Displaying 1,141 To 1,170 Of 3,237 Comments Lindsey Graham and his REAL Benghazi Scandal Yes….keep trotting out Benghazi, IRS and Fast and Furious with Bengazhi having the most punch because it has a lot of exciting angles and it can be oversimplified to fit into people’s worst fears. So the GOP Committee will exist to provide a platform to inflame the base, drive out their vote, raise money, provide an alibi for not getting anything done, and present an opportunity for sound bite harvesting and in the hope that a witness will slip up in a big way. I think the House Dems should put some of their best and brightest on this committee for the purpose of calling out the GOP for the process they will put in place, for the statements they will make and to provide duck and cover assistance to their witnesses. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 9, 2014 @ 7:06 pm I shall craft them into a Glenn Drone and strike when the time was right. Compare Benghazi’s lapses to those related to 9/11 and one’s bones chill. But Americans are by and large unaware and ignorant. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 9, 2014 @ 5:11 pm NirekJunior???? We have not met but Senior and I are part of a mutual admiration society. I assume you are related. Your comment- it is about distracting the country since the evil ACA is proving to be a good thing; it’s about getting their base really riled up and keeping them at fever pitch; it’s about raising money; it’s about redoing all of the previous hearings because the sound bites are worth their weight in gold. It has nothing to do with the truth. Nothing. It is true- they cannot handle the truth. Thanks for your comment. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 9, 2014 @ 5:09 pm Will go back up the thread and give it a read. Thanks. See you tonight? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 9, 2014 @ 3:09 pm Great idea Nirek. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 9, 2014 @ 3:08 pm Glenn. I like your questions very much. I want to work them into a HP post. May I? Let’s add those that relate to the cuts in security funding requests made by Clinton. GOP have largely skated on this one. The GOP loves to yell about “always blaming Bush” but I want to look at the issue back into the Reagan years when we lost several hundred Marines in Beirut. How different our response was then- really non-partisan and the results were good. The GOP has lost any claim of legitimacy long ago. All they do now is provide additional examples of their disregard for their duty. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 9, 2014 @ 3:07 pm AND his party covered for him while the Dems went about being “bipartisan” (a word that has begun triggering waves of nausea in me). Obama’s sense of his contract with the American People is far different than that of Bush who clearly wanted to rule and not lead (the neocon way). » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 8, 2014 @ 7:02 pm Where are the media piranha? What is holding them back? At moments like this I really believe that the media, right or left, is bottom line about the bottom line. It is more important to keep the pot boiling and diffusing the energy around the Benghazi Select Committee is probably not in their best business interests. So WE shall have to spread the word. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 8, 2014 @ 6:57 pm Ah…I misread your post. I thought you had taken the daily banter article and adapted it. I shall take note. I am so pleased that you have found a home here. Have you come to one of the Friday Vox Populi chat rooms? They’re not everyone’s cup of tea but the are fun. Some folks just hang out and watch the dialogue. ah well. Your contribution remains an important one and I will be using it to take down right wingers wherever I can. AND, I thank you so much for your kind words of appreciation for my humble efforts. P.S. Contributing to the site is something we all need to do more often. Without the volunteer time given by our administrators there would be no Planet so I do feel obliged to them. The best to you…. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 8, 2014 @ 6:52 pm I read this four times…. So rich, so full, so powerful. I am going to copy and archive it. With your permission and citing you I want to shape this into a shorter article at HP and two other sites. I will have a link to your long article here. You make a compelling case. We don’t “fan” here but you deserve a loud HUZZAH! » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 8, 2014 @ 3:50 pm Bingo….Cheney and Miller….the foul roots of the Iraq War… Yes the symbiotic relationship between Graham and Logan is a big story and yet it remains below the radar. Why? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 8, 2014 @ 3:46 pm I just left KT a note as to why I think the Dems should load up the panel…. unanswered fire is not a good thing…. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 8, 2014 @ 3:44 pm Thanks for the article. The Committee will exist to provide a platform to inflame the base, drive out their vote, raise money, provide an alibi for not getting anything done, and present an opportunity for sound bite harvesting and in the hope that a witness will slip up in a big way. I think the House Dems should put some of their best and brightest on this committee for the purpose of calling out the GOP for the process they will put in place, for the statements they will make and to provide duck and cover assistance to their witnesses. