And that's according to Politico, not some blogger or liberal columnist.

Everything from the microscopic — the New Black Panther party — to the massive –- think bailouts — is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.

 

Republican staffers say there won’t be any self-destructive witch hunts, but they clearly are relishing the prospect of extracting information from an administration that touts transparency.

 

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In addition to today's gubernatorial poll showing Republican candidate Meg Whitman leading by eight points, Rasmussen Reports also surveyed likely California voters on the U.S. Senate Race that could unseat Barbara Boxer. The poll, released Wednesday, shows former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina catching up to Boxer -- 43% to 44%. Among the other poll respondents, 5% said they'd choose a third party candidate and 8% were still undecided.

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It's pretty cloudy if you're a blogger in Philadelphia, thanks to its cash-grabbing, small-business-unfriendly city government.

The thing that's struck me about the whole "Ground Zero Mosque" (which like all good propaganda is neither at ground zero nor a mosque) is how quickly the GOP has moved into full anti-Muslim bigotry mode.

I agree with Krauthammer and others.  Ground Zero is hallowed ground, and a mosque in such close proximity is bad form.  I don’t want it there.  Except there’s this one sticking point that I just can’t get around:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

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The Economist is one of my favorite non-American magazines, so I'm going with that flow.  First, they weigh in on the enthusiasm gap:

Greg Gutfield sounds serious about this:

Last Friday and over the weekend, the uber-partisan Paul Krugman took several swipes at Paul Ryan and his Roadmap,

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