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Each day's sordid events aligns me closer and closer to the "nothing will come of this" conclusion. Notice the lack of congressional mention;, "high crimes and misdemeanors"....? This odious emposter has a ticket to ride, and he knows it.
A race that could shape the U.S. Senate landscape will begin next week with some Southern barbeque in a tiny Arkansas town called Dardanelle.
Republican Tom Cotton plans to announce his bid for the upper chamber there, where he grew up on his family's cattle farm. The freshman congressman -- a 36-year-old Harvard law graduate and a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- is GOP recruitersÂ’ dream challenger to take on Democrat Mark Pryor, considered among the most vulnerable incumbents in the country.
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A Dem out, A Pub in, lot of that going around. (He He)
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
08/01/2013 10:12 Comments ||
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Any bets on some Iraqi/Afghani (possibly currently living in USA) lodging a complaint about war crimes by Cotton just in time to affect the elections?
In a lengthy interview with the left-wing New Republic, John McCain, the Republican Party's 2008 nominee blurted out his affection for Hillary Clinton more than once. Those ambassadorial noms have to go to somebody, never too early to start sucking up. Is Johnny now channeling his fat daughter?
At one point the Arizona Senator said that choosing between Rand Paul or Clinton for president in 2016 would be a "tough choice." He then went on to call the former Secretary of State a "rock star" and criticize Fox News as "schizophrenic" over the issue of immigration reform. Passive-aggressive old bugger.
McCain also mocked a Fox News segment on immigration: A "mocking" John McCain ?
New Republic: You have had conversations with people at Fox, The New Yorker reported, about immigration. There is a real divide in the party. What do Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch say about whether the party can come along on this issue?
McCain: It is well known that Rupert Murdoch is a strong supporter of immigration reform. Roger Ailes is also a realist. He believes that immigration reform is vital to the country first, but also the GOP. Yet he does not dictate. [Sean] Hannity has come out against it and kept his job. I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted.
New Republic: But if you watch Fox, there are all these segments on immigrants and crime and so on, and people get riled up, and then they want reform. It's a difficult dynamic in the party.
McCain: I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic. I saw a guy on "Hannity," maybe "Huckabee," and the guy said, "You know, the Chinese are coming across our border, and they are going to commit cyber attacks." McCain diagnosing schizophrenia ?
New Republic: They have to cross the border to do that?
McCain: Honest to God! "They are going to commit cyber attacks."
McCain's sudden affection for Clinton is in sharp contrast to the outrage he expressed over the four dead Americans in Libya who were left unprotected by Clinton's State Department. Stockholm syndrome ?
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If she's a rock star, when will she choke to death on her own vomit?
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
08/01/2013 13:45 Comments ||
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How is it McCain still keeps being reelected? He seems to be opposed to the opinions of his state. I know its difficult to give up the "power" associated with a well-known politician but at some point that becomes battered wife syndrom.
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Someone should pass a law that says if you try for the President and lose you have to leave the public eye. No more hanging on as a senator or whatever. Go away. That would limit the number of folks willing to roll the dice down to those with a legitimate chance.
Posted by: Barbara ||
08/01/2013 16:53 Comments ||
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Translate: "Those sneaky Chinese are going to sneak across the border to do that internet hacking stuff. And we can't stop them!!! And they are going to be doing it on my lawn. The bastards!"
The Homeland Security Department has lost track of more than 1 million people who it knows arrived in the U.S. but who it cannot prove left the country, according to an audit Tuesday that also found the department probably won't meet its own goals for deploying an entry-exit system.
The findings were revealed as Congress debates an immigration bill, and the Government Accountability Office's report could throw up another hurdle because lawmakers in the House and Senate have said that any final deal must include a workable system to track entries and exits and cut down on so-called visa overstays. Some visa "overstays" from China deface government monuments with green paint.
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Just adopt the 'foreign bride' standards. You want to sponsor a immigrant, legal or illegal, you're responsible for their economic sustainment for 10 years. We'll see how many supporting amnesty are willing to put their wallet on the line. It's all about giving them other people's money via state subsidizes. When it directly hits their own income, we'll see how sympathetic they really are. Add in BP's bonding for the application.
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Not a chance the "Repubs" are all pussies, and we are royally phuqued. We will be stuck w/ Hillary in the next election becuz the Repub elites are looking more and more like Dems.
about ready to move to Australia. or Kalamazoo.
House Republicans, in a lengthy report on the Justice Department's leak investigations, formally accused Attorney General Eric Holder of misleading Congress with "deceptive" testimony that he knew nothing of the "potential prosecution" of the press.
The 70-page report was released late Wednesday by Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee. To coincide with the release, lawmakers also wrote a letter to President Obama calling for a "change in leadership" at the Justice Department.
"The deceptive and misleading testimony of Attorney General Holder is unfortunately just the most recent example in a long list of scandals that have plagued the department," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said in a statement.
The report delved into the department's aggressive investigations over various security leaks, but focused in large part on the FBI affidavit seeking a search warrant for Fox News correspondent James Rosen's emails in connection with one such probe. The DOJ sought access to the documents by arguing Rosen was a likely criminal "co-conspirator" in a leak case, citing the Espionage Act.
Yet on May 15, shortly before the document was made public, Holder told the House Judiciary Committee that he hadn't heard of any effort to prosecute reporters.
"With regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that I have ever been involved, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy," Holder said. He discussed the issue amid concerns about the DOJ grabbing phone records from Associated Press offices.
The newly released House report concluded that this comment was "deceptive and misleading."
The report said: "We believe that Mr. Holder's simple and direct statement had the intended effect -- to leave the members of the Committee with the impression that not only had the potential prosecution of a reporter never been contemplated during Mr. Holder's tenure, but that nothing comparable to the Rosen search warrant had ever been executed by this administration. ... On the basis of Mr. Holder's testimony, there was little doubt in the Members' minds that the legal machinery for such an undertaking had never been started."
Justice spokesman Brian Fallon on Wednesday said the latest report "was produced on a purely partisan basis" and said its findings "are contrary to the record and strongly disputed by many of the committee's own members."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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