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Political Culture: Teabag Wall Street!

Political Culture: Teabag Wall Street!

Jon Cummings October 19, 2011 1

Can't the populist right and left just get along

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Political Culture: America – Too Big To Fail?

Jon Cummings August 9, 2011 14

How did the Tea Party force a stupid deal, prove itself unfit to govern ... AND simultaneously send the economy over a cliff? Jon Cummings spots the jokers in the deck.

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Political Culture: Absolutism Sucks! (Relatively Speaking)

Jon Cummings January 20, 2011 5

Conservatives now claim the Constitution as their own -- yet couldn't bring themselves to read it in its entirety on the House floor. Jon Cummings examines the flaws of Tea Party-brand strict constructionism

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Political Culture: Greetings, Fellow Hostages!

Jon Cummings December 9, 2010 12

President Obama may have given up the store on tax cuts this week, but at least he coined a useful metaphor in the process. Still, is it the GOP holding the recovery hostage, or

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Political Culture: Americans, Running Hot N Cold

Jon Cummings October 1, 2010 12

Katy Perry's aborted Sesame Street appearance launched a short-lived kerfuffle, but offers a neat allegory for explaining the idiocy of the current political climate. Jon Cummings considers the merits of Katy's cleavage and other

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Political Culture: The Not-So-Great Society

Jon Cummings August 5, 2010 4

Now is the summer of our discontent … arriving on the heels of a spring, winter, autumn and previous summer that roiled in similar fashion. Americans, it seems, have declared open season upon one

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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: How To Train Your Teafoxlican

Jon Cummings March 18, 2010 14

We’re supposedly just three days away from the final House votes on health care, and still nobody’s sure how it’s going to go. If you listen to Fox News, there’s no way Nancy Pelosi

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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: Those Condescending Elites!

Jon Cummings February 11, 2010 4

Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention – an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had her devotees eating (and the rest of us reading) out

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