It doesn’t get any better than this editorial cartoon from Paul Szep. No matter what side you’re on regarding Afghanistan, Karzai and corruption are our biggest enemies right now. Progressives from all quarters want to completely withdraw. MoveOn.org is pushing hard on that score. Sen. Feingold wants a timetable. The overwhelming majority of readers around [...]
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TM-DC Podcast: From Bibi to Health Care & Terrorism
Enjoy the podcast. Also available via RSS feed, as well as ITunes. Some links to go along with it are below, beyond topics I’ve covered this week. On hot topics, Qadhafi’s translator collapses, plus much more in the much lighter side of the news; after all, this is a podcast, so entertainment is part of [...]
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Under Obama, Our Banking System Still Sucks
The vast majority of those declines were accounted for by the absence of large donors who, strategists say, have shut their checkbooks in part because Democrats have heightened their attacks on the conduct of major financial firms and set their sights on rewriting the laws that regulate their behavior. – Democrats Are Jarred by Drop [...]
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Iran Tells IAEA of Second Secret Nuclear Facility
–updated– Talk about an end of the week news dump of news dumps. Another inheritance marker from the Republicans. This secret enrichment happened under George W. Bush’s nose, while he and his team were too busy ostracizing Iran into an “axis of evil”, instead of trying to actually engage them. Not that this would have [...]
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Pelosi: ‘Trigger an excuse for not doing anything’
The question in her presser was as follows: What is your feeling about a trigger for the public option as a potential compromise, and what is the feeling of the caucus about a trigger? We’re thinking and deciding about it. And the evidence seems to point, at this caucus that I just went to, that [...]
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Russia Sends Signals on Iran Sanctions
At least that’s the tease coming from Russian Pres. Medvedev after meeting with Pres. Obama yesterday. “Russia’s position is clear: Sanctions rarely lead to productive results, but in some cases sanctions are inevitable,” Medvedev said in a joint appearance with Obama after their talks. [...] Medvedev said Wednesday that he and Obama discussed negotiations with [...]
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Woodward Leak Backfires?
Joe Biden’s whispers are louder than the leaker’s hopes. That is, to pressure the Administration into escalating in Afghanistan by making the military’s case in public. People might remember Biden’s guest posts around here, including one on Pakistan offered on Huffington Post and this site, during the primary. Pakistan has always been Biden’s main focus, [...]
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Message to Abbas and Bibi: Obama is ‘Impatient’
–updated– “The President of the United States is impatient,” said the senior U.S. official. “That’s what he told them.” “There’s a limited window of opportunity here, and he’s determined, but he’s also impatient and we need to get going,” the official said. – Ben Smith That assessment is obviously true, but why Pres. Obama thinks [...]
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Obama’s Political Trouble on the Afghan Front
–bumped– I’m lost on President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan policy—along with most of Congress and the U.S. military. – Leslie Gelb Something very troubling is rumbling up to the surface. A narrative of Obama vs. The Generals is quickly being crafted. It’s typical, but it’s politically very dangerous for the Obama administration, with Bill Roggio taking [...]
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Out of the Mouth of Joe Biden
If Democrats lose the House in 2010, the Obama agenda is finished, so says Vice President Joe Biden. And he said it at a fundraiser for a Blue Dog Democrat, the most endangered species on the planet right now. Biden said Republicans are pinning their political strategy on flipping these seats. “If they take them [...]
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The Salvo that Silenced Carter
“I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election.” – Pres. Barack Obama To which Dave responded: “How long have you been a black man?” Insert rim shot here. Tweeted the exchange. Must say that hearing Paul Schaefer play “Hail to the Chief” was positively surreal. Another good back and [...]
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The WJC Tapes and Beyond
–updated below – bumped– “President Clinton helped create a model for individual responsibility and collective action through the Clinton Global Initiative and it is a model that all of us are going to be studying for a very long time.” — Barack Obama, President, United States of America As the Clinton Global Initiative kicks off, [...]
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Romney Attacks Obama: ‘Not the time for Hamlet’
Mike Huckabee creamed Mitt Romney in the “Values Voters” summit over the weekend, getting twice the support and enthusiasm. You’d think with the economy front and center, the bailouts, and health care, Mr. Romney might have fared better. Wonder if he’s worried? But Romney didn’t miss a beat, taking out after Barack Obama over Afghansitan [...]
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Obama Teases Print Media Bailout
Mr. Obama said he noted the trend. “I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of [...]
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Obama’s Full Ginsberg, Minus Fox
“I think there have been times where I have said, ‘I’ve got to step up my game in terms of talking to the American people about issues like health care,’ ” Mr. Obama said. [...] “It’s very hard for people to get their whole arms around it,” Mr. Obama said. “And that’s been a case [...]
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