While Paper News Folds, CT News Junkie Writes On

Meanwhile,The Three Stooges of the Senate (0.00 / 0)

try to stay relevent in the WAPO

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

and fail miserably.

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by: ctkeith @ Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 23:12:25 PM UTC

Broken models (0.00 / 0)

Iraq can serve as an anchor of stability in the region, a counter to Iranian hegemony and a model of democracy for the Middle East.

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by: Scarce @ Sun Dec 21, 2008 at 10:13:11 AM UTC

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newspapers in England ... (4.00 / 1)

... reporting on the other model of "democracy" in the Middle East:

Impoverished Palestinians on the Gaza Strip are being forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps to survive as Israel's economic blockade risks causing irreversible damage, according to international observers. [...]

The deteriorating conditions inside Gaza emerged as Tony Blair, Middle East envoy for the Quartet - US, Russia, the UN and the EU - warned explicitly yesterday that Israel's policy of economic blockade, which had been imposed a year and a half ago when Hamas took power on the Gaza Strip, was reinforcing rather than undermining the party's hold on power. [...]

"The present situation is not harming Hamas in Gaza but it is harming the people," Blair said yesterday. Calling for a change in policy over Gaza, he added: "I don't think that the current situation is sustainable; I think most people who would analyse it think the same."

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by: CaptCT @ Sun Dec 21, 2008 at 11:52:39 AM UTC

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forgot the link (4.00 / 1)

here it is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl...

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by: CaptCT @ Sun Dec 21, 2008 at 11:54:26 AM UTC

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Picture matches the vote? (0.00 / 0)

Are you sure the picture showing members voting actually matches the caption "A STAND: Democratic State Central Committee members who agreed to send a letter to Senator Joseph I. Lieberman."?

Front row is Jim Throwe holding up his hand. I know he wanted Liberman censured and is livid with both Blondin and Olson for the way the meeting turned out.  

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by: Missy's Brother @ Sun Dec 21, 2008 at 15:01:08 PM UTC

vote to take the measure off the table (0.00 / 0)

You can tell because Blondin (in bright green at the back of the room) moved up to the front immediately following this vote, and did not return for the remainder of the meeting.

Also, Throwe was one of the two votes against the letter, but I didn't get his name before. The other was Brian Anderson.

One other funny thing is that this picture caught the two ladies in front of Judy Russo voting aye before she made them take their hands down. "We don't want the resolution! You have to vote no!" And so they did. I really hope Congress doesn't work that way.

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by: mattw @ Sun Dec 21, 2008 at 18:19:47 PM UTC

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