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 8, 2014 @ 3:43 pm And yet this story is still not getting any traction out there. I am so puzzled by this. So it looks like it’s up to us. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 8, 2014 @ 3:40 pm The Right Wing and Fox News: Patriots Who Want Gun Battles With America Did you know that a pack of Foxes is called a “skulk.”? Pretty fitting. I say a bit more about this in my comment. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On April 17, 2014 @ 3:22 pm Time and again I find myself saying: “Surely Fox can go no lower than…..” AND then they do. Foxes in a “pack” are called a skulk. The other definition for skulk is to “keep out of sight, typically with a sinister or cowardly motive.” Foxes move about in the darkness, go after very small, feed on rodents and other small largely defenseless prey. They pounce from ambush. MURDOCH AND AILES APTLY NAMED THEIR NETWORK DID THEY NOT? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On April 17, 2014 @ 3:03 pm Five Reasons Why Democrats Could Do Well in the 2014 Elections I agree- defense for me means saying what IS and not saying what is not true in what they are saying. SO…speak about ACA effectiveness and don’t take apart their claims to the contrary. So, in this I agree with Ad Lib….we need to take on the game and not just react to it. Of course I live in one states where the lies are the absolute truth in the minds of so many so either I roll over or I stand tall Guess which one I choose. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On April 16, 2014 @ 9:06 pm I agree- defense for me means saying what IS and not saying what is not true in what they are saying. SO…speak about ACA effectiveness and don’t take apart their claims to the contrary. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On April 16, 2014 @ 9:04 pm Thanks. Refuting the lies. Why? The Message: Voting for the GOP is voting for two years of government destruction and inaction on their and the nation’s problems while voting for government to work and make things better will require Democrats everywhere. YES! BUT, as part of this message we need to ratchet up voter awareness of how the system works and why. Basic civics plus current events. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On April 16, 2014 @ 11:31 am I have been told that the Dems are going to fully nationalize the Obama machine voter tracking mechanisms. Hell, if the Dems in Ga could do this, surely the rest of us can? Thanks for the kudo. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On April 16, 2014 @ 11:22 am 1. NATIONALIZING THE ELECTION I agree that these are hubs of hope for the fall. I see signs that each of these initiatives is starting to bud, but will they flower? The ground in which they must be planted have four qualities: awareness of what is at stake here, alarm in reaction to that awareness, heavy investment in local organization and a much deeper understanding of basic current events and how the political process works. I wonder what our chances are of finding such ground or, failing that, assembling it (much as I prepare a new garden for first planting). I also propose another list. This one for the Democrats as a political tribe: 1) The Democratic Party must stop pulling its punches; being polite and embracing the fake glory of bipartisan action. It must aggressively challenge everything. 2) The Democratic Party must develop the same kind of messaging and messaging discipline as the GOP has. Pointed, sharp, accusatory, demanding. 3)The Democratic Party must refute every lie: loudly and clearly and repetitively. 4) The Democratic Party must make it painfully clear why Democrats and those who value the middle and lower classes must vote Democratic in the largest numbers possible. 5) The Democratic Party must make one to one, door to door, phone to phone contact the cornerstone of its efforts bringing out the base and then adding every occasional Democratic voter to it while developing independent voters creating networks of voters unaffected by Big Money and able to take on new laws and regulations meant to keep them from voting. 6) The Democratic Party must check and double check all of its registrations and get everyone the proper ID while educating its voters as to the real law and how to challenge fraudulent efforts to keep them from voting. 7) The Democratic Party must tap into the resources of every wealthy person who leans Democratic to get them to take on the GOP Big Money crowd in key states to buy the necessary time on TV and radio, in print and to mount far ranging internet efforts. 8) The Democratic Party must make the most of a national organizing project, spearheaded by Bill Clinton, to educate voters, demand reforms, and push back against restrictive laws. 9) The Democrats in Congress must push, and push hard, for the reinstatement of a meaningful Voting Rights Act knowing they will not get it but also knowing that demanding it forces the GOP to say “NO.” 10) The Democrats must challenge in court every state legislature that passes legislation they believe to be Unconstitutional and advertise their action in defense of the little guy. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On April 14, 2014 @ 5:41 pm I look forward to it Funk. Economics baffles me but you have a gift for anchoring the esoteric in terra firma. