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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 19, 2005

McCain calls for quicker digital TV transition

I've looked all over, but I seem to have misplaced the section in my copy of the US Constitution that grants Congress the power to regulate any of this. Maybe it's somewhere in the vicinity of the section that grants them the power to regulate major league sports.

It is genuinely frightening to contemplate that someone who openly disdains the foundations of our government and our nation could be seriously considered as a future White House occupant. Oh wait, that already happened. We already turned aside John Kerry and Al Gore. Hope springs eternal that Americans are still smart enough to do the same with McCain.

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