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When Sarah Palin was asked about Tina Fey’s Memorex-quality impersonation of the GOP vice-presidential candidate, she responded that she thought it was great, but admitted that she had watched the sketch on mute. When I tried a similar tactic with the trailer for “An American Carol,” David Zucker’s new film parody of Michael Moore, I thoroughly enjoyed the visual likeness to the filmmaker, which seemed to me spot on. It wasn’t until I reprised the trailer with sound that I realized that...
...forgiven by conservatives for breaking his "read my lips" no-new-taxes pledge, and he went on to lose his re-election bid two years later. The moderate Republican minority leader Bob Michel faced his own insurrection from conservatives, including Armey and Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker when the GOP won the House in 1994. "There are two or three Gingrich-type figures in the House, say Mike Pence or Jeb Hensarling, but they would come to the role reluctantly," Armey says. "Though, sometimes the conditions raise somebody, force them...
...That's not to say that Boehner hasn't been an effective partisan leader as well: last year the GOP won or drew more rounds than it lost to Speaker Pelosi. Its most recent victory: a relaxation on offshore drilling rules - though that victory was lost amid the bailout furor and stock market chaos...
...There is definitely a significant level of frustration judging by the conversations I've had with former colleagues," says Pat Toomey, a former GOP Congressman from Pennsylvania who now heads the conservative group Club for Growth. "Who's in leadership will depend on the outcome of elections. They may go very well in November - which isn't looking very likely, but if they do, Boehner and Blunt might be able to stay...
...bringing McCain in to help, the House GOP leaders may have done more damage to their members' electoral chances. When McCain gets a cold - Obama now holds his widest leads yet in many polls - his coattails get pneumonia. After trailing Democrats in generic matchups for most of the year, early last month Republicans started to catch up, coming within 3 percentage points of the Democrats in a CNN/Opinion Research poll. The latest poll, however, done Sept. 19-22 - after Paulson's emergency request but before the failed vote - shows the Democrats have widened that lead to 14 percentage points...