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Howard Coble, R-N.C.; Rep.

Howard Coble is a Republican serving in the house of representatives from North Carolina

Howard Coble is a democratic legislator serving in the senate.

These crooks we're up against would as soon croak a girl as a man any day."

There are bad people we are up against.

There were no crooks and everyone lived happily ever after.

Afterward, the Republicans were obliged to defend the proposed cuts on their individual merits, an argument which the Democrats generally carried.

Republicans had to defend the cuts.

The Republicans didn't worry about what the voters thought.

Republicans hope to attract black voters with the issue.

Republicans expect to draw in black voter with the issue.

Republicans look forward to losing black voters because of the issue.

After the Civil War, high-minded liberal Republicans walked out on their partners, the sleazy Stalwarts.

The Republicans split with the Stalwarts after the Civil War.

The Republicans remained close to the Stalwarts following the war.

Conservatives are heartened, though a few winced at his boast that Republican ideas are carrying the day--in Mongolia.

He boasted that Republican ideas are popular in Mongolia.

Mongolia is becoming increasingly non-political in all ways.

The GOP's identity crisis over engagement is almost comic.

It was kinda funny what was going on with the GOP.

They had a good laugh at themselves.

that after all they're only people too in that they're subject to corruption just like any other human being and they do have a lot of power

They do have a lot of power, but they're subject to corruption just like any human being.

They're incorruptible because they have a lot of power.

Republican strategists will make Democrats carry that burden into the elections.

Republican strategists will push that burden onto the Democrats.

The Democrats will be pushing that burden onto the Republicans.

Resisting empty populism doesn't have to mean a haughty elitism.

Resisting no populism doesn't mean elitism.

Elitism is based on resisting empty populism.

well Stephanie what's your position on gun control

What do you think about gun control, Stephanie?

I don't care what you think about gun control, Stephanie.

yeah yeah there's uh a lot of extremes on the parties too with the you know the real uh far side of the Democrats they're real liberal now to where probably fifty or a hundred years ago um the Democrat party being liberal like they are now you know would never be thought of it would be the other way that the Republicans were real liberal minded as far as like uh moral standings and those kinds of things

There are extremes for both political parties.

The parties are so much alike that it is scary.

that's right but but it's the thought they all got out but you wonder if you know if if now the next election they have if only half of them are actually going to show up or how many generations it will take until only half of the voters show up in Russia

You wonder if only half of them will show up for the next elections.

They never go out to vote, and you wonder when half of them will go out to vote.

How much better, then--so much cleaner and more satisfying--is the Republican solution.

The Republic solution is hands down the better solution.

The Republican solution is not good at all.

the pressure that lobbyists can put

Lobbyists can put on pressure.

Lobbyists have no power.

And, in spite of everything we've done to discredit the Government in their eyes, I'm not sure that they haven't got a sneaking faith and belief in it."

We have done a lot to discredit the Government in their eyes.

We think the government should be congratulated for their honesty.

The personal rancor fomented by impeachment blocks bipartisan cooperation.

Bipartisan cooperation is adversely impacted by personal rancor during impeachment

Personal rancor caused by impeachment assists bipartisan cooperation

But they're sick of the whole business, want it to end, don't want the Senate or the party damaged by it, and don't want to talk about it.

They do not want to have anything to do with the business or Senate anymore.

They stayed true to the senate and kept the business going.

The notion that millions of union members are being forced against their will to help finance this union campaign is simply a Republican fantasy.

Republicans seem to think union members are being forced to help finance this campaign.

Union members really are being forced to finance this union campaign.

And they don't calm civil libertarians, who fear the FISA Court is a mere rubber stamp for executive power.

Civil libertarians are afraid of the FISA court.

Civil libertarians are not afraid of the FISA court.

This all-purpose Republican frame posits that the Senate is Clinton's jury and should behave accordingly.

The republicans are saying that the Senate has to look out for Clinton

The Democrats are saying the Clinton is a republican

Those who embrace all these philosophies at once--Bill Clinton comes to mind--have about them at least a mild air of intellectual schizophrenia.

Bill embraces multiple philosophies at the same time.

Bill Clinton, on the other hand, embraces only one philosophy at a time.

A similarly pragmatic spirit beckons on the conservative side.

There is at least one pragmatic spirit that beckons on the conservative side.

Pragmatic spirits never beckon on the conservative side.

But the current coalition of opposition groups is too factious to stage a coup.

The insubordinate nature of the opposition groups makes them possibly be able to stage a coup.

The opposing groups are in accordant with the current system in power.

Religious conservatives complain that the GOP has ignored their causes.

Religious conservatives believe the GOP ignores their causes.

