clipped from: blogs.wsj.com 
Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Orrin Hatch (pictured, left to right) fired off a letter to the editor in this morning’s WSJ, defending their support of a bill to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. In a sign of how the bill is dividing those on the political right, the senators proclaim their “dismay” over a recent WSJ editorial opposing the measure.
The health-care bill is fast becoming a proxy for a larger discussion — which has sparked intramural Republican bickering — about how the GOP wants to present itself to voters, the WSJ reports today. “The reason we lost the last elections wasn’t because our party didn’t show up,” Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster, told the WSJ. “We got 91% of the Republican votes for Congress. We lost independents by 17%. That’s where we have to go.”