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...patriotically painted helicopter, with the tagline "I am EADS." The company has also figured out how to play American-style politics: in contrast to Boeing, whose most vociferous political proponents are Democrats in Washington State eager to protect the company's Seattle-area jobs, EADS is building a base in the Republican-dominated South. Two weeks ago, it opened another plant in Alabama, a Republican state, and has hired a former top aide to Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott as an executive...
...Matt’s been getting on base for us, being a catalyst,” Mann said. “If we get some power out of him, we’ll be that more dangerous in the lineup...
...don’t get a man past first base in the bottom of the last, and we lose...
...order to galvanize support for such an unprecedented change, Republicans are yet again appealing to their base through the lowest common denominator by telling conservatives that the opposition to the removal of the filibuster from Congressional rules is an attack on people of faith. According to those like Dr. Frist, questioning the impetus behind such a thinly veiled campaign of political opportunity driven by the spur of corruptive power is anti-faith, a convenient categorization that both rouses the roots of the right and silences dissent...
...DeLay's own district, Republicans are so alarmed they are already mobilizing to defend him in an election that is still nearly a year and half away. Says Jared Woodfill, GOP chairman in nearby Harris county: "We're getting e-mails and calls from the base, the precinct chairs and the phone bank people saying what can we do to help now? Usually that doesn't happen until six months before an election...