Bush no money magnet

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Source: The Hill

Financial projections for the President’s Dinner tonight confirm that Republican confidence in the president is in a state of collapse.

The National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) fundraising goal is $7.5 million, which is half what was raised last year. But to reach this lesser goal, each individual lawmaker has been asked to raise the same amount as 12 months ago. In other words, the NRCC is assuming lawmakers won’t be either willing or able to hit the targets they managed last year.

A source close to the NRCC said it expects to meet its target.

Senior GOP members of the Ways and Means Committee have been asked to raise $100,000 each for the dinner, the same as in 2006, according to a memo distributed by House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the dinner’s organizers.

Blunt acknowledged that Bush’s relationship with congressional Republicans is rocky. “Every president in his second term has difficulty working with the legislature, and President Bush is no different,” Blunt said, but disputed that the lowered financial goals reflected disenchantment with Bush.

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-no-money-magnet-2007-06-13.html

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1. Ghod, how I love hearing this.

I LOVE watching Bush age before our eyes, like a reverse Portrait of Dorian Gray.

Well you know that when the money dries up, he's toast.