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Whenever I read something from a progressive trying to put a positive face on Obama's continuing and escalating series of dumps on the American left, I can't help but be reminded of the little boy who got a stocking full of manure for Christmas. Feeling around inside it, he announces that he thinks that Santa left him a pony but he just hasn't found it yet.
I'd like to feel positive about Brennan's defeat. Somehow, though, I suspect that there will be no shortage of torture-supporters and privacy-violators in the Obama Administration - starting, of course, with President "FISA pledge? What FISA pledge?" himself.
That stocking is really starting to stink, and I don't think there's any pony in there.
