Month: January 2010
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Twitter roundup
Here are the latest items from my Twitter feed (follow it!): -Rahm Emanuel manages to reinforce the Obama-has-a-big-ego and words-not-deeds narratives in one sentence. –21st century constituent service. -The founder of the Wu Tang Clan is now “the RZA-rector” (via Ben Fritz). -If you missed it, Tracy Morgan’s Fresh Air interview really was one of
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Assessing the 2010 House elections
Tom Edsall quoted me in a Huffington Post article today on the 2010 elections: There are, however, a number of factors that suggest 2010 will be quite different from the Democratic rout of 1994 — the so-called Gingrich Revolution. “First, 1994 was the culmination of the South moving into the Republican column; there’s no equivalent
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Walsh smears GOP dissent as “traitorous”
The anti-dissent campaign switched sides last week as Salon’s Joan Walsh became the first prominent liberal to accuse President Obama’s critics of treason. Between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the end of President Bush’s time in office, Republicans and their conservative allies repeatedly suggested that Democratic dissent against the administration’s policies was disloyal. During that