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  • Dustbin Durbin

    06/20/2005 9:59:20 PM PDT · by smoothsailing · 70 replies · 1,493+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 06/21/05 | Frank J.Gaffney Jr.
    By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. When a United States Senator says something deeply offensive, there are usually but two immediate recourses: Either he or she voluntarily apologizes, or colleagues formally censure the senator. If the senator happens, however, to be a member of the leadership -- as was the case with then-Majority Leader Trent Lott in December 2002 -- another option is available: The humiliating loss of power resulting from the forced removal from that high office. Such a remedy clearly seems appropriate in the case of the Senate's unapologetic and as-yet-uncensored Minority Whip, Dick Durbin, Illinois Democrat.
  • Dean is Clearly Still Not Ready for Primetime

    06/08/2005 4:32:46 AM PDT · by billorites · 32 replies · 1,188+ views
    RealClearPolitics ^ | June 8, 2005 | Susan Estrich
    In the long run, the critical question for Democrats may turn out to be not what Party Chairman Howard Dean is doing, but what he isn't doing. The answer to the first question is easy. What he's doing is what he has become know for: shooting from the lip. This is, after all, the man who went from front-runner to also-ran in a matter of weeks, on the strength of a series of mistakes that convinced the most liberal Democratic voters in America that the guy was not ready for primetime. The much-remembered "Dean scream" came after he lost, not...