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Jumping off a 500-foot cliff onto rocks and not expecting it to hurt when you hit bottom.
after all that brilliant negotiation? Who knew?
we trip over our own shoelaces.
can you clarify your answer a bit? 
of the official Administration. Even if he wasn't, I think his days are numbered with the "new breed" of Republicans poisoning Washington. Not as bad as the House, but... We've got some good new ones, too, but don't know if they're of LBJ calibre. Yet. Can you think of anyone?
But I agree -- I've been saying since O was first elected that he should send Joe down to "do an LBJ" 
I think that he's pretty good at what he does for the most part. After Daschle was defeated in 2004, he did a good job rallying the Democrats in the Senate against Bush's Social Security scheming. The main problem is that he is still responding to how things used to be only a few years ago. However, the Republicans have rapidly (de-)volved since then and I don't think him and most of the "old school" Democrats have been able and/or willing to adapt to match them blow-for-blow. The Democrats in the Senate really need to take a an hour or two sometime soon (maybe Joe B. can attend too?) for a good old-fashioned "huddle" to try to come up with some kind of strategy to break the Republican chokehold they have on the Senate and/or figure out some way to make the Republicans pay an increasingly expensive price for their tactics. 
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