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  • Republicans, truth be told, already know Kagan is going to be confirmed, and are mostly just "going through the motions" in an election-year exercise meant to rabble-rouse their base a bit (Supreme Court hearings always get a party's base riled up and sending in donations, whether from the left or the right).

    Chris Weigant: Supreme Court Helps Out Kagan 2010

  • Republicans, truth be told, already know Kagan is going to be confirmed, and are mostly just "going through the motions" in an election-year exercise meant to rabble-rouse their base a bit (Supreme Court hearings always get a party's base riled up and sending in donations, whether from the left or the right).

    Chris Weigant: Supreme Court Helps Out Kagan 2010

  • Not agreeing with him isn't really his problem; he likes to rabble-rouse, and as you say, snark.

    Obama Next Destination: Fox News 2009

  • The nerve of McCain when he did rabble-rouse in the Senate till that happened and now he wants to blame Obama.

    Latest McCain Campaign Claim: Talking About Job Losses Is Exploiting Workers 2009

  • This does not mean that faculty dissent from Church teaching or rabble-rouse against the Holy Father.

    Archive 2009-05-31 2009

  • Also, any time I have e-mailed, called, or written her office, either to rabble-rouse for a progressive cause or for something with which I might need my senator's help -- her office has always sent a thorough, written reply, signed by KBH, through snail-mail.

    GOP Surprisingly Nervous About Texas Senate Seat 2009

  • Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman headed to Rome to speak with PM Berlusconi (just as the Pope heads to the Middle East) and rabble-rouse against Iran.

    Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup 2009

  • This does not mean that faculty dissent from Church teaching or rabble-rouse against the Holy Father.

    Questions and more questions 2009

  • We'll never push back the special-interest lobbies that rabble-rouse each balkanized constituency if we don't agree to make sacrifices against our own special interests.

    Biting The Handout That Feeds Me 2008

  • The lesson of Seattle seems to be: if you cannot get your way through traditional democratic methods, through campaigns, lobbying and legislatures, then riot and rabble-rouse on television.

    The New Face Of The Left 2007

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