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Matt Taibbi's wrong: Obama is still the same, dammit. sticky icon

Most of you have seen Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article by now (see it here: http://www.rollingstone.com/po... ).  But the first few paragraphs are what is endemic about the current mess, with this quote being one to which I take immediate exception:

What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history.

No. It's. Not.

 

An Open Letter to Senator Byrd, AKA "Comments on Byrd's letter to the POTUS" sticky icon

crossposted from Alegre's Corner

I read with great incredulity last evening of Sen. Robert Byrd's letter to Barack Obama; Sen. Byrd, in this widely publicized letter to President Obama, is unhappy with what Byrd calls a "power grab" by the setting up of "policy czars" who bypass the Senate, thus doing an end-run around the Constitutional requirement of checks and balances.