Jul 21, 2009 -
July 19, 2009
The New York Times
By FRANK RICH
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19rich.html?_r=1
AS political theater, the Sonia Sotomayor hearings tanked faster than the 2008 Fred Thompson presidential campaign. They boasted no drama to rival the Clarence-Anita slapdown, the Bork hissy fits or the tearful exodus of Samuel Alito’s wife. There was rarely a moment to match even the high point of the Senate’s previous grilling of Sotomayor — in 1997, when she was elevated to the Second Circuit.
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Feb 11, 2009 -
February 11, 2009, 2:46 pm, Wall Street Journal
Do Democrats Have a Corruption Problem?
Susan Davis reports on politics.
Congressional Democrats swept into power in 2006 after a steady drumbeat of attacks against Republicans for allowing a systemic “culture of corruption” to define their majority.
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May 29, 2009 -
Bush Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obama continues to trash Bush in words — but his actions speak louder.
By Victor Davis Hanson
Last July I wrote a column entitled “Barack W. Bush” outlining how candidate Barack Obama was strangely emulating Bush policies — even as he was trashing the president.
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Dec 19, 2008 -
Democrats Are the New Ethics Story
Blagojevich is just the tip of the iceberg.
• By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
A note to all those visitors who will soon flood Washington for the inauguration: Be careful of the "swamp."
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Oct 14, 2008 -
CNN) — Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley, said Tuesday he's resigned from the conservative National Review days after endorsing Barack Obama's White House bid, among the most powerful symbols yet of the conservative discontent expressed this election cycle.
In an online column, Buckley said he had decided to offer his resignation from the magazine his father founded after hundreds of readers and some National Review colleagues expressed outrage he was backing the Illinois senator.
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