Fri. June 13, 2014:
The original inspiration for Bitesfromedwin is, as loyal readers understand, the Aristotle of Arrowsic.
Here, in tandem with yesterday's first post since back on Feb. 18, is the A of A's take on
Democratic party shortcomings.
Hoping it transmits [via cut & paste] for all you readers, cuz it is pithy, and, well, correct:
The Democrats have always believed that 'the truth will out." But, of course, it won't, not without a lot of effort. Repeated lies catch on really well, even with people who are not stupid. I don't see why Obama's handlers don't get this. Get rid of Debbie Wasserman-Shultz and get a real pro. Like the late great Lee Atwater. My nominee: James Carville. By all means, get BITES on the case!
Friday, June 13, 2014
Thursday, June 12, 2014
"The President is taking a nap" -- Boehner's Latest Idiocy Breaks Bites's Silence
Thu. June 12, 2014:
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois)
The usual GOP suspects -- John Boehner, Lindsay Graham, and John Shoulddabeenpresident McCain -- are once again leading the news cycle with totally bullbleep 2nd-guessings.
Take your pick: Bergdahl, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine.
But in a way, the bigger criticism should go to the Wimp Democratic Party.
Once again, as with Obamacare and countless other issues, they allow the GOP to frame any upcoming debate.
Where is a Dick Durbin or Chuck Schumer?
What's wrong with one of them calling a press conference, to preempt the GOP's complete lack of credibility with a statement like the following:
Folks, in the next 24-48 hours, you are likely to hear the following drivel from our reliably noncredible Republican version of "loyal opposition":
1. Obama should have left Bergdahl to rot in a terrorist prison.
2. Obama should have kept sending US troops to the Iraq meat-grinder [where Iraqis in 2003 would "welcome our soldiers as conquering heroes"], to boost Al-Maliki's regime.
3. Obama should have sent military advice and war materiel, including surface-to-air missiles to the "good guys among Syrian insurgents," to force Assad out.
And, here's why each whine is worse than silence, from any Loyal Opposition party when they are out of power in our USA political system.
Each criticism is dead wrong, and ignores all refuting evidence.
Their hate-Obama reflex, on every single issue since 2009, eliminates their role as a helpful source of advice. The president, as usual, is left completely on his own, when a united front with credible & helpful critiques would serve our country.
And my fellow Democrats have undermined the president with their own silence.
That's why I, Dick Durbin/Chuck Schumer, am not going to take it any more.
Here, specifically, is what's completely wrong with each Fox News & GOP misinformation:
1. McCain himself, for example, supported bargaining for release of Bergdahl, weeks ago . . .
2. Our public opinion overwhelmingly opposes any more senseless sacrifices of our troops in an Iraq whose government & people are conspicuously uncommitted & ungrateful for our troops' prior sacrifices . . .
3. Arm-chair critics like Senator McCain and Robert Ford totally ignore the major difficulty of sending military weapons to a tiny sliver of "good guy" Syrian opposition that has always been too weak to guarantee that items like Surface-to-Air missiles won't fall into terrorist hands, for use against western commercial airlines, among numerous other targets . . .
BUT NO! The Dick Durbins and Chuck Schumers have said nothing to keep Common Sense in control.
THEY NEED TO STEP UP, AT LONG LAST!
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois)
The usual GOP suspects -- John Boehner, Lindsay Graham, and John Shoulddabeenpresident McCain -- are once again leading the news cycle with totally bullbleep 2nd-guessings.
Take your pick: Bergdahl, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine.
But in a way, the bigger criticism should go to the Wimp Democratic Party.
Once again, as with Obamacare and countless other issues, they allow the GOP to frame any upcoming debate.
Where is a Dick Durbin or Chuck Schumer?
What's wrong with one of them calling a press conference, to preempt the GOP's complete lack of credibility with a statement like the following:
Folks, in the next 24-48 hours, you are likely to hear the following drivel from our reliably noncredible Republican version of "loyal opposition":
1. Obama should have left Bergdahl to rot in a terrorist prison.
2. Obama should have kept sending US troops to the Iraq meat-grinder [where Iraqis in 2003 would "welcome our soldiers as conquering heroes"], to boost Al-Maliki's regime.
