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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Faulty headlines

Just a nitpick, but the headline on MSNBC's main page for this article is "Democrats delay vote on U.N. nominee." Of course, the Democrats couldn't do it on their own, so it should say "Republicans join Democrats to delay U.N. nominee" or "Two Republicans help delay vote..."

Well, you get the idea. Besides, the news would not be that Democrats delayed the vote, but rather this:
Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and George Voinovich of Ohio, both expressed reservations about a quick vote as did a solid phalanx of Democrats. Voinovich was direct in expressing his concern. "I've heard enough today that gives me some real concern about Mr. Bolton," he said.

No one expected that one.