tweedledum

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Even so, architects will doubtless recapture, and more than recapture, their imperiled prestige, but under what changed conditions, and with what an altered attitude toward their art and their craft They will find that they must unlearn certain things the schools had taught them: preoccupation with the relative merits of Gothic and Classic--tweedledum and tweedledee.

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  • They want him to fail but that is not happening. tweedledum on April 3, 2009 at 12: 47 PM —  Hot Air » Top Picks
  • I'm not a fan of the Electoral College, either .. and I think that the entire system of primaries and our national system of voting needs to be revamped. well, we don't have a real choice, do we? tweedledee or tweedledum ... ubercapitalist or capitalist-lite? —  ImpeachBush
  • The old tweedle-dee, tweedledum idea that they are just the same belongs in that proverbial "dustbin of history." —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
  • Yes, folks, W.A.P. and its predecessor are two peas in a pod, birds of a feather, tweedledee and tweedledum … pick your euphemism, and then pick your nose. —  Rock Sellout
  • But none of this really makes any sense unless you are finally willing to accept what is obvious: that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party really are tweedldee and tweedledum when it comes down to fundamental economic and foregn policy. —  The New Republic - All Feed
 

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