08/02/2026 02:21

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I said the Republicans’ budget reminded me of the story of a politician who wanted to ask a farmer to vote for him but was reluctant to come into his yard because a barking dog was there. made to discredit me by wealthy right-wingers with ties to Newt Gingrich and some adversaries of mine in Arkansas. ” The budget was their dog. So did Stan Greenberg, Mandy Grunwald, and Paul Begala, who weren’t part of the meetings and were afraid I was sacrificing everything I b

At each stop, he would list all of America’s problems and say, “Everything that should be down is up, and everything that should be up is down. On the thirteenth, my nominee for attorney general, Zoë Baird, got into hot water when it came out t There was a great deal of activity in the rest of the world in May. I didn’t mind taking Congress on, but I had to consider the consequences of any action that could make it even harder to