Chock Full of Nuts

++This afternoon's Impertial Post allowed the voices of wingnuttery sway. We have Allen West write that President Obama doesn't understand the meaning of his own signing statements since West is such a great constitutional lawyer. George Will weighed in on how the President has gone rogue. Judge Michael Mukasy defends the great fortress Gitmo and laments the grotesque display at the Rose Garden and how the leaders of a terrorist group have gone free. The Judge thinks that President Obama doesn't understand the significance of what he has done.

++Marco Rubio earlier in the day said that President Obama was acting as an Emperor.

++The bottom-line since 2008 has been to impeach President Obama and to make sure he can not carry out any of his policies. There is no doubt about this. 

++What you see are people seeing their worldview and the instruments they created to box in the President crumble around them. In a way,the disturbing trend of Post op-eds for the past two months on foreign affairs indicates this--an entrenched interest of the national security state trying to save the war machine and hype military interventionism at a drop of the hat.

++There is no alternative vision. They just think that if Obama disappears a return to the old foreign policy will materialize. What worries them is that the structures they depended upon to implement policies abroad are disappearing and can't be replaced. The Times They are A-changin' and they don't know why.

++Josh Rogin has written how Hillary Clinton had disagreed with President Obama over this deal two years ago--which is a different deal than in 2014. This really goes to the media elites still not accepting the legitimacy of President Obama. Hillary Clinton's view is the Democratic Party view. It reminds me of Lady Rothschild's lunatic ravings against President Obama. Hillary Clinton did say she approve this deal and ,yes, then sidestepped it more recently. 

++This is a bizarre episode in American history. This is the first time there is a major fight--to the point of calls for impeachment--over a return of a POW. Ed Kilgore at Washington Monthly tries to run down the thinking on this as expressed by Lindsey Graham. So the bottom line is that the GOP must fight to preserve the last remnant of the George W. Bush years, the prison at Guantanamo, even if it means impeaching a sitting President of the United States. What an idea! The GOP admits Iraq is gone and soon Afghanistan. Lindsey said that Obama is "losing the wars". So the whole apparatus they have constructed over more than a decade is crumbling so the President must go.

++This is the normal retributions we saw after the Vietnam War, when the United States withdrew and the North Vietnamese won. The Nixon-Ford White House tried to blame the Democrats. In fact, there are  Nixon papers outlining this strategy. Then blame the Left. Then blame Hollywood culture. A lot of the memes from today come from that period in our history. But for the GOP today,they see President Obama has the existential threat to everything they hold dear on the economy and national security. Expect more of this.

++Meanwhile,the gay roadrunners keep moving along. The Supreme Court rejected NOM's petition to hear their objections to Oregon's decision to allow same sex marriage. I couldn't understand what standing NOM had in the case since the Oregon Attorney-General made it clear the state did not want defend their ban on same sex marriage.

++This afternoon Chester Nez,the last of the original Navaho "Code Talkers" died at the age of 93.

++So we finish today in Washington with the desire to impeach President Obama on the following grounds:
1. Like his predecessors he rescued the last POW in Afghanistan.
2. He didn't save the Ambassador and colleagues at Benghazi when they were attacked by someone the Bush Administration released from Gitmo.
3. He had a terrible healthcare. gov website.
4. He ended two wars.
5. He adopted the biggest restrictions on carbon emissions in American history.
6. He didn't know that the IRS was evaluating Dark Money 501-C-4s. He should have if he were like Nixon.

So ending two wars,rescuing a POW and providing health insurance to millions of Americans. Like Fox Shrink Ablow said today, President Obama doesn't want to be part of America. 

Sometimes I think they should impeach President Obama because it would give themselves something to do. But I can't imagine this crew even conveying the necessary fake gravitas.

All Aboard the Crazy Train

++Since we can't talk about the EPA's new rules,let's go straight to the controversy over the release of Sgt.Bergdahl.

++Michael Tomasky writes in the Daily Beast that his release is crack for the GOP. 

++Even Wonkette gets in on the action. It seems that a former CIA agent Clare Lopez e-mailed former congressman tea bagger West to say that Bergdahl's father said a few lines from the Quran in Arabic at the White House and that act by itself makes the White House a mosque. Allen West wants to file articles of impeachment, even though he accused Obama of leaving Bergdahl behind.

++Paul Waldman laments the GOP's inability to argue their case and try and persuade anyone. Instead,they act like President Obama released Marvel Comics Heros capable for  ending life as we know it.

++Jason Chaffetz, who had urged the Administration to obtain Bergdahl's release, says "We gave the Taliban their starting team back".

++John McCain ,who also was for the release of Bergdahl, said that Obama released "the toughest of the tough".

++Lindsey Graham said that Obama released "The Taliban Dream Team."

++Ollie North--yes, Ollie North--worries that Obama gave ransom and funds to a terrorist group.

++Earlier this morning,Republicans who had tweeted their congratulations on Bergdahl's release quickly deleted their messages. 

++Talking Points Memo mentions that the last video prior to today's of the release of Bergdahl showed him in a very weakened condition and that this video convinced James Clapper to sign off on the prisoner exchange.

++Intelligence and Pentagon personnel who resisted the exchange were concerned about whether any of the networks the Taliban commanders ran still existed and whether Qatar would take adequate measures to ensure they didn't get back on the battlefield until we left.

++Others pointed out that they had not been charged with any attacks on the US military and had been away for almost 13 years. 

++The New York Times this morning discounted the reports by the GOP-inspired military personnel that Bergdahl's flight had led to the deaths of Americans.

++It should be noted that the Taliban is not listed as a terrorist organization by the United States. Technically,those at GITMO were enemy combatants and would have to be released once the United States ceased military operations.