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Blog Entries by Jonathan Weiler from 11/2010

Why the Republicans Will Misread Tomorrow's Elections Results

| Posted 11.01.2010 | Politics
Read More: John Cornyn, Rich Iott, Mid-Term Elections, John Boehner, Republican Party, Sharron Angle, Politics News

Whatever else tomorrow means, it will not mean that the country wants its leadership to engage, above all else, in the demonization of people who are different and downtrodden. Long-term, the GOP strategy is unsustainable.

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Why Sarah Palin (Probably) Won't Run for President in 2012

| Posted 11.08.2010 | Politics
Read More: Political Ambition, Sarah Palin, Tlc, Vanity Fair, Karl Rove, Barack Obama, Gop, Alaska, 2012 President Election, John McCain, Brahmin, Politics News

In another promotional spot for her TLC show, Palin says of the wilderness: "I'd rather be out here than in some dumpy old political office." Maybe this is one time when we should take her at her word.

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Face Value: Deficits as Code for Tribal Fears

| Posted 11.25.2010 | Politics
Read More: Welfare, Erskine Bowles, Lee Atwater, Ronald Reagan, Crime, Deficits, Deficit Commission, Tea Party, Code, Islamophobia, Poverty, Muslims, Barack Obama Taxes, Politics News

It's what deficits represent that matters most -- a hand out to people who are worthy of nothing but hatred and contempt, who have bespoiled "our" fragile community.

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