Though the post-victory haze, I perceived a final pathetic spin, based in the fiction that the people still respond to Bush’s supposed charisma: that to lay a Democrat glove-of-impeachment on the president would alienate the electorate big-time. We were being urged to forgive, forget, and all get along. As in forget the lies and the spies, the Constitution and Geneva Conventions, the war profiteering and the body count. Forget that New Orleans’s 9th Ward is still in ruins, forget the inflated homophobia, the decimated middle class, for-profit health care, reproductive rights and embryonic stem cells, and all the small-time insanity, like the Terri Schiavo debacle. Forget My Pet Goat and the War on Christmas? And the accusations of everything from treason to dementia leveled at most of my friends?
The Wailing of Whipped Weasels
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In a ruling issued Wednesday, a panel of judges from the 4th District Court of Appeal said there was enough evidence to support a Palm Beach County jury's ruling that DCF was negligent in its handling of Marissa Amora's case.
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Appellate judges unanimously upheld a verdict of $26.8 million against the Florida Department of Children and Families for failing to protect a toddler from a near-fatal beating.
In a ruling issued Wednesday, a panel of judges from the 4th District Court of Appeal said there was enough evidence to support a Palm Beach County jury's ruling that DCF was negligent in its handling of Marissa Amora's case.
Judges uphold verdict of millions
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