nytimes.com - 11/17/2008
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Last week, assembled at Miami’s InterContinental Hotel for a meeting of the Republican Governors Association, the governors seemed cheerful. The G.O.P. had lost only one statehouse on Election Day. The prospects for a Republican pickup in Virginia in 2009 were decent, and good candidates were ...
nytimes.com - 11/22/2008
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Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could
make it a really special holiday by resigning. Seriously....
We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Time for Him to Go
nytimes.com - 11/17/2008
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If Republicans don’t come to grips with what’s
happened over the last eight years and can’t develop...
an economic agenda moving forward, then they could be back, politically, in 1933. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: George W. Hoover?
observer.com - 11/18/2008
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Earlier today, William Kristol was sitting alone by
the entrance of Michael's checking his Blackberry. Mr. Kristol...
was there at the behest of the Independent Film Channel to participate in a panel discussion moderated by Arianna Huffington (and ...
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Times Columnist William Kristol is 'Not Such a Fan ...
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Monday is a good day for pundits! William Kristol: Okay, with no one respecting my credibility, maybe it's time to get serious. If conservatives do some difficult re-thinking in the field of political economy, they can come back. If they don’t — well, there were a lot of admirable conservative thinkers and writers, professors and novelists, from 1933 to 1980. But conservatives didn’t govern. And it's all George W. Hoover's fault. John Podhoretz: Okay, it sucks, but what happened ...
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... . Subject: Buzzers - Since the topic of the Republican party debacle and what to do about itself etc. has been in the news and discussed a little on BuzzFlash, I thought I'd offer the text of a comment I wrote in response to Bill Kristol's column in the NYTimes on Monday headlined "George W. Hoover." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/opinion/17kristol.html Here's my comment which was #24 (one always aims to be near the top because more people see one's 'brilliant' thoughts, although there's often such a flood of comments that even writing at 1 am as soon as an op-ed or ...
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