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More on the Majority of the Majority
Posted on January 19, 2013
I have been thinking a bit more about Denny’s Hastert’s famous dictum on the majority of the majority. It is still a very good guideline for how to keep the...
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The Business of Business
Posted on January 16, 2013
“The chief business of the American people is business.” Calvin Coolidge said that to a group of newspaper editors in 1925, smack dab in the middle of the Roaring 20’s,...
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Time to Purge
Posted on January 13, 2013
As Republicans gather in Williamsburg for their annual policy planning retreat, they must confront a simple truth. They don’t have the votes to run anything. If the vote for Speaker...
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Coup II
Posted on January 4, 2013
Much like the first coup I witnessed personally, the second coup, the one against House Speaker John Boehner that was launched yesterday, collapsed ignominiously. In July of 1997, several rebels...
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Electing A Speaker
Posted on January 3, 2013
It took two months in the 34th Congress to find somebody who had enough votes to be Speaker. The Whig Party had collapsed a half decade before the Civil War...
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