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...These truths are self-evident, but we still try to keep up appearances. It's bad for business to admit you are a pinhead, even if the polls clearly show that the American people have not been fooled. So each year, nearly three thousand Beltway tribe members and their guests gather at the Washington Hilton, the place where Ronald Reagan got shot, to dine with the current President of the United States and pretend for a night that we actually belong to a cool crowd, a hip scene, an exclusive network of movers and shakers that everyone wants to join...
...picked up: "You've just dropped the Ashes, wingnut." It was spur of the moment. Ricky agreed it was harsh but true. At a press conference he basically said I was a dinosaur and not a team player. Well, he's from Tasmania. And as Shane says, a real pinhead, or two. One word Punter, my ex-friend: Edgbaston...
...column "A New Idea for Democrats: Democracy" [April 11], Joe Klein described the right of the Senate minority to filibuster as "a matter of process rather than substance, a pinhead of a principle most civilians find difficult to understand." I was appalled by that statement because protection of minority rights is at the heart of the U.S. Constitution, purposely put there by the Founding Fathers. I am not too stupid to see the danger of one-party rule, regardless of the party. It's ironic that the U.S. is trying to protect minority rights in the new Iraqi government while...
...Republican effort to eliminate minority filibuster rights and jam through seven federal judges proposed by the President. The fight may be winnable, but it is a culture of law cul-de-sac. The Democrats will be shutting down the Senate over a matter of process rather than substance, a pinhead of principle most civilians will find difficult to understand. The Armageddon of confirmation battles-over the next Supreme Court Justice-will probably follow soon after, and it may cement a public impression of the Democrats as a party obsessed with the legal processes that preserve the status quo on issues...
...Zippy the Pinhead" appears in smart newspapers. "Zippy Annual 2001" can be found at smart comic book stores and regular bookstores...