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Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Photo from 2001 by Flickr user figleaf (hey, that’s me!) I was digging around on a very old archive drive and found bits and pieces of my original, pre-blog-software political blogs. This was a throat-clearing post outlining my idea of radical moderation (as opposed to the sort of mushy difference-splitting “centerism” or David Broder style genteel conservatism that’s...
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Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
... he lost the June primary in a four-way race. Assemblyman George Michaels was never eulogized by David Broder. He never appeared on “Meet the Press” or earned millions of dollars a lobbyist. I feel bad that in this age no thinking person can use the phrase “principled decision” without a health dollop of irony.
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My view by Silvio Canto, Jr. (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Have we ever seen anything like this? Pres Bush went to war with a bi-partisan vote. (Let's not forget that most Dems supported the Iraq war back in March 2003!) Even Pres Bush's surge had Republican support, specially Sen McCain who fought off Dem efforts to cut the funding! Again, how long can Pres BO fight a war that his party opposes? David Broder has a note today about the special...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... is to make a decision — whether or not it is right,” wrote the Dean of D.C. punditry, David Broder.) Obama’s speech struck me as the sincere product of serious deliberations, an earnest attempt to apply his formidable intelligence to one of the most daunting Rubik’s Cubes of foreign policy America has ever known. But some circles of hell can’t be squared....
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Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
From David Broder this morning : Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is incapable of dissembling, quickly made it clear that the withdrawal will begin -- not end -- that year, and only if battlefield conditions permit. Incapable? Really? Seems pretty unlikely to me that we've ever had a Defense Secretary who is incapable of dissembling, or that we ever will. I recently suggested -- in...
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Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... up with was going to limit the political damage in terms of the hits that they were going to take. David Broder must have felt a major thrill up his leg when he heard that. Nobody in the country or rest of the world thinks that making such important decisions based on "this one's too hot and this one's too cold" makes any sense at all. But the Villagers think it's juuuuust...
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Ron Hebron (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
David Broder calls Harry Reid on his cost-hiding tricks. If The Big Democrat has lost Broder he has trouble. David S. Broder - David Broder: Fears of health-reform cost are justifiable - washingtonpost.com : First, the public is opposed: The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced...
