++Pamela Geller says she is Rosa Parks.
++Bernie Sanders appeared on Rachel Maddow and said he has 175,000 volunteers for his campaign. He did raise more than Rand Paul. Ted Cruz,and Marco Rubio is the first 24hours.
++Larry Flynt had one of the most important endorsements. He backed Hillary Clinton. His point is simple--The next President has the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court that could reverse the right-leaning tendency of the Court since the 1960s.
++Hillary Clinton plans to celebrate Cinco de Mayo at Ranchero High School in Las Vegas where the student body is 70% Hispanic. Her preliminary remarks indicate she will support a pathway to citizenship. Expect a GOP explosion in response.
++Willard Romney attacked Hillary Clinton's Dinkins' Lecture saying she politicized Baltimore. Seems she wrote a detailed policy paper rather quickly to do that. Willard objected to her phrase "Mass inceration". We are number 1! in the world in imprisoning citizens.
++Kudos to Hillary's response team on their quick slap down of ClintonCash, the book. So far they have contained any real damage.
++It may have dinged her approval rating in the latest NBC/WSJ poll where she is at 42-42. But all Republicans are in the negative ratings.
++The NBC/WSJ poll shows that Hillary still is beating every GOP competitor. She beats Jeb 49 to 43,Rubio 49 to 43,Walker 50 to 40. Rand Paul comes closest 47 to 43.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Romney Opines,Muravchik goes to War and Bibi freaks
++Mitt Romney had to get some attention. He says Obama should end the Iranian talks. What do Republicans not understand about multilateral negotiations? Why should he? Well, that would be Presidential. Oh myy.
++Josh Muravchik makes a comeback by writing an oped in the Imperial Post that says if war is the option on Iran--nobody has suggested it so far--then we should bomb them and we could do it endlessly. Will they retaliate? Sure, but we can absorb it. Beam me up,Scottie.
++Josh Marshall today looks at how Bibi has freaked out and become paranoia. Bibi took to Facebook to accuse the Zionist-Union of using NGOs, foreign governments and a mysterious billionaire, not named Adelson, to topple him. Bibi says that foreign governments want to defeat him--notably Sweden. Josh believes now that the final polls are in that Herzog will have first shot at forming the new government. But he is not encouraged that he will be able to do it.
++John Kerry said he hoped the next Israeli government will focus on peace. He admitted gaps remain in the Iranian talks.
++John Brennen, the King of torture, now that Cheney retired,says the United States doesn't want the collapse of the Assad regime and that ISIS is growing like topsy and someday could threaten the "homeland" wherever that is.
++All the newspapers in the states where the GOP Senators hail from slammed the Tehran Tom letter as making foreign policy unworkable and undermining the United States. Several Senators have voiced regret. They said they were heading home in a snowstorm and didn't really think about it much. Wow,what a deliberative body!
++It's Pi Day.
++Josh Muravchik makes a comeback by writing an oped in the Imperial Post that says if war is the option on Iran--nobody has suggested it so far--then we should bomb them and we could do it endlessly. Will they retaliate? Sure, but we can absorb it. Beam me up,Scottie.
++Josh Marshall today looks at how Bibi has freaked out and become paranoia. Bibi took to Facebook to accuse the Zionist-Union of using NGOs, foreign governments and a mysterious billionaire, not named Adelson, to topple him. Bibi says that foreign governments want to defeat him--notably Sweden. Josh believes now that the final polls are in that Herzog will have first shot at forming the new government. But he is not encouraged that he will be able to do it.
++John Kerry said he hoped the next Israeli government will focus on peace. He admitted gaps remain in the Iranian talks.
++John Brennen, the King of torture, now that Cheney retired,says the United States doesn't want the collapse of the Assad regime and that ISIS is growing like topsy and someday could threaten the "homeland" wherever that is.
++All the newspapers in the states where the GOP Senators hail from slammed the Tehran Tom letter as making foreign policy unworkable and undermining the United States. Several Senators have voiced regret. They said they were heading home in a snowstorm and didn't really think about it much. Wow,what a deliberative body!
++It's Pi Day.
Friday, January 9, 2015
Here They Come
++Bishop Willard "Mitt" Romney has given the word to his donors that he is considering another run for the Presidency. He cites the turmoil overseas and the state of the economy as his reasons. Consider this: President Obama created the same number of jobs that Romney said he would create in his first term.
