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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Arlen Scorned

This was completely unexpected:
Friends tell The Daily Beast that the departing senator, injured by Obama's failure to show last-minute support, may well shift right on key votes from Kagan to financial reform.
Except to those of us who are attuned to the human condition:


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5 comments:

  1. A great way to end a career - another flip-flop! Hehehe.

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  2. this is tangential but have you seen the white house's official response on the sestak jobgate scandal? http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/memorandum-white-house-counsel-regarding-review-discussions-relating-congressman-se

    Basically, sure we offered him a job, but it was an unpaid one, so its okay. i have yet to find any case that says that.

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  3. Btw, the criminal statute most on point is 18 usc 600. The plain language of the statute says that a crime has in fact been committed. so unless there is a precedent offering a surprising interpretation of that statute somewhere, they have confessed to a crime today. the fact that the white house counsel mentions no precedent to that effect suggests that none exist and he is just trying to buffalo his way through.

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  4. So Specter goes out not with a bang but a whine.

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