Can Obama take a punch?

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<p>She just did. She attached the spending to the first emergency appropriations request to come before the 110th Congress.</p>

<p>The Republican response? Mischaracterize it as “pork”. I’ve gone through the entire bill. I don’t see much that would fall under any classic definition of “pork”. Having said that, I’m sure that the administration does view Katrina relief efforts as unnecessary pork. They’ve been clear from the start that they don’t give a damn about the victims of Hurricane Katrina.</p>

<p>There are provisions in the bill that the President would hate far more than spinach crop disaster relief – like an increase in the federal minimum wage. He’s not even mentioning that because he knows it won’t make a good soundbyte like “pork”. Of course, when a defense contractor/major campaign contributor bribed the #3 at the CIA to land a grossly inflated contract to supply bottled water to CIA employees in Iraq, Bush fires the US Attorney investigating the bribery. I guess that doesn’t fit the Republican definition of “pork” since it was a defense contractor.</p>

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<p>Since you wrongly attributed the quote to me, I thought you were also referring to O’Reilly as my hero.</p>

<p>Don’t worry about me compounding the deception, conyat, since I’m not in on it in the first place. </p>

<p>Hopefully there’s a way we can reach those two million viewers and straighten them out. :)</p>

<p>Good night!</p>

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<p>It’s too late. Fox viewers tend to cling to the lie they heard first, even after the record’s been set straight. Which is why the way O’Reilly and his ilk manipulates them is so despicable.</p>

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<p>An op-ed from the Washington Times editorial chief (and long-time Gingrich press secretary) handicapping the Democratic nomination race. Comes very close to my view of how the race will unfold and why. His prognostication: Hillary Milhous Clinton… and the Republicans should be very worried in the general election.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/hillary_on_track_for_nominatio.html[/url]”>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/hillary_on_track_for_nominatio.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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