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...negative campaigning against the other, they are nothing compared with the resulting fallout the party faces in the general election. If the campaign turns in to a gloves-off fight until the Pennsylvania primary, whoever emerges from the rubble will be in a considerably weaker position to face the Republican Party. If it is Hillary Clinton, the vicious campaigning will have served to remind voters of her divisiveness. This certainly seemed the case in South Carolina. If Barack Obama is the candidate, his message of a new, hopeful brand of politics will have been wholly undermined by insult warfare...
...environmental problem we face, it’s very serious. In fact unless we make some fundamental changes we’re going to cook ourselves off the planet in the next hundred years. And that problem can only be addressed cooperatively. Our individualism, our libertarianism, our republican selfishness is not serving us well in terms of human governance...
...employee of the Emperors Club VIP, an “international prostitution and money-laundering ring,” according to law enforcement authorities. Ironically, in 2004 Spitzer announced the arrest of 16 people operating a prostitution ring in Staten Island and condemned their behavior. Late yesterday afternoon, the Republican leader of the New York State Assembly gave Spitzer 48 hours to quit before he would start calling for impeachment proceedings, according to the Washington Post...
...devastating fall from grace. Of course, the guillotine of public shame is applied quite arbitrarily. Clinton was impeached while his sanctimonious accuser Newt Gingrich cheated on his wife in the cancer ward. Not that this is necessarily a partisan issue, either: Sen. Larry Craig was positively marooned by his Republican Party—presumably because its members find cloacal homosexual activity abominable—while his Louisiana counterpart David Vitter emerged unscathed from an encounter with the “D.C. Madam”. One suspects the Senate was less than eager to get to the bottom of that...
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl C. Rove will be speaking at Harvard on April 4, according to members of the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). The event, sponsored by the HRC, is slated to take place in the Winthrop Junior Common Room and to be open to all members of the Harvard community. “Someone with the type of political genius he has happens only once in a generation, and when we have the chance to bring someone like that here, it’s a great opportunity,” said...