Bad is good for the GOP
Date: 2/4/2010
By:
Ernest Dumas
Counting those who have given up, 26 million people are out of work, everyone else is scared stiff, the government is out of money and the reigning political party thinks all of that is to its advantage.
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Corporations rule
Date: 1/28/2010
By:
Ernest Dumas
If someone could account for all of it, U.S. corporations in 2009 spent $20 million and maybe much more to shape what Arkansas people thought about three issues in Washington: health-insurance reform, union organizing and climate and energy legislation.
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Vehicle for anarchy
Date: 1/14/2010
By:
Ernest Dumas
Forty-nine states are still governable because they haven't yet imitated California, which indulges the contradictory whims of its voters.
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Nixon's plan revived
Date: 12/31/2009
By:
Ernest Dumas
SAN FRANCISCO - The rheumy-eyed fellow at the end of the brunch table at the Tivoli inn on Christmas morning sounded more and more like a noisy Forrest Gump.
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Health bill winners
Date: 12/24/2009
By:
Ernest Dumas
We won't know who in the political firmament are the winners and losers in the health-care wars until the 2010 election, but it is easy to identify the logical winners: the Arkansas Democrats who will vote for the final bill in late winter.
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Enter Stanley Reed
Date: 12/15/2009
By:
Ernest Dumas
Having learned one terrible lesson in the mad health-care debate, that it is near fatal to appear weak and indecisive, Senator Blanche Lincoln relearned another verity last week. Shifting political fortunes will dispose of some of your best friends.
Example: Stanley Reed.
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The Medicare scare
Date: 12/10/2009
By:
Ernest Dumas
Rare is the day for oldtimers that the postman does not deliver from one to three pieces of mail from insurance companies urging us to switch from regular Medicare coverage to their Advantage plans.
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Politician Huck, R.I.P.
Date: 12/3/2009
By:
Ernest Dumas
Everywhere but at Fox News, his employer, they were writing Mike Huckabee's political obituary Monday, only 24 hours after the discovery that a man he had freed from the state penitentiary in 2000 was wanted for executing four police officers in a Tacoma, Wash., suburb.
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Money talks to Blanche
Date: 11/26/2009
By:
Ernest Dumas
That $3.3 million that the insurance companies and Republican groups spent on advertising the past few weeks trying to terrify Arkansas voters into making her stop health-insurance reform, Sen. Blanche Lincoln explained Saturday, was all wasted because she does not bend to political pressure, being guided solely by what is right for Arkansas.
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