GOP Infighting Rises, Poll Standings Fall

WASHINGTON - One lawmaker lectures a second about the need for sacrifice in time of war. A third accuses others of preening for television cameras rather than working on Iraq (news - web sites).


And that's just the Republicans, scuffling out of the Capitol for a 10-day break, legislative accomplishments hard to come by and their own election-year poll ratings in a slump that rivals President Bush (news - web sites)'s.


"They have no new ideas and no new answers for the American people," jabbed N.J. Rep. Robert Menendez, third-ranking Democrat in the House.

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The dispute peaked several weeks ago, when House Speaker Dennis Hastert said angrily in a meeting attended by Bush that he felt he'd been suckered by presidential aides.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=19&u=/ap/gop_in_charge

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A giant banner of a hooded and abused Iraqi prisoner is displayed during a rally in Beirut, May 21, 2004. Tens of thousands of Lebanese Shi'ites in white shrouds marched in Beirut Friday in a collective show of their willingness to die in defense of holy shrines in U.S.-occupied Iraq (news - web sites). REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

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I can only imaging things will be even less civil as the election date nears.

Who knew?

After three and half years of being freakin' tormented by some of these extreme right-wing buttwipes,...I can't help but enjoy them striking out at eachother.

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50% to 41% would rather have Dems in control on Congress - interesting. I can only hope that this translates into votes in November. It's time to put these freaks at bay.

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EOM

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and try to explain the mess they made to their constituents.

Excellent!

visit military personnel wounded in Iraq. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Hastert is one of the Great Republican Chickenhawks.


One of the four, Sen. John McCain, criticized fellow Republicans pointedly. "Throughout our history, wartime has been a time of sacrifice. ... What have we sacrificed?" said the Ariz. Republican, who spent five years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp a generation ago. "I don't remember ever in the history of warfare when we cut taxes."

Hastert saw it differently.

"If you want to see sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women" recovering from their wounds at local military hospitals. "There's the sacrifice in this country," he said the next day. "We're trying to make sure that they have the ability to fight this war. ... At the same time, we have to react to keep this country strong not only militarily but economically."

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I'm not so sure we're "one for all and all for one"

Bush Visits Hill to Reassure Republicans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43544-2004May20.html
By Dana Milbank and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 21, 2004; Page A04

President Bush ascended Capitol Hill yesterday for what Republican lawmakers called a "pep rally" to restore the spirits of a GOP caucus worried about chaos in Iraq and Bush's declining poll numbers.

Behind closed doors, Bush gave a 35-minute version of his stump speech covering Iraq, the economy and energy policy. When he finished, the participants filed past a bank of microphones to announce that they were unified in support of Bush and that there had been no dissent expressed at the meeting. Bush took no questions.

(sounds a bit like re-pledging loyalty to a king)

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Several Republicans were surprised Bush took no questions. He usually does take questions at such sessions, they said, including at a GOP lawmakers retreat in Philadelphia in late January. Bush's reluctance to field queries appeared to be a matter of some sensitivity.

Allen, for example, called yesterday's session a "good team meeting" with no dissent "that I heard." But asked whether Bush allowed questions, Allen replied: "I don't care to answer that question."

The meeting did not satisfy dissidents in the party. "There was nothing you haven't heard at other, public appearances," said Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), whose commitment to the GOP was questioned this week by Hastert. Asked whether he felt better because of Bush's assurances about improvement in Iraq, McCain replied with feigned relief: "Oh, much better."

Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. (Tenn.), one of six House Republicans who voted against the 2003 resolution authorizing war in Iraq, said he saw opinion shifting toward his position. "You'd be amazed how many people have come up to me lately and said this war was a mistake," he said.

They reject intelligent debate and compromise as unGodly evils. Now they are starting to hate and attack their own. How just. This will only get worse as Bush continues to display his moronic incompetence.

Sounds like the discussion forum I visit daily with our fellow neocons.. Come join the fun!!


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that Bush* is a ball and chain attached to their ankles, and the American people are about to throw Bush* off the back of the boat along with the rest of his people, including the republicans.

just for being a reasonable human being. McCain is simply saying, "How are we going to pay for all these wars if we keep cutting taxes?" Very simple. They can't answer that, so they attack him. Fuck those assholes.

The spineless goper-dopers will run someone against McCain, or just make sure they hound him enough before November, and make him decide not to run.

Real patriots are NOT WELCOME in the GOPer:roper,groper&raper party.

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Specter/Toomey race. There are just too many wingnuts for their own good. I love reading about their strife for a change!