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    Washington is a global icon.  Ask Ho Chi Minh.  Hell, you could've asked Mandela.  Washington's decision to repeatedly give up…
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    • I did like Rourke's take on proper drunk driving: "Some people say you should drive a big, sturdy car.  Others…
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    • I think the rules were broken by the GOP.  Once the rule is broken, it ceases to be a rule.…
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    • And at least it will end some of that shitty headline writing. "Obama's X fails to get the 60 votes…
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    • What it does is eventually tilt the Senate back in a progressive direction. Because rural, red states are over-represented in…
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    • I think you're giving too much credit to the GOP.  Oddly. Once the nuclear option was put on the table…
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    • Why not just force a talking filibuster first?  Tie up the Senate for a few weeks.  Make David Vitter get…
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    • I personally would like all progressive/liberal writers to stop using the words "debacle", "calamitous" and "disastrous" in response to a…
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    • Wait a sec... Are you saying that Republicans are misinterpreting something to conform with their pre-existing world view? Unpossible! Next…
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    • I've thought they were pining for the 1850s.
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    • The moral arch of the universe is long... and has a body count, sadly.
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    • I do wonder if our political institutions can cope with this hyperfactionalism.  Madison proposed that factionalism can be defeated by…
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    • A nation can be defined as a group of people with a common political identity that desires self-government in an…
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    • How about this kid's day: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/15/batkid-san-francisco/3588173/ San Francisco values in action
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    • Obama could use a change in the conversation, that's for sure.  Since there is nothing else worth salivating over, the…
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    • I guess I give Burke a bit of a pass on his relative stances on the American and French Revolutions.…
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    • I might add that Burke is used as a fig leaf for reactionaries.  They exploit willing tools like Sullivan and…
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    • Conservatism - properly speaking - is not an "ideology" but a political attitude towards change.  What we refer to in…
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    • Has anyone noticed that those "normal" people out in Iowa with their "conventional views" on bi-racial emetics basically launched Barack…
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    • I hear Karzai is also thinking along these lines, and it going to create an Afghan Whigs party.
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