Obama Is Sabotaging Dem Senate Hopes
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 6th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Obama Is Sabotaging Dem Senate Hopes
Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
Does President Obama care about keeping the Senate?The president reportedly has told his close allies that losing the Senate would be “unbearable,” but his administration is doing everything possible to make things difficult for his party’s most vulnerable senators. On energy issues alone, the administration’s decisions to impose new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal-fired plants and indefinitely delay a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline could help burnish his long-term environmental legacy, but at the expense of losing complete control of Congress.
An Omaha Beach Memoir
Michael Ruane, Washington Post
As Leo Scheer swam for Omaha Beach from his burning landing craft that morning, he watched a pattern of machine gun bullets splash toward him and stop short.On the beach, he spotted a land mine a foot from his head just as he was about to trip it. And when a buddy was about to make a hazardous dash under fire, Scheer pulled him back just in time to save his life.
President Obama’s Dirty Deal
Charles Krauthammer, New York Daily News
What is it with Susan Rice and Sunday morning talk shows? She said Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had served in Afghanistan “with honor and distinction” — the biggest whopper since she insisted the Benghazi attack was caused by a video.There is strong eyewitness evidence that Bergdahl deserted his unit and that the search for him endangered his fellow soldiers. Otherwise, there would be no national uproar over his ransom and some of the widely aired objections to the deal would be as muted as they are flimsy. For example:
