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Why do Feinstein and Wyden sound much different on the torture issue now?

The two Senators spent the year emphatically insisting that the CIA's interrogators comply with the Army Field Manual. With Democrats in control, they're not so emphatic any longer

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  • Thursday, December 4, 2008 08:53 PM

    OT: Barney Frank on post-partisanship

    Democrats Impatient With Obama to Weigh In on Economy

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/04/democrats-impatient-obama-act-economy/

    ... ""It is a grave mistake to assume that parties are irrelevant to this process," he said. "My one difference with the president-elect, about whom I am very enthusiastic, is when he talks about being post-partisan.

    "Having lived with this very right wing Republican group that runs the House most of the time, the notion of trying to deal with them as if we could be post-partisan gives me post-partisan depression," Frank said."

    If only they were all so... errr... Candid?

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