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	<title>Comments on: New Sheriff Time:  Obama Shakes Up The Senate</title>
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		<title>By: BMcGarth</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/new-sherrif-time-obama-shakes-up-the-senate/#comment-1783777</link>
		<dc:creator>BMcGarth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Jane wrote:Chief among those were Jay Rockefeller, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and  Jane Harmon (who was evidently a Feinstein favorite for the CIA post).  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You forgot Selvestre Reyes on the House Intel.But folks call &amp; register your disgust at Feinstein &amp; Rockefeller:Feinstein # 202-224-3824&lt;br /&gt;
                                        Rockefeller:#202 224-6472&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jane wrote:Chief among those were Jay Rockefeller, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and  Jane Harmon (who was evidently a Feinstein favorite for the CIA post).  </p>
<p>You forgot Selvestre Reyes on the House Intel.But folks call &amp; register your disgust at Feinstein &amp; Rockefeller:Feinstein # 202-224-3824<br />
                                        Rockefeller:#202 224-6472</p>
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		<title>By: Adie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/new-sherrif-time-obama-shakes-up-the-senate/#comment-1783658</link>
		<dc:creator>Adie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Now watch it and try to convince me the 2nd chair bassoon isn’t chewing gum.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t laugh.  Our sonny used to play next to a geezer-wheezer who chewed… something… while playing tuba.  never plugged up the instrument, that we know of.  made it a little hard to watch the band without cracking up though.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;oh the joys of music may yet save this world….&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now watch it and try to convince me the 2nd chair bassoon isn’t chewing gum.</p>
<p>Don’t laugh.  Our sonny used to play next to a geezer-wheezer who chewed… something… while playing tuba.  never plugged up the instrument, that we know of.  made it a little hard to watch the band without cracking up though.</p>
<p>oh the joys of music may yet save this world….</p>
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		<title>By: Adie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/new-sherrif-time-obama-shakes-up-the-senate/#comment-1783654</link>
		<dc:creator>Adie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Oops!  Almost forgot another winner for DiFi background mewz-ack.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to picture the missy DiFi teetering along through the marble hallways in her best stiletto feetswear.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Grieg - Hall of the Mountain King.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzyi3C4gNnE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzyi3C4gNnE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oops!  Almost forgot another winner for DiFi background mewz-ack.</p>
<p>Try to picture the missy DiFi teetering along through the marble hallways in her best stiletto feetswear.</p>
<p>Grieg &#8211; Hall of the Mountain King.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzyi3C4gNnE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzyi3C4gNnE</a></p>
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		<title>By: Adie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/new-sherrif-time-obama-shakes-up-the-senate/#comment-1783640</link>
		<dc:creator>Adie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;i think it’s o.k., just so long as you make sure everyone knows exactly which quote was the offending one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Suggest u re-read this above at #62.  T’was pure unadulterated snark, &amp; I should have added the [/s]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You’re sweet, but don’t need to sooth my fevered brow, for ’tis not overheated atall atall by anything at the Lake; it’s just painfully askew from paying far too much attention to world events than is healthy for the soul down deep inside.  We’re the lucky ones.  I mourn for the others whom I do not know how to help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I even ache for this beautiful critter, whose home range is right smack dab in the middle of the war zones of the ME and SW Asia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://z.about.com/d/animals/1/0/e/H/shutterstock_567001.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://z.about.com/d/animals/1.....567001.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>i think it’s o.k., just so long as you make sure everyone knows exactly which quote was the offending one.</p>
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<p>Suggest u re-read this above at #62.  T’was pure unadulterated snark, &amp; I should have added the [/s]</p>
<p>You’re sweet, but don’t need to sooth my fevered brow, for ’tis not overheated atall atall by anything at the Lake; it’s just painfully askew from paying far too much attention to world events than is healthy for the soul down deep inside.  We’re the lucky ones.  I mourn for the others whom I do not know how to help.</p>
<p>I even ache for this beautiful critter, whose home range is right smack dab in the middle of the war zones of the ME and SW Asia.</p>
<p><a href="http://z.about.com/d/animals/1/0/e/H/shutterstock_567001.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://z.about.com/d/animals/1&#8230;..567001.jpg</a></p>
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		<title>By: jaango</title>
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		<dc:creator>jaango</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I think that there is much to commend the Panetta nomination.  Take, for example, the current Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Silvestre Reyes of Texas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He is now free from having to play footsie with the Republicans and the Bush White House.  Being free to roam the halls of Congress to craft the much-needed political support for Obama’s agenda for change relative to utilizing the overall strategic objective of intelligence-gathering in order to craft public policy, speaks well for both Obama, Panetta, and Reyes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the DOD has garnered both the resources and assets, and political support for intelligence-gathering, poses an ongoing dilemma for Obama. Will the DOD willingly surrender what it has gained under a Bush Administration?  Thus, another political battle will commence in calendar year 2010, when Obama attempts to rein in the DOD for crafting public policy.  And from therein, a Gates exit can be expected.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just a Passing Thought.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that there is much to commend the Panetta nomination.  Take, for example, the current Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Silvestre Reyes of Texas.</p>
