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Daily Archives: April 1st, 2009

Larry Summers’ past at Harvard

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

It’s been only about 70 days, but already Bush is beginning to seem like a bad memory. Obama has been a breath of fresh air in many ways, but there’s some notable exceptions, made all the more depressing for the very reason that they are so few. The most notable exception is the quality of […]

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Guest Post-Al Gore in Boston

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

When I heard that Liberal Drinker, incredibly dedicated campaign worker, and survivor of the Purple Tunnel of Doom, Atul Shah, went to Boston to see Al Gore I asked him (through my wife) to write something up about his visit, which he was nice enough to do. Gore was in Boston to talk about climate […]

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Filibusters

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Here is an interesting graph from ThinkProgress: It is the number of cloture votes taken in the Senate since the 86th Congress, back in the 50s. It demonstrates conclusively that Harry Reid’s oft repeated statement that it takes 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate, if true, has only recently become true. And it […]

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