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Just to fill you in, it basically said that the [R] party would no longer be the refuge of true conservatism ..... there was much more money in cow-towing to the religeous right and other components of the rightwing underbelly of this nation.
Ex-homeland security chief denies attacking Rumsfeld, Ashcroft 2009
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If democrats were actually intelligent, they might stop cow-towing to these mafia goons.
Incoming AFL-CIO pres again draws the line on a public option 2009
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The practical question is how to get out of the ongoing gravitational pull of this awful recession without cow-towing to extremists on the right who think the U.S. government is their mortal enemy.
Robert Reich: President Obama's Real Proposal (and Why It's Risky) Robert Reich 2011
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The tighty whitey righties are always ragging on Obama for cow-towing to foreign heads of state, but then they turn around and accuse him of disrespecting Israel.
Mitchell in Israel; Netanyahu says 'no freeze' on construction 2010
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The practical question is how to get out of the ongoing gravitational pull of this awful recession without cow-towing to extremists on the right who think the U.S. government is their mortal enemy.
Robert Reich: President Obama's Real Proposal (and Why It's Risky) Robert Reich 2011
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Lets make real change in Washington and elect a President who is really, trully above the cow-towing and financial leverage.
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If that involves cow-towing to the Catholic church's objection to a ten-second sequence in an artist's video in a museum exhibition, so be it.
Peter Clothier: Censorship: Coast to Coast Peter Clothier 2010
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If that involves cow-towing to the Catholic church's objection to a ten-second sequence in an artist's video in a museum exhibition, so be it.
Peter Clothier: Censorship: Coast to Coast Peter Clothier 2010
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Democrats could not get away with cow-towing with lobbyists.
Bill Shireman: After Massachusetts, Hope Finally Has a Chance 2010
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Growing newer, bigger, more expensive new programs; screwing around with our security interests (Ghandian Foreign Policy), and cow-towing to every social special interest know to human history-sure isn't going to help the average American who's working hard everyday (sometimes two jobs) and still can't seem to keep up with rampant taxes and costs of daily living needs.
Obama uses Daschle to make blue-collar pitch in new SD spot 2008
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