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Worse still, the tactics of Leahy, Harkin and others go far beyond what the GOP did under Clinton’s tenure. Republicans certainly did stall floor votes on nominees in ways that can only be described as undemocratic, but they never ventured beyond well-established delay procedures that majority parties have used for decades. By using the filibuster throughout Bush’s term, though, Democrats broke 214 years of tradition stipulating that only a majority vote was needed for confirmation. In fact, many current and former federal judges were approved with fewer than 60 votes...
...choice Republicans are thriving in New England, the Midwest, and on the West Coast. Savvy GOP leaders recognize that supporting stronger candidates who happen to disagree with their platform on abortion is the means to an even larger victory: majority-status, and policy-making power, for a still fundamentally anti-choice party. And the Patakis and Murkowskis are useful symbols in getting millions of abortion rights supporters to vote against their own interests...
...conservatives wanted nothing to do with Roosevelt’s progressive policies. After a dispute over the allocation of delegates, the 1912 GOP national convention nominated Taft, prompting Roosevelt to form his own Bull Moose Party and run anyway. “Roosevelt had loved the presidency for the power it gave him to play the hero, and when it ended, he was as wounded and blind as a husband who loses an adored wife to another man,” O’Toole writes. The two candidates split the Republican ballots, and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, won with...
...Tuesday in strongly Republican counties are any reflection, President Bush may finally have met his political match. "If Social Security doesn't move this year, I don't know when it will come back," says Kingston, the vice chair of the Republican Conference, which works on developing the House GOP's message. Many Republican members of Congress have been reluctant to have open forums on Social Security and it's easy to see why. They face seniors reluctant to change the program, misinformed people of all ages and organized opposition from left-leaning groups, all without having formal plan from...
...developed the reputation of being a “good Republican,” a bipartisan moderate with a nice bedside manner. Although Frist’s time as a Senator hasn’t been marked with the ridiculous remarks the public has come to expect from such GOP greats as Rick Santorum or Trent Lott, one would be hard-pressed to find differences in their voting records on major issues. Frist is no John McCain. Further, any trace of moderation that Frist previously exhibited will be crowded out by his need to curry favor with the far right...