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KEY BLOGS What they are saying today Open Left Senate Democrats would do well to start off the new administration by reversing last-minute regulations implemented by President Bush, Chris Bowers suggests, calling for passage of a placeholder bill designed to do just that. The idea of using ...
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Remainders: NYT's pulitzer aggravated Cheney
Michael Calderone's BlogCheney found it "aggravating" the Times won prizes for NSA wiretapping story. Hannity's off to a great start with "Hannity." Ex-Wonkette Cox heads to Air America Daily Show goes to pundit school. Fratto says goodbye to briefing room. Obama once wrote like a typical campus activist.

About That Torture Thing
Jules Crittenden — ... observe that’s exactly what Nazi POWs would have done, if they had been returned to the bosoms of their families in 1944. But others might suggest this assortment of cab drivers, halal butchers, businessmen and foreign exchange students were radicalized by the cruelty they experienced at the hands of the hated Crusaders. While Obama on the campaign trail had promised to end all global misunderstandings, in a troubling new development, Archfiend/Our Dark Lord Cheney suggests Obama is  starting to get it : Cheney added that “there is no question” President-elect Obama had begun ...

Hurl-Blogging The Inaugur-A-Palooza, The Dry Heaves
Jules Crittenden — ... ’s a present from the Clintons. It’s new, but feels like something bad we ate a long time ago coming back up again. Slightly of the menu, but also sick-making,  Cheney’s observation  that the ”domestic spying” … you know, al Qaeda suspects overseas chatting with their fellow travelers here, or using phone lines that happen to run through the U.S. … was working great until earnest Pulitzer-hungry NYT scribblers gave their terrorist pals the headsup.  Apparently ...

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