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It wasn't just her surprisingly aggressive and tellingly vague claims that Coons is a Boss Tweed-style cronyist, or her dismissive, mocking laughter during Coons's answers, or her frequent interruptions.
Christine O'Donnell is just...wow... [updated] Stephen Stromberg 2010
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Then they would propose a huge spending plan to get the equipment they “need,” and then try to get the contratcs for their cronyist buddies.
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First with the Arab League fiasco and his cronyist policies, labelling any solidarity with Palestinians as anti-semitism, and now this whole George Galloway further repression of freedom of speech.
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And is it not about time that this shabby, dissembling Prime Minister of ours be brought to book for presiding over as this grubby, rampantly cronyist, mutual back-scratching set-up?
Archive 2008-02-24 2008
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And is it not about time that this shabby, dissembling Prime Minister of ours be brought to book for presiding over as this grubby, rampantly cronyist, mutual back-scratching set-up?
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This is such a shameful and blatant piece of cronyist jobs-for-the-boys appointment that it frankly beggars belief.
Cronies Ahoy! 2007
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This is such a shameful and blatant piece of cronyist jobs-for-the-boys appointment that it frankly beggars belief.
Archive 2007-08-12 2007
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Witty1's Wasilla insider point of view sent chills down my spine ... on a smaller scale, she practiced the cronyist evisceration of government offices and gave succor to the forces of ignorance and intolerance.
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Outrage over the process thus far will lead to renegotiation of salaries and counterparty payments to stop the ad hoc and cronyist nature of this and indirect bailouts.
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But if it is naïve to think that McCain might mention the company most accused of cronyist corruption in the past eight years on the campaign trail, then let's stop deluding ourselves that he is any kind of real opponent of corruption.
Eugene Jarecki: Peggy's Confusion: Some "Political Bullsh*t" About John McCain 2008
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