“Look,” Obama said, “obviously I’ve learned this year that politics can be a tough business. But there are times you can’t help but laugh. You know what really tickles me? Eric Massa,” he said of the former Democratic congressman from New York State who resigned amid allegations of sexual harrassment of staffers. “Apparently, Eric claimed [...]
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DNC Rolls Out Pitch Amidst Dismal Incumbent Reelect Numbers
Marc Ambinder has what Tim Kaine will be rolling out for 2010, selling what the Democratic Congress has done right. Here’s a snippet: ** We’ve gone from recession to recovery. ** We’ve made more progress in the war on terror in the last eight months than was made in the preceding eight years. ** We’ve [...]
Remembering Timothy McVeigh in the Era of Obama and the Tea Party
There you go again. Republicans love to re-write history, especially if they can delegitimize a Democrat at the same time. Byron York doing some fancy cherry-picking to coincide with the remembrance of the Oklahoma City bombing. No doubt he’s trying to give the Tea Party people and the angry right cover as we all remember [...]
Bill Clinton on Right Wing Hate: ‘I Worry About It’
When the Big Dog barks, the right howls. Rush Limbaugh led with it today. Sean Hannity continued the theme. Attacking former Pres. William Jefferson Clinton for telling it like it was in the 1990s, while reminding everyone of the dangers that led to Timothy McVeigh’s domestic terrorism. Talking about the racism and hate coming from [...]
WikiLeaks Video on Reuters Story: Collateral Damage or ‘Collateral Murder’?
–bumped– Part of this story centers around the release of a classified U.S. military video through WikiLeaks, now available through a site provocatively called “CollateralMurder,” which has now been aired across the web and cable TV. Elizabeth Bumiller confirming that the video is authentic. Other parts of the story revolve around rules of engagement, but [...]
Iraq Bombings Kill 30, 224 Wounded
Bloody day in Baghdad. From Al Jazeera: At least 30 people have been killed and 224 others wounded in a series of three car bombings across the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Security officials said that the attacks on Sunday targeted foreign diplomatic missions, with blasts occurring near the embassies of Iran, Germany and Egypt. Major [...]
FBI Raids Extremist Religious Militia in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana
–updated and bumped from early a.m.– DHS and Joint Terrorism Task Force were also involved in the raids. To update, the indictment has been sent down for “seditious conspiracy.” … “planned to kill an unidentified member of local law enforcement and then attack the law enforcement officers who gather in Michigan for the funeral.” The [...]
Russian Terrorism Delivered by 2 Female Suicide Bombers
–updated– Senior lawyers in the Obama administration are deeply divided over some of the counterterrorism powers they inherited from former President George W. Bush, according to interviews and a review of legal briefs. The rift has been most pronounced between top lawyers in the State Department and the Pentagon, though it has also involved conflicts [...]
Sarah Palin Beats Robert Kagan to the Talking Point
Robert Kagan writes today: This administration pays lip-service to “multilateralism,” but it is a multilateralism of accommodating autocratic rivals, not of solidifying relations with longtime democratic allies. Sarah Palin said it first, though it took her fewer words to do it, while primarily stressing the “reset button on our relations with Israel,” using “world’s worst [...]
New Poll Reveals National Security Trouble for Democrats, Economic Confidence Deficit for Obama
On national security, the poll found that 50 percent of likely voters prefer Republicans, while only 33 percent prefer Democrats. It’s the return of a “security gap” that all but vanished in 2008 because of Obama’s popularity and Bush’s mishandling of Iraq, Bennett said. – Politico Here we go again. Democrats are once again losing [...]
The Ineptitude of the Democratic Majority
“These Democrats are a bunch of wusses. They don’t have the courage of their convictions. They won’t stand and fight.” – Michael Moore, via Raw Story From Michael Moore to Kathleen Parker, Democrats are getting the same review. The performance of the Democratic majority something that no partisan could defend. Led by Barack Obama, his [...]
Domestic Terror in Texas
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty [...]
Pakistani – US Intel Work Pays Off: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Custody
About Pres. Obama’s seriousness on terrorism, comeuppance delivered. Dick Cheney will be so depressed. From the New York Times: The Taliban’s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials. The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is [...]
Dick Cheney Warns Palin About ‘Simple Political Calculations’ on Matters of National Security
“I think all the perspective candidates out there have a lot of work to do if they’re going to persuade the majority of Americans that they’re ready to take on the world’s toughest job.” – Dick Cheney, former vice president on “This Week” (see video below) That’s the Republicans’ biggest challenge, but especially for Sarah [...]
Nobody’s Thrilled, But Republicans Still 2nd to Obama
Fox News has been making a serious charge about mainstream political reporters: They hate Sarah Palin. This is not just wrong, it’s absurd. The reality is exactly the opposite: We love Palin. And if Palin does not exactly love us, she’s smart enough to recognize how quickly reporters devour every provocative remark she utters. She [...]
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