Politico has a piece today on Bachmann’s thin legislative record. Fair enough to cover, but let’s not pretend such things weren’t overlooked for the boys. When George W. Bush ran for president, not only was his abysmal business record shrugged off, but the traditional press didn’t pay any attention at all regarding Bush’s very iffy [...]
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Joe Biden Won the Afghanistan Debate
It’s all about Pakistan now. Pres. Obama felt compelled to tell the whole history of why we’re in Afghanistan in a bloated, if shorter than usual address to the nation, but this is where he should have started: By the time I took office, the war in Afghanistan had entered its seventh year. But al [...]
Comes a Worrisome ‘Gentleman’ Candidate
If anything, it’s McCain and Graham who are nurturing a rebirth of isolationism by going for the easy insult. Isolationism is an actual doctrine, with a rich and complicated intellectual history on the left and the right. It is not an adjective that can be accurately applied to anyone who disagrees with a specific course [...]
LA Times Report: 10,000 Force Drawdown in Afghanistan this Year
**UPDATED** President Obama plans to announce a troop reduction in Afghanistan that Pentagon and other administration officials say is expected to bring home about 10,000 personnel by the end of the year. – Obama expected to announce major Afghan drawdown Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Zbigniew Brzezinski has [...]
‘I’m Jon Huntsman and I’m humbled.’
**UPDATED** jon2012 on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free …and he’s in. “We are about to pass down to the next generation a country that is less powerful, less compassionate, less competitive and less confident than the one we got. This is totally unacceptable and totally un-American,” Huntsman is expected to say in his speech. … “He [...]
Progressive Notes: CPC to Tour America for People’s Budget, Full Employment Act, Boxer Tells It and Other Happenings
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Russ Feingold is reportedly pondering a run for either governor or senate in Wisconsin. And boy he let it rip this week at a labor rally. He struck at corporate power and our weak willed pols who won’t stand up to it. Its a moving speech. [...]
New York Times: Pakistan Arrests CIA Bin Laden Informants
With friends like these… Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army [...]
Bachmann Stars, Romney Skates, Pawlenty Blows It
Granted, it was a fundraiser, not a free rally. But the empty seats were hard to miss. The top level of the 2,200-seat concert hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts was entirely empty, as were the seats along the side of the second and third levels. – Obama fundraiser underwhelms E.J. Dionne [...]
Panetta in Pakistan
Coming after his confirmation hearings for SecDef, Leon Panetta arrives in Pakistan: CIA director Leon Panetta arrived here Friday on an unannounced visit that marked his first trip to Pakistan since al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a Navy SEAL raid more than a month ago, U.S. and Pakistani officials said. Panetta’s visit [...]
It’s Obama’s Economy Now
This is not a revelation, because I wrote about it in great detail before the 2010 midterms, sounding warnings for months and months that Pres. Obama buying into the Right’s economic argument would end in big trouble for us all. The connection between the foreclosure crisis and rampant unemployment is well known by economists and [...]
Bin Laden Worth It, Afghanistan Is Not
“I saw it as a vote to manifest my growing impatience,” California Rep. Howard Berman, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told POLITICO. “I just don’t know how long, if it’s not working with Pakistan, how we’re ever going to be successful in Afghanistan.” “I made a conscious shift. This was the [...]
Progressive Notes: Humphrey at 100, and Latest Happenings
Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Humphrey speaks at 1948 Dem convention on civil rights: This past January the media swooned for Reagan’s 100th birthday. Well this week we progressives are the ones recalling the 100th birthday of one of the greatest liberals of the 20th century: Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey was known [...]
Pak-US on the Rocks
‘Intelligence fusion’ cells, some that help us in Afghanistan, have been ordered shut down by Pakistan, with a demand that U.S. reduce troops in that country as well. From the LA Times: In a clear sign of Pakistan’s deepening mistrust of the United States, Islamabad has told the Obama administration to reduce the number of [...]
Beyond Afghanistan: Mass Graves in Mexico
Question: Which country is more important to United States interests right now, Afghanistan, Libya or Mexico? You really have to wonder about our leadership when we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while on our southern border there is such violence, carnage and anarchy that the State Dept. warns against nonessential [...]
Obama Reelection Pitch: Lift Social Security Payroll Cap
**bumped** I’ll take Yglesias’s post as a sign there is a possibility we’ll be saved from Obamanomics. Yesterday in Virginia, Pres. Obama pushed one way to “stabilize the system” and Social Security, while he simultaneously works to make Congress more feckless through the Independent Payment Advisory Board, created through ACA, whose power he now wants [...]
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