No Sense of Decency “It never occurred to me on the day that Defense Department lawyer Rebecca Snyder and Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler of the Navy appeared in my law firm’s offices to ask for our assistance in carrying out their duties as military defense lawyers that the young lawyer who worked with me on […]

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Tea For Texas —News reports had the Tea Party candidate losing the Texas Republican primary, as Houston nurse and Ron Paul disciple Debra Medina won only 18 percent of the vote in the governor’s race. Medina, who wanted to eliminate property taxes and ensure that citizens are better armed than the police, might have staked […]

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The Facts?—The one-year anniversary of the $787 billion stimulus bill was an opportunity for Republicans to refine one of their big 2010 campaign narratives: The stimulus bill that passed in February 2009 is a failure. “The facts are the facts,” said Minority Whip Eric Cantor at a Heritage Foundation panel discussion. “I have gone so […]

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Blowhard Journalism “You’re ridiculous. You are a joke. You are a despicable human being—the lowest life form that I have ever seen. Your entire job is trying to destroy people with Alinsky tactics.” —Andrew Breitbart to Max Blumenthal at CPAC 2010 For years I have tried to approach CPAC with the seriousness that the largest […]

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“Words That Work” “Frankly, the single best way to kill any legislation is to link it to the Big Bank Bailout.” Republican Pollster Frank Luntz —January 2010 Frank Luntz is a political consultant who made his bones on the Contract With America, by which Newt Gingrich’s resurgent Republicans wrested control of the House from the […]

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