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...Despite pressure from fellow Republican Senators to hold on to her seat while she runs for governor, Hutchison is being opaque about her plans. Already some well-known GOP names in Texas have announced they will run for Hutchison's seat whenever she moves on. They include Republican railroad commissioners Michael Williams and Elizabeth Ames Jones. Hutchison's resignation would allow Perry to name her replacement, supposedly giving that person an advantage in a special election. But special elections in Texas have an unpredictable quality. In 1961, after Lyndon B. Johnson's move from the Senate to the vice presidency...
...another sign of strains in the Texas GOP that Bush will find upon his return home, Midland's second most famous politician, conservative Texas house speaker Tom Craddick, was recently ousted from his leadership position. A 38-year veteran of the state legislature, Craddick assumed the speakership in 2003, the first Republican since Reconstruction to do so. He went on to play a key role in the infamous Tom DeLay-orchestrated mid-decade redistricting battle, which shifted the balance of power in the congressional delegation to the Republican side. Ruling with an iron fist, he alienated a small group...
...Craddick from the speakership as the state legislature convened last week. The new speaker, San Antonio Republican Joe Straus, is a moderate scion of an old Republican family with ties going back to John Tower and George H.W. Bush. The Straus victory is evidence of a shift in the GOP power base as urban voters gain a larger voice. Royal Masset, a longtime Texas Republican analyst, says the GOP will continue to fare well in Texas, but he sees a new polarity in the state as the old conservative/liberal labels often used to define Texas politics give...
...Obama pushes to move the measure to the right to gain more GOP support, he risks losing the Democrats who feel he has already given away too much in proposed tax cuts to win over Republicans. And if he moves to curtail the more open process he prefers and instead force the bill through over GOP objections, Obama could be accused of going against the bipartisan spirit he promised to foster in the nation's capital. In other words, Obama may quickly find himself forced to choose between betraying his party and betraying his principles. (See pictures of the best...
...agenda and Obama campaign promises. Obama had hoped he could get away with such far-reaching measures by also making tax cuts a large part of the bill, but the House version ended up with fewer tax cuts than he had envisioned. Not surprisingly, Republicans in the Senate - where GOP support is more essential than in the House (where Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds a much larger majority) - have expressed disappointment. "We believe that, regretfully, the stimulus package seems to be drifting off as a result of the package that we've observed that the House Democrats approved, kind of drifting...