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...GOP side, Silvestri confirmed last week that the HRC will ask the IOP for funding in the fall...
...clear: We are in this bind because voters have bought into the credo that, when it comes to taxes, What Goes Down Must Not Come Up. Perpetual and irreversible tax cutting is a recipe for a fiscal crunch, and we’re hurtling toward one now, as the GOP pursues ever more tax cuts and Democrats feel compelled to follow...
...mystical wave “Electability” to the Democratic presidential prize—persuading jittery Deaniacs, and Washington-based party wiseguys, that an elite Massachusetts liberal (but an elite Massachusetts liberal with medals!) would be the strongest candidate against the most sophisticated, most impressively well-constructed GOP campaign in American history...
...penalty of unemployment, to withhold from Congress his knowledge that the administration was understating the Bush prescription drug bill’s cost by about $150 billion. This is shocking on its own, but more so in context—namely, that the bill passed by one vote after GOP leaders persuaded some opposing Congress members to change their votes on the floor. In context, these revelations mean that the administration tricked Congress into passing a bill. Reporters so far have treated this gingerly, reporting that “it is possible” that the bill would not have...
...Smith, R-Mich., received threats because he opposes deficit spending. With the Bush-controlled House leadership’s endorsement, Novak reported, Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., and others told the disloyalist that his son—running in Michigan to succeed Smith—would lose funding from GOP loyalists...