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New word for me to play with, lickspittles. =) This has been a Wonderful read, all 3 parts, Thank you Moscow Never Sleeps, and THANK YOU Greg. Keep on educating me please.

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I threw my phone down in disgust and amazement at the explanation of why the whole filibuster change does judges was an huge unforced error. The glass eye analogy is perfect in light of that dumb decision. Thanks, as ever, for your lucid analysis

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"Mark my words, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."

- Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican candidate for President, very far to the reactionary right of the party in those days.

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