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This is what we'll be fighting against until November.  Stanley Fish writes a disingenuous love letter to St. John McCain in his blog at the New York Times.  From Fish's standpoint, everything McCain has done regarding Iraq will help him in the general election.  To come to this point, Fish must ignore all of the reasons we went to war in the first place.  As is usual with the American media, what's past is quickly forgotten, which is why Fish gets to say this:

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I've been working on a piece concerning the bizarre Washington wish for every to "just get along."  In it I note that it is not the Democrats, but the Republicans who fail to compromise.  The failure of the media to call out this minority party for their continued obstruction of popular legislation is simply unforgiveable.  That piece can be viewed here:

http://www.theleftanchor.com/2008/01/bip artisanship.html

The David Broder's of the world fail to realize the benefits of partisanship.  There are debates to be had here, there are issues to be addressed.  And if anything, the most troubling aspect of the current Republican party is their continued failure to agree on any empirical reality.  Without an objective set of facts with which to debate the issues, the issues become non-negotiable.  They won't admit to any objective reality, and therefore, there is little we can do to convince them of our positions, or to even reach a compromise.  I have a piece concerning that factor here:

http://www.theleftanchor.com/2008/01/jud icial-activi.html

And if anyone wonders what a brokered Republican convention might look like, I've taken my best stab at it here.  I'd like to think it's both funny and accurate, but what do I know?

http://www.theleftanchor.com/2008/01/giu liani-now-fo.html

Go Blue in 2008,
Big Blue

An interesting discussion of what is being called "The Immaculate McCain Smear" here:

http://www.theleftanchor.com/2008/01/the -immaculate.html

It's interesting that the media can't seem to admit to themselves what a harsh, scorched-earth campaign Bush ran in 2000.  I guess they were so busy imagining what it would be like to have a beer with Bush that they failed to recognize that Karl Rove was running the most agressively racist campaign since Lee Atwater in 1988.

God forbid they tell anyone about it now.  To quote "Big Blue" -- I don't know how one can condemn an act without also condemning the person who committed the offense.  But our press corps finds a way.