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At around noon on Sunday, the world stopped turning for me. I was listening to the Senate debate on CSPAN on my phone and what I heard made me stop everything and just listen. I’ve watched the video twice since then and listened twice without the visual. I recommend you listen without the visual first, [...]
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“I’m much more sympathetic now to Republican candidates who have been on city councils or county commissions and have voted to raise taxes, much more sympathetic then I would have been not being on council,” he said. “At some point with gas prices rising up, you can only cut so much.” – Erick Erickson
Yes, that [...]
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Looking at the results of last night’s off-off year elections is a bit like looking at a Jackson Pollack painting. You see in it what you want.
Did the GOP win? Well, yes and no.
They won big in Virginia and in a squeaker in New Jersey, but lost a seat in upstate New York they [...]
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It’s kinda odd when you think about it.
The future of the Republican Party is being played out in two places that look very different at first glance: liberal New York and conservative Virginia. True, both states voted for Obama last presidential election, but national elections don’t really matter all that much in state-based campaigns. [...]
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A pretty ironic title for a post on a site called Bipartisan Report, isn’t it? Back in January I joined this site with a strong belief that it is possible to have a conversation around issues and not personalities. I even spent time on the phone with Michael P. Leahy, one of the proponents of [...]
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I’m no big fan of Newt Gingrich, but I also know that he has a lot of political smarts (not that he always uses them appropriately). In the early part of the year, he made a very interesting comment that bares repeating in the midst of the onslaught by the GOP, the teabaggers and the [...]
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During the election I immersed myself in history as a way of understanding the tactics and divisions that arose during the primaries and the general election. One of the most brilliant was Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland. The lessons I learned from that book and a look-back at the history of Nixon’s rise, spectacular fall, and emergent [...]
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The progressive blogosphere is rumbling with outrage today over the allegation that the White House made a deal with pharma to kill Medicare Part D negotiations in exchange for closure of the “donut hole” on price breaks for medication for seniors.
Tommy Christopher reports the following:
Beneath it all is the fact that the government dealt away [...]
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Last week saw Investors’ Business Daily tell outright lies disguised as opinion. This week leads off with major media outlets like the Washington Post reporting poll results as a negative when they’re actually positive. Today’s Washington Post led off with this headline: Poll Shows Obama Slipping on Key Issues. The subheading suggests that support for [...]
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Amid the fireworks, picnics, symbolic hat tips to the Constitution, family gatherings and pool parties, there is this: The fundamental principles that have attached the concept of freedom to living in the United States have been seriously corrupted.
Take our so-called free press, for example. If you were watching the news for a couple of hours [...]
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