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President Barack Obama has issued an official statement saying that he opposes the current form of HR1947, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 (AKA the Farm Bill).
When I said that the federal government was watching “real people, not corporate people,” I had no idea how prophetic that statement was. In the few short weeks since that story, there has been one revelation about government spying on American c...
There has been quite a bit of discussion today about a New York Times editorial in which the editors declare "The administration has now lost all credibility" as a result of the NSA data mining program(s). President Obama’s Dragnet.
I would point out that the New York Times lost all credibility on this subject years ago when it withheld publication of a report on the Bush-Cheney administration's unconstitutional and illegalTerrorist Surveillance Program for over a yea...
On June 1, in one of her most-important-ever “opening statements,” Judge Jeanine Pirro called for indictment of Eric Holder on multiple counts of federal law violations including perjury, making false statements to Congress, aiding and abetting false statements, obstruction, misprision of felony, and conspiracy.
Judge Pirro did not say Holder should be reprimanded, be held in contempt of Congress, be asked to resign, or be fired.
WesternFreePress.com has just referenced an excellent Kimberly Strassel / Wall Street Journal article on how and why the IRS scandal must surely have started at the top.
Of course, some Obama sycophants are softly tut-tutting about IRS targeting, but most of them still want to treat it as a one-time, one-off, “incident” that is by no means part of a pattern. However, now that we have 5 years of history to examine, there are plenty of signs that the IRS scandal is indeed part of a l...
As the New York Times editorialized this afternoon, "For the first time, President Obama clearly stated that the current state of war is unsustainable for a democracy and that it must come to an end." The End of the Perpetual War.
From the White House blog:
Today at National Defense University, President Obama laid out the framework for U.S. counterterrorism strategy as we wind down the war in Afghanistan.
President Obama discussed how the threat of terrorism has changed ...
For five years, Senate Republicans led by the Septegenarian Ninja Turtle, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), have systematically abused the Senate filibuster rules in partisan warfare to block President Obama's judicial nominees. There are currently four vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as a result of this unprecedented partisan obstruction by the GOP.
Today there is one less vacancy. The Septegenarian Ninja Turtle finally had to cave on hi...
For five years supporters of President Obama who also support decisive action on climate change have been forced to wait patiently for leadership from the 44th President of the United States.
In 2008 and 2009 the prospects of federal climate action seemed imminent and inevitable. A new clean energy economy was on the horizon. Republican standard-bearers such as Newt Gingrich and John McCain were on the bandwagon and even leading the charge (watch video).
The Presidential Commission on Election Administration is now up and running. Check out its new web site here.
I have low expectations for any meaningful election law reforms to come from this commission, mostly because the Republican Party's go-to lawyer for voter suppression, Ben Ginsburg, is co-chair of the commission. In my view, Ginsburg there to ensure nothing happens.
I have posted about this topic from time to time whenever a member of Congress introduces a bill for a constitutional amendment that would make the right to vote a fundamental constitutional right. This is important, because fundamental constitutional rights are subject to the strict scrutiny standard of review by the federal courts. Currently the right to vote, which is not expressly guaranteed in the Constitution, is generally reviewed under the rational basis standard ...
The self-important pompous assholes of the Beltway media elite have their noses in a snit. Ed Kilgore at the Political Animal blog sets it up, D.C. To Obama: Don’t Mess With “This Town”:
Well, it doesn’t get much more official than this: an VandeHei/Allen “Behind the Curtain” column announcing that D.C. (“the town”) is “turning on” Barack Obama, and there will be nothing but venom coming from any direction for the foreseeable future[.]
Once again, Judge Jeanine Pirro pulls no punches as she calls out Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Jay Carney, and Susan Rice for lying to the American people. On May 11, in under 12 minutes, the Judge reviews the facts — facts — as she excoriates them all as liars, betrayers, and hypocrites.
Says Judge Jeanine Pirro, with passion:
It’s not one fact, but each fact taken together as a connected whole, that convinces us of what the truth is. And [what is] that truth? Jay Carn...
There has been a remarkable amount of bad journalism this week from the corporate "lamestream" media, taking its cue from the hysterical conspiracy mongering conservative media entertainment complex cult on "Benghazi! Benghazi!!Benghazi!!!". This is the right-wing noise machine's business model, as Jonathan Bernstein pointed out in The real lesson of Benghazi:
In this 8-minute video from April 30, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) predicts May 8 Congressional testimony on Benghazi will provide major breakthroughs in understanding what actually happened, as well as uncovering grossly negligent management of the situation and the (apparent) cover-ups that followed.
Gowdy is openly skeptical about the President’s professed ignorance of witness intimidation allegations. And he trashes the State Dept’s own investigation, opining that the investigation w...
Oh lord, these Beltway media villagers are some of the most pathetic creatures imaginable. I'm not sure if it is their own personal failings, or the corporate media culture which produced them.
The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (aka "Nerd Prom") is an annual event we should dispense with, but until then, I've got to give the people what they want. Here are some of the best lines from President Obama's stand-up comedy routine for the self-obsessed Beltway media villagers. Remarks by The President at The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner:
Of course, everybody has got plenty of advice. Maureen Dowd said I could solve all my problems i...
