LOL: Axelrod: "I'm not professionally qualified to judge insanity"

[kpete]

Axelrod Responds to Atrios

"I'm not professionally qualified to judge insanity and maybe I should have used a different word," Axelrod said, and he noted that "everybody's a little on edge at this point"

by Jonathan Singer, Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 07:18:58 PM EST

Over at Eschaton, Duncan posted the following this afternoon:

Is Ben Nelson Insane?

Perhaps someone should ask Axelrod, since he's trying to sink the HCR bill.

You can make the punch a hippie strategy work for you, or you can just do it for sport.

Having been invited on to a blogger conference call with David Axelrod, I decided to pass on Duncan's question. Here's Axelrod's response (apologies for just posting the audio but not transcribing it -- I cut a significant chunk out of my middle finger yesterday and typing is a little laborious):

AUDIO and more:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/12/17/191447/98
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/507299/axelrod_walks_back_insanity_defense_on_wh_blogger_call

[babylonsister]

1. There's a big difference; one has a crucial vote, the other one doesn't.

I think the WH was wrong to discount Dr. Dean, but that's why Nelson isn't getting the same treatment.

[AllentownJake]

2. Your slipping Dave nt