Opinion: Mass State Department Exodus Is a Really Bad Sign
“You don’t run foreign policy by making statements, you run it with thousands of people working to implement programs every day. To undercut that is to undercut the institution.â€
“You don’t run foreign policy by making statements, you run it with thousands of people working to implement programs every day. To undercut that is to undercut the institution.â€
Fox News and The NY Times have entered into agreements with Peter Schweizer to push the theme from his anti-Hillary book in their coverage.
Attempts to link Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria with Cotton’s Iran letter, fail, as Pelosi was even briefed by the White House before she went
During a dinner Wednesday night, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told a group of prominent Republicans that he believes that President Obama does not love America and “he wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up.”
The President put violent extremism into context when he said of the Chapel Hill shootings, “Many Muslim Americans are worried and afraid. We stand with you.”
Republicans and the Koch brothers make no secret that next to taxes, there is no part of the federal government they despise more than the EPA, so it is a major slap in their faces that it was the agency they hate above all others that delivered the death knell of their 8 billion-dollar dream project.
Every one of the Koch Republicans, and their oily Democratic cohorts, who voted to approve a State Department construction permit for TransCanada to build the KeystoneXL pipeline across America’s international border with Canada are guilty of violating the Constitution’s long-standing Separation of Powers.
It is obvious now that America is not in an ‘official war,’ Republicans need a fear-mongering diatribe from Netanyahu on the pressing necessity for anything to draw America into another Middle East war
President Barack Obama will not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he travels to Washington in March.
Boehner has enlisted a foreign corporation (TransCanada), the Canadian Prime Minister, and a foreign energy department to put pressure on America, and particularly its President, to approve construction of a pipeline Canada is well aware is an environmental and ecological disaster.
Krystal Ball helpfully refuted such falsehoods, such as the pipeline will lead to lower gas prices or energy independence, the coup de grace came when she quoted a State Department report regarding the number of jobs that will be created by the project.
During his appearance on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) shut down host Chris Wallace’s attempt to get him to agree with Republican talking points regarding the Keystone XL pipeline.
During Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer had on Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain. Both men were ostensibly on to discuss the recent issues in Israel, as well as the ongoing situation in Iraq.
This week, Fox News host Megyn Kelly aired a two-part interview with Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers. It ended in disaster for the right-wing.
Texas Republicans want to “fix” the economy by getting rid of NASA, the air force, the Federal Aviation Administration and every other government agency established after 1776.
A bipartisan group of Senators decided that the oil industry should makes decisions reserved for the Executive Branch and they introduced a bill giving Congress supremacy over the President.
A House Foreign Affairs hearing went wild today, resulting in Rep. Gary Ackerman calling the GOP out on their hypocrisy and cutting funding to the embassy security.