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Meyerson: The 'Moderate Republican' Scam

The issue isn't the individual voting records of [Senate majority leader Bill] Frist and [Republican whip Mitch] McConnell, which are indistinguishable from each other and define the mainstream of today's gorge-the-rich, drown-the-poor, stay-the-course Republicanism. The issue is that under the control of the Republicans, both the Senate and the House have abandoned their constitutionally mandated obligation to oversee executive branch endeavors, most especially endeavors gone as awry as the war in Iraq. The issue is that under Republican control, both houses have abandoned any effort to address America's real problems. And guess what. The moderates will vote for the extremist. "Moderate," after all, is only an adjective; "Republican" is a noun. [Sen. Lincoln] Chafee, [Sen. Olympia] Snowe, the whole lot of them, are moderate enablers of an extremist party.

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