I also think you will see Republicans voting for it." House Republican leaders also claim to be optimistic that a better compromise can be created. Just hours after the House vote Wednesday night, Representative John Boehner, who leads the GOP caucus, joined Obama at a White House cocktail reception. According to aides, Boehner told the President not to take the House vote as a personal rebuke. It was, he told Obama, instead a rebuke of the bill presented by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
Republicans are hopeful that they can get some of these projects expunged before final passage. "We fully expect that Obama will work with us on some of this stuff; it's in his interest to," said a GOP Senate leadership aide. "He gets to seem presidential and bipartisan at relatively little cost." The more items that get taken out, the better chance Obama has to gain Republican support for the bill. In this scenario, Republicans would get to claim victory as well, telling their constituents that they fought the good fight in the name of fiscal conservatism. "We were going...
...almost fetishistic pursuit of Republicans - two hours spent with the crabby minority at the Capitol! - is another attempt to deprive his enemies of a Great Satan. The President will make some Republican-oriented concessions, dropping some of the cheesier spending from the stimulus plan. He will get some GOP votes for his stimulus package, but more important, he is establishing himself as a relentlessly reasonable and polite presence in town - and his comity is making it all the more difficult for buffoons like Rush Limbaugh to influence the tone of the Republican opposition...