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	<title>Inexact Possibilities: Politics at the Cutting Edge</title>
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		<title>The Senate in One Sentence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We have to have a little back-and-forth every once in a while or this place would be boring as hell.&#8221; &#8212; Orrin Hatch, to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, after being shushed by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy for interrupting Kagan.
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		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/the-senate-in-one-sentence/</link>
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		<title>Things That Are Related</title>
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Sarah Palin&#8217;s Twitter praise for a Thomas Sowell column comparing the BP escrow fund to the political roots of the Holocaust, and this.
Have a nice weekend, everyone!
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		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/things-that-are-related/</link>
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		<title>Heaven Forbid Journalists Report Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barrett Brown wrote a lengthy and hilarious post over at Vanity Fair about conservative reaction to Michael Hastings&#8217; blockbuster Rolling Stone piece that brought down McChrystal. Couched in an attack on National Review (too easy!), it&#8217;s a rather damning indictment of the media in general. To wit:
Unlike many of this country’s most respected commentators, Hastings did not spend the better part of a decade repeating conventional wisdom about our allegedly unprecedented success<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/heaven-forbid-journalists-report-facts/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/heaven-forbid-journalists-report-facts/</link>
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		<title>More Important Considerations Than Personnel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What the hell were McChrystal and co. thinking? I don&#8217;t know. (Yes I do: they were drunk.) But this much I know to be true: their complaints about the civilian leadership are a hell of a lot less important than the actual on-the-ground success of their strategy in Afghanistan. Matt Yglesias makes the necessary point:
Back in the real world it seems obvious to me that the Obama administration’s actual McChrystal-related problem<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/more-important-considerations-than-personnel/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Gaffe Is Any Impolitic Statement&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Chait limns the important difference between gaffes and honest (if misguided) expressions of ideology:
The interesting micro development of the last two years is that the [Republican] party is starting to be infiltrated by figures who come out of smaller and even more ideologically radical subcultures &#8212; candidates like Rand Paul and Sharron Angle. (Jason Zengerle has a fantastic story in TNR on Paul&#8217;s ideology.) The news media is doing a<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/a-gaffe-is-any-impolitic-statement/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/a-gaffe-is-any-impolitic-statement/</link>
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		<title>Proud Moments In American Twittering</title>
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Posted without comment: John McCain is now referencing &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221; on Twitter.
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		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/proud-moments-in-american-twittering/</link>
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		<title>All Your Election Results, Outsourced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The big news is that Blanche Lincoln survived the Arkansas runoff. Yay? Eh. For a great rundown of all the results, see Chris Good.
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		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/all-your-election-results-outsourced/</link>
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		<title>Never Stops, Never Stops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One million more states are holding primary elections today. Each one is wackier than the last. I&#8217;m not going to summarize them all, because I don&#8217;t care to think too much about places like South Carolina (even though it&#8217;s got the juiciest story).
Here, however, are the four marquee races to watch:

Nevada Senate: Harry Reid, in the thankless role of Senate Majority Leader (think Tom Daschle), has been polling terribly at home all<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/never-stops-never-stops/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/never-stops-never-stops/</link>
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		<title>Political Journalism, Inside Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Beam had an astonishing little piece on Slate that exposes the ragged, ugly seams of contemporary political coverage. Read it and weep.
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		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/06/political-journalism-inside-out/</link>
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		<title>Weak Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I only have 4 things to say about the results of yesterday&#8217;s elections:

Buh-bye, Arlen. You won&#8217;t be missed. (But this should be a fascinating general election campaign.)
It&#8217;s great that Bill Halter has forced a run-off in Arkansas, but D.C. Morrison&#8217;s votes should break for Blanche Lincoln, since he ran to her right. But really, who cares? Whoever wins the nod is going to get trounced by John Boozman.
Rand Paul&#8217;s win<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/rosenberg/2010/05/weak-tea/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
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