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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:43 PM
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I usually don't read Dowd....
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But todays column was very telling...

Talk about fired up and ready to go.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/opinion/03dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

At a Republican victory party suffused with vengeful glee, the man who body-surfed the anti-establishment wave to become the next Speaker of the House was looking very establishment.

Even though it was predicted, it was still a shock to see voters humiliate a brilliant and spellbinding young president, who’d had such a Kennedy-like beginning, while electing a lot of conservative nuts and promoting this central-casting congressman as the face of the future: a Republican who had vowed in a written pledge to restore America to old-fashioned values, returning to a gauzy “Leave It to Beaver” image that never existed even on the set of “Leave It to Beaver.”


Read it all the way through...
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