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Tanked

The most reprehensible candidate of the 2008 cycle has left the building, bestowing a nativist bouquet of thorns on the most hypocritical candidate in the field. Which leaves the most nauseating question of Iowa cacucuses: Will Tancredo’s 6%, more or less, follow their leader’s suggestion and vote for Romney–or will they cross the border to [...]

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The Krugman Campaign

I agree with Paul Krugman’s substantive assessment of the Obama campaign–especially when it comes to the deficiencies of Obama’s health care plan. I also agree with this formulation: I guess I’ve been going on the view that no Democrat is not going to end this war, and no Democrat is going to start another war. [...]