Tony Blair, Hilary Clinton, Steny Hoyer, Steve Israel-- most elderly "left" of center politicians come from a period when it was requisite to prove your manhood-- and whatever Hillary is trying to prove-- by being "tough" on… Communists, anti-colonialists, Muslims or whomever was playing the role of Eurasia or Eastasia that year.
Rand Paul and Sharron Angle… what could possibly go wrong?David Frum-- your grandpa's version of a Republican-- is worried that those nutty Libertarians are making inroads into his party again. Last week he took issue with Robert Draper's assertion that Rand Paul is the solution to the GOP's demographic problems. "What he wrote was not true.
I saw a lot of coverage of Ferguson, Missouri in the last few days. But I didn't see any photos of Georgia Republican congressional candidate Jody Hice. Hice never showed up-- or maybe he was hiding under something.
I get the feeling Rand Paul just wants to have some fun. I wonder if he's a pot head. He's certainly different from the button-down phonies and square we usually associate with the GOP. This week when most presidential hopefuls were kissing the asses of likely caucus participants in Iowa, he was in the Hamptons partying with FuFu. The Des Moines Register claims he stiffed 1,200 right wing religious freaks so he could party down with Alec Baldwin.
By Chris Carlson | International Middle East Media Center | July 18, 2014 Following a similar resolution passed last week by the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate voted Thursday night to support Israel’s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip. No dissenting vote was cast, and no mention was made of the hundreds of Palestinian civilians, […]
Long Island's 2 crooked congressmenWhen Peter King's congressional district was last redrawn in 2010, it went from a north-south district-- from the Atlantic to the Long Island sound, right across Nassau County-- to an east-west district-- from Lake Ronkonkomo and Sayville, across Islip, Deer Park and Babylon to Levittown, mostly in Suffolk County.
A new CBSNews/NYTimes poll was released yesterday showing that 50% of Americans say the U.S. has no responsibility to act on violence in Iraq. Even 42% of Republicans think it's not our responsibility.
Ralph Nader wrote a very perceptive essay in the wake of the edifying defeat of the despicable arch-imperialist, Israel Firster and reliable servant of Wall St. Banksters, Eric Cantor, at the capable hands of the libertarian leaning Professor David Brat. It was titled “Can Progressives Learn From Eric Cantor’s Defeat”? Can they? Yes. Will they? It is highly doubtful.
Shenna Bellows (D) and Rand Paul (R)-- a real bipartisan approachThank God, some of our candidates-- particularly Shenna Bellows (ME) and Jay Stamper (SC) for Senate and
Opposition is bipartisan… but not from Lindsey GrahamAlthough the Beltway pundits of conventional wisdom-- like the brain scientists at Cook-- rate Lindsey Graham as "safe," I wouldn't want to be forced to put any money on that. Nate Silver claims Lindsey has a 97% chance of being reelected, just 1% less than Tim Scott and 7% better than Al Franken's reelection odds.
