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Monday, July 26, 2010

Deficit Pigeons?

Not Exactly Doves or Hawks.
And I am not talking target practice,
but Andrea Mitchell Reports,
with David Walker* of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

*not yet intended link** nor pun on running, other than nuanced flights

**David Walker discusses:[***] not all tax breaks are equal, nor spending cuts
[Nor are all associations equal when it comes to policy issues and positions. i.e. being concerned about the deficit, does not mean being against stimulus, not to mention what foundation or relationships one has.]
[***] 7-27-10: Avian Update MSNBC has yet to include the David Walker exchange under Andrea Mitchell Reports.

Friday, March 02, 2012

No Fluke!

Andrea Mitchell breaks the news that Sandra Fluke received a call from President Bush.
Ed Schultz gives it to Bill O'Reilly for defending Rush. (SF)
Rachel Maddow is giving it to Andrea Mitchell and Sandra Fluke, and Rush and Romney as well, but of course not in the same way.
Romney and Rush don't understand much*, and laughter may be the best medicine but they don't know it or humor from shinola, let alone energy or diplomacy.






Friday, June 04, 2010

Hiatus / Review

under construction/vacation/sabbatical
Yeah Right...
[spot filled]
[Anachronism"another perspective" ]
[Andrea Mitchell *: Obama "NO Jimmy Carter?" (my air quotes of my previous unstated assessment)]

* update/scroll to Alter/Halperin[**] clip

[** 6-6-10 unable to locate Andrea Mitchell's exchange with Alter and Halperin ]
[Still trying for the full context, but my unwritten analysis referred to above was that Carter had too much of a hands on approach to details, NOT that he was a disasterous president. He was a president with much to deal with.]

[Is there a conspiracy here? Why am I only able to get this in con_text? i.e. spin?

[Maybe my earlier misplaced theory was located above, in the Two Santa's and the perpetual grinch. Running to the people or from the clubs?]

[6-7-10 (Going to)Heck in a Hand Basket? Sofa(couched)King in Freakin' Cultural Spin (continued...).]

Friday, June 08, 2012

It's Obama's Turn

[Keep the Change(scroll down)]

Of course.
Stay the course.
The private* sector is fine
verse US economic turn around.
[Hardball Metaphor.  Making the case.***]

* E. G. Private Equity Government
(The nuts and bolts?  If Romney cannot understand that the economy has turned around, then what will happen when he turns it around.)
[Ouch ! ]
[Politics Nation ? ]
[Whip Republicans with Reagan and Clinton!]
Thom Hartmann?
Word of tomorrow?  Pernicious.**
[Coffee Table This! The Fifth Element.]

6-10-12 Keep the Change!
Yes this is a bumper sticker for Obama!  Though the links may be a bumper sticker for Clinton or nuance.  Not that I have fully read them yet, I will try to stay the course, not to mention other threads.

6-11-12
Inconvenient Try-Angle !
NOW w/ Corny Copy Ah. "Mind the Gaffe(added 6-13)": "food fight"



Verse us Tony TruthyahKnow.

** anachronism approved:  "Perspective" was Norman Goldman's word of the day(Thursday). "Scale" was my suggestion(for Friday), and "pernicious" was my word for Monday.

6-12-12
Curb Your Enthusiasm !
[Duct TapeGoose Pate!]
[(Middle - Name / N SC ?)]
[ Bubble Up]

6-13-12
Jeb Bush: Walk Back ?
(Hardball)
*** link(s) added
McCain sabotage.
NOW "Picking up the Tab".

6-14-12
Keep the Change!
"Different Visions" NOW!
Past is prologue or (unpassed)Middle - Name.(Scroll-up)



Happy Birthday to us!
The Dickens We Say!
Better to look back than go back!
Preemptive Comment this AM:  Obama battles for Fiscal Reality!
Geitner is speaking on Andrea Mitchell Reports.
Andrea Mitchell pulls Geitner's leg on Romney, but he doesn't bite.

