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...primaries because of their moderate views on many social issues. That's created a huge opening for a candidate who social conservatives will embrace. "That's the most visible and active constituency in the party," says Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont College in California and former GOP congressional aide. "You can't win with the Christian Right alone, but it's hard to win with their active opposition...
...running for the post under a Republican president. Any impact that Summers’ January remarks might have on his Fed chair chances won’t become apparent until early 2010—and then only if the Democratic Party wrests control of the White House from the GOP in the ’08 race...
That year, Summers served as Clinton’s point-man on a controversial effort to bail out the heavily indebted Mexican government. The Clinton administration bypassed the Republican-controlled Congress in the face of vehement GOP opposition to the bailout plan—a maneuver that didn’t endear Summers to Republicans on the Hill or their allies in the press corps...
...DeLay's own district, Republicans are so alarmed they are already mobilizing to defend him in an election that is still nearly a year and half away. Says Jared Woodfill, GOP chairman in nearby Harris county: "We're getting e-mails and calls from the base, the precinct chairs and the phone bank people saying what can we do to help now? Usually that doesn't happen until six months before an election...
...DeLay says he had no way of knowing Abramoff's role in setting up the Britain trip and adds he welcomes a chance to tell his side of the story before the ethics committee. He is tired to being tried in the media, the Majority Leader told his GOP colleagues at the private session last week. "I want to have the opportunity to clear my name...