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salon.com - 11/11/2008

Will Congress cede its powers to the Obama administration? - Glenn Greenwald

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(updated below) There is much discussion about the signals Barack Obama is sending regarding whether Senate Democrats should strip Joe Lieberman of his powerful position as Chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reports yesterday indicate that Obama is telling Senate leaders he ...

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salon.com - 11/12/2008

The Democrats of 2002 and 2007 haven't gone anywhere - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below) Though it hasn't happened yet, it is appearing increasingly likely that Senate Democrats -- led... by Barack Obama (who seems to be playing a much more active role in all of this than his spokesperson yesterday suggested ) -- are going to ... (more) The Democrats of 2002 and 2007 haven't gone anywhere - ...

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salon.com - 11/18/2008

Has there been too much bipartisanship or too little? - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below) As Senate Democrats this morning prepare to reward Joe Lieberman with the powerful Chairmanship of... the Homeland Security Committee, the most commonly recited claim -- both with regard to the Lieberman issue and Washington more ... (more) Has there been too much bipartisanship or too little? - ...

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salon.com - 11/8/2008

Various matters - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (1) My post on Thursday , arguing that Democrats should repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, provoked... objections from numerous corners that doing so was premature , would be too politically risky and/or Democrats won't touch the issue (it also ... (more) Various matters - Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn's radical plea for a separation of powers
Corrente — Glenn Greenwald urges the new administration and new legislature to respect the old separation of powers. He also gives a telling glimpse of the lot of an honest progressive blogger in Obamaworld (emphasis added): I don’t think there is much criticism of Obama in what I wrote, if there is any. To the contrary, knowing that anything that even gets close to a criticism of Obama would be reflexively interpreted and then rejected as such (thereby distracting from the point I was trying to make), I went out of my way to write [a] ...

Does Obama's Statement Help Or Hurt Lieberman?
TPM Election Central — ... that the statement is "deliberately vague," throwing the decision over to "the caucus and its leadership." Glenn Greenwald argues more broadly that the decision properly belongs to the Senate, and not Obama, in any case. ...

Taking Separation of Powers Seriously
Outside The Beltway | OTB — Taking Separation of Powers Seriously Glenn Greenwald , reacting to reports that Barack Obama has told Harry Reid that Joe Lieberman should not be stripped of his committee chairmanship and thus making it very difficult for him to do so, has written a long and passionate plea for a return to vigorous separation of powers with strong institutional jealousies. [W]hatever the outcome here is, it’s vital that it be the Senate’s decision, not Barack Obama’s.  How the Senate organizes itself and which members chair its Committees is about as purely within the ...

The Audacity of Hype
Antiwar.com Original — ... the nation in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Groupthink is all the rage, and the media has joined in the fun. Due to this love-fest, they're oblivious to the warning signs that worry us few and scattered skeptics. They somehow missed ...

11/12: Ratcheting Up The Pressure
Blogometer — ... at the RNC convention trashing our nominee and campaigned for Republicans in Senate races in Maine and Minnesota." Now that it's been confirmed that the full Dem caucus "will vote on whether Joe Lieberman is allowed to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee" , liberal bloggers are speculating about how the vote will break down. Chris Bowers predicts that a majority of Dem senators will vote to strip Lieberman of his chairmanship, but other bloggers are more pessimistic. Either way, it's clear that the netroots will spend the next week ...

The night rushes in
The Sideshow — ... Yes, and that's my problem with it. And it's a huge problem, as Glenn Greenwald discusses here in relation to the question of whether Obama should or shouldn't have anything to do with the Senate's decision with regard to Joe Lieberman. And, jaw-droppingly, there are a lot of people who are already advising us to crown Obama our new king rather than demand that our Constitution be restored. Sorry, I'm definitely not signed on for that. Some of these Obamaniacs really are just as bad as the creepy little Bushistas who used to infest comment threads not so long ago, and ...

"Counterintelligence"
Daily Kos — ... this story. But let's deal with the effort behind it. Someone has shopped a story to the leading, "credible" conservative rag saying that Obama "may decide" to go completely against his campaign promises to end torture as state policy, and then pushing John Brennan as the reasonable intelligence expert, who may fill one of the administration's key intelligence posts. None of this is to say that this is what Obama is going to do as president, but it's not an encouraging trend. Here's Glenn on the issue: Unlike the above-discussed report about Obama's ...