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 30, 2014 @ 12:33 am Funk….you are just way smarter than the average cat, and that includes this cat…I read your first two parts and have to say spent most of the time scratching my head. This submission targets the impact of MMT. It makes it much more real for me. Your reference to Australia reminded me of this- At the end of WWII, a Labor government commissioned what becamse known as “The White Paper: Full Employment in Australia.” It was the defining document of economic policy in Australia for the 30 years between 1945 and 1975. For the first time, the Australian government accepted an obligation to guarantee full employment and to intervene as necessary to implement that guarantee. The economists who put it together were apologetically Keynesian. The contrasting experiences of the Great Depression and the Second World War convinced the Labor Party that governments could and must intervene to ensure the achievement of full employment choosing a model that provided work rather than welfare. CAN I ASK A FAVOR…How about a simple summary for eco-idiots like myself with a set of specific policy implications? If this….then this…? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 27, 2014 @ 11:40 pm Well, your son may be the writer but you did a very good imitation of one here, my friend. Again, I thank you for a simple, clear and very real narrative. You made it real for me too. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On April 16, 2014 @ 9:19 pm I just realized that I left my reply to your fine narrative in my drafting folder….duhhhhh1 sometimes the simple power of a clean, clear narrative is undeniable in its power. you capture the experience of the VAST MAJORITY of those who spent time “in country.” it’s not “Go Tell the Spartans”, or “Apocalypse Now”, or “Platoon” or “Born on the Fourth of July”…… which frame a very narrow and generally hyperbolic set of experiences. Yours is the enduring memory of nearly every person who “served”, doing his or her best, in a very difficult place at a very difficult time. I read your account twice and posted the link to my “Political List Serv” I sincerely thank you for this. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On April 16, 2014 @ 11:45 am Chris Christie Cleared on Bridgegate by Wife One million NJ tax payer dollars to create a document which is nothing more than an outline of Christie’s defensive strategy and as a platform for a PR campaign. One million NJ tax payer dollars for a report that brings forth NO new info, no new documents, no interviews with the core players in Christie’s office in the scandal AND they provide no documentation, no evidence to support their conclusions which begin on page 1. I have read through several sections. It is a horror. AND the core of their argument is that two of the principals in the scandal MAY have had a relationship and that the relationship broke down which, they seem to say, led to irrational behavior on the part of female chief of staff. Among the more interesting details to emerge however (and I suspect inadvertently) is that Christie was informed of the bridge problem three times; that he did in fact open an investigation in mid December despite denying that he had done so, and that a number of members of the Christie administration participated in an elaborate coverup of the entire mess (as a traffic study) whose principal goal was to keep questions away from Christie. GOP HUBRIS HARD AT WORK. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On March 27, 2014 @ 6:17 pm WATCH & CHAT LIVE: President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address – 6:00pm PST Very few have your level of understanding….and far too few have any understanding at all…. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 28, 2014 @ 5:59 pm I think you are correct. It was the failure of the coalition that created 2008 to repeat it in 2010…pure and simple. It nearly cost us the whole ball of wax and it has been a drag on his presidency every since. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 28, 2014 @ 5:57 pm HAIL TO THE CHIEF….the lyrics…. Hail to the Chief we have chosen for the nation, Yours is the aim to make this grand country grander, » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 28, 2014 @ 5:55 pm What Will Be The Focus of President Obama’s SOTU Speech Tomorrow? Oh…I don’t expect him to say this out loud. But, I believe it will be the subtext for every item on his list, for every rhetorical flourish, for every guest introduced, for every standing ovation and every refusal to even politely applaud. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 28, 2014 @ 6:17 amComments Posted By MurphTheSurf3
a) The Dems need their own talking points.
b) The Dems need to know that their pundits are as willing to stand up for party principles as the other side.
c) When the GOPropaganda is not refuted they claim that this is because the Dems can’t do it.
2. THE WORKING POOR GET FED UP
3. THOSE WHOSE VOTING RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK COULD BECOME MORE MOTIVATED TO VOTE
4. WOMEN TURN OUT TO DEFEND THEIR DIGNITY AND RIGHTS
5. THE REPUBLICAN PANDERING TO THEIR EXTREMIST BASE TURNS OFF MOST OTHER VOTERS
FOR THOSE THE GODS WOULD HUMBLE THEY FIRST RAISE HIGH.
Hail to the Chief! We salute him, one and all.
Hail to the Chief, as we pledge cooperation
In proud fulfillment of a great, noble call.
This you will do, that’s our strong, firm belief.
Hail to the one we selected as commander,
Hail to the President! Hail to the Chief!
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