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Should Democrats obstruct Trump or try to minimize the damage?

December 23, 2016 Reece Ellis 2016 Election, Democrats, Trump One comment

The single biggest question before Democrats is not how to overturn the results of the 2016 election or dissecting what went wrong in the

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Trump: Republican strategy taken to its logical extreme

August 11, 2015 Susan Cunningham 2016 Election, Republicans Leave a comment

I’ve heard people saying that Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party. I beg to differ. Trump is just the logical extension of the

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Congress leaves town for summer break: Political cartoonists rush in

August 8, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Democrats, Good government, Media, Politics, Republicans Leave a comment

What’s the difference between Congress being in session and on vacation? Beats me. If voting for the 40th time to “repeal” Obamacare counts as

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Blocking Obama: As seen by political cartoonists

June 15, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Humor, Republicans Leave a comment

It’s been a no-win for President Obama since Day 1 of his presidency, when Republican Congressional leaders [and I use that term lightly] met

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Measuring Republican nay-saying: The Index of Obstruction and Delay

June 5, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Courts, Obama, Politics, Republicans, Senate Leave a comment

Republicans can try to say it ain’t so, but a newly developed statistical measure says it is: The GOP’s delaying tactics and outright obstruction

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Heritage Foundation to Congress: “Don’t legislate. Scandal-gate.”

May 18, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Government, Obama, Politics One comment

This is what passes for “thinking” at the leading conservative “think tank,” the Heritage Foundation. Earlier this week [May 2013], the Heritage Foundation’s executive

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