The bottom line: is anyone actually throwing the race card or is this just politics as usual?
And the message you sent was clear: you voted for action, not politics as usual.
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After an interval for celebration of yesterday's accomplishment, it will be back to politics as usual.
But there are also plenty of people who are weary of the new politics as usual.
Despite a clear public desire for change, the proceedings have largely been marked by politics as usual.
So is this an end to heady talk about bipartisanship and a return to hardball politics as usual?
To be sure, nearly two-thirds of the voters stayed home during the February poll, disgusted with politics as usual.
As is often the case with McCain, he suggested the solution was to cleanse politics as usual in Washington.
"This is not a time for business as usual or politics as usual".
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We need to get beyond politics as usual, and find bipartisan common ground.
Tonight, you voted for action, not politics as usual. (Applause.) You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours.
Mr Obama was elected in part on the big cuddly vision of bringing all sides together, to ending Washington politics as usual.
They are often disappointed that instead of the dawn of a new politics, there has been a exacerbation of politics as usual.
Many expect a return to politics as usual when the third and final four-year term of the now not-very-popular Mr Bloomberg finishes in December 2013.
Meanwhile, angry voters are jamming Capitol Hill phone lines screaming about the politics as usual that is so far the hallmark of the new administration.
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But the bad news is that humanitarian crises, like in Syria, which should rise above politics as usual, are often mired in that very spot.
We are not going to allow politics as usual on Capitol Hill to stand in the way of American consumers being protected by unscrupulous financial operators.
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Much of the time, it looks like politics as usual.
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But the secret fear of European business is that politics as usual will muddle on and that change will be put off until a crisis makes it impossible to avoid.
Mr. Grillo appeals to voters who say they are tired of politics as usual and want Italy to turn its back on the sort of austerity measures introduced by Mr. Monti's government.
He said he would ask his economic team to "think anew and act anew" to meet new challenges and ensure it was not politics as usual when it came to spending in Washington.
If Obama really wanted to change politics as usual, rather than sneer at those with whom he disagrees, he had a perfect opportunity to unite the country by scaling back the DHS ammo purchase.
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Nonetheless, some of the frustration that Obama's supporters feel comes from ways in which this White House has too often accepted politics as usual rather than embarking on the transformative changes that he once promised.
Politics as usual will not avail us.
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