++Mike Huckabee quit Fox News, a sign he will run.
++Chris Christie is already putting out the word he is running.
++Believe or not , Marco Rubio is defying Jennifer Rubin, and is indicating he will run.
++Former UN Ambassador John Bolton quit his FOX News gig as a sign he too will throw his hat in the ring.
++And, believe it or not, Scott Brown, who ran a carpetbagger for Senate in New Hampshire, wants to give it another try by running in------California for Barbara Boxer's seat.
++The New reform conservative movement has indicated that they want to increase defense spending and cut discretionary programs. In short, they want to restore George W. Bush's foreign policy. Oh myy.
++Mike Huckabee quit Fox News, a sign he will run.
++Chris Christie is already putting out the word he is running.
++Believe or not , Marco Rubio is defying Jennifer Rubin, and is indicating he will run.
++Former UN Ambassador John Bolton quit his FOX News gig as a sign he too will throw his hat in the ring.
++And, believe it or not, Scott Brown, who ran a carpetbagger for Senate in New Hampshire, wants to give it another try by running in------California for Barbara Boxer's seat.
++The New reform conservative movement has indicated that they want to increase defense spending and cut discretionary programs. In short, they want to restore George W. Bush's foreign policy. Oh myy.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Happy Juneteenth
++ Scott Walker is in the middle of a vast criminal network that involves leading right-wing donors and Karl Rove.
++Chris Christie is moments away from being handed his hat by prosecutors in New Jersey.
++Mitt "Willard" Romney at 29% is now the overwhelming favorite for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.
++Rick Perry has been invited to Gay Pride Day in San Francisco after saying he might move to California.
++Kay Hagen has a five point lead in the polls in the North Carolina Senate race.
++Kevin McCarthy is the new GOP Majority Leader in the House. Steven Scalise, the head of the ultra conservative Republican Study Group and a favorite of the oil industry, was made Whip.
++The Presbyterians voted to move closer to accepting same-sex marriage.
++Rude Pundit has been on a tear the last few days on Cheney and McCain and Graham. Read him.
++The return of the Iraq war hawks has inspired great work by Jason Linkins, Rachel Maddow,Dan Waldman,E.J. Dionne, Charles Pierce , Rude Pundit,Ed Shultz and Pap, America's lawyer.
++Sandy Koufax's protege Clayton Kershaw pitched a 14-strikeout no-hitter that missed a perfect game by one fielding error. Baseball experts--aren't we all--are trying to rate whether the Dodger Pitcher threw the best no-hitter in history. They check out pitch count, walks (0), strikeouts. They think he did it.
++I watched President Obama's speech on Iraq today with a heavy heart. I'll comment on American moves later.
++Chris Christie is moments away from being handed his hat by prosecutors in New Jersey.
++Mitt "Willard" Romney at 29% is now the overwhelming favorite for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.
++Rick Perry has been invited to Gay Pride Day in San Francisco after saying he might move to California.
++Kay Hagen has a five point lead in the polls in the North Carolina Senate race.
++Kevin McCarthy is the new GOP Majority Leader in the House. Steven Scalise, the head of the ultra conservative Republican Study Group and a favorite of the oil industry, was made Whip.
++The Presbyterians voted to move closer to accepting same-sex marriage.
++Rude Pundit has been on a tear the last few days on Cheney and McCain and Graham. Read him.
++The return of the Iraq war hawks has inspired great work by Jason Linkins, Rachel Maddow,Dan Waldman,E.J. Dionne, Charles Pierce , Rude Pundit,Ed Shultz and Pap, America's lawyer.
++Sandy Koufax's protege Clayton Kershaw pitched a 14-strikeout no-hitter that missed a perfect game by one fielding error. Baseball experts--aren't we all--are trying to rate whether the Dodger Pitcher threw the best no-hitter in history. They check out pitch count, walks (0), strikeouts. They think he did it.
++I watched President Obama's speech on Iraq today with a heavy heart. I'll comment on American moves later.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
When the Going gets weird, The Weird Goes Pro
++ Dick and Liz Cheney attacked President Obama for not caring about terrorism today in the Wall Street Journal. Bless her heart, Jennifer Rubin let the cat out of the bag at the end of her column saying that the father and daughter team was shilling for their new front group Alliance for a Strong America. Their op-ed read like Dinesh D'Souza.
