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“Talk About A Hot Mess!”: Attempting To Blow Up Hostages Is NOT Governing
Talk about a hot mess! Just try unravelling the lunacy contained in this article by Sarah Mimms. As best as I can understand it, she is suggesting that perhaps Sen. Tom Cotton has come up with a new...
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“Hijacked By The Hardliners”: Threatening To Gum Up The Confirmation Of...
On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared he really, really likes having Eric Holder as attorney general. He essentially told CNN that unless Democrats concede to anti-abortion...
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“The Dysfunctional GOP Is Failing To Govern”: It Is Safe To Say Republicans...
It was only January when Republicans took full control of Congress, but already it is safe to say they have no earthly idea of what they want to accomplish. What we’re seeing is not just a bit of...
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“Let’s Talk About What Makes Governing Harder”: The Problem Is One Political...
By now almost everyone has weighed in on the article in the NYT by Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman about Hillary Clinton’s strategy for winning the 2016 presidential election. Chuck Todd and his...
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“Political War All The Time”: Republicans Turning The American People Into...
There is a time for war and a time for peace, according to the book of Ecclesiastes and The Byrds. In the contest to replace John Boehner as speaker of the House, the Republican candidates chose to...
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“Whistling Past The Graveyard”: Why The Raging Dysfunction In Washington Is...
When Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy abruptly withdrew from his frontrunning candidacy to succeed John Boehner as speaker of the House, it underscored just how dysfunctional the “governing” Republican...
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“Marco Rubio’s Terrible New Idea”: Pandering To Voters’ Most Simplistic And...
Campaigning for president requires one to come up with policy proposals, a need that from time to time produces innovative and promising ideas. But it also produces some extraordinarily dumb ones, as...
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“How America Was Lost”: Maybe We Should All Start Wearing Baseball Caps That...
Once upon a time, the death of a Supreme Court justice wouldn’t have brought America to the edge of constitutional crisis. But that was a different country, with a very different Republican Party. In...
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“Extremes Is All Our Politicians Have Left”: Without A Center, How Does The...
“Things fall apart. The centre cannot hold.” — William Butler Yeats And so this is the presidential campaign of 2016. If it were a movie, it would be pornography. If it were a sporting event, it would...
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“At The GOP Debate, America Was The Loser”: Republicans Aren’t Remotely...
Last night’s debate in Houston was not only the first time Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz really attacked Trump. It was also the first time anyone went after Trump for the appalling superficiality of his...
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“Donald Trump And The End Of Civility”: Rejecting The Virtues Of Teamwork,...
For a decade we have seen article after article, study after study, comment after comment on the death of civility in our politics. Politicians, pundits and academics worried that gridlock and the...
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“Can Donald Trump Do An Extreme General Election Makeover?”: The Entire...
Donald Trump may not be the Republican nominee yet, but he’s already started to pivot toward the general election. This is of course what many conservatives fear about Trump: that because he seems to...
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“Is Trump The New Boss Tweed?”: Tweed’s Downfall Demonstrates Just How...
George Wallace. Henry Ford. Hitler. No, it’s not the start of a bad joke. These are just a few of the historical figures to whom critics are comparing Donald Trump. Of course, finding an exact...
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The Radicalization Of The Republican Party: Seven Years Late, Media Elites...
Now they tell us the Republican Party is to blame? That the Obama years haven’t been gummed up by Both Sides Are To Blame obstruction? The truth is, anyone with clear vision recognized a long time ago...
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“First, Know How Power Works”: Revolutionaries Have To Be Smart And Ruthless
Truer words were never spoken: A top Republican National Committee staffer fired back Tuesday at presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, saying it’s not the committee’s fault that Trump’s campaign...
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“Worse Than Useless”: Emergencies Causing Problems For The Do-Nothing Speaker
At the New Republic David Dayen has an appropriately scathing appraisal of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s accomplishments this year. He famously cannot get a budget resolution passed. He’s done nothing on...
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“President In Name Only”: There Are Presidential Duties Trump ‘Doesn’t Want...
Paul Manafort, a controversial Republican lobbyist, joined Donald Trump’s team in late March, and at least initially, his task was to help oversee delegate recruiting. It wasn’t long, however, before...
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“Why Everyone Hates Congress”: Republicans Are Still Incapable Of Governing
If you want a demonstration on why it’s so easy for regular folks to despise politicians, look no further than the shenanigans that went on in the U.S. House of Representatives, yesterday. Rep. Sean...
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“The Problem With Donald Trump’s Fact-Free ‘Instincts'”: Lack Of Basic...
Donald Trump has a handful of core issues that help define his political identity. Indeed, one need not be a political news junkie to be able to rattle off the list: the New York Republican wants to...
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