Word: republicanisms
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...neither Virginia nor New Jersey did the Republican candidate run against the president. Christie, in fact, dropped the president’s name frequently, featuring clips of Obama’s most inspirational speeches in his ads and often portraying himself as an ally of Obama on education policy due to their agreement on charter schools and merit pay. After his election, Christie told a crowd in Woodbridge, N.J., that “It’s [his election] not a repudiation of the president. In fact, I said the exact opposite during the campaign,” and McDonnell...
...inordinate emphasis placed on the events in New Jersey and Virginia last week, therefore, is nothing more than the product of a media desperate to turn minor occurrences into events of historic importance and a Republican party desperate for a comeback. The Democrats face many hurdles between now the 2010 midterms, and some opinion polling does suggest that support for their agenda is waning, but the results of two local governors races don’t spell doom for Obama and his party...
...remaining player is Alabama's Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, who has been in talks with Dodd for months. His office opposes the CFPA, likes the Dodd provisions that strip the Fed of authority, and backs a single regulator. But Shelby, like everyone else who pays attention to rules controlling the world's largest financial system, is waiting to see the details of Dodd's bill - which no one has yet - before he weighs in officially...
...Department reported a 26-year record unemployment rate of 10.2%. Preaching altruism in such a climate to politicians bent on self-preservation is tough. In the end Democrats lost 39 of their own - passing the bill 220-215 with a cushion of just two votes, one of those a Republican in a heavily Democratic Louisiana district. (Read "Understanding the Health Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...
...change in tone from his fruitless attempts at outreach 10 months before in the run-up to the stimulus vote made it clear that Democrats are now resigned to going it alone both in the House and the Senate. Majority leader Harry Reid has moved away from the lone Republican still negotiating on health care, Maine's Olympia Snowe, and toward a plan to pass the bill relying solely on Democratic votes, of which he'll need every one in order to overcome the threat of a filibuster by Republicans...