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Rahm Emanuel appeared on Bill Maher to say that defunding the war as a way to end it just isn't an option and gosh darn it, we just don't have the votes so we really need to wait for another president before we can try to bring the kids home. The same Rahm Emanuel who led the fight to take the language out of the supplemental which would have required the President to seek congressional authority before using military force in Iran.
Thanks, Rahm.
Thankfully, Russ Feingold seems to have other ideas:
Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
On Offering Feingold-Reid to the Defense Appropriations BillWashington DC - Today, in advance of introducing an amendment to the Defense appropriations bill based on the Feingold-Reid legislation to safely redeploy U.S. troops from Iraq, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold released the following statement:
"Iraq is the most important issue we face and the Senate must address it when we take up the Defense spending bill this week. Now is not the time for half-measures or compromises that do nothing to end the President's disastrous Iraq policy. If senators are serious about safely redeploying our troops from Iraq, passing Feingold-Reid is the surest way to do it."
We very much look forward to the Senate once again taking up the subject of withdrawal when they discuss funding the war as the Defense Appropriations Bill comes up for debate. It would be horribly negligent of them to try and kick the can down the street and put off discussing this until some nebulous future date.
Whenever Republicans accuse Democrats of being insincere about their efforts to end the war, they say they could do it quite easily if they wanted to by defunding it. And they're right. There really is no good reason for letting a vote to censure MoveOn get to the floor and yet they aren't talking about this.
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deuce!!
I’m up for defunding Rahm.
Oh, Rahm. What is it with you? I am disgusted.
Yes Laura, defund Rahm!!
hi Jane!
Rahm Emmanuel cares about giving out consulting contracts for campaigns not public policy. He is a political hack.
A few of my area papers allow on line comments so I’m going to post information about the Feingold measure in the sections after every story about eyerack
Remember how the GOP ran roughshod over the Democrats when we were in the minority in Congress? Why does it happen now that Democrats are in the majority?
1,614 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Hamsher and the Firepup Patriots:
Yes, sister Hamsher, ram that defundin’ vote right down the fascists’ throats and let ‘em filibuster the military appropriations budget. Their alternative would be to allow it to pass and then let the Chimpenfeuhrer veto it. So,let the bastards filibuster!! It’s only good for the Democrats if ya call their bluff…this is an election year and the Democrats have 70% of the votin’ population on their side on this, if they can’t force the issue now, they never will even with 75 votes in the Senate!!
It’s out in public now, Harry Reid has no cloths…oh my God, I’m gunna be sick!!
KEEP THE FAITH AND GIVE ‘EM A SHOT A COURAGE WHERE IT’LL DO THE MOST GOOD!!
Laura Doty @ 3
Oh absolutely. I saw this exchange on HBO. When someone howled from the audience I thot Rahm was going to bolt.
And how’d he lose that finger?
I gather (from Crooks and Liars vid) that Rahm also announced that the Saudis are Shi’ites (uh, WRONG); he apparently also seems to believe that being Persian and Shi’ite are mutually exclusive. Sigh. I no longer care if it’s ignorance, stupidity or massive indifference. This guy has GOT to go.
Laura Doty @ 3
De-jewel.
There’s no good reason for the Republicans to keep this war going either. That’s just a Republican soundbite, which isn’t sincere at all and is really aimed at spreading the blame for this stupid war.
1,614 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Firepup Patriots:
And as fer Rahm, give ‘im the choice to go lead a platoon in Iraq er re-instate his commission in the Israeli army and go after innocent Palestinians.
How about it Howie Klein, ken a “blue surge” sweep Rahm out in the primaries…I’d give plenty a money I can’t afford to that effort?
KEEP THE FAITH AND CALL A FASCIST A FASCIST!!
He has a lot of nerve to go on Bill’s show. Or is it egomaniacal transcendence?
Iceland just defunded their
troopstroop…See, it wasn’t that hard.
If you were wondering what your dollar was doing today - $1.4232/Euro
If we can’t defund Rahm, is there anything that would make him unwanted by the talking heads?
Shorter Rahm: Move On is dangerous. After all, they’re onto me! The war? Not so dangerous.
-S
Rahm’s short-term “tree, but not forest” logic goes something like this:
1. If we defund the Iraq War, we Democrats won’t have anything to run on in 2008.
2. Let’s just “pretend” we can’t defund the Iraq War and then tell everybody that without telling them why. “Need to know” doncha know?
