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brendan-nyhan.com - 19 days ago
Frank Rich: Hack
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As TNR's Jon Chait points out , Frank Rich's column about GOP infighting in New York's 23rd Congressional district is full of nasty rhetoric comparing the GOP to murderous regimes, cults, etc.: [T]he real action migrated to New York’s 23rd, a rural Congressional district abutting Canada... ...
angrybear.blogspot.com - 25 days ago
Public Option Hardest Ball
— angrybear.blogspot.com — Robert Waldmann The proposal made here in "Public Option Harder Ball" received enthusiastic support when it was coincidentally semi proposed as opt-in by Sen Carper (D-Bankruptcy Reform) and modified to to opt-out by Senator Schumer (D-tough guy). As presented here on September 4 it was clearly ... (more) Public Option Hardest Ball

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commentarymagazine.com - 19 days ago
Frank Rich’s Paranoid Style
— commentarymagazine.com — Here’s a stunning development: the New York Times’s theater-critic-turned-political-columnist Frank Rich is foot-stompin’ mad. The cause for Mr. Rich’s latest outburst is the race in New York’s 23rd District, in which the liberal Republican Dede ... (more) Frank Rich’s Paranoid Style

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A Purge Is a Purge Isn't a Purge
Hit & Run — ... about NY-23, where he accused national figures who are backing conservative candidate Doug Hoffman of "re-enacting Stalinism in full purge mode"? Brendan Nyhan wins the Internet Search of the Day Award by unearthing this rather, ah, different ...

Rahm Emanuel 2005: Our gubernatorial wins in NJ and Virginia are huge
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... to change,” he said (although he neglected to mention that these three mayors are Democrats, though the one from St. Paul endorsed Bush last year). This makes two appearances in less than a week by the Ghost of Spin Past. Remember how, in 2006, Ned Lamont’s primary win over Lieberman was supposedly a glorious triumph of “people-powered politics” by plucky grassroots activists over a party figurehead who didn’t represent their values? Frank Rich dumped on critics at the time for their “hysterical overreaction” to Lamont’s win; fast forward three years and the same guy is ...

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