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George Will: Sentences That Begin 'The President Says' Are Not As Impressive As They Used To Be
George Will: Sentences That Begin 'The President Says' Are Not As Impressive As They Used To Be
" Sentences that begin 'The president says' are not as impressive as they used to be ." So marvelously stated ABC's George Will on Sunday's installment of "This Week." But Will wasn't the only "Roundtable" panelist to utter something clever and/or revealing. Quite ...
Transcript: Axelrod
Transcript: Axelrod
abcnews.go.com — ABC NEWS, THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS INTERVIEW WITH WHITE HOUSE SENIOR ADVISER DAVID AXELROD. SPEAKERS: GEORGE... STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST: ABC'S "THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS" OCTOBER 18, 2009 SPEAKERS: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST DAVID ... (more) Transcript: Axelrod
Transcript: Axelrod
Transcript: Axelrod
abcnews.go.com — STEPHANOPOULOS: We're going to go straight to the roundtable. So as our panelists take their seats, take... a look at how "Saturday Night Live" handled the toughness question. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) (UNKNOWN): So are you going to get angry with them?  ... (more) Transcript: Axelrod
An Economics Question For George Will
liberalvaluesblog.com — During the Roundtable portion of This Week , George Will spoke out against a proposal to tax... makers of medical devices: This is a $1.3 trillion program that leaves 25 million Americans still uninsured and includes, for example, $40 billion tax on the makers of medical devices. Now, we all ... (more) An Economics Question For George Will
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Quote of the day – from George Will
Sister Toldjah — Via Newsbusters, from yesterday’s This Week w/ George Stephanopoulos: GEORGE WILL: I’m very puzzled by the argument about how we’re going to pay for [healthcare reform], which seems to be the big problem right now. This is a government that right now is borrowing 43 cents of every dollar it spends. We’re going to pay for this the way we pay for everything. We’re going to borrow the money from the Chinese. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: The president says we’re not. He says if it increases ...

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Stones Cry Out — Good morning, err, afternoon. Of witches and psychics on the silver screen. A private zoo. A song. A conversation from the chattering classes Sunday chatfest. A letter to Ms Dunn. More on Ms Dunn (different topic) here. Speaking of past tyrants … Stalin from St. Petersburg (a city, I think, he reviled). Tipping the hat to Mr Obama. The Obama strategy of snubbing allies and talking nice to your enemies ...

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