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Re: Hill for Sec. of State: I simply can't fathom why anyone with an independent power base and ambitions would want to be a cabinet secretary. If you do something great, you reflect well on the president, but if you screw up, you take the fall. I can see if you have some actual deep and abiding interest in or ideas about the department you'd head -- for instance, I get the feeling that Donald Rumsfeld was genuinely interested in running the military, even though he did such a shitty job -- but is it a real stepping stone, to anything? Maybe Hillary has some secret plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that will earn her a Nobel consolation prize, but somehow I doubt it.
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(This is why you only want me reading, not commenting.)
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I think Hillary is an extraordinarily effective politician. I think she is a strong, loud, respected voice in the Senate. I think she is extremely well-versed in health care policy and legislation, education policy and legislation, and equal rights policy and legislation. I think she is okay with foreign affairs, and she is not -- I repeat is not -- anywhere near as adept with or nuanced in her understanding of foreign affairs and foreign policy. I really, really think that, with the next four years shaping up the way they are, we need Hillary's ability to really shape and push legislation in order to make Congress as effective as it needs to be to maintain and/or increase the Democratic majority in the legislative branch. I think we need her in the Congress and not in the White House.
I feel like when I say that, people skew it to mean I'm saying she's not qualified. I suppose she is, but I really think she'd be much better leading the Senate.
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It's been two years. Megan, Ana, I love you both: WE ARE TIRED.
Plus, do you have any idea how much trashy TV we've missed because of this election? I have to catch up on Gary Busey's epic... life on Celebrity Rehab! I mean, rilly.
11/21/08
I heard: great appreciation, great country, good Americans, great appreciation, great appreciation a DESIRE of our government.
Seriously.
Also, you can totally tell she listens to her pastors- born-again evangelicals are always "desiring of the Lord" and she has transferred that to gov't- but without making an OUNCE OF SENSE.
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/self-pity
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"Why is mommy leaving?" Piper asked Todd mournfully one night, as she watched her mother disappear into the Alaska night wearing only pajamas, an amunition belt, a gun in a holdster, and snowshoes.
"Mommy is mommy," her father explained, "And when Mommy needs to kill, Mommy must go into the wilderness until she kills. It is the way of nature."
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And no, it wasn't a "hack" if it was done from behind the firewall.
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I suspect Ana Marie and Megan are more influnced by their journalistic genes so they can't really put themselves in the position of a regular employee. I used to have a similar outlook when I was an auditor. In that job nosiness was a positive and reading upside down was a skill I perfected.
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And that's my precious childhood memory ruined by grown up problems moment of the day.
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I like Rachel Maddow as Glinda.
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The Supreme Court is the Lollipop Guild.
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I always read, though.
Also, I am super busy at work. I can't do my daily Jez dose like I used to. I actually have to WORK, bitches!
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