Word: retreatism
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...Boehner isn't alone in this view. A National Journal poll of 35 Republicans in the House and Senate found only 37% thought Congress should restrict lobbyists' fundraising for members, while 63% disagree. And when the 231 House members get together for a retreat that lasts from Thursday to Saturday in Cambridge, Maryland, House leaders aren't expected to push the issue strongly...
...vaunted energy independence initiative was a mirage, a minor reshuffling of programs that already exist or a reinstatement of those cut in previous years. At least one of Bush's proposals-the goal of reducing our dependence on "Middle Eastern" oil 75% by 2025-resulted in an embarrassing retreat. Bush's Energy Secretary, Samuel Bodman, retracted the pledge a day later, saying the President had offered an "example," not a promise...
...three candidates have a few final chances to court their colleagues in the run-up to this week's election. At a Baltimore retreat, the Republican Study Committee, which includes more than 100 of the G.O.P.'s most conservative members, will ask candidates to commit to cut federal spending and push for limits on abortion and stem-cell research. The Tuesday Group--made up of 35 Republican moderates--plans to meet with the three, too, to find out what they promised the conservatives, since the moderates oppose much of that agenda. Then the entire 231-strong caucus will meet...
...next week, all three candidates will continue campaigning. The conservative Study Committee has a retreat on January 30-31 where each will speak, as well as conservative icons Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich and George Will. And all three already have plans on Feb. 1 to speak to the Tuesday Group, a coalition of GOP moderates. Neither the moderates nor the conservatives, however, are likely to make a single endorsement en masse, since clusters of each have already endorsed different candidates. Which just goes to show that the once unified congressional Republicans, left to their own devices, can be as fractious...
...after a day of labor, there were no bars or restaurants to retreat to for cocktails and gossip. Instead she conversed with hikers, sharing tidbits about the history of the trail and environmental conservation...