3. After we win big in 2008, well…we’ll think of something. I just know we will.
TeddySanFran @ 8
That would be my biggest question, too!
Rahm Emmanuel: a tribute to triangulation and hesitation. On the day he actually decides to be for something, he’ll have commissioned 11 polls, and then 12 polls to verify those 11 polls and then do 6 polls to verify that the first two were actually valid. By the time it’s all done, no one will remember the question it the first place, which is what he counts on to begin with.
Rahm … right for NEVER!
I’m getting the feeling that next week is going to be must see TV.
Ed*ard Teller @ 16
That’s a HOOT!
Arnie @ 17
Holy shit. There go my dreams of Danish furniture.
TeddySanFran @ 8
A combination of Battered Wife and Stockholm syndromes.
NorskeFlamethrower @ 14
AMEN, NFT!
Ann in AZ @ 21
Because Bush is the President. The truth is that as long as they won’t impeach him, which is never going to happen, they have no power.
I’d like to suggest retiring the Stockholm and Battered Wife Syndrome memes. Please. The people we’re discussing are big-time players in the Beltway elite. They have not experienced life-threatening abuse.
Laura Doty @ 27
Tidbit on Rahm. . not that there is anything wrong with it”
He grew up in Wilmette and attended New Trier High School.[5] Emanuel was encouraged by his mother to take ballet lessons as a boy and is a “graduate of the Evanston School of Ballet”. He won “a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet” but turned this down to attend Sarah Lawrence College, a liberal arts school with a strong dance program.[6][4
The Dems are walking on the razors edge…risk losing ‘08 by making themselves vulnerable to Repub accusations of “cut and run”, “chickens”, “leave before the job is done”, “weak on terra”, “abandon the troops”, etc., versus; Dem accusations of “we voted you in to stop the war, and you let us down”, “you’re afraid of the Repubs, why?”, “you need to impeach, why not?”, “I’d rather vote for a strong Repub, than a weak Dem”, “losers”, “you’re just placating the lobbiests”, etc. They understand that the better gamble is to get through the end of the term of the dictators with as few casualties as possible, rather than risk 8 more years of it and the end of democracy forever.
What a sad state of affairs. Soldiers dying because of politics. The stakes are high. If the Dems do not win ‘08, everything every soldier has ever died for will be dead and buried with them. Rove is laughing his ass off. But…guess what…Hillary and Bill are both “laughing” their asses off too, because they have to, because they know what they are up against. (I am undecided, but I at least get that).
If we have fair elections, whether Hillary is the nominee or not, it will be the biggest landslide in the history of the United States of America. JMHO
raven @ 30
Okay - that explains his losing his finger. Those dancers are belligerent or so I hear.
Plus, there are some Dems who support the war. Aren’t they? It’s not exactly a tight coalition.
And this is why I feel hopelessness. So the Dems now have a majority. Big deal. It seems to do no good. Nothing changes. The war goes on and on. New wars are planned and will be started soon. The CEO’s are making money hand over fist (whatever that phrase means). The average american struggles to make ends meet. I can dream of a better world but it just ain’t gonna happen. We live in a cesspool created by human beings.
OK, OK. I know what that sounded like. I get in these depressions and it gets harder and harder to claw my way out. I just had to write it down and send it out to you folks. Just ignore it.
LS @ 31
Soldiers always die for politics.
From The Politico (which Republican controlled e-rag I refuse to link to), via TPM:
And, given recent evidence, the Dems will probably oblige.
And note, FYI, that Carl Levin just got a Unanimous Consent Request agreed to on the Senate floor that will bring the FY 2008 Defense Appropriations Bill to the floor for debate tomorrow morning. [The Senate is now voting on the last FY 2008 Defense Authorization Bill amendment and will then proceed to vote for final passage of that measure - of course, without any change in policy regarding our colonial occupation of Iraq attached.]
It’s also worth noting that in the past, Carl Levin has resisted any attempts to attach changes in our Iraq policy to defense funding measures such as the appropriations bill (as opposed to the defense policy authorization bill), so Russ Feingold’s first obstacle in this effort may well be the leadership of his own caucus, yet again. [Levin uses the “support our troops” slogan as his excuse for this position.]
