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...Coleman, a Minnesotan Republican who recently lost his bid for Senate re-election to Democrat Al Franken '73 after a prolonged legal appeals process, said that he is also engaged in conversations about the "future of the Republican Party" and "strengthening a center-right vision for America." But he said that he would wait until September to make a more detailed announcement about his own political future...
...everybody ... These struggles have always boiled down to a contest between hope and fear." True enough. There was McCarthyism in the 1950s, the John Birch Society in the 1960s. But there was a difference in those times: the crazies were a faction - often a powerful faction - of the Republican Party, but they didn't run it. The neofascist Father Coughlin had a huge radio audience in the 1930s, but he didn't have the power to control and silence the elected leaders of the party that Limbaugh - who, if not the party's leader, is certainly the most powerful Republican...
This may tell us something about the actual state of play on health care: the nutters are a tiny minority; the Republicans are curling themselves into a tight, white, extremist bubble - but there may be enough of them raising dust to render creative public policy impossible. Some righteous anger seems called for, but that's not Obama's style. He will have to come up with something, though - and he will have to do it without the tiniest scintilla of help from the Republican Party...
...pictures of Republican memorabilia...
...Hayden's description added to the confusion about how far the program had gone before Panetta cancelled it. Republican members of Congress briefed by Panetta have suggested it was scarcely more than a PowerPoint presentation; others have speculated the director would not have raised the alarm if it had not been operational. CIA spokesman George Little told TIME that the program "was, in fact, much more than a PowerPoint presentation." But that doesn't automatically mean it was fully operational, either...