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Political Culture: Partisan Bipartisanship

Jon Cummings March 25, 2010 7

A couple of extraordinary things happened this past week. One was a big f’ing deal indeed, but the other was a bit more personal. As Sunday night’s Democratic victory on health care turned into

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Political Culture: Let Obama Be Bartlet (Or at Least Bush)

Jon Cummings February 18, 2010 10

The most thrilling, and also the most ridiculous, presidential speech of modern times came not from an actual president, but from a fake one. Michael Douglas’ off-the-cuff remarks at the close of The American

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Political Culture: I Have More Influence than Rush Limbaugh

Jon Cummings March 5, 2009 15

It’s been a giggle this week watching Democrats paint Rush Limbaugh as the “bloated, drug-addled” head of the Republican Party, as Paul Begala put it the other day. It’s been even more of a

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Political Culture: Bipartisanship — What Is It Good For?

Jon Cummings January 29, 2009 19

As of last night, absolutely nothin’. (Legislatively speaking, at least.) But you gotta give Barack Obama points for trying. Presidents don’t often do what Obama did on Tuesday. A week to the day after

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