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Foj
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Username: Foger
Post Number: 1311
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 10:09 pm: | 
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Inside Report: Mehlman's Warning
By Robert Novak
MEHLMAN'S WARNING
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Republican National Chairman Kenneth Mehlman went to Capitol Hill last Tuesday to warn the party's House and Senate campaign staffers of dire consequences unless Republicans break the current legislative deadlock.
Mehlman stressed the necessity to pass a budget resolution and an immigration reform bill, dealing with two issues that seriously concern the Republican base.
Word circulated around Capitol Hill that Mehlman warned 45 seats could be lost in the House on Nov. 7. He told me that he did not mention that figure and, in fact, believes Republicans would retain control of the House if elections were held today. High-level party sources close to Mehlman estimate the GOP loss could be 25 seats under a worst-case scenario. A 15-seat gain would give the Democrats House control.
ABSENT GRASSLEY
Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, turned down a request to meet in the Oval Office with President Bush and other Senate and House tax legislators last Tuesday because he was scheduled with Iowa constituents.
That marked Grassley's second recent boycott of a high-level meeting about tax legislation. A week earlier, he declined to attend an 8:30 p.m. session in Speaker Dennis Hastert's office because it was so late in the day.
The message from Grassley is that as Finance Committee chairman he is running his own show and does not want to be bossed around by either the president or the speaker.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/05/inside_report_mehlmans_warning .html
Repubs will lose 25 to 45 seats in NOV ? Well now.
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cjc
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Username: Cjc
Post Number: 5601
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 10:12 pm: |
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Off-year elections are all about turnout. May the best base win. |
Foj
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Username: Foger
Post Number: 1313
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 10:55 pm: |
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Spending, Immigration Cited by Conservatives
Thursday, May 11, 2006; A01
Disaffection over spending and immigration have caused conservatives to take flight from President Bush and the Republican Congress at a rapid pace in recent weeks, sending Bush's approval ratings to record lows and presenting a new threat to the GOP's 12-year reign on Capitol Hill, according to White House officials, lawmakers and new polling data.
Bush and Congress have suffered a decline in support from almost every part of the conservative coalition over the past year, a trend that has accelerated with alarming implications for Bush's governing strategy.
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There are also significant pockets of conservatives turning on Bush and Congress over the their failure to tighten immigration laws, restrict gay marriage and to put an end to the Iraq war and the rash of political scandals, according to lawmakers and pollsters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051002040. html
NYT - CBS poll-- graph
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