The collapse of Bushism is all the more remarkable for the veneer of invincibility in which it once cloaked itself, and the fear and timidity it once inspired in Democrats.
Terence Samuel
Terence Samuel is a Prospect senior correspondent and the author of The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Senate, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Follow him on Twitter.
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Summertime, and Living in DC Is Easy
An ode to the beauty and contradictions of our nation’s capital in the dog days of August. (Seriously.)
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All They Are Saying Is Give Petraeus a Chance
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Unmaking the McCain Myth
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