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...that belief remained tacit, Democrats wouldn't quite be so peeved. But in March, Lieberman told ABC's This Week that the Democratic Party has "been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the party that is protectionist, isolationist and hyper-partisan." And earlier this month Lieberman participated in a G.O.P.-sponsored conference call criticizing Obama's speech before the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, a leading Jewish Organization...
...eager to close the God gap that they willingly relinquished any spiritual privacy and discussed not just the impact of their faith on their policies but also their experience of the Holy Spirit, their favorite Scriptures and the focus of their prayers. And so we treat their pastors as partisan players, their churches as focus groups. How is that likely to affect the choices candidates make, the churches they join, the counsel they seek? Will they have to vet their congregations the way they do their Cabinets? Or follow Richard Nixon's example and move services into the White House...
...doubt, partisan Democrats who equate bipartisan government with namby-pamby policymaking are horrified by the thought that Republicans might keep control of the Pentagon. But Gates has been neither ideological nor namby-pamby. He has demanded accountability. He fired the Secretary of the Army after the Walter Reed hospital scandal and the Secretary of the Air Force for lax stewardship of the nuclear arsenal. Early on, Gates encouraged the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq; he has been one of the few Bush officials open to negotiations with Iran. He has called for a larger budget for diplomacy - "which makes...
...stay if he believed the security of the troops was at stake. The political rationale for a "team of rivals" government is compelling for Obama - it would be the freshest way to turn the page after the ideological myopia of the Bush debacle, a decisive step away from the partisan ugliness Americans claim to hate, the best way to build a decisive governing coalition. There are other worthy Republicans and military officers that Obama might turn to, people like Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel or retired General James Jones, who would make an excellent National Security Adviser...
...only an expert on policy when he worked for Moynihan and Cuomo, he was also their chief spokesman. As an aide he was famous for getting great press for his bosses and was a favorite among the press corps, which made his transition from partisan staffer to objective journalist - at the time an unheard-of move - appear effortless. In fact, Tim was the pioneer of a new generation of television journalists who got their start in politics. He was the first who crossed to the other side, but he was soon followed by Chris Matthews (who studied at the knee...