Tea Party members in Congress are ignoring a key component of their messaging to their very great detriment. Maybe they are delivering it back to their home districts, but I hear nothing in the national debate about America’s youth. And our young people, after all, are what the Tea Party revolt is all about. It […]
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When George Will is good, he is exceptionally good. In his nationally-syndicated column Monday, Will tackles President Obama’s characteristic arrogance and the separation of powers that Mr. Obama, a Constitutional scholar, serially ignores. Here is Will on President Obama’s abundant love of self: “Inordinate self-regard is an occupational hazard of politics and part of the job description of the rhetorical presidency, this incessant tutor. Still, […]
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The closer the US gets to debt ceiling D-Day, the more I find myself rooting for the Tea Party coalition in Congress. Part of the reason is that I love big news stories. I root for record temperatures in the summer and historic snowfalls in the winter. I can’t help it; it’s how I’m built. […]
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Nancy Pelosi probably wants this one back.
Read the rest of this entry »David Brooks Deconstructed
I generally like David Brooks. He is an independent thinker. But occasionally one gets the feeling he has been hanging out too much with his newspaper’s editorial board. His perspective swings suddenly and wildly. He stops trying to persuade his New York Times audience and throws himself into its arms instead, saying: “You see. I’m not one of those crazy right-wingers. I’m […]
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