ourfuture.org - 11/6/2008
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The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus - a reliable parrot of conventional wisdom - joins the Punditburo's insistence that the largest progressive mandate in contemporary American history means that obviously - clearly! - America remains more conservative than ever: "The experience of President Bill ...
openleft.com - 11/1/2008
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openleft.com —
In my newspaper column this week, I noted
that the term "center-right nation" is now the word...
du jour for the elite media and Punditburo. We are being told that no matter how big a progressive landslide Tuesday may bring, our country nonetheless will ...
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"Center-Right Nation" Watch
openleft.com - 11/5/2008
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openleft.com —
The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus - a reliable
parrot of conventional wisdom - joins the Punditburo's insistence...
that the largest progressive mandate in contemporary American history means that obviously - clearly! - America remains more conservative ...
(more)
"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Ruth Marcus Edition
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Bill Scher: NEWSFLASH: More Than 60% See President-Elect Obama As "Liberal"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... And as David Sirota has been chronicling, many in the punditocracy are clinging to the fiction that the election somehow proves America is a ...
NEWSFLASH: More Than 60% See President-Elect Obama As "Liberal"
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... And as David Sirota has been chronicling, many in the punditocracy are clinging to the fiction that the election somehow proves America is a ...
WaPo's Ruth Marcus says all the dirty hippy liberals have to bow down to the Gang of Four for health care reform
Crooks and Liars —
... to govern from the left.
Yet the experience of President Bill Clinton's rocky early months -- remember gays in the military? the BTU tax? -- suggests the steep political price of governing in a way that is, or seems, skewed to the left. This risk is particularly acute for Obama, whose opponents have painted him as a leftist extremist. The good news is that his advisers seem exquisitely aware of this trap and determined not to fall into it.
As David Sirota wrote:
The standard lie about Clinton's failures aside (it was ...
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush will meet President-elect Obama "early next week," he Bush vowed that he will keep a promise to "sprint to the finish" of his administration, which ends with ...
Bush: Economic challenges await new president —
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Obama to go to White House next week —
CNN Political Ticker 11/6/2008
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