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Perry, Gov. Rick •Republican need to attract new voters leads strategist for to warn party not to "take your principles and throw them out the door and become a whorehouse and let anybody in who wants to come in, regardless...
Steele, Michael •declaration by that "the era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over" leaves observers scratching their heads and wondering when it began...
...would make the health benefits that companies provide their workers count as taxable income, and then use that money to provide tax credits with which individuals could purchase their own health coverage. Economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who advised the McCain campaign, said the new plan goes further than previous Republican offerings. For instance, it would provide new incentives for insurers to offer coverage to people who now have trouble buying it because they have pre-existing health conditions. It also puts more emphasis on preventive care and sets up "state exchanges" - similar to the one now operating in Massachusetts...
...However, that Republican bill does not purport to assure coverage to all - or even most - of the 47 million or so Americans who now lack it. It does not, for instance, impose a requirement that employers provide coverage to their workers or that individuals who do not get health benefits at work buy them on their own. The tax credits that it provides - $2,300 for individuals and $5,700 for families - fall well short of the average annual cost of a health policy, which is between $10,000 and $12,000 per family, says Robert Blendon, professor of health...
...public perception of Michelle Obama to the extent that you have to grapple with it. During the campaign, the sort of prism was, Is she radical? Is she too negative? Is she this, is she that? And since the Inauguration, there's a Pew poll that says even among Republican women, since the Inauguration, since January, your approval rating has gone up 21 points or something like that, to high levels, even by First Lady standards. What do you make of that shift and how things have changed since then? You know, I think that today there is consistency...