The New York Times headline says it all: But you wouldn’t know that reading the right wing blogs. Sure the report condemns many things, but not Hillary Clinton. Of course, wingnuts will try to blur the lines. Here’s what the New York Times says: Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House … Read More
Russian Plane Crash In Egypt
A Russian charter plane crashed over the weekend on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. All 224 aboard the Airbus jetliner were killed, with company executives ruling out technical or human error only to be upbraided by aviation officials who called such assertions premature. The Metrojet flight full of mostly Russian vacationers, bound for St. Petersburg from the Egyptian resort of … Read More
The Problem With Trump-Bush-9/11 And Clinton-Benghazi-9/11
I know I’m not the first to bring it up, but there is a huge disconnect going on right now when you tie together to seemingly separate stories. Trump is saying that since 9/11 happened during Bush 43’s watch, Bush 43 bears some culpability. This makes Jeb Bush act all defensive, because (he seems to argue) the President cannot micromanage … Read More
Jon Stewart Drops The Mic On Fox News And Benghazi
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Tripoli, No Benghazi
Keep this in mind when it is brought up in the debate tonight. According to State Department officials involved, the security requests were for the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Tripoli, not Benghazi, the New York Times reported last week: In a stream of diplomatic cables, embassy security officers warned their superiors at the State Department of a worsening threat from Islamic extremists, … Read More
Cartoon Nails It
Boy, if this Oliphant political cartoon doesn't accurately describe Romney's desparation over the past few days, nothing does: These past few days, Romney has been playing to the crowd that was so outraged by a mosque bgeing built at Ground Zero (by the way, I've been there — you can't see any mosque — it's blocks away). And he thinks this … Read More
How To Overthrow A Dictator
So with the (unconfirmed) news that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, sounding the end of his 35 year brutal regime in Libya, now would be a good time to pull some lessons on how to actually do dictator-toppling. Unilateral or coalition? Iraq, under Bush: The organized international community was against the War in Iraq, so Bush created what he called … Read More
The Fall of Ghadaffi
It's amusing to watch the GOP deal with the inevitable fall of Ghadaffi. They spend the past few months criticizing Obama for going into Libya and supporting the rebels in the first place. Now that the rebels are on the brink of victory, the GOP cannot find the words to credit Obama's Libya policy. Think Progress picks up the story: … Read More
Dumbest Quote About Libya
I'm not crazy about our intervention in Libya, and I'm among those who think the action is unconstitutional (not that anyone cares anymore about the War Powers Clause — that was dead letter law decades ago). But this criticism of Obama is just plain stupid. It comes from Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): But then when you find out we're being sent … Read More