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Obama's sellout on FISA (and the death penalty and his odious remarks about mental distress made while using the GOP frame of "partial birth abortion") makes the devil I know a more attractive choice than the devil who has yet to reveal himself fully.
As I have said over and over, a president from the opposition party should at least be moderated by an adversarial Democratic congress. A Democratic congress would be nothing if not submissive to Obama. I'll take my chances on the adversarial relationship, so yes, I do have a place to go.
Matthew Yglesias? He apparently likes living in rivers...like De Nile. Never saw what others saw in Yglesias in the first place. He's a kid. I half expect him to become a raving right wing loon before he's 40. In any case, he isn't someone to look to for political wisdom...or wisdom of any sort.
Truthfully, I had expected to see Hillary Clinton cave on FISA today. I figured she would not want to show up the Demopublican nominee, and I figured a quid pro quo had been established on the Demopublican nominee's help with retiring her campaign debt. Apparently I was wrong and the lady is made of sterner stuff than I knew. Good on her.
Obama? Not for me. Like I said, better the devil that I know...
