I think it's a lovely idea that his campaign drains donations away from other, more likely to win candidates.
[LATIMES] If he weren't the nation's oldest governor, a ripe 75, Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... would automatically be counted among serious Democratic candidates for president in 2016.
He boasts a household name, an impressive list of accomplishments in the country's most populous state -- a state some once deemed ungovernable -- glowing national media coverage and a deep familiarity with the pitfalls and rigors of a White House bid, having run three times before.
Now, some are pushing Brown to consider another try for the White House, even if it means taking on Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ... , the prohibitive, if still undeclared, Democratic favorite.
"I think Jerry is precisely what America needs," said Rose Ann DeMoro, the leader of a national nurses union and a strong political ally of Brown. "He has the courage of his convictions, which we haven't seen in a very long while."
Brown, who is up for reelection in 2014, has not yet stated his intention to seek another term, though he has raised millions of dollars for what would appear to be an easy campaign.
Asked if Brown would categorically rule out another presidential bid in 2016, a front man, Jim Evans, referred to a statement Brown made in May at a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Chamber of Commerce breakfast. Citing his past primary victories, Brown said "time is kind of running out on that."
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I hope so, John, but wasn't that what we thought about the current nutjob-in-chief?
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I attended a Moonbeam-for-president rally outside Old Main at PSU in '92. He was a clownshow back then, I wouldn't have believed it if you told me then that he'd be talking about running in 2016. But he's got the genuine Nixon touch - nothing can kill his political career, not Raid, not fire, not the Wrath Of Heaven On High.
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Don't laugh. Look at his competition and weep.
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The problem is, he's what passes for a moderate in the my beloved, beclowned land. Without him, the orcs of Pee Cee will run amok.
JerryJerryJerryJerry...not again...please? The Ring has passed on. Let it go.
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Gob Brown would be 78 in 2016. His craziness sort of works for him in CA but I don't think the rest of the US would buy it.
Hillary would be 69 in 2016. Many on the left hate her for her Iraq vote (she voted for use of force in 2002) and for her sponsorship of the Patriot Act in 2001. Other lefties hate her because they associate her with Bill. Conservatives also have reason to dislike her but they won't be voting in many donk primaries.
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Please please please run and yank the D party so hard left that even the oblivious idiots who re elected Obama will hesitate.
[THEGUARDIAN] An argument about a secret congressional committee's ability to review the US intelligence agencies went kaboom! into rare public view on Tuesday as angry senators demanded legal memos from a nominee to run the CIA's legal office.
Caroline Krass, a top justice department lawyer, sparked the ire of several Senate intelligence committee members by claiming that crucial legal opinions about intelligence matters were beyond the scope of the committee.
Asked directly and repeatedly if the Senate panel was entitled to the memos, which several senators claimed were crucial for performing their oversight functions, Krass replied: "I do not think so, as a general matter."
Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... , the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat who chairs the committee, suggested that Krass placed her nomination as CIA general counsel in jeopardy. "You are going to encounter some heat in that regard," Feinstein said.
The Senate intelligence committee, whose public hearings are increasingly rare, is usually a bastion of support for the CIA and its sister intelligence agencies. The exception is the committee's prolonged fight with the CIA over a 6,300-page report on the agency's torture of terrorism detainees in its custody since 9/11.
The committee has prepared its report for years; the former chairman, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, said the classified version contains 50,000 footnotes. For a year, the panel has sought to release a public version that multiple members of the panel say documents both the brutality of CIA torture and what they have called "lies" told by the CIA to the oversight committees in Congress and the rest of the executive branch concerning its torture practices.
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Caroline Krass, a top justice department lawyer, sparked the ire of several Senate intelligence committee members by claiming that crucial legal opinions about intelligence matters were beyond the scope of the committee.
.....and by extension, also beyond the rule of law. Behold 'the beast' senators.
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Understandable mistake by Krass: Congress has outsourced so much of its regulatory and rule-writing power to the Executive branch that she thought she had the rule-writing power to tell the Congress to sod off.
It's an easy mistake to make once you've aggrandized enough power.
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But, but, but we must give him what he wants the tools he needs. Our first IndoKenyan master must not FAIL !
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The legislative branch has become a insider country club in the Senate and a money and influence peddling organization in the House by which its members and cronies enrich themselves and their peers. Congress has ceased to be a governing body - the Senate and House haven't even performed their primary function of passing a true budget, nor have they performed their designed purpose, which is to Represent the states and the people, respectively.
Small wonder we have devolved into an imperial presidency over the past couple of administrations,with the executive branch running roughshod, far exceeding what should be considered its constitutional limits (due to an "activist" progressive judiciary).
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