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Needed: A Women’s Party

Arnold Hamilton - November 9, 2009 0

BY BARBARA SANTEE I watched that shameful vote that excluded abortion coverage from the National Health Care Bill. Thirty-nine Democrats voted for it, including Dan...

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Coburn’s Cowardice

Arnold Hamilton - November 6, 2009 1

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER The week began with Sen. Jim Inhofe’s boycott of hearings on a proposed climate bill, which by the way made it...

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Everything and nothing happened on Tuesday. I could have predicted that. Whoever “wins” says it means everything. Whoever “loses” says it means nothing. That’s how off-off-year elections work. History supports both sides. This time, the Republicans managed to claw at least a little bit of defeat from the jaws of victory with […]

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The Teabaggers Were Carpetbaggers

Arnold Hamilton - November 5, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP The Tea Party wing of the Republican Party had the perfect strategy for upstate New York’s 23rd congressional district: 1. Support a candidate who doesn’t live in the district – in this case, Conservative Douglas Hoffman. Savage the local Republican choice, Dede Scozzafava, and hound her into dropping out. 2. Condemn the […]

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The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party

Arnold Hamilton - November 5, 2009 0

BY JOE CONASON When Newt Gingrich warned Republicans that they were making a grave “mistake” by driving out moderates and enforcing the angry orthodoxy of the far right, the sober tone of his remarks was stunning. This is a politician who is no stranger himself to the wilder shores of extremism, a populist and a […]