Took em long enough. Who cares what Grover has to say about anything anyway?
Stupid blue muppet.
The FB comments I’m seeing over this topic are horrific. Strip her of citizenship, drop her off in the middle of a Muslim nation for some lovely gang rape action, cut off her finger, etc. Far be it from me to defend a juvenile, insensitive act, but at the end of the day she’s fairly young and no harm was done, at all. Just because not every American shares the need to eulogize US military service 24/7 is hardly justification to mobilize in an effort to do someone real personal/financial harm. Which has occurred since she and her friend have lost their jobs over this situation.
I spent almost 9 years in a local air national guard unit, graduated from both AF basic and my command & control tech school with honors, and when my wife and I visited DC in 1996, we passed a sign at Arlington that read something like: Please show respect, this is our nation’s most sacred shrine. And I quipped, “What’s it say about us as a nation when our most ‘sacred shrine’ was created via an act of theft by the fed govt?” Good thing social media didn’t exist back then. :/
Nationalism is a bitter brew.
Honestly, when will this non-story about the “coverup” of the Benghazi attack go away?
It won’t until they get something better. Anger-based politics is like fast food, it pushes the easy buttons and doesn’t have to have actual content to satisfy.
Here is a fun one: Santorum is back, and fired up about opposing disabled people!
Santorum, joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), declared his wish that the Senate reject the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities— a human rights treaty negotiated during George W. Bush’s administration and ratified by 126 nations, including China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
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The treaty requires virtually nothing of the United States. It essentially directs the other signatories to update their laws so that they more closely match the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Their concerns, rather, came from the dark world of U.N. conspiracy theories. The opponents argue that the treaty, like most everything the United Nations does, undermines American sovereignty — in this case via a plot to keep Americans from home-schooling their children and making other decisions about their well-being.
Imagine the money a lawyer could make if the ADA became law in older developed nations.
When John Kerry gets appointed secretary of state.
If only our liberal MSM would stop thwarting Republican efforts to inflate this story.
You really think this is all about giving Scott “I drive a pickup” Brown another shot after his being so soundly spanked by Liz Warren?
(bolding is mine)
McCain was close with Kerry, and this is both an opportunity for a bit of back scratching while at the same time McCain taking another swipe at Obama. If McCain was truly concerned about Benghazi (and he’s not) he would have attended the earlier closed Senate briefing on Benghazi rather than grandstanding. Even Susan Collins gave him a bit of a hard time about that moment of hypocrisy.
Point taken, but having Kerry be Sec. of State conveniently reduces the number of Democrats in the Senate (unless the Dems put up a really strong candidate against Brown).
Brown can win in an off year election, but based on him getting knocked off by a total non-charismatic rookie in a Presidential year he’s going to constantly be in danger.
I take exception to describing Senator-elect Warren as non-charismatic. I think she’s brilliant, in both the American and British senses of the word.
She’s a politician like Paul Wellstone, not a politician like Bill Clinton.
and she is 1/32 Indian, isn’t she?
I think Boner views it as a game at this point. Is it POSSIBLE to drive the approval ratings lower? IS IT? Let’s see…
re Brown: he’ll always have an uphill climb in Massachusetts. His victory in 2010 was pretty much a perfect storm: special election (low turnout in general), motivated GOP (I believe the Tea Party had coalesced by that point; perhaps I’m wrong) and an awful Democratic candidate.
Speaking as someone from MA, she’s known to be quite charismatic in person and in writing, but it doesn’t translate well on TV at all.
I wasn’t sure which thread this article would be most appropriate to but here’s another fantastic Bruce Bartlett piece in The American Conservative:
There’s a lot in there. The death of supply-side economics; the dangers of epistemic closure; a bizarre, Andy Batesian appeal to black voters based on pre-Civil Rights era Democratic behavior; Barack Obama’s center-right position on the political spectrum and more.