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The Journalist's Job Is To Get The Story By Breaking Into Their Offices, By Bribing, By Seducing People, By Lying, By Anything Else To Break Through The Palace Guard.

The Fact Is ... That When Totalitarian Nations Like China And Saudi Arabia Play Ball With U.s. Business Interests, We Like Them Just Fine. But When Venezuela's Freely Elected President Threatens Powerful Corporate Interests, The Bush Administration Treats Him As An Enemy.

The Death Of American Liberalism As A Significant Moral Force Can Be Traced To The Point In When President Bill Clinton Signed Legislation That Effectively Ended The Main Federal Anti-poverty Program And Turned The Fate Of Welfare Recipients, 70 Percent Of Whom Were Children, Over To The Tender Mercies Of The States. With A Stroke Of The Pen, Clinton Eliminated What Remained Of New Deal-era Compassion For The Poor And Codified Into Law The "tough Love" Callousness That His Republican Allies In The Congress, Led By Newt Gingrich, Had Long Embraced.

If The War On Terror Is Endless, You Could Forget About Democracy.

Eisenhower Provided The First Break In The Cold War, By Bringing Khrushchev To The United States, In Humanizing The Soviets; And Then Nixon, By Making The Opening To China; And Then Reagan, Even Meeting In Reykjavik With Gorbachev And Acknowledging That Nuclear Weapons Are A Horror. So I Won't Accept That Republicans Just Escalate. Republicans, At Least When They Were More Moderate, They Were Maybe Even More Isolationist, They Sometimes Brought Sanity To The Debate. We Don't Have That Now. We Have - All These Republicans Have Gone Off The Neoconservative Deep End.