Saturday Quickies
Senior Republican officials acknowledged privately that there was another factor at work in the Republican tide against the housing bill – a potential leadership fight after the fall elections. Looking at potential losses in November, the current leadership team is not assured another term at the top. And Mr. Boehner, other Republican leaders and potential challengers are doing what they can to certify their conservative bona fides given the rightward tilt of the House Republican membership.
“I believe rewarding, encouraging and reinforcing risky investments should not be the role of the government and certainly shouldn’t be financed by taxpayers,” said Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, the No. 2 Republican, in explaining his stance against the bill.
House GOP leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Republican Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said they “stand ready to work with Secretary Paulson and congressional Democrats to take appropriate steps to ensure the soundness of our mortgage markets.”
According to the Inquirer (and several other papers) 200,000 Germans showed up to see Obama speak; afterwards, French President Nicolas Sarkozy indicated that France would prefer an Obama presidency, but apparently nobody likes him.
Meanwhile, US journalists are finally catching up with bloggers (again): apparently, the military has been controlling images of the war in Iraq in an effort to manipulate coverage. Who woulda thunk it?
the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.
Gee, that’s news to me, but only because I’ve been living in on an uncharted desert island with Gilligan and the Skipper too.
Lots of work to do today around the house.
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July 28th, 2008 at 11:36 am
In re Blunt: Looooooser, Loooooser, Looooooser.