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McClatchy, a news organization with, in my experience, far from radical tendencies shows no qualms about that t-word (second graf, second line).... Ignoring the hullabaloo in the popular press, William Rivers Pitt at Truthout gets it right on Arlen Specter, though not without some heavy sampling from one of the best bloggers in the business. The essence? Specter changed parties--admittedly for campaign purposes--but he didn't change ideologies (case in point, sixth graf)... Or maybe not; did anyone report that, beside changing parties , Specter earned a byline this month in one of the left's leading intellectual magazines? ... The New York Times takes its magnifying glass to school cafeterias... The AP refuse to let the children of 'Slumdog' be forgotten, but if its own reporting is to be believed, it is a much more complex story then the lede suggests...UPDATE: Specter's independent nature doesn't escape the Washington Post.
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I love how Specter makes this courageous pitch to restrict the prez's power after Bush leaves office. I understand that he's a member of the world's slowest deliberative body, but is this a position that really took 8 years to properly formulate?
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