[Translate] Hillary Clinton Zennie62 outlined how House GOP leaders worked to diminish the President’s ability to use military action in Libya, where Benghazi is located. Now, comes a Washington Post report from 2011 reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that House GOP budget cuts would harm national security. “The scope of the...
[Translate] After a lot of complaints, conga drums, and consternation, former Senator George Mitchell is out as the mediator who was hand-picked by the California Public Utilities Commission, or the CPUC. This is what San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane said: “Sen. Mitchell and his law firm DLA Piper did the right thing by telling the California Public Utilities Commission...
[Translate] George MitchellThe California Public Utilities Commission is in a lot of hot water. On Tuesday, the CPUC announced that it selected Former Senator George Mitchell as mediator in the ongoing talks to determine the fine to be levied against Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The trouble is, only PG&E knew of Mitchell’s appointment and no...
[Translate] Tveep-staredownhis one wasn’t close – no rope-a-dope here. Vice President Joe Biden kicked U.S. Congressman and GOP VP Candidate Paul Ryan. Mr. Ryan, as he asked to be called, looked like a high school class president against the school superintendant in Joe Biden. Ryan did not look like a seven-term congressman, where Biden looked...
[Translate] Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, was plainly stupid to allow herself to be out and exposed in the daylight and 1,000 feet from a public road in France, topless. This, then, is the anatomy of how a photo shoot came to be that resulted in the production of a set of photos of a member of The British Royal Family in an undignified state of undress...
[Translate] According to a study released by the Pew Research Center For The People and The Press, the leaders in where Americans get their news are cable, local TV news, network news, the Internet, and local papers. But what’s interesting in the Pew study, is how its own author of the online article explaining its results is so bent on showing what they claim is the reduced role of young people and social media, that the writer just plain misses by a freaking country mile clear and obvious major changes in how we get our...
[Translate] TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Franken Camp: Coleman Is Desperate, Knows He’s Going To Lose: “In a press briefing just now, a very exuberant Franken campaign put forward a clear message about today’s big news that the wrongly-rejected absentee ballots can be counted, which the Coleman campaign is trying to halt by going to court: Norm Coleman is desperate, because he knows he’s going to lose. The shift in tone from the Franken camp, compared to their more defensive posture in previous calls,...
[Translate] I got this email from Doug Boxer, California Senator Barbara Boxer’s son and a friend: Dear Zennie, We’ve got less than $5,000 to go to reach our $68,000 goal in honor of my mom’s 68th birthday. Join nearly 1,000 Boxer supporters and help put us over the top. Click here to contribute today! Tuesday night, the Boxer family gathered to celebrate my mom’s birthday — and she was thrilled when I told her that, as a special gift, nearly 1,000 members of our BarbaraBoxer.com community had come together...
