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We rejected asinine attempts to assign guilt by association when the Republican right tried for months to torpedo Obama’s presidential bid by tying him to Pastor Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. Now, we reject Reid’s asinine rejection of Burris’ legitimacy to represent Illinois in the Senate.

President-elect Barack Obama is making many good personnel selections as he prepares for the duties and responsibilities of the highest office in America, but naming Pastor Rick Warren to give his inaugural invocation is not one of them.
The charismatic senior pastor of Saddleback Church in California is likable and his inclusion will probably strike [...]

Our main misgiving about Clinton becoming secretary of state is what the media, especially the right-wing noise machine, will surely do the whole time she’s in the post.

Quote: “I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. . .”

Herein, briefly, our suggestions for several Cabinet appointments we’d like to see president-elect Barack Obama make, with a few reasons why. Attorney General: Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. . .

An excellent New York Times story provides valuable insight into how the greed and stupidity of powerful financial industry villains ran our economy into the ditch.
The story focuses on investment giant Merrill Lynch, but the idiocy was rampant all over Wall Street and beyond.
We found the following passage especially informative (emphasis ours):

But as [...]

In one mindless, self-serving statement, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, perfectly epitomized the attitude of conservative Republican politicians.
In one stroke Stevens denied reality, set himself above the law and demanded others accept what he was saying as true because he said so.
Even after President George W. Bush’s, “I’m the decider; I get to decide,” hubris, [...]

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, convicted today on seven counts of failing to properly disclose gifts and extensive work done on his home, claimed innocence and blamed the Justice Department for railroading him.

Because of “the Oracle’s” mistaken presumption that wealthy, powerful businessmen would never succumb to raw greed and stupidity, hundreds of millions of nonwealthy, powerless people across America and around the world have suffered losses totaling trillions of dollars.

Although “The Rachel Maddow Show” has been on the cable network just 25 days, it’s racking up ratings sure to give competing Fox News and CNN heartburn.