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What a fun turn the Republican Party has taken…
Over the weekend, Lindsey Graham was heckled at the South Carolina Republican Convention for urging the Party to embrace moderates who can “win in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.”  Interesting, but not surprising.  Of course, it does make for an odd Senate delegation from South Carolina: Jim DeMint said [...]

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Watching Arlen Specter on Meet the Press right now: this is one of the least confidence-inspiring interviews I’ve seen on this show.
Specter seems to so intent on “proving” he won’t change his positions, that he has absolutely nothing to say to Democrats.  He’s still against the Employee Free Choice Act, would oppose (seemingly any) comprehensive [...]

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Just an annoyance:
I’ve been watching some of the fallout from the Specter switch on MSNBC and I can’t help but notice a complete disconnect between my definition of the far-right Republican base and the commentators’ definition of the Party’s base. Let me see if I have my facts right: 1) Arlen Specter was being [...]

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Lindsay Graham: (on the pressure conservatives are putting on moderate Republicans) “I don’t want to be a member of the Club for Growth.”
Guess he won’t be doing too many fundraisers for Pat Toomey…

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He (still Paul Ryan) actually just mentioned Ayn Rand. He thinks Democrats deliberately drove down the economy so they could blame Republicans and make a case for government intervention… “just like something out of an Ayn Rand novel.”

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The streaming quality of this video is pretty bad, so I’m missing a lot of the lines.  Paul Ryan is speaking now, and – surprise – he’s talking about the evils of government spending.  The only interesting thing so far is how many conservatives seem to be big fans of the air quote.  It’s weird.

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I kind of have the day off work today (which is to say, I have to do stuff as it comes up, but I don’t have to go into the office).  Should be a nice day out, with temperatures expected to hit mid-50s by this afternoon, and while that’s not top-down weather for my car, [...]

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23 days left in the campaign, and it seems like a fun time to start some post-election predictions (originally, I was going to go back through old predictions I’ve made here and see how I did. I still might after the election, but that doesn’t seem like nearly as much fun right now.)
Alright, first [...]

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I always kinda like the little blurbs at the end of some movies that tell you what happened to the characters after the credits roll. And I thought that now, in the “waning days of the campaign” (according to Obama) might be a good time to take some guesses on the futures of the [...]

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