Syria may miss first deadline in U.S.-Russia chemical arms deal
The State Dept says no worries:
Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman, said Wednesday that "our goal is to see forward momentum" by Saturday, not the full list. "We've never said it was a hard and fast deadline."
But the LA Times uncharitably harkens back a day or so:
Secretary of State John F. Kerry had described the date as the first of several "specific timelines" that would indicate whether Syria is committed to the deal that he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had worked out.
"We agreed that Syria must submit within a week — not in 30 days, but in one week — a comprehensive listing," Kerry said Saturday. He said the U.S. would allow "no games, no room for avoidance, or anything less than full compliance."
Well, there are no games - they just aren't going to to do it.
The Wednesday State Dept press briefing is kind of amusing - the press wasn't buying the "not a missed deadline" idea, but the State Dept wasn't selling anything else.
Looks like I am going to finally be able to unload that bridge in Brooklyn I mistakenly bought a while back.
Posted by: 4JIB2 | September 19, 2013 at 03:27 PM
He said the U.S. would allow "no games, no room for avoidance, or anything less than full compliance."
Russia and Syria just tested ObamaCo. ObamaCo just failed the test.
Posted by: Ranger | September 19, 2013 at 03:29 PM
Missed 'deadlines' DO TELL!!!
BTW, Emperor Vlad I will be coronated again in 2018 as Tsar of all the Russias, quelle surprise.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 03:31 PM
"ObamaCo just failed the test."
Putin-Assad KNEW that.. . they just wanted a laugh at the nonsense the Obamaniacs would come up with. "Never said it was a hard and fast..." pffft...pitiful excuse even by Obummer standards.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 03:35 PM
This administration doe not know the meaning of a deadline. 50% of the Helathcare law deadlines have been missed. Important pieces are not in place. I felt encouraged learning that the Oct.1 deadline is like an anvil over their heads. I do have a lot of popcorn ACT brand is on sale} and loads of butter. The next couple of weeks will be very entertaining.What questions did Trey Gowdy have for our lying losers from Bammyland?
Posted by: maryrose | September 19, 2013 at 03:39 PM
Oh, and now we have another "deadline":
Kerry: UN must act on Syria next week
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/19/UN-must-act-on-Syria-next-week--Kerry
To which I am sure Vlad will laugh and ask, or what?
Posted by: Ranger | September 19, 2013 at 03:45 PM
What's the difference between a red line and a dead line?
A red line is an oral empty threat while a deadline is a written one?
Posted by: Ignatz | September 19, 2013 at 03:45 PM
Iggy:
You owe me a new keyboard! LOL
Posted by: maryrose | September 19, 2013 at 03:47 PM
As Lucianne says--its a red spaghetti line.
And now from Mel something to persuade you to gird your loins and march on the capitalhttp://washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-think-labor-department-has-secret-obamacare-fix-for-unions/article/2536020
Posted by: Clarice | September 19, 2013 at 03:50 PM
A NEW deadline, or Redline, or .... whatevah.
This is now parody of the old Robin Williams schtick about Crazy Khadaffie's Gulf of Sidra 'Line of Death', which was eventually crossed by the USS John F Kennedy, 2 Libyan SU-27s bought the farm over that. Now 28 years later it's the USA drawing repeated backtracking 'lines'. Just disgusting-- Tsar Putin is laughing his royal ass off.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 03:54 PM
Of course there is a labor fix in the works. The unions are not going to display this faux pushback for nothing.
Posted by: Porchlight | September 19, 2013 at 03:55 PM
Union Fix?-- absolutely.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 04:00 PM
If unions get a fix all hell will break loose.
I honestly think we need to only wait a few weeks and watch this turkey unravel bit by bit. These waivers and exemptions cry to heaven. Why should we the people comply when everyone else gets a free ride? I can't wait for the mandatory tax rule to go into effect and the subsequent lawsuits to commence.
Posted by: maryrose | September 19, 2013 at 04:11 PM
Manufactured character assasinations of Stevens and DeLay. These are the kinds of people we are dealing with in the dem party. Plame kerfuffle where an innocent person Libby is convicted. We need to get down and dirty with these people. Funny, the dems wear clean togas when dealing with Putin and Assad.
