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  • Wednesday, January 7, 2009 09:32 AM

    @ CarolynC

    Members like Rockefeller, Harman and Feinstein know their role is to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil, to create the appearance of democratic oversight when in fact there is none.

    Say amen, someone. Now we need to shrink that down to something that the Freeway Blogger (and his elves) can plaster on bridges all over the land.

    Cheers,

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