I was listening to Air America just now, but Randi Rhodes started screaming at Ralph Nader. Now, I can’t take the Crossfire routine and this is no different, so I had to turn it off.
But somehow, just knowing she had the nerve to tell him directly what I think many of us would like to [...]

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I don’t know if it got lost in the excitement over Clarke, but practically none of my friends have heard that
Tom DeLay is facing indictment for violation of Texas campaign finance laws. (membership or willingness to watch ads required). If indicted, he might have to
step down as Majority Leader DeLay says the [...]

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Howie Kurtz slams Clarke in passing today:

This reminds me of the largely bipartisan tone of the 9/11 commission hearings. In an age when seemingly everyone wants to score partisan points (see Clarke, Richard) [
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What’s partisan about Clarke, I wonder? He opposes the president’s policy, as near as I can tell based [...]

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Talking Points Memo has
this bit from Fox News. It takes some reading to get to the point, but this is basically what he’s pointing out:
Fox news quoted a question given to Clarke and a response Clarke gave, but the question and the response do not go together. In fact, the question was asked by [...]

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A lot of the focus — both blog and mainstream — on the Richard Clarke book and 9/11 commission is on whether or not we took _Al Qaeda_ seriously enough before 9/11. My gut feeling is that we didn’t. We ignored a lot of warning signs and we let a lot of opportunities slip by. [...]

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