Legal Commentary

Lessons Learned?

By Big Tent Democrat

Ezra Klein:

According to some of [Ben Smith's administration sources], Jim Messina, White House deputy chief of staff, was impressed by the speed with which Tom Vilsack canned Shirley Sherrod. "We could have waited all day," he reportedly said. "We could have had a media circus. But we took decisive action and it’s a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere."

(Emphasis supplied.) You gotta be effing kidding me.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).