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It's also a reminder of Obama's successful wooing of Republican moderates.  Chuck Hagel, Richard Lugar, John McHugh, Ray LaHood, Robert…
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Assume Obama is serious when he says he wants to be a transformational president like Reagan.  Now assume that conservatives…
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I'm probably being overly serious for a Monday morning, but I think the distinction between war and politics is underrated.…
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The ground for optimism is, I think, demographic.  Every year this decade, approximately 4 million citizens will turn 18 and…
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Indeed. Maybe wacky, trivial, nutty news cycles at this time of year are just going to be a regular feature…
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Richard Bachman, I've found some of Karen Armstrong's writings to be both helpful and provocative on the subject of religion…
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MNPundit, I agree it's an unmitigated good. I don't know why it didn't happen 18 months ago.  (I could speculate---the…
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Health Care Reform: If I recall correctly, single payer never had a majority in either house of Congress.  Also, all…
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Ed J, really?  "Complete failure to provide leadership"? I don't agree with everything Obama's done, but just off the top…
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I have no idea what kind of speech Obama will give at the 2012 convention except that it will probably…
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Years ago some public intellectual---I think it was child psychiatrist Robert Coles---described himself as "a social conservative, a political liberal…
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Agreed forus50, there are people who get almost irrational (or worse) about what is, after all, just one of hundreds…
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homeruk and Oui, thanks for your back-to-back posts.  Good points individually, and I think they illumine each other too.  Here's…
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The question then becomes: how to punish the Republicans for their obstruction? The most obvious way would be for the…
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Not to speak for Obama, but I imagine he supports Landrieu, Nelson, Lieberman et al because Obama is the de…
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Booman, in the "better to light one candle than curse the darkness" category is James Vega's post yesterday on how…
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Sorry for your troubles, as the Irish say.
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I know part of my own frustration comes from not having expected the unprecedented unity of the Senate Republican caucus…
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Booman, thanks for linking to Gerson's column and for your thoughts about it.  I've been waiting for someone on the…
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nonynony, thanks for the post.  Just to state the obvious, definitions of "liberal" or "conservative" are contested and change over…
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