Republicans scale back election year agenda - from The Hill

[stop the bleeding]

I did not see this here yet.

After a year in which many of their highest hopes were dashed, diminished or deferred, fiscal and social conservatives are compiling less ambitious legislative wish lists for 2006.

Republicans of all stripes looked at 2005, with expanded majorities in the House and Senate and President Bush just starting his second term, as a rare opportunity to win enactment of favored legislation.

But the new year is not seen that way at all. “The political reality is, generally speaking, that you have a tough time with big, ambitious ideas in an election year,” said former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), the president of the anti-tax Club for Growth.

No prize was bigger, or ultimately more elusive, last year than Bush’s proposal to overhaul Social Security. But other desired, big-ticket legislative items, from a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage to an extension of the 15 percent tax rate on capital gains and dividends, also fell short.

Read more here….
Right scales back election year agenda - Jonathan Allen - thehill.com

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1. The Repubs election year agenda in one word - SURVIVAL! n/t

[rodeodance]

2. less Repug 'reforms' is grand for us!!

..After a year in which many of their highest hopes were dashed, diminished or deferred, fiscal and social conservatives are compiling less ambitious legislative wish lists for 2006.

[stop the bleeding]

3. I think right now they have 1 ambition and that is to get elected in Nov.

[MGKrebs]

4. Same is happening here in Georgia:

"House Republican leaders have long since abandoned their plans to debate this year proposals for capping the state budget and changing how the state pays for public schools. Two weeks ago, Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) followed suit, withdrawing his bill that would have put much tougher restrictions on when feeding tubes can be removed from terminally ill patients, à la the Terri Schiavo case."

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/insider/stories/010906.html

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5. I bet tax cuts are still on the agenda!

God forbid they get rid of those!!!