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Big Tantrum, Quickly Passed

by Josh Marshall
12.03.14 | 1:36 pm

One of the good things about people with borderline personalities is that even though they’re melodramatic, disruptive and inappropriate, the storms often end up passing pretty quickly. And along those lines, DC Republicans promised war on President Obama’s immigration executive order seems to be over.

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