Liberals see space to work with GOP on Afghanistan
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 18th, 2011 4:34 am by HL
Liberals see space to work with GOP on Afghanistan
While liberal online activists gather in the Minneapolis Convention Center this weekend for Netroots Nation, conservatives are meeting at a hotel a few blocks away for Right Online. There’s a couple issues they might actually agree on: President Obama’s policies in Afghanistan and Libya.
Republicans have traditionally supported the war in Afghanistan, but that support is eroding. Presidential contenders Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney have recently questioned the purpose of the U.S. presence there. And Republicans in Congress are questioning the White House argument that the action in Libya does not rise to the level of “hostilities.”
Boehner: Obama has not sufficiently answered questions on Libya
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday evening delivered his strongest criticism yet of President Obama’s decision three months ago to intervene militarily in Libya, saying in a statement that the White House has not sufficiently answered lawmakers’ questions about the mission and that the House may take action as soon as next week aimed at halting the U.S. involvement.
“The American people and members on both sides of the aisle have concerns about the mission in Libya and questions that have gone unanswered by this White House,” Boehner said in a statement late Friday, two weeks after the House passed a resolution rebuking Obama and giving the president 14 days to respond to lawmakers’ questions. “While the President responded to some questions earlier this week, it is unfortunate that he specifically chose not to respond to an important question about whether the Office of Legal Counsel supports the White House’s extraordinary legal basis for ongoing military operations in Libya.”
Republican ‘doctrine’ on suppressing black vote is key to Md. case, and maybe to 2012
In a room last summer, the brain trust behind the only Republican governor to lead Maryland since Spiro Agnew sat thumbing through a campaign strategy to suppress turnout among the state’s black voters.
It was a document that could have seemed like a relic, more likely to be found in a campaign office during the time of Agnew and the 1960s civil rights movement than during a campaign in 2010 to reelect former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
Now, the document in the hands of the Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor. It constitutes the centerpiece of indictments issued this week that that accuse one of Ehrlich’s most trusted aides, as well as a campaign consultant, of conspiring to suppress the black vote last year.
