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by Walter Alarkon - 05/15/08 10:20 AM ET

It shouldn’t be surprising that the party that has defined itself around “the most consistently unpopular president in modern political history is tanking at the polls,” Josh Marshall writes. Republicans have followed President Bush’s strategy of brashly pushing ahead with policies even in the face of widespread public disapproval, Marshall adds. The blogger is hardly reassured that government is spending its time wisely after reading that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) is calling for an independent investigation into the New England Patriots’ spying controversy.

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