Obama's not a liberal. Not only does he admit it ("Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat (Blue Dog = Republican"), liberals disavow him and have for years.
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Actually, in polling, immigration ranks low on hispanics' concerns. Health care ranks first. And why would anyone think hispanics who are here legally, or are citizens, care about undocumented immigrants?
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What hard-hitting investigations? These investigations.
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If it's disingenuous you're talking about, Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, are counting taxes (payroll taxes on the workers, sales taxes on the consumers) that they don't pay.
Exxon's income tax rate, for example, is below the 35% rate mandated by corporate tax law (but that most US companies don't pay thanks to generous loopholes in the tax code) - For the past six years Exxon's averaged about 29% according to security filings. Exxon certainly doesn't need the $4 billion a year it gets in tax breaks when we have a budget deficit.
So you work for the oil industry, do you?
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The single-most important decision that any member of Congress can make is whether to give a president the authority to use military force against another nation. Hillary claims that she did not discuss her vote to give Bush the AUMF with her husband. She claims she based her vote on Bush's claim that Iraq had WMD. We know from the NIE that it wasn't true, and that there were no legal grounds to attack Iraq. Not only was it illegal, taking Saddam out was bad policy, a bad strategy that would destabilize the entire region, open up a Pandora's box and have us in a quagmire for years and decades.
Bush, no fool he (Bush and Cheney wanted Congress's heads on the line, too, should it all go bad), made that NIE available to all members of Congress. It was in a locked on the Hill (a table, chair and lamp in the room), an armed guard standing outside. You had to show your ID as a member of Congress and sign in to enter the room. Bush wanted a record of it.
Senator Bob Graham, who didn't vote to give Bush the AUMF (Authorization To Use Military Force against Iraq) was one of a handful who availed himself of the opportunity, and went to the room (we can't find out precisely who did read it because the sign-in sheet is classified).
After Graham read it, he told Hillary that she'd better get herself to the room and read it. When the existence of the NIE originally became known (during Plamegate) and the little room on the Hill, certain members of Congress were asked if they'd read it before their vote to AUMF. Hillary said she hadn't. She said she knew enough about Iraq and didn't have to read the NIE. She also said that she never discussed her vote or the situation with her husband.
It's important to realize that as a former president, Bill Clinton got the same PDB that George W. Bush got. He knew Bush was lying us into a war in Iraq, he backed Bush up; still does to this day. Is anybody seriously going to say that Hillary and her husband didn't know the truth, that Bush and Cheney were about to spend us into servitude, push us into third world nation status, all the while the Clintons were making HUNDREDS of millions from hedge funds?
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If you'll check out the chart of military suicides, broken down by year and by service, in Diane Sweet's post Military Suicides: 154 in 155 Days you'll see that Air Force suicides for 2012 exceed Air Force suicides in any previous year, 18 for each of 2008 and 2009, 25 for 2010, 20 for 2011, and 32 for 2012.
No reason is given. But we know the Air Force now trains more drone pilots than conventional, and studies show how stressful drone piloting can be. They also find that being separate from the battlefield creates its own problems, since the drone pilot cannot aid his comrades directly and, as the main post points out, often sees a lot of the carnage he (or she) would not likely see in theatre.
So, since the spike in Air Force suicides corresponds directly with the uptick in drone killings, I think it's reasonable to conclude the spike of Air Force suicides is a result of the stress of drone warfare.
Turns out it's not as antiseptic and free of risk for the military as one might think.
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