By now you have probably heard that the White House gave into John Boehner’s demands to move the date of Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on jobs. Instead of the speech being next Wednesday, we will not have to wait until Thursday so that nothing interferes with the Republican debate next week. […]
When polls ask about Sarah Palin running for President in 2012 she fares very poorly. People attend her speeches, but so many seem to go to see a star, not because they consider her a serious force in American politics. Well the lack of seriousness in Sarah Palin has now run over into her television […]
Everyone has had to see this graph by now. It’s the one put out by Nancy Pelosi’s people. The blue line is the 1990 recession, red is 2001 and green is current. Just looking at that you start to comprehend the seriousness of the current financial situation. Now let’s consider this. Republicans attribute the Bush […]
John McCain just loves using that POW card LENO: Welcome back, Sen. McCain, for one million dollars, how many houses do you have? MCCAIN: You know, could I just mention to you, Jay, and a moment of seriousness. I spent five and a half years in a prison cell, without—I didn’t have a house, I […]
I ask this question in all seriousness. I don’t listen to Schultz that much, but lately it seems like every time I turn him on he is on some Hillary bashing binge. He is starting to sound more like Limbaugh, and his McCain attacks, everyday. Is Ed pissed because Hillary blew him off on an […]
From Yesterday’s NYTimes: On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack. But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. […]
When it smells or sounds like Bushit chances are it is Bushit: WASHINGTON — Several U.S. intelligence officials are playing down the relative importance of an alleged al-Qaida plot to strike the West Coast after Sept. 11, 2001, cited by President Bush Thursday in defense of his campaign against terrorism. Bush, under pressure from Congress, […]
Chuck Hagel (R-Ne) spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations today and delivered a very compelling speech regarding Iraq. Following are some highlights of this speech. The full transcript can be read here. The Iraq war should not be debated in the United States on a partisan political platform. This debases our country, trivializes the […]
Arianna Huffington has put together a cheat sheet on the CIA leak case to help people better understand what has transpired. She has coined that the leak case is worse than Water Gate, which could actually be an understatement. Watergate never actually got out of the planning cycle. It was more like a deterred terrorist […]