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...Klein's "Passing the Torch" was a tonic for me [Nov. 17]. During the Republican National Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't even know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin--with sarcasm that made my skin crawl--remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign--Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone for 10 years...
...Republicans are feuding in the wake of the November election. But they are not descending into civil war. That would be too tidy. What is unfolding instead is an overlapping series of Republican civil wars, each with its own theme...
...guess is that the winning side in these Republican debates will be tough on illegal immigration, federal spending and Obama. But all these arguments will also largely miss the point. When a party suffers the kind of beating the Republicans have taken in the past two elections, the public has not rejected one of its factions. It has rejected the party as a whole. Voters have turned on pro-choice as well as pro-life Republicans, on Senators who favored amnesty and ones who fought it. Evidently voters did not believe that Republicans of any stripe offered solutions...
TIME: Do you think there are more ideologues than pragmatists in the House Republican Conference? Boehner: If you're looking at my voting record, I have one of the most conservative voting records in the House. But I don't wear it on my sleeve. [Laughs.] I don't shove it in people's face. I don't expect everybody to vote the way I do ... There's a lot of labels that get thrown around, and one of the reasons I don't belong to any of these organizations in our Congress is [that] because when you join...
TIME: Some in the National Review and in other places have called you a caretaker in the role of Republican leader. How do you respond to that? Boehner: Oh, there's been a lot said over the last two weeks. Clearly, we've been through two very difficult cycles. If I thought that I was to blame for what happened over those last two cycles, I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't have run. I think we did our best considering the cards that we were dealt. And I believe that the cards that will be dealt...