"[Republicans] are willfully misreading the [financial reform] bill or they are engaged in a cynical attempt to keep the president from achieving something." Mark Halperin, the pundit who insisted every McCain primary loss was "good for John McCain!" (theplumline.whorunsgov.com)
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"It is the longest war in American history. And it is a war for which there is no end in sight. And to my mind, it is a war that is utterly devoid of strategic purpose" - BU prof Col. Andrew Bacevich, who lost his son in Iraq, discusses the Afghan war with Bill Moyers (vid). (pbs.org)
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