Is Stephen Moore the most despicable man in America? Think Progress » Stephen Moore calls for raising taxes on the poor in order to pay for tax . thinkprogress.org
Who's this Lebron guy, anyway?
Much as I hate to admit it, this article has a point, and so did Michael Steele (although Obama did not choose this war–we were attacked!). Nonetheless, Steele's absolute right to speak as a private citizen, without having his patriotism questioned (would that his party extend Democrats the same courtesy), does not guarantee him the right to speak as Republican Chair without his ideology being questioned. In Defense Of Michael Steele | The New Republic www.tnr.com
I used to work for Carolyn Maloney, and personally, I wouldn't piss down her throat if her heart were on fire. Nonetheless, this WAPO article get this race so right, capturing Maloney's history as a Wall Street favorite and her estrangement from her former benefactors when she woke up and acknowledged the smell of the coffee the financial sector is still refusing to inhale.
It also perfectly captures opponent Reshma Saujani's (and her rich friends') snobbish elitist Ivy Leaguer sense of entitlement and her (and their) outrage that the district she just chose to move into in order to represent it must suffer the ignominy of being represented by a graduate of Greensborough College.
Query: if Reshma is so smart, how come she's burying herself in a casket made of her own words?
Samples:
"We need to extend a hand rather than a fist…In New York, it's complicated because 35 percent of our revenue comes from the financial services industry. We need to have transparency and reform, but we also need to understand that . . . it's just as easy to go work in Singapore and London and Bangalore, and we can't make it so difficult to do business here that people will vote with their feet."
"Populism for the sake of populism, to increase poll numbers, is not helpful…We need to have people in Washington who feel comfortable with understanding regulatory markets, economic terms. . . . I don't think that she has practical real-world experience." N.Y. challenger Saujani embraces Wall Street in bid to unseat Rep. Maloney www.washingtonpost.com
One of Carolyn Maloney's consultants once bragged to me about her shameless ethnic pandering, promising Carolyn would be on the first tank if the Greeks ever invaded Macedonia (for the War Crime of having the nerve to call itself Macedonia)–a very popular position in Astoria.
But in Reshma Saujani, Carolyn Maloney has surely met her match in stooping to conquer.
At a time when longtime supporters of Israel like Gary Ackerman and Jan Schakowsky risk their political careers by daring to tell the truth that retaining the West Bank is a demographic time bomb in which Israel will inevitably be buried by obstetrics, and that further expansion of settlements means further ensnaring oneself in the deathtrap, this supposed intellectual embraces the millenarian position of snakehandling born-again yahoos.
Is she trying to prove she's not a Muslim? Does she figure she can take those Queens South Asian votes for granted, so now she's going after Grand Street? Is there no expedient to which this woman will not stoop?
Reshma, real friends of Israel do not embrace the suicidal policies of those who know no solution but that G-d will find a way. Supporting expansion of settlement is a solution all right–The Final Solution. Saujani on Settlements, PAC Money – WNYC beta.wnyc.org.
There are plenty of good reasons to doubt we will able to achieve peace, but please bear these words in mind:
"Israelis, rightly, look at the past and have skepticism about what’s possible. They see the enmity of neighbors that surround them in a very tough neighborhood. They see a track record of attempts at peace where, even when concessions were made, a deal could not be consummated. They see rockets fired from Gaza or from areas in Lebanon, and say to themselves that the hatreds or history are so deep-seated that change is not possible. And yet, if you think back to the founding of Israel, there were a lot of people who thought that that wasn’t possible either. And if Herzl or Ben-Gurion were looking at Israel today, they would be astonished at what they saw — a country that’s vibrant, that is growing economically at a extraordinary pace, that has overcome not just security challenges but also has been able to overcome challenges related to geography. And so that should be a great source of hope," – President Barack Obama. Quote For The Day – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com