Comments on: Beware the Congressional Hordes

By: Stuart Koehl

Stuart Koehl — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:24:39 +0000

“@Stuart Koehl
In the Cannon House Office Building, Room 4-oh-dang-something-something, press secretary to KS-3rd Larry Winn, whose chief distinction I recall was being named one of the “dirty dozen” by an environmentalist group. I resigned that year and became KS deputy secretary of state.”

I was in Longworth, consigned to a room next door to Bella Abzug. It was an interesting experience, which put paid to all my political ambitions. Nothing like seeing sausage being made up close to turn one into a vegetarian. After graduating Georgetown, I turned my talents to military analysis and history, and have not regretted it in the least.

By: Stuart Koehl

Stuart Koehl — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:22:19 +0000

I’m not so much worried about Congressional hordes as I am about Congressional whores.

By: Russell E. Saltzman

Russell E. Saltzman — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:50:58 +0000

@Stuart Koehl
In the Cannon House Office Building, Room 4-oh-dang-something-something, press secretary to KS-3rd Larry Winn, whose chief distinction I recall was being named one of the “dirty dozen” by an environmentalist group. I resigned that year and became KS deputy secretary of state.

@The Googlistas
I searched “hordes of conservative Republicans.” I wanted to see if there were other Republican hordes to cause us worry aside from lawmakers.

By: Mike Melendez

Mike Melendez — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:45:05 +0000

@Nickp: Sounds like hordes of bloggers.
@Saltzman: Now 25,000, that’s a horde!

By: Nickp

Nickp — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:41:31 +0000

Were you searching for the phrase “hordes of conservative republican lawmakers” or the keywords “hordes” “conservative” “republican.”

If we make the search criteria exactly parallel, there doesn’t seem to be much difference in the use of hordes:

“Hordes of conservative Republicans” = 47 hits
“Hordes of liberal Democrats” = 51 hits

But since that search eliminates the phrase that started all this, we can try:

“hordes of conservative” = 4980 hits
“hordes of liberal” = 3829 hits

That encompasses all manner of scary hordes: liberal economists and talk radio shows, conservative lawmakers and catholics.

By: MWT

MWT — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:39:17 +0000

Off topic, but I just read that Solarz recently died. His lobbying for Turkey was a little disconcerting to me.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:24:20 +0000

Just a minor complaint: listing the number of hits on a Google search is more useful than the number of pages, as your browser sizes pages according to your screen resolution. What might be three pages for you would be one and a half for me, or vice versa.

By: Stuart Koehl

Stuart Koehl — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:32:12 +0000

I was interning for Steve Solarz in 1973. Where were you?