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Jam-Job
Posted on October 2, 2008
For those of us who love to watch the Congressional sausage-making progress, the Senate action yesterday was a thing of beauty. I am not talking...
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Predictable
Posted on October 1, 2008
The intrepid investigator Bob Stevenson, former spokesman for Bill Frist and Pete Domenici and now one of the most highly-sought Senate lobbyists around town, did some quality research...
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Crack That Whip
Posted on September 30, 2008
This originally appeared in The Politico Watching the House floor on Monday, I was pretty certain that the vote against the $700 billion bailout bill would turn around. In the...
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The Stupid Party
Posted on September 29, 2008
Swing voters vote not only for a party they like. They also vote against the party they don’t like. And they usually vote against a party because...
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Mulligan, anyone?
Posted on September 29, 2008
The best-case scenario for the House Republicans is that they have a mulligan vote. The worst-case scenario is that Democrats add a bunch of junk...
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