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Oh good lord! The headline is a joke. A play on Chris Matthews' own words, to show how stupid they were. I'm amazed that some people don't get it. Please stop e-mailing me that the headline is inappropriate.
Spearheaded by Congressman Keith Ellison (in image), 54 members of the United States Congress, all Democrats, signed on to a Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored letter demanding that Israel open its borders to Hamas-run Gaza. of course, Hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization, even by the Arabist US State Department. The names read like the who's-who of Congress' craziest members:
* John Conyers - 14th district
* John Dingell - 15th district
* Carolyn Kilpatrick - 13th district
Minnesota
* Keith Ellison - 5th district - challenger Barb Davis
* Betty McCollum - 4th district - challenger Ed Matthews
* James Oberstar - 8th district - multiple challengers
New Jersey
* Donald Payne - 10th district -
* Rush Holt - 12th district - challenger Mike Halfacre and Scott Sipprelle
* Bill Pascrell - 8th district - challenger Danielle Staub
New York
* Yvette Clarke - 11th district
* Maurice Hinchey - 22nd district - challenger George Philips
* Paul 'taxin' Tonko - 21st district - challenger Arthur Welser
* Eric Massa - 29th district - challenger Tom Reed (in a GOP district)
North Carolina
* David Price - 4th district - challengers George Hutchins, Lawson and Frank Roche
Ohio
* Mary Jo Kilroy - 15th district - challengers John Adams and Senator Stivers
* Marcy Kaptur - 9th district
Oregon
* Earl Blumenauer -3rd district
* Peter DeFazio - 4th district - challenger Sid Leiken
Pennsylvania
* Chaka Fattah - 2nd district
* Joe Sestak - 7th district - challenger Patrick Meehan and Dawn Steisland
Vermont
* Peter Welch - 1st district
Virginia
* Jim Moran - 8th district - challengers Matthew Berry , Mark Ellmore, J Patrick Murray
Washington
* Jim McDermott - 7th district
* Adam Smith - 9th district - challengers Dick Muri and James Postma
* Jay Inslee - 1st district - challenger James Watkins
* Brian Baird - 3rd district - challengers David Castillo, David Hedrick and Jon Russell
West Virginia
* Nick Rahall - 3rd district - challengers Lee Bias, Gary Gearheart and Conrad Lucas
Wisconsin
* Tammy Baldwin -2nd district - Tim Terenz
* Gwen Moore - 4th district - challenger Dan Sebring
Virginia
* Glenn Nye - 2nd district - challengers Ben Loyola, Ken Golden, Ed Maulbeck, Bert Misuzawa, Scott Rigell and Scott W Taylor
It really is hard to overstate the Hugo-Chavez-like arrogance. A real jaw-dropper! President Obama personally dismissed any comparison between Democrats now and under Bill Clinton 16 years ago -- by saying his personal popularity would bail everybody out in the mid-term election. "Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’ We’re going to see how much difference that makes now.”
Obama readying a speech for third graders. No kidding. And they called Bush a moron?
An American crew rescues a Haitian child. I could look at this wonderful picture all day long. God bless these wonderful rescuers. 
In an interview with a local Boston paper, Scott Brown came out swinging for Israel: By Kenneth H. Kaplan
Nearing the end of a brief Senate campaign focused almost exclusively on domestic issues, State Sen. Scott Brown, the Republican candidate, sought to sharply distinguish himself from his Democratic opponent in the areas of security and Mideast policies. Brown called Attorney General Martha Coakley wrong on both Iran and Afghanistan and portrayed himself as a longtime friend of Israel who would be one of its leading advocates in Washington.
Brown, a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard who cited more than once his "training in the issues of war and peace,'' said Coakley is "out of touch on military issues." He said she is making a mistake by extending constitutional rights to terror suspects "at taxpayers' expense," insisting that they instead be treated as enemy combatants.
Brown spoke last weekend by phone from his home in Wrentham in advance of the Jan. 19 special election. At times both laid back and feisty in the half-hour interview, he wondered aloud whether young American Jews fully understand Israel's security needs. He criticized President Obama for pressing Israel to freeze all settlement activity, but praised his plan to send more troops to Afghanistan. On the campaign itself, he said, "If I could have the Jewish community come out, a bloc [Coakley] thinks she's getting, I'll win this thing by 5 to 8 percent."
The following are excerpts from the interview:
Q: Israel enjoyed extremely close ties with the United States under the Bush administration. Critics say despite that, no real progress was made toward achieving peace, leading them to conclude that the US should put more pressure on Israel. Do you subscribe to that view'
I understand it, but I don't agree with it. ... President Bush was one of the most pro-Israel presidents in our lifetime, and first of all, it takes two or three entities to get down to the bargaining table and come up with peace. But when you have groups who will not adhere to the treaties of yesteryear and want to have a whole new set of treaties, one of the first things you need to do is have these entities recognize the agreements and honor them, and obviously recognize the right for Israel to actually survive.
Q: Speaking of existing agreements, Israel previously agreed to stop building more settlements. The Obama administration pressed Israel to halt any more settlement activity. Are settlements an obstacle to achieving a two-state solution'
Well certainly, but Israel also has the right to live in its lands without having another country dictate terms before you get to the bargaining table. Whether it's close settlements or not build, you can't be giving away cards before you get to the bargaining table. ... I find it offensive that [Obama is] setting the terms before even sitting down at the table. ... I think that Israel had done more than enough in terms of extending the olive branch to get people to the bargaining table.
