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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.

Friday, April 14, 2006

RE: Reading Comprehension 101

Apparently, Tucker has some comprehension problems with the phrase "Taxachussetts of the South." Most of us with even the most perfunctory reading comprehension skills will understand that the phrase in no way makes a quantitative comparison of North Carolina's tax rate to that of Massachussets. In fact, it doesn't make a quantitative assertion on anything.

So, a question: what were you insinuating? I guess we can assume that "North Carolina is well on its way to being the Taxachussetts of the South anyway" is simple political rhetoric? Hey, at least Tucker tried to give your statement some actual meaning; it sounds like you — in retrospect — would prefer that it mean nothing.

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