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Where did this hostility to government come from? In 1981 Lee Atwater, the famed Republican political consultant, explained the evolution of the G.O.P.’s “Southern strategy,” which originally focused on opposition to the Voting Rights Act but eventually took a more coded form: “You’re getting so abstract now you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.” In other words, government is the problem because it takes your money and gives it to Those People. 

It seems a million years ago, but when I was struggling to decide who I was going to vote for in the primaries between Clinton and Obama, one of the biggest factors in my mind was that Obama's election would shatter (or simply mark the demise of) the southern strategy and thereby shatter the Republican party. This is a party that measures success only in winning elections- not in governance, and they have no way to win national elections...until, of course, the next civil war.

Sorry. We’re still getting used to this whole 2009 thing.

We’ll have it figured out by Monday, when we’ll be back live at 3pm Eastern.

For today, here’s some stuff we liked.

We’ll have a brand new live show for you on Monday, Janurary 5.

Sooth your New Year’s hangover with some of our favorite segments from the past month.

Inquiring minds want to know…

Is the housing crisis helping broken marriages?

Is Janet Napolitano looking at you?

Is Blago the next Jerry Springer?

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It’s clear that Olmert and Barak think that they can decapitate Hamas- my guess is to set the table for a Fatah resurgence and a new “peace” initiative guided by the new American Administration. I also think, as I said on the show yesterday- Ehud Barak thinks a “victory” in Gaza will help his Kadimah party in the upcoming election. The latter might work but read the Vanity Fair piece - if history is any measure, even if Hamas is “destroyed” the chances of a more extreme militant and hostile group emerging from the ashes seems to be around 100%.

UPDATE: J-Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace pac has a petition sign here.

Also, how are those abstinence pledges holding up?

Plus, a Bankruptcy Bonanza!

And, Sam watches a movie.

Marc is live in studio. Sam is live in the woods. Maron v Seder is live at 3pm Eastern.

All is right with the world.