Annals of Party Polarization

by John Sides on September 26, 2009 · 2 comments

in Legislative Politics

You have no idea what you’re asking me to do. It takes me forty-eight hours to get the Republicans to flush the toilet.

Harry Reid, on Sept. 17, 2008, in the meeting where Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke first asked Congressional leaders for “several hundred billion dollars” to buy toxic bank assets.

From James Stewart’s fascinating account in The New Yorker.

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wagonjak September 27, 2009 at 3:35 pm

Why have a link when only subscribers can read the story you are relating?

MH September 28, 2009 at 10:10 am

Republican envirnomentalists? If it’s yellow…

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