Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law pleaded not guilty Friday morning to charges of trying to kill Americans. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who served as an al Qaeda spokesman, was captured and taken to the United States, federal officials announced Thursday. [CNN] THERE WAS an immediate reaction to the decision to try Abu Ghaith in a civilian courtroom. [...]
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Obama, and Duncan’s Sequester Claims Both Get 4 Pinocchios, with an Asterisk *Updated*
“Starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol. Now that Congress has left, somebody’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They’re going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they’ve got to [...]
Obama Can’t Do “Jedi Mind Meld” So We’re Obviously Screwed [Remarks - Video]
“I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that’s been floating around Washington: That somehow, even though most people agree that I’m being reasonable, that most people agree that I’m presenting a fair deal — the fact that they don’t take it, means that I should somehow do a Jedi mindmeld with [...]
News Desk: Kerry Pledges $60 Million Non-military U.S. Aid for Syrian Rebels
Kerry, after the talks in Rome, said Washington would more than double its aid to the Syrian civilian opposition, giving it an extra $60 million to help provide food, sanitation and medical care to devastated communities. The United States would now “extend food and medical supplies to the opposition, including to the Syrian opposition’s Supreme [...]
NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll: Obama Creaming Republicans on Every Issue, with One Depressing Downside
Only 29 percent of respondents say they agree “with most” of what Republicans in Congress have proposed (versus 45 percent for Obama and 40 percent for congressional Democrats). An identical 29 percent have a favorable view of the Republican Party (compared with 49 percent for Obama and 41 percent for the Democratic Party). – NBC/WSJ [...]
Rand Paul’s Vote to Confirm Chuck Hagel
“There are many things I disagree with Chuck Hagel on, there are many things I disagree with John Kerry on, there are very few things I agree with the president on, but the president gets to choose political appointees,” Paul said. [Buzzfeed] THIS is what the Senate used to be about. Respecting that elections have [...]
Republicans Unraveling Over Sequester
“We have moved a bill in the House twice. We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something.” – Speaker John Boehner [The Hill] ROCK, HARD PLACE, meet John Boehner. President Obama here in Virginia, a state that’s getting slammed by sequester. “These [...]
Call Him Mr. Secretary
THE REPUBLICANS did their worst, but Vietnam war hero Chuck Hagel was confirmed today as President Obama’s Secretary of Defense. A simple majority won the day, 58-41. So, it’s finally over. The biggest loser is Jennifer Rubin, who disgraced herself and the Washington Post with her diatribes and rantings. Senator Ted Cruz was revealed for [...]
Chuck Hagel’s Confirmation Advances *Updated*
Senate Votes to Move Ahead on Chuck Hagel’s Pentagon Nomination Clears Way for Confirmation THE SENATE continues to torture the meaning of advise and consent.
Benghazi? We’re Still Waiting for Bush and Cheney to be Held Accountable for Iraq. [Rachel Maddow Videos]
Hagel saw that, in Iraq, America was taking on an already weakened leader who the senator said probably didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, and at the same time empowering another regime (Iran) that badly wanted WMDs–a dire development further documented on Monday by The Washington Post, which reported that the Iranian-backed Shiite group Asaib [...]
Jon Stewart Rewrites John McCain’s “Country First” [Video]
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook THIS IS the most deserved evisceration of a politician in a long time, with no one asking for it more than Senator John McCain.
Byron York on Sequester: Could GOP Message Be “Any More Self-Defeating?”
The effect of Boehner’s argument is to make Obama seem reasonable in comparison. After all, the president certainly agrees with Boehner that the sequester cuts threaten national security and jobs. The difference is that Obama wants to avoid them. At the same time, Boehner is contributing to Republican confusion on the question of whether the [...]
Obama, Sequester and “Meat Cleaver” Republicans
“If Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness, it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research.” – President Obama WIELDING the bully pulpit, President Obama hit Congress hard over the looming sequester cuts that are about to land hard. But Republicans are almost gleeful [...]
What Will Hagel McCarthyites Ted Cruz and Jennifer Rubin Do Next?
All of this is doubly concerning since the report from Rutgers. Contemporaneous notes recorded his words, and now Hagel can’t say definitively that he didn’t say them. Meanwhile, after a slumber, two major liberal Jewish organizations, the Anti-Discrimination League and the American Jewish Committee, have perked up. Gosh, if true, this is really bad stuff, [...]
Saddle Up, Leon, Hagel Vote Fails 58-40 (Blame the Filibuster)
Fox.com Headline, which has now been changed… Republicans vow to go to war with filibuster over Hagel INHOFE’S FILIBUSTER was hilarious in one regard, which was he actually felt compelled to go to the Senate floor to say it wasn’t a filibuster, even though 51, not 60, votes is a majority. It made Republicans [...]
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