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  • Monday, January 5, 2009 03:49 PM

    Antineocon

    Unbelievably, I am enjoying the significant annoyance of Feinstein even more. I didn't know "pure, petty enjoyment" could be so nice.

    Indeed. And Rockefeller's annoyance.

    You might be right: for pure petty enjoyment, the fact that those two preening, pompous cretins weren't "consulted" -- and the upset they are experiencing -- might be even better than Jane Harman's public rejection.

    It's all such a close call. The right people really were scorned and angered today.

    Amazing, isn't it - it's always about them. They're all upset because Obama didn't get their permission first -- and because he brought in an outsider rather than some CIA hack beholden to the Rockefeller/Feinstein feifdom -- so they go and undercut Obama and Panetta publicly over nothing more than their own feelings of resentment. What empty, little people they are.

    We're talking here about who is going to head the CIA after 8 years of the worst abuse imaginable and they're all mad that Barack didn't call them first.

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