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Quit Muttering. We Don't Need GOP Outcry

by: Dean Barker

Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 05:47:25 AM EDT
A Democrat picking a Democrat - "shocking":
It would have been more shocking had Lynch not made his nomination of Republican Ayotte, of Nashua, to another four-year term as attorney general.

Lynch surely didn't need the outcry not just from GOP leaders from Coos County to the Atlantic Ocean, but also the echo of many law-enforcement executives.

Ayotte got the nomination Wednesday, but she learned of it nearly two weeks earlier before Lynch took a half-week vacation.

...This doesn't stop even prominent Democrats from muttering that too many Republicans get perks from this three-term chief executive.

"Sometimes, we think he's more kind to those in the other party than to those of us in his own,'' one declared - privately, of course.

Phew - glad we avoided that outcry. You'd think from some of the muttering going around - privately, of course - that we Democrats won decisive victories in 2006 and 2008 and have some sort of party ID advantage.

Crazy talk.
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Quit Muttering. We Don't Need GOP Outcry | 3 comments
Color me weird but I don't see how being hired to be (0.00 / 0)
Attorney General is a perk. Nor do I see what political party identification has to do with a law enforcement position.  
This post is not (0.00 / 0)
a criticism of AG Ayotte's merits or lack thereof.

It is a meditation on the staus quo of power and media - a paradigm that has remained intact, despite two election cycles.

birch, finch, beech

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Republicans are always going to be focused on Democrats. (0.00 / 0)
That's their style.  It's what they consider being socially aware.  They are not going to be focused on results or achievements because what's important to them is "influence" over other people.

Who is always more important than what in the Republican world view.

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