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From David Axelrod, commenting on how his boss plans to knock some heads and get engaged in the healthcare debate any day now:

It’s time to synthesize and harmonize these strands and get this done.

Well, that’s either cunningly brilliant or terminally vapid.  I’m not sure which.  I guess it depends on whether Obama ends up passing a healthcare bill or not.  If he doesn’t, his decision to keep his distance from the fight until the very end will be judged as harshly as Clinton’s decision to write a 1000-page bill and dump it on Congress.  If he does, that same decision will be judged a brilliant coup.  Personally, I think it has a pretty good chance to be the latter.  We’ll see.   More here.

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