Posted by: maryrose | September 19, 2013 at 04:17 PM
The good news about the Union Fix being in is that it gives a big opportunity to attack ObummerCare in court again on equal protection grounds-- Justice Roberts held ObummerCare is a tax law-- how can it be interpreted to give BILLIONs of subsidies to one politically favored group while the rest of us get squat. What's Obummer gonna say to the SCOTUS about the Union Fix-- 'they'll break my legs'.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 04:21 PM
Nobody ever expects the Syrian Inquisition.
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 19, 2013 at 04:38 PM
via Breitbart - White House: Boehner Has 'Putin Envy'
What children...this sorry administration is sickening
Posted by: Janet | September 19, 2013 at 04:41 PM
and look at this - http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/09/19/spitting-on-their-graves-democrats-leave-benghazi-hearing-before-testimony-from-benghazi-families-n1704732
The Dems probably had to go listen to some citizens from other countries in our nation ILLEGALLY whine about something.
Posted by: Janet | September 19, 2013 at 04:45 PM
What will the masses do about it, if the unions get a fix. IMHO, zero. Nilch, Nada. Nothing.
There is nothing outside the 2010 Tea Party success, Wisconsin and Colorado recall that demonstrates that a "national" uproar can be produced. All those cases were localized even the Tea party success.
Heard Tom Delay on Hannity when driving today. Evidently, not only was the case thrown out but the judge wrote it should have never be brought. Appears that Delay has a damn good case for prosecutorial misconduct and noted that Earle went Grand Jury shopping before he could find one in the People's Republic of Austin to do the dirty on poor old Tom. But he was in good humor and also noted how Bob Dole sabotaged the 96 Govt. shutdown and that Clinton admitted in his book that if it had gone one more day he would have caved.
Pretty good interview if you can find it, listen to it.
Posted by: 4JIB2 | September 19, 2013 at 04:48 PM
anybody see the UK Independent article on Gennifer Flowers?
She says Bill is the love of her life and that Hillary is bi, oh my.....
Posted by: matt | September 19, 2013 at 04:51 PM
Hillary's Bi? I thought she was strictly lesbian.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 04:53 PM
NK,
Yeah, who the hell is she Bi with?
Posted by: 4JIB2 | September 19, 2013 at 04:57 PM
JIB;
Completely off topic, but earlier you mentioned Frederich being a big Roman mythology fan. You might check out the "Orphans of Chaos" trilogy by John C. Wright. Almost every character is from Greek / Roman mythology (although you don't realize that till well in to the first book). It does have some mature content, though. It's a sci fi action / adventure romp that doesn't take it self too seriously.
Posted by: Annoying Old Guy | September 19, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Cross posted: am trying to think about Republican strategies on Obamacare,,esp now that it appears the WH is working behind the scenes to add Big Labor to the list of exemptions. What about refusing to sign on to a CR that includes Obamacre unless every exemption is stripped from the law?
Any thoughts?
Posted by: Clarice | September 19, 2013 at 05:01 PM
I'm sorry. The image of Hillary and sex with anything is just too disturbing.
Posted by: Old Lurker test | September 19, 2013 at 05:03 PM
The republicans should not refuse anything.
Let the Union exemption play out...
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 19, 2013 at 05:04 PM
AOG,
Thanks for the tip. Will look into it. At 10 he is a big Rick Riordan fan. Riordan like Jeff Kinney has mad millions by buying into where the kids are today and their interests/experiences.
If you don't know those names, you should since they sell more books than Joyce Carol Oates.
Posted by: 4JIB2 | September 19, 2013 at 05:06 PM
I'm with you, Old lurker, that violates the 8th amendment
Posted by: peter | September 19, 2013 at 05:08 PM
Clarice-- there are lots of targets of opportunity to atack in ObummerCare-- MediCaid eligibility expansion, religious conscience, special exemptions-- especially for Unions and Congress, all should be targeted... but as part of the Debt fight, not the CR.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 05:08 PM
OL-- I understand your revulsion, but treat it like a nature show, like "Wild Kingdom"-- Narrator: here we see the HildaBeast commencing the mating ritual with the doorknob..." Something like that, all scientific like.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 05:12 PM
Clarice,
I'd go with income and identity verification prior to allowing disbursement of any subsidy money. That's where the initial fraud will occur and that's where BOzo intends to continue his reparations project.
