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To call Slate’s lazy hatchet-job of Republican conventional wisdom “bullshit” would be a compliment to the fecal matter of male bovines. Nevertheless, if you look beyond the Pelosi, Reid, and Dean bashing, there’s a tiny bit that’s worthwhile :But more important than what the three stooges do wrong is what they can’t seem to do at all, namely articulate a positive agenda for reform and change.

Talk about treating the symptom and not the disease :Gov. Joe Manchin said Thursday that the Bush administration should require full-time, professional rescue teams to respond to fires and explosions in the nation’s coal mines.

Manchin called for the action during a Charleston event to honor mine rescue teams from across West Virginia.

The governor praised rescue team members, but noted that few mines have their own teams and all members are volunteers.

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It’s been twelve years since the “Contract With America” and twenty-six since Reagan rode to office proclaiming that “government is the problem”, yet Americans are still waiting for the miracle to occur. Aren’t lower taxes supposed to create jobs? Aren’t lax environmental regulations supposed to make the air and water cleaner?

Haven’t paid much attention to the latest twists in the Katherine Harris corruption scandal, but this update at TPM Muckraker put a smile on my face :Here’s the kind of lede you never want to see as a candidate, particularly if you’re a makeup-happy Republican running for Senate in Florida: “Katherine Harris has seen better days.”

Or try this one: