Archive for the ‘election’ Category
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Spin Shields The Truth
Posted on October 4, 2010
The headline in yesterday’s New York Times blared: “House Majority Still Uncertain, Republicans Say.” Politico reports this morning, “Democrats seize on signs of hope.” On the one hand, you have...
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Regular Order
Posted on October 1, 2010
When Denny Hastert started as Speaker of the House, he promised, after four tumultuous years of Newt Gingrich, to bring regular order back to the lower chamber. To Hastert, regular...
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Slime
Posted on September 30, 2010
Bill Murray’s character in the movie “Ghostbusters,” Dr. Peter Venkman, had the iconic line: “He slimed me!” The Democratic Party has taken on the role of the Ghosts in “Ghostbusters”:...
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Bryan to Run For President As a Tea-Party Republican
Posted on September 27, 2010
(Dayton, Tennessee) William Jennings Bryan, who last ran for President in the 1908 election, announced that he was going to run for President as a Tea-Party Republican in 2012. Bryan...
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Bring Back Hammurabi
Posted on September 24, 2010
When you enter the Chamber of the House of Representatives, if you look up near the ceiling, ringing around the room, you see bas-relief sculptures of 23 great lawgivers in...
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