The so-called Surrender Caucus of Democrats who broke the filibuster are like the dwarfs in C.S. Lewis’s “Last Battle.”
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The Surrender Caucus, the Last Battle
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Dems Channel Inner Lady Macbeth
Shakespeare and Henry James showed up in commentary on this weeks events: the impending government shutdown and the required gathering of 800 military leaders.
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A GOP Version of Chekhov’s Gun
A pundit invokes Chekhov’s gun in covering the GOP impasse that may shut down the government.
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Whitman Would Embrace Trump’s Victims
Thursday I wrote yesterday’s Walt Whitman post before hearing Donald Trump’s Oval Office address, which is why I find myself returning to the poet again so soon. Like the Statue of Liberty mentioned by Sen. Chuck Schumer in his response to Trump, Whitman’s Song of Myself serves as an antidote to the president’s racism and xenophobia. Trump, as […]
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A Plague on BOTH Houses? No, Only One
“A plague on both your houses” doesn’t work for Mercutio or for citizens today.
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Needed in Congress: A Deus Ex Machina
If Boehner channeled the spirit of Athena in “The Odyssey,” he could reopen the government tomorrow.
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