The do-something Senate. (Comment).(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, May, 2002 by Kuttner, Robert
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THERE MAY BE SOME LIFE IN the Democrats yet, especially in the Senate. They killed drilling in Alaska. They blocked a wretched judicial nomination. They sidetracked President Bush's outrageous effort to make the tax cut permanent, which would yield endless deficits and spell curtains for decent public services. And the sky didn't fall. They even earned the ultimate encomium: a fatuous lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal headlined, inevitably, "The Do-Nothing Senate."
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What we have, at last, is a Do-Something Senate. When Newt Gingrich and company were blocking ...
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