Here's a question: What exactly do you want these Senators and Representatives to do? I am assuming that you want them to be held in contempt of Congress, but what exactly does that mean? How is it accomplished? What is the procedure? Those questions are important to the taking of any action and the answers might point out why certain things are or are not happening.

Posted at July 10, 2008 11:17 AM in response to Biden to Mukasey: "You Really Are an Enigma to Me"

It is hard to take seriously a blog entry that misuses the apostrophe. What you wanted to say is that the "Clintons are racist", not that a singular Clinton possesses something. My suggestion is that you learn English grammer before you post a blog entry.

Posted at February 26, 2008 10:21 AM in response to Are Clinton's Racists and Divisive? It Appears So.

In response to the last paragraph of your reply: The reason why the Palestinians should try non-violence is that violence isn't working and never will.

Look at the turn of events in Northern Ireland. Once the populace decided that there had to be a peaceful settlement, things started moving forward.

Why the Palestinians don't try non-violence beats the heck out of me. Les Brown, a noted motivational speaker, uses the line,"If you want to keep on getting what you are getting, keep on doing what you are doing."
Mrgavel

Posted at June 27, 2007 6:17 AM in response to There Is No Such Thing as Palestinians

What has helped Israel is the fact that the Palestinians living in the occupied territories haven't yet asked for Israeli citizenship. If they ever get their act together and start using non-violent tactics to ask for citizenship, which would include voting for Israeli officials, then the situation will get very interesting.

If Israel keeps the West Bank and Gaza Strip, there will be more Palestinians than Israelis because of the difference in birthrates.

People living now think that the Palestinians wil never adopt such a position, but they could be wrong about that assumption. Sooner or later the Palestinians will try something different because what they are doing isn't working.

If they try asking for citizenship in the West Bank, and if they used non-violence to accomplish that goal, like Ghandhi did in South Africa and then India and like King did in the South, there would be a lot of international pressure on Israel to either give up the territories occupied since 1967 and 1973 or extend citizenship rights to the Palestinians.

Mrgavel

Posted at June 26, 2007 6:16 PM in response to There Is No Such Thing as Palestinians

If you had a party and a person was talking like Borger and Ifill my guess is that you would write them off as a loud mouth idiot. Why then would you voluntarily subject yourself to them and waste your precious time? I haven't watched a talking heads show in over a decade and I can assure you that I do not feel in the least deprived.

My hope is that Gore runs and tells the media that he is not going to have a media plane or give them free rides, but they are welcome to fly commercial to watch him give speeches. Then, when he gets elected, he shuts down the media room at the White House and blogs every day about what he is doing and why he is doing it.

Mrgavel

Posted at June 1, 2007 7:23 PM in response to Gloria Borger

What people seem to want is guaranteed access to express their point of view on someone else's blog. That is simply not how the medium works. If you don't like what is on a blog, start you own, but don't try to control someone else's blog under the guise of "reform."

Reform groups tend to be elitist. The idea of an unregulated internet probably scares them more than it scares politicians.

Mrgavel

Posted at March 14, 2007 11:42 AM in response to The Netroots and the Reformers

Frankly I think it is past time for Europeans to take the lead on the Middle East. I think we should withdraw from the Middle East, get energy independent, and then let the Europeans figure out how to handle the Islamic radicals, oil rich aristocrats, and the problem between Israel and its neighbors.

Mrgavel

Posted at December 23, 2006 5:30 PM in response to That Was Then ...

Maybe this whole idea that Bush and Rove are so confident is just so much bs. Think about it: the only people who would know this are people who are pretty loyal to the Bush administration. Maybe the spin is being made to buck up the hearts of GOP volunteers in the face of so much bad news. That's the trouble with sources that won't go on the record, there is no way for us to judge their credibility.

Posted at October 17, 2006 8:47 AM in response to Why So Confident?

I believe that Rove would like nothing better than to use the so-called "War on Terror" to undermine Democrats in the 2006 mid-term elections. I wonder, though, if sometime we give him way too much credit. After all it took a Democratic blow-job and a black-robed coup to win the presidency back in 2000 and it took gay marriage decisions from the Mass. Supreme Court and the dingbat Mayor of San Fransico to win re-election in 2004. I am not sure that any of those things were planned.

What I do give Rove credit for, though, is his ability to realize political opportunities when they are given to him. An example is Kerry's breathtakingly stupid comment about voting for the war appropriations before he voted against them. Or about seizing on gay marriage to stir up the right-wing base in Ohio and other key states.

None of what Rove has done, though, is as impressive as what the Clinton people did in 1992 when they convinced America to make a person who had been vilified by the media and who was running against an incumbent president, leader of the nation. To my mind Rove hasn't been up against the first string yet, but his time may be coming.

Mrgavel

Posted at July 8, 2006 11:11 AM in response to The War Party

Posted at July 7, 2005 5:45 AM in response to The Miller/Fitzgerald Backstory