Reid, Pelosi Swearing Match Over Omnibus - CBS News
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and his deputy, Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D.-Ill.) were called to Pelosi’s office late Thursday night and ultimately prevailed in their argument that Democrats should try to salvage the bill, which includes critical spending increases for vital agencies.
Notice how these unsupported judgments: “critical increases” for “vital agencies” (which are nonetheless unnamed), are slipped right into the body of a supposed piece of unbiased journalism.
Left unasked, but with affirmatives nonetheless assumed, are questions like “are these increases critical? how much are the increases? what agencies? are they really vital? why?” These are questions that serious journalists would at least acknowledge, but not the hacks swimming in the Obama tank at Politico.
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That’s not exactly the context in which I want to read the words “whip” and “Dick Durbin” in the same sentence.