Author Archives: Mark W. Davis (WHWG)

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Lent Comes Early for the GOP

January 15, 2009 – 3:19 pm

After all the indignities of defeat, Republicans awakened two weeks ago to the news that a candidate for the RNC chairmanship sent out a CD that includes a riff on “Puff the Magic Dragon,” rendered as “Barack the Magic Negro.”
Ken Blackwell, African-American and one of the GOP’s most promising politicians in Ohio, excused the parody [...]

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“We had become the bums”

January 6, 2009 – 7:36 am

While Barack Obama is putting the finishing touches on his Inaugural Address, the candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee are discussing how to rescue the Republican Party.
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank quotes RNC candidate Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, “You have Republicans scratching their head, going: ‘Who are we? What do [...]

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The Inaugural: Obama’s Balancing Act

January 4, 2009 – 6:03 pm

In a State of the Union address the president can set out the details of his new federal policy on widgets and waterworks. In the Inaugural Address, however, Barack Obama will need to be as much of a poet as his friend, Elizabeth Alexander, a prize-winning poet who will read the celebratory poem.
The new [...]

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The Aplomb of Anne Applebaum

January 3, 2009 – 5:03 pm

In a world of tepid editorial pages, The Washington Post remains a standout. Its writers are truly diverse, incisive and smarter about policy than the readers who actually make it. If we took economic advice from Robert Samuelson, legal and constitutional advice from George Will, and let Charles Krauthammer direct U.S. foreign policy, [...]

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