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A TRIO OF LAUGHABLES: There is still an on going debate of how or what the Dems will morph themselves into before another election cycle can run its course.
However, the three ring circus that today's headlines bring are rip-roaring...
Yesterday on CNN's Late Edition, Joe Lieberman insured more pain for himself within the party's elites. (Then again thinking for yourself can often lead to that dilemma.)
"So at some point we've got to stop criticizing each other and sit at the table and work out this problem... Every year we wait to come up with a solution to the Social Security problem [it] costs our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren $600 billion dollars more."
He's right you know!
Why can't this guy just admit that his party no more thinks like him than a farmyard full of animals? It would surely bring him less headaches than what his new DNC leadership will.
Speaking of the DNC, from ABC's "The Note", the latest on their take as to why DNC leader Howard Dean is avoiding the "big press" and instead granting his time to small local stations in red states.
But part of it is a lesson that Republicans taught Dean well: if the national press corps is wedded to a certain view of you, such as your alleged propensity to say things that get you in trouble, simply bypass that filter. Dean has taped at least a half dozen interviews with local television stations in the three weeks he's been chair and has made himself available to local newspaper reporters and columnists.
And so far, it's largely worked. The local press has been less aggressive about questioning whether in-state Democrats are rushing to embrace Dean, and Dean has received a trough full of good press clips in Red States.
The local strategy is also designed to make it more difficult for Republicans to bash Democrats in states Dean visits, and by aggressively courting the local press corps, he creates good will that he hopes will help him down the road.
The upshot: do not expect to see Dean debate Mehlman anytime soon.
Which is fine. Let him keep thinking he's got the grassroots sewn up. Like the GOP doesn't know something about how to turn out grassroots votes? Hey Deaner - how about the blogosphere? Remember how you were the Democrat Internet Messiah? And at your peak you had what 90 blogs on your roll? How about my buddy Matt Margolis with Blogs For Bush 1100 blogs and counting...
And finally one more laughable note...
My good friend Jill Stanek points out today that there seems to be a new spirit of bi-partisanship when it comes to advancing the new "born-alive infant protection act" in that state. (This was a measure that the new U.S. Senator Barack Obama voted against when he was a state senator.)
Jill's got a good round-up of the stories being filed reporting on the unique cooperation of the measure.
But this one made me laugh from the Chicago Sun-Times. Citing Hillary Clinton's "call" for cooperation on abortion issues the Sun-Times is implying that the speed at which the state is working on it - is in part due to Hill's inspiration.
Just weeks after U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and other prominent Democrats sounded a new call for cooperation in Washington to reduce abortions, an Illinois House committee is close to acting on a measure both sides support.
I think the much more likely scenario is that there are more Red State Illinoisians than people think there are, and some state legislature seats are on the line in the matter...
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