Dissent is great! Unless you’re talking about spending bills
The AP reports on a mini-revolt taking place in the Senate amongst leading Democrats on the massive omnibus spending bill:
Did Barack Obama want President Bush to succeed?
-How about on the surge in Iraq?
-How about on aggressive interrogation techniques?
-How about on keeping taxes low so the American people could keep more of their own money and so businesses could grow?
-How about on an amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman?
-How about on GSE reform?
-How about on Bush’s resistance to expanding SCHIP?
-How about on drilling in ANWR?
-How about on embryonic stem cell research?
-How about on his picks for the judiciary?
-How about on Bush’s resistance to signing the US on to the Kyoto treaty?
-How about on free trade?
-How about on school vouchers?
-How about on missile defense?
-How about on Bush’s opposition to socialized healthcare?
-How about on medical liability reform?
-How about on welfare reform?
-How about on the Patriot Act?
Former Obama campaign manager: Rush Limbaugh is the “minority leader” of the Republican party
David Plouffe, who has a book about his experiences as The One’s campaign manager coming out this fall (which he received/will receive 7 figures for), wrote an opinion piece that was published in the WaPo today that falls right in line with the WH/Dem party’s coordinated attack strategy on Rush Limbaugh.
Could the GOP pick up NJ in November?
CNN reports that some early polling news indicates that New Jersey’s Governor Jon Corzine could be in trouble this fall in his bid to be re-elected:
Is Steele really prepared to lead the GOP? PLUS: More on the efforts to demonize Rush
Ed Morrissey has a thoughtful analysis on the topic of Steele here, which leads me more and more to thinking that Steele isn’t ready for showtime at all. He’s gone from GOP rising star to one of the most despised in the GOP in the timespan of about a week, and as Ed details in his post, a lot of it has to do not just with Steele’s mocking of Rush Limbaugh’s speech from this past weekend in which Rush made the case for a government that runs based on conservative principles – which are good not just for conservatives but for everyone, but also his failure to repudiate D.L. Hughley when he compared the GOP convention to “Nazis.”