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Mitt Romney’s Debate Jujitsu Knocks Out Newt Gingrich
Tweet Share on Facebook January 27, 2012 Comment (9)The Romney campaign appears to have uploaded the indignation app to the Mitt-bot before last night’s debate, and to good effect. The former Massachusetts governor performed some clever political jujitsu on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, turning his biggest selling point against him.
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Don't Expect Too Much From Obama's State of the Union Speech
Tweet Share on Facebook January 24, 2012 Comment (6)The funny thing about the State of the Union address is that after it’s great build-up and huge pomp and circumstance, it usually amounts to very little that endures. It’s a good road map for the government in terms of priorities (or, in election years, a road map for re-election), which is why there is such fierce lobbying behind the scenes just to get a mention of a program into it. But that is also why the speech is often a crashing bore, because it becomes a laundry list.
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State of the Union Trivia and History
Tweet Share on Facebook January 24, 2012 Comment (2)The identity of the first president to deliver a State of the Union address before Congress probably won’t surprise anyone—George Washington. But readers might be interested to learn that the first president to deliver a speech known as a “State of the Union address” was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Read on for an explanation of those and other firsts, and other bits of trivia and history of the State of the Union address.
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When Mitt Romney Came to Town--Deleted Scenes
Tweet Share on Facebook January 13, 2012 Comment (6)Have you seen When Mitt Romney Came to Town, the 30 minute attack ad being distributed by a Super-PAC (or as they should more properly be termed, Hench-PAC) supporting Newt Gingrich? If you haven’t, you should—it will take its place alongside Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” commercial as being among the most devastating hit pieces of all time. But really, it could have been much worse. Herewith a collection of some of the material that ended up on the cutting room floor. Suggest your own in the comments section below or on Twitter with a #deletedbain hashtag.
