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Palin, Bachmann, Scarborough, and Others We Watched in 2010
Tweet Share on Facebook December 30, 2010 Comment (3)Last year at this time, I wrote a new year’s column, “10 Republicans to Watch in 2010.” Let’s take a look at those 10 and see how I did.
Overall, most of them did something worth watching in 2010:
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Mobile Voters Logged on for 2010 Elections
Tweet Share on Facebook December 23, 2010 CommentThis just in from Pew Research: more than a quarter of adults used their cell phones to either participate in or learn more about the most recent midterm elections. A couple of interesting gems were among the data, for example:
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What Obama Can Learn From Germany on Unemployment and Debt
Tweet Share on Facebook December 17, 2010 Comment (6)Remember the scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when Ferris sings “Danke Schoen” in the parade? Americans could take a lesson from that, and start saying thank you to the Germans. They’ve given us a great model for how to get out of our current economic mess.
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Paul Ryan: Conservatives Should Support the Obama Tax Deal
Tweet Share on Facebook December 10, 2010 Comment (14)Among other things, Columnist Charles Krauthammer calls this week’s deal to extend the Bush tax cuts, continue unemployment benefits, set a new estate tax rate, and enact a payroll tax holiday--all while adding to $900 billion to the budget deficit--“the biggest stimulus in American history.”
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The Obama-George H.W. Bush Comparison
Tweet Share on Facebook December 9, 2010 Comment (1)In today’s New York Times, Jon Meacham, who is writing a biography of former president George H.W. Bush, points out the historical parallels between Obama’s economic negotiations today and the ones that were going on in 1990:
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A Woman's Place Is in Charge of the GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2010 Comment (3)As we learn more about the “cashflow challenge” at the Republican National Committee, we’re seeing more and more people stepping forward who may run for chairman Michael Steele’s job—despite the fact that he hasn’t announced his own re-election plans yet. (What he needs is face-saving outside job offer to appear soon, so that he can have a soft landing somewhere.) What’s interesting to me is that so far, two of those possible candidates are women.
