MannyGoldstein
MannyGoldstein's JournalIt's all #%^*ing Truman's fault
Our Third Way friends are yammering that some "moderate" Democrats were replaced by Republicans because of Kos and the rest of us FDR Democrats.
Bull#%^*.
They got replaced because of Harry Truman's rule:
“Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time”
Two-thirds of Americans favor almost any Liberal policy you can name - even most Republicans favor Medicare for All. You cannot #%^*ing tell me that running against stuff that two-thirds of Americans favor is a winning strategy.
Snowden ist der Teufel!
No parliamentarian voted against the establishment of a special Bundestag committee investigating the global spying activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US and counterparts like the GCHQ in the UK. Another key question for the committee will likely be whether the German intelligence agencies were either aware of, or complicit in, the gathering of people's data.
The four major German parties will all provide parliamentarians for the eight-person committee.
"A society in which everything is monitored is not free," committee chairman Clemens Binninger, a member of Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats, said in parliament. "We do not want to live in such a society."
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The Mittelbayerische Zeitung on Thursday reported, citing government sources, that the committee was considering ways to involve former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in the process. The paper reported that Snowden might speak to the committee via the Internet telephone service Skype. The European Parliament had invited Snowden to do so earlier this year; he subsequently issued a written statement instead.
Looks like a number of principled FDR Democrats will be running for President in 2016
They will work together to take out the schoolyard bully, if the schoolyard bully shows up.
Cool!
Let's suppose that Brennan's right, and Feinstein's staffers stole his documents
Then Brennan should be fired, immediately, for incompetence.
The CIA can't keep its own documents safe? Seriously?
Seems like in this White House, the only fireable offense is doing things that Fox News will make fun of.
She's Not Running Dammit!, Part 362: Elizabeth Warren Memoirs Coming Soon
Elizabeth Warren Pens a Book, Is Still Totally Not Running for PresidentPreorders: http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Chance-Elizabeth-Warren/dp/1627790527
(Also cross-posted in General Discussion)
She's Not Running Dammit!, Part 362: Elizabeth Warren Memoirs Coming Soon
Elizabeth Warren Pens a Book, Is Still Totally Not Running for PresidentPreorders: http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Chance-Elizabeth-Warren/dp/1627790527
Kerry: Not even my wife knows Keystone opinion
Secretary of State John Kerry is so tight-lipped about the Keystone XL pipeline, he told college students Tuesday, that even his wife doesn't know his opinion.
Speaking on the myriad takes on Keystone that he has to consider from government agencies, the public and others, Kerry said he would not tell anyone whether or not he plans to recommend the pipeline’s construction to President Obama
“My job is to stay down-the-middle, neutral,” he said.
“There’s a massive job of information sifting and accumulation here … I'm not commenting in any other way on it to anybody, including my wife and others, all of whom have opinions,” Kerry said, eliciting chuckles from the crowd.
Is there any evidence that the Crimean election was rigged?
I haven't seen any thing that indicates that the vote was rigged, only that holding the vote was bad. (As opposed, say, to the overthrow of the Egyptian, Libyam and other governments without elections a few years ago, which was good)
Gorbachev says that the vote was absolutely the right thing to do.
Gorbachev: "Crimea's referendum corrected Soviet-era mistake"
I'm trying to understand if this is really evil stuff, or the Western 1%ers are cross that they aren't able to complete their agreement to austeritize Ukraine's 99%.
Anyone have hard evidence that the what's being done in Crimea is other than the will of the Crimean people?
Bill Kristol: "Invading Ukraine Will Be Quick and Painless"
By Bill Kristol
As I write this, the United States is facing the greatest foreign crisis in our entire history: a showdown between pro-America Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s pro-evil Russia.
It’s a greater crisis than Syria, Libya, Iran, North Korea, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Pakistan, China, Georgia, Somalia, Burma, Venezuela, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine. Well, maybe not all those places, but pretty damn close.
While President Obama sits on his hands and waits for diplomats to take care of things, Putin plays chess with the world as an arrogant, belligerent bully, interfering in other countries and demanding their leaders and people act however he wants them to act. Where does he get the nerve?
That’s why we as Americans need to stand united together and send a message that we’re not going to allow Putin’s aggression, and if necessary we will intervene in Ukraine with the military or otherwise -- but preferably with the military.
Relax, the Daily Current is parody.
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