Posted by: Account Deleted | September 19, 2013 at 05:16 PM
RickB-- excellent notion on subsidy vetting... that would be particularly popular with Indy voters. Let's see Obummer opposes ID check to vote, and income checks for subsidy money... ya think the LIVs would catch on that he's a community organizer scam artist in a $4000 suit?
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 05:18 PM
That's something I'd add to the pot, Rick--it's good, but demanding the exemptions be stripped out--and reports are that there's in the works a plan to also exempt labor unions now--will allow the Republicans to make their case fo the unfair cronyism aspect of this "tax".
Posted by: Clarice | September 19, 2013 at 05:19 PM
I thought I saw that Assad had asked the UN to monitor a ceasefire now that the war had stalemated.
That would put Obama out of business in Syria and keep Assad in power backed by the UN.
Obama and Kerry. DOOM.
Posted by: MarkO | September 19, 2013 at 05:22 PM
If you can't defund because you haven't the votes, how do you do anything legislatively?
That leaves only one other branch of government. As I said on the other thread, we can't count on our 5-4 majority in the SC. Or was that 4-5?
The insidious infusion of nationalized health care will force out other means. Time is not on our side.
Posted by: MarkO | September 19, 2013 at 05:26 PM
Clarice,
I'm inclined to let the union exemption fester. Demand it be stripped out but allow it in compromise for PhotoID verification coupled with EVerify for everyone claiming a subsidy.
After all, they've got the Million Jeantel OFA Navigator Army out there to help. Just remember not to speak cursive when asking questions.
Posted by: Account Deleted | September 19, 2013 at 05:28 PM
Here [another British scoop]:
If accepted by the armed opposition, a ceasefire would have to be kept "under international observation", which could be provided by monitors or UN peace-keepers – as long as they came from neutral or friendly countries, he said.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/syrian-government-civil-war-stalemate
Posted by: MarkO | September 19, 2013 at 05:29 PM
The USG should probably tamp down the 'missed deadline' approach.
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/189863.htm
April 2012 missed by several including US and Russia.
10% of stores extant at last check.
Posted by: pinkman | September 19, 2013 at 05:31 PM
"I thought I had that list right here. I guess it must be in my other pants."
Things Bashir Assad may have said.
Posted by: matt | September 19, 2013 at 05:38 PM
Strip the exemptions AND the Congressional staff trick they came up with.
Posted by: Old Lurker test | September 19, 2013 at 05:38 PM
I love all the suggestions, but without the votes, how do you do it?
Posted by: MarkO | September 19, 2013 at 05:40 PM
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but two federal appeals courts have ruled against the exemption of Christian corporations from Obamacare. The Left will litigate its way to victory every time by venue shopping and misleading cases.
The prosecutor in Texas should be sanctioned for every dime he wasted and DeLay's legal fees.
I caught Limbaugh this morning who pointed out how the federal bureaucracy has overreached on a number of issues related to gay marriage through the regulatory process.
We need to squash these people like bugs.
Posted by: matt | September 19, 2013 at 05:42 PM
Syria,
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-09-19/chemical-weapons-expert-us-deadline-syrian-chemical-weapons-contrary-internat
"Chemical Weapons Expert: U.S. Deadline for Syrian Chemical Weapons Is Contrary to International Law
Posted by: pagar101 | September 19, 2013 at 05:42 PM
pagar,
Obama's just not that smart.
Posted by: MarkO | September 19, 2013 at 05:47 PM
Again, how do we do the squashing and defeating? I have yet to see a game plan on how to promote conservative principles but knocking down prof ones at the same time.
Talk is cheap.
From my short experience in DC, and then watching local politics in Florida, you have to get off the bench and play the game and play it hard. Door to door. Calling on the phone. Going outside to meet the LIV's and indies.
The republicans are only interested in raising money from you to go an play in the media market. There are no votes there.
The Tea Party had the right idea until it was neutered by the prog/dem machine alive as the DC public employee unions.
Posted by: 4JIB2 | September 19, 2013 at 05:52 PM
The Left will litigate its way to victory every time by venue shopping and misleading cases.
