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From: bentway	5/27/2008 10:27:57 PM
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Senate votes show GOP power vacuum By: John Bresnahan and David Rogers May 27, 2008 07:37 AM EST Two lopsided votes in the U.S. Senate last week reveal a power vacuum in the Republican Party. President Bush’s influence is diminishing quickly, Sen. John McCain has not yet established himself as the party’s leader, and Senate Republicans are worried more about their own reelection prospects than they are about the need to stand by either man. “The Senate has already basically decided to disregard Bush,” said one GOP Senate aide. But in joining Democrats in voting to override Bush’s veto of the Farm Bill and to approve Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb’s expansive new GI Bill, a substantial number of Senate Republicans also disregarded McCain. The Arizona senator has said he would have vetoed the Farm Bill if he were president, and he opposes Webb’s GI Bill in favor of a less expensive version of his own. But McCain didn’t show up for the votes. And although Republican leaders specifically pitched the vote on the Webb bill as a test of loyalty to the presumptive Republican nominee — “It’s us against them,” GOP senators were told — 25 Republicans ultimately crossed over to support the legislation.... politico.com politico.com

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