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Recently, Steele put out a "Blueprint for Tomorrow" that indicated a determination to strike a balance between Republicans pushing to return to the party's core principles and those who "claim we need to modernize to meet today's reality." Said he: "To my way of thinking, we must do both, and quickly." In the blueprint, Steele clearly borrows key elements of Obama's groundbreaking tactic for generating record levels of donations with innovative social-networking tools. He calls himself a "technology geek," and already posted on the RNC's main website is his "Network for the Future," which features...
...there another way to express your unhappiness?' JEAN-FRANÇOIS COPE, of France's National Assembly, on the prospect of the country's transportation networks, public schools and government offices shutting down after labor unions called for a one-day strike...
...Because while a majority of French public opinion had backed the wide-ranging conservative reform drive that has been Sarkozy's focus since winning the Presidency in May, 2007, there are now signs that his support is crumbling as the recession sets in. Polls on the eve of the strike showed 69% of people supported or sympathized with Thursday's action...
...Sarkozy may also be getting comeuppance for his mocking comment to fellow conservatives last July, when he quipped that public support of his reforms had dealt the unions a deathblow. "These days, when there's a strike, no one notices," he said...
...today's strike was noticed. Indeed, state sector employees were joined by an unusually high numbers of private sector workers. Many of the 376 staffers at Paris-based pan-European stock exchange Euronext, for example, struck to denounce job cuts announced despite the company's double-digit growth in 2008. "Before, the French were deeply shocked by the situation, but didn't want to add to it," Denis Muzet, director of the Médiascopie Institute which tracks public opinion, told Le Monde. "But now there's real anger. Banks have announced positive results for 2008 after the state extended...