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Edited on Thu Mar-01-07 06:47 PM by KrazyKat
from where he was on the House Ways and Means Committee. As far it's as known at the moment, things look very bad for Jefferson.
However, Jefferson remains quite a popular figure in post-Katrina Louisiana, and thus the perceived need by Pelosi and many Democrats to not toss him out altogether, but rather to place him somewhere in a little corner of the organizational chart, where he can save face without doing any further damage to the Democratic Party(particularly as it relates to Louisiana votes next year).
The strategy (theoretically, anyway) is sound -- it visibly reveals to all areas of the political spectrum that being "on the take" is more taboo than it ever was, and that those who persist in these endeavors will receive some form of censure and demotion.
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