Summary
Before even the Diebold voting machines were cold, I predicted that internecine warfare would soon erupt among the Democrats - and the person with most to gain from that will be McCain (or whoever the Republican nominee turns out to be), just as it could become a curse for Senator Hillary Clinton (ditto). Caroline Fredrickson, Washington legislative director of the American Civil Liberties Union, says "we will hold [the congressional Democrats'] feet to the fire" to repeal parts of the Patriot Act and make eavesdropping on Americans illegal.
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Runners and Riders in the Real Battle Ahead
So who was the winner in the elections? Nancy Pelosi, the 66-year-old who will be speaker of the House after 3 January? Representative Jack Murtha, the 74-year-old former Vietnam hero who dared to sp eak up against the war in Iraq and whom Pelosi has appointed Democratic leader of the House? Robert Gates, 63, current president of the overwhelmingly white Texas A&M university and former disastrous director of the CIA, who was mixed up to his neck in the IranContra scandals but who has now d...
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