House Democratic leadership staff members initially rebuffed a request from their Senate counterparts to join the upper body in its message blitz against the “nuclear option,” according to senior party aides familiar with the matter.
Senate aides asked House operatives last week for their help in saturating the airwaves with specific and repeated references to the “nuclear option,” a focus that House aides thought was too narrow and esoteric. ...
As a compromise, they offered to keep pounding Republicans for an “abuse of power,” but they urged the Senate to broaden the attack from the “nuclear option” to include broadsides against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
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