Posts Tagged ‘Dick Cheney’
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Picking GOP leadership
Posted on June 18, 2014
originally posted to thehill.com – June 16, 2014 This week, House Republicans will conduct leadership elections to replace Eric Cantor as House majority leader, after he surprisingly lost his reelection...
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Collapse of Cold War Consensus
Posted on June 15, 2011
It took awhile, but the Cold War consensus is finally shattering. The Cold War consensus centered around a basic proposition: America was going to both pay and provide the military...
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Loose Talk, Loose Process
Posted on March 22, 2011
President Obama says that Libyan strongman Muamar Gaddafi “has to go.” The question that pops up in my mind is: “Go where?” I don’t think our President has an answer...
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Skunk at the Garden Party
Posted on May 19, 2010
Rand Paul’s election may very well mean the beginning of the end of the neo-conservative movement in the Republican Party. It also might mark the beginning of the end of...
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The Many Strains of Conservatism
Posted on April 12, 2010
The Republican Party has traditionally been seen as a party of two parts: a moderate wing and a conservative wing. But that view has become less and less relevant as...
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