In an odd flipping of the political script, the Taliban has called on the U.S. Congress to dispatch a “fact-finding mission” to Afghanistan to probe what it calls the lies and propaganda used by the Pentagon and U.S. generals to extend and justify the war. —JCL Agence France-Presse: The Islamist militant group has been fighting for more than nine years to topple the Kabul government, which is backed by 150,000 US and NATO troops. In the past year, Taliban influence has spread across the country from their bastion in the south where the war is concentrated, and momentum has been widely seen to have turned in their favour. The statement, addressed to “Messers American Congressmen,” was emailed to AFP and signed by Qari Mohammad Yousuf Ahmadi, “spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”. Read more Related Entries November 7, 2010 Why Pelosi Wants to Stay November 6, 2010 Obama Open to Tax Cut Compromise
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Did MSNBC suspend Keith Olbermann because he refused to apologize for his campaign finance activities on camera? That's what Politico's Mike Allen is reporting Sunday (h/t Mediaite ): read more
Continue reading …Here We Go Again: Climate Taxes on the Table, Accompanied by Usual Media Slant
November 7, 2010 No CommentThey're back, they have their media water-carriers in place, and the Obama administration is smack dab in the middle of it. The United Nations is pushing for countries in the developed world to keep their “promise” to, in the worlds of Charles J. Hanley at the Associated Press,
Continue reading …Liberal Talkers Unglued: Ed Schultz Sneers Obama’s ‘Mr. Vanilla,’ Mike Malloy Wants Him to Refuse to Run Again
November 7, 2010 No Comment
As anyone should expect, liberal talk-radio hosts were not happy with the election returns, but they turned their anger on President Obama for his perfunctory pledges to work together with Republicans in the next two years. On Wednesday afternoon, Ed Schultz attacked him as “Mister Vanilla”: Well, just what I thought. Mr. Vanilla, Barack Obama, flat and lame, olive branches coming out all over the place, can't we all just get along, I'm ready to work with you…This is Jimmy Carter on steroids! And then some! Generic. Vanilla. Non-combatant. No lines in the sand. I think it lacks leadership. I really, really do. Schultz doesn't seem to have enough of a grasp of modern history to recall that President Carter couldn't even work with congressional Democrats, which is why he faced a primary challenge from Ted Kennedy in 1980. Schultz seems worried that Obama will be so agreeable he won't be re-electable: read more
Continue reading …Dana Milbank: ‘Would We Be Better Off Under a President Hillary Clinton?’
November 7, 2010 No Comment
After a stinging defeat at the polls Tuesday, liberal media members are rethinking the horse they backed in 2008, what with the economy struggling, unemployment near 10 percent, and the Democrats suffering their worst loss in a midterm election since before most of these so-called journalists were born. It was therefore not at all surprising to see Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank waxing nostalgic in his Sunday piece
Continue reading …AP’s Liz ‘Sore Loser’ Sidoti: GOP Counted on ‘Lagging Recovery’ For Comeback from 2008 Debacle
November 7, 2010 No Comment
Darn. If only the midterm elections had been held after Friday's Employment Situation Report instead of before, the results might have been very different. Apparently that's what the Associated Press's Liz Sidoti (pictured at the top right at this post's home page tease) wants us to believe, as she ended her borderline bitter take on the origins of Congressional Republicans' successful electoral comeback and takeover of the House of Representatives four days ago with this sentence: Ten months later (after Scott Brown's U.S. Senate race victory in Massachusetts — Ed.) , victorious Republicans met to plan their transition to power in the House – just as it was announced that the economy created 151,000 jobs. As if one good jobs-added number — even with the unemployment rate stuck at 9.6% — proves that the economic recovery is finally in high gear. Zheesh. read more
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With his proverbial political tail between his legs, President Barack Obama has articulated his clearest signal yet that he is open to a post-midterm compromise with newly empowered Republicans that would sustain some parts of the Bush-era tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of 2010. —JCL Reuters: President Barack Obama gave his clearest signal yet on Saturday of a possible post-election compromise with resurgent Republicans that could prevent tax rates from rising for any American, even the wealthiest, come January. Obama, in his first weekly radio address since his Democrats suffered big losses in Tuesday’s congressional elections, reasserted that Bush-era tax cuts should be made permanent for the middle class before they expire at year-end. But while insisting tax cuts for wealthier Americans should not become permanent because of a $700 billion impact on the deficit over the next decade, he left the door open to a temporary extension for higher income levels—as long as it falls short of costing that much. Read more Related Entries November 5, 2010 Olbermann Suspended From MSNBC Over Campaign Contributions November 5, 2010 A Speaker Who Stood Out
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A team of scientists “on a research cruise” (what?) have discovered severe damage to coral reefs near the location of the Deepwater Horizon’s blown-out wellhead. Coral, which is a barometer of the health of an ocean’s ecosystem, was found to be “sloughing off tissues and producing mucus.” Gross. —JCL Los Angeles Times: Scientists on a research cruise this week found a community of dead and dying deep-sea corals not far from the site of BP’s blown-out wellhead. “Within minutes of our arrival … it was evident to the biologists on board that this site was unlike any others that we have seen over the course of hundreds of hours of studying the deep corals in the Gulf of Mexico over the last decade,” Penn State University biology professor Charles Fisher and the cruise’s chief scientist said in a news release. A colony of hard coral at a depth of more than 4,000 feet was sloughing off tissue and producing mucus, while a nearby community of soft corals had extensive bare areas. A type of starfish associated with the coral was also in bad shape. Read more Related Entries November 5, 2010 Olbermann Suspended From MSNBC Over Campaign Contributions November 5, 2010 A Speaker Who Stood Out
Continue reading …America’s Only Openly Socialist Member of Congress Defends Keith Olbermann
November 6, 2010 No Comment
The same day an MSNBC host admitted to being a socialist on national television, America's only openly socialist member of Congress came out in defense of Keith Olbermann after the “Countdown” host was suspended indefinitely for violating NBC's campaign finance rules. If you needed any more proof of just how far to the left this so-called news network is, you should look no further than what Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) published at the Huffington Post Friday: read more
Continue reading …Mark Shields: Palin Quitting As Governor Is Like Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick
November 6, 2010 No Comment
PBS's Mark Shields on Friday said Sarah Palin's decision to resign as the governor of Alaska is “like Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick.” This astonishingly came moments after he called Nancy Pelosi
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