Romney wants to get it done.  He doesn't want to look back, he wants to Re-Right!  If we look back we will see his Re-Write. 
Overhang of Obamacare? 
It's coming back?
[Not to mention "No New Taxes"!  Old taxes will do fine.]
Segue: Presidents Speech to be inserted later.
[Thom Hartmann Couples Counseling/Next President will take credit for "breaking up" better economy.] Talk is cheap?

Friday, June 25, 2004

QCON that [Anonymous Interview]

Thanks to Anonymous we have some truth.
CIA insider says U.S. fighting wrong war
Anonymous career officer makes bold claims in book about U.S. war on terror By Andrea Mitchell, NBC NEWS 6-24-04

QCON: I would half agree with his conclusion, "It's not a good option; it's the only option." The first half not the second. On his way he makes many assumptions and caveats to his conclusion that must be explored.

Some excerpts: SEE LINK BELOW >>>>
My bold added.


Mitchell: "You call for some very tough actions here. You talk about escalating our war against them, and you say in your book that killing in large numbers is not enough to defeat our Muslim foes. This killing must be a Sherman-like razing of infrastructure. You talk about civilian deaths. You talk about landmines. Is that really what we have come to in this war on terror?"

Anonymous:

…“I think we've come to the place where the military is about our only option. We have not really discussed the idea of why we're at war with what I think is an increasing number of Muslims. Which — it's very hard in this country to debate policy regarding Israel or to debate actions or policies that might result in more expensive energy. I don't think it's something that we wanted to do, but I think it's where we've arrived.”

Mitchell: "Where is the falling down? Where is our effort falling down?"

Anonymous: "Part of it, I think, is again, as I wrote in the book, is the unwillingness of senior bureaucrats in the intelligence community to take the full truth, an unvarnished truth to the president, whether it's Mr. Bush or Mr. Clinton. I'm not sure that it's proper to blame al-Qaida's existence, continued existence or attacks on any elected official. I think the, the bureaucracy at the senior levels in the intelligence community is selective in what they take to the president. I think they are loath to describe the dire problem posed by bin Laden for a number of reasons. One of them is basically political correctness. It's not career-enhancing to try to engage in a, in a debate about religion and the role it plays in international affairs. And so we, we, we address bin Laden from the perspective of law enforcement, picking them off one at a time, arresting them, killing them. And I think that's a, the, the, the result of no one frankly discussing the size of the problem or the motivation behind the problem."

Mitchell: "And what are you going to say to those who say that this is anti-American and that this is a really prejudiced approach? What do you say to those who say that your call for a war against Muslim people, is really only going to make the situation worse?"

Anonymous: "I wonder how much worse the situation can be, in the first instance. We continue to believe that somehow public diplomacy or words will affect the anger and hatred of Muslims. And I'm not advocating war as my choice. What I'm advocating is, in order to protect the United States, it is our only option. As long as we pursue the current policies we have, until we have a debate about those policies, there's not a lot we can do. We won't talk them out of their anger, we won't convince them we're an honest broker between the Israel and the Palestinians. We won't convince that we're not supporting tyrannies in the Arab world from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
"It's the only option. It's not a good option; it's the only option. And I'm not saying we attack people who aren't attacking us. But in areas where we realize our enemies are, perhaps we have to be more aggressive."

QCON: I think reading this interview and maybe the book would be helpful with an open mind, and I wonder what his next book would be. Remember what he was not an expert in, and question where he and we may also be "myopic".

The truth is out there and maybe in there too. It may even be in the title of his book: "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror."

NOTE: [QCON = Quick Comment On News or
Question Connections and several other con words]


Monday, January 16, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

For the first time his memorial will be open on his day.
Today I am refraining from ledership or word play.
But nature or nurture, it is also a snow day.
Not to rhyme or reason*, but not a bad segue.

[Word play & links* are more Google than nature or nurture.]

