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It's bad enough when it's Republicans Concern Trolling Obama's AG nominee, Eric Holder. These GOP Fails wish only to roadblock any Obama successes... while feeding their tiny, bruised egos.
But now it's Democrats all puffing-up and being so very Concerned over current or prospective Obama Nominees. Feinstein(1) and Rockefeller (who's now "feeling a little bit better"... Thank you, Lord Jay!) on Leon Panetta for CIA Director. Conyers on Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General.
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1. Feinstein's now "backing" Panetta after Obama apologized to her. With two young daughters Obama knows how to handle little children.
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I've got a feeling the Democrats are, in a way (a petty, childish way) as insanely jealous of Barack Obama as the low and craven Capitol Hill Republicans are.
Meanwhile, Harry Reid wants us to make sure we all know that he doesn't work for Barack Obama. Well, of course he can't work for Barack Obama: the employment contract he signed with Mitch McConnell contains strict "Non-Compete" provisions.
One could easily get the impression that Capitol Hill Dems, far from lining up to take-on and crush the last vestiges of the tattered and confused and frustrated and rudderless GOP, work to give the Obama Administration a hundred-or-so day "Honeymoon", and roll up their sleeves and GET TO WORK are much, much more focused on grabbing self-aggrandizing headlines, or making sure that their bloodied and beaten Republican counterparts are soon put back on the Road to Recovery.
I did a little digging, though, and found a few words from "antiquity" that just may be appropriate in and for the here-and-now:
"These are difficult times for our country. And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help [Barack Obama] lead us through the many challenges we face.
"I urge all Americans, I urge all Americans . . . to join me in not just congratulating [Barack Obama], but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited. . .
"I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.
"Americans never quit. We never surrender.(2)
"We never hide from history. We make history. . . ."
(Emphasis Added)
John McCain, November 4, 2008
Can someone get the Memo to Capitol Hill Democrats?
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2. "As long as there is injustice, whenever a Targathian baby cries out, wherever a distress signal sounds among the stars, we'll be there."