Marshall Wittmann
Marshall Wittmann
Marshall Wittmann is an American pundit, author, and sometime political activist. On November 22, 2006, he was hired to be the communications director and spokesman for Senator Joe Lieberman. Wittmann is a former senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council. In 2012, he became the chief spokesman for AIPAC...
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They looked into the abyss and saw this whole thing falling apart and realized they needed to get something done over a serious issue. It was a rare moment of government at its best, and it's not clear how long it will last.
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It's a unique Washington story. Usually you rise, you fall and then you become a lucrative lobbyist. Here's a case where he rose, he fell and he stuck it out in the institution.
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Congress has become a playground sandbox with no adult supervision.
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There were about a dozen of us wanting to stop this or that Clinton plan. When the Mariana Islands came up, I wondered how did this become a conservative issue?
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This is radioactive. This is the issue that dare not speak its name.
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Thanks to Gingrich, 1994 was that rare moment when the opposition party actually had developed alternative ideas about how to govern.
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If Fitzgerald comes down with something that strikes the White House, all bets are off with conservatism. It's the post-Bush era.
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The groups want certain questions asked of Roberts to lay a predicate for future nominees. Unless there's a revelation we can't fathom, this will be the meat of the hearings.