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www.dailykos.com — Dean : So if you run and get a mandate for reconciliation is your first act to kick this guy out of the party? The question wasn't kicking Lieberman out of the party. Democrats in Connecticut already did that in 2006. And once again, given this "mandate for reconciliation", I suspect that ...
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11/19: This One Stings
Blogometer — ... ): Moulitsas mocks Dean's assertion that Dems earned "a mandate for reconciliation" with their victories this year: "Given this 'mandate for reconciliation', I suspect that Reid won't reduce committee staff and seats for Republicans? Since that would be punitive. And we all want reconciliation, right? And maybe we can give Inhofe his committee chairmanship back, because apparently, the American people didn't vote for change. And while we're at it, it just wouldn't be right for Obama to rid the executive branch of its thousands of political appointees, right? Because the first ...

Netroots livid with Lieberman holding on to his key committee chairmanship
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... are also majorly fucking pissed off with the impotent Senate fuckwits for allowing him to keep it and for not dyeing the banks of the Potomac red with his waste of blood. ...

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