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“Literally Since Day One”: GOP Hostility Towards Compromise Runs Deep
When an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found earlier this year that a plurality of Republican voters believe GOP lawmakers compromise too much with President Obama, it seemed hard to believe....
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“Malign Contempt Since Day 1”: GOP’s Unrelenting Campaign Of Obstructionism...
This was three days before Antonin Scalia died. President Obama had just spoken before the Illinois General Assembly. Now, he and some old friends, all retired from that body, were being interviewed by...
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“Donald Trump And The End Of Civility”: Rejecting The Virtues Of Teamwork,...
For a decade we have seen article after article, study after study, comment after comment on the death of civility in our politics. Politicians, pundits and academics worried that gridlock and the...
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“The GOP, An Incoherent Mess”: The Left Was Right About The Right All These...
“If he was for it, we had to be against it.” — Former U.S. Sen. George Voinovich quoted in “The New New Deal” by Michael Grunwald The “he” is President Obama. The “we” is the Republican Party. And it...
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“The Consequences Of Republican Obstruction”: We Need To Be Clear About Why...
One of my favorite writers – Leonard Pitts – has weighed in on the topic du jour these days for pundits: what led to the rise of Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary. He starts off with...
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