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Old 07-14-2011, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by crs82 View Post
I think the general tone is still the same. Politicians just feel the need to be always "on" since a minute doesn't go by without a microphone being stuck in their gob...and they, of course, feel the need to talk into it.
I interned in D.C. and the left still had drinks with the right after the day's work was done.
I'm not so sure. I wasn't paying as much attention then, but before the advent of the 24-hour news channels, there didn't seem to be the same level of vitriol. Well, same level in some cases, maybe, but not the same frequency, perhaps? Maybe I'm way off, though.
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