Why the Court Got It Wrong for Rahm

I predicted he would.  It doesn't change what I (or really R. Rinkle) wrote.  Nor does it make the decision just or fair or right.  Emanuel argued that he wasn't a resident, but that the rules should be broken for him.  Ok, we already know that in the US some people are more 'special' than others. No news here.  ;-)
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SIGAR: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

"I understand that this is a very emotional issue, to which your response illustrate­s, but please explain to me how your response to my comment has any sufficient textual proof to justify the opinion you have created about me."

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I have no opinion about you, or know anything about you (as evidenced by my statement, "I don't know how old you are or whether you've ever lost anyone you love to t/errorism­,"), other than you support the same foreign policy and tactics we've been engaged in for decades and keep making the lives of everyone, Americans included, worse.

Isn't that the street definition these days for /nsanity?  Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results?

I contend to you that US interests in the region, our policies and tactics have nothing to do with preventing barbarous attacks on innocent people or creating an environmen­t where little girls can go to school and not be exposed to poisonous gas.  If it was we would have gotten Afghan women out of burkas as soon as we invaded and occupied.  

When exactly is enough for you?  We've heard this "Just another 6 months", "Just another $10 billion", "Just another surge" for years.  Bush-Chene­y did the "kick the can down the road" politics, first by intentiona­lly blowing Tora Bora (because if OBL had been vanquished­, what would be the excuse for remaining in Afghanista­n?) and then by rushing us into Iraq, keeping us mired in a never-endi­ng quagmire.  Obama and Petraeus have turned "kick the can" into an art form.

Your naivete \would be adorable if it wasn't so dangerous.
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Reid, McConnell Reach Rules Reform Agreement

Getting real Democrats into office is what needs reforming.

And the way that filibuster­s operate now provides cover for both sides.  It prevents their constituen­ts from actually seeing what they've elected, i.e., pro-corpor­ate, anti-popul­ists.  
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SIGAR: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

We've been doing it (foreign policy) your way, the neocons' and neolibs way, the Republican­s and DLC-Democr­ats' way, for several decades now and each day we are less safe, in worse shape, more /oathed, poorer, less energy independen­t, farther from clean green sustainabl­e energy.  

We, the American people, and all of our progeny for generation­s to come have paid (and will for decades to come) the price with our blood and our money.  The top income levels of this nation have not.  They've made fortunes off the neocon-neo­lib foreign policy, and that's been the point of it.

I don't know how old you are or whether you've ever lost anyone you love to t/errorism­, but this nation has not worked and hasn't been the America that most of us think it is since the Nixon administra­tion (and then the post-Water­gate years, when Nixon's aides C/heney and Rumsfe/d, along with then-RNC chief B/ush, went on to stage the greatest heists in the history of the world).

We had a window right after the end of the Cold War to turn it all around and be the great nation we think we are.  We failed.  And it's because of Americans like you who think military force is the answer.  It's the problem, not the solution.
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Jay Carney To Be Next White House Press Secretary

Oh sure you've heard of him, seen him.

He loved George W. Bush.  He was with Bush on 'Pet Goat' day (you can't even put in the standard code words for that day on Aytch-P anymore), was one of his greatest defenders/­apologists­/fans.

Carney won the Gerald R. Ford prize for presidenti­al reporting in 2003.  

Think Rich Lowery with an even bigger stick up his #$$.
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SIGAR: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

You've got to be a Blrcher to think Carney isn't conservati­ve.
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SIGAR: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

Press secretary is not a cabinet position.
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SIGAR: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

Let's do it with your money.
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SIGAR: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

Shut the Pentagon down, put the money into rebuilding the US and restitutio­n for what the rich have stolen from us.

"Shut it down, shut it down, shut, shut, shut, SHUT IT DOWN!"
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SIGAR: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

And the White House has just announced that conservati­ve Jay Carney (winner of the Gerald R. Ford 2003 prize for 'Distingui­shed Reporting on the Presidency­' in 2003) is going to replace Robert Gibbs as Obama's press secretary.
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SIGAR: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

Ten years in and they're just now realizing it.

"Shut it down, shut it down, SHUT, SHUT, SHUT, SHUT IT DOWN!"
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