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Rahm’s Republicans

From Robert Novak column of December 15, 2007

Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, won private praise Wednesday from several conservative Republican senators when he launched an attack on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

Emanuel attacked McConnell’s plan to keep federal spending at President Bush’s recommended level but find room for individual earmarks by cutting everything across the board. Emanuel said McConnell is “fighting for earmarks over funding for cancer cures, the veterans’ health care crisis and 50,000 new American teachers.” He charged that McConnell’s “own re-election campaign would come first.”

That is precisely what anti-earmark Republicans have been saying in private but do not want to say publicly for the sake of party unity.

Ed Note: How do Republicans ever plan to regain the Congress with such a go-along-to-get-along attitude as that exhibited by Mitch McConnell??? It hurts to say it, but McConnell and his ilk are a big part of the Republicans’ problem.

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