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The ruling party and opposition both are avoiding the major issues by using various crosscutting power-politics, and switching day by day the public commitments.
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Obama does, and we need a VP who also 'gets it' and who will support the president and his agenda 100%, not play power-politics behind his back.
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Peter Beinart's excellent article in the New York Review of Books shows how the party line of the traditional Jewish Establishment has driven away the younger generation: they don't believe in unmitigated power-politics; they are unwilling to adhere to party lines, and are profoundly disaffected with the endless harping on Jewish victimhood.
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The ruling party and opposition both are avoiding the major issues by using various crosscutting power-politics, and switching day by day the public commitments.
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The reason is that said efforts are taking place in the world of power-politics rather than the world of abstract logic.
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Rather than being the father of the power-politics of modernity, rejecting the idea of polity guided by virtue, the Machiavelli portrayed by Reeves and Leighton is quite different: Machiavelli is a, if not the, foundational figure for the current revival of civic republican political thought, spearheaded by the historian of ideas Quentin Skinner and the political philosopher Philip Pettit.
Redeeming Machiavelli - republic or patria? Burke's Corner 2009
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'Cause no matter what he says, the truth of the Rich pardon is obvious --- influence peddling & inside-the-Beltway power-politics.
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It challenges the thesis put forward by Reeves and Leighton not as conventionally understood, not in terms of a glorification of power-politics.
Redeeming Machiavelli - republic or patria? Burke's Corner 2009
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From a purely power-politics point of view: the left must have at least one or perhaps two Senators represent their view of killing the bill if they want to be taken seriously in the future.
FireDogLake Napalms ObamaCare - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009
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The reason is that said efforts are taking place in the world of power-politics rather than the world of abstract logic.
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