Democratic House leadership has basically joined Republican House leadership in back Obama's plans for "limited" military involvement in Iraq's religious civil war-- which started on October 10, 680, not 1680, 680 at the Battle of Karbala, when the Sunnis and the Shia began exterminating each other. Obama can't possible think he's going to heal that breach-- even if silly-dillies like Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte and John McCain do.
Although the TV networks seem certain that lots of war talk from the unprosecuted war criminals who lied us into the Iraq War on their networks last time, is good for ad revenue, the American people are unconvinced by the same old arguments being trotted out by the same out neocons and drooling spokesmen for the war profiteers.And it isn't just Fox.
I was in my car a few nights ago and I heard a pompous asshole, Max Boot, on NPR, introduced as an Iraq expert-- he was an advisor on Iraq to McCain and Romney's failed presidential campaigns. I wanted to write down the load of crap he was spewing about how Obama is "losing" Iraq and I was especially eager to try to remember the nonsense he was babbling about how the Sunnis and the Shia get along so well. But I couldn't remember and I just let it pass-- until Thursday night, when Chris Hayes played the above compendium of McCain's colossal wrongness on Iraq.
There's a reason Elizabeth Warren is concerned that Scott Brown is trying to make a comeback-- no matter how far fetched by running against centrist Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, who is up in every single poll so far.
Earlier this week, Harrison Samphir interviewed Paul Craig Roberts regarding how mainstream media is twisting the facts about the crisis in Ukraine. You may remember Roberts as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan.
When the head of the CIA looks straight into the camera and says, "We wouldn't do that," is there anyone on the planet who doesn't interpret that to mean, "We did it; what do you think you can do about it?"Admission: I never voted for Dianne Feinstein for anything-- not for San Francisco City Council, not for mayor and not, ever, for the U.S. Senate. When Jello Biafra ran against her for mayor, I was an enthusiastic backer. She won though… she won all her races. And she's usually a voice for Establishment conservative liberalism.
Why Settle is the name of an ActBlue page that suggests that we do not have to always settle for vile careerist corporate shills as presidential nominees. Alternatives are offered. One of those alternatives is the great independent senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders.
It doesn't surprise me that all Republicans-- including fake "moderates" like Susan Collins, Dean Heller, Kelly Ayotte and Mark Kirk-- voted against confirming Debo Adegbile as head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
By now everybody nows what happened among the far right of the Arizona Republican Party over the last few days. The state legislature passed some crackpot anti-LGBT bill that lets anyone make up some religionist excuse for discrimination against gays-- or anyone else they don't like. They passed the same crap last session but Governor Brewer vetoed it. This time Senators Flake and McCain immediately called on Brewer to veto it again-- and so did the Arizona business community. And then several Republicans in the legislature said, basically, "Oops, we screwed up. Can we get a do-over? No?
The most compelling television I came across last night was the above opener to Chris Hayes' show. It's a jaw-dropping look at the "not in my backyard" ethos of our political elites.
