Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution calls him a classic Midwestern conservative (he represents a western slice of Ohio).

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Bill Galston, also at Brookings, goes so far as to wonder whether the fuss about it might be a pre-emptive attempt to explain away a defeat.

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Kudos to Bill Galston at the Brookings Institution and Maya MacGuineas at the New America Foundation for putting on the table a credible plan to get the federal budget under control.

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That, says Bill Galston, who was one of Mr Clinton's advisers then and is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, put him in an entirely different position from Mr Boehner's.

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