Daily Archives: May 15, 2008

By the summer he’s going to be drooling and crapping his diapers.

McCain says Reagan didn’t negotiate with Iran for release of the hostages. In fact, he did, he did it before he took office, and he did it illegally.

We can’t have an old dope as our president.

As OTL, S! has previously reported, the US Attorney firings were about voter suppression. Those US Attorneys who had declined to prosecute voter “fraud” cases were fired.  The Republicans under Rove have made repeated attempts to keep voters away from the polls by intimidation, by imposing roadblocks, financial disincentives, publishing incorrect voting schedules and locations, and obstructing voters at the polls. There is no reason to believe that effort is not continuing.

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Steve Clemons:

The Council on Foreign Relations has just released a zinger report on Latin America. It’s just fantastic, and I have to admit that I rarely find myself doing jumping jacks and running around my block in Dupont Circle in Washington after reading a CFR Task Force report. But I am.

I think that the 96-page document is stacked full of sensible thinking and proposals that on each and every page fundamentally reject the kind of self-destructive pugnacious nationalism that former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms and his chief acolyte John Bolton have helped institutionalize.

It’s just so good. The report is titled U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality and can be downloaded as a pdf here.

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but this is the kind of thinking we need across the entire geostrategic map — particularly on the Middle East.

The Cuba proposals are a case in point — and in the words of one person close to the effort, the group decided to go for “the full Monty” in advocating a complete break with current, failed embargo policy of the U.S.

TPM:

Hold on, NFL. Spygate isn’t over. Not if the “incensed” Pittsburgh Steelers fan in Congress has anything to do with it. Sen. Arlen Specter on Wednesday called for an independent investigation of the New England Patriots’ taping of opposing coaches’ signals, possibly similar to the high-profile Mitchell Report on performance enhancing drugs in baseball.

“What is necessary is an objective investigation,” Specter said at a news conference in the Capitol. “And this one has not been objective.”

The Pennsylvania Republican was unforgiving of his criticism of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, saying that Goodell has made “ridiculous” assertions that wouldn’t fly “in kindergarten.” The Senator said Goodell was caught in an “apparent conflict of interest” because the NFL doesn’t want the public to lose confidence in the league’s integrity.