I hope Feingold can rework, if necessary, the language of his amendment to make it explicitly a fully-funded withdrawal, so that “supporting the troops” becomes even more absurd, as they would no longer be in theater to support under his amendment. [Language that explicitly ends our occupation of Iraq as a matter of policy upon the withdrawal of our troops obviously helps emphasize that point.]
Now if 40 other Senators publicly announce their support for Feingold’s effort and approach here, the House leadership (and Jack Murtha’s and Dave Obey’s committees) will have cover to write a bill authorizing only enough new money - instead of the pending $190 billion “emergency” occupation-maintaining supplemental - to fully fund a withdrawal of our troops, thereby ending our occupation of Iraq, contingent only upon unanticipated complications of the withdrawal process that may require further funding at a later date.
ADM @ 34
((((ADM))))) Change happens. Beauty is also around us. If you need to, borrow some hope from me. Things will change.
ADM @ 34
ADM!!!! We will make it through this. It is tough, but we will prevail. We are in the majority in the entire country, in fact, the entire world. We want peace. Nothing is permanent, things will change. We will fight on, and we will never, ever give up. Depression is so hard to get out of, but you are not alone!!! Good vibes to you!!
TeddySanFran @ 8
TeddySF - they are like an S&M team. Not hard to figure out which is which.
Part of the problem is that the Democrats don’t all agree that defunding the war is the way to go. There are too many ideas floating around about what to do in Iraq and Bush makes them all impossible because no Democrat or Congressman can, as Bush says, micromanage the war, or end it in a particular way. So, until someone else takes charge, all we can do is blame the Republicans and Bush.
raven @ 35
An apt correction?
allan_in_upstate @ 36
On a related note;
http://thinkprogress.org/
raven @ 35
So true.
Mad Dogs @ 42
Works for me.
How long, dear Ghu, how long?
Laura & LS,
Thanks for the words of encouragement. It helps. I get so depressed sometimes. I keep coming here and to places like FDL in hopes that the wheels will finally come off this insanity. It just seems to be taking so long.
I want to stand in front of these politicians and ask them “WTF is wrong with you people? Snap out of it! Start doing the right thing. Stop killing people and start helping people.” I just don’t think they would listen.
Ah well. But thanks again. It helps some to be responded to and makes me realize I am not alone.
P J Evans @ 46
Sooner or later.
Ed*ard Teller, I went here and wrote the following this morning to any European who might be reading. Funny the blog won’t post my comment.
LS @ 48
About 16 months
Mad Dogs @ 42
No. Wars are created in the political arena; therefore, soldiers die for politics. Greed is just a subset of politics.
brrrrrrrrrrr- rahm leaves me cold!! he is soooo a DLCer and he and they are going to kill the dems chances of increasing their majority in congress b/c they’re out of touch with most dems imo - trying to be repug lite is no way to win
ADM @ 47
You are not alone, and I want to stand in front of them too and say exactly what you are saying, in fact, that is what we are doing, all together!!
GeorgeSimian @ 50
In about 2 hairs past the freckle.
@ 32
little known fact: most dance schools are equipped with an up-to-date ‘finger eating machine.’
Laura Doty @ 11
Parisians have sheds and nightlights. This amazing fact keeps Emmanuel Rahm inspired to run in circles. backwards. slo-mo.
Bustednuckles @ 43
And on a related, related note over at TPM:
Yeah, sure. Why I can see the State Department emails now: “Jeebus, we got thousands and thousands of Iraqis lining up in front of the Embassy to get shot and become millionaires. I’m thinking about getting in line myself.”
My hackles are up…grrrrr….Blackf’ingaqua…skates tomorrow???!!!
Say no!! Make them appear!! Typical.
Grrrrr….
Here are but a few of the reasons that the next election is our’s to lose.
“The Supreme Court nomination of Harriett Miers; the mangling of New Orleans; the perseverating support of Rumsfeld and Gonzales; the insulation of Tom DeLay from ethics inquiries; the shunning of a presidential debate at Morgan State, a historically black college; the meticulous cultivation of corruption on Capitol Hill; the derisive treatment of such appointees as Paul O’Neil and Christine Todd Whitman turning them into attention-getting critics of the administration.”
But gawd, this Dem really doesn’t want HRC as my next prez. And I can supply reasons.
I continue to believe that the “grief” given to rookie Blue America politicians is, while righteous, also a weak and short-sighted response. You’re attacking the sheep; instead of the shepherds.
