Bowing to pressure from some parents in the district, the superintendent of schools in Fergus Falls is directing teachers not to show President Obama’s live “Back to School” speech to students next week. But while some call the speech unprecedented, in 1991 the roles were reversed: a Republican president was blasted by Democrats for the same type of address to students.
Has Dave Durenberger gone politically tone-deaf? The former Republican senator-turned-health-care blogger started off his scoop about another new gig for Norm Coleman with two scandal-tinged words that Coleman thought he’d put behind him: “Texas money.”
Maureen Dowd’s column in the Sunday New York Times linked two Republican shopping trips. The first, a 1991 George H.W. Bush photo-op run to the mall, was intentionally symbolic, meant to inspire Americans to repress their tightwad instincts during the early-’90s recession. The other — recent high-fashion expenditures by the Republican National Committee on behalf of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family — only became symbolic by accident. Dowd then moved on (so much to mock, so little time) without fully exploiting the delicious details of this political parallel.
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