Word: tweedledum
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...need now is for a new third party. Not one which relies on the vacuum-like-lucidity of the Socialists or the dogmatic sectarianism of the Communists, but one solidly rooted in ward and county and labor union. If democracy is to survive here, we cannot continue to hold Tweedledum-Tweedledee elections. At least an independent labor party built around the progressive unions will force one of the major parties toward the left. At least it will bring a renewal of the advance toward what the pre-war Max Lerner called a "democratic collectivism," an advance which has down...
...Long before the debate was over, disgusted observers wondered who really needed aid. Between the tweedledee Committee on Banking and Currency, and the tweedledum Committee on Foreign Relations, the Senate wavered in such agony as to make the resistance of Finland seem even more heroic than it had seemed before. Statesmanlike solution of Senator McNary of Oregon was gratefully accepted. His proposal: send the letter to both committees. That meant more delay. As the Committee on Banking and Currency prepared to hear Secretary of State Hull's opinion, and as Senator Brown prepared to revise his bill with Administration...
Compared with China's 24 provinces, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are easy to keep straight. There are Hupeh, Hopeh. There are Shensi, Shansi. There are also Hunan, Honan. To say nothing of Kansu, Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung (not to be confused with Kwantung, in Manchukuo).* When the Japanese renewed military operations in China on a big scale, they made things as Tweedledum as possible for U. S. campaign followers by going to work in Kiangsi...
...Democratic Party will not survive as an effective force in the nation if the voters have to choose between a Republican tweedledum and a Democratic tweedledummer...
Henry Louis Mencken: Tweedledum and Tweedledee are still twins, even when one wears the cold mask of Hoover and the other the professional smile of Roosevelt. Herbert Hoover: We have complete confidence in the American people...