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It was Nita Lowey who stepped aside. And it was Lowey who was by her side outside her home at the microphone when Hillary lied about her FJB comment.

Thanks for the correction, dfu! I remember, visually, the press conference & the look on the faces of Hillary the usurper and Nita the vanquished. ("It is seared in my memory," doncha' know!)

Wasn't Lowey the heir apparent to Moynihan's seat? How do you think HRC was able to bust Lowey down like that? Not everyone could get away with that; it has to take something "special" to not only steal the seat but to have the aggrieved party attend the press conference in apparent support.

And something else that has always baffled me. This is from Chris Matthews' msnbc bio:

"Matthews spent 15 years in politics and government: he worked in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a Presidential speechwriter and on the Government Reorganization Project, in the U.S. Senate for five years on the staffs of Senator Frank Moss (Utah) and Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine), and was the top aide for Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. for six years."(http://www.msnbc.com/news/330815.asp?cp1=1)(emphasis mine)

Before and after his retirement, Moynihan made several disparaging remarks about HRC. Moynihan's wife even repeated some of them. Matthews revered Moynihan. What keeps Matthews from being "in your face" with Hillary? (He certainly didn't reserve his ire in his interview with Michelle Malkin.) Why won't he take HRC on, if for no other reason than to stand up for Moynihan's memory?