For those on vacation, or without access to the Interwebs, here is a summation of this week’s wrong:
• The Senate couldn’t pass a bill to impose taxes on companies that move overseas
• The House didn’t vote on Mr. Boehner’s immigration bill because Sen. Ted Cruz blocked it
• We brokered a 72-hour cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that lasted 90 minutes
• The Times of Israel took down a blog post that made a case for genocide
• Mr. Obama admitted that we torture
That’s not a lot of humor to work with, but here are the best. Congress hurries to not finish their work:
Ted Cruz driving baby Boehner:
Genocide of Palestinians is contemplated in the Times of Israel:
Yochanan Gordon framed his premise as “a question for all the humanitarians out there”:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clearly stated at the outset of this incursion that his objective is to restore a sustainable quiet for the citizens of Israel. We have already established that it is the responsibility of every government to ensure the safety and security of its people. If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?
Umm, wasn’t that the excuse Nazis gave the world about Jews, Gypsies, and Homosexuals?
And Mr. Netanyahu told the White House not to force a truce with Palestinian militants on Israel. He apparently advised the Obama administration “not to ever second guess me again” on the matter.
So, it looks increasingly like we need a 3-State solution:
In yesterday’s speech, President Obama said “We tortured some folks” and that “we shouldn’t be too sanctimonious”. The President:
It is important for us not to feel too sanctimonious in retrospect about the tough job those folks had… A lot of those folks were working hard under enormous pressure and are real patriots…That needs to be understood and accepted. We have to as a country take responsibility for that so hopefully we don’t do it again in the future.
Apparently, some people didn’t agree:
"We tortured some folks." Nope. Actually the CIA and the military did that. Don't try to put that shit on the rest of us, Obama.
— onekade (@onekade) August 1, 2014
What would cause Mr. Obama to make this “apology” for torture? Has he lost touch, or is he living in a bubble of intelligence advisers that he can’t or won’t fire?
This is reminiscent of the way that J. Edgar Hoover controlled (or intimidated) presidents in what we used to think was another age. Who, or what, is making this president say such crap, and not take what are to most of us, obvious actions?
a must read. but re Obama’s calling for resignations of advisors, for me, I see this not as something that can be cured by a single resignation. if we don’t reign in the whole process (as we tried to after Watergate) then nothing will happen.
in fact, the intelligence folks are a secret government who are a shadow state that lives outside of the president and Congress.