dailykos.com - 11/19/2008
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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 ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/25/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
An interesting moment at Barack Obama's presser on
the economy today: He declared in more direct terms
than I've heard before that his "decisive" win has unquestionably given him a "mandate." "We had, I think, a decisive win, because of the ...
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Obama: "I Don't Think There's Any Question That We Have ...
americablog.com - 11/13/2008
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americablog.com —
We tend to be big Harry Reid fans
here at AMERICAblog. Today, not so much. Harry Reid
is about to kill any chance Democrats have at getting a 60-seat majority in the Senate. The irony is that Reid is accomplishing this by ensuring that Joe Lieberman ...
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How Harry Reid is about to kill our 60-seat majority
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/25/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
CLAIMING A MANDATE.... In the immediate aftermath of
the elections, there were a handful of Republicans who
wanted to debate the meaning of the word "mandate." Apparently, Barack Obama's impressive victory -- the highest popular vote margin for a ...
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Claiming a mandate
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... ): 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
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... 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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The agenda: Gun control —
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