Defunders of Liberty - THOMAS FRANK - Hurting the Left & John Tierney +

GUEST COLUMNIST
Defunders of Liberty
By THOMAS FRANK
Published: August 29, 2006


Before he became K Street’s most enterprising racketeer, Jack Abramoff was best known as a sort of young Robespierre of the Reagan Revolution. In 1983, as chairman of the College Republicans, he declared that he and his minions did not “seek peaceful coexistence with the left. Our job is to remove them from power permanently.”

By all accounts, Abramoff carried out this mission with a Ramboesque single-mindedness. A ferocious latter-day red-baiter, he seems to have encountered Communists everywhere he went in early-80’s America, fighting them (literally, with his fists) on campus, detecting their influence in the nuclear freeze movement, scheming to checkmate students worried about El Salvador by calling attention to the crimes of “their beloved Soviet Union.” As a reward he got his handsome mug on the cover of the John Birch Society’s Review of the News.
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Genius Bush delays federal payments 'till Oct. when they'll count as part of a different fiscal year
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Celebrating Irrelevancy - Cindy Sheehan
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On YouTube, Whistleblower Outs Coast Guard
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NY Times: Blistering Drought Ravages Farmland on Plains
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Rumsfeld says he's ready for another war
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OP-ED COLUMNIST
South Park Refugees
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: August 29, 2006


I have bad news for the G.O.P. regarding that promising new bloc of voters, the South Park Republicans. It turns out they’re not Republicans, at least not anymore.
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