3. Obama should have sent military advice and war materiel, including surface-to-air missiles to the "good guys among Syrian insurgents," to force Assad out.
And, here's why each whine is worse than silence, from any Loyal Opposition party when they are out of power in our USA political system.
Each criticism is dead wrong, and ignores all refuting evidence.
Their hate-Obama reflex, on every single issue since 2009, eliminates their role as a helpful source of advice. The president, as usual, is left completely on his own, when a united front with credible & helpful critiques would serve our country.
And my fellow Democrats have undermined the president with their own silence.
That's why I, Dick Durbin/Chuck Schumer, am not going to take it any more.
Here, specifically, is what's completely wrong with each Fox News & GOP misinformation:
1. McCain himself, for example, supported bargaining for release of Bergdahl, weeks ago . . .
2. Our public opinion overwhelmingly opposes any more senseless sacrifices of our troops in an Iraq whose government & people are conspicuously uncommitted & ungrateful for our troops' prior sacrifices . . .
3. Arm-chair critics like Senator McCain and Robert Ford totally ignore the major difficulty of sending military weapons to a tiny sliver of "good guy" Syrian opposition that has always been too weak to guarantee that items like Surface-to-Air missiles won't fall into terrorist hands, for use against western commercial airlines, among numerous other targets . . .
BUT NO! The Dick Durbins and Chuck Schumers have said nothing to keep Common Sense in control.
THEY NEED TO STEP UP, AT LONG LAST!
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Historian Gets Radio Exposure on Sarah Palin, but Jeopardizes his Professional Credibility?
Tues. Feb. 18, 2014:
Rarely does one find a more craven example of a professor bending over backwards to get radio exposure by pandering to the Right:
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/137011636/how-accurate-were-palins-comments-on-paul-revere
Rarely does one find a more craven example of a professor bending over backwards to get radio exposure by pandering to the Right:
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/137011636/how-accurate-were-palins-comments-on-paul-revere
Monday, February 10, 2014
Tired of Knee-jerk Criticisms by Obama Detractors?
Mon. Feb. 10, 2014:
Fred Kaplan has been one of the top two or three reporters on nuclear issues over the past two decades.
Partisanship does not interest him.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/02/barack_obama_isn_t_disengaged_the_president_s_foreign_policy_is_just_smarter.html?alcmpid=view
Fred Kaplan has been one of the top two or three reporters on nuclear issues over the past two decades.
Partisanship does not interest him.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/02/barack_obama_isn_t_disengaged_the_president_s_foreign_policy_is_just_smarter.html?alcmpid=view
Friday, February 7, 2014
Bites Has Bemoaned Democracy -- But Not Robert Dahl
Fri. Feb. 7, 2014:
"Bites from Edwin" has not been thrilled with recent messy results of USA's democracy -- or what H.L. Mencken among others has lampooned as "boobocracy."
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" -- just one of
Mencken's jokes about it.
But recently an eminent scholar of democracy, the political scientist Robert Dahl, died.
A tribute to him quotes his stubborn optimism about it;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-06/robert-dahl-understood-our-democracy.html?alcmpid=view
"Bites from Edwin" has not been thrilled with recent messy results of USA's democracy -- or what H.L. Mencken among others has lampooned as "boobocracy."
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" -- just one of
Mencken's jokes about it.
But recently an eminent scholar of democracy, the political scientist Robert Dahl, died.
A tribute to him quotes his stubborn optimism about it;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-06/robert-dahl-understood-our-democracy.html?alcmpid=view
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Australian article on USA's Tea Party
Wed. Jan. 5, 2014:
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19618-the-revolt-of-the-lower-middle-class-and-the-stupidity-of-the-elites
A pro-Tea Party cartoon:
An anti-Tea Party cartoon:
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19618-the-revolt-of-the-lower-middle-class-and-the-stupidity-of-the-elites
A pro-Tea Party cartoon:
An anti-Tea Party cartoon:
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
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