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by Josh Marshall
12.30.09 | 6:35 am

When does the story become the GOP’s unprecedented politicization of a terror attack? Three days before the first fund-raising letters go out? The obviousness of the point would seem even more obvious since the main complainers are demonstrably hypocritical on their basic arguments. Someone lemme know when this becomes the story.

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