"After 5 years...centrist Republicans in both chambers... make a stand."

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: The Moderates Go to Extremes
By Dana Milbank
Friday, November 11, 2005; Page A10


The lights were up. Spectators filled the galleries. Legislative clerks stood at the ready. Binders with the day's legislation -- a $54 billion spending cut -- were on the leaders' tables.

There was only one thing missing from the House chamber yesterday: lawmakers.

On either end of the Capitol, insurgents brought the legislative process to a halt, forcing GOP leaders in the House and Senate to shelve prized tax and spending cuts. The explosions went off almost simultaneously, as if they had been synchronized -- and authorities blamed both attacks on Republican moderates.

After five years of relative quiescence, centrist Republicans in both chambers chose yesterday to make a stand. At the Senate Finance Committee, Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) forced Republican leaders to cancel a committee vote on a $60 billion tax cut. In the House, a rebellion by a few GOP moderates shut down the chamber for nearly six hours and led leaders to abandon a vote on budget cuts....

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Moderates were raging. Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.) took the microphone. "They know very well what our position is, and it won't change," he said of party leaders....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111001940.html

[niyad]

1. and was bill frist frothing at the mouth, as he did when the dems did this

last week?

[shraby]

2. Beautiful, just absolutely beautiful!!!!

Looks like they noticed the outcome of the recent elections after all and didn't like what they saw. Nothing like a great big rift in their party.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

3. And I think they are starting to take a hard look at 06

coming up and realizing that it ain't looking good.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Yep

:popcorn: And yes where was Frist foming at the mouth at this? :eyes: So it's only a political stunt when it's democrats eh?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. "Democrats" only mentioned once at the end.

Iow, Shillbank's message:

The Republicans save us from the Republicans.

Horseshit.

[marbuc]

6. "Democrats" only mentioned once at the end"

Because, as always, it is Bill Clinton's fault.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. a.m. kick