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...Many of their Republican counterparts are equally ambivalent, even with the tax sweeteners and an increase in the maximum amount of bank deposits insured by the FDIC, from $100,000 to $250,000. But several influential conservative Republicans who oppposed the first bill, like John Shaddeg of Arizona and Zach Wamp of Tennessee, have signaled that they will reluctantly support the new Senate version. Still, the vote promises to be a nail-biter, and by Thursday evening, the White House and Congressional leaders were still not convinced that they had secured the additional 12 votes to guarantee passage. With...
...during the vote. Boehner's initial clumsy attempt to blame the bill's defeat in part on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's partisan speech before the vote didn't help his sinking standing; it was derided not just by Democrats, but also by his Republican colleagues (John Shaddeg of Arizona minced no words, calling it a "stupid claim...
...hopeful sign for Boehner - and Wall Street - Shaddeg, an influential conservative voice on Capitol Hill, now looks likely to vote yes this time around. "Much as I would like to see much more dramatic changes, there comes a point in time where we've got to send the signal to the U.S. markets, U.S. consumers and world markets that we're dealing with this," Shadegg told the Washington Post. "I'm inclined to hold my nose and vote yes." Republicans, however, may not be the only hurdle for a successful vote; some fiscally conservative, moderate Democrats are not happy about...
...these questions Shaddeg leaves unanswered, and unasked...
...there is a message of more lasting significances in Shaddeg's book, it may be this: to become President, a non-war hero must not only want victory: he must lust after it. Kennedy, Roosevelt, Truman in '48, all drove themselves relentlessly. Johnson, as we all know, was and is a man obsessed. Goldwater was obsessed too, but with his fuzzy Conservatism and his supposed enemies in the GOP, not with the Presidency