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Written by Jonathan Krohn
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Thursday, 07 May 2009 09:49 |
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Chris Dodd is speaking out on torture, and he seems ready for the witch-hunt that he and his colleagues have been preparing for. In a discussion with different questioners, Sen. Dodd expands upon what his personal political agenda, and that of his fellow Liberals, has in store for torture and those who supported all of the measures they consider that category to include. POLITICO's Ben Smith reports: For openers, Dodd criticizes the White House for de-classifying the so-called "torture memos" without having a follow-up plan for dealing with the fallout -- quipping, "I don't know who the genius was in the room that night." That's cold, even for Dodd. He knows just as well as I do, if not better, that "the genius in the room that night" was President Barack Obama. It was his plan and his idea. That's a slap in the face of Barack Obama from one of his own. Nonetheless, however, Dodd's "follow-up question...What are you gonna do with that?" has a very evident answer for him. He wants to take the battle to the former administration. The same POLITICO article also reported: When a questioner asked him if such a probe should go "as high as Cheney's office," Dodd interrupted to say, "You gotta go where you gotta go." Did I catch that? "You gotta go where you gotta go." Wow. Dodd is prepared to take things as high as he can to get his own political agenda passed! Do you honestly think that if the former administration had been that of a Liberal Democrat he would say the same things? No! He obviously had no objections to questionable characteristics of President Obama's nominees, so why should he have objections to his policies, or the policies of a loyal Democrat of his ilk for example? Dodd, is using policy to get back at political rivals so that he can get political points. He is being a typical politician. This is just another wonderful lesson in "Doddism." |
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Noon Foreign Policy Update |
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Written by Jonathan Krohn
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Wednesday, 06 May 2009 11:08 |
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A little update on President Karzai and his meetings with President Obama; nothing about his running mate so far. I have heard that President Karzai mentioned the importance of minimizing 'civilian casualties.' AP, via Brietbart.com: Calling civilian deaths unacceptable, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he would talk with President Barack Obama on Wednesday about allegations that dozens of civilians died in a U.S. bombing run in western Afghanistan, the president's office said. Civilian casualties, I wonder if he will mention the civilian casualties his running mate caused in the '90's? Are those civilian casualties important to Karzai? Secondly, I am wondering how our President will respond to Karzai's allegations against our country. Will he just sit there like he has at other meetings with leaders who said such things, or will he make a statement? We must wait and see. Nuclear arms update! President Obama is speaking out on Israel's nuclear arsenal. Eli Lake's Washington Time's article: President Obama's efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons threaten to expose and derail a 40-year-old secret U.S. agreement to shield Israel's nuclear weapons from international scrutiny, former and current U.S. and Israeli officials and nuclear specialists say. This could be very sad for Israel, and our relationship with that country. If President Obama goes through with this, Israel's protection against Iran could be hurt very drastically, and such protection is looking more and more important as Iran's leaders get more and more anxious. |
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"Heartbreak Hill": that being capital hill of course |
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Written by Jonathan Krohn
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Wednesday, 06 May 2009 10:40 |
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Well the verdict is in and we have another tragic story of political expediency boiling up on Capitol Hill. America's newest Democrat Senator, Arlen Specter, has gotten a big slap in the face by his new political party. Arlen has often stated that Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid will give Specter "full seniority rights" as a new Democrat Senator; the truth is, if this was true, it was a political move. ROLL CALL reports: Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put at the end of the seniority line on all his committees but one under a resolution approved on the floor late Tuesday. Not only has he been disowned by his old party, the Republican Party, but he has now been disowned by his new party. The new Senator, according to Glenn Thrush on POLITICO's HUDDLE: ...has said he’s not an automatic 60th vote on filibusters. Nonetheless, his new Democratic colleagues have officially designated him No. 60 — voting to shove the 29-year Senate vet to the back of the line (behind Roland Burris and Kirsten Gillibrand) when it comes to committee seniority.
The celebration is over, the champagne bottle is empty, the "love" from his new party has faded away, and the new Democrat is being treated as any newcomer to Congress is; put in the back of the line for appointments. However, the Specter situation was quite predictable. The Democrat Party does not want to take chances with a man like Specter. He is Liberal, but not Liberal enough for some, and he is merely an accessory to help them get a sixty-vote-filibuster-proof-majority, as apposed to a key Democrat such as Sen. Reid or Sen. Dodd. The Dems don't really want Specter anymore then the Republicans do, but, for their own political gain they need Specter. |
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