Return to the Article May 23, 2010 The Senator from Sandy Berger By Jack Cashill In 1934, “Boss” Tom Pendergast handpicked a Jackson County administrative judge to be the next United States Senator from Missouri, and for the next ten years Harry Truman wore the tag, “The Senator from Pendergast.” Truman began to find his […]
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MAY 21, 2010 By JOHN FUND Elections this month have enhanced the political clout of two groups widely separated on the political spectrum. The tea party movement stands to play an outsize role in the fall elections now that outsider Rand Paul has swept Kentucky’s GOP Senate primary, while unions provided the muscle for Democrats
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MAY 20, 2010 Anti-Incumbent? Try Anti-Obama By FRED BARNES The hordes are not massing at the gates of Washington—not yet. They won’t arrive until after the midterm congressional election in November. Most are likely to be Republicans, a good number of them old Washington hands. Yesterday’s primary elections, including the impressive victories of Republican Rand
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MAY 20, 2010 A Bad Day for the Obama Agenda By KARL ROVE The temptation for politicians and political analysts is to draw broad, sweeping conclusions from election results. But most election outcomes defy being reduced to a single cause. Campaigns are a complicated mix of issues, personalities and impressions. Voters settle on a candidate
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Here’s Governor Christie telling it like it is! http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/13/video-chris-christie-destroys-reporter-for-calling-him-confrontational/
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Will the Democrats Listen? by Michael D. Tanner This article appeared in The Washington Times on April 28, 2010. A Pennsylvania special election scheduled for May 18 may provide an early glimpse for anyone wondering how big a millstone the health care law will be for Democrats this fall. The state’s 12th Congressional District, which
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MAY 6, 2010 The President and the Politics of Civility By KARL ROVE Last Saturday, Americans were again instructed on their political manners by their Moralizer in Chief. While delivering a commencement address to the University of Michigan’s graduating students, President Barack Obama’s comments were really meant for the nation’s political class. His speech dealt
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For the week of May 07, 2010 – carolinajournal.com Reaction of the Week RALEIGH — Budget gimmicks help Gov. Bev Perdue avoid the tough decisions that would improve North Carolina state government’s finances and operations. That’s the assessment the John Locke Foundation’s top budget expert offers in a new Spotlight report. “Gimmicks are at the
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An Architect’s Memoir How Karl Rove drives ’em crazy. BY Matthew Continetti May 3, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 31 Courage and Consequence My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove Threshold Editions, 608 pp., $30 It’s been said that Washington is the only place in the world where you can fail upwards.
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