I’ve reached the conclusion that more dramatic and drastic action is needed. MoveOn, and the entire Progressive Democratic movement should now “target” some leaders. Rahm and DiFi fit the bill well.
These 2 should be declared “persona non grata”. Make it very public and very loud that progressive democrats no longer consider them to even be members of the Democratic paty. Declare that each shall face stiff primary opponents. Make a noise. Henceforth, ALWAYS publicly refer to them as REPUBLICANS.
Let them roll their eyes, and protest, and “tsk tsk” us. Who cares. Oddly enough, on a seperate but related topic……I really think the MoveOn ad on “Betray Us” is better suited as a full page ad attacking Rahm and DiFi. Put the heat on them. I believe it’s time to take down the shepherds……the sheep will then shape up.
Ghostman
Rahm said he had constituents who were in the field and he couldn’t vote against giving them the super hum-vees (that’s not the right term but that’s pretty much how he kept describing them) that had all the great anti-blast armor. So let me get this straight. Bush started the war. The Republicans have been the majority for most of that time. But it will be the Democrats fault if the troops don’t get the super hum-vees? It’s just astounding how they can cuck this up, too.
And what makes Rahm think that the Dems are just going to waltz back into the White House. Somehow, the lead candidate is the most polarizing person on the planet who has already said she didn’t think we’d be out of Iraq by the end of her first term. Am I in the land of Andre Breton and the meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella? (That’s real Surrealism.) Do we just hand over our money and our votes and then the elected ones ignore us?
I guess we do.
Respective of war in the Middle East in the coming years, Hillary just might be the donkey in the middle of the room.
So the score is:
67% majority to overide veto on a bill
VS
50% to refuse to fund something
Talk is cheap ain’t it?
Since it’s such a bargain, how about talking with this?
“It is the sense of the (House / Senate) that it is NOT appropriate to fund current operations in Iraq, because the results of the last 4 years have demonstrated that the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces has no clearly defined plan for resolution. The president is welcome at any time to submit a convincing plan for Iraq operations resolution, which will then be considered for funding on it’s merits.”
There Congress, wasn’t that easy?
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 55
He lost part of his finger in a meat slicer as a teen, according to an article months ago in the Chicago Tribune (it’s also in Wikipedia).
if HRC is the nominee it’ll be a continuation of bush’s war policy…
Ann in AZ @ 51
And I will politely disagree. *g*
War is generally created by greed and politics is the mechanism to “implement and sanctify” it.
And former Marine Corp Major General Smedley Darlington Butler agrees. See his timeless “War Is a Racket” essay.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait just one frigging minute:
“The figure needed to be lower, the diplomatic-security official (oh, and just who might that be? Who is security for the diplomats???? - non other than Blackwater) contended, so Iraqis wouldn’t “try to get killed to set up their family financially.”
….Iraqis want to “try to get killed to set up their family financially”??????????
Hmmmm… that is exactly what has been asserted about the suicide “attackers” on 9/11…that they accepted money…from the Saudis…to secure the financial future of their families…it has been asserted here and there that suicide pays….in this horrific War on Terra.
Something stinks in Denmark.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 62
707!
I mean just connect the dots. Hillary loves Rahm. Hillary and Lieberman love the same Middle East policies. Hillary loves the DLC. The DLC loves Lieberman. Joe L. and Rahm love each other. Both these characters love Hillary. And on and on and on.
When Dems were a minority party the Repugs werent afraid of them. Why are the Dems scared of Rethugs now?
My God it was scary as hell watching that guy. Now if HE is representing the average Democrat in Congress, we’re in even more trouble than I thought we were. He was completely lost…semi-coherent.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph and Shemp, I was waiting for the camera to pan further over and there’s friggin’ Rod Serling. At times it was like hearing all the tired, worthless sound bites flooding out of him him like the locusts pouring out of that guy’s mouth in The Last Mile. Except here the words are all scrambled up and randomly put back together and vomited into an uber-gibberish.
And Rahm would apparently be just fine for the troops to be blown up wearing only the finest, most fabulous battle gear such as should grace the pages in the Fall Issue of Army VOGUE.
