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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Family Squabbles (Harriet Miers was just the spark that lit the fuse.)

by Edward Morrissey
the daily Standard


The conservative base has competing interests and the avoidance of internal debate in recent years may have created a dangerous reserve of resentment that needed only one spark to explode. Perhaps in the future, members of the Republican coalition should have their healthy disagreements as they go.

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