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	<title>Comments on: Meet The Press For 3/22/09</title>
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	<description>Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable.</description>
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		<title>By: kranky kritter</title>
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		<dc:creator>kranky kritter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m with the pro-details crowd. 

No reason, IMO, to throw the admin under the bus. No reason to insist they have all the answers right away. No reason to conflate &quot;not knowing all the answers&quot; with &quot;they have no clue what they are doing.&quot; They are trying stuff. They&#039;re doing some guessing like everyone else. Beware the certain in times like this. I see a lot of people out there acting like they know, when they DOPN&#039;T know.

And also no reason not to want to know details. Hard to have an opinion if you don&#039;t know how a plan is going to work. Hard to have any confidence without such knowledge.

I am not in principle opposed to a plan that is flexible and adjusts to changing conditions. Anything like that is going to give the appearance that you&#039;re making it up as you go along. But if your plan is vague, then the audience truly has no choice whatsoever but to score the plan on its results. 

I think people need to be more patient than they&#039;d prefer to be under current circumstances. But let&#039;s face it, that&#039;s unlikely to happen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m with the pro-details crowd. </p>
<p>No reason, IMO, to throw the admin under the bus. No reason to insist they have all the answers right away. No reason to conflate &#8220;not knowing all the answers&#8221; with &#8220;they have no clue what they are doing.&#8221; They are trying stuff. They&#8217;re doing some guessing like everyone else. Beware the certain in times like this. I see a lot of people out there acting like they know, when they DOPN&#8217;T know.</p>
<p>And also no reason not to want to know details. Hard to have an opinion if you don&#8217;t know how a plan is going to work. Hard to have any confidence without such knowledge.</p>
<p>I am not in principle opposed to a plan that is flexible and adjusts to changing conditions. Anything like that is going to give the appearance that you&#8217;re making it up as you go along. But if your plan is vague, then the audience truly has no choice whatsoever but to score the plan on its results. </p>
<p>I think people need to be more patient than they&#8217;d prefer to be under current circumstances. But let&#8217;s face it, that&#8217;s unlikely to happen.</p>
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		<title>By: Smooth Jazz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Smooth Jazz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The media is not acting on behalf of Wall Street when they call for clarity, they are acting on behalf of themselves.  &quot;Clarity&quot; is just another default Republican opposition word to anything the President does.  &quot;Clarity&quot; could also be another good word that means &quot;I&#039;m not a big spender, I&#039;m really thinking carefully about whether or not I should support this legislation or not.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The media is not acting on behalf of Wall Street when they call for clarity, they are acting on behalf of themselves.  &#8220;Clarity&#8221; is just another default Republican opposition word to anything the President does.  &#8220;Clarity&#8221; could also be another good word that means &#8220;I&#8217;m not a big spender, I&#8217;m really thinking carefully about whether or not I should support this legislation or not.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Jake</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2009/03/23/meet-the-press-for-32209/comment-page-1/#comment-438257</link>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nicely put, Justin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nicely put, Justin.</p>
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