Chasm Grows Within G.O.P. Over Spending.

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'The congressional push this week to secure the first Republican budget plan in nearly a decade is revealing a chasm between fiscal hawks determined to maintain strict spending caps and defense hawks who are threatening to derail any budget that does not ensure an increase for the military.

“This is a war within the Republican Party,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who has vowed to oppose a final budget that does not ensure more military spending. “You can shade it any way you want, but this is war.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/us/politics/budget-battle-in-gop-is-test-of-governance.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Good, let them figure out who they are and what is most important to them. I'm glad to see it, it is at least apparently SUBSTANTIVE, and gives the electorate something concrete to think about.