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Archive: Feb 2009

Mendelssohn at 200

Felix Mendelssohn was born two hundred years ago today. It’s hard to imagine the cultural life of the German-speaking world of the nineteenth century without the name “Mendelssohn” because it…

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Daschle’s Pontiac: When Tom was a penny pincher

Check out this old Tom Daschle campaign spot (via famousdc.com). Haunting.

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Daschle Watch

The news just keeps getting worse for poor Tom Daschle: Tom Daschle backed the patron who paid him a million-dollar salary and supplied him with a free car and driver…

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How Tom Daschle Scrambles to Make Ends Meet

From Emily Yoffe in the Washington Post. Like many Americans whose steady, reliable job has suddenly disappeared, Thomas Daschle cobbled together a bunch of gigs when he was laid off…

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DeLayed Reaction: House majority whip’s foundation has that old-time aroma

Think back to the terrible old days when the Republicans ran congress, and how companies seeking to win access and favor with the GOP would make “contributions” to the DeLay…

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Weekly Review

A Christian martyr. Two days after three candidates and two campaign workers were kidnapped and murdered, Iraqis voted in the first national elections since 2005, choosing between 14,000 candidates running…

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More on the Renditions Hoopla

Tonight on Rachel Maddow, on MSNBC, I discussed the whisper campaign to mischaracterize President Obama’s decision to stand down the Bush 43 extraordinary renditions program, while leaving open the possibility…

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That Was Fast: Obama staffer lands on his feet in private sector

Jeff Berman, the national delegate director for the Obama presidential campaign, has a new job: The international law firm Bryan Cave LLP (www.bryancave.com) announced today that Jeff Berman has joined…

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A Positive Spin on Tom Daschle: “The second-biggest whore for the health care industry in American politics”

Glenn Greenwald tells you everything you need to know about Tom Daschle: He embodies everything that is sleazy, sickly, and soul-less about Washington. It’s probably impossible for Obama to fill…

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Bush’s Plutocrat Assistance Program

From Bloomberg, via Laura Rozen: The average tax rate paid by the richest 400 Americans fell by a third to 17.2 percent through the first six years of the Bush…

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Reversing Course at Justice

Neil Lewis of the New York Times takes a look at what we can expect from a Justice Department headed by Eric Holder, who is likely to be confirmed as…

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Tom Daschle: Secretary of Health and Public Speaking Fees

From the Associated Press: Tom Daschle collected nearly a quarter of a million dollars in fees in the last two years speaking to leaders of the industry President Barack Obama…

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Six Questions for Deborah Nelson on Vietnam War Crimes, and Why They Matter Now

Deborah Nelson is the Carnegie Visiting Professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of the new book, The War…

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Renditions Buffoonery

In a breathless piece of reporting in the Sunday Los Angeles Times, we are told that Barack Obama “left intact” a “controversial counter-terrorism tool” called renditions. Moreover, the Times states,…

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Rod and Norm and Eliot and David

Jon Chait has an interesting piece in the next issue of the New Republic entitled “Spare the Rod.” He contrasts former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman with former Illinois Governor Ron…

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Lieberman’s Sense of Humor

As my colleague Ken Silverstein pointed out, Joe Lieberman made a joke about waterboarding at last night’s Alfalfa Club Dinner. This is an excellent example of “humor” revealing the mindset…

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Joe Lieberman, Stand-up Comic: So did you hear the one about waterboarding?

Once inside the banquet hall, which is always off-limits to the media, the Alfalfans took turns trying to crack each other up. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) — the club’s…

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Tom Daschle and the Old Boys’ Club

The Senate: shameless and clueless. From the Washington Post: Early reactions from the Senate have shown little need for much of a fight. No Senate Republican has stepped forward to…

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Goethe’s Quiet Sea

Meeresstille Tiefe Stille herrscht im Wasser, Ohne Regung ruht das Meer, Und bekümmert sieht der Schiffer Glatte Fläche ringsumher. Keine Luft von keiner Seite! Todesstille fürchterlich! In der ungeheuern Weite…

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