It's a mild, polite rebuke but still it's a rare occasion when high-profile conservatives go after each other in the media. Bill Bennett says Rush Limbaugh was wrong to hope President Obama crashes and burns: "The locution 'I want him to fail' is not what you say the first week the man's been inaugurated." Bennett also has some surprisingly complimentary things to say about the new president and his attempts at consensus-building.
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