You know how this works:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Meg Whitman <3’s Van Jones<\/a>? Apparently she “got to know him very well” but struggled to remember his name. Sounds like a politician already.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jane Harman is really rather mildly peeved by all this wiretapping<\/a>, especially when it happens to her.<\/p>\n \u2022 I’m trying to muster up the gumption to feel bad for Miss California<\/a>, but I just can’t. Inserting yourself into the private lives of others means that you give up the ability to be shocked when your private life becomes news. <\/p>\n \u2022 Similarly, this pitying article about the downfall of Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a> does little more than make me laugh. I guess I’m supposed to feel bad that the post-partisan action hero of the national media was “taken down.” Of course, Schwarzenegger did it entirely to himself. <\/p>\n \u2022 This may be controversial, so let me say that I, Dave, have no objection to performance-based budgeting<\/a>. Progressives should demand competent government more than anyone, because we believe that government can work to improve people’s lives. It’s conservatives who use government as a profit-taking machine for corporate cronies.<\/p>\n \u2022 Pete Stark is in the hospital for a case of pneumonia<\/a>. Best wishes! Of course, Stark is using the incident to promote health care reform.<\/p>\n \u2022 Apparently the OC Register thinks newly announced candidate Asm. Van Tran’s race against Loretta Sanchez<\/a> will be “one of the hottest races.” The district’s PVI rating is d+4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know how this works:<\/p>\n \u2022 Meg Whitman <3’s Van Jones<\/a>? Apparently she “got to know him very well” but struggled to remember his name. Sounds like a politician already.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jane Harman is really rather mildly peeved by all this wiretapping<\/a>, especially when it happens to her.<\/p>\n \u2022 I’m trying to muster up the gumption to feel bad for Miss California<\/a>, but I just can’t. Inserting yourself into the private lives of others means that you give up the ability to be shocked when your private life becomes news. <\/p>\n \u2022 Similarly, this pitying article about the downfall of Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a> does little more than make me laugh. I guess I’m supposed to feel bad that the post-partisan action hero of the national media was “taken down.” Of course, Schwarzenegger did it entirely to himself. <\/p>\n \u2022 This may be controversial, so let me say that I, Dave, have no objection to performance-based budgeting<\/a>. Progressives should demand competent government more than anyone, because we believe that government can work to improve people’s lives. It’s conservatives who use government as a profit-taking machine for corporate cronies.<\/p>\n \u2022 Pete Stark is in the hospital for a case of pneumonia<\/a>. Best wishes! Of course, Stark is using the incident to promote health care reform.<\/p>\n \u2022 Apparently the OC Register thinks newly announced candidate Asm. 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