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The Senate refused to cut off a filibuster against the bill to provide bridge loans to General Motors and Chrysler. All the signs are that the stimulus spending will also be opposed by congressional Republicans, whose shrunken ranks are increasingly dominated by right-wing Southerners who care not what their stance does to harm the party's national image

No Republican House members are left in New England, and they have become ever scarcer in New York and Pennsylvania and across the Midwest.

Even though Bush later used his authority to provide the auto bridge loans, the defeat of this legislation by Republicans in Congress will not be forgotten when GOP senators run for reelection in 2010 in states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania.

All the signs are that the stimulus spending will also be opposed by congressional Republicans, whose shrunken ranks are increasingly dominated by right-wing Southerners who care not what their stance does to harm the party's national image.

It will also echo in industrial states such as Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, California, New York and New Jersey, when Republicans try to challenge for Senate and House seats.
Congressional Republicans will again sacrifice their political interest to satisfy their Southern half-baked ideology.