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GOP Must Showcase Ideas, Not More Pork and More Attacks

By David Winston
Roll Call Contributing Writer
June 3, 2008, Midnight

Once and for all, Congressional Republicans didn’t lose the 2006 elections because of scandal. They got fired because they forgot that the purpose of a political party is to govern, not simply to get re-elected. They forgot that ideas matter.

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