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Tea Party craziness to sweep the nation?
Aside from the issue of whether the congressional “town hall” has outlived its usefulness as a way for politicians and the public to interact, there’s an important underlying question in those...
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Reform anxiety
I’m going to play devil’s advocate with myself here for a moment. Conor Friedersdorf has the best explanation I’ve seen of the public anxiety surrounding health care reform. While it’s clear that all...
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Let us now give thanks for Joe Lieberman
Thanksgiving is a time for taking a deep breath and appreciating the under-appreciated. So I thought I would challenge myself this year. Let’s take a moment, reflect, and give thanks that Joe Lieberman...
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Is American politics broken?
What should President Obama do now? Most of the advice he’s getting in the mediasphere, needless to say, is bad – so I’m not going to add to it. But Scott Brown’s win in the Massachusetts Senate race...
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David Brooks, Sarah Palin and the vacuous meta-debate about reconciliation
Washington has been consumed for months not just by the endless health care sausage-making process, but also by the tedious meta-debate about the process itself. And the process is indeed, debatable....
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The Republican Party's cynicism problem
Image via Wikipedia Over the past couple of months I’ve had a series of email exchanges over health care reform with a friend with a libertarian orientation. He is not a tea partier by any means. But...
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