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...Senate's first day of debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the health-care system produced a squeaker of a vote - exactly the 60 that majority leader Harry Reid needed to overcome a threatened Republican filibuster that could have blocked him from even bringing the bill to the floor. But it also gave a clear picture of the Republican messaging strategy as the legislation moves forward into what promises to be weeks of tendentious debate after the Thanksgiving recess. The minority intends to launch a series of surgical strikes on key parts of the bill, and to raise questions about...
...What they are counting on now, and what they are hoping to inflame, is public doubt. Over and over again on Saturday, Republicans mentioned a new Quinnipiac poll indicating that while a healthy majority of Americans - 61% - are eager to see major changes in the health system, only 1 in 5 believes President Obama when he says that he can do it without raising their taxes. What the GOP Senators failed to note was that the same poll showed 59% faulting the Republican Party for not working in good faith with the Democrats to produce a bill. (Read "Understanding...
...Bush had given a fundraising speech in New York where he talked about lowering credit-card rates, a bullet point that had been included at the last minute by his chief of staff but hadn’t been approved by his economic advisors. Support from a Republican president lent congressional Democrats the air cover to move a bill that received no more than 30 minutes of debate on the Senate floor before passing by a vote 74-19, a vote seemingly bereft of partisanship. Perhaps the measure had taken them so much by surprise that senators hadn?...
...after a legal battle in which the other side had more absentee ballots counted than we did. They [the Franken campaign] chose a strategy that allowed them to get more of their votes counted. We had a strategy based on equal protection. There were literally thousand of votes in Republican areas that still have not been counted. I have no regrets about fighting hard to get somebody’s vote counted...
...evidence about Hasan's background has leached onto the public record since the shooting, Republican lawmakers have become less reluctant to suggest that Hasan acted as a Muslim terrorist. "There's a lot of evidence that would lead reasonable people to believe that this was potentially an act of terrorism," Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, senior GOP member of the intelligence committee, said on Tuesday. A Senator from Texas told Obama the same thing. "As more and more facts surrounding the Fort Hood attack surface," Republican Senator John Cornyn said in a letter to Obama that was released on Tuesday...