* i.e. results** are more Google than intent
** links are NFRY***


[Now with Alex Wagner or earlier.]
[Andrea Mitchell documents]

*** 1-17-12 see Navigation/Labels
(NFRY to be explained.)
[NOTE: To Be Arranged. i.e. next post
At the present time the BLOG ARCHIVE is the right column mentioned there.
I am having format/template issues, see Under Construction.(labels and scroll over or down)
Older Posts is a new feature.(1st uses noted in preceding links)]
I have been lax in following the Republican debates, not that they were worth anything till recently. It may now be different with the caucus and primaries begun. Ron Paul may have fanciful economics but the golden rule is key to our differences.]
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

MOW

Michigan
Ohio
Wisconsin


Papa Mmmm* MOW OW!


The only freshman Democrat in the senate is from Michigan.**
Governor Kasich is odd man out.
Governors make better presidents?


*Papa: A.  B. R.S.V.P.
(Jump in the 11-17 [?]. )
** Andrea Mitchell
EA 5

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Inconvenient Jobs Conflict?

Breaking news! or Fixed News?

President Obama requests a joint session of congress to present his jobs plan, the same night as the next[**] Rebublican debate.

Is the timing problematic?[*]

Footnotes:
Committee for Responsible Federal Budget
New America Foundation
Chuck Todd : Andrea Mitchell

MSNBC
Digital Danger!

[*] 9-1-11 See "more".
[Also note links(4) added to first 3 footnotes]
[Oh what a web, some weave or un-weave.]

[**] "first" corrected: "next"

Monday, September 09, 2013

SerioUS Syria or ...

Rush 'n Delay?
Not Exactly !

[Breaking* News! (update** here*)]

* during NewsNation(Hillary Clinton on Syria)
**Jane Harman on Andrea Mitchell 9-6-13

[Here is to Harm 'n Knee!]
{later from The Cycle: Fawaz Gerges here.}

Sunday, July 08, 2012

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Original reaction: Not to Second Guess.

This idea coalesced from a Melissa Harris-Perry(*) panel and a Jared Bernstein reaction.
What irritated me was the piling on upon Mitt Romney. The second guessing was how Jared Bernstein discusses the context he was taken out of. As the panel on MH-P continued after her weigh-in on words via Barack Obama the segment on Word Police had nothing to do with my change, but everything to do with it; change and context and victim hoods. Not to mention "quote(s) from Nerdlandia" creeping into the X-change. (The hazzards of live blogging.***) I had no clue in the "footnote" controversy.** Am I falling for the spin, that Raw Money is a victim? Or do I forget my own theory of Share 'n Angle? Not too mention differences of intents[!]
* to be updated
** to be related later[!]
*** the alternative would be more awkward[!]

7-9-12 A Hunch Revisited as Obama prepares* to speak on extending part of Bush tax cuts.
[Segue/break: the "Dogs" above are "aTax dogs"; my subtle skirt of the issue.]

Regarding the president's speech, here are my rough notes:  Jobs.. core mission... rebuilding economy...stalemate...choice two views.  Top down- wrong...typical middle class tax cuts $3600... repeat $3600 Obama midle class tax cuts... for sake of misinformation.  We tried, slowest job growth, falling income, rising deficits... we can't afford more.  [me: we 1/2 tried more or other way].  People are with him, cut small business taxes 18 times, for 97% of them.  We should agree to do what we agree on!  [poor 1%, 2% 3%]  One year extention for under $250K then we can debate the rest and act or wait till after the election.  You are the ones driving the economy.  Learn lessons of the past, build foundation for the future.

* speech here[Note that links for "A Hunch Revisited" were contemporary, not later insertions. Referencing democracy and choices of direction.]

[Andrea Mitchell follow-up here: "fiscal cliff"?** and tug of misinfo!  Deficit distraction or key?]

[Bingo was his dog!  NewsNation "big tent" not to mention simple math from idiots.  I'm sorry, but math is where the numbers lie.  It is math warfare.  But I digressWell,* not exactly ! ** And pardon my pun but Swiss Romney Knife?]

