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tomallen commented on the blog post GOP’s Benghazi Obsession Giving Cover To Actual Scandals
It’s commonly thought that the consulate in Benghazi was being used for covert CIA activities, probably as a “black site” for detaining/torturing prisoners as well as for funneling arms from Libya onto Turkish ships to Syria. So yes, there’s a scandal there; but since the White House can’t admit that, the Republicans can make hay for weeks over who said what when and how.
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tomallen commented on the blog post Accidentally Like A Martyr
Indeed, as a citizen, the last thing I want is more transparency in my government. If the Administration and the military decide I shouldn’t know something, I don’t want to hear about it. Anybody who tries to reveal our nation’s crimes is a disgrace to his uniform. That’s why I call myself a liberal.
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tomallen commented on the blog post White House Benghazi Emails Have Different Quotes Than GOP Version
A US ambassador involved in covert CIA operations smuggling weapons from Libya to Syrian rebels — where’s the scandal there?
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tomallen commented on the blog post Review Of IRS Data Shows Political Bias
Yes, because “Hey, they did it first!” is much more mature.
I’d say it was amazing how the awful things Republican administrations did become perfectly defensible when Democratic administrations do them, except that no longer amazes anyone.
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tomallen commented on the blog post The GOP War on Hillary Clinton Begins Anew
So on even days we get “Don’t blame Obama, the president is powerless” and on odd days we get “Stupid Green Party Nader voters are responsible for Bush who single-handedly ruined everything!”
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tomallen commented on the blog post Benghazi Probe Continues With 2016 In Mind
It would be far more interesting and worthwhile to find out whether the embassy was involved in smuggling arms from the Libyan rebels to those in Syria.
Unfortunately that’s not a narrative either the Republicans or the Democrats want pursued.
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tomallen commented on the diary post Rant 4: The Awesome Power Of The Bully Pulpit by rosalind.
Oh, Obama has said kind words about labor. Like these from 2007 :
And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I’ll will walk on that picket line with you as President of the [...]
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tomallen commented on the blog post MT Sen: Schweitzer Would be the Favorite if he Runs
Schweitzer is a gun whacko who promoted the mythological ” clean coal” and pushed for the XL pipeline.
Hey, he’s with us on everything but the planet.
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tomallen commented on the blog post “Homeland Security” Spending Overtakes New Deal
Why do those over age 65 vote overwhelmingly Republican when Republicans campaign so openly on cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits?
Because Democrats like President Obama propose budgets that cut Social Security and Medicare benefits and push for a Grand Bargain, perhaps?
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tomallen commented on the diary post MoveOn protest Thursday in Pittsburgh against horrible Obama plan to cut Social Security. by Steelydan3 (Philip Shropshire).
You may “hate to think that Democratic Sen. Bob Casey needs a petition” but he does: From the Morning Call (Dec. 21,2012):
U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-13th District, which includes Montgomery County, would not say whether she’d support it as part of a fiscal cliff package. Spokeswoman Tali Caiazza said the congresswoman is “a strong supporter of [...]
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tomallen commented on the blog post It All Comes Back to the Filibuster
So you think you can get 41 Democrats and Republicans to filibuster the chained CPI? Despite Obama’s support of it?
At any rate, the Senate should run by majority rule, as was originally intended and as is done in every other elective body. When Senators vote for awful things, their constituents should refuse to re-elect them.
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tomallen commented on the diary post Why We Do Not Need To Reform Social Security by rykky.
Iraq has oil. Social Security has funding. That’s why the corporate powers have targeted them.
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tomallen commented on the blog post Simpson and Bowles Show Problem With Obama’s Budget Gambit
Since “both sides” (Democrats and Republicans) keep moving right toward disastrous policies, blaming both sides is entirely legitimate. Of course, there are other sides involved — the opinions of a majority of voters, the positions of other political parties — but they don’t have billions in corporate funding behind them and so aren’t heard in DC. Yet.
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tomallen commented on the blog post Making the Indisputable Fact the US Engaged in Torture a Part of Consensus in Washington
Obama didn’t end torture, he just outsourced it.
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tomallen commented on the blog post Larry Summers: It is Good That America Didn’t Adopt Single-Payer in the 70′s
What, you’re going to disagree with “most experts”? Experts like Larry Summers, Bob Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and all the other very serious people who got us where we are today? Listen buddy, they’re the only thing standing between you and a job, health care, and direct democracy!
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tomallen commented on the diary post Time to Bell the Obama Cat by Norman Solomon.
Sounds like a good time to rewatch Mouseland, a short video parable about a nation of mice who keep electing cats into office.
Warning to Norman: the video doesn’t endorse your two-cat-party system, nor does it suggest working for more-and-better Demo-cats.
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Well, the Pope says he wants to focus on poverty and suffering, and Thatcher created so much of it….
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tomallen commented on the diary post How do you solve a problem with environmentalists like Bill McKibben, the Sierra Club, and the League of Conservation Voters? by goNPA.
The establishment Democratic line on the climate is “We need immediate, radical changes to save humanity, and we will achieve that by supporting gradual lesser-evilism.” Then they wonder why their words sound hollow.
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tomallen commented on the blog post What Is Even the Point of Trying to Make Pelosi Speaker?
Be careful what you wish for. Pelosi supports the chained CPI and the whole “era of austerity”.
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tomallen commented on the diary post North Korea puts its armed forces on a war footing by David Seaton.
So: we’ve been running belligerent joint military training sessions with the South Koreans throughout March (and continuing till April 30), flying B-52s over NK and sending B2s to SK, to name a few actions. All while our military complex is trying to overturn the recent sequester and avoid deeper future cuts.
Who’s provoking whom?
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