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And you know what? That’s how everyone knew (or should have known) this was going to wind up back in January — with a handful of faux-centrist Senators threatening to sabotage a Democratic president for at least the third straight time, and everyone else wondering how to get around that obstacle.
But this also means that of all people, Barack Obama should have a plan for how to deal with this situation. I’ve been more
But now’s the time for Obama to stop forcing us to imagine what his real intentions are. We all know how solicitous he’s been of Max Baucus’s endless delays and whatever whim Olympia Snowe chooses to express on any given day, and not openly pressuring Democratic senators who have spoken against a public option. I’ve tried to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, figuring that he’s worked directly with these
Code Pink Co-founder Jodie Evans pulled off another eye-opening Code Pink surprise. While about a thousand other protesters were roped off right across the street from the hotel, she was getting into the high-security penthouse VIP dinner for big donors — and wearing a pink dress, no less! — to chat up Obama for more than a few minutes on his policies in Afghanistan. When she told him that “women want a seat at the table” in wartime negotiations in that nation, Evans said he responded, “But we have Hillary Clinton.” No, she said, you’re not getting it: the women of Afghanistan want the seat. Upside: She and her fellow Code Pinker didn’t even get arrested for peacefully presenting him with petitions from anti-war protesters. Downside: she paid $30,400 for the one-on-one, which works out to about $7,000 a minute.
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