Read Barack Obama’s latest speech about violence and the common good, and you’ll get another indication why this guy is moving so many ordinary Americans.
Author: Gerardo Orlando (Page 155 of 169)
I criticized MSNBC in the past for broadcasting incredibly lame, low-brow “documentaries” during MSNBC’ nightly “Doc-Block.” Instead of covering real issues of our time in these programs like the Iraq War or Social Security, MSNBC offers us an avalanche of prison documentaries. We get it already – prison sucks.
Maybe, just maybe, the brainiacs running this alleged news organization have decided that they can make room in their schedule for some of the great documentaries produced each year by all types of filmakers. Tonight they are airing “Super Size Me,” the award-winning documentary that tracks a man who eats only food from McDonald’s for one month. The results aren’t pretty. It’s informative and entertaining.
Is this the start of a trend? Let’s hope so. MSNBC should be commended.
Nancy Pelosi got off to a rough start last week, but her strategy for passing ethics reform is brilliant. Pelosi and the House leadership plan on breaking up the ethics package into distinct pieces, and each piece will be introduced by incoming freshmne and debated seperately on the House floor. The Democrats want to demonstrate that they will do business differently than their Republican predecessors by permitting more debate and amendments.
As a result, this reform agenda will get more coverage in the press as each piece, such as gift ban, earmark reform and the pay-as-you-go rules, will be debated separately.
After getting humiliated in the midterm elections, you would think that House Republicans might consider going with new leadership. Guess again.
Minority whip Roy Blunt also issued a combative and obnoxious statement indicating that he and the other Republicans are not interested in bi-partisanship:
“For twelve years, the Democrats have gotten away without leading, without offering an agenda, and without saying what they’re actually for. Now they will be forced to govern.
“Under this Republican leadership, the job of the Minority Whip will no longer be to go to the House floor every day and lose. Instead, each time we hold our team together and force the Democrats to vote like Democrats, we’ll be taking one more step toward recapturing our majority in 2008.
“One-hundred-forty-nine Democrats demonstrated yesterday that they are willing to buck Nancy Pelosi. We’ll work each day to give those Democrats a viable alternative to her liberal, San Francisco agenda.”
It will be fun to watch these hacks get their heads handed to them now that they are in the minority. Every Democrat who reads this statement will probably forget about the divisive race for majority leader and focus on keeping the minority Republicans in their place. Blunt just did Pelosi a huge favor.
Newsweek’s Christpher Dickey has been one of the nest reporters covering the Iraq War from the beginning. If you read his columns, you knew that the chest-thumping and rosy scenarios coming from the Bush administration were not to be believed.
As we look for an exit strategy from this mess, Dickey explains how our withdrawel is playing around the world. The facts are grim – the terrorists will be emboldened.
Terrorists will indeed believe that all this is a triumph for their God, their vision, His design. But the United States and its friends would be repeating one of the egregious mistakes that got us into this sorry mess if we allowed the bad-guys’ opinions to dictate our strategy and tactics.
The signal error of the Bush administration was to embrace the terrorist rhetoric of war, and then to militarize a conflict that should have been handled all along as a matter for the police, the intelligence services and public diplomacy. The struggle ought to have been focused as a fight against malicious individuals, not their aberrant ideologies, against small criminal groups, not the vast civilizations they claim to represent. (A report from the James A. Baker III Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations in 2002 tried to make this point before we went into Iraq, but alas …)
Dickey again presents a powerful argument. We have to be smart about our counter-terrorism techniques.
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