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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    02/04/09

    In reply to 'New York Times' Kills Daschle, Now You Don't Get Health Insurance
    Heh, did anyone else see Recount? This is totally the scene where, right after James Baker declares that this is going to be a street war, Warren Christopher holds up the NY Times and tells the Gore staffers that they should heed Johnny Apple!
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    02/04/09

    In reply to 'New York Times' Kills Daschle, Now You Don't Get Health Insurance
    It's all about experience. Which Obama has maybe just a little. Obama can't even successfully vet his own appointments. That should be the easiest part of his job right now. How is he suppose to "change" the world if he can't even find the right people to do it? The next four years are going to be horrifyingly hilarious.
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    Image of tammyfey tammyfey
    02/04/09

    @shaithis: Do you have a point?
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    02/04/09

    @tammyfey: he got lost on the way to the corner?
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    Image of Preopsician Preopsician
    02/04/09

    In reply to 'New York Times' Kills Daschle, Now You Don't Get Health Insurance
    You're faulting the Times for asking Obama to actually be true to his high-minded promises? What is the message, If you're on the right side (Democrat), ethics don't matter?
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    02/04/09

    @Preopsician: i can't really put my finger on why this is so unpleasant exactly so i'm going to start with your reading comprehension skills.
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    02/04/09

    In reply to 'New York Times' Kills Daschle, Now You Don't Get Health Insurance
    This actually reminds me of the similarly sickening - but in that case, fictional - moment from The Wire when Gus and Alma discover that the Sun is crediting itself with changing the Governor's mind on some policy issue.


    Now give yourselves Pulitzers, Bill Keller and Ted Turner!

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    Image of katastic katastic
    02/04/09

    In reply to 'New York Times' Kills Daschle, Now You Don't Get Health Insurance
    Christ. I wish we would grow some balls and treat the congressional Republicans with the contempt they deserve.
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    02/04/09

    @katastic: There are some great radio spots running in GOP-held congressional districts where Obama won the majority of the vote. They basically state the local representative does not represent the district, but instead the ideals of Rush Limbaugh.


    These need to run straight through the 2010 midterms.

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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    02/04/09

    In reply to 'New York Times' Kills Daschle, Now You Don't Get Health Insurance
    I'm confused: Is this newspaper irrelevant or all-powerful? Make up your mind.
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    02/04/09

    In reply to 'New York Times' Kills Daschle, Now You Don't Get Health Insurance
    Can't Barry just pick Howard Dean and be done with it?
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    02/04/09

    @What I Meant Was...: Rahm hates Dean more the Hamilton hates Thain.
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    02/04/09

    @What I Meant Was...:

    Dean is too polarizing I'm afraid, especially since he just completed a run as head of the DNC--and had some part in stripping Republicans of power. (How much influence he had is up for debate). The president needs someone who at least has a fighting chance of working with moderate Republicans and getting legislation passed.
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    02/04/09

    @SlantedAndDisenchanted: Really at this point I wish this over-stretching to the Republicans would slow down a bit. Conservatives love a good sound bite and I've seen too much of them in the news lately. There's a reason they lost across the board and there is no way in hell they would be trying this hard were the roles reversed.


    They turn every gesture Obama makes to them around and the ridiculous criticisms (the mall sod, we need more tax cuts) are the same, lame conservative politics as usual.


    The Dems and Obama have a +70% approval rate. Stop trying to make a 30% happy that will just hate whatever you do or say anyway.

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    02/04/09

    @Fresh-Fest-1986: Not quite on the approval rate. [www.pollingreport.com]
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    01/26/09

    In reply to Who Will Replace Bill Kristol?
    This slot just screams out for the towering intellect of Sarah Palin.
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    01/26/09

    In reply to Who Will Replace Bill Kristol?
    I know. How about a real, honest-to-God, principled, Constitution-defending conservative?


    What a concept!


    Yeah, I think we have enough ideologically incoherent idiot shills for the Pentagon, the fraudulent Federal Reserve, and the colossal private defense contractors they serve, thank you.

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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    01/26/09

    In reply to Who Will Replace Bill Kristol?
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    01/26/09

    In reply to Who Will Replace Bill Kristol?
    Just a thought- you know the mythical "left" that the media is constantly evoking?

    Those angry dirty hippies? How about one of those- someone who's authentically progressive and left of center? I don't understand why there has to be a 'slot' for conservatives, when Paul Krugman (who I adore) is the furthest "left" of any of the Op-Ed writers. I mean, any "liberalism" of the rest is purely nominal, notional.

    Dowd, Friedman? Please. Bob Herbert I suppose, but let's face it, zzzz.


    It's funny, Kristol got a year to spout the most ludicrous assertions, yet an actual liberal left-wing progressive is considered just taboo, beyond the pale. Same on TV bobblehead chat shows. You can never be too far to the extreme right to be repeatedly invited back- advocating war, deregulating, bombing Iran. The most crackpot, disastrous ideas, and they are repeatedly invited back. (Douglas Feith talking to Dick Gregory yesterday-wtf?) But as "balance' they'll have some bland wimp "centrist" - and they usually nod politely in agreeance. Actual progresives are simply not invited to the table. "Unserious".

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    01/26/09

    @Baroness: Yes. A million times yes.


    Thank you.

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    01/26/09

    @Baroness: exactly right on all counts


    hang them all

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    01/26/09

    @Baroness: So true! But I think the intention of those who produce cable and major network news is not to inform but to entertain. Americans are just not far enough to the left to be entertained by having leftists on.
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    01/26/09

    In reply to Who Will Replace Bill Kristol?
    The eloquent and erudite Elisabeth Hasselbeck!
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    01/26/09

    In reply to Who Will Replace Bill Kristol?
    they could print "govt is bad" 500 times 2x/week and just be done with it
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    01/26/09

    In reply to Who Will Replace Bill Kristol?
    Mark Levin would do it for free.
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    Image of leonleonleon leonleonleon
    01/26/09

    In reply to Who Will Replace Bill Kristol?
    Chuck Hagel. Dude's got nothing to do soon, right?
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