++The GOP hellbent on saving their last monument wants Ahmed Abu Khattala sent to Gitmo. The DOJ says No way, Jose.
++The GOP wonders why getting Abu Khattala so long. The Daily Beast has an article about why the Delta Force took its time. They were rehearsing at Fort Bragg on a fortification like the man's home and planned the operation for a year. The go-ahead was held up until the FBI and the DOJ felt they had gathering sufficient evidence to try Khattala in a court of law.
++The Center for American Progress wants the Obama Administration to bomb Iraq as a counter-terrorism measure. General Petraeus doesn't like the idea because that would make us a Shiite Air Force. But remember his surge troops are the ones now fighting Baghdad.
++Anne Marie Slaughter, who used to be a member of the Obama Administration, writes an op-ed in today's New York Times advocating American actions in both Syria and Iraq and believes that such actions are in line with the UN General Charter and if we can't get approval then we should act and get approval later. This is the problem "humanitarian interventionists" have. They run up against the same problems as the neo-cons.
++Andrew Sullivan finds more about the Iraqi neo-cons hawks he doesn't like. His article in The Dish on the neo-Straussian strains of Wolfowitz and Billy Kristol is worth reading.
++Rand Paul doesn't quite know what to say because he thinks President Obama needs congressional approval to take any actions. Senators Graham and Ayotte do not.
++None of this matters because Sweeney Todd declared the Obama Presidency dead today on Morning Joe. He later told Matt Drudge that he really never became distant from the President.
++President Obama's foreign policy approval fell to 41% but like anything Obama polls show that the majority of Americans support his ideas on Iraq over Senator McCain's.
++Rachel Maddow did an excellent segment last night on the loony-tune Iraqi war boosters coming back in the media and how the right ignored the one piece of news about Benghazi that they should have cheered about--the capture of Abu Khattala. Instead Drudge has a story about meat and chicken prices going up.
++Dana Millbank and Politico got into a pissing war over Dana's excellent op-ed on the Heritage Foundation's bizarre Benghazi program which had all the conspiracy crowd there.
++Libya said today that the operation to capture Abu Khattala violated their sovereignty.
++David Ignatius calls for a peace conference to re-draw the map of the Middle East. Basically, the Sykes-Picot agreement is defunct.
++With the architects of the Iraq war back in the news,I wish reporters would ask them about their own actions. For example, how did Wolfowitz so grossly underestimate the cost of the war--$86 billion to $2-4 Trillion. That's not just a rounding error. Or Paul Bremmer--why did he dissolve the Iraq army and aren't they the ones fighting Baghdad now? Or General Petraeus--aren't the members of the Sunni Awakening allies of ISIS now? Or Dick Cheney--Didn't our invasion bring in Al Qaeda to fight in Iraq when it had never been there before? Instead,reporters might dance around issues of the Status of Force Agreements and who sign the withdrawal agreements but the rest of the issues remain buried.
++The only one that I saw really get beat up was John Bolton and that was on Fox News and it was by libertarians who didn't know what they were talking about.
++At least John Bolton went back to how bad Saddam Hussein was. But there is a big question: When the United States was threatening war and wanted Saddam to go, why did we not take him up on his offer?--He would go as long as he could keep $1billion. In retrospect, that was a great deal.
++The summer is turning into another BP summer. Remember the oil spill in the Gulf and the whole summer news converge about whether Obama was doing enough. This Iraq situation feels the same way. Getting Bergdahl back--bad. Capturing Abu Khattala--bad. Iraq conflict--really bad.
++Remember shutting down the government over Obamacare? Well now, the Republicans in the Senate want to shut down the government in September over the debt ceiling because of the new EPA carbon emissions regulations. So crash the world economy because regulations will take place in a year. Good move. At least a new Depression will cut greenhouse gases, since the factories will shut down.
++Since Willard Romney was so clairvoyant on a number of issues. Willard said we just a tad away from losing the gains in freedom we earned over all the years of fighting. Whose "we" white man since no Romney has ever fought for the country. Since Willard is the man, the GOP are now counting him as a Presidential candidate again. Time to get Steve Benen out of mothballs at the Rachel Maddow Show and back on the Romney beat.
