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Rob and I agreed that neither of us really had the stomach for this one, but we needed to deal with it and you needed to see it. So he's working on Hillary's disdain for your intelligence and I'm left with the task of showing you this.
Since Hillary Clinton wants your vote for the presidency, you might consider it reasonable that you'd want to know her position on all kinds of issues, including the Keystone XL pipeline. Well, she doesn't agree. And her reason for that is one of the most bizarre excuses we've heard from her so far - which is really saying something - for why she won't answer a question. Because, you see, she was involved with the issue as Secretary of State. That's why she won't tell you her position on it.
This is a first. No member of the House of Representatives has ever filed a resolution to remove the Speaker of the House. The resolution is going nowhere, you understand, because the proscibed process puts it in front of a committe that's packed with Boehner loyalists who will simply bury it and most likely not even offer a response.
You remember the Snowvember storm that slammed Buffalo, right? It forced the Bills out of a scheduled home game. It piled six feet of snow on the western New York stronghold. You figured the snow would take a long time to melt. But surely it would all be gone by late July, yes?
You just don't see this in the U.S. Senate. Or you didn't, before Ted Cruz got there. And frankly it's about time someone called Mitch McConnell out for the crap he pulls. The subject is the Export-Import Bank, and Cruz asked McConnell point blank to tell him if a deal had been cut to achieve a sneaky re-authorization of Ex-Im, and McConnell told him, "There is no deal, there is no deal, there is no deal."
Here's what you need to know about Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. He's a liberal, of course, but he's a particular kind of liberal. There are different breeds, after all. Milbank is one of those who's spent way too much time in Washington and has come to mistake many of the presumptions people make in Washington for absolute fact - among them the idea that labor unions are just honest folks standing up for other honest folks, and that anyone who suggests they're a problem in any way is just a demagogue looking to use working people for target practice.
This doesn't exactly put me in the mood to celebrate, because it still means 41 percent of Americans are OK with fascism. But it least it confirms what you sort of suspect, which is that the enforcers of the New Mandatory Gay Orthodoxy are a vocal minority and don't in any way represent the majority of Americans.
You can see how Planned Parenthood and its protectors are playing this. Drag out the process, attack the Center for Medical Progress for the manner in which the videos were made, claim victim status, lean on legal technicalities and hope the whole thing fades from the headlines such that Republicans in Congress no longer think it's worthwhile or in their political interests to keep the spotlight on it.
Every time I think media coverage of presidential politics can't get any more sad and pathetic, I come across something like this. Of course, the whole storyline concerning #blacklivesmatter and whether certain candidates utter the phrase in compliance with Official Leftist Orthodoxy has been around for much of this year. But there has rarely been a clearer demonstration than this of how left-wing activists lead political writers around by the nose, such that a certain Janell Ross actually thought she was writing about a worthwhile matter when she keyboard-vomited the following for the Washington Post:
Someone must have really said something horrible when a bunch of people who can't stand John McCain are incensed over a purported insult of John McCain. Someone needs to explain the rules to Donald Trump: The senator from Arizona, who regularly refers to those who disagree with him as "crazies" and "wacko birds", must always be acknowledged as a war hero. No exceptions. No room for discussion about whether the designation of "hero" should be limited to those who actually achieve something that furthers the war effort - as opposed to the tragedy colored with honor that characterizes five years as a prisoner of war under the most inhumane conditions imaginable.
Here's what we know so far. The murderer, who was also killed in the shootout, was 24 years old and is thought to have been born in Kuwait, although he is listed as from Hixson, Tennessee. He was not on an terrorist watch lists as far as anyone knows so far.
In case you're not up to speed on the details of what happened