{"id":5033,"date":"2010-11-04T18:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5033"},"modified":"2010-11-04T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:10:34","slug":"rachel-maddow-political-oracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/11\/04\/rachel-maddow-political-oracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Maddow: Political Oracle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five days before the election.Rachel Maddow had a commentary on the prospects for compromise between Republicans and Democrats<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I did not post it then because it made me too angry to think straight.\u00a0 I got angry not because she was wrong, but because she was right.\u00a0 I got angry not because she had divined the hidden meaning in what Republican politicians were saying, but because she put together a montage of the obvious.\u00a0 She made it even more painful by adding to the montage the words of various Democrats that showed how deep into denial they were.<\/p>\n
I have seen a few headlines about what she is saying today, but that may be even more painful to watch.<\/p>\n
Thinking about these items and comparing them to what Obama had to say in his press conference shows that the denial did not end election night.<\/p>\n
The question now should be what will it take for the Democratic politicians to wake up?<\/p>\n
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I have relented and started looking at her comments tonight.<\/p>\n
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