Mitch McConnell has a little wife problem. I don’t have a problem with his wife sitting on a board of directors that is literally trying to shut down the coal industry in Kentucky, and it doesn’t bother me that she serves on another board (Wells Fargo) that won’t invest in surface mining in coal in Appalachia. But it’s a wee bit hypocritical for McConnell to act like he’s the great defender of Kentucky’s way of life when his bank account is filled with anti-coal money. This cuts right into his main avenue of attack against Alison Lundergan Grimes.
That still leaves him with the charge that Grimes is actually a black man from Kenya, although I don’t think most people will be convinced on that one.
She’s just a beard anyway.
Which you would have to prove and advertise before it got any traction. Not that I think you’re wrong, but the backlash on that otherwise would be incredible.
OT: White House press conference went for regime change in Iraq. WTF. Maliki is a problem, but this inflames the situation and undermines the US military effort.
They are joined by:
That be as it may, for the country that has specialized most in regime change for the past sixty-nine years to have the press spokesperson of the President express those sentiments has political repercussions in Iraq that might not be to US advantage. The President tried this tactic to delegitimize Gadhafi and it did nothing, with Assad it strengthened Assad’s support.
Who does it benefit in Iraq.
I wish that Obama’s press secretaries were such utter klutzes. Not one has been worth a damn.
As has been said often on the Twitter after the conference–from limited air strike and humanitarian mission to regime change in 24 hours.
Yes, Maliki needs to go. Perhaps the Iraqi parlimentary coalition can see to that. But it is not the job of the President of the US to try to accelerate that process by acting like an emperor.
What do you mean, “acting like”, kemo sabe?
One of the concepts that I think masks almost everything that has gone wrong with this country is the the US hasn’t been an Empire since before it went by the name US, and that it isn’t the largest, most powerful Empire on earth and in it’s history.
Another article on Sistani.
Before he weighed in, the thinking was that if he weighed in, Maliki was finished.
And we were the ones who put him there in the first place.
This not crisis response; it’s the rollout of the strategy put in place in the June-July timeframe. It’s just being marketed as saving the poor Yezidis. It’s August, time to start the marketing campaign.
Expansion of `secret’ facility in Iraq suggests closer U.S.-Kurd ties
AJ-America reports from Irbil that airstrikes by unknown aircraft have targeted Islamic State artillery positions firing at Irbil.
His argument now is that Alison Grimes needs to lay off Elaine Chao unless Grimes’s dad Jerry Lundergan wants to be pulled into the picture, which Mitch was going to do anyway, because Jerry Lundergan was not exactly the most upstanding head of the Kentucky Democratic Party.
On the other hand, Jerry was always going to be a target, and already is, so the threat is meaningless.
Still, it’s one thing for your spouse to be a nitwit and quite another for you to be one.