That is how the Dems win. Look at abortion or marriage. Marriage won in Calif. for heaven's sake....but the left took it to court.
Same in the pro-life world. We change hearts & minds...but even modest regulations get knocked back by courts.
Posted by: Janet | September 19, 2013 at 05:52 PM
Democrats walk out on Benghazi's victims families."
I do not understand how any American who has/or has had relatives in the US military or civilian defense of this country can vote for a Democrat.
Posted by: pagar101 | September 19, 2013 at 05:54 PM
Update: Generation Opportunity posted a Craigslist ad on Thursday seeking actors to dress up like Creepy Uncle Sam at an event in Chantilly, Virginia in September. The gig pays $275 for the weekend:
ha, looks like I found a part time job!!!
afternoon everyone.
Posted by: rich@gmu | September 19, 2013 at 05:55 PM
Republicans write long books on the issues decades after the fight is lost & inform a few readers that they were right. And they were, but...big whoop at that point. :(
Posted by: Janet | September 19, 2013 at 05:57 PM
If you're dumb enough to believe that any of this is going to happen (i.e. Assad comply with the terms of the deal, or Russia force Assad to comply, or the Bamster will use force), well then I've got a load of pre-owned buffalo chips to sell you. In fact pre owned Buffalo Chips is what the Bamster has been feeding all of us for several years now.
Posted by: Comanche Voter | September 19, 2013 at 05:59 PM
haven't seen anything on campus yet with the opt out campaign, but I'll let you know when I do. Should make for some interesting street theater by the JC with OFA Enroll Jenteal's and hot Opt Out models.
Posted by: rich@gmu | September 19, 2013 at 06:00 PM
Mark O==Here's how it works, you make your stand, then the Senate votes..At the Senate level you target every vulnerable Dem--and they seem already to be running fromObama--have their constitutents pound the halls..If they vote for it without the chages the House demands..let them lose their elections. Then --with no agreement between the two houses of Congress, let Obama say he wants to keep cheating provisions and cronyism more than he wants to get funs to keep the got going.
That's how you do it.
Here's how you lose--pissing in your pants and crying we don't have all the votes.
Posted by: Clarice | September 19, 2013 at 06:02 PM
suppose I should read the post first and the comments. bother.
Posted by: rich@gmu | September 19, 2013 at 06:02 PM
pinkman's 5:31 link to the State dept. briefing is a reminder as to why we are DOOMED. If anyone can read the transcript and leave proud as hell of their country and their State department needs a lobotomy.
We really are not a serious country or political system. Listen to the Carneys, Harfs and others of this regime is like what it must have been to listen to Hitler and Stalin. I'll bet Assad and Putin only wished they had such silver tongued liars.
Posted by: 4JIB2 | September 19, 2013 at 06:04 PM
Clarice@6:02-- HooRAH that.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 06:04 PM
But I thought John F. Kerry was one of our best evah(!) Secretaries of State?
Posted by: Beasts of England | September 19, 2013 at 06:06 PM
From ZeroHedge-- if you doubt QE I-III have failed, check out the Fed Reserve beancounters 'projections' of 2013 GDP starting in January 2011 until now. They wrongly assumed 2013 growth would be TWICE as large as it actually was with QE. TomM you were saying about QE and economic growth? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-19/guess-what-feds-original-2013-gdp-forecast-was
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 06:10 PM
Clarice,
I'm all for the symbolic and politically important actions in both houses. In fact, I lean toward the Obamacare gambit. But, we should not expect anything to happen until we change the personnel.
The pissing your pants argument is one that predicts the other moves will not result in better elections. I have no idea. I yield to you on that.
Posted by: MarkO | September 19, 2013 at 06:11 PM
My God, Clarice; that was like reading Mark Levin.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | September 19, 2013 at 06:12 PM
Finally, JPMorgan Admits The Bank Broke The Law
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3953915
Stupid homeowners...
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 19, 2013 at 06:14 PM
All this is going to do is give Schumer more screen time.
Posted by: 4JIB2 | September 19, 2013 at 06:14 PM
Schumer/Reid appearing on TV news as the face of the Dem Party on the debt fight? that's very good. Ryan and Cruz are the guys the Repubs should put out-- Let Mitch M work on Red State Dem senators, in the back rooms.
