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‘Mad Dog’ Takes Charge

By Steve Kornacki
Roll Call Staff
June 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.

It was Lou Holtz who once observed that you can’t turn a losing team around by changing coaches “any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver.” Then again, Holtz built a Hall of Fame coaching career as college football’s Mr. Fix-It, inheriting downtrodden programs and quickly whipping them into winners.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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