Archive for September, 2008
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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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Don’t Let Them Crash
Posted on September 28, 2008
A scene from the classic movie Airplane keeps coming to my head. The famous conservative commentator Jack Kirkpatrick, who used to do a Point/Counterpoint segment on 60...
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Historic Debate
Posted on September 26, 2008
If you don’t get the history of this debate, you aren’t paying attention. The fact that Barack Obama could come to Oxford, Mississippi, the home...
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