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This is true, but even if this rhetoric coming from the WH is empty, which ultimately I suspect it is, it's still illustrating that the tensions are the highest they've been since Jimmy Carter, or at minimum George Bush the first. No lobby is more powerful than the military, and if you have Petraeus and Mullen getting pissed off, there's an opening for true progress. The man is asking for the Israel/Palestine thing to be under his umbrella. Why would he ask for it if not for dissatisfaction?

It's so sad that the ADL cannot even handle harsh words or letters, as if Zionists speak for Jews.

slapping the shyt out of him, too.

He was soooo blond and sooooo 'good,' but he sold out those guys and paid the price.

Saw that first on the old Saturday Night at the Movies on NBC in the Sixties.  Those were the days of good acting...

The U.S. should have kicked Israel to the curb decades ago.

I think he'll win easily too.  People are sick of the crap and want someone to call it out.

Amazing...

that role as Captain Oveur.  He first turned it down.

He and Barbara Billingsley (the Beav's mom) were a revelation in Airplane, by simply stepping out of their typecast roles.

is still alive and the former Marshal Dillon is three years older--86.

oh those voters he lost in Massachusetts, because health care reform didn't have public option were appalachian rednecks. Dream on!

I posted this comment on my Facebook stream today linking to the huffpost article about AIPAC lashing out at Obama:

"There's some serious alpha-male jockeying going on here, and it's getting ugly. Israel demands the right to embarrass the United States at will and without reproach; the US asserts that embarrassing the United States hurts our relationship.

My take: if you're such a staunch ally, act like it. Act like you appreciate the umbrella of security we provide, act like you appreciate the multi billions of dollars per year that we lavish upon you and which forms the backbone of your budget, act like you appreciate the easy access to highly advanced military technology we spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars developing, and act like you are serious about peace in the Middle East. Then you can talk about what the United States should do."

I want a rift; it's clear that this "special relationship" isn't and hasn't been in our best interests. I want a secular single-state government. That's what I want. That will create a rift.

About Dodd's bill: I am cautiously optimistic. Many on the left won't be happy that the CFPA will be housed inside the Fed, but if it's structured correctly, this could be a very shrewed move at passing a CFPA altogether. Saying we should either pass the CFPA outside of it, totally independent, or pass nothing at all is stupid. This would only work if the Republicans agreed to the premise of a CFPA in the first place; they don't, they want no CFPA. Therefore, drawing a line in the sand is stupid politically and economically.

Second, people will tell Obama that he should use the bully pulpit on this, and make people take those hard votes on a completely independent CFPA; as in, make it a do-or-die moment, and those who vote against it, rail against them. Hmm, interesting, but very risky. We don't know what the issues will be in the next elections, for one; wasn't immigration reform supposed to dominate the election cycle of 2008 way back when? And yet here we are, talking about health care and financial reform. Second, leadership chooses what's on the table. If it dies here, mark my words, just like health care, it won't be revisited for another 10-15 years.

So all and all, I like this bill. No dillydallying, though. Pass it immediately. If there's anything in there regarding carve outs with payday lenders and such, things Obama has repeatedly been against, I don't expect them to make it past committee.

Who are you talking about?

My apolitical mother-in-law-to-be who lives in Orlando loves him - he's going to win in a walk...

True - we are supposed to be the big tent party after all! :)

I want Grayson to move to Illinois and replace the wimp(D) that we have running. He actually endorsed Peter Roskam, his so called opponent, last election cycle. He's anti-abortion, anti-Tax, and apparently an anti-Democrat.  I'd give my left one, Hell, at my age I'd give both of them, for a kick-ass candidate like Grayson.

I think it was someone else who HR'd the tipjar.

I want him to be my sensei.

Why decide? We need sober, deliberative voices and we need voices that can yell as loud and as obnoxious as the Reps. Face it: it wasn't the Snowes or even the Romneys that put the fear into the Dems. It was the loudmouth morons on the right. Grayson isn't our version of Palin or Demint, though: he ain't stupid and he ain't lying.

Her tactics and dishonesty and ignorance deserve Grayson's relatively mild and sarcastic jokes.  Who do you think she is?  She doesn't have honesty or integrity.  

Why do you think she deserves any more respect than any other whorish politician and entertainer?  She's the lady gaga of politics at the present.  Wait a few years until her phermones deplete and there will be another just like her either male or female will come along.

I think he's filling the "attack dog" void in the Democratic Party.

I don't know how it plays elsewhere, but I'm really starting to dig Alan Grayson.