New Year's Fray

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Dana Milbank | Copyright information

For auld lang syne, my dear,

For auld lang syne,

We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet

For auld lang syne.

Put down that cup; it's a dry party this year. And the kindness? Not so much. This is New Year's Eve in Des Moines, three days before the Iowa caucuses, and if Robert Burns were alive to see it, he'd need to quaff a right guid-willie waught.

Let's begin the celebration at GOP candidate Mitt Romney's choice of locales: a "non-alcoholic family New Year's Eve ce...

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