**UPDATED** IT’S the obsessions of the week, the rewrites of the Benghazi talking points. It won’t keep another Benghazi style attack from happening again or keep our embassy personnel safer. It’s politics, just like when George W. Bush marketed his Iraq war campaign prior to the 2002 election. In a development that happened this afternoon, [...]
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Judge Denies Obama Appeal on Plan B
THE Obama administration’s appeal on Plan B has been denied by the judge, who slammed President Obama and Secretary Sebelius’s obvious political stunt to appease political conservatives in both parties. The judge called Secretary Sebelius out for ignoring the science of Plan B, writing she “lacks any medical or scientific expertise,” which applies to President [...]
The RNC Benghazi Ad Romney Didn’t Run
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. US News | Syria News | More ABC News Videos IT’S an exclusive from ABC News, the RNC Benghazi ad that Mitt Romney wouldn’t let them run. Why? Because it might distract people from his pitch on the economy. Let’s think about that for one second. The only [...]
Who Doesn’t Like Joe Biden?
THE MAN who wants to be the next president, Joe Biden, has done a Rolling Stone interview. It begins where you think it would, debating between he and the woman that is very much on the minds of Republicans. But can he get elected president at 74? If he’s up against Chris Christie, I just [...]
Ted Cruz: “Republican Crush,” Democrat’s “Face” of Opposition Choice
At Taking Points Memo, Brian Beutler writes, “Meet Democrats’ Newest Republican Crush: Ted Cruz?!?!” At the Dallas Morning News, Wayne Slater writes that Obama’s trip to Texas today is to “make Ted Cruz-Republicans the face of Washington opposition.” Both, I’d guess, are accurate. From Beutler, at TPM: (Democrats) distaste for his (Cruz) antics and his [...]
Stewart Slams Republicans, They Target Hillary
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Is this an impeachable offense? No. Will Hillary Clinton’s evident involvement in the revision of the administration’s line on Benghazi harm her presidential chances in 2016? No. Will this be of great political utility to Republicans? No. Will [...]
Big Money’s Obama or Obama’s Big Money?
The fact is, of course, that the two questions point to the same thing: Obama’s big money and Big Money’s Obama (as Vice.com put it) are both descriptive of the same big, bipartisan election / governance system that to a very significant extent runs our nation. From Matt Taylor, at Vice: Last week, in an [...]
Benghazi Hearings, The 2016 Preemptive Strike
The express purpose now is to protect Hillary Clinton, to make sure none of this touches her. – Rush Limbaugh [Liberals Will Protect Hillary at All Costs] THE BENGHAZI hearings today are trained on Hillary Clinton, which became clear if you’ve been listening to Republicans or Rush on right wing radio. The hyper partisan House [...]
Joe Biden Says He Opposes KXL, But is in Administration “Minority” [Video]
According to a Buzzfeed report, VP Joe Biden told an environmental activist in South Carolina that he opposes KXL, TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline, but in the Obama administration, he’s in the minority. Biden made the remark at Rep. Jim Clyburn’s annual ‘World Famous Fish Fry’ Friday evening, where he met Elaine Cooper, a Columbia resident [...]
Media Storm: Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi
IT’S happening everywhere in the media, anywhere you choose to read lately. Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi, all leading to the second term curse that’s lapping at the White House lawn. The media digging down to find an alternative narrative to balance just how whacky those right wing Republicans have gotten since Sarah Palin [...]
Syrian Rebels Accused of Using Sarin Gas
“This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added, speaking in Italian. [Reuters] WHATEVER “bind” President Obama was wrongly judged to be in over his “red line” comments on chemical weapons has quickly subsided with the news about the Syrian rebels. U.N. inspectors revealing that anti-Assad [...]
Syria: Israeli Airstrikes “Declaration of War”
*UPDATED BELOW* WHAT’S escalating this weekend with Israeli airstrikes inside Syria started with the announcement from Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel that chemical weapons had been used by Bashar Assad, though the Administration didn’t have specifics. The Israeli airstrikes led Syria to make provocative statements on Sunday. In an exclusive interview with CNN hours after [...]
Zombie Industries Sells “Bleeding Obama” at NRA Convention
“Someone from the NRA came by and asked us to remove it” a Zombie Industries booth worker told BuzzFeed in hushed tones. “They thought it looked too much like President Obama.” When asked if the Obama likeness was intentional the worker said, “Let’s just say I gave my Republican father one for Christmas.” [Buzzfeed] BUZZFEED [...]
Queer Talk: Jason Collins, Limbaugh “Rams,” Samuel “Flaunts”
Guess what Rush Limbaugh using “ramming” and Asante Samuel using “flaunting” are about? NBA player Jason Collins coming out, of course. Limbaugh and Samuel (Atlanta Falcon cornerback) are confused at why the gays need to come out, which they interpret, of course, in terms of sex. At Think Progress, from Zack Ford: On his show [...]
Queer Talk: Rhode Island Approves Marriage Equality
Even before the vote by which Rhode Island became the 10th state to recognize marriage equality, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, wrote a “pastoral letter” to the state’s Catholics. … I wish to invite members of the Catholic Church in Rhode Island to a moment of prayer and [...]
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