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Hillary: Mutnemom Forever?

She's always on the ropes now.

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1) Hmm. Isn't the issue why anyone is building trailers in the first place that are dangerous?  This doesn't seem like a FEMA scandal. It seems like a trailer-industry scandal. Most victims of poisonous trailers are probably a) not Katrina victims and b) actually paying good money for their carcinogenic trailers. 2) Is FEMA using the formaldehyde issue as a prod to move people out of the trailers--something it's apparently been trying to do for a while, perhaps to avoid creating a permanent class of free-trailer dwellers? In other words, maybe FEMA wants this scandal (and the press is obligingly giving it to them). ... 11:56 P.M.

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If a Hispanic who has performed as poorly and prominently as Patti Solis Doyle can't be fired without her employer getting grief from Hispanic leaders, isn't that a pretty big disincentive to hiring a Hispanic in the first place? Message: Stick to white males--if they screw up, you can sack them and nobody will whine. ... 9:03 P.M.

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Ellisblog makes a rare appearance to wallow in Clintonfreude. ... 8:53 P.M. 

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

It's hard out there for a Page: What word that he "shouldn't have"  did Mark Halperin use? ... Meow: The word appears to have been "pussy."   As in

"[Edwards]  thinks Obama is kind of a pussy. He has real questions about Obama's toughness ..."

Does that bother you? Doesn't bother me. It adds evocative oomph.  ... The Phoenix's Adam Reilly has a cheap snitfit here. Prissy! ...[via Romenesko4:09 P.M.

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