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'The Tea Party' Is a Media Driven Frankenstein's Monster
Tweet Share on Facebook August 26, 2010 Comment (20)The Tea Party is dead. Long live the Tea Party.
The media—both the mainstream and blogosphere variations—have indulged a nearly hysterical and at times schizophrenic debate about whether the Tea Party's influence is dominating elections this year or is in gasping death rattles.
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Pelosi Tells America to Shut Up on Ground Zero Mosque
Tweet Share on Facebook August 19, 2010 Comment (87)Nancy Pelosi had some choice words for the American public yesterday: Shut up.
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Democrats Are Politicizing Homeland Security for the Fall Elections
Tweet Share on Facebook August 17, 2010 Comment (8)Back in 2006, before George W. Bush’s approval ratings dropped through the basement into somewhere around the fourth circle of hell, it made political sense for the Democrats to attack the Republican administration on cargo security. They were fighting to regain control of Congress and had to show that they, too, were capable of protecting the American people from another terrorist attack. They found themselves an effective--if inaccurate--sound bite in accusing the administration of screening a mere 5 percent of cargo coming into the country.
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Imagining the Democrats' 2010 Election Strategy Meetings
Tweet Share on Facebook August 10, 2010 Comment (5)With Friday’s announcement that unemployment continues to stick at 9.5 percent, Democrats lurch toward the November elections under the weight of an ever-ballooning debt and a massive expansion of government--but few jobs. They’ve passed an unpopular overhaul of the healthcare system, they’ve engaged in the quasi-nationalization of the American auto industry, and they’ve passed a behemoth economic stimulus plan that has stimulated the spending fantasies of Congress more than the economy. Yet, despite a domestic mobilization on a scale of the Iraq war, jobs are still as elusive as weapons of mass destruction.
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Anthony Weiner Rant Can't Hide Shameful Political Games
Tweet Share on Facebook August 3, 2010 Comment (18)While driving to work Friday morning, I was caught in the snarl created by Washington D.C.’s sadistic transportation managers who decided morning rush hour was the perfect time for construction on most routes into the city. As the line of cars started inching forward again, I was jolted from my daze by a god-awful psychic disturbance on the radio: a screeching and wheezing with the tone and pitch of mating fruit bats being ground into a garbage disposal. It was awful, the stuff of nightmares.
I pulled over to the side of the road and wept, certain that the end of days was nigh. It should’ve occurred to me then that this was not the sound and fury of the apocalypse but of bickering congressmen in their natural habitat--cable news.
