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Welcome back to the GOP's scare-tactics Congress
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2006 CommentWhen Congress returns for some abbreviated post-Labor Day work next week, we'll see if the Republican majority intends to do something or just play partisan politics. The latter appears certain.
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Please, Hillary, don't do it
Tweet Share on Facebook August 29, 2006 CommentEven before the fall elections, we're getting a new round of stories on whether she will or won't run for president in 2008. The Hillary Rodham Clinton saga continues.
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The Bush administration's backdoor draft
Tweet Share on Facebook August 24, 2006 Comment (26)Let's call the latest call-up of 2,500 Marine reservists what it really is: a backdoor draft.
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For Democrats and Republicans, equal opportunity foot-in-mouth disease
Tweet Share on Facebook August 22, 2006 CommentTwo veteran politicians, one from each party, are victims of their own mouths. Both should know better.
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Cool it, media
Tweet Share on Facebook August 18, 2006 CommentWith the arrest of a suspect in the decade-old murder of JonBenet Ramsey in Colorado, brace yourself for another media circus. Before the frenzy gets out of control a second time, the media should take a collective breath.
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Rummy the unbendable must go
Tweet Share on Facebook August 15, 2006 CommentAs the war in Iraq lingers on years after we heard the words "Mission Accomplished," the need for a new policy exists. Or at least we need a new leader at the Pentagon.
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Say it ain't so, Joe
Tweet Share on Facebook August 10, 2006 Comment (15)Let's hope Sen. Joseph Lieberman comes to his senses and pulls out of the Senate race in Connecticut. The voters in the Democratic Party, as they say, have spoken in the Nutmeg State. Senator, you lost.
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At the White House, a few good flacks
Tweet Share on Facebook August 7, 2006 Comment (1)A collection of former White House press secretaries gathered recently for a little reunion at the mansion before the aging press room is renovated for the first time since 1970.
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If anyone's corrosive, it's Rove
Tweet Share on Facebook August 1, 2006 CommentThe news media, under heavy fire these days, have found a critic who deserves contempt for his words of derision.
