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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/3/2008
Senate Leadership Working To Get Hillary Past Wingnut Effort To Block Sec State Appointment
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Is Hillary really Constitutionally ineligible to be Obama's Secretary of State, as some right-wingers are claiming? It's hard to believe, but the Senate leadership is actually being pressed into service to enable Hillary to be confirmed as Secretary of State because of a wingnut effort to ...
Hillary as Secretary of State
corner.nationalreview.com - 12/1/2008
Hillary as Secretary of State
— corner.nationalreview.com — The long and the short of it: She'll be answering the 3 A.M. phone call after all.... (more) Hillary as Secretary of State
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/3/2008
Pelosi Will Support Efforts To Get Hillary Past Wingnut Hurdle
— tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — This isn't terribly surprising, but it's still worth a quick note: Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office is confirming... that she'll support Congressional efforts to get Hillary past the legal hurdle that the wingnuts have thrown down between her and the ... (more) Pelosi Will Support Efforts To Get Hillary Past Wingnut ...

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Constitutional Obscurity
Talking Points Memo — ... I thought the rumblings about Hillary being barred from serving as Secretary of State by the Constitution's Emoluments Clause was some half-baked right-wing theory on par with Obama's supposedly fake U.S. birth certificate. But apparently Congress is taking the matter seriously enough to reduce the Secretary of State's salary to get around the problem, and Nancy Pelosi ...

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