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Tom Carper: “Editorial writers are people who enter the battlefield when the fighting is over and shoot the wounded.”

On the recordJune 19, 2011
Editorial writers are people who enter the battlefield when the fighting is over and shoot the wounded.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper criticizes those who critique after issues have been resolved.

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