They almost had to shut down Mayberry when Howard Sprague blurted that out one day.
Posted on 10/11/2014 9:03:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WATERVILLE, Maine — With three weeks remaining before the critical midterm congressional elections, the character of American politics for the next two years and for the presidential campaign that will begin in earnest next month is unusually uncertain. In fact, the contours of our national civic life are more undefined than they have been since the overtime election of 2000 — a period of ambiguity no one is eager to repeat.
So, as the election nears, the American political landscape can be described as a combination of enthusiasm and ennui that defies clear definition.
In fact, enthusiasm and ennui are co-existing comfortably this fall: Republicans feel they are poised to capture the Senate, giving them complete control of the legislative branch and providing them a battering ram against President Barack Obama and his comprehensive health care overhaul. Then again, last week Tom Wolf, with a commanding lead over GOP Gov. Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania, sat unrecognized in an airport departure lounge as he prepared to take a flight between Pennsylvania’s two largest cities, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where he has saturated the airwaves....
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They almost had to shut down Mayberry when Howard Sprague blurted that out one day.
Republicans "extreme", Democrats "moderate".
No original thought, whatsoever. Could've appeared on the editorial page of any legacy newspaper from the Providence Journal to the Portland Oregonian.
The Columbia School of Journalism probably publishes a template for this kind of navel contemplation.
Post-Gazette. Certainly fits your profile but they are an especially pugnacious lefty lot.
Here’s hoping the dems led by that famous quota boy obammy, get waxed in the coming elections.
Hoping obammy and company have the worst day of their freaken lives.
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