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Published: 12/28/10

The Worst Clichés of Politics From 'Tax-and-Spend' to 'Maverick'

By  Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily
The Worst Clichés of Politics From 'Tax-and-Spend' to 'Maverick'

According to my rough calculations, our political tongue -- the language of campaigns, elections and, yes, governing -- is sustained by an army of maybe 10,000 professional babblers. They are the Quoted (White House officials, members of Congress and big-time candidates), the Quote Creators (speechwriters and press-release purveyors) and the Quote Users (reporters, columnists and TV correspondents). And taken as a group -- with some notable exceptions -- they display all the originality of second-graders telling knock-knock jokes. Think I am exaggerating? Just remember all the times ...

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Published: 10/6/10

Democrats Try to Fire Up Stoner Vote

By  Dave Thier - AOL News
Democrats Try to Fire Up Stoner Vote

(Oct. 6) -- Marijuana users are not famous for being motivated to do much of anything, but the Democrats are hoping they might be able to draw them to the polls in 2012 with the alluring scent of legal weed. In California, some pollsters are saying that Democrats are experiencing a boost from young voters motivated by Proposition 19, California's marijuana legalization initiative, on the ballot in November. Strategists are considering pushing for similar initiatives in 2012 for battleground states like neighboring Colorado and Nevada in an effort to motivate a typically apathetic but largely ...

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Published: 08/10/10

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs Bashes 'Liberal Naysayers' who Fault Obama

By  Alex Wagner - Politics Daily
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs Bashes 'Liberal Naysayers' who Fault Obama

In an interview published Tuesday in the Hill newspaper, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs let rip his frustration at "liberal naysayers" who have criticized President Obama's policies as being insufficiently left wing. "I hear these people saying he's like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested," Gibbs said. "I mean, it's crazy." The Obama administration has been faulted by the left for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a lack of a public option in the health care reform package, not yet having closed the prison at Guantanamo Bay, a financial regulation reform bill ...

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Published: 07/12/10

Progressives Form 'One Nation' Coalition to Compete With Tea Party

By  Christopher Weber - Politics Daily
Progressives Form 'One Nation' Coalition to Compete With Tea Party

Progressives have launched the left's version of the Tea Party movement. Dubbed "One Nation," it's a grassroots coalition of 170 liberal and civil rights groups that organizers hope will help the progressive cause regain its voice two years after the election of Barack Obama and "counter the Tea Party narrative," The Washington Post reported. "Having been confronted with the specter of the Tea Party . . . we felt it urgent to organize the majority of this country, which voted in 2008 and has gone back to the couch," said Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP, one of the movement's ...

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