** bit of a cycle/anachronism here*** regarding insertion of links & today's asterisks.(I may not have the right fiscal cliff clip but neither does the math add up for AM or RNC. Re:Bingo and math of the dog carrier or station waggin')

*** (rather here **) HW B? (SK re/v SE: 5:25 HW Harvy Weinstein)

[OW to Act?]
[Bingo too point OH! (see poor 1%, 2%, 3%: LR RL)]
(Anachronistically where does MB fit in here ? i.e. I can' remember where Luke Russert was nailed down.  But I think it was Martin Bashir who was asking about the 1, 2 or 3% and the previous sequence w/links does hit the nail on the understanding or aTAX jobs.)
[Hardball: David Corn to Smerconish "Sin of making sense". Then Bob's your uncle. It certainly rots at the head. MM Marshalling Message ?]

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

...promote the general...

Welfare(the 29th word in the Constitution).



Pre-Obama^, starker contrast.

And this is^^^ pre-Romney's Rough Road on MSNBC.
Jobs First? But not foremost.  Running from politics. 
His best defense is his cuff and hope he is phoney and fisher of men.
(I won't go there.) But the map is looking familiar. 
Fixing News(pun on breaking news): Carney(Obama "we are in this together").

Ari Melber is almost there where I haven't gotten yet. That is, what is actually taken from the paychecks of the middle class.  Payroll tax. NOW Alex Wagner is almost there.  Not only do the top 4%* get the same tax deductions and breaks as the bottom brackets(a. how many %) they get a break from the payroll tax from a second and third point. (b. over $97,500  c. capital gains ) 






[Now please take no offense at the significance of any Cretans.]

* 96% should be the Obama "entitle" R's [!]**

NOTE: Charts are being filled out here. See PAGES (right column)
NOTE: Charts of Sorts.( Tetra Heed Rons, and Wedges & Corny Copy Yeah)

** rough math but look at the right side of the second chart and see on the left that $250,000 -- and now John Sununu is doing the W'rithatic on Andrea Mitchell, but it goes to the arithmatic that is wrong -- it should be clear that the middle class is well below what Romney thinks it is and the President is for the bottom 96% well more than the 47% Romney thinks supports Obama.

^ missing link as to how I stumbled on this one (but there is a mixing of metaphors for horses and Teddy(Obama^^) Bulls
^^

^^^ inserted post charts et al
[Last Word ? Yeah right ! Or Left ! Re: Cycle ? R ! Not !]
[Brilliance of Democracy.]

[Strategic Pause: News Nation: No, Time is not a-side ! ]

[What the heck is the point?  It is the process and the purpose.]

Wednesday, September 03, 2014

FOOTNOTES PAGE ONE SEPTEMBER 2014

Footnotes Page
in draft*
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*(b.s.)=blog search
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Re:labels & other blog spots.

A K A / August missing Footnotes Page
Categorical Empiricists ?**
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** CAD (To be or not 3d) ?






9-9-14 Original Intent or in tent
(AM IT: [tan gent(~)] Andrea Mitchell ISIS Threat /-/ Witt Gen Stein/Jihadist  Defeating IS IS?
This is not to pun or purge, but to more carefully review later, the word.)


{Stop.} At this point, I will change the heading of this link from #(9-3-14) to "FOOTNOTES PAGE ONE SEPTEMBER 2014"\
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9-9-14{nexus}
PIT Spot? 1.  T= A. PIT Schtick, B. Clause Wits (3.0)?, C. There is no Savior, :D, E: Three Clauses for ...  [any body love Rice?  Ronan Farrow Daily?]
2. Spoiler Alert? Not yet M-bed ed.
3. C-O.I.? = A.Original Intent?, BGOP Plan to Hurt EconomyC. The Exit Strategy, D~?.  vOO due: vCR, EWhere everyone needs to read..., F. Table of Contents, G. Health Care Summit, HProgressive Poll  I. What are the Frackin' Odds..., J.Happy Earth Day!, K.Try Angle L. Mess Age MongerM. Post-Turkey Day,  NNadir, O. Clause WitsP. Romer ResignsQGo Purple!,   RGive an inch...STemporalT. Back to "The One Thing?". @  {(~)} Future Bubble?


