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Is The Tea Party Over?
So it looks like the recent trend of the Senate leaning to the left just got a significant boost. Say bye-bye to Jim DeMint: Senator Jim DeMint, the conservative Republican from South Carolina who...
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Conservatives’ Jim DeMint Problem
In service of defending his proposition that departing far-right Senator Jim DeMint is a “hero” whose record is one libertarians should celebrate, Washington Examiner‘s Tim Carney makes an argument...
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That Being Said…
Having said that, using Drudge as my guide, it looks like the rightwing is going to sink this version of the Grand Bargain long before lefties have a chance: And this was rapidly followed by… Gotta...
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John Boehner: Liked but Not Well-Liked
National Review‘s Robert Costa has a behind-the-scenes report on Speaker Boehner’s failed effort to get his caucus to pass his “Plan B,” an entirely political, ultimately feeble attempt to confuse the...
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And the Class War Goes On
For David Byrne, the world moves on a woman’s hips (and it swivels and bops). And that’s pretty nice. But for the new class of Republican up-and-comers — folks who belong to or at least benefitted...
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Establishment GOP to Tea Party: That Thing You Keep Doing? Stop That.
I feel like I shouldn’t laugh, because this remains a good idea, despite being extremely belated; but a New York Times report has found that following Sharon Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Richard...
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Eric Cantor’s Plan to Save the GOP
Ron Fournier of National Journal is following Eric Cantor around as the House Majority Leader terrifies DC’s infants (“Eric Cantor grabs a plastic dinosaur from the pile of toys in front of 1-year-old...
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The Self-Serving Nonsense of Eric Cantor
So Cantor gave his aforementioned big speech today, the one about turning the GOP into an expansively inclusive party of multiple ethnicities and income brackets, and MSNBC was there to tell the tale....
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The GOP’s Self-Inflicted Wound
Ezra Klein flags an interesting Gallup result showing rare uniformity in American public opinion. Turns out near everyone, Republicans included, thinks the GOP is intransigent. And they don’t like it:...
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The GOP’s Self-Inflicted Wound
Ezra Klein flagsan interesting Gallup result showing rare uniformity in American public opinion. Turns out near everyone, Republicans included, thinks the GOP is intransigent. And they don’t like it:...
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There Is No Politics of Austerity
I don’t mean to turn this blog into Shit My Krugman Says, but this, on the underlying politics of austerity, is just too on-the-mark to ignore: [T]he anti-Keynesian position is, in essence, political....
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There Is No Conservative Reform Movement
I think it’s fair to say that, excepting those conservatives with a passion for solitude, these are not halcyon days for members of the center-right. On the political end you’ve got guys like Ted Cruz...
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How to Write About Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann is retiring, which is the kind of thing that makes me feel weary just thinking of writing about. What’s there to say about Michele Bachmann, after all? She’s crazy. OK, sure. She’s...
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Is The Tea Party Over?
So it looks like the recent trend of the Senate leaning to the left just got a significant boost. Say bye-bye to Jim DeMint: Senator Jim DeMint, the conservative Republican from South Carolina who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Conservatives’ Jim DeMint Problem
In service of defending his proposition that departing far-right Senator Jim DeMint is a “hero” whose record is one libertarians should celebrate, Washington Examiner‘s Tim Carney makes an argument...
View ArticleClik here to view.
And the Class War Goes On
For David Byrne, the world moves on a woman’s hips (and it swivels and bops). And that’s pretty nice. But for the new class of Republican up-and-comers — folks who belong to or at least benefitted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Establishment GOP to Tea Party: That Thing You Keep Doing? Stop That.
I feel like I shouldn’t laugh, because this remains a good idea, despite being extremely belated; but a New York Times report has found that following Sharon Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Richard...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eric Cantor’s Plan to Save the GOP
Ron Fournier of National Journal is following Eric Cantor around as the House Majority Leader terrifies DC’s infants (“Eric Cantor grabs a plastic dinosaur from the pile of toys in front of 1-year-old...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Self-Serving Nonsense of Eric Cantor
So Cantor gave his aforementioned big speech today, the one about turning the GOP into an expansively inclusive party of multiple ethnicities and income brackets, and MSNBC was there to tell the tale....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The GOP’s Self-Inflicted Wound
Ezra Klein flags an interesting Gallup result showing rare uniformity in American public opinion. Turns out near everyone, Republicans included, thinks the GOP is intransigent. And they don’t like it:...
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