This is classic.

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You judge for yourself: is Jon Stewart right to skewer Fox? Before you decide, listen to the last minute of the segment.

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The most newsworthy item in this clip is Emanuel saying that the healthcare bill cannot pass the Senate with a public option. Along those lines reports are now coming out that the Obama Administration is negotiating with Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) to use a watered-down ‘public-option trigger’ which she has said she will support. The [...]

I have been arguing for some time that Barack Obama made a crucial tactical error in bailing out the big banks early in his presidency. His actions have left him vulnerable to populist resentment.  In my view, this weakens his credibility and ability to push through other pieces of his legislative agenda and will harm [...]

While I have come down hard on some aspects of Barack Obama’s legislative agenda, I have not been painting him with a Hitler moustache or accusing him of socialism, that great evil practised only in cheese-loving France.  So I was disappointed to learn how vociferously some were shouting down the President’s back-to-school speech.
The shouts [...]

 
Here, Eisenhower was talking about the military industrial complex in 1961. Today, one could make similar statements about other powerful lobby groups like the finance industry (or the healthcare and oil industries).
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Senator Ted Kennedy died last night after a year’s battle with cancer. However one might feel about his politics, one must admit that Ted Kennedy had a remarkable life, one that is celebrated in the video clip below.

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I listened to the first day of the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings for a spot as a US Supreme Court justice. I was very impressed.  The three who impressed me the most were Al Franken (D-MN), Arlen Specter (D-PA), and Sotomayor herself.
Franken was very well-spoken, even inspirational in his commentary after his introductory remarks.  Specter [...]

Marshall Auerback sent me this joke about Mark Sanford.
Mark Sanford’s staff thought he was hiking in the mountains. In fairness to his aides, "I’m getting some Argentinian tail." sounds a lot like "I’m hiking the Appalachian Trail."

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