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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>Along the lines of the CNN thread. From the Post this
morning.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>Warren Hayman</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 06, 2011 6:07 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Alert: For the GOP, the debt showdown was a 'leverage
moment'</DIV></DIV>
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<TD>----------------------------------------<BR>News Alert: For the GOP,
the debt showdown was a 'leverage moment' <BR>August 6, 2011 9:06:48
PM<BR>----------------------------------------<BR><BR>The frantic showdown
over the debt ceiling that played out in Washington, bringing the nation
to the brink of default, looked like the haphazard escalation of a typical
partisan standoff. It wasn’t.<BR><BR>Rather, it was the natural outgrowth
of a years-long effort by GOP recruiters to build a new majority and
reverse the party's fortunes. That effort began before the economy
collapsed in 2008, before the government bailouts that followed, before
the tea party rose in response to push its anti-tax, anti-spending
message. <BR><BR>The Washington Post reconstructs the Republican party's
transformation, and its impact on the nation's economic course, through
interviews with the leading participants during this summer's drama and
from earlier interviews, some of them recorded, at various points during
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