Archive for the ‘GOP’ Category
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The Limits of the Liberal Feedback Loop
Posted on November 4, 2015
Pauline Kael, the celebrated New Yorker film critic, was once misquoted as saying, “I don’t understand how Richard Nixon could have won. I don’t know anybody who voted for him.”...
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Jeb Bush and Restoring American Greatness
Posted on November 3, 2015
Jeb Bush is not out of this race by any means. The rest of the field is weak at the top but strong at the bottom. The former Florida governor...
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Why Republicans Need to Back the Next Speaker
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor) The Hastert Rule was never a rule. It was a guideline to future speakers, a warning really about how to manage a fractious group...
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Boehner Exits
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in The Christian Science Monitor) Buzz Lukens helped to make John Andrew Boehner. Lukens was a Republican lawmaker from the Cincinnati area who was accused of paying a mother...
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The Armageddon Caucus
Posted on October 28, 2015
It takes a special amount of chutzpa to never show up to the Senate for any votes and then complain that when the Leadership puts together a budget deal that...
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