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well i dunno about that, will. harry reid's statements about why the democrats acted as they did are repellent, very bush-administration-like sentiments. i put this up in another thread, but my basic position is that obama and the democrats are starting to run into some trouble because they're still too locked into the language of the obsolete conservative movement--so they're still framing issues in the same terms. the problem, as i see it, is that they really are moderates and nothing at all like what the fragments of the right would pretend. it follows, then, that they really haven't got an ideological position or positions that enable a redefinition of basic situations in the world, of the possibilities and limitations of state action, of goals and how to carry them out, not to mention how to make these processes transparent.
the administration has gone nowhere near far enough in marginalizing conservative discourse.
i can imagine them getting eaten alive because of the resulting paralysis.
i hope it doesn't happen--but i can see how it's possible.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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