Eric Florack on April 29th, 2009

rambledrumkitWelcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BigsBlog Nightly Ramble.

This is the “Bang the Drum Slowly” Edition

  • Spectre Specter: I’ve gotten some interesting feedback from readers on this monring article on

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davidl on April 29th, 2009

Olympia Snowe writes in the New York Times, “We Didn’t Have to Lose Arlen Specter?:”

IT is disheartening and disconcerting, at the very least, that here we are today – almost exactly eight years after Senator Jim Jeffords

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Eric Florack on April 29th, 2009

To begin with, let’s get a snip of this morning’s op-ed up on National Review:

Arlen Specter belongs to a type familiar to Congress: the time-serving hack devoid of any principle save arrogance. He has spent three decades in the

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davidl on April 29th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Bush adminstration prepared for pandemics, Tevi Troy, Wall Street Journal:

Swine flu has presented the Obama administration with its first major public-health crisis. Fortunately for the Obama team, the Bush administration developed new tools that will prove critical

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davidl on April 29th, 2009

Err Farce OneMarcia Kramer,

NEW YORK (CBS) –  A furious President Barack Obama ordered an internal review of Monday’s low-flying photo op over the Statue of Liberty.

CBS 2 HD has discovered the feds will have plenty to question.

Federal officials

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