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LOYAL OPPOSITION

Why the Democrats will get trounced in 2002

By Doug Ireland

Five days before the bombing of Afghanistan began—in announcing the reopening of Washington to air traffic—George W. Bush declared, “This Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan airport.” It was of this president with the addled tongue whom Al Gore spoke when, deploying the drawl he turns on when trying to seem folksy, he hollered to… return to article

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