Republicans have a large religious group of followers.

It corrodes every politician except John McCain.

McCain has been untouched.

McCain was corroded by it.

Some analysts think Senate Republicans alienated conservative voters by giving up on tax cuts and caving in to Clinton in the budget negotiations.

Senate Republicans gave in to Clinton's negotiations, alienating conservatives.

Senate Republicans bested Clinton in budget negotiations.

They would eliminate senatorial holds.

They would get rid of senatorial holds.

They would add congressional holds.

The gloomy liberal Even in San Francisco, a true liberal can't win.

Even in San Francisco, a true liberal can't win.

San Francisco is the conservative capitol of America.

Once you exclude fringe elements on both sides--Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, basically--both Democrats and Republicans accept the reality of NAFTA and the WTO even as they argue about whether these bodies should include environmental and labor laws, a la the EU.

Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan represent democrats and republicans with extreme views.

Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan are planning to run on the same ticket in 2018.

And that's just the stuff they've thought of so far . McCain-Feingold may be a bill with nine lives.

McCain-Feingold is being revised.

McCain-Feingold was dead.

So if union members do vote Republican, why don't more of them opt out of soft-money spending on ads that, implicitly at least, criticize Republican candidates?

Union members vote for Republican candidates.

Union members vote for Democrats.

In a rational world, the Republicans who decry the anti-tobacco campaign as another appendage of the nanny state would see through the PDFA campaign and reiterate their belief that Americans can be trusted to make informed choices.

In a reasonable world, the GOP members would see through the PDFA campaign.

The GOP members could never understand anything, even in a rational world.

uh even though i am a member of the NRA and they are against they their reason being that well if you let one little law get through pretty soon one's going to stack up on top of another and so forth and so on

I have a membership card to the National Rifle Association.

I am a member of the CIA and they are against torture.

Some want to paint Democrats as soft on defense.

Some want others to think Democrats are soft on defense.

Democrats are always hard on defense.

and i you know nobody says because you're supporting the troops that you're you're supporting the war you you have to support the people that are there

You do not have to support the war to support the troops.

Everybody likes the war.

The truth is that most Republican leaders don't actually take their alleged position on abortion seriously.

Most Republican leaders don't care much about abortion.

Most Republican leaders care more about abortion than anything.

well something's going to have to change but you look at the Congress and you look how many of them get reelected and they're the one's that have got to make the changes i mean i don't see anything changing because you've got the same old people in there

You always have the same old people elected into congress.

There is no one old left in congress.

In the Washington Post , Archer accuses Democrats of supporting big government on autopilot and argues that the cuts epitomize compassionate conservatism.

Some people think that all Democrats want the largest government possible.

Everybody knows that compassionate conservatism is all about increasing government spending.

A major Republican talking point was that contribution limits are an offense against freedom of speech.

The Republicans claimed that the limits were against their freedom of speech.

The Republicans agreed that the contributions needed to have a limit.

A related piece, based on polls, says that Americans back gay rights in theory but dislike public displays of gay affection.

Polls indicated that American support gay rights, but don't like gay people to display affection publicly.

Polls said that Americans do not support gay rights in any way, shape or form.

They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.

They host terrorist groups, yet get upset when they commit terrorist acts.

They have nothing to do with terrorist groups.

People holding pink signs that spell out, "Impeach".

people protesting

people sleeping

Three democrat supporters hold signs for an election.

People are holding signs.

At the election debate, several police officers are trying to break up fights between the republicans and democrats

However, without a majority, the communists were forced to form a coalition government, and in fact elections since 1994 have repeatedly ended in coalition governments being formed.

Coalition governments in Nepal are often formed because the Communist Party does not have sufficient power to take over.

However, with a majority, the communists fully took over the government.

It is popularly supposed (particularly by people who live in them) that democracies are good, while various forms of despotism are bad.

Democracies are good and despotism is bad

Despotism is good and democracy is bad

they don't know how to sit there and look at the interest rate and say well this one is only sixteen percent and this one's twenty two hum

They don't know how to tell the difference between interest rates.

They are experts in determining interest rates.

The PKK has murdered Turks who teach Kurdish children, Kurds who side with the Turks, and thousands of Turkish soldiers.

A lot of Turks have been murdered by PKK.

No Turks have been murdered by PKK.

This suppression has helped legitimize the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) , a quasi-Marxist guerrilla group that champions Kurdish autonomy.

The PKK is a guerrilla group that champions Kurdish autonomy.

The PKK is woman's knitting circle.

There is more to Christianity than the Christian right--both Roman Catholic and evangelical/fundamentalist.

Christianity is about more than just the Christian right.

