Brummett sees certain governing similarities between Mike Beebe and John Adams, the founding father every-HBO subscribing American is now expert on: 

“Adams was a great man who advanced freedom and democracy. But he and the other founders wanted to limit that democracy. And they were not exactly committed to open government.”

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The question would be, who is?

 

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