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95. Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

• KCinDC: The 2004 caucus wasn’t that exciting. I just remember standing in a fairly long line waiting to vote....
• KCinDC: Yes, our punishment in 2004 was to make the primary nonbinding, which is exactly what happened with primaries...
• Jamelle: I forgot who said this, but I think it’s fairly accurate. This primary has essentially revealed who on...
• KathyF: The stupid bullshit actually makes the regular old bullshit look reasonable by comparison.
• eRobin: Gotcha. I re-read and saw the “his/her” up there.
• eRobin: eRiposte is a woman??
• eRobin: I do think that his base would be turned off if he went negative. But he has gone negative - plenty of times....
• eRobin: Turkana is saying that an argument Clinton can make to the SD’s is that she won the popular count. Of...
• Thomas Nephew: Interesting post. I’ll comment here with something I originally put up at my post as an update....
• Thomas Nephew: No problem, of course. I had just figured they’d *both* get delayed. Look forward to your post,...

TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Why is Hillary

Some speculate the Senator Clinton would want the spirit-killing Vice Presidency because she would be willing to wait for two terms so as to be the likely nominee in 2012. I believe that she could well contemplate this scenario. [Link]

Fact Checker

A subsequent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research showed that gas prices fell by 3 percent, meaning that only three fifths of the savings from reduced taxes was passed on to consumers. [Link]

The Crypt's Blog - Politico.com

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is filing a complaint with the IRS today challenging the conservative group Freedom's Watch status as a non-profit. [Link]

Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream

For Barbara, Hillary has become the screech on the blackboard. From First Lady to Lady Macbeth. [Link]

Heilemann: Robert Reich to Endorse Obama -- Daily Intel -- New York News Blog -- New York Magazine

So what's changed? I asked Reich. "I saw the ads" — the negative man-on-street commercials that the Clinton campaign put up in Pennsylvania in the wake of Obama's bitter/cling comments a week ago — "and I was appalled, frankly. [Link]

village voice > news > The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere by Roy Edroso

Otherwise cites other (mostly right-wing) writers, adding a few words—or one word (usually heh, indeed, or ouch)—to denote approval. This style is, probably purposely, hard to engage. [Link]

Lace Your Shoes - Wired How-To Wiki

Before you tie 'em, you have to lace 'em — and you can choose from among 43,200 perfectly legitimate ways to do it. [Link]

"Obama: Liberal Madman!" by Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)

“He doesn’t have the appearance of a tax-and-spend liberal . . . but if the essence of being a tax-and-spend liberal is a lot of taxes and spending, that’s what he comes down to.” [Link]

Hillary Clinton the populist? - Jeanne Cummings - Politico.com

Before an audience of liberal bloggers last fall, Hillary Clinton defended Washington’s advocate class. “A lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans. They actually do,” she said. [Link]

DCDL

As things currently stand, it appears that the 39 delegates from DC will include 19 Obama supporters and 14 Clinton supporters. The positions of the remaining 6 — the 4 undeclared DNC members and the 2 add-ons — are unknown. [Link]

The Obama Doctrine | The American Prospect

But to understand what Obama is proposing, it's important to ask: What, exactly, is the mind-set that led to the war? What will it mean to end it? And what will take its place? [Link]

Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics

Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ, many of them recruited at the Fellowship's only public ev [Link]

President weakens espionage oversight - The Boston Globe

"It's quite clear that the Bush administration officials who were around in the 1970s are settling old scores now," said Tim Sparapani, senior legislative counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. [Link]

My Street: Tackling Best Buy, Pushing Mini Hot Dogs, and Running for Prez - The Washington Note

Raelyn Campbell has a wild story. She bought a computer at Best Buy. It malfunctioned. She took it back to be repaired. They apparently lost it -- lied about it -- and lied about it -- and lied about it -- and then. . .lied about it. [Link]

TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | EPA Chief Flouts Supreme Court Ruling

When Feinstein pressed, Johnson admitted that "I don't know the answer to that," but offered he himself is working on it, determining "what are the next steps." [Link]

Daily Kos: Why did Bush neutralize the Intelligence Oversight Board?

All of this might suggest that the new Executive Order was designed to prevent the IOB from re-emerging as an effective oversight body under a future president. [Link]

Informed Comment: Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes

What about Congressman Darrell Issa of California? ("`Isa&quo~ means Jesus in Arabic). Former cabinet secretary Donna Shalala? (Shalala means "waterfall&~ in Arabic). [Link]

Oscar winner targets Abramoff, McCain - Jeffrey Ressner - Politico.com

The filmmaker who won an Academy Award Sunday night for best documentary is next turning his attention to the Jack Abramoff scandal, including GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s role in investigating the affair. [Link]

The Gavel » Blog Archive » House Approves Contempt Resolutions for Miers and Bolten

Today, the House has just approved H.Res. 982, which provides for the adoption of H.Res. 979, recommending that the House of Representatives find Harriet Miers, former White House Counsel, and Joshua Bolten, the White House Chief of Staff, in contempt of [Link]

Clinton Devised Both Pro-war and Anti-war Candidacy - The Washington Independent - U.S. news and politics - washingtonindependent.com

Looking at Clinton’s statements during critical moments in the war underscores her obscurantism on the most important issue of U.S. national security—a stance that makes sense only in the related contexts of strategic confusion and political expedienc [Link]