Rice Warns GOP Against U.N. Spending Cuts
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 11th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Rice Warns GOP Against U.N. Spending Cuts
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Jim Webb: The last Jacksonian Democrat
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Much of the focus on Sen. Jim Webb's retirement will be on how this might make the Democrats' already hard job of holding their Senate majority even more difficult. But more important than a single Virginia Senate seat is that Webb was one of a kind. He was not only a Reagan Democrat who became a Republican and then came back. He was also a self-described Jacksonian Democrat. Democrats often speak at Jefferson-Jackson day dinners and mention Old Hickory, but it's hard to think of any of them being as steeped as Webb was in what it meant to be a follower of Andrew Jackson….
