There ain't no quote of note.
Instead, there's a link to an amusingly conceived graphic mapping the various Republican factions. And I note they have no Black Conservative contingent, though the do make note of the anti-Affirmative Action crew...
Anyway...
Squabbles Under the Big Tent
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
COULD this be the same Republican Party that was on such triumphant display after President Bush's re-election just four months ago?
Republicans and conservatives are quarreling over Congress's intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, and the rising influence of Christian conservatives. Some Republicans in Washington and statehouses are balking at federal tax cuts in the face of deficits or spending cuts, while a few are worried that the war in Iraq will lead to more foreign entanglements. Republicans are beginning to whisper in the past tense as they discuss Mr. Bush's signature second-term measure, the revamping of Social Security.
Conservative commentators and blogs are even warning that Republican divisions could turn into turmoil once President Bush begins his fade from power. "The American right is splintering," the sometimes-conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan wrote in a column for The Sunday Times of London headlined, "Bush's Triumph Conceals the Great Conservative Crack-Up."
In truth, a lot of this talk seems overstated. Even Democrats say that Republicans are in a more commanding position than any major party has been in at least a generation. The party has already scored legislative victories this year, including the bankruptcy bill, and remains in accord on the fundamental notions that have guided it since the Reagan presidency: from tax cuts to spending cuts to big investments in the military.
Still, passions unleashed by events since Mr. Bush's second inauguration - the right-to-live-or-die debate in the Schiavo case and the lagging support for the Social Security plan - are testing the governing coalition of conservatives and Republicans, and putting its many wings and factions on display. And there's no reason to think things are going to get easier, as Mr. Bush and Congress turn to rewriting immigration laws and the tax code and prepare for midterm elections.
