updated George Stephanopoulos has a “read it here first” post up on David Plouffe’s new book before David Gregory has him first on “Meet the Press.” Plouffe is still the most popular guy at the political party. But get this, I called it right about Wright, according to Plouffe: 2) The campaign was in denial [...]
Archive | October, 2009
Drones Over Pakistan
Full text of interview. Incoming, and I’m not just talking about drones in Pakistan. Clinton faced a tough crowd with even tougher questions over U.S. policy of using CIA drone attacks. From the AP: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face Friday with Pakistanis’ simmering anger over U.S. aerial drones firing missiles in [...]
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House Res. Against Goldstone Report Doesn’t Help Israel
Travers: We found no evidence that Hamas used civilians as hostages. I had expected to find such evidence but did not. We also found no evidence that mosques were used to store munitions. Those charges reflect Western perceptions in some quarters that Islam is a violent religion. Gaza is densely populated and has a labyrinth [...]
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What will be the two top issues in 2010?
bumped That was the question asked by the National Journal in its weekly new media poll, getting answers from the left and right. Both lefties and righties agreed that it would be the economy: left by 93.8%; right by 82.4%. From there partisan opinion diverged. I was the only one who weighed in by adding [...]
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Sexism and The Speaker
It may not be all that you want, but no other person has done it. That it was accomplished by the first female Speaker of the House is no small milestone. It’s not easy for women in politics, especially when your job requires toughness. But if the speaker is tough, it is also a tough [...]
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
“… Nancy Pelosi, to her credit, has been left to round up votes for a tough public option without much help from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. You know, the idea that the President could have maybe come in and said, you know what, here’s ten guys that I can sway. If the President [...]
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Secretary of Frankness
“I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” she told a group of newspaper editors during a meeting in Lahore. “Maybe they are not ‘get-at-able’. I don’t know,” she said. … While acknowledging the many bumps in U.S.-Pakistan relations, [...]
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Afghanistan in the Caucus Room: Levin Slams Cheney
–expanded piece cross-posted at Huffington Post– Edited and updated with reporting from the event. “Fueling the drama, there are some in Washington who are willing to toss cheap and easy lines about presidential ‘dithering,’ or alleging the president is ‘afraid’ to reach a decision, in an effort to push him to immediately, indeed automatically, endorse [...]
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Lieberman Stands for Insurance Industry
It’s journalistic shorthand to note a politician’s party identification and state after his or her name. For example: Jane Doe (D-NY). And so Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is identified as (I-CT). But the “I” does not stand for “Independent.” It stands for “Insurance Industry.” – Paul Begala All Paul Szep cartoons printed with permission.
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CIA In Bed with Karzai’s Corrupt Brother
“The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone,” General Flynn said. – Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll I wonder if this was Dick Cheney’s idea? Andrew Exum writes today that it’s the most important article on Afghanistan that you’re going to read this week: [...]
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Homecoming Gang Rape in California
We interrupt this packed foreign policy news day to shock you with a case of criminal inhumanity… What kind of teens are people raising these days? What kind of young men would not only participate in gang raping a young girl, but also leave her to die after they were done? Investigators say as many [...]
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Reid Not Worried About Lieberman
–updated– While I was J Street yesterday, Sen. Lieberman decided to shoot off a warning shot at Democrats and the majority of the American public (audio here, via Ryan Grim @ Huffington Post). The emails I got on this one were classic. No one is surprised. However, Sen. Reid was nonplussed for reporters. “I don’t [...]
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Clinton in Pakistan, Amid Explosion
–updated– Trying to reiterate broader support for what the Pakistanis are doing in South Waziristan, Clinton is doing diplomacy at a moment when things are very difficult in the region, with a car bomb exploding killing more than 80 people, according to early reports. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Pakistan on [...]
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Reporting from J Street: Packed House
updated – bumped About the gala event last night… It was wonderful; great food, wine, conversation, and music, compliments of the Jerome Meltzer Jazz Trio, with Steve Clemons coming as Joe Biden! …well, at least he showed up in a Biden mask, all in good fun and with Vice President Biden’s approval. It was a [...]
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J Street Rising, Right Strikes Back
Aipac officially denies that it has any role in the assault on J Street, but those at the forefront are close allies of the lobby group, from the conservative Weekly Standard magazine (once dubbed the “neocon bible”) to the Zionist Organisation of America. “If you look at this it’s hard not to see this as [...]
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TM Must Reads
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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