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Choose Your Cone

By Paul Chesser on 1.29.10 @ 1:44PM

Out of the ubiquitous analysis of the State of the Union speech is this from Rep. Kevin Brady, Texas Republican, as reported by the Washington Examiner.

Out of the ubiquitous analysis of the State of the Union speech is this from Rep. Kevin Brady, Texas Republican, as reported by the Washington Examiner:

[Brady]…said Obama’s White House feels out of step with national priorities and moods.

“I do think there is a disconnect,” Brady said. “It’s almost like the White House has the Cone of Silence from ‘Get Smart,’ where nothing is getting through.”

Really? Cone of silence?

Or this?

topics:
Barack Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, State of the Union

About the Author

Paul Chesser is executive director for the American Tradition Institute and a senior fellow for the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives. The views he expresses do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.

http://spectator.org/blog/2010/01/29/choose-your-cone

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