Harry Reid poisons another well by releasing normally-private communications between his office and Boehner's staff....
Update -- Reed campaign responds: "show us the evidence of this attack or admit that this is just a lie manufactured ...
Senior Democrats are engaging in eliminationist rhetoric....
The latest development. https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/385042956857511936 https://twitter.com/rickklein/status/385043012147216384 https://twitter.com/rickklein/status/385043509516197890 I think negotiating with empty chairs will be a good thing. Reid and Obama are riding high, convinced the media will convey their messaging. There's reason for them to think that: ...
So: Why, according to Obama, is the world better off than in 2008? Well, the global economic crisis has abated. But that’s not all: “We’ve also worked to end a decade of war,” the president said, by withdrawing U.S. and NATO troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and “shifting away from a perpetual war footing.” Here’s where you could almost hear the head-scratching in the Iraqi and Afghan delegations: Violence in both of those countries is considerably worse than it was five years ago, in part because of the U.S. withdrawals. Also, as Obama half-acknowledged, al-Qaeda is more of a threat in more places — Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Libya, Syria — than it was in 2008. And then there is the region stretching from Morocco to Iran, which is experiencing not stability but an epochal upheaval, one that has brought civil war or anarchy to a half-dozen countries and spawned the greatest crimes against humanity since the turn of the 21st century. It’s easy to dismiss Obama’s claim on factual grounds. More interesting is to see what prompted it: a soda-straw view of the world in which only the president’s inauguration-day priorities are visible. His aim then was to bring home U.S. troops, end the “endless war” of George W. Bush, defend the homeland from al-Qaeda and step back from the quagmire of the Arab Middle East. He did all that; ergo, the world is more stable — and from the attenuated perspective of an American who mainly wishes the world would go away, perhaps it is.Unlike Diehl, I didn't find President Obama's speech to be that surprising. There wasn't much new in it. President Obama doesn't believe in letting troops fight to win a war but to bring them home and end it. He's said that in slightly different words throughout his presidency. https://twitter.com/JacksonDiehl/status/383563604739379201 What's remarkable about Diehl's column is that Diehl and the Washington Post's editorial board twice endorsed Barack Obama for President despite his myopic worldview. This is as thorough a verbal repudiation of the president as any I've seen. But it isn't just pundits who reject President Obama's foreign policies; it's allies too. A few weeks ago Walter Russell Mead wrote in The Failed Grand Strategy in the Middle East:
As a big fan of capitalism, I am fascinated by the concept of crowdfunding, whereby individuals network and pool their money via websites to support potentially profitable enterprises initiated by savvy entrepreneurs. It's small-scale venture capitalism! Perhaps the best known crowdfunding enterprise is Kickstarter, which offers a...
A few days ago I used the term "barbarism" in reference to the Nairobi mall attack. An excellent article by Brendan O'Neill appeared today in the Telegraph making a similar point, and entitled "I'm sorry, but we have to talk about the barbarism of modern...
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 There will be no Continuing Resolution tonight. There will be a partial shutdown of non-essential services. All because Democrats refused to have Congress treated like ordinary citizens as to Obamacare exchange subsidies,...
The group also tweeted an image of GlobalPost's website administration panel from its own Twitter account.
Kyle Kim, Deputy Social Media and News Desk Editor for GlobalPost, confirmed the hack.
https://twitter.com/kyleykim/status/384719304542785536
https://twitter.com/kyleykim/status/384720368830644224
Kim also cited a GlobalPost article as the reason why the outlet was targeted by the SEA.
Basically what was expected. The 2012 election was about Obamacare, he won, we lost, it's done, move on. The election was about Obamacare? Actually, it was about everything except Obamacare:
Update: This National Review post lists all the things that do not get shut, and it's quite a long list, Not Actually a Shutdown.
The Senate voted to "table" the House Continuing Resolutions passed Saturday night to fund the government with a delay in Obamacare. It was a party-line vote. https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/384747491003871232 Remember to tweet the hastag #BlameHarryReid, which continues to rise (a/o 2:35): ...
I hear Elizabeth Warren's presidential train a comin', it's rollin' round the bend...
Another really busy weekend. Preparing to #BlameHarryReid. “Why you should read College Insurrection” week 12-year old RI student suspended for small keychain “gun” CBS News buries poll result showing Tea Party support rising Dear Hamilton College Bd. of Trustees, maybe your Diversity Industry is making race relations worse Annoying Sitemeter Pop-up...
1) He’s not here by accident. That is, this Iranian charm offensive is not because Rouhani, unlike his predecessor, went to charm school. Powerful domestic pressures have driven him here. 2) We are finally going to see a serious, face-to-face negotiation between top Iranian and American diplomats over Iran’s nuclear program. 3) I have no clue and would not dare predict whether these negotiations will lead to a peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear crisis. 4) The fact that we’re now going to see serious negotiations raises the stakes considerably. It means that if talks fail, President Obama will face a real choice between military action and permanent sanctions that could help turn Iran into a giant failed state. 5) Pray that option 2 succeeds.While there are no doubt domestic considerations that drove Rouhani to appear conciliatory, there's one reason that Friedman left out. A recent skeptical Washington Post editorial put it well:
Mr. Rouhani was in New York on Tuesday not because democracy triumphed in Iran but because Iran’s real leader decided to give the soft-sell strategy a try.https://twitter.com/dubo1968/status/383804496088150016 In the end of Friedman's column, he writes:
Twitchy if tracking the action, #BlameHarryReid: Looming shutdown? Citizens to Sen. Reid: Own it.
Thanks for making this a Topsy Top 1k post (a/o 5:35 p.m.)
Update: True to form, Politico via Drudge reports that Reid, who had the Senate take all of yesterday and this morning off, will not allow a vote on the House bill funding the government but removing the medical equipment tax:
