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UCmeNdc's JournalSecret U.S. raid that captured Benghazi suspect violated our sovereignty, Libya says
Libya on Wednesday condemned U.S. special forces’ arrest of a man on its soil suspected of masterminding a deadly Islamist militant attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, describing the detention as a violation of Libyan sovereignty.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/18/secret-u-s-raid-that-captured-benghazi-suspect-violated-our-sovereignty-libya-says/
The GOP says it was all faked and staged. I guess they should inform the Libyans. No one was there.
Washington Lobbyists Pour Money Into Mississippi Senate Race To Fend Off Tea Party
Lobbyists in Washington are pouring money into Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Miss.) runoff campaign, helping the six-term incumbent with a long history of securing funds for well-represented industries in Washington battle his toughest challenge in more than three decades.
Registered lobbyists and lobbying firms' political action committees have given nearly $500,000 to Cochran's primary and runoff campaigns against tea party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by The Huffington Post.
McDaniel's strength against Cochran in last month's Senate primary raises crony capitalism as an issue, as it has been in other Republican Party primaries including the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/18/thad-cochran-lobbyists_n_5505467.html
Dick And Liz Cheney Pretend They Never Had A Thing To Do With Iraq's Chaos
I realize facts don't matter to evil ghouls like Cheney, but credit for the rise of ISIS can be laid right on his doorstep.
Iraq provides terrorists with "a training ground, a recruitment ground, the opportunity for enhancing technical skills," said David B. Low, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats. "There is even, under the best scenario, over time, the likelihood that some of the jihadists who are not killed there will, in a sense, go home, wherever home is, and will therefore disperse to various other countries."
Low's comments came during a rare briefing by the council on its new report on long-term global trends. It took a year to produce and includes the analysis of 1,000 U.S. and foreign experts. Within the 119-page report is an evaluation of Iraq's new role as a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists.
And that's before al-Maliki took the reins and shut out the Sunnis entirely from any participation or voice in government.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/dick-and-liz-cheney-pretend-they-never-had
NYT: Captured Suspect Said Benghazi Attack Was Revenge For Anti-Islam Video
Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the suspect captured by U.S. special forces on Tuesday for his role in the 2012 Benghazi attack, reportedly said he was motivated in part by the anti-Islam online video made in America, according to the New York Times.
"What he did in the period just before the attack has remained unclear. But Mr. Abu Khattala told other Libyans in private conversations during the night of the attack that he was moved to attack the diplomatic mission to take revenge for an insult to Islam in an American-made online video," Times reporter David Kirkpatrick wrote in a story on Khattala on Tuesday.
Immediately following the attack, Khattala declined to say whether the video had anything to do with his role in the Benghazi attack, according to the Times.
The New York Times reported in December that the attack was fueled in part by the anti-Islam video, but did not link Khattala to the video in that investigation.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/khattala-benghazi-video-new-york-times
Michele Bachmann jabs at Elizabeth Warren: ‘She’s no populist’
Retiring House Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann said in an interview Friday with Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim that Republicans have nothing to fear from the rise of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her views on economic inequality.
The New Yorker magazine this week called Republican upstart David Brat “the Elizabeth Warren of the right” after his surprising defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in the Virginia Republican primary.
Bachmann scoffed at the comparison. Brat, she said, is much better than that.
“I don’t see Elizabeth Warren as someone Republicans have to worry about, not at all,” Bachmann told Huffington Post. “Elizabeth Warren, after all, was a major advocate of Dodd-Frank.”
The 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and sought to put in place market protections to prevent another financial crash like 2008.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/14/michele-bachmann-jabs-at-elizabeth-warren-shes-no-populist/
the federal government doesn't allow you to refinance your college loan if you're paying too much?
Hours after Senate Republicans voted to block Elizabeth Warren's student loan bill, the #3 Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, told Jon Stewart:
"You can refinance your home, you can refinance your car, but the federal government doesn't allow you to refinance your college loan if you're paying too much. Why shouldn't we do that? We're gonna keep going at it. We're going to bring this bill up over and over."
Elizabeth Warren also declared she will barnstorm the country with key Senate candidates, campaigning on this issue.
Eric Cantor and the Death of a Movement, The Fix isn't In
I don’t mean that conservatism in general is dying. But what I and others mean by “movement conservatism,” a term I think I learned from the historian Rick Perlstein, is something more specific: an interlocking set of institutions and alliances that won elections by stoking cultural and racial anxiety but used these victories mainly to push an elitist economic agenda, meanwhile providing a support network for political and ideological loyalists.
By rejecting Mr. Cantor, the Republican base showed that it has gotten wise to the electoral bait and switch, and, by his fall, Mr. Cantor showed that the support network can no longer guarantee job security. For around three decades, the conservative fix was in; but no more.
To see what I mean by bait and switch, think about what happened in 2004. George W. Bush won re-election by posing as a champion of national security and traditional values — as I like to say, he ran as America’s defender against gay married terrorists — then turned immediately to his real priority: privatizing Social Security. It was the perfect illustration of the strategy famously described in Thomas Frank’s book “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” in which Republicans would mobilize voters with social issues, but invariably turn postelection to serving the interests of corporations and the 1 percent.
In return for this service, businesses and the wealthy provided both lavish financial support for right-minded (in both senses) politicians and a safety net — “wing-nut welfare” — for loyalists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/opinion/paul-krugman-eric-cantor-and-the-death-of-a-movement.html
Elizabeth Warren To Hit Back At Mitch McConnell By Campaigning For Alison Lundergan Grimes
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) railed against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday for failing to support her student loan refinancing proposal, which the Senate killed in a 56-38 vote earlier in the day.
Warren's bill would have enabled millions of Americans to refinance their student loans into cheaper debt by increasing taxes on wealthy households. Following the bill's defeat, Warren told MSNBC that McConnell, who called the proposal a "show vote," has made clear where his allegiance lies.
"Mitch McConnell is there for millionaires and billionaires," Warren said. "He is not there for people who are working hard playing by the rules and trying to build a future for themselves."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/elizabeth-warren-alison-lundergan-grimes_n_5486667.html
David Brat Refuses To Say If He's For Or Against The Minimum Wage, will he cut Social Security?
David, who just beat Eric Cantor in the primary election refused to say if he's for or against the minimum wage.
http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2014/06/david-brat-refuses-say-if-hes-or
Senate Blocks Elizabeth Warren's Student Loan Refinancing Proposal
The 56-38 vote on the refinancing proposal, sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), failed to garner the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. Warren’s proposal, which mostly targeted student loans owned or guaranteed by the Department of Education, sought to fund the reduction in borrowers’ student loan payments by increasing taxes on wealthy households.
“With this vote we show the American people who we work for in the United States Senate: Billionaires or students,” Warren said minutes before the vote.
Other than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who voted against the measure on procedural grounds in order to preserve Democrats’ ability to reconsider it at a later date, only Republicans voted against it. They said the measure wouldn’t help reduce the skyrocketing cost of college and argued that it was not the best way to help former students manage their debt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/elizabeth-warren-student-loan-refinance_n_5484662.html
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