Mark Udall threatens to disclose the truth about torture The Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Dianne Feinstein of California, is soon expected to release its summary of the so-called CIA Torture Report, the committee’s four-year-long investigation into the CIA’s Bush-era torture practices[...]
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FACEBOOK: A middle of the road Seattle liberal bemoans the loss of the once moderate South
Mike James is wearing the Cassandra hat tonight…… The Deep South is gone. For Democrats – as it was for Republicans back when I was learning to drive a car. But those Democrats – back in that other time – crossed political lines to make deals; the new Republicans of the Sou[...]
Remembering a Jewish Hero From The Sixties
Michael Schwerner is one of the heroes we celebrate in our family Haggadah. Now, 50 years after James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner were slain in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Schwermer’s his martyrdom has been recognized by President Obama’[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 2:19 pm § in Politics
GOP Takes Revenge Against Obama By Screwing The Working Poor
“With negotiators nearing an accord on permanent tax breaks for businesses worth $440 billion over 10 years, President Obama … promised a veto. … Left off were … a permanently expanded earned-income credit and a child tax credit for the working poor. Friday night, Republic[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 12:17 pm § in Politics
Congress creates its own science
If you don’t like what science says, just pass a law that makes the earth flat. Then it’ll be flat, it’s as simple as that. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/28/1347731/-Steve-Stockman-demands-our-nation-s-scientists-investigate-the-Stockman-Effect?detail=email# [...]
Clinton-Webb 2016?
2016: Democrat Jim Webb Enters The Ring The rumors are that Chuck Hagel was dismissed as Secretary of Defense because he was the wrong man to fight a war. If we are still at war in 2016 will the Dems need a manly man on the ticket to elect Hillary? Jim Webb, former Democratic Senator […[...]
November 23rd, 2014 - 3:04 pm § in Politics
Senator Calls Benghazi Report ‘Crap’
“Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, doesn’t think much of a new report from the House Intelligence Committee that exonerates the administration of any alleged wrongdoing in its response to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. ‘I think the report is full of crap,’[...]
November 21st, 2014 - 9:45 pm § in Politics
GOP Strategist Depressed By 2016
Despite the midterm elections, the GOP isn’t enjoying a resurgence of popularity, nor has there been any realignment of American politics. This year’s results stemmed from low turnout, lousy campaigns, and the fact many Democrats elected in red states in the 2008 wave had to face reelect[...]
November 21st, 2014 - 8:20 pm § in Politics
House Benghazi Report Makes GOP’s Talking Points Go POOOF!!!
By now you’ve probably heard that a politically charged 2-year-long investigation by the GOP-chaired House Intelligence Committee has determined that “there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence th[...]
What is a Reprican?
The Republican Radicals, the Repricans, can not be thought of as part of the US system of two parties with a shared commitment to the common American goal of opportunity for all citizens under a representative government. The common goal of the Repricans is to destroy that system ….�[...]