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Seriously, what a ridiculous post.
The House minority leader promises to pass a specific agenda through the House if she becomes Speaker, she is elected Speaker and follows through on her pledge, and this guy labels that success "Bull"?
How long until the trackbacks from Powerline, RedState, Drudge, Malkin, and the Politico materialize? Or was that the point of this post?
Posted at April 16, 2007 11:22 AM in response to The Hundred Hour Bull
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Yeah, thanks to a toxic combination of right wing liars and "evenhanded" "democratic" pundits like Mr. Baer.
Posted at April 9, 2007 1:43 PM in response to Springbreak in Syria
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Are you kidding? This is still a regular occurrence on each and every cable news show.
Also, although things may be changing for the better, let's not forget that the nation's leading "liberal" newspapers regularly publish pieces that may as well be RNC press releases.
For example, just a few days ago, the Washington Post published a piece claiming that Democrats would be taking "politically risky efforts" by challenging Bush. The article quoted Leon Panetta, who felt the need to warn Democrats about the perils of challenging Bush:
Leon E. Panetta, who was a top White House aide when President Bill Clinton pulled himself off the mat through repeated confrontations with Congress, sees the same risk. He urged Democrats to stick to their turf on such issues as immigration, health care and popular social programs, and to prove they can govern.
'That's where their strength is,' Panetta said. 'If they go into total confrontation mode on these other things, where they just pass bills and the president vetoes them, that's a recipe for losing seats in the next election.'
Posted at April 3, 2007 3:34 PM in response to In Search of Common Ground
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And so what did he mean by this:
"I think most Americans want to win, they don't want to see us leave early, and if we leave prematurely, we may create a broader set of conflicts and invite a bigger problem in that region than before leaving,"
Posted at April 2, 2007 8:46 PM in response to News and Morning Open Thread
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Dude, there are a grand total of about 4 or 5 folks around here who may well fit your description. You're painting with an awfully broad brush.
Posted at July 15, 2006 7:40 PM in response to Anti-Semitisim Lives!
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I don't know about you, but I only watch the Playboy Channel for the articles.
Posted at June 26, 2006 1:13 PM in response to The Trouble With Culture-Bashing. . .
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Someone raised the question of whether this is a foreign or Iraqi insurgency. It's true the percentage of foreign fighters is quite small but so far they appear to have carried out almost all the suicide bombings.
Ms. Arraf, I think this statement is problematic. You begin by addressing the question of whether the insurgency is "foreign or Iraqi." Then, however, you switch a different question: who is responsible for suicide bombings. It seems to me these are two entirely different questions, and by conflating them, you are leaving the impression that foreign fighters are responsible for the insurgency in Iraq.
That proposition is almost certainly untrue. Even today, the BBC is reporting about a U.S. military analyst, Anthony Cordesman, who has concluded that the vast majority of the Iraqi insurgency are not foreign: "The Iraqi insurgency remains largely home-grown, Mr Cordesman added, with 90% or more hailing from Iraq."
Posted at November 19, 2005 12:32 PM in response to It's less hostile on the front-lines in Iraq
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I think Orbach would say: "Where you're headed, the only 'leaking' going on will be in the men's room."
Posted at August 4, 2005 4:20 PM in response to Novak
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that you hit the nail on the head with this one. Only one minor quibble (and perhaps I'm totally wrong): it seems to me that President Clinton wasn't necessarily seen as fit for safeguarding national security; rather, he was simply popular in general, and he was certainly better liked than John Kerry. As for Ken Baer, I'm not surprised he "threw down the gauntlet," given his performance following you as guest blogger at TPM this May. This, like his New vs. Old Labour TPM guestblogging, appears to be merely another version of the New Dem / leftie Dem dustup.
Posted at July 18, 2005 11:00 PM in response to A Public Philosophy or a Foreign Policy?
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On a separate note, it is a shame that MY's blog has now become a place for trolls on TPM Cafe. This never would have happened on typepad.
Ah, how soon you forget Al and Petey.Posted at June 22, 2005 2:44 PM in response to He Must Have Thought Them Up Himself!
