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Democrats, on the other hand, are saintly paragons of bipartisanship who ought to be canonized any day now. So when Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee rammed their own favor-bloated stimulus plan to committee approval last Friday, all those preachers of partisan doomsday scarcely uttered a peep. Apparently it’s just fine to appropriate $5.5 billion for government purchases of, among other things, bison meat and watermelons—so long as the favored constituents happen to vote for the party of the jackass...
...other Republican priorities. But it is an act of intellectual dereliction to categorically dismiss those ideas as nothing but partisan favoritism. Winning the battle for public opinion requires a more sophisticated argument than prattling about how ghastly it is for Republicans to disagree with Democrats. Voices from the left ought to drop their scary stories and at least try to put up a real fight...
Even if his identity remained secret back then, his play on the field now ought to make up for the years of obscurity...
Even if his identity remained secret back then, his play on the field now ought to make up for the years of obscurity...
...We’re glad that the Ad Board is looking at a way to change and improve its procedures on sexual assault cases, but it’s questionable whether sexual assault cases ought to be dealt with through the Ad Board,” she said...