05/25/05

Members of the Republican Party's political action corps pride themselves on discipline and adherence to the line. Most of the time they are very good at this, which explains to a degree their ascendancy of late. All of a sudden, however, that discipline has started to crack, and the outlines of a full-fledged civil war within the ranks of the GOP are beginning to become manifestly clear. ... The lingering election beef. Schiavo. The filibuster deal, which earned the following reaction from the president of the Iowa Christian Coalition: 'We'll educate people in the caucuses, and this is not going to do them a lot of good in terms of their presidential aspirations.' The stem cell fight, the 50 Republican defectors in the House, and the threatened veto. Bolton. The looming brawl over Social Security reform. The once-mighty GOP coalition is fragmenting before our very eyes...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052505X.shtml

from Truthout, by William Rivers Pitt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp