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...Speakers - most notably Democrat Tip O'Neill, whose intraparty bouts with Jimmy Carter were legendary - have squandered similarly powerful party perches when they've turned on the Executive Branch. "All marriages have ups and downs, but Obama will ultimately win. He is President with significant political capital," says James Thurber, founder of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. "And he must build cross-party support, something Pelosi does not excel...
...decision was good for the country, they personally will have a tough time forgiving him. That lingering resentment should help guarantee Lieberman's cooperation. "It is the iron law of reciprocity. He will remember and help those who helped him at a critical time in the future," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. "It is politically smart. The President and the Democrats will need him in the future. It is part of building bipartisanship and political capital...
...they lose 10-15 seats, they will certainly be looking for new leadership, and that will create an internal battle within the party for the soul of the party," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. But with an unpopular lame-duck President, an even more unpopular Republican Party in Congress and a leadership vacuum at the top of the House, that soul search could be a very painful experience...
...probably tells us something that the resistance often comes not from the kids but from Mom and Dad. Parents have been known to pack off their children with two cell phones, so they can hand over one and still be able to sneak off and call. Camp expert Christopher Thurber reports that parents grill directors about why they can't watch their kids' activities from a webcam or reach them by BlackBerry. Services like CampMinder and Bunk1.com do let camps post news and pictures to "help our families to feel as if they are with us at camp...
Sexual come-ons are a classic example. "Would you like to come up and see my etchings?" has been recognized as a double entendre for so long that by 1939, James Thurber could draw a cartoon of a hapless man in an apartment lobby saying to his date, "You wait here, and I'll bring the etchings down...