realclearpolitics.com - 1/13/2009
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January 13, 2009 Quit Digging By Mona Charen My city, Washington, D.C., is going bonkers for Obama. So is yours no doubt. Shopping for party favors, I came across -- in addition to key chains and light-up necklaces -- T-shirts and coffee mugs emblazoned with the Anointed One's photograph. Jan. ...
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Party Like It’s 1933
Blue Crab Boulevard —
... Mona Charen on the upcoming Obama spend-a-thon : The Democrats are in the driver’s seat now. And with the exception of a brief period in the 1990s after Ross Perot made everyone deficit conscious, Democrats are the party of government — that is, the party of domestic spending. Every indicator of economic decline seems to them a green light to do what they would have done anyway — party like it’s 1933! It’s not that they are buying votes. No, the times demand extreme measures. But before the first mortgage defaulted, we were already on a fast train to fiscal insolvency. The ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Wednesday, at last! Nieman Journalism Lab: On innovation: There's the NY Times. And then there's... Maureen Dowd: The A student aces her hearing. Not many women can talk about "the pathogen area" with such authority and yet femininity. Not many men do their homework as thoroughly as she does. Mona Charen: The Democrats are in control and I'm scared. Tony Blankley: The Democrats are in control, and they're scared. Amy Walter: Well, despite retirements and ...
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