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More tea, anyone?
The opening day account on Fox News sounded a suitably defensive note. “Don’t let anyone tell you this is not a big deal,” reporter Carl Cameron said. “If this gathering is unimportant and this movement is a mirage, why are its detractors so upset and its participants so upbeat?”
Palin’s convention
In Saint Paul, men wore Ronald Reagan t-shirts declaring “my heroes have always been cowboys.” The image of a young John McCain standing in front of his jet fighter was a distilled manifesto.
Daschle embarrasses Obama
After a week in which his legislative agenda came under sustained attack from both sides, the President will be content to see his stimulus bill scrape through, diminished and shop-worn, by the narrowest possible margin.
© 2010 Andrew Purcell. 