Q: Israel's security barrier in the West Bank and its incursion into the Gaza Strip both achieved their aims, measured by the reduction in suicide bombings inside Israel and rocket fire from Gaza. Yet both have been condemned as violating Palestinians' rights. Are Israel's methods excessive'
A: Well, when it comes to your survival, I don't know, what's excessive' When you have people lobbing missiles into your bedrooms, you need to establish security measures to protect your kids, your families. ... And don't forget. when you have Hamas lobbing missiles from hospitals and schools, you're at an unfair disadvantage. Israel and the United States, we follow the Geneva Conventions and the protocols and the laws of war.
Q: The United States was fortunate to have been spared in the attempted attack aboard a Detroit-bound plane. How should the US tighten air security' Is there anything that should or should not be borrowed from Israel's methods, which, while effective, have been criticized for involving profiling'
A: Let me just backtrack and add another wrinkle to that. I do not believe that these people should be treated as ordinary criminals. They should be treated as enemy combatants. We're in a war. Clearly there was a tie to Al Qaeda. [The Detroit suspect] should never have been lawyered up at taxpayer expense. He should immediately be treated as an enemy combatant and transferred down to Gitmo or some other facility, and interrogated under the laws of the United States and the Geneva Convention and all the laws of war, first of all. So there's a mistake that Martha Coakley is making by providing constitutional rights to enemy combatants and opening up a whole new level of rights that they're not entitled to at taxpayer expense. ... I would rather spend more time keeping our people safe and then maybe infringing on our liberties a little bit at a time when in fact there are some very serious threats upon us.
Q: How concerned are you that Iran is close to acquiring a nuclear weapon' Do you believe economic sanctions can halt the Iranian program' If not, should other measures be considered, or should the world, and Israel, find a way to coexist with a nuclear Iran'
That's scary. Well, first of all there's a couple of things happening. Ahmadinejad ... Martha Coakley wants to have one-on-one negotiations with him. She would go there. That's ridiculous. You don't want to legitimize his regime and give it a propaganda tool. She'd be the only one who wants to do that. Not even President Obama wants to do that. Low-level negotiations are great, but they're obviously playing the cat and mouse game. ...
They're at 28 percent unemployment. Their cash reserves are almost gone. So if there is any type of economic threat right now, that can work ... it would shut their industry down cold. ...
Everyone knows that Israel has the right to protect itself. The option to attack Iran is always there. You don't even need to mention it.
Q: Martha Coakley recently voiced opposition to Obama's plan to send more troops to Afghanistan. What do you think should be the American commitment'
First of all, she's wrong. It shows how out of touch she is with military issues. ... By having the amount of troops we have there now, they're spread so thin that they're vulnerable. So ... I do support the president. Especially his 180 on this very issue. He took the time to figure out what the problem was. I commend him for that, publicly. ... He's looking to provide the tools and resources to our men and women to finish the job. And the job is very clear. It's to make sure the Taliban and Al Qaeda do not reestablish bases, reestablish control.
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I particularly liked the reference to "our security chief, Hassan Abu Jamal". Very funny:
In an earlier post, immediately following the earthquake, I stated that "the chips are down, now we will see which countries come through and which do not." Now we have our answers:
Raw footage:
A whack job conspiracy theorist and a blame America firster. Here are a few of his nutty ideas on videotape, right out of his mouth:
"There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They’re the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. … And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. … And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established after World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They’re in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators … We need to take out the CIA."
It's like two insane people arguing over who's crazier:
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This is pretty much what Dem campaign headquarters looked like late last night:Usually I am far more inclined to watch Fox News. My disdain for CNN goes back decades and will I never forgive them for their awful and biased US politics and Middle East coverage during the 80's and 90's. But in the last year or so, they have begun to make a real effort at straight reporting. Their reporting from Haiti is nothing short of heroic. I never thought I could say something like this: Bravo CNN.
The snotty comment from that Doctor who said "makes me almost ashamed to be an American" is completely out of line. No country is doing more right now than the US, with a huge hospital ship on the way and thousands of troops to maintain order. Other than that, it's a fascinating piece.
UPDATE: Bill Clinton responds to slow response charge, from the above report and reacts to the speed of Israeli field hospital. In this case Clinton is absolutely correct. The US is carrying the heavy load here by far, and there is no place for this type of finger-pointing.
Israeli field hospital commander motivates his troops in Haiti. Operating the largest and most sophisticated hospital in the region at the most critical moment. The worst cases are sent to this hospital:
From that bastion of right-wing hysteria, Al-Arabia, comes this report from Saudi Arabia. These reports are almost a daily occurrence in Saudi Arabia and much of the Arab world. Most of these types of marriages go un-noticed and happen every day.
From the eyes of your typical Israel-hater: Zionist oppressors disturbing the comfortable rest of a Haiti civilian.
The IDF has sent one of the largest medical and rescue operations of any country, to Haiti. Will work under coordinated US command. Multiple rescues in progress. Still waiting for that medical-rescue unit from Saudi Arabia. Lets hope some Arab countries can be embarrassed into doing something.
UPDATE: Great piece on CNN covering IDF field hospital.
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