Republicans spent much of the recess gaming out their strategic posture on the Democrats’ push to pass a major Wall Street reform bill, and it looks like they’ve finally settled on one: The GOP will oppose the proposed new regulations on the grounds that they will make future bailouts of big financial institutions more likely. And in adopting that line, they’ve taken a page straight out of the playbook of one of the conservative movement’s top message men.
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