Christianity is entirely situated on the rightward end of the political spectrum.

Now that the Communist totalitarians have been replaced by nominal democrats, murderous hatreds and regional conflicts have re-emerged.

Communist totalitarians have gone away.

They have been replaced by nominal republicans.

that's a that's an interesting thought that they're headed to be a socialist and they're headed to be democratic and maybe we're capitalist and maybe the two will meet in the middle and and and agree i i don't know

They are becoming socialist and they are headed to become democratic.

They are undeniably communist and will never change.

It's been a bad month for Communists, with election defeats in Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Romania, on top of prior losses in Russia and the Czech Republic.

It's been a tough month for Communists, with defeats in many countries.

The communist party has enjoyed a large spike in wins lately.

In the 1930s, extreme right-wing groups such as Action Fran?­caise and Croix-de-Feu (Cross of Fire) provided a strong anti?­democratic undercurrent to the political turmoil of financial scandal and parliamentary corruption.

In the 1930s there was a clash between extreme right-wing groups and other political groups.

The extreme right-wing groups were happy to keep to themselves.

yeah see so many of them have gotten a taste of of democracy and

Many have got the taste of democracy.

They had a taste of Fascism.

yeah yeah a lot of their their civil problems where they've got their uh Baltic states rising against the the uh the leadership in in the Russian state

Baltic states are now fighting for freedom against the Russian state.

Their civil problems hasn't caused any opposition yet.

Cuban-Americans have traditionally voted solidly Republican.

Cuban-Americans have usually voted Republican.

Cuban-Americans have no tradition of voting Republican.

Indeed, far from being a cohesive group, the oligarchs have engaged in bitter business and political struggles (which, in Russia, are the same thing).

The oligarchs have engaged in political struggles.

Political struggles were something that the oligarchs never got involved in.

The West Bank is in political limbo.

West bank is in political limbo.

The west bank's future is certain.

[w]hether they call themselves socialist or not.

The members may call themselves socialist.

They call themselves nationalist capitalists and despise socialists.

The hypocrisy buster?

Is it the hypocrisy buster?

It will not bust the hypocrisy.

Even if Republicans decide later that they don't actually forgive and forget, it may be too late.

It may be too late for Republicans to realise they don't forgive and forget.

It's never too late for Republicans to forgive and forget.

With those words, the Republican front-runner takes a bold stand against taking bold stands.

The Republican stands against taking bold stands.

The republican remained silent.

It's easy to call this gullibility and incompetence, and that's exactly what Republicans are A chorus on the right, including Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and Larry Klayman, is demanding her resignation.

Republicans, from Trent Lott to the Wall Street Journal editorial, are saying that it's incompetence.

Republicans have rallied to defend her, saying that she has demonstrated competence and shrewdness.

They try to see her as less of a Republican.

They try to see her views differently.

THey don't think of her at all.

This Democratic rebuttal shatters the jury frame and diverts scrutiny from the defendant to the prosecution.

The Democratic rebuttal caused people to focus more on the prosecution than the defendant.

The Democrats' rebuttal drew criticism of the defendant.

Ventura is a libertarian on social issues.

Ventura is a libertarian.

Ventura is solely a statician.

Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical.

The Americans are able to be skeptical.

They were not allowed to be skeptical.

They don't understand that they've lost that fight and that Bush is willing to repudiate the fight and everyone in it--including them--in order to ruin Gore's strategy and beat him.

Bush is willing to ruin Gore's strategy in the upcoming election.

Gore's strategy cannot be beaten, he is a tactical genius.

Connecticut Democrats who voted for Joe Lieberman over the liberal Republican Lowell Weicker have every right to feel betrayed when Lieberman deserts a Democratic president in a partisan fight.

Connecticut Democrats that voted for Lieberman should feel betrayed.

There were no voters in Connecticut that voted for Lieberman.

At a time when Americans are growing increasingly cynical about public service and increasingly disillusioned about their political leaders, McCain charged Saturday, I was disappointed to see my fellow Republicans' reaction to recent comments and writings by Pat Buchanan concerning our nation's role in defeating Nazi Germany.

With the new political statements, there is an increase in cynicism across the country.

Every political leader has a stance which is not disillusioned.

McCain is a contrarian, someone whose life is defined by lonely opposition.

McCain is a person whose life is determined by lonely enemies.

McCain is a person who lives solely for donuts.

The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras.

The impeachment hearings continued on.

All Republicans loved the impeachment hearings.

McCain is often praised as an independent legislator, but no one ever points out that he's a rather ineffective one.

McCain is very ineffective.

McCain is very effective.

But if Republicans push the impeachment inquiry to the point of antagonizing and mobilizing Democratic voters, the GOP's low-turnout strategy will be ruined.