Rahm “the weasel” Emanuel and his cohorts actually prefer to let the war go on until 11/08, no matter what the cost in blood and treasure, because they think everybody will still mistakenly see the war as only Bush’s and the Republicans’ war all the way through. Why else would they obviously not be doing shit to stop the war — or even slow it down? They like it just fine this way PRECISELY BECAUSE — in their view — keeping the war going will guarantee them the mother of all landslides in Congress and the presidency.
Rahmmy is in over his head. Unfortunately, he is one of many. I would like to have basic qualification requirements for those in a “speaking” position (open your mouth where you can get your foot stuck). If you deal with world issues, a requirement is to have lived in at least one foreign developing country, among the people, in the villages for at least one year, preferably two.
I think it would improve our politicalcritters’ perspective having this visceral experience.
New post upstairs
and round and round the mulberry bush we go…..W T F!!!!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 69
Doesn’t Obama love them all too? Or was that last week…Do you think Gore still loves Lieberman? What about Edwards? Love fest. Ugh.
Yes, the war continues because the Democrats keep continuing it.
They know defunding is an option, they simply don’t want to. They’d rather have the war.
Worse, they keep blowing smoke up our collective asses: “We can’t do anything, we don’t have the votes”. It’s bullshit and they know it.
I don’t know why they’d be willing to lie to us and shame themselves, except that the Democrats in power want this war.
The “MRAP” (Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected) vehicle is the acronym you’re looking for, Ian.
BUT, that too is a specious lie by Rahm Emanuel: The May, 2007 “capitulation” $100 billion supplemental bill for Iraq already funded $9 billion worth of these MRAP vehicles (Joe Biden used that fact as his excuse for voting for that bill at the time). So is Rahm Emanuel really trying to claim that that $9 billion of new MRAP production has already been manufactured and shipped out to Iraq, just four months later?? There was even a story that the military had decided there was ‘no need’ to fly these MRAPs, once built, to Iraq, and that sending them there by ship instead was sufficient.
Rahm is trying to take advantage of the paucity of information about what is in these bills to con us. Don’t let him get away with it.
Ian @ 61
Is Congress or the Army still withholding those vehicles that are equipped with RPG defenses. I’m talking about the ones that Lisa Myers had a report about-I believe it’s called Trophy? Those could save lives, but if they’re still talking up-armoring Humvees and the old type of vests, we should be using the money to bring our guys home. Besides, whatever type of equipment comes in now could be just something we’ll have to leave behind when we leave.
Re the Repubs bickering (an earlier thread) and the DLC and the Progressives getting farther apart:
The Right Wing seems to hold at a constant 15 to 25% of voters. What do you suppose the Progressives would have if they enunciated their policies and beliefs separately from the Democrats? 20 to 30% of the electorate?
Could we be looking at a scenario like this? Nutjobs - 25%: Repubs - 25%: Dems - 25%: Progressives - 25%.
I’m not smart enough to see what the practical consequences of this “European” arrangement would be, but doesn’t it seem that the failure of the Dems to recognize the degree of disaffection within their (present) party may lead to a split? However, timing would be everything. The current party to split first would expose itself to certain defeat. Of course, if you knew that you were going to be defeated anyway (the current Repub situation?), there might be less to lose; you’d go ahead and do it, and the Dems could then safely split into the Centrist Democrats and the Progressive Democrats.
I know that I’m late to the party, but I want to add my voice to Jane’s in offering a raspberry to Rahm Emanuel and a woo-hoo! to Russ Feingold.
Why aren’t there any real progressives in the House leadership team? Pelosi, Emanuel & Hoyer are an embarrassment.
Bob in HI
Mad Dogs @ 66
Well, if this is so, in light of what you say, please explain to me why greed lead us to Viet Nam? Were we after their rubber? (I’m serious; I’m not being rhetorical, and I’m not meaning this in a snotty way. I really want to know what you think about that?)
re me @ 79: Why would anyone split a “perfectly good” party? I suppose because it makes the threat of being a spoiler much more real and perhaps more public — negotiations between parties rather than backroom deals within a party. Also, consistent messaging and better use of the media. Reduced confusion in the minds of the public: ‘No, THAT is Democratic; THIS is Progressive!’
Ann in AZ @ 81
I don’t take your comments as snotty at all. And sure, I’ll give you a short synopsis of how the Vietnam war fits the bill too.
Remember how the Vietnam conflict actually started?
