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Is there a bigger fool than Lanny Davis? When will this DLC Democrat stop saying on Fox News that he's a liberal, pack his bags and move on already? He's typical of the kind of Democrat who has no backbone and would rather cry to O'Reilly about health care than to continue to fight for it.

Davis: This is a No Spin Zone fact that we lost in Massachusetts's because we lost the debate on health care...blah, blah, blah...

My God, he has no self respect. He uses BillO's own terminology to validate Bill and his own opinions. You know Lanny, it is personal with pols like yourself. You're more interested in being a pundit with face time than anything else. MA's loss doesn't mean America is against health-care reform. The new DFA poll in MA said they were mad that there was no public option and that it didn't go far enough.

We had Research 2000 poll voters immediately after the Election ended: Even Scott Brown voters want Democrats to be bolder and they want healthcare reform that includes a public option.

You read that right. By a margin of three-to-two, former Obama voters who voted for Republican Scott Brown yesterday said the Senate healthcare bill "doesn't go far enough." Six-to-one Obama voters who stayed home agreed. And to top it off, 80% of all voters still want the choice of a public option in the bill.

Lanny, why don't you use your face time and blast your BFF Joe Lieberman, who helped destroy the Senate health care bill -- which is the bill that America hates -- instead of whining about the pure-hard-left. People like yourself will always keep progressives from victories.

Lanny Davis and his cohort concern troll Sotomayor:

“She misspoke,” said Lanny Davis, a White House lawyer and spokesman for President Bill Clinton. “Every day that goes by that they don’t say she misspoke and she used the wrong words ... they just feed it and give it life and give Rush [Limbaugh] and [Sean] Hannity more airtime unnecessarily.”

This, of course, is about her 2001 speech on the impact of her Latino identity on her performance on the federal bench. Her remarks are insightful, thoughtful, even brilliant. Davis & Co. are typically craven to suggest disavowal in the face of ignorant mau-mauing from the right. Here's the relevant part of the speech, for those who haven't had the chance to read its entirety:

Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.

However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Other simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

Yes, everybody gets to have their day in court to be proven innocent or guilty. We've also even seen OJ and Robert Blake have their day too. Are you happy now Lanny? You're defending Ted Stevens in print now?

Please, go away.

And take Joe Lieberman with you.

Jack Johnson's Good People from In Between Dreams

This song is part of my regular rotation on my MP3 player when I go out for my daily hike with the dog and it's the song that played in my head as I looked at this morning's slate of talking heads on the Sunday news shows. Same old faces, same old mouthpieces. Same old spin. Tell me, where did all the good people go?

ABC's "This Week" - Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

CBS' "Face the Nation" - David Axelrod, strategist for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign; Howard Wolfson, communications director for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign; Richmond Mayor and former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

NBC's "Meet the Press" - Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

CNN's "Late Edition" - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal; former presidential candidate Bill Bradley; Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton.

"Fox News Sunday" - Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence; Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle; Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland.

"The Chris Matthews Show" with panel David Gregory, Elisabeth Bumiller, Chrystia Freeland and David Brooks. Topics: Will Obama's promise of a fresh start give him the edge over Hillary? Would Obama and Hillary run on the same ticket?

What's catching your eye this morning?

Last night Keith interviewed Lanny Davis, the only Democratic member of the president’s civil liberties watchdog board, who recently resigned after the Bush administration made “substantial” edits to the board’s annual report to Congress.

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John Amato: What was he expecting? Did he think being ole Lieberman's pal would make the WH act in a different way on our civil liberties? And of course---he sticks up for the President and blames Congress.

(Luscious coffee photo via a great foodie blog -- Je Mange La Ville.)

The Sunday Talk Head thread is up and running here. Lots of discussion set for the fired US Attorneys and the politicization of the Department of Justice, just based on the show listings. Take a peek at this line-up for CNN's Late Edition:

Samir Sumaidaie, Iraqi ambassador to U.S.; John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah; Lanny Davis, former Clinton special counsel; Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist; Ed Gillespie, former RNC chairman.

Not enough coffee in the entire world to get me through that line-up, I can tell you that. Sheesh.

Although I would love to see Orrin Hatch have to answer several questions about the number of his minions who have their hands in this festering Turdblossom Special from Rove's shop. That could be very fun, indeed, because Sen. Hatch needs to be held to account for that Patriot Act provision, among many, many other things in this mess. Would that I could believe Blitzer would actually ASK those questions today. (If you have somehow missed the Media Matters analysis on the conservative leanings of the Sunday shows, do take a look at the report.)

So, what's catching your eye in the news this morning?

(sorry, spell checker messed up the post) Now why would Dan Gerstein not like bloggers? (Jeopardy think music) Might it be because he worked for Joe Lieberman and lost the Democratic Primary? MSNBC are morons for putting this guy up to discuss anything about blogs.

Gerstein: Well, it sounds like a simple question, but there's a big problem in the Democratic party right now. And let me preface what I'm about to say by saying I have a blog, I'm a big believer in the power of blogs in politics to make it more Democratic and empower people's voices, but for a lot of the Democratic bloggers there's extremism, anger, and there's a kind of lack of accountability for what people say and do and I think this is more and more going to become a problem in presidential politics as the blogosphere and the campaign world start converging. And I think, to sum it up, I think this is a warning sign there's a risk of getting fleas if you lie down with blogs.

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Digby has the full transcript and explains:

MSNBC featured a lively segment this morning between Dan Gerstein, Joe Lieberman's personal WATB, and some other guy on the subject of the Edwards blogger brouhaha.

I know that we can't expect MSNBC to know that Bill Donohue is a date-rape defending crackpot or to know that Dan Gerstein is a far right neocon who represents about three nominal Democrats in the whole country --- Lieberman, Lanny Davis and Martin Peretz. Read on...

MyLeftNutmeg, CTBlogger, and Cliff Schecter add their two cents as well...

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"But this whole ordeal can end right now if Michael Schiavo simply stops the litigation. He should stand up and say that he tried to implement his wife's wishes, but the greater good is now served by allowing her family to care for her, as they want to do."

Then with guest Lanny Davis:

"There's gonna be more hatred. My solution solves everything. Michael Schiavo could be a big hero ... And I would do this, if it were my wife, if it were my mom or dad or son or daughter. I would do this and I am not saying this lightly - I would do it."

We can definitely trust O'Reilly, I mean he's the guy who attempted to mislead his audience about how he has seen combat. A caller made O'Reilly admit that he has never been in the military. (James Poling is offering a reward to anyone that can find a reported incident of O'Reilly was actually in a firefight)

And he misled us about being a great college punter, so I'm sure we can trust what Bill would or would not do in such a sensitive situation since he has always been so honest.

More on Bill here (always grateful for the typo-police)