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It starts … John Boehner tries to assert himself, right wing freaks out
Boehner, Boehner, Boehner… John Boehner finally did something ballsy today: he kicked four House Republicans off of key finance and budget committees, for bucking his leadership, including two who...
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This week’s Herald column: the Radical Party
This week’s column takes on a familiar foe … The newly — well, relatively newly, radicalized GOP. A clip: Republicans control the House of Representatives, but their speaker, John Boehner, cannot...
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John Boehner, the GOP insurgents and the perils of striking the king
A much younger John Boehner stands beside then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whom Boehner would later turn on in a failed attempted coup. There is a saying in military lore, that if you’re going to...
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This week’s Herald column: New America held hostage, by Old America
Photo from Z Magazine They aren’t going to secede … A clip from this week’s column: There have been so many essays written dissecting the state of conservatism, the notion that it is in decline has...
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Ladies and gentlemen, the totally non-partisan, apolitical tea party …
Gallup (ok, it’s Gallup… ) found in 2010 that 78 percent tea partiers self-identified as Republicans (62 percent “conservative Republicans,” 16 percent “moderate/liberal Republicans…” Tea party...
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This week’s Herald column: Investigate the IRS? Sure! Let’s start with the...
Cartoon by Jim Morin (see Jim’s work here) This week, I agree with those on the right who want to investigate the IRS for abuse of Americans when it comes to how it treats tax exempt status for...
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Why they’re like this
Let’s do the time warp … again … There are three reasons Republicans can’t do the obvious (open the government, raise the debt ceiling) … 1. They think they’re always losing. Even the smart Republicans...
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… in this dustup with Douthat. And Sully nails it once again: I’m waiting for Ross to unload on the GOP, which he should, given the rationale of his post. But he appears to be rhetorically lying low –...
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This week’s Herald column: Sorry, Boehner, it’s not over
This week’s column details the reasons why, in my opinion, the GOP’s civil war is just beginning. A clip: …there are big differences between the core left and the core right. One is that the left...
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You were wrong, Ron Christie
Anyone who witnessed the uncomfortable moment on the Melissa Harris Perry show this morning when Republican strategist Ron Christie went after Democratic strategist and former Congressional Black...
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