Posted by: NK(tryin' again) | September 19, 2013 at 06:20 PM
I take it you like it,CH..it's my plan for Sunday.
Posted by: Clarice | September 19, 2013 at 06:23 PM
That demeans buffalo chips, comanche. At one time they were very useful fuel for the fires of the plains Indians.
Posted by: matt | September 19, 2013 at 06:30 PM
I'll read it at the beach in Ocean City, Clarice.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | September 19, 2013 at 06:37 PM
See? And they wonder why so many are looking for conspiracies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24163244
"Members of the Capitol Police's highly trained Containment and Emergency Response Team (Cert) are typically debriefed "right away, at the very least the following day" following an incident, another Capitol Police source said.
They haven't been given the courtesy of a debrief”
Capitol Police source
But four days after Monday's shooting, the officers have yet to be questioned by the department or any member of a Capitol Police Board "Fact Review Team", which was convened on Wednesday to investigate the incident.
"[They] haven't even been given the courtesy of a debrief… They have not even been given an answer as to why the decision was made that they should not respond," a source said.
Four Cert team members wearing full tactical gear and armed with HK-416 assault weapons arrived on scene at 08:36 (12:36 GMT), soon after reports of an active gunman within the Naval Sea Systems Command surfaced at 08:20.
Posted by: pinkman | September 19, 2013 at 06:38 PM
Admits the leftists broke the law.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/09/congressman-wolf-demands-fbi-punish-agents-for-cair-contact.html
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/09/-doj-inspector-general-bashes-fbi-for-working-w-cair-in-violation-of-congress-taken-down-from-doj-si.html
Posted by: pagar101 | September 19, 2013 at 06:40 PM
pale yellow, wheaten color. I'm good with Michelle for now.
Posted by: matt | September 19, 2013 at 06:55 PM
This tells the tale, of how the Assads came to power, and purged the rival members of the Baath, although a little more gently, then the Husseins,
http://chenry.webhost.utexas.edu/pmena/coursemats/2009/batatu-4326249.pdf
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 06:56 PM
CH,
If you stop at St. Michaels then try 208 Talbot. Its basically a wine place but great food. Maybe Mrs. Hate will like it and isn't that what its all about when you think about it:)
Posted by: 4JIB2 | September 19, 2013 at 06:56 PM
I know this is gonna sound bad, but they are on colored people time.
Posted by: Donald | September 19, 2013 at 07:11 PM
Another interesting thing, from this monograph, is that Damascus has never been an Alawite stronghold, hence it's not surprising
there was friction, in various corners of the
city.
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 07:13 PM
Well, given that the FSA and the Jihadis are not in open combat with each other, a ceasefire it a win/win for Assad. He gets time to rest and refit his troops, and he can sit back and watch the rebels beat the carp out of each other. Then he can move in and finish off who ever survives their fight.
Posted by: Ranger | September 19, 2013 at 07:16 PM
Well there have been recent clashes between those factions, in places like Aleppo, and Azaz, their primary sponsors are divided in their loyalties,
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 07:23 PM
And one again, the Russian make the point that they do not play games:
Russia 'seizes' Greenpeace ship after Arctic rig protest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24170129
Greenpeace says 29 activists, including six Britons, are being held at gunpoint by Russian security officers who stormed the group's ship in the Arctic.
One of the activists told the BBC that about 15 men in balaclavas seized the Arctic Sunrise ship in the Barents Sea.
This comes a day after four Greenpeace members tried to board a Russian oil platform to prevent it from drilling.
Still not quite up to the French standard for dealing with this sort of thing, but a decent start.
Posted by: Ranger | September 19, 2013 at 07:29 PM
I hope they scuttle it.
Send it to the vasty deep with those ***ing Sea Shepherd asshats.
Posted by: Ignatz | September 19, 2013 at 07:33 PM
So apparently the same USIS that vetted Snowden, also did so for the shooter, I say apparently because Michael Isikoff has the story.
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 07:37 PM
Putin filed a restraining order against the stalkers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24170129
Posted by: pinkman | September 19, 2013 at 07:37 PM
Some details about a matter, in Stephanie's general area.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/09/term-you-will-not-hear-about-atlanta-kidnapping-perp-illegal-alien/#comments
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 07:42 PM
Thanks for the rec JiB; yes, that's what it's all about.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | September 19, 2013 at 07:50 PM
Herewith the list of Democrat Reps who walked out on the parents of those killed in Benghazi.
