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ed to take notice. Boehner has made Tea Party extremist Chris Collins, race against Rep. Kathy Hochul a top priority. Now hens taking a page out of Karl Rove s playbook and opening a so-called GOP ,Victory Center, to turn out their right-wing base. This is serious. Polls show this race absolutely deadloc

is serious Friend, When John Boehner announces hees coming to western New York for a fundraising breakfast this weekend, we need to take notice. Boehner has made Tea Party extremist Chris Collins, race against Rep. Kathy Hochul a top priority. Now hens taking a page out of Karl Rove s playbook and op

m pregnancy "is something that God intended to happen" fame. The Tea Party primary challenge has become such a threat to mainstream Republicans that Karl Rove started the Conservative Victory Project to help GOP incumbents ward off less electable primary opponents. When you consider how few people actuall

f allowing the sequester to take effect could be less damaging than the consequences of going back on his promise not to allow any new tax revenues Boehner has now dug himself into a corner, refusing to even discuss an increase in revenue and insisting in his typical colorful language that it was time f

, the political operatives who opposed him did what they are paid to do—they drew a cartoon of him. "Even if you never met him, you know this guy," Karl Rove said, in 2008. "He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a Martini and a cigarette, that stands against the wall and makes

cent of the popular vote. The President talked of the election breaking the "fever" in Washington. "We didn't expect the floodgates would open and Boehner would be Tip O'Neill to our Reagan," Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the President, said. But reelection, he thought, had "liberated" Obama. The

he end, it sounded as if the only cliff-avoidance Boehner was real- ly interested in was one that caised ne

expect the Republican Party to make a similar lurch to the center. But many Republican leaders still inhabit a bubble. It was stunning how many, from Karl Rove to Newt Gingrich, seemed to expect a Mitt Romney victory. And some of the right-wing postmortems are suggest- ing that Romney lost because he was too