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Daily Kos — ... shit? We're supposed to give to protect Joe Lieberman's ability to continue killing everything we stand for? Here's an idea -- pass good legislation, THEN ask for money to "protect the gains we've made". Right now, the DSCC and the Senate Dems can go fuck themselves -- a sentiment I will quickly and happily revise if and when they actually DO something good. Conservatives fess up -- the problem with America is that there's too much insurance. Atrios: Reading through the Hill article, these centrists are actually making ...

Democratic choices
Political Animal — ... take care of themselves. Go Big strikes me as the smart course, but I'm not unsympathetic to the Take A Detour crowd. The problem is the specificity of this group's agenda -- the same congressional Democrats who want the party to "focus like a laser" on job creation and economic growth aren't prepared to show any real follow-through. In other words, center-right Dems are looking for an excuse to avoid Going Big, and their talk about focusing solely on the economy is just that: talk. Atrios explained : While a Congress in which one party theoretically has 60 votes in the Senate ...