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The knowing, conventional-wisdom, inside-the-beltway types, together with bored, cynical outside-the beltway types, are already shrugging about the election.
De-escalator claws Tom Toles 2010
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It's a certainty in Washington that lobbyist talking points and inside-the-beltway speeches are going to be overblown and exaggerated.
Lisa P. Jackson: Telling the Truth About the Environment and Our Economy Lisa P. Jackson 2011
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Virtually every city, county, and state is in economic crisis led by Texas and California, but that seems irrelevant to those trapped by inside-the-beltway groupthink.
George Mitrovich: Liberalism's Uncertain Fate George Mitrovich 2011
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Palin is marketing herself as the outsider, so to me, this would look like another inside-the-beltway kind of action where principle is sacrificed just to get another person with and “R” next to their name.
Ah, former Governor Palin? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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Installing hacks in career jobs (“burrowing in” is the inside-the-beltway term for it) as political payback is and should be illegal.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up — Sestak Edition 2010
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Virtually every city, county, and state is in economic crisis led by Texas and California, but that seems irrelevant to those trapped by inside-the-beltway groupthink.
George Mitrovich: Liberalism's Uncertain Fate George Mitrovich 2011
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Virtually every city, county, and state is in economic crisis led by Texas and California, but that seems irrelevant to those trapped by inside-the-beltway groupthink.
George Mitrovich: Liberalism's Uncertain Fate George Mitrovich 2011
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But so far, the president has failed to challenge the inside-the-beltway narrative of debt and deficit "crisis," or lay out a vision of a government working for the common good.
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Virtually every city, county, and state is in economic crisis led by Texas and California, but that seems irrelevant to those trapped by inside-the-beltway groupthink.
George Mitrovich: Liberalism's Uncertain Fate George Mitrovich 2011
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Tell me, if these mavens of inside-the-beltway inter-connectivity who sometimes even had personal access to Teh Won could not tell what kind of person he was, why do they have jobs writing about current events?
These ‘I regret my 2008 vote’ pieces are going to be excruciating… | RedState 2010
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