Archive for the ‘Presidential election’ Category
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Scaring Seniors Backfires
Posted on August 3, 2011
The President turns 50 tomorrow, which is a big deal, especially to the President’s fundraisers, who are doing their best to milk it for all it is worth. Apparently, they...
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Bad Reason, Good Reason
Posted on July 21, 2011
Bad reason: Opposing the grand bargain because you think a grand bargain would help President Obama get re-elected. Good reason: Opposing the grand bargain because you think raising taxes will...
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Fixers and Breakers
Posted on July 19, 2011
There are two kinds of politicians. Fixers come into office to fix things. They seek to fix problems for their constituents, fix the legislative process and fix government. Breakers come...
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Control-Freaks
Posted on June 28, 2011
We live in a nation of control-freaks. Everybody wants to be able to control his or her own lives in a world where America increasingly is not in control. We...
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Huntsman
Posted on June 22, 2011
Candidly, I don’t know what to make of the Jon Huntsman announcement yesterday. It wasn’t the smoothest of starts. Apparently, his announcement press release misspelled his first name (he doesn’t...
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