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TPM reports that Collins has come back with a counter-offer for Harry Reid: she will vote for cloture if Republicans…
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Isn't Jim Inhofe the Wanker of EVERY Day just by default?
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I'm not as confident as you that the headlines will run that way when Obama stands his ground. Remember when…
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"and your hero and his party can't even get a middle class tax cut passed." Setting aside the "hero" bit…
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Well...I don't see anybody stopping you...
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No, my point is that I don't take net liberals seriously when they claim to speak for "the base." They…
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But when the consequence of leaving the table is literally "nukes might become easier for criminals to acquire" then do…
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And you know what that says to Democratic politicians? It tells them that self-proclaimed members of the "liberal base" like…
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How would we know that Obama is throwing elbows in private? It seems to me that by definition we won't…
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What exactly is your citation of Feingold supposed to prove? That being a champion of civil rigths and liberal causes…
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His base is furious with him? I guess a certain percentage of loud people on the internet are furious with…
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Booman, you used to be one of the few bloggers who understood that Obama negotiates with centrist Democrats, not with…
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But, seriously...what needs to change is that the administration needs to stop pretending that the Republicans are acting in good…
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Yes, but what to do in the meantime? You did read Booman's post, didn't you?
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This is heartening news to me. Jon Ralston is THE journalist on Nevada politics, and he gained a lot of…
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Which is why Obama refused to sign the purely partisan stimulus bill. And the purely partisan financial reform bill. And…
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Just as long as you remember that "what Obama does" is not the same thing as "what Obama says."
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"doing nothing measurable for the people who fought so hard to elect him in the first place"? Do you really…
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The public likes the idea of a president who acts bipartisan. It's part of the reason why Obama is the…
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It's a public pose! Why is that so hard for people to understand? If Obama really cared about bipartisanship so…
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