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* I noted below that Congressional Republicans would be escalating their national security attacks on Obama, and Sam Stein has the latest salvo: A video by Senate Republicans about Obama and Guantanamo Bay…
* A new CNN poll finds that 57% oppose a Congressional investigation into the Bush officials who authorized torture. This is a narrow way to poll the question, though.
The better way is to poll it broadly: Offer respondents a choice between a criminal probe, a non-criminal one, or neither, and ask whether folks favor an overall look into what happened, not necessarily one focused only on the torture architects. Done that way, the results are very different.
* Chris Cillizza says the White House doesn’t want a torture probe because it’s bad politics. One hopes the White House — sorry, the Attorney General — will also think about the law.
* Speaking of torture, don’t miss our big new profile of torture memo author Jay Bybee.
* Glenn Thrush argues that Eric Cantor was actually pushing back (albeit gently) against Rush Limbaugh, not capitulating to him.
* The latest Research 2000 poll for Daily Kos finds that substantially more Dems than Repblicans would disapprove of their state if it left the Union.
* Drawing on that polling, Steve Benen draws up a useful chart on secession attitudes by region.
* TPM tracks the whispering campaign against potential SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Update: RNC chair Michael Steele is in fact now condemning the Maine gay marriage decision.
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So much for patriotic Republicans wrapping themselves in the American flag. Guess there’s gonna be a run on state flags. Hmmm… maybe there’s an investment opportunity there!
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Damned good idea. Every minute taken up by a reporter is a minute that an AEI representative or Pentagon propagandist is sitting in a bar with someone not his wife.
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Speaking of which, the Pentagon IG’s take back on the faulty (I’ll say!) Pentagon report on military analysts being organized to forward pro-war propaganda on the networks is a story that missed the cut here today but it’s a story I think we ought to keep burning bright for a number of reasons…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/us/06generals.html?_r=1&ref=fpjr2
As TPM noted today, one reason the initial report was devoid of substance (or truth or justice) was that the Pentagon officials who engineered the program refused to talk. My personal consideration is that this is as important a matter as the torture memos.
May I toss this in? From a reader at Andrew Sullivan’s blog. I didn’t know this important bit of information on the legal issue…
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“There is a very simple reason why we have to pretend that Israel does not possess nuclear weapons- the Non Proliferation Treaty. Under the treaty and US law, a non-signatory to the treaty (such as Israel) who acquires nuclear weapons is prohibited from receiving any foreign aid or military aid (the last estimates I saw were that Israel receives about a quarter of the US’s entire foreign aid budget, and half of our foreign military aid budget). So there you go. ” http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/israels-nuclear-closet-ctd.html
I swear man if some Democrat doesn’t come forward soon to volunteer to take GITMO detainees I don’t know what I am going to do. The GOP is scared of their own frikkin shadow and someone needs to call them on it.
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How full of sh*t is Glenn Rush? If Eric Cantor’s performance on Morning Joe wasn’t an example of a total capitulation to Rush I don’t know what is. Make no mistake, Cantor and Jeb Bush had described it is as going around and listening before RushBo got involved.
An irony in this, sg, is that a hero’s mantle awaits the (conservative or Republican) individual who finally takes Rush down, if that’s done for the right reasons.
Ed Kilgore, referencing Nate Silver, writes on the minimal political consequences arising from SC nominees…
“As he is wont, Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com has done exhaustive research on the impact of both successful and unsuccessful Supreme Court appointments on the approval ratings of presidents going all the way back to Eisenhower, and concluded there’s not much evidence such appointments pose a major political risk.”http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/
Reincarnate Twain in this period and toss him into a female body…
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“But surely, when it comes to combating teen pregnancy, the Palin family has done enough damage already. What worse message could you send to teenage girls than the one they delivered at the Republican convention: If your handsome but somewhat thuglike boyfriend gets you with child, he will clean up nicely, propose marriage, and show up at an important family event wearing a suit and holding your hand. At which point you will get a standing ovation.” – Gail Collins
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/opinion/07collins.html?_r=1
Yet another attempt at baiting fake conflicts on the right >yawn< in order to divert attention from Obama’s habitual dishonesty, shocking disregard for the law, constitution, and/or ethics… and general, all-round incompetency.
Team Obama, the DNC, and their MSM sycophants have been employing despicable Alinsky-esque divide-and-conquer and character assassination techniques for months now… manufacturing synthetic “fights” like Rush vs. Steele, plus ceaseless ridicule of Jindal, Palin, even shameful distortion of the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Clearly, the strategy is to eliminate GOP rallying points and philosophical framework for 2010/12 and create the image of a party in disarray.
And it’s not difficult to see why the Democrats might prefer to banter playfully about made-up GOP “scandals” and irrelevancies like Meghan McCain’s latest drivel than debate Obama’s ongoing destruction of the country.
When their pork-n-welfare spending orgy fails to create any real economic gains -but stokes vicious inflation and crashes the dollar instead- the Democrats face a bloodbath in 2010.
And by 2012?
LOL, the GOP could take 40 states running Gilbert Gottfried.
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