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GOP Wants to Subject Us To Oligarchical Rule

Ex-Military and C.I.A. Officers Attack Obama Over Bin Laden Leaks – NYTimes.com

Security officials and members of both parties in Congress have sharply criticized leaks about classified operations under Mr. Obama, as well as briefings for reporters on the Bin Laden raid and assistance to filmmakers making a movie about the operation. But the administration has also overseen an unprecedented number of prosecutions for disclosures to the press, and in June, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. directed two United States attorneys to investigate recent leaks discussed in the Opsec video

via Ex-Military and C.I.A. Officers Attack Obama Over Bin Laden Leaks – NYTimes.com.

The GOP is grasping at straws in a sad effort to distract us from their true objective which is the subjection of the American people to oligarchical rule by a government controlled by a compliant Supreme Court a corrupt Congress and a puppet President. Sorry but no thanks.

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Terror tactics of the House Republicans

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Disgust With Both Parties Could Lead to A Democratic Rout in 2010

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My reasoning is simple.

The pattern may turn out to be Conservative candidates running against the GOP and primary candidates challenging Democrats.

If the fights in both parties tend this way, the Democrats win hands down. Almost no third party candidate wins. The sad exception last time was Lieberman who got defeated in the Democratic primary.

I believe the electoral dissent will boil over on the Republican side and result in third party runs by defeated GOP primary candidates. If Democrats avoid this pattern they have a lock both Senate and House.

The disgust with both parties comes from two different perceptions. Progressives are tired of bought and paid for Democrats. And the wingnut shrunken Republicans simply want to destroy the party they are ruining every time they open their mouths.

The best thing is that there is a majority that leans toward the Obama agenda. If that changes we are in deep trouble. We would be where we were when the minor dark age we live in was sealed in 1968.

I believe that fate will pass us by. Dems need to hang tough and keep battles within the party.

Republicans will be unable to. That means their fate is worse than it even is today.

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COMMENT ON: Steele Doesn’t Argue With Radio Host Who Trashes Boehner And Blunt

If Michael Steele really agrees that the Republican leaders are boneheads and worse, he could become a hero by calling this out. But I doubt it will happen. In today’s climate no one would listen.

Enlightened Republican leadership would govern with and not against the President, who is himself a centrist.

The irony is that the ascent of wingnut Republican leadership means Obama will probably go down as the great liberal victor over a retrograde and shrinking GOP.

Either way his agenda will be enacted.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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Stupidity Ascendant Pelosi & Press

Pelosi says she was not informed by the CIA. I have little doubt that she will win this stupid waste of the press’s time. She knew that the CIA was waterboarding. But not because the CIA briefed her.  DUH and double DUH.

If the issue is important, it comes down to he said, she said, unless the CIA can produce proof that she was indeed briefed by them about active waterboarding activities and that her memory to the contrary  is faulty.

Otherwise, this is the media’s slavish effort to provide the GOP with a platform for the making of charges that are irrelevant. My devout hope is that the American people, minus hopeless wingnuts, will not be fooled.

SOME CORROBORATION OF THE PELOSI RENDITION FROM FORMER SENATOR BOB GRAHAM, ALSO NOT BRIEFED

And I recall my classmate Sen. Rockefeller at our 50th Exeter reunion — he was on the Intelligence Committee — telling us with assurance that neither political convention in the summer of ’04 would be free from terrorist attack. Wonder whose briefing he was echoing? And whether whoever they were would admit their false anticipation now.

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