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 [...]
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McConnell’s Nixonian Politics Trained on Ashley Judd Exposed
She’s clearly, this sounds extreme, but she is emotionally unbalanced. I mean it’s been documented. Jesse can go in chapter and verse from her autobiography about, you know, she’s suffered some suicidal tendencies. She was hospitalized for 42 days when she had a mental breakdown in the ’90s. – Secret Tape: McConnell and Aides Weighed [...]
Don’t Rush Barbara Walters, She’s Not Done Yet
Her 1999 conversation with Monica Lewinsky remains the highest-rated news interview in television history. [Daily Beast] WHEN WALTERS arrived to sit next to Harry Reasoner his salary had to be raised, because as the first female news anchor in television history, Barbara Walters was getting paid more than the man. However, Walters’ $1-million-a-year contract also [...]
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.
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, [...]
Republicans Threaten Hagel Walkout & Filibuster, While Levin Letter Reveals Their Hypocrisy
LET THEM walk out. “There are two options: If Hagel doesn’t fully disclose all the things in the letter [in which Republicans made requests for more disclosure] … either you will see a party line vote or Republicans will stand up and leave the room in protest,” said a senior Republican Senate aide. “Does Levin [...]
What Would Ted Cruz Do If the Senate Wanted Information on his Wife’s Goldman Sachs Dealings?
IT’S A question that should be answered, since the Senate Armed Services Committee is deciding to hold Chuck Hagel to standards senators can’t meet themselves. The confirmation delay of Chuck Hagel is on precarious footing, because of the double standard the Committee has decided to impose on Hagel. It’s bad enough that the so-called “sexual [...]
Tea Partier Ted Cruz Plays Sean Hannity and It Turns Into a Train Wreck
THIS IS what happens when a Tea Party politician listens to too much wingnut radio, then tries to mimic one of the hosts. It ends up in a train wreck, which certainly was the case with Senator Ted Cruz when he tried to corner Chuck Hagel, but ended up causing a mess for himself. Hagel [...]
Hillary Slyly Slams Lindsey Graham: He Can’t Handle the Truth
IN AN interview with the Associated Press, former Secretary Hillary Clinton not only shrugged off her Benghazi critics, but eviscerated politicians like Senator Lindsey Graham, without naming him, for refusing to accept the facts. Senator Graham was not content in asking questions on Benghazi, but said Clinton “got away with murder,” in one of the [...]
Obama Cites Fox News in Interview in the Relaunch of The New Republic
IMAGINE THAT President Obama called Fox News Channel out on their unfair and imbalanced baloney. That’s what he does in an interview for the new relaunch of The New Republic, which Dylan Byers breaks down. … The build-up has lasted for almost a year. In June 2012, three months after buying the magazine, Hughes was [...]
News Desk: Hagel Nomination as Secretary of Defense “Locked Down”
The White House was calling senators’ offices Sunday to inform them Hagel’s nomination is imminent and to help build support for it, a source familiar with the nomination said. CNN reported Friday that the White House had told some senior members of Congress to expect the tapping of Hagel, and another source with knowledge of [...]
Secretary Kerry
With a little prodding, Sen. John Kerry once reluctantly showed me his childhood passport. It was tattooed with border crossing stamps from almost all the Western European countries. From 1951 to 1954, his father Richard Kerry, a career Foreign Service officer, worked as an attorney for what was then called the Bureau of United Nations [...]
Bill Kristol is Leading Chuck Hagel Swiftboating, Launches Cable Ad Campaign [Video]
What I will say is this: Kristol is offensive, wrong, and this kind of swiftboating must stop, now. I know Chuck Hagel, and consider him a friend. I’m also Jewish. I know who Senator Hagel is, and what he stands for. I also know anti-Semitism when I see it, and for William Kristol to use [...]
State Department Inquiry on Benghazi Finds “Grossly Inadequate” Security, No Video Protest
Finally, the report blamed two major State Department bureaus — Diplomatic Security and Near Eastern Affairs — for failing to coordinate and plan adequate security. The panel also determined that a number of officials had shown poor leadership, but they were not identified in the unclassified version of the report that was released. “Systemic failures [...]
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