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11:36 AM, Dec 12, 2008 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

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Via The Hill's Michael O'Brien

"It is unacceptable for this un-American, frankly, behavior of these U.S. senators to cause this country to go from a recession into a depression," Granholm said during a radio interview Friday morning.

I suppose everyone will shrug this off. But to ask the obvious question: If a Republican governor had said it was "un-American" to vote against the Iraq surge, wouldn't the media be howling with outrage?

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