Future historians tracing the crackup of the Republican Party may well look to May 8, 2010, as an inflection point. That was the day, as is now well known, that Sen. Robert Bennett, who took the conservative position 84 percent of the time over his career, was deemed not conservative enough by fellow Utah Republicans and booted out of the primary. (Dana Millbank, Washington Post, 5/16/10)
So after upset wins in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts Millbank sees the demise of the Republican Party. But wait, wasn’t there something else about Bennett that might be relevant? What was it? Thinking...thinking…oh, yeah, this:
“…his 2008 vote in favor of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bank bailout. Bennett also had co-sponsored a bipartisan bill to mandate health insurance coverage (although he eventually voted against the health care reform bill President Obama signed).” Christian Science Monitor, 5/8/10)
Ignorance is Bliss
In television interviews over the weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder warned that Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law could lead to racial profiling and might prompt Latinos to stop cooperating with police. However, it emerged at a House hearing Thursday that Holder hasn't actually read the statute. "I have not had a chance to. I've glanced at it. I have not read it," Holder acknowledged in response to questions from Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas). (POLITCO.com, 5/13/10)
Holder now joins the exalted company of Shakira as someone who is against the Arizona immigration bill, but has not actually read it.
nice!
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