firedoglake.com - 1/9/2009
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How can you tell a Democrat is about to move into the White House? When Nooners writes something like this:
The Founders, who were awed by the presidency and who made it a point, the early ones, to speak in their inaugural addresses of how unworthy they felt, would be astonished and ...
debatableland.com - 1/9/2009
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debatableland.com —
At a recent debate, every single one of
the candidates hoping to be the nest chairman of...
the Republican National Committee named Ronald Reagan as their favourite Republican president. In one sense this is hardly surprising, given the extent to which ...
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The Limits of Reaganism
delong.typepad.com - 1/11/2009
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delong.typepad.com —
People who have endorsed the Republican House caucus's
objections to the stimulus package: Donald Luskin, Chief Investment...
Officer, Trend Macrolytics LLC, Stupidest Man Alive Emeritus TM : "Government spending does not create incentives for ...
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Stupidest Party AliveTM
opinionjournal.com - 1/9/2009
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opinionjournal.com —
From the WSJ Opinion Archives PEGGY NOONAN A
Return to Civility A report from President Bush's inauguration....
Monday, January 22, 2001 12:01 A.M. EST WASHINGTON--President Bush's inaugural address had a specific weight. Some speeches just float away ...
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Peggy Noonan - WSJ.com
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Just like the glibertarians will rediscover limits on executive powers...
INSTAPUTZ —
...Noonan has discovered that presidents are just ordinary guys.
Peggy Noonan Off Her Meds
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... will maintain a stance of hopeful ambivalence.” Hopeful ambivalence is what you feel when you have one foot in a fire and another in a flood.
Peggy Noonan has gone off her meds. Men again are men. And presidents are men. And the magic mushrooms are gone.
. . . a president []is a man, and just a man. We hire them, we fire them, they come back for photo-ops. They’re not magic.
Official Notice: Hero worship is over for now. Fill youselves now with hopeful ambivalence
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