~: OH REALLY FOG / Catch-44
4loreMat[?]: labels 3~ NFRY, meta/slash, P.C.? [/]4Ribble! 
TRP/RBTL: 

Friday, June 27, 2014

Post to Post

The Daily Fix?
Andrea Mitchell:  Where is the beef ?  *
Ruth Chris?*
 

Ronan Farrow = Dissing Match Ari Melber:   Karen Finney /  Hogan Gidley / Crowley
Regime Transition?   [This is your world on Bush.]**

* still looking

** [brackets] and 6 links added 6-30-14

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

To Be Arranged

(Re-modeling) Right Column:*
postings and other sources**
Navigation 1st use
Navigation II 1st use
Navigation 3.0 1st use
See those labels below, as they may evolve.
Labels 1st use

IMAGE INSERTED (see bottom line)
[Post-image insert, note ledes under leeds must be edited.
i.e. typo sometimes let go, sometimes intended, but who knows, or vise verse us[!]]


For the time being I will leave item 2 "as is."
But to note ledes:
Primary Boogeyman
Pay Dirt / Tax Mud
Calm Pend E Um
Table of Contents
Churned Media
Navigation 3.0
Making New Rounds
Right To Life
Leaking Intelligence
Odyssey Dawn
There was nothing...
Think Blue
I Told You So
The Tetrahedron
The one thing?
Segue/Sabbatical
2-20-11 Under Construction
The Maze of Mace
The Answering Machine
Bridging the English Channel
Note: this is the content at the link Navigation II(see label) as of 1-17-12

*this will be item 1
** see comment (1 below) regarding template upgrade
[template upgrade has evolved my need for change]

IT MAY HAVE NOW BECOME UNNECESSARY FOR ME TO INSERT PREVIOUS POST.***
THE BLOG ARCHIVE IS NOW WHERE I WAS GOING TO LOCATE ITEMS 1, 2 etc.
[This condition may evolve as I play with formats/templates.]
Labels label added.

*** apologies for anachronistic asterisks (No TrippleA [I. e!])
NFRY = not fully read yet: AKA not necessarily to be read soon.
Also not necessarily a valuable label, as it applies so frequently.
Today's Alex Wagner and Andrea Mitchell, especially the latter with Chris Matthews review a lot of the haggling of the Republican Race(slash debate), context and hyperbole.(see 1-17-12 scroll down here) Speaking of LBO[!] See AM and Leveraged Buy Outs and links lost(I thought I had embedded it somewhere today).(not to mention up tight[a,b,c] or out of sight asides.)(see lost here and found there, under fanciful economics, but not nfry.)[Meet the Press/FOXnews]
[Not pun/link TrippleA a D'Ribble: A ribble is a ribbing and a riddle. Not always labeled. First uses: Ribble, further parsing of first uses may be problematic. But here is a shot at D'Ribble and G'Ribble. A D'Ribble is a De-Ribble with few permutations, while a Grand Ribble may be close to an Obama Ribble which was probably an accident.]
[Not to go on and on, but related to the pre-bracketed regarding NFRY and AM(slash)race "the nation"...]
[Speaking of anachronisms (See Image/inserts)]

Thursday, August 30, 2012

That's the Ticket[!]

Andrea Mitchell: Pawlenty Please....
"Selling the Ticket" on the Ryan B.S.
Bumper Snickers



Truth in Lending?

