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Saltsman, Chip • withdrawal of from race for chairmanship of the Republican National Committee after holiday CD distributed by-featuring the songs "Barack the Magic Negro" and "The Star Spanglish Banner"-was widely seen as unhilarious...
Consider the events of the past two weeks: President Barack Obama, fresh from sky-high approval ratings and an Inauguration that filled the National Mall, met with Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Disowning any "pride of authorship," he asked both publicly and privately for the two major political parties to work together in Congress on a crucial bill to stimulate the tanking economy. And what happened? While the bill passed by a comfortable margin in the House, it earned not a single vote from a Republican. What's more, 11 Democrats opposed it as well...
...Republicans say they want a dramatic overhaul of the bill, stripping out certain offending projects and focusing more on tax cuts. Congressional Democrats, who have the power to pass the bill with a minimum of Republican support, are for now holding fast to their initial plans, which have been drafted largely without Republican input. Obama has been struggling to find some middle ground, repeatedly instructing Democratic leaders to jettison the most controversial provisions, like money for state family-planning funding. As it stands, all three sides have yet to find a way to move beyond the rhetoric of bipartisanship; there...
Obama advisers say there is still plenty of time to create a bill that can attract more Republican support. "I think you will see it get better," Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview Thursday on CNBC. "And I also think you will see Republicans voting for it." House Republican leaders also claim to be optimistic that a better compromise can be created. Just hours after the House vote Wednesday night, Representative John Boehner, who leads the GOP caucus, joined Obama at a White House cocktail reception. According to aides, Boehner told the President not to take the House...
...Many Republicans say their opposition to the bill is based on a suspicion that Democrats are using the economic crisis to push forward a partisan agenda. Their list of objections, which has been e-mailed to reporters, includes a number of targeted items that offend Republican constituencies: $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts; $150 million to insure honey-bee farmers; $335 million for preventing sexually transmitted diseases; $150 million for repairs to the Smithsonian Institution; $462 million for equipment and construction at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta; $20 million to remove fish barriers in rivers...