{"id":3970,"date":"2005-04-14T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T16:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3970.html"},"modified":"2005-04-14T12:36:03","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T16:36:03","slug":"a-nuclear-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-nuclear-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"A nuclear freeze?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senate Dems are moving ahead with their judicial-nominee plans, working under the assumption that Bill Frist & Co. will try to execute the “nuclear option” as early as next week. Republicans, meanwhile, are slowly coming to an unwelcome realization: they’re losing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Senate Republican leaders were due to meet last night amid rising concern that they are being beaten on the “nuclear option” by Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) public-relations war room.<\/p>\n

The GOP’s talks follow a meeting last week in which aides warned Bob Stevenson, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s (R-Tenn.) communications director, that something needs to be done to win back lost ground, a participant said.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s a realization that this particular [Democratic] effort has to be countered and they’re in full-scale attack mode,” a GOP aide said, adding, “I think that people know that we’ve got a serious problem here.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another GOP aide said: “There’s a general sense in the rank and file that we are a little in the hole and that Democrats have been more aggressive on messaging, that we’ve kind of gone dark. Democrats have gotten a head start and defined the issue ahead of us.”<\/p>\n

I know I’ve gushed over Harry Reid on a few occasions, but he really does deserve a lot of credit for the Dems’ success so far. Republicans may yet find the votes they need to go “nuclear,” but when was the last time we saw a Senate Minority Leader with only 44 seats run circles around a Senate Majority Leader this effectively?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Dems are moving ahead with their judicial-nominee plans, working under the assumption that Bill Frist & Co. will try to execute the “nuclear option” as early as next week. Republicans, meanwhile, are slowly coming to an unwelcome realization: they’re losing. Senate Republican leaders were due to meet last night amid rising concern that they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}