In case you have been too busy to keep track of what actually went on with this letter controversy….let me help…….
I have pressed VP’s letter on the GOP stunt….now read the 2 other letters involved in this stunt……..
Part I: GOP Letter on Iran | The Iran Primer.
Part II: Iran Responds to GOP Letter | The Iran Primer.
Now you have all the information you will need to make an informed opinion on the situation that is playing out…..choose your words wisely.
We all know now about the letter a group of Tea Party eggheads sent to Iran and threatened the nuke deal being negotiated by the State Department.
And then there is the letter from the office of the VP, Joe Biden, which teaches the mental midgets about the proper protocol……
Read and comment please.
During the recent cock-up about funding of DHS….many questions were asked and few actually answered……but the one BIG question that needs an answwer urgently is……do we really need DHS?
This is a white paper from the CATO Institute……with whom I seldom agree…..but they asked and answered that one burning question…
Check it out and let me know what you think about the question…….
I know that must of us have an opinion about the massive amounts of money that are following into political campaigns……it is reaching disgusting heights…..since seats in Congress are traded like some commodity….I waqs wondering if you would like to see what their money has bought…..
Since money elects these d/bags……..we are electing morons and inexperienced psychopaths…..for instance the most recent unthinking self-centered action……..
Republican senators appear to have formed an “unusual coalition” with hardliners in Iran, President Obama said yesterday after 47 senators released an open letter to Iran’s leaders about nuclear negotiations. The letter warned that any nuclear deal not approved by Congress would be considered merely an executive agreement between Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei that could be revoked by the next president “with the stroke of a pen,” the BBC reports. “I think it’s somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran,” Obama said, accusing the 47 Republicans led by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas of “interfering” in the controversial talks.
These people that have “elected” have NO idea what they do….apparently they are playing a dangerous game that we Americans should not allow…..these ego-centric twats from the Right will wind up doing more damage than good for the country…..keep in mind….YOU ELECTED THESE A/HOLES!
Because there is a HATE for this president these unfeeling MORONS will make any peaceful settlement all but impossible…….just so their little names can be on the news for awhile trying to appease the mental midgets that voted for them…..
These “representatives of the people” have NO idea what they are doing. It is time for Americans to realize just how dangerous these……..interference in policy short of their traditional part is unacceptable.
Hey d/bags! Keep electing these stump jumpers and YOU will insure that this country will lose all prominence in the world…in other words you mental midgets….YOU WILL BE CRAPPING ON THE EXCEPTIONALISM THAT YOU ARE SO PROUD OF TODAY!
Time to re-think the people that buy your vote. Time for all this hate and partisanship to end.
2016 will become an all consuming debate next year……the media needs this to look as relevant as possible…..the pundits need it because they have nothing else going for them…….and we bloggers need her so that it is not a Hillary dominated diatribe.
There is lots of speculation whether she will run or not in 2016…..my thought is…….. please run! But what are the odds that she will throw her hat?
Elizabeth Warren has come out swinging against her own party on two contentious issues in recent weeks—and it could be a sign she’s moving closer to a presidential run, writes Danny Vinik at the New Republic. First, the senator opposed President Obama’s nomination of investment banker Antonio Weiss for the number-three position at the Treasury department, arguing in the Huffington Post that his nomination contributed to a message “that whatever goes wrong in this economy, the Wall Street banks will be protected first.”
This week, Warren took on the new spending bill, slamming a rider that derailed part of Dodd-Frank financial reform. The measure, she said on the Senate floor, “would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system.” Once again, she was going against President Obama, who supported the bill, which eventually passed the House. Both these issues “hold significant appeal for the Democratic base that believes Obama has grown too close to Wall Street and worries that (Hillary) Clinton will be more of the same,” Vinik writes. Warren’s press secretary still says she “isn’t running for president,” but that doesn’t mean she won’t. Click for the full piece.
I can tell you that the true Left is been wanting since Bubba ran…….he tapped into a more liberal Repub base more than you would think…….Hil is going after that same base when she decides to run……once again the Left will be wanting and that is where Warren comes into the picture…….
Progressives dearly want Elizabeth Warren to run for president, even if conventional wisdom suggests that as a populist candidate, she doesn’t stand much of a chance of beating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. But “something is in the air,” observes David Brooks in the New York Times. The Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases have raised anger on the left, and Democrats in general are moving into “opposition status” ahead of the next Congress, writes Brooks. He expects that “this aggressive outsider spirit” will only grow.
Warren taps into this combative mood perfectly. “Clinton is obviously tough, but she just can’t speak with a clear voice against Wall Street and Washington insiders,” writes Brooks. In an interview with NPR yesterday, Warren repeated the phrase, “I am not running for president” three times, but she’s got plenty of time to change her mind. “The fundamental truth is that every structural and historical advantage favors Clinton, but every day more Democrats embrace the emotion and view defined by Warren,” writes Brooks. Click for his full column.
The big question is….if she runs can she win? In my mind…YES….but I am not a typical Democratic voter…….regardless she should run to keep Clinton from being crowned the “leader” per-maturily.
How many times do we hear about the consequences of our actions concerning the planet…….and how many arguments against any changes that would possibly effect the globe?
Hell, there is a whole network, media type, that has made its living off all deniers……but we are all free to say and believe what we want about the ups and downs of climate change….all of us……….. with the exception of state workers in Florida……
At Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection, employees whose jobs include preparing for the effects of climate change and sea-level rise say life got a little tougher after Rick Scott took office in 2011 and the use of terms like “climate change,” “global warming,” and “sea-level rise” was banned. Past and present DEP employees say the “unwritten” policy has been bad for educational efforts and public policy, according to the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. One former employee tells the FCIR that she was told orders had come down from the governor’s office that they were “not allowed to discuss anything that was not a true fact” and the terms should be avoided. She says a suggested replacement for “sea-level rise” was “nuisance flooding.”
A former attorney with the DEP’s Office of General Counsel tells FCIR that “sustainability” was also on the list of terms he was told not to use in meetings or on state documents; he thinks the issue is about more than just a dispute of phrasing, it is “an indication that the political leadership in the state of Florida is not willing to address these issues and face the music when it comes to the challenges that climate change presents.” Gov. Scott, a Republican who was re-elected last year, refuses to say whether he thinks there is a link between human activity and climate change, and has said, “I’m not a scientist” when asked about it, the Guardian reports.
With all the rumblings and mutterings about our rights to say what we think……is this not somehow a violation of that right?
The problem will go away if the name is not spoken?
God I love Florida! (Sarcasm in the n-th degree)