WP: Divide Is Sharpening Among Republicans

[Pirate Smile]

Divide Is Sharpening Among Republicans
Senate Compromises Irk House GOP

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 15, 2006; Page A04

From immigration policy to energy to emergency spending, House Republican leaders are publicly breaking rank with their counterparts in the Senate, fearing that Senate efforts at compromise are jeopardizing the party's standing with conservative voters.

The breach in congressional leadership has been especially stark in the past two weeks. As the Senate returns to the immigration issue this week, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said House Republicans will not agree to any plan granting illegal immigrants a path to citizenship that does not require them first to return to their home countries. House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's proposed $100 rebate for gasoline as "insulting" and "stupid." And House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) declared a Senate-passed, $109 billion bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hurricane relief and a bevy of home-state pet projects "dead on arrival."

Hastert even parted company with Frist (R-Tenn.) last week on President Bush's nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden to head the CIA. Hastert asserted, "I don't think a military guy should be head of CIA, frankly," even as Frist called him "the ideal man for the job."

"People are frustrated. They really are," said Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who noted he is constantly hearing from conservative constituents who question why a Republican Party that controls the White House, House and Senate so often repudiates conservative goals .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/14/AR2006051400778.html

[Ringo84]

1. Re:

Quote: "People are frustrated. They really are," said Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who noted he is constantly hearing from conservative constituents who question why a Republican Party that controls the White House, House and Senate so often repudiates conservative goals .

Aha! Maybe we don't have to campaign that hard. The "Republican majority" is self-destructing quite well on its own.

<sarcasm>Geez, Pirate Smile...you've brought me to tears with this news piece.</sarcasm>
Ringo

[Pirate Smile]

2. You might like this one too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2284423

[UpInArms]

3. the easy answer: These Creatures are Not Conservative

They are radicals - they are attempting to destroy this country and hold nothing as sacred - especially the Constitution and they could give a rat's ass about Christ or God.

[Ringo84]

4. To UpInArms

That's what they say about us. But we haven't been ruining this country for the past six years, and our party isn't self-destructing. If it was, we wouldn't be here.
Ringo

[Mountainman]

5. The reason is that deep down Republicans only want power to enrich

themselves. That ideology stuff is to get suckers like freepers and fundies to vote for them because they could never get enough votes by themselves to be dog catcher.

[Ringo84]

6. To Mountainman

Thus, appealing to the right-wing? Hmm... interesting.
Ringo

[William Seger]

12. Bingo!

I've been saying that through the whole "conservative movement" bullshit -- it's just a scam run by the same old corporatist plutocrats who still control the Republican agenda.

[wordpix2]

13. repukes "could never get enough votes by themselves to be dog catcher"--I

agree. Their "ideology" is enriching themselves and to hell with environment, the poor, the middle class, cost of college tuition, health care or anything else. I'd like to see them all go down. I don't see one good one among them.

[Azathoth]

7. Ah, the perils of pandering to a group of insane extremists n/t

[Supersedeas]

11. which way do they turn....Rove, the freeple need answers NOW

[Skittles]

8. I hope the divide is a big enough hole for them all to fall into

bastards, all of them

[w4rma]

9. Efforts at compromising with who? Surely not the Democratic Party.

I'm interested to know who these Repukes are compromising with. Their corporate sponsors, maybe? The "who" is left unsaid.

[goodboy]

10. Divide and conquer;;;Bush is so hated, even repukes polled are pinin'

for the Big Dawg.

[sofa king]

14. Breaking news: hatred and racism split from greed and fear.

Citing the fact that illegal immigrants are too poor to rip off and too powerless to fear, the Hatred and Racism wing of the Republican Party has broken away from the rest of the G.O.P.

In the future, Republican xenophobes will be known as White Elephants, while greedy Republican cowards will be known as Yellow Elephants.

Both parties are expected to steal the election from each other this November.

[genieroze]

15. Give them some more rope.