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    Wow, that statement was so damn stupid, I'm not even going to dignify it with a response...
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    • The scores are also for the 111th congress, and that's what I've been referring to. Personally, I'm skeptical of something…
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    • I actually linked to the downloads, you can get the DW-Nominate scores for every member of congress since the very…
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    • By that standard, Bennet is actually more liberal than 23 members of the Democratic caucus (including Mark Udall, but the…
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    • The thing is, Bennet's tenure (albeit a short one) in the Senate has actually been pretty good from a progressive…
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    • Your evidence is that Joe Lieberman said so, that amuses me a lot. And you're also forgetting that Harry Reid,…
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    • Barack Obama is not "Grand Dictator of the Senate", if he draws a line in the sand on procedural votes…
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    • That Nelson and Lincoln (and Lieberman) were acting irrationally isn't really relevant to whether or not there was something Obama…
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    • Huh? Treasury was speaking on behalf of the Administration and on behalf of what Obama wanted, unless of course you…
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    • Thanks Booman, I appreciate the assist!
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    • So what? The chances of the public option being passed by the senate on the first go-around was non-existent, because…
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    • What exactly could Obama have possibly said to any of the conservative members of the caucus that would've guaranteed their…
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    • You know something, even if I concede that I was wrong on that (which I believe I was, it was…
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    • But it did kill his popularity, which is what you were talking about. And my larger point was that George…
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    • They did start out with a bigger stimulus, the one in the House that was passed was bigger than the…
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    • The stimulus was held hostage by those senators, in a hostage situation you have two basic choices: give in to…
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    • What leverage? War funding is always given except under extremely rare circumstances because there is no way to spin voting…
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    • Bush's popularity was an artifact of 9/11, and the only reason the Republicans were able to do so well in…
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    • Obama needed sixty votes in the Senate for the stimulus, there were not 60 Democrats at the time, and there…
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    • Agree with everything you say Booman, though I'd like to add that there may well have been a few Obama…
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