Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid -
Think about thinking.
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Monday, 30 October 2017
quote [ The former House speaker feels liberated, but he's also seething about what happened to his party. ]
A sympathetic look at a horrible man.
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Kama-Kiri said @ 11:41am GMT on 30th October
Thoroughly good read. Thanks!
Kama-Kiri said @ 1:43am GMT on 31st October
Thoroughly good read. Good writing of that caliber is harder and harder to come by these days.
Beohner ... is far from horrible. A technocrat and a deal-maker, he had what amounted to an impossible job. Personally I blame Gingrich for most of the mess. Boehner's contribution to the downward spiral was largely a well-intentioned mistake: getting rid of earmarks. Maybe a more skillful leader could have broken the tea party on the rocks of its own ambition and brought everyone into line, but I doubt it.
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Kama-Kiri said @ 11:41am GMT on 30th October
Thoroughly good read. Good writing of that caliber is harder and harder to come by these days.
Beohner ... is far from horrible. A technocrat and a deal-maker, he had what amounted to an impossible job. Personally I blame Gingrich for most of the mess. Boehner's contribution to the downward spiral was largely a well-intentioned mistake: getting rid of earmarks. Maybe a more skillful leader could have broken the tea party on the rocks of its own ambition and brought everyone into line, but I doubt it.
