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...party has to stop shouting at the world and at the country.' COLIN POWELL, former Secretary of State, saying pundits like Rush Limbaugh are hurting the GOP...
...Many Democrats are frustrated, feeling as though they have already given in on many major points to the GOP. Pelosi, for her part, was dead set against using the green fund for bridge loans, with her aides arguing that it forced the companies to choose between their present and their future. Having conceded that point, the Speaker was rankled that the Senate version requires the Big Three to meet only federal fuel-efficiency standards and not stricter regulations like those in her native California. Her bill requires the Big Three to meet all "applicable" standards, which would include state ones...
...What's Next for the GOP Ramesh Ponnuru makes many valid points in his analysis of the abject failure of the Republican Party in the 2008 elections [Dec. 1]. Yet I would like to suggest an extremely obvious reason: the abysmal record of the Bush Administration. With George W. Bush gone, Republicans will return, after a period of reflection, as a viable force in the U.S. In the meantime, Barack Obama has a great deal of work to do to repair the damage done by our worst President. Bill Gottdenker, Mountainside...
...Washington Report Calls Out FCC Chair Over Bad Manners What started as a bipartisan investigation of Federal Communications Commission head Kevin Martin ended with a scathing report from House Democrats that stopped short of accusing the Republican chairman of illegal acts. The House Energy and Commerce Committee report, which GOP members declined to endorse, blasted Martin's "heavy-handed, opaque and noncollegial management style" and accused him of manipulating or withholding from the public data on the cable-TV industry, among other charges. Martin is expected to step down when the next Administration takes office...
...help with strategy, and he became the first Democrat elected governor of Illinois since the 1970s. He also had a bit of luck. His Republican opponent's last name was also Ryan (though Jim Ryan is not related to the disgraced former governor), which helped tar the GOP candidate with the outgoing governor's problems. Even so, Blagojevich won with a relatively narrow 52% of the vote...