Latest articles by Jon Frandsen
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Republicans Just Don't Get It
Politics There are reasons why Congressional Republicans are in the mess they are in, but so far, the response from understandably panicked GOP officeholders betrays little evidence of understanding what's gone wrong.
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Pols Tripping All Over Themselves on Way to Bank
Politics Those loud noises you're hearing from Washington? They're often the sound of politicians and consultants swooshing through the revolving door between the public and private sectors -- or the occasional splat they make when a conflict of interest is so particularly grotesque that it trips them up. Pollster Mark Penn, forced to quit Hillary Clinton's campaign after meeting with a client whose position on a political issue was diametrically opposed to hers, is just the most recent example. Penn ran into trouble by meeting with a member of the government of Columbia-- a client of Penn's public relations firm -- about a trade pact that Clinton opposed.
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Democrats Need to Quit the Hand-wringing
Politics As we noted earlier this week, it's a waste of time and effort to try pressuring Hillary Clinton to get out of the race.
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Turning Off the Money Spigot
Politics It was only a three-paragraph statement by a head of an industry trade group and it could easily have gone unnoticed. But this was a challenge to The Way Things Are Done.
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Is There a Republican Dream Ticket?
Politics Mark Willen suggested the possibilities of a Clinton-Obama ticket.
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