From* AM to F'em or Rather MBAh ha ha ha

* a study in contrasts **

** dificult to sort to say the least.

Friday, April 20, 2012

State of Politics

Speaking of Johnsons*,
CAD(Culturally Aided Designs)
Objective/Subjective
Ge-oh-me-try!
The Presidents Club









The origins of this club in Hoover and Truman, harken back to mark a distinct difference in the act of presidential transitions, from the Bill Clinton/George W. Bush, George W. Bush/ Barack Obama turnovers.  Is it fair to mark the common factor, when congressional partisanship also plays a part? Or is it fair to ask if Hoover could change, what change will Romney bring?  Do we want to change course** or is it still our turn?  [Ctrl F "still"]

*Andrea Mitchell interviews author(The Presidents Club)
** NOW with Alex Wagner (need^ update)
[Polling Seg Way*** ? See AM* Gimmickry or plans ?]
*** WOE (and Bashir)
[Must search for Manichean links(or leaps) of punderous pondering and other posts for Ant and Grasshopper and "render unto Caesar".]

^ color of change?
(see CAD: cause affect difficiency)

[4-24-12 link inserted@ ^ update, not ]

Thursday, March 25, 2010

FAUX NEWS!

I'm not in the mood to play with words today.
But it is nice to see the condemnations of violence from some Republicans, while even those that have, don't recognize their part in lighting the fire by their childish complaints and rhetorical run around with the process. Their complaints [***] of not being included and their complaints of unprecedented partisanship should ring hollow, especially in light of the comprehensive compromises and early sacrifices by Democrats for the sake of pragmatism.

The media plays a big part in not better informing the people. FOX is bad enough, but there is so much reactionary programming, that might be valid yet not really enlighten us on the actual basis in fact and correcting rather than repeating. It seems that there is a political ingredient in this as well as a childish back and forth, but also a misunderstanding of the actual difference in taking responsibility* for one's words and blaming others for politicizing their misuse.

My original thoughts were in support of independent filters, or earlier links, and other sources.

Republican Whip Cantor has complaints about the DNC and the D(triple)C using the threats for political gain.** [Boehner see my comment section]

* Andrea Mitchell(MSNBC): today's link to follow (here): now can we not condone whining?(to Cantor not Pelosi)
** The DCCC have now addressed the difference as well as you (the reader) being able to see and decide in the several links, not necessarily in my rhetoric.
Anachronistic bracketed and segue.
[If one could raise the level of "sophistication" and be able to cherry pick the rhetoric, one could see that politics is only method in resolving things even if you do not feel "responsible" for being in positions of leadership: see Ratigan reference and Hardball below.]

[*** see my call to Boehner's office not to mention what is on their "clean sheet of paper" now.]

[Earlier references to the way media works not to mention this last minute source. And Later Ratigan is a bit of a mix of "targets": see link (here)soon, from which I have pulled the term "sophistication" (above) from a Tea Party guest, even though the host, Dylan might not understand community organizing perspectives or "responsibilities" in other matters, while Hardball might raise it too well.]
Anachronistic segue.
[I will finish with two issues that could easily be too political, but would love the exact words in law, to explain the "abortion funding" and "mandate" issues relationships to reality versus the rhetoric. But I believe it is a fungible economics issue or state options and commerce clauses relationship to the foot in the door and opening the door to get the TOW out in the form of there being room for improvement from both sides.]
[Hardall, "the reality is" in the "stirring up trouble"(segment) that media focuses more on raising the rhetoric and controversy gets more attention and distracts from issues(my take not guests)] and then covering it is called "whipping it up" when to naught is only more to blame.]
[OK, I can't say I didn't "play with words" especially in the last few bracketed's]
[On the other hand, I would like to reflect the reality that Republicans will not run against reform, just more reform, and note that they must now reverse Valentine, not as in massacre but in sending messages and bills that will get attention, hopefully not from their "clean sheet of paper"(meaning not rerun or failed ideas), but incrementals that will get responded to, run on, and even occasionally get up or down votes, only not necessarily with the kind of bipartisanship and change they hope for.]