West Wing Week: 3/2/2012 or “That’s Worth Fighting For”
The White House This week, the President touted the resurgence of the American auto industry, challenged governors to invest in education, held a dinner honoring Iraq War Veterans, hosted the Prime...
View ArticleTEN Outrageous Positions That Mitt Romney Can’t Erase
Think Progress On Wednesday, Mitt Romney’s top adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, explained the Romney campaign’s strategy for the general election: try and erase all of Romney’s extreme right-wing positions....
View ArticleDuckworth rips Walsh over ‘dress’ attack: Mostly I’ve worn one color –...
Tammy Duckworth in Rolling Meadows Illinois debate Rep. Joe Walsh may be in for a rude awakening on Election Day… The Raw Story In a debate stunt gone wrong on Tuesday night, incumbent Congressman Rep....
View ArticleSaturday Morning Round Up – 10-27-2012
Nate Silver’s Newest Prediction: 73% Obama! CNN knows their spin, and they’re sticking with it The Romney Hustle: Why the Media is So Wrong John McCain says the Iraq War was Colin Powell’s fault...
View ArticleLie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq
Putting things into context regarding “lies” and “damn lies“. Until the GOP can answer why they lied about going into Iraq, I personally believe they need to seriously step back from the Susan Rice...
View ArticleSusan Rice: A Victim of GOP Hypocrisy?
I reject the notion that the three Senators who questioned UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s professional competence as the next Secretary of State was racially motivated. I do believe it was unabashedly...
View ArticleObama to pick Chuck Hagel for Pentagon
Politico President Barack Obama has settled on Chuck Hagel, a Republican and former U.S. senator from Nebraska, to succeed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, with an announcement expected Monday,...
View Article“Hubris”: New Documentary Reexamines the Iraq War “Hoax”
Hubris: Noun Excessive pride or self-confidence. (in Greek tragedy) Excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. Members the Senate are increasingly coming up with Benghazi...
View Article“Why I am no longer a Republican”
The Week It has a lot to do with the Iraq War This week has been filled with Iraq War recriminations and re-evaluations. While official Washington was strangely silent about the 10th anniversary of...
View ArticleKarl Rove Ranks Bush’s Presidency Somewhere ‘Up There,’ Just Below...
Karl Rove just can’t seem to get it right on certain issues. After all, he wrongly predicted the 2012 election would go to Mitt Romney then had a rather embarrassing display on Fox News on election...
View Article‘It is like night and day’
The Maddow Blog - By Steve Benen From time to time, it seems as if the left and right don’t just disagree on the issues, but actually live in entirely different realities. Yesterday offered a classic...
View ArticleObama May Have Played Us All And Won In An Audacious Display Of World Leadership
Are you taking this all in Mainstream Media? Addicting Info Even the most ardent Obama supporter likely believed that the President backed himself into a corner with his “red line” comment. But as ABC...
View ArticleDick Cheney says Iraq War was worth it because now we know they didn’t have WMDs
Worst administration in history. In my opinion, this is one of the most idiotic and insensitive things that has spoken by Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney… Daily Kos Former Vice President Dick Cheney is on a...
View ArticleLara Logan’s Husband Was a Propagandist for the U.S. Military
Photo credit: White Deer Preserve, Getty Images Why hasn’t CBS fired this woman? Not because of what her husband’s job was in Iraq, but for her sloppy journalism, period. If a similar charge of...
View ArticleDavid Gregory Makes a Fool Of Himself Comparing the ACA Rollout to Bush’s...
David Gregory has never tried to hide his partisan views… PoliticusUSA Luckily the media has prepared you for this bit of surreal stupidity by previously comparing the ACA rollout to the Katrina...
View ArticleSIX REASONS THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ISN’T HURRICANE KATRINA
President George W. Bush and Katrina support team. Those who compare the Obamacare website failure to hurricane Katrina don’t seem to see the obvious flaw(s) in their “logic”. The New Yorker – John...
View ArticleIs Obama really doing worse than Bush and Nixon?
Don’t count him out just yet. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) The Week Obama’s dismal poll numbers are prompting dire predictions about what’s in store for the rest of his presidency ne year removed...
View ArticleHuffPost Reporter Confronts McCain: Does ‘Victory’ in Iraq Mean Endless War?
Mediaite Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein had a rather testy exchange Friday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I just want to nail down what it means to have it won,” Stein...
View ArticleIraq is Barack Obama’s problem from hell
Win MacNamee/Getty Images There’s no sugar-coating the issue here. This is one giant mess for the POTUS… Vox The third Iraq war has just begun in earnest. And it’s created what may be the most...
View ArticleRachel Maddow Hammers Media For Booking Iraq War Hawks Who Got Things So Wrong
Rachel Maddow criticizes right-wing media for searching for bad news in an arrest in the Benghazi attacks, and American media broadly for re-engaging so-called experts on Iraq with terrible track...
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