The list of shame.
Carolyn Maloney
Danny Davis
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Gerald E. Connolly
Jim Cooper
John Tierney
Mark Pocan
Matt Cartwright
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Peter Welch
Stephen Lynch
Steven Horsford
Tammy Duckworth
Tony Cardenas
William Lacy Clay
Posted by: MarkO | September 19, 2013 at 07:56 PM
Disgusting, MarkO. Tops, a former long-time commenter here, tweeted those names today too to shame them.
Though, I honestly do not think it possible to shame Dems.
Posted by: centralcal | September 19, 2013 at 07:59 PM
Now there are some congress creeps who should be spit on.
Posted by: Ignatz | September 19, 2013 at 08:00 PM
A little OT and probably already discussed, but since it's good news let's repeat it;
Barry Diller to sack the hideous Tina Brown as big cheese at The Daily Beast in January.
Delightful.
Posted by: Ignatz | September 19, 2013 at 08:02 PM
He's particularly inventive scum;
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/09/demand-.html
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 08:02 PM
"Now there are some congress creeps who should be spit on."
Name one exempt from the boiler-plate initiation for 'Originals' in the social club Hell's Angels. No bodily fluids are exempt.
Posted by: pinkman | September 19, 2013 at 08:04 PM
cc,
And, it won't make the news.
Posted by: MarkO | September 19, 2013 at 08:05 PM
OT, I'm surprised I'ved missed her show;
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 08:12 PM
Clarice - May I suggest a theme song for your "Pieces" this weekend?
(BTW, I gave you a "Worth Reading" award a few days ago, the first one you have earned, if I recall correctly.)
Posted by: Jim Miller | September 19, 2013 at 08:24 PM
"The list of shame."
Ever one of those on that list of shame is up for reelection in 2014. IMO, Voters need to make a special effort to insure that they are not returned to the House to insult more of the families of our fallen Heroes.
Posted by: pagar101 | September 19, 2013 at 08:25 PM
Very true to the point;
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 08:27 PM
Pop culture OT,
AmSpec article about two new biographies of guys I grew up laughing at; Alan Sherman and Bob and Ray.
Bob Elliott still chugging along at 90.
Posted by: Ignatz | September 19, 2013 at 08:35 PM
MarkO: not make the news. Oh, that's a given!
If the tables were turned and it was Republicans, there would be wailing, lamentations and rendering of garments among theMFM.
Posted by: Centralcal on iPad | September 19, 2013 at 08:41 PM
I think an effective ad could be made cutting excerpts of the testimony of the parents of the two slain Benghazi heroes with the name and pic of each of those absenting themselves from that testimony with a stamp 'Walked Out On Them" or some such.
Posted by: Jim Rhoads f/k/a vnjagvet | September 19, 2013 at 08:43 PM
Just consider Waxman's witchhunt against Blackwater.
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 08:44 PM
Just one instance here;
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/washington/26contractor.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=world&adxnnlx=1190834132-S1ktOnK1GOPa22yKLRWIDA&
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 08:48 PM
you couldn't shutup Maloney and Cummings about Blackwater, an imperfect instrument
to conduct certain policy objectives, notably one of the more famous cases from that era, were thrown out, becauee of legal
trickery, not unlike the case of the New Orleans cops.
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 08:54 PM
For those, like me, who didn't get to see Trey Gowdy make Admiral Mullen squirm and sweat, here is a video of it.
There is also, a second video (just below) of Gowdy speaking with the family members that the Dems walked out on. The beginning (especially) of this should be in the Ad someone suggested above, with the faces and names of the Dems who walked out on them.
Posted by: centralcal | September 19, 2013 at 09:07 PM
Well this explains much of it, we spend long threads unraveling this rot gut idiocy
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/09/19/Flashback-new-york-times-only-paper-obama-reads
Posted by: narciso | September 19, 2013 at 09:10 PM
Did the Dems provide any reason why they dishonored the family members, and thereby the dead as well, or did they just silently pick up their jacks and go home?
Posted by: Ignatz | September 19, 2013 at 09:11 PM