As Republicans debate need for a new agenda, Democrats try to make Bush hobgoblin to voters
By Charles Babington, APSunday, June 20, 2010
GOP debates need for agenda to pitch voters
WASHINGTON — It’s not easy crafting an agenda for the fall elections. Just ask Republicans.
They set up a website to solicit ideas, only to see liberals flood it with distinctly un-Republican suggestions. When Republicans invited the public to rank proposals online, critics lampooned the effort for ideas such as ending a federal program for “historic whaling partners.”
Republicans don’t even agree on whether they need a new agenda.
With voters so divided over President Barack Obama’s health care and spending initiatives, some think the GOP needs only a plausible job-creation platform and a staunchly anti-Obama stand on nearly everything else.
Amid the indecision, Democrats keep linking Republican candidates to George W. Bush.
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