PPP’s newest national poll finds that Republicans aren’t getting much traction with their focus on Benghazi over the last week. Voters trust Hillary Clinton over Congressional Republicans on the issue of Benghazi by a 49/39 margin and Clinton’s +8 net favorability rating at 52/44 is identical to what it was on our last national poll [...]
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IRS Focus on Tea Party Patriots Un-American
**UPDATED** “The I.R.S. has demonstrated the most disturbing, illegal and outrageous abuse of government power,” Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots, said in a statement. “This deliberate targeting and harassment of Tea Party groups reaches a new low in illegal government activity and overreach.” [New York Times] IS THERE anything more un-American [...]
Greg Hicks Gets Scrutiny, as Diplomats Evacuated from Libya
Growing concerns over protests roiling Libya prompted the State Department to begin evacuating some diplomats from Tripoli, as the Pentagon put troops stationed at nearby European bases on high alert. [Washington Post] YOU READ that correctly, amid the furor over the testimony of Greg Hicks, the Washington Post is reporting we’re evacuating some diplomats from [...]
The Furor Over the Benghazi Talking Points Rewrite
**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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pickering on Benghazi “Cover Up”: “Pulitzer Prize-Winning Fiction”
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “We met with Hillary Clinton. We did so before the report was finalized. … We believed and we still believe the decision making was made quite well below her level. It was reviewed below her level.” – Thomas Pickering THE REAL loser today [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bill Clinton on Hillary: Stop Obsessing
PERHAPS Bill Clinton should call Rush Limbaugh and Darrel Issa, as well as all the Republicans turning their sights on her over Benghazi. From Politico: The former president hasn’t shied away from encouraging his wife to seek the White House but in an appearance at a fiscal policy summit today, he derided the obsession over [...]
Chris Christie Resorts to Surgery to Fight Obesity
IT’S no secret anymore, because the news that Chris Christie decided to go under the knife to get lap-band stomach surgery in order to deal with his obesity challenge is now front page new media news. From the New York Post: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to aggressively slim down [...]
Queer Talk: Illinois GOP Chair Resigns Over Gay Marriage
The Chicago Tribune reports that the chairman of the Illinois GOP, Pat Brady, has resigned over controversy of his support for marriage equality. With same-sex marriage legislation pending in the Illinois legislature, Brady this year voiced his support for the proposal despite a plank in the state GOP platform that said marriage should be reserved [...]
Benghazi “Whistler-blowers” and the Partisan Hacks
Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, told congressional investigators that the State Department internal review of the catastrophe at the mission in Benghazi “let people off the hook,” CNN has learned. [CNN] THERE ARE no two people more associated with partisan brawls than Joseph diGenova and Victoria [...]
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 [...]
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