The GOP depends on Democrats to not show up to vote.

The GOP has low voter turn out.

Two days later, on Fox News Sunday , Gigot still has no answer, asking, Is this a Republican or Democratic Congress?

Gigot reports on Fox News Sunday.

Gigot reports on Fox News Sunday, "this is definitely a Republican Congress."

Weld, however, maintains the fight is about the party's soul, even as Republican moderates protest it isn't.

Weld says Republicans have to fight for the party's soul.

Weld says Democrats are fighting for the party's soul.

In the face of this opposition, Republicans played the molester card.

The Republicans retaliated to the opposition.

The Republicans did not respond to the opposition.

The Tight-Lipped Republicans are not to be confused with the Moderates , who may not vote for conviction.

Moderates may not vote for conviction which makes them different from Republicans.

Moderates and Republicans have exactly the same ideals.

The post-1960s Democratic Party has come close to making the same mistake.

The Democratic party made a mistake once.

The Democratic party has never made a mistake.

The case against the president should be strong enough to justify some members of his own party voting against him.

For members of the president's own party to vote against him, the case against him should be strong enough to justify such a vote.

Members of the president's own party need no justification to vote against him.

yeah opposing viewpoints there

They have a different viewpoint.

They agree on the issue.

Morris' commission alone amounts to more than all the money Democrats have had to give back to suspicious contributors.

Democrats had to give money back to shady contributors.

Democrats refunded nothing.

The DPs can barely open their mouths without savaging the president.

Everything the DPs say is a criticism of the president.

The DPs are always singing the praises of the president.

Even Republicans are susceptible to this spin.

Republicans are also vulnerable to believing this spin.

Republicans aren't susceptible to this spin.

This Republican rejoinder grants that the House impeachment process was politicized but argues that 1) the Senate should be above such tawdry politics

While the Republican response accepts that the impeachment was politicized, it says the Senate should be above that.

This Republican capitulation accepts that the impeachment was unfounded and that the Senate was not the place to air such dirty laundry.

And what are those reasons?

The reasons, what are they?

There are no reasons at all?

Conspiratorial conservatives have a tendency toward what Hofstadter called the imitation of the enemy.

I think conspiratorial conservatives are inclined to copy their opponents.

I think conspiratorial conservatives never imitate their enemies.

The Democratic senator opposed the Gulf War because Saddam Hussein is no Hitler, and the control of Kuwaiti oil was not a cause worth dying for.

The senator was a Democrat who did not support the Gulf War.

The Republican senator did not support the Gulf War because he didn't think Kuwait Oil was worth dying over.

But any hope that Democrats can capitalize on Starr's non-North performance dissolves immediately after lunch, when Democratic committee counsel Abbe Lowell questions Starr.

Abbe Lowell is the Democratic committee counsel.

Abbe Lowell is the Republican committee counsel.

But Ron Nehring, director of national campaigns for Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative group that's pushing paycheck protection very aggressively--and whose leader, Grover Norquist, has discussed the issue extensively with George W. Bush--says what McCain's for isn't really paycheck protection.

According to Ron Nehring, McCain doesn't really care about paycheck protection.

According to Ron Nehring, McCain is actually for paycheck protection.

McCain : Give the government back to you.

McCain : Return the government to you.

Take the government back.

Several Republicans in Congress said they would consider such pardons grounds for impeachment.

Some Republican congressmen discussed grounds for impeachment.

Congress has no power to impeach a president.

Some day there will be a Republican president again, and the Wall Street Journal will rediscover all its objections to independent prosecutors.

There will be a Republican president some day.

Neither party will ever have a president elected from their ranks again.

The GOP's Why the Republicans will save Clinton by destroying themselves.

The GOP's Why the Republicans will back fire.

Why the Republicans will utterly destroy Clinton.

Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.

Republicans are aware of sexual harassment as well.

Republicans have no recollection of any sexual harassment.

To beat the partisanship rap, several Republican leaders are invoking Democrats as their allies against Clinton.

Several Republican leaders are invoking Democrats as allies.

Republican leaders have never invoked Democrats as allies.

With the Republicans, they understood there would be no deviation from Nixon's policy of accommodation.

There will be no changing from Nixon's policy.

There will be changing from Nixon's policy. It has too many flaws.

(Republicans revel in quoting JFK to Democrats, and especially to the Kennedys now in the Senate and the House.)

Republicans like to quote JFK to Democrats.

Democrats are always quoting JFK to Republicans.

This is the sneakiest dodge and probably the most popular--especially among Republicans.

Republicans like to use that dodge.

Democrats like to use that dodge.