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It may be that General Motors, Chrysler and Ford are lumbering, Jurassic beasts that deserve their looming extinction. But only a free-market fundamentalist, a lunatic or a Senate Republican — perhaps that’s redundant — would conclude that now is the moment to hasten Detroit’s demise.

Whatever the future holds for Blagojevich, Illinois Democrats need to do some serious housecleaning. The guy they chose to run for governor and helped elect didn’t get to the jam he’s in now by being honest as the day is long up until recently.

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. . .”

In a sense, it is unfair — to him, to us — to make Tuesday’s election about race. Whatever appeal Obama may have had to African Americans and white liberals eager to vote for a black candidate, is, I believe, dwarfed by his appeal to Americans of all stripes who have simply had enough of the politics of addition by division . . .

Quote: “The war made it clear that we have all kinds of shortcomings in equipment, training, battlefield coordination, and intelligence. . . . There is no political leadership over military organization. . .

Talk about wheels coming off the wagon — the neocon scourge has at long last become too much for even loyal water carrier David Brooks to stomach. The New York Times columnist vented this week at a gathering for the redesigned Atlantic magazine.

Quote: “I read the other day that Sen. McCain likes to gamble.Quote logo He likes to roll those dice. And that’s OK. I enjoy a little friendly game of poker myself every now and then. But one thing I know is this: We can’t afford to gamble on four more years of the same disastrous economic policies we’ve had for the last eight.”

“She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials. You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.
. . .”I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and [...]

“On national security, the Republican Party advocates continuing to force thousands of young Americans to risk life and limb refereeing Iraq’s civil war. Though the party’s slogan hearkens back to conservatives’ ‘America First’ isolationism, the GOP nonetheless supports spending $12 billion a month on the war — money needed at home.
“Same story on economics. In [...]

“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued — not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.
“We will not be [...]