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Brigid

(17,621 posts) Wed Aug 1, 2012, 02:54 PM Aug 2012

Howell Raines: When Did the GOP Get So Whiny?

I think I like Howell Raines.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/01/opinion/raines-whining-republicans/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

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Howell Raines: When Did the GOP Get So Whiny? (Original Post) Brigid Aug 2012 OP

A long time ago Sherman A1 Aug 2012 #1

"Conservatives" were always the biggest whiners around Cary Aug 2012 #2

Must have missed it the first time around. Brigid Aug 2012 #3

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

1. A long time ago

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 02:59 PM

Aug 2012

in a galaxy far, far away.

Cary

(11,746 posts)

2. "Conservatives" were always the biggest whiners around

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 02:59 PM

Aug 2012

Do you remember this Paul Krugman classic?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02krugman.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

3. Must have missed it the first time around.

Reply to Cary (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 03:06 PM

Aug 2012

"But most of the whining takes the form of claims that the Bush administration’s failure was simply a matter of bad luck — either the bad luck of President Bush himself, who just happened to have disasters happen on his watch, or the bad luck of the G.O.P., which just happened to send the wrong man to the White House."

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