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...will do itself no favors by downplaying this as a controversy hyped up by opinionated bloggers. It is a controversy hyped up by opinionated bloggers, of course, but so what? That's the world we live in, and in many ways it's a good thing: whatever their motives, partisan bloggers have kept the media honest, even if after the fact...
...politics of partisan polarization won today,” Lieberman said to his supporters. “For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand...
...groups, especially the recalcitrant Sunnis, would allow al-Maliki's government to succeed where the U.S. military had failed, in bringing to heel both the Sunni insurgency and the rising might of the Shi'ite militias. Never mind that the Prime Minister was himself a Shi'ite partisan until his nomination--whereupon he sought to reinvent himself as a nonsectarian leader--and that his party had stronger ties to Tehran than to Washington. An ornery figure, al-Maliki is a backroom politician plainly ill at ease in public; few Iraqis had even heard of him, and few are convinced that...
...very much a creature of Washington and often sounds like it when he's delivering long-winded answers on Sunday talk shows. He'll also have the problem of being a Northeastern liberal Senator, with a voting record that according to National Journal, a non-partisan D.C policy magazine, is very similar to Hillary Clinton's; however Biden, as a noted foreign policy hawk, doesn't have the perception of being as liberal as Clinton...
...demonstrate his point, Whelan posed the hypothetical of a defense appropriations bill providing that “ABA President Michael Greco [be] immediately detained, displayed in public stocks, and subjected to ridicule until he confesses to what a partisan hack...