<p>He is now free from having to play footsie with the Republicans and the Bush White House.  Being free to roam the halls of Congress to craft the much-needed political support for Obama’s agenda for change relative to utilizing the overall strategic objective of intelligence-gathering in order to craft public policy, speaks well for both Obama, Panetta, and Reyes.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the DOD has garnered both the resources and assets, and political support for intelligence-gathering, poses an ongoing dilemma for Obama. Will the DOD willingly surrender what it has gained under a Bush Administration?  Thus, another political battle will commence in calendar year 2010, when Obama attempts to rein in the DOD for crafting public policy.  And from therein, a Gates exit can be expected.</p>
<p>Just a Passing Thought.</p>
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		<title>By: Adie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/new-sherrif-time-obama-shakes-up-the-senate/#comment-1783624</link>
		<dc:creator>Adie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;thanks.  I wish we could share with the whole gang here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;previous: (62) - indulging in some silly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;can we all please calm down here just a tad?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;babies and grandmas and cab drivers and roofers and people’s sons and daughters are dying right this very minute, with no health care, not even electricity and water reliably available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;perspective, people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;apologies, egregious.  i know you have a job to do.  i appreciate the style and substance of how you accomplish that difficult job.&lt;br /&gt;
don’t be distracted by clowns like me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;nothing to see here folks.  move along…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thanks.  I wish we could share with the whole gang here.</p>
<p>previous: (62) &#8211; indulging in some silly.</p>
<p>can we all please calm down here just a tad?</p>
<p>babies and grandmas and cab drivers and roofers and people’s sons and daughters are dying right this very minute, with no health care, not even electricity and water reliably available.</p>
<p>perspective, people.</p>
<p>apologies, egregious.  i know you have a job to do.  i appreciate the style and substance of how you accomplish that difficult job.<br />
don’t be distracted by clowns like me.</p>
<p>nothing to see here folks.  move along…</p>
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		<title>By: SonomaRus</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/new-sherrif-time-obama-shakes-up-the-senate/#comment-1783619</link>
		<dc:creator>SonomaRus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;It turns out I know Leon Panetta from my days living in Monterey. It’s always possible to move to the dark side , but I can tell you - Panetta is one of the last remaining good guys. He knows his stuff and he’s just plain a decent person. IMO you couldn’t find a better fill for this job. This is refreshing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As for DiFi? &lt;em&gt;We are not amused&lt;/em&gt; either&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It turns out I know Leon Panetta from my days living in Monterey. It’s always possible to move to the dark side , but I can tell you &#8211; Panetta is one of the last remaining good guys. He knows his stuff and he’s just plain a decent person. IMO you couldn’t find a better fill for this job. This is refreshing.</p>
<p>As for DiFi? <em>We are not amused</em> either</p>
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		<title>By: Adie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/new-sherrif-time-obama-shakes-up-the-senate/#comment-1783616</link>
		<dc:creator>Adie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;There’s something to be said for hiring a really savvy, really smart guy who has his head on straight, and can tell schmooze from good solid intelligently conceived policy, recognizes #*&amp;% and shinola as it were, a good judge of people, a person with valuable experience and a proven track record from dealing with policy, demanding proof and solid explanations without flinching or being distracted by sprinklings of cat litter on the floor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think I’m more than willing to withold judgement until we have more evidence.  I like what I’ve seen so far of Obama’s intriguing style.  It’ll take some adjustments to become accustomed to having a President with a brain, but I’m willing to give it a decent effort.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There’s something to be said for hiring a really savvy, really smart guy who has his head on straight, and can tell schmooze from good solid intelligently conceived policy, recognizes #*&amp;% and shinola as it were, a good judge of people, a person with valuable experience and a proven track record from dealing with policy, demanding proof and solid explanations without flinching or being distracted by sprinklings of cat litter on the floor.</p>
<p>I think I’m more than willing to withold judgement until we have more evidence.  I like what I’ve seen so far of Obama’s intriguing style.  It’ll take some adjustments to become accustomed to having a President with a brain, but I’m willing to give it a decent effort.</p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/new-sherrif-time-obama-shakes-up-the-senate/#comment-1783614</link>
		<dc:creator>reader</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;love ya, Adie: enjoy the ice cream!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>love ya, Adie: enjoy the ice cream!</p>
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		<title>By: selise</title>
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		<dc:creator>selise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;holy cow! thanks for that update.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>holy cow! thanks for that update.</p>
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