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The Founding Fathers never intended that the filibuster and a 60-vote...
THE 21st CENTURY MEDIA HAS A FAVORITE BUT DECEPTIVE STORYLINE with regard to Republicans and Democrats, that ‘both sides do it’ and ‘everyone’s to blame.’ This unfortunate fiction only feeds an...
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Attention media: don’t even TRY to blame both sides for supercommittee failure
“Putting aside whether the supercommittee failure matters at all, it’s plainly true that one side was willing to concede far more than the other to make a deal possible. And anyone who pretends...
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Brace yourself for the upcoming and excessive ‘failures of journalism’
James Fallows: As a matter of journalism, any story that presents the disagreements as a “standoff,” a “showdown,” a “failure of leadership,” a sign of “partisan gridlock,” or any of the other usual...
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Negotiating with an anti-government insurgency: the GOP’s Suicide Caucus
“We’re not going to be disrespected, We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.” – Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), verbalizing the entire Republican Party’s strategy on the...
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