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"The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York" — Frank Rich makes it all sound so scary.
"The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York" — Frank Rich makes it all sound so scary.
Or at least the NYT headline makes it sound as though Frank Rich is about to scare us over the Stalinist invasion. But, reading the text , I see: "The right’s embrace of Hoffman is a double-barreled suicide for the G.O.P." Are they killing the poor citizens of upstate New York or are they ...
The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
nytimes.com — BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from... upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and ... (more) The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
Frank Rich: Only Stalinists Use Words Like "Stalinist"
Frank Rich: Only Stalinists Use Words Like "Stalinist"
reason.com — One of Jesse Walker's most interesting observations in his already-classic October piece on " The Paranoid Center... " is that, in a direct inversion of Richard Hofstadter's theory, the establishmentarians who try to scare us about the terribly ... (more) Frank Rich: Only Stalinists Use Words Like "Stalinist"
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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Rich putsch kitsch
Classical Values — ... about Frank Rich's latest silly column, I thought I'd chime in. I don't know whether he's trying to outdo himself in terms of pure buffoonery, but this time, Rich is hell-bent on proving that the conservatives who support Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 race are a bunch of "Stalinists." In a ...

Violet cataclysm
dustbury.com — Not that it’s any fun to mock Frank Rich — on the “shooting fish in a barrel” scale, we’re talking lasers aimed at tortoises — but John Salmon will not be thwarted: I understand that a GOP Stalinist is a lot like an illiterate novelist … or maybe a purple cow. Oh, come on. Lots of people read Dan Brown. As for that other creature, I have, of course, an anecdote from the archives: [This] reminded me of a prank once pulled by the late James ...

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