A Democratic insider, who wishes to remain anonymous, is leaving the Bredesen administration to work for Bill Frist's education initiative in the advocacy department.
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Apparently, the Shriver family is to mentally disabled people what Jesse Jackson is to black people; an unappointed figurehead for whom all apologies for careless word choices uttered must be funneled through.
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But it looks like we're in the pink-to-purple range...and that ain't good.
Rep. Phil Roe, Republican in the 1st district, sought to honor a man who has been arrested on conspiracy charges of trying to break into the offices of Sen. Landrieu for the apparent purposes of planting a wiretap.
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What some people want to hear in the SOTU, via ND 2.0:
After a rather rough week politically, I think this somewhat encapsulates the mood:
Does Harold Ford Jr. have an "in" with the Puerto Rican community up in New York? Perhaps, given his previous opposition to a resolution denouncing Bill Clinton's pardon of a handful of members of FALN, a Puerto Rican separatist group. [...] 
...wouldn't it be great if science classes in public schools are started with this video?
Clearly, Obama is a fascist narcissistic dictator who forgets that we are his boss, while simultaneously he needs to remember that AMERICAN PRESIDENTS BOW BEFORE NO ONE! [...] 
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Tom Humphrey has a thorough examination of the PAC process among Tennessee's legislators and finds a donation scheme which helps those in power maintain power by transferring money from PACs to accounts with the effect of limiting the usefulness of individual campaign donation limits.' [...]
You, sir, are an asshole...
