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The Magistrate

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9. What Is This Goose-Cackle About His Conscience, Sir?

Wed May 31, 2023, 04:55 PM

May 2023

I expect McConnell will whip up a vote to replace the man's indulgence in moral pretension.

Politics is not a stage on which one displays virtue to an admiring audience: it is the business of deciding who tells whom to do what.

No one reaches the rank of Senator with a functioning conscience....

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