Posts Tagged ‘Republicans’
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The Tea Party’s Future
Posted on October 5, 2010
(Originally published on Votesane.com) The Republican Party was born in 1854 from the ashes of the Whig Party, which disintegrated over the issue of slavery. Over the course of its...
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Education as a wedge issue
Posted on October 5, 2010
(Originally posted on TheHill.com 10/4) Over the weekend, the NAACP and the NEA, without the slightest bit of irony, marched hand in hand in Washington in a rally that was...
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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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