washingtonpost.com - 11/18/2008
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There is a second transition underway over which President-elect Barack Obama has no control -- the transition of conservatives to minority status. How they do this will have a powerful impact on the new presidency.
washingtonpost.com - 11/25/2008
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President-elect Barack Obama has now made three things
clear about his plans to bring the economy back:...
He wants his actions to be big and bold. He sees economic recovery as intimately linked with economic and social reform. And he is bringing in a ...
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E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Obama's Economic Brain Trust
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... the courts, and unilateral control over children in the welfare class by taxpayer handouts to women that made husbands and fathers unnecessary. The feminists have continued their campaign against marriage through Joe Biden's favorite legislation, the Violence Against Women Act, which provides a billion dollars a year to feminist centers to promote divorce and oppose reconciliation. It must be so confusing to be a woman and a misogynist. E.J. Dionne Jr. ask which GOP will Barack Obama be facing? The ideological or what Dionne calls ...
The Hole Gets Deeper, the Faithful Keep Digging
The Mahablog —
... E.J. Dionne has a slightly different take on this. He notes that McCain picked a right-wing running mate and ran a classically “conservative” campaign against Obama. Yet he got clobbered on election day. Dionne continues, ...
Extremism in the Pursuit of Liberalism
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 [image] Extremism in the Pursuit of Liberalism [Ramesh Ponnuru] E. J. Dionne Jr. writes that "the Republican Party is now wholly owned by the conservative movement" with "moderates" having been driven "extinct." Has anything similar happened on the Democratic side? Not at all. It's just that "[r]ight-wing Democrats have been replaced by moderates with a greater sense of solidarity with the rest of the party." ...
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... his Democratic opponent, former state lawmaker Jim Martin, in a runoff election on Tuesday December 2.
Daily Kos: Today's lesson
There's that. But there's also disdain for the American electorate that voted in overwhelming numbers for change from the discredited Bush/McCain/Lieberman policies. But in a city known for tone-deafness, there clearly isn't a more tone-deaf group than the Senate Dems.
I'm done with Reid as Senate leader.
Which GOP Will Obama Face? E.J. Dionne
But how conservatives resolve their differences ...
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Which GOP Will Obama Face? E.J. Dionne
But how conservatives resolve their differences will also matter to Obama's success. For now, the right is divided into ideological conservatives and dispositional ...
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