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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:00 AM

Creepy, revealing quote from White House staffer

A progressive Democrat is condemned for defying "the wishes of the President."
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  • Tuesday, June 30, 2009 08:19 AM

    Sounds crazy, just might work.

    Obama should just declare the guy an "enemy non-combatant," ship him to Gitmo, and appoint a friendly replacement. (There's some Honduran guy recently out of work, I think.)

    That's about where we are as a "democracy" these days. What more harm would it do?

    Only two possibilities: Obama gets away with it, and we get a nice profit-friendly climate bill, or people think of such behavior as unjust, and maybe they wake up to how irrelevant the rules of the republic have become.

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