It seems like some people were gunning for Valerie Jarrett long before the elections were held. I wonder whether these articles would have still been published if the elections had gone better than expected.
Apparently, Breitbart humiliated themselves by confusing their Loretta Lynches.
As Detroit fights its way out of bankruptcy, retirees take a haircut on their pensions because city workers are precisely the kind of people who always lose.
Between Bob Filner and Carl DeMaio, San Diego has become ground zero for boorish sexually inappropriate behavior in those seeking political office. Both of them lost, fortunately.
I want to be fair here. Is it your impression that when Hillary Clinton was in the Senate she did a lot of bridge building to the Republicans?
Last night demonstrators lit fire to the door of the National Palace in Mexico. They are angry about the murder of 43 students in southern Mexico by what appears to be some combination of corrupt local police and ruthless gangsters. The anger is understandable, but the arson is unlikely to help matters.
It’s been 25 years since the Berlin Wall fell. I feel old.
Here’s some more John and Yoko:
How was your weekend?
Great comment I read on Loretta Lych, only somewhat paraphrased:
Surprised the undead at Brietbart didn’t confuse her with Loretta Lynn.
About the Jarrett hit piece:
The first thing they write about in the piece…
Do they really think of pointing out that Jarrett was involved with the AG going to Ferguson is a BAD THING?
REALLY?
SERIOUSLY?
HONESTLY?
G-T-F-O-H
I didn’t take it as being a bad thing but that bypassing the chief of staff was somehow unconventional. In fact, it isn’t. The media have elevated the chief of staff role far beyond it’s function. And Rahm was big on that.
Myself, knowing who made the decision, when, and how makes me a little more assured that their intentions went beyond media crisis management.
In the lame duck two years, Obama is free to be Obama. As the gatekeeper, at least on domestic policy, Jarrett has kept Obama in check from his own worst impulses–not an inconsequential role. Comparisons of Jarrett to Harry Hopkins and Col. House are likely to be made by historians.
Both the Politico article and the New Republic article represent some pre-emptive working over of the gatekeeper, who will become more significant with the Congress essentially verklempt.
And her job now is to protect Obama’s place in history.
The New Republic article has enough detail that you can see how the office politics of the White House has operated and evolved. And how the Obama team has replaced the Clinton team, which now presumptively will be replaced with the next Clinton team.
The last paragraph hits on the contradiction in policy.
You know what will come out of that article right? The term Boardroom Democrat. Who doesn’t know what that means?
Well that pretty much describes what Al From, Ed Muskie, and others aimed to create after 1968 and the McGovern defeat.
1.) You do realize who used to own TNR, right? Peretz didn’t just hate Palestinians. And they still think their shit doesn’t stink:
http://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/531634513290752000
2.) Is that how CNN thinks?
It certainly has since Ted Turner sold it!! They’re trying to outdo Faux Noise!!
In another three years it will have been gone for as long as it existed.
here’s a good summary re: the situation and response to abduction of the students by a prominent intellectual and activist, written before the deaths of the students were confirmed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/homero-aridjis/mexico-missing-students_b_6062000.html
There is no functioning police force, and “corruption” doesn’t begin to describe local officials.
Keep in mind this is what kind of country our oligarchs want to make for us by destroying our societal infrastructure
True, burning down the door of the National Palace is not “constructive” but the nature of Mexican politics is that the President usually only comes in with about 40% of the popular vote. Pena Nieto got about 38%.
That, combined with the lack of governmental competence leads to something beyond just angry blogging or phone banking.
As Detroit fights its way out of bankruptcy, retirees take a haircut on their pensions because city workers are precisely the kind of people who always lose.
And people wonder why Democrats don’t vote. It’s shit like this. Banks will get made whole while the 99% take it you know where.
Democratic mayors since 1962. Only one crooked mayor. But don’t know about the City Council. It requires far more expertise and vision to run a city that is in a long-term economic decline than one that’s growing.
Louisville, KY voter turnout – 47%
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/editorials/2014/11/08/editorial-poor-voter-turnout/1866
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is this correct?
Not “take a haircut”, CHEATED!
As for Jarrett, is she the one who came up with the Democratic Party strategy of running away from the President?
No, I don’t think so.
That would be Tim Kaine’s buddy Creigh Deeds in his run for governor of Virginia in 2009. In 2010, it became the Blue Dog fad.
It started before Deeds. Long before him. And now, who would control that? At the least, DWS as head of the DNC and Steve Israel(who was Pelosi appointed) as head of the DCCC.
This is what happens when the people have had enough of corrupt government – our two parties should take notice.
Why? Seems to me that the parties are doing just fine. Win some; lose some. But “their” business only changes in the margins.