I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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