Saturday News Round Up – Keystone XL Holding Congress Hostage Week 2
It was a very eventful week. The House is suing President Obamain order to look tough to the Heritage Foundation which is basically running the GOP now. The lawsuit is nominally over Obamacare, but really because the President has yet to honor the GOP’s request that he quit being President.
In a brazen show of not quitting, President Obama announced this week that due to the fact that the Keystone XL pipeline is jamming up everything in Congress, he is going to stop deporting so many browns. That made the Heritage Foundation (and by extension the GOP) even angrier than they already were, and made Tom Carper lament the fact that the Keystone XL Pipeline is the root cause of all gridlock in DC.
“Given Congress’ inability to act (on the Keystone XL Pipeline) it is understandable for the President to examine ways the Administration can legally address the current needs of our country and the realities of the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the shadows.”
Carper added that while he supports the President, his first choice is to have a permanent, (bipartisan passage of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will allow for) solution to the immigration system.
You have to know how to read between the lines to make sense out of Carper’s statements these days.
In news from closer to home, Democrats in Leg Hall voted to keep, Pete Schwartzkopf as House Speaker, Valerie Longhurst as House Majority Leader and John Viola in his spot as Democratic Whip.
What does that all mean? I don’t know. But I do know Pete Schwartzkopf is terrible at spelling:
“I don’t even know how to spell gas tax.” Schwartzkopf said.
And I thought I was a terrible speller.
Posted without comment:
http://delaware.newszap.com/centraldelaware/136728-70/biden-absent-as-attorney-generals-office-seeks-57-budget-hike
Schwartkopf may not know how to spell gas tax, but he sure knows how to raid the transportation trust fund to balance the budget.
You have to know how to read between the lines to make sense out of Carper’s statements these days.
It translates to “I am a Republican.”
Biden has been AG in name only for well over a year now.
He’s not running for governor. He’s not running for anything. I think most Party insiders know this now.
His claque should just let him be a private citizen and put an end to this fiction that he’s running.
Do the Bidens really want to pursue this fiction in order to prop up the ethically-challenged Tom Gordon? Signs point to yes.
Quite the legacy.
I don’t follow. The idea of Biden running freezes out everyone and clears the field for Gordon?
That’s the idea.
Gordon’s telling the biggest lie of all when he says, and I’m paraphrasing, ‘Just wait six months, and you’ll see. People talking about his health don’t know what they’re talking about.’
Gordon KNOWS this isn’t true, the Biden enablers KNOW this isn’t true, and yet that’s the fiction that’s out there.
If the other ‘marks’ (carny, or is it Carney, term) believe this, Gordon’s got the six month start he wants.
Good article on the cipher who is Hillary Clinton:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/keystone-nsa-hillary-clinton-remains-quiet
I’m gonna say it right now: She will not be the nominee. BTW, I have no idea who will be the nominee.
BTW, as long as I’m in a rumor-spreading mood, I believe that Carney has found a simpatico soul-mate to run for IC. This person could well take out KWS, who is Gordon’s fave.
More to follow…
“Good article on the cipher who is Hillary Clinton”
Yep. She has also failed to opine on Chamberlain’s appeasement legacy of the 1930s. This is still 2014. Who knows what the world will be like in two years. What other crisis, significant issues and challenges will arise in that time.
To what end should she play her cards now? Stake out a position this early? Fodder for the opposition? If she opines and it turns out she is on the wrong side of popular opinion, that helps her how? Anyway, I’m getting together a high stakes poker game next week. You are very high on the short list for an invitation.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/hillary-clinton-obama-immigration-action-113109.html
Dave, she’s been on the national stage a long time now. She is running for President for the second time with the ‘inevitability factor’ being her perceived greatest strength.
However, what the bleep does she stand for? Will her platform be determined by pollsters? Will every bleeping SYLLABLE be parsed by the pollsters and her warring advisors before she’s allowed to utter it?
I’ve yet to see any signs that she is a better candidate this time around. Sure there’s time. But if she proves as uninspiring as she was in 2008, she won’t hang around in the race as long as she did last time.
“But if she proves as uninspiring as she was in 2008, she won’t hang around in the race as long as she did last time.”
And I agree wholeheartedly with that statement. So the question is, can she inspire us? I, like most everyone else in America, is paying absolutely no attention to her and will continue to do so if and until she announces. Only the media is keeping themselves in suspense. But if I were a (D), I would be praying that she can because, your field is not deep (in terms of electability).
The field may not be deep, but a message like, say, ‘The game is rigged, and I’m going to unrig it’ could well be a galvanizing message and change the political landscape.
Which, not coincidentally, is Elizabeth Warren’s message.