It started after WWII, because the French wanted to move back in to their “French Indochina” where they had been the profiting colonialists running the show for decades and decades.
The US decided to “help” the French out during the start of the conflict by supplying their airlift capability (of which the French after WW II had none and the US had beaucoup planes), by supplying their arms and munitions (of which the French after WW II had none and the US had beaucoup arms and munitions), and by generally helping the French “business interests” like rubber plantations, banking, etc. stay in business.
Remember, after WW II, the US industries which had provided all the aircraft, arms and munitions were facing a catastrophic drop off in US government orders. And the Korean War had not yet popped up over the horizon.
Those US industries were facing bankruptcy, shutdowns with massive unemployment, and of course, mucho loss of profits. Profits they had been sucking down like an addict with a huge jones. Why war-profiteering was so bad during WW II, that it elevated an obscure Missouri congressman via his war-profiteering hearings to the very pinnacle of power, the Presidency. Yup, that be Harry Truman.
Continuing on. While much has been made of the “communist influence” in Vietnam after WW II, most historians point to “nationalism” as a better motivation for the Vietnamese.
In either case, what can be said with certainty is that the Vietnamese wanted to take back “ownership” of their country after WW II, and that the French didn’t want to lose that ownership.
To shorten the story, from the close of WW II until the first real US troops were committed to Vietnam in 1965, the US was busy supplying lots and lots of airlift, arms and munitions.
While “eventually”, Communism became the raison d’être for US war policies in Vietnam, it really wasn’t the primary focus that began the conflict immediately after the close of WW II.
For a “relatively” helpful account of how this all started, see the First Indochina War over at Wiki.
And of course, there are a multitude of excellent books that quite thoroughly document how we got involved.
Bottomline? Greed started it, and the rest as they say, is history.
There are two kinds of Democratic supporters of the occupation in the current context. First, is the Bidens, who believe in the indefinite occupation of Iraq because they think it is an appropriate projection of American force into the Middle East that can be used to defend access to oil there in the wake of collapses of Saudi governments, or bilateral deals with China and India made by Iran or others.
The second is the Schumers, who are perfectly happy to let the Republicans have ownership of the occupation for as long as they want. If they want to go to the 08 election with 21 senate seats up, carry Bush, Iraq and whichever of the loser candidates the Republicans pick, that’s fine with these people.
This view is that the republicans are going to own the end of the war so there can be no stab in the back narrative in 2012. They, apparently, really believed that the republicans would cave by now rather than create a 60 vote dem majority in the Senate.
DiFi seems to be in the first group, as does Clinton and Obama. Frankly if we are going to be serious about expressing opposition to the war, we have to start considering explicitly supporting Dodd or Richardson, and pressing Edwards for a clear position.
But make no mistake. If we don’t stand up now, and loudly, there will be American forces in Iraq indefinitely.
TeddySanFran @ 8
We’re the good guys. We have to act like it. It’s not that I hate having principles, it’s that I hate letting them affect my behavior!
Eureka Springs @ 49
I left one there yesterday and it’s not been posted. ???
Mad Dogs @ 83
Thanks for answering that. What you say at least somewhat substantiates some of what my History prof taught, but he said nobody ever asks historians what they think before they go in with guns. OTOH, most of the veterans of that war that I’ve met, even the educated ones and the ones that were against it, insist that it was the domino theory that got us into Vietnam. I bolded the sentence that was almost identical to the way the history prof introduced the subject, from what I can remember from some 30 years ago.
allan_in_upstate @ 36
Only if the report is going to be a factual one.
Some of you more in-the-know, a question or two.
Rahm was a Bill Clinton favorite in the 90’s. He may have worked on his staff. He was also connected to the DLC was he not (and remains so)? And he was a party functionary that selected or help select candidates to run in the mid-terms–or more importantly, who got the funds and blessing from Party-central, yes?
So if the above is true, is it reasonable to suppose he is doing what he is exerting himself to lock up Hillary votes, especially in the big electoral states—or is that too much of a supposition?
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hospitals in Iraq’s northern oil hub are reporting up to 100 new cases of cholera a day as the bacterial disease continues to spread across the country, a top medical official said Monday.
Doctor Amir al-Khuzai, the health ministry’s pointman in tackling the crisis, said the number of infections in Kirkuk had risen to 2,069 at the weekend from 1,671 earlier in the week
dude @ 89