Tag Archives: john bolton

Hillary Clinton hospitalized for blood clot from concussion: is she faking this too, lunatics?

Posted on by

(Photo by Gary Cameron/Reuters/Files)

This morning Hillary Clinton remains hospitalized with a blood clot and is being kept under observation for 48-hours. Can we talk about SOME of the people / organizations who have famously and disgustingly accused her of faking her illness and concussion — including several shows on Fox “news,” two former Romney aides, and a member of Congress.

Via Buzzfeed:

  1. Richard Grenell — “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t testify about Benghazi!”
  2. The New York Post — Hillary Clinton’s Head Fake
  3. Newsbusters — The dog ate my homework.
  4. Charles Krauthammer — the concussion is “acute Benghazi allergy.”
  5. Sean Hannity — let’s see the medical report on that.
  6. John Bolton — it’s a “diplomatic illness.”
  7. Allen West — it seems [Clinton] has come down with “Behnghazi flu.”
  8. Jim Treacher — Where’s Hillary Clinton’s medical report?
  9. Monica Crowley — a virus with impeccable timing.

And from Charles Pierce:

…the well-known conservative intellectual journal Human Events –or, as it’s known around the magazine rack at the cigar store, Highlights For Wingnuts– would like to correct the record. Earlier, the Dumbest Man On The Internets had busted wide open the story that the Hilldebeast was “too busy” to testify about why she personally killed four people in Benghazi because she was jet-setting around the Caribbean with the Beautiful People. This proved to be in error. [...] The Secretary Of State, as it happens, is presently luxuriating in that famous playground of the rich and famous, New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she is being treated for a serious condition involving a blood clot. While I’m sure Jim Hoft will be dressing up as a Candy Striper and working the halls to make sure that the Secretary is not being fed mojitos intravenously, Human Events, at the moment, regrets the error, but not its very existence, which is unfortunate.

Will there be any public apologies forthcoming?

Defending Willard Romney: The Cream of the Rightwing Extremist Crop

Posted on by

John Cassidy | The New Yorker: So far, just about the only statements of support Romney has managed to elicit have come from discredited neocons (Bill Kristol, Liz Cheney), paleo-cons (Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton), and nutty-cons (Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint). Meanwhile, John McCain and Condoleezza Rice, arguably the G.O.P.’s two most influential voices on foreign policy, have conspicuously failed to criticize Obama, while paying tribute to Ambassador Chris Stevens, the longtime foreign-service officer who was killed.

Kaili Joy Gray | DKos: That giant catastrophe of a statement from Mitt Romney about the attack in Libya? And his follow-up catastrophe of a public statement that just made it worse? Yeah, well, you might think it demonstrated just how not-ready-to-be-president Mitt Romney is, but you’d be wrong. Because the real leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, says so:

Mitt Romney, who is the only guy that looked presidential in all of this, who had the guts to go out and characterize this statement from the embassy accurately.  And the media is now saying that Romney jumped the gun, launched a political attack before the facts of the embassy violence were known, and then issues a vague foreign policy vision.

Sure, Rush. It is interesting to note what Rush was saying about his presidential-looking candidate on Monday, 9/10, though:

…I hate to tell you this. I mentioned this on the air some time ago. Romney, the best thing he can do is remember this election isn’t about him. He may as well be Elmer Fudd as far as we’re concerned. We’re voting against Obama. I don’t care who they put on the ticket, we’re voting against Obama. That has not changed, and there are more people now than in 2010 who are gonna vote against Obama. — Media Running Campaign To Dispirit You | RealClearPolitics

Click to enlarge: note the faces of the press:

The Iraq war is over! Good news to everyone (except for the Fox-GOP-Teaparty-nation)

Posted on by

THE IRAQ WAR IS OVER ON OBAMA’S WATCH? Time for the Fox-News-Republican-Teaparty-nation to attack:

October 22 edition of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren:

Van Susteren to John Bolton: “[A]t what point, though, do you get out, do you say, ‘Look, it’s time to go home’?”
Bolton: “We’re still in Germany. We’re still in Japan.”

October 22 edition of Special Report: 

Weekly Standard writer Stephen Hayes: [the announcement] is “a major setback” and “a disservice to our men and women in uniform”
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer: [the announcement] was a “big, big failure.” … endorses keeping tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq “the same way that we retained forces in Korea, Germany, and Japan 50 years ago, to our advantage”

It’s sad and unfortunate that neither Romney nor Perry, the top GOP presidential candidates, seem to understand that it was ultimately up to the Iraqis to decide whether U.S. troops stayed in Iraq past the 2011 deadline, not the U.S. military:

Romney: “…The American people deserve to hear the recommendations that were made by our military commanders in Iraq.” (via)
Perry: “…The President was slow to engage the Iraqis and there’s little evidence today’s decision is based on advice from military commanders.” (via)

And once-relevant hawks are truly upset:

Bitter, bitter loser and perpetual war advocate John McCain said: “This decision will be viewed as a strategic victory for our enemies in the Middle East…” (via)

Stand by for equally “interesting” statements from members of the former (and as yet unpunished) Bush Administration…

Keep in mind:

Here are some relevant numbers:

8 years, 260 days since Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence of Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons program

8 years, 215 days since the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq

8 years, 175 days since President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln

4,479 U.S. military fatalities

30,182 U.S. military injuries

468 contractor fatalities

103,142 – 112,708 documented civilian deaths

2.8 million internally displaced Iraqis

$806 billion in federal funding for the Iraq War through FY2011

$3 – $5 trillion in total economic cost to the United States of the Iraq war according to economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Blimes

$60 billion in U.S. expenditures lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001

0 weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq

John Boehner talked about jobs yesterday. Yawn.

Posted on by

JED LEWISON discusses John Boehner’s jobs speech:

As anyone with a pulse could have predicted, Boehner blamed weak job growth on President Obama, saying:

“Job creators in America are essentially on strike,” Mr. Boehner said, according to excerpts released by the Speaker’s office. “The problem is not confusion about the policies. The problem is the policies.”

That’s got to be the stupidest thing John Boehner has ever said. He’s basically saying that business owners would rather protest the nation’s fiscal and regulatory policy than make sense. But businesses don’t go “on strike” when there’s demand for their services and profit to be made. And even if they did, other businesses step in and meet the demand.

No, the problem is not that “job creators” have gone “on strike.” The problem is that there isn’t enough demand for their products and services. Boehner’s fundamental misunderstanding of this basic fact is reflected in his belief that the deficit reduction super committee is actually a jobs committee:

“The joint committee is a jobs committee. Its mission is to reduce the deficit that is threatening job creation in our country.”

If there were any truth to what Boehner said, if “job creators” really were “on strike” and if they really did believe that “the joint committee is a jobs committee,” then job growth would have soared after the conclusion of the debt deal in early August. Instead, this is what happened:

Jobs Growth

Thousands of jobs created per month in 2011 (data source)

Once again, the job creators are working and middle class Americans who have a paycheck and the income to spend on things they want. No good pay, no job, no demand for products or services.

Wealthy people and corporations who hoard their tax cuts, offshore what were formerly U.S. jobs, and / or increase their CEO bonuses year after year? That would be the OPPOSITE of job creators.

Republican-Teaparty Big Bucket of Fail: Thursday morning

Posted on by

Dictator Hair: Is this man's hair any less crazy than that man's hair? - Lewis Black

  • John “Ironsides” Bolton would have gone in [to Libya] with boots on the ground and guns a-blazing the second day of the conflict.
  • GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH), Tim Scott (SC), Scott Garrett (NJ), Dan Burton (IN), and Louie Gohmert (TX) have introduced H.R. 1135, which would cut off food stamp benefits to entire families if one adult member engages in a strike.
  • How racist are Arizona Republican State Sen. Lori Klein and Senate President Russell Pearce? This racist.

– Gingrich on March 8: “Exercise a no-fly zone this evening.”
– Gingrich on March 23: “I would not have intervened.”

Watch how excited Lewis Black is about Donald Trump as a presidential candidate: