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groovedaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:18 PM
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Obama Gains Support From G.O.P. Governors
WASHINGTON — President Obama must wish governors could vote in Congress: While just three of the 219 Republican lawmakers backed the $787 billion economic recovery plan that he is signing into law on Tuesday, that trifling total would have been several times greater if support among the 22 Republican state executives counted.

The contrast reflects the two faces of the Republican Party these days.

Leaderless after losing the White House, the party is mostly defined by its Congressional wing, which flaunted its anti-spending ideology in opposing the stimulus package. That militancy drew the mockery of late-night television comics, but the praise of conservative talk-show stars and the party faithful.

In the states, meanwhile, many Republican governors are practicing a pragmatic — their Congressional counterparts would say less-principled — conservatism.

Governors, unlike members of Congress, have to balance their budgets each year. And that requires compromise with state legislators, including Democrats, as well as more openness to the occasional state tax increase and to deficit-spending from Washington.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/us/politics/17repubs.html?th&emc=th
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:22 PM
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1. This is as expected..
While the GOOPer Congress members have no particular reason to support the stimulus package, other than an upcoming election, Governors have more pressing concerns to think about. It's no suprise that they want their piece of this package.

That fact is going to bite the senators and representatives in the butt, sharply, in a couple of years. The voters are going to remember, and act accordingly.
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