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Moynihan Myths   Moynihan Myth 1: "Scholastic" Means "Smart" Mia TMarch 26, 2003 Flip-flopping aside, Daniel Patrick Moynihan's scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning justifying his vote not to impeach and remove bill clinton reveals more about the hog-and-bow-tied senator and his party than about the Constitution of the United States. It had long been rumored that Sen. Moynihan was the Democratic Party's mind. A complete absence of the construct failed for decades to disabuse us of this notion. This apparent incongruity only widened in the '90s. Under the tutelage of the clintons, "Democratic Party mind " quickly devolved from...

Don't cry for me agnomina...   GUESS YOU HAVEN'T come such a long way, baby. Teresa Heinz -- the wife of Massachusetts senator and (not coincidentally) would-be president John F. Kerry -- has said that she will begin using her husband's last name and will henceforth be known as Teresa Heinz Kerry. Mrs. Heinz Kerry (Mrs. Kerry? Ms. Kerry?), nee Teresa Simoes-Ferreira, was previously married to John Heinz, the late senator from Pennsylvania and heir to the ketchup fortune. Famously outspoken and independent, she had announced on marrying Mr. Kerry in 1995 that she planned to stick to the Heinz...

CLINTON INEPTITUDE, RAGE, DYSFUNCTION BECOME APPARENT ON SENATE FLOOR (The CLINTON recession / the CLINTON debacle incarnate: 9/11) Mrs. CLINTON. [snip] we went back to our last recession under the previous President Bush. We thought that would be a good model as to what was done five times to extend unemployment insurance benefits.  [snip] If it was in some way misguided to rely upon the first Bush administration's extension of unemployment insurance, then we are going to say we did the best we could to look at what had been effective and worked in the past. Mr. NICKLES. So...