Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
GENE WEINGARTENAmerica is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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I think politics is everything.
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The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid – or at least unwise – but not necessarily racist.
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Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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