Ouch! I mean, Ouch! My stomach hurts terribly over what Carter said. But you know what they say, laughing is good for the soul.
Aw, give 'em a break. That's about the best they can stomach at this point. They don't have any way to blame Republicans for this. They might try to blame insurance companies, but that's a longshot since they are bound by the law as well. So, they really have no way to cover Obama's tail other than to qualify their statement of reality. This much is a victory . . . of sorts. The fact is, they are who they are and expecting them to have some integrity when it comes to the Story of Obama is just too much to ask of the traditional media.
It is way too early to predict the political