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Health Care, the GOP, and the Consequences of Compromise
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAbandonment is one of the most effective, though least utilized, public relations techniques ever invented. It works like this: When your prospects for success are doomed, giving up is sometimes the most unpredictable – and devastating – thing you can do to your opponents. This technique appears to be playing out before our eyes. If, as now seems likely, Democrats abandon their prized "public option" on health care reform, the pressure will then shift to Republicans. Those in the minority party will then face their own internecine decisions whether to support a compromise, such ...
Ron Paul Supporters Stage Internet Coup Today
By David Knowles - Politics DailySay what you want about Ron Paul and his legion of tech-savvy supporters, but they do make the Republican party a whole lot more interesting to watch. Case in point? As Politico's Ben Stein reports, Paul-ites (the most commonly used term to describe Paul's followers) have recently flocked to a Digg-like webstie set up by the RNC and flooded it with questions for the debate between candidates for the Chairmanship of that distinguished, if not slightly demoralized, body. The implicit promise made at Americans for Tax Reform is that you, the public, will be allowed to submit questions to be asked ...
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