That is why some conservative Republicans still don't like the deal.
The Republicans would really like to have this off the table.
That is the model Republicans would like to see replicated this year.
Republicans would also like to diminish the Federal government's role in education.
But it may not be breaking through in the press as much Republicans would like because of the repetition.
Republicans generally do not like the plan, but opposing it would only further paint them as the party of the privileged.
"You know, the Republicans don't like him," she tells me.
The Republicans, with their heavy indebtedness to the energy industry, would like nothing better than to keep it that way.
Republicans did not like what they heard, accusing the senator of playing the race card.
Republicans would like to be known as the party of fiscal restraint, but sometimes only in the abstract.