Gen. Stanley McChrystal, top NATO commander in Afghanistan, is on his way to Washington, D.C., to explain multiple instances of gross insubordination to President Obama — face time that should end with acceptance of the general’s resignation or in his dismissal. News of McChrystal’s special blend of arrogance, attitude and disrespect emerged today in an [...]
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Reich urges receivership for BP
Robert Reich doesn’t have a surefire solution for stopping BP America’s catastrophic oil leak, but he offers the right prescription for how the Obama administration should manage the effort. It’s time for the federal government to put BP under temporary receivership, which gives the government authority to take over BP’s operations in the Gulf of [...]
Specter’s loss: personal and then some
A five-term Senate veteran with not one, but two, party switches behind him; an able harball player, whether in campaigns or judicial confirmation hearings, Specter will exit the halls of power epitomizing what many citizens have come to resent about federal legislators.
Perry on Bush — it takes one to praise one
And so, secession-minded Gov. Rick Perry again crosses the border between Texas and reality. . .
Lieberman’s slip of the lip rings true
Looks as though the 2010 rendition of Joementum runs as strongly toward poorly concealed Republicanism as the 2008 and 2009 versions. The latest evidence resides in what Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said during an interview with the conservative publication Newsmax.
Change Palin can believe in
Maybe it’s a birds of a feather thing. Neither Palin nor Steele have distinguished themselves as campaigners, officeholders or party spokespersons. However, when it comes to not knowing what they’re talking about, shooting from the lip and living large as long as others are picking up the tab, Palin and Steele have plenty in common.
She’s a pistol, he’s an arsenal and they
are a few rounds short of a full clip
Sarah Palin excels in getting media attention, but it looks as though the more people see of her and hear from her, the less well this half-term ex-governor of Alaska wears on them — Republicans included. A Washington Post-ABC News poll reported this week that 71 percent of Americans overall, and 52 percent of Republicans, [...]
Take it from the right, ‘Palin is America’
“First off, I have to report that Palin was wearing a pin with two flags, one for the US and one for Israel. This is so beautiful and brave, I am speechless. What utter goodness. “Secondly, she delivered the goods. “Palin is America. Before it was infected and corrupted by the left.” —Pamela Geller, in [...]
Will Tennessee tea partiers buy in
or bag Palin-headlined event?
Looks as though the Republican right’s rendition of America’s sweetheart doesn’t make tea partiers’ hearts go pitty-pat all that much, judging by Sarah Palin’s lack of drawing power for a pricey dinner do in Nashville. Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips likely assumed that scoring a dinner speech by the former Alaska governor and GOP [...]
South Carolina’s Bauer advocates
starving the poor out of existence
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. [...]