++The GOP hellbent on saving their last monument wants Ahmed Abu Khattala sent to Gitmo. The DOJ says No way, Jose.
++The GOP wonders why getting Abu Khattala so long. The Daily Beast has an article about why the Delta Force took its time. They were rehearsing at Fort Bragg on a fortification like the man's home and planned the operation for a year. The go-ahead was held up until the FBI and the DOJ felt they had gathering sufficient evidence to try Khattala in a court of law.
++The Center for American Progress wants the Obama Administration to bomb Iraq as a counter-terrorism measure. General Petraeus doesn't like the idea because that would make us a Shiite Air Force. But remember his surge troops are the ones now fighting Baghdad.
++Anne Marie Slaughter, who used to be a member of the Obama Administration, writes an op-ed in today's New York Times advocating American actions in both Syria and Iraq and believes that such actions are in line with the UN General Charter and if we can't get approval then we should act and get approval later. This is the problem "humanitarian interventionists" have. They run up against the same problems as the neo-cons.
++Andrew Sullivan finds more about the Iraqi neo-cons hawks he doesn't like. His article in The Dish on the neo-Straussian strains of Wolfowitz and Billy Kristol is worth reading.
++Rand Paul doesn't quite know what to say because he thinks President Obama needs congressional approval to take any actions. Senators Graham and Ayotte do not.
++None of this matters because Sweeney Todd declared the Obama Presidency dead today on Morning Joe. He later told Matt Drudge that he really never became distant from the President.
++President Obama's foreign policy approval fell to 41% but like anything Obama polls show that the majority of Americans support his ideas on Iraq over Senator McCain's.
++Rachel Maddow did an excellent segment last night on the loony-tune Iraqi war boosters coming back in the media and how the right ignored the one piece of news about Benghazi that they should have cheered about--the capture of Abu Khattala. Instead Drudge has a story about meat and chicken prices going up.
++Dana Millbank and Politico got into a pissing war over Dana's excellent op-ed on the Heritage Foundation's bizarre Benghazi program which had all the conspiracy crowd there.
++Libya said today that the operation to capture Abu Khattala violated their sovereignty.
++David Ignatius calls for a peace conference to re-draw the map of the Middle East. Basically, the Sykes-Picot agreement is defunct.
++With the architects of the Iraq war back in the news,I wish reporters would ask them about their own actions. For example, how did Wolfowitz so grossly underestimate the cost of the war--$86 billion to $2-4 Trillion. That's not just a rounding error. Or Paul Bremmer--why did he dissolve the Iraq army and aren't they the ones fighting Baghdad now? Or General Petraeus--aren't the members of the Sunni Awakening allies of ISIS now? Or Dick Cheney--Didn't our invasion bring in Al Qaeda to fight in Iraq when it had never been there before? Instead,reporters might dance around issues of the Status of Force Agreements and who sign the withdrawal agreements but the rest of the issues remain buried.
++The only one that I saw really get beat up was John Bolton and that was on Fox News and it was by libertarians who didn't know what they were talking about.
++At least John Bolton went back to how bad Saddam Hussein was. But there is a big question: When the United States was threatening war and wanted Saddam to go, why did we not take him up on his offer?--He would go as long as he could keep $1billion. In retrospect, that was a great deal.
++The summer is turning into another BP summer. Remember the oil spill in the Gulf and the whole summer news converge about whether Obama was doing enough. This Iraq situation feels the same way. Getting Bergdahl back--bad. Capturing Abu Khattala--bad. Iraq conflict--really bad.
++Remember shutting down the government over Obamacare? Well now, the Republicans in the Senate want to shut down the government in September over the debt ceiling because of the new EPA carbon emissions regulations. So crash the world economy because regulations will take place in a year. Good move. At least a new Depression will cut greenhouse gases, since the factories will shut down.
++Since Willard Romney was so clairvoyant on a number of issues. Willard said we just a tad away from losing the gains in freedom we earned over all the years of fighting. Whose "we" white man since no Romney has ever fought for the country. Since Willard is the man, the GOP are now counting him as a Presidential candidate again. Time to get Steve Benen out of mothballs at the Rachel Maddow Show and back on the Romney beat.
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