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john boehner saying that even though the president s in favor of offshore drilling now, he s obviously not in favor of it enough. the number three house republican, mike pence, also blasted the decision today, saying the president s announcement today is a smokescreen. unfortunately this is yet another feeble attempt to gain votes for the president s national energy tax bill that is languishing in the senate. now, not all republicans have reacted like this today. the president appears to have bamboozled republicans a bit actually by giving them what they said they wanted. alongside the negative reactions from people like john boehner and mike pence came mildly positive statements from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, senator lindsey graham, senator john mccain and even senator james inhofe. but man does not govern by press release alone. the real question is whether obama s big concession to republicans on policy means that he will actually get republican votes for his energy bi

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enough. the number three house republican, mike pence, also blasted the decision today, saying the president s announcement today is a smokescreen. unfortunately this is yet another feeble attempt to gain votes for the president s national energy tax bill that is languishing in the senate. now, not all republicans have reacted like this today. the president appears to have bamboozled republicans a bit actually by giving them what they said they wanted. alongside the negative reactions from people like john boehner and mike pence came mildly positive statements from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, senator lindsey graham, senator john mccain and even senator james inhofe. but man does not govern by press release alone. the real question is whether obama s big concession to republicans on policy means that he will actually get republican votes for his energy bill. the white house obviously hopes that will be the case. in leaking this news to the new

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health reform. republicans in the state legislator in georgia drafted legislation to try to force the attorney general to file that lawsuit that he said was bound to fail and waste money. that bill failed twice. republican governor sonny purdue wasn t giving up on this pointless exercise either. he announce the last week that since the real attorney general in his state refused to sue the government over health reform, he intended to appoint a special attorney general just to file that lawsuit. but now it looks like republicans in the state house have one-upped even that move by georgia s governor. a legislator has introduced a resolution to impeach georgia s attorney general. to be clear, they want to impeach thurbert baker because he says he doesn t want to waste taxpayers money on a frivleous lawsuit with no grounds for success. joining us for the int are view is the attorney general of georgia, mr. thurbert baker.

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state of georgia. georgia s republican governor sonny purdue wanted very badly to get in on the frivolous anti-health reform action, but his attorney general, thurbert baker refused. telling the governor in a letter, quote, considering the state s severe budgetary crisis with education and law enforcement being cut deeply, i cannot justify a decision to initiate expensive and time consuming litigation that i believe has no legal merit. in short, this litigation is likely to fail and will consume significant amounts of taxpayers hard earned money in the process. georgia republicans, however, are not about to let themselves be deprived of their pointless symbolic tool of opposition to health reform. republicans in the state legislator in georgia drafted legislation to try to force the attorney general to file that lawsuit that he said was bound to fail and waste money. that bill failed twice. republican governor sonny purdue wasn t giving up on this pointless exercise either.

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