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Feingold an Unacceptable Committee Chair?
Matthew Yglesias — ... At any rate, though I’ve heard enough asinine things on television to believe that Feldman may well have said this because he meant it, I also think this may be more about Kerry than about Feingold. There’s a developing meme out there that Kerry is some kind of dangerous leftwing radical (his selection “would be … bound to provoke controversy with moderate Democrats” for some reason) and the Richard Holbrooke Fan Club hasn’t gone out of business yet in the press. ...

The mask slips a bit at The New Republic
TigerHawk — ... ," a who's who of the "thirty people who will rule [ there's that word again - ed. ] Obama's Washington. It is not as terrifying as it might be, although any list with David Axelrod at the very top and John Kerry at number 17 is any arresting reminder that elections do indeed matter. Anyway, the paragraph on Dick Durbin (number 16) probably admitted more than the New Republic intended (bold emphasis added): It was telling that Obama asked Durbin to introduce the biggest speech of his career, back in Denver. Along with Claire McCaskill, he is the president's staunchest ally ...