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    I see a large measure of this in his policies toward wall street and entitlements You mean the first re-regulation…
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    • I mostly chalked that up to inexperience, a misguided strategy, and distance from the consequences of his decisions. Chalk what…
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    • I think you miss the  most obvious explanation: that the target audience for this statement really is the Assad government…
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    • Because you're smart and you know what you're talking about, and you don't just check your gut and assume that…
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    • Of course I favored Paul Tsongas (known locally as "Saint Paul") in the 1992 Democratic primary, but Harkin was my…
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    • This is one court's decision.  It will, no doubt, be appealed, and enforcement enjoined during the appeal.
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    • Looking back on the first term, Obama managed to pass an extraordinarily large legislative agenda, but was stymied on what…
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    • We'll have to see how this works in practice.  If the Republicans continue to obstruct everything, then this deal was…
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    • 2004 was their high-water mark. 2010 was a fluke.
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    • OK, then how about "a movement of significant size?"
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    • there's a huge upside to the POTUS acknowledging what's obvious to the rest of us, that his political opposition is…
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    • Exactly right.  They're a natural opposition party.  Their ideology is a critique of an actual governing philosophy; it is not…
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    • Should the Speaker of the House consider himself an extension of the administration, at least to a degree? The Speaker…
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    • Benjen Stark: "My brother once told me that nothing a man says before the word 'but' really matters." Take a…
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    • Iraq withdrawal was impossible? You misunderstand; I didn't say Iraq withdrawal was impossible.  I said that many people said it…
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    • One problem with this theory is the Obama didn't start using across-the-aisle rhetoric about, for instance, entitlements and austerity until…
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    • Are you saying that the kind of people who still defend Ralph Nader's 2000 campaign aren't driven mainly by results?…
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    • Unfortunately, he apparently had no previous experience dealing with the Right Wing Authoritarian (RWA) personality that has taken over the…
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    • I'm pretty sure that if you lined up my values and the priority of my values, I'd resemble someone like…
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    • The significant thing about drone technology in the context of a "war on terror" is that there is an assumption…
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