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Forecasting the New Senators | 21 comments (21 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Forecasting the New Senators (none / 0)

Mark Begitch's brother wrote the interesting book "Angels don't play this HAARP" about the research project in Alaska. In other words, he's no stranger to theories of conspiratorial manipulations, and is a good addition to the Senate.

Btw - what do you think of Panetta as CIA chief?? My old Congressman. Wow.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 03:25:11 PM EST

Re: Forecasting the New Senators (none / 0)

I like it. But I want to think about it for a while and talk to some folks before I have an informed opinion.

by BooMan on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 03:33:34 PM EST
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Re: Forecasting the New Senators (none / 1)

re panetta.....is it my imagination or is this the hillary clinton administration?

by anna in philly (flymetothemoon@yahoo.com) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 03:44:19 PM EST
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Re: Forecasting the New Senators (none / 0)

Not really:

In an interview with The Observer, Mr. Panetta compared Mrs. Clinton's top strategist Mark Penn to Karl Rove, suggested that the Clinton campaign had totally underestimated Barack Obama's appeal, and complained about the overall lack of planning that he said had characterized the former First Lady's bid to return to the White House.
Mr. Panetta, who served as chief of staff in the White House from July 1994 to January 1997, and who has contributed $2000 to Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign, complained that Mr. Penn "is a political pollster from the past."
"I never considered him someone who would run a national campaign for the presidency," he said.
He asserted that Mr. Penn "comes from an old school, like Karl Rove--it's all about dividing people into smaller groups rather than taking the broader approach that was needed."

by BooMan on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 03:49:04 PM EST
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Re: Forecasting the New Senators (none / 0)

Thinking and talking to others won't educate you. Do your own research on his background! ;-)

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:10:17 PM EST
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Re: Forecasting the New Senators (none / 0)

talking to others is usually a pretty good way to learn something. Thinking doesn't hurt, either.

by BooMan on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:15:06 PM EST
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Looks like Panetta is gonna have a rough confirmation hearing with DiFi's undergarments in a bit of a twist.

by BooMan on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 04:30:05 PM EST
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As I said in the previous thread - I wonder if Panetta will even survive the confirmation process.

DiFi's probably mad because nobody asked her for her opinion first. Democratic Senators get awfully irritated when Democratic Presidents don't ask for their opinion before doing things (see Clinton, Bill for the most recent historical examples). And DiFi has been a noted Democratic apologist for the "intelligence community" for years, so it doesn't surprise me that she'd be upset that some outsider would come in.

Of course, Republican Senators for the most part just fall in line when Republican Presidents do things (they have to be terminally stupid ideas - like appointing Harriet Meirs to the SC - to get a Republican Senator to fall out of line). But Democratic pols love nothing better than to fight with other Democrats.

by nonynony on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 04:38:52 PM EST
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Nah. DiFi will piss and moan, but there's no way that Panetta will go down on the merits. If he's got some conflict of interest or nanny problem, then maybe.

by BooMan on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 04:40:46 PM EST
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