Published 1/9/2009
by Domenico Montanaro
at First Read
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann*** Welcome to Washington: It's still very early, but we’re starting to have some flashbacks to '93 and '94, when congressional Democrats (Bob Kerrey jumps to mind) were a bigger problem for then-President Clinton than Republicans were. The first example this week was Dianne Feinstein, who criticized Obama’s pick of Leon Panetta to head the CIA, although she has since warmed up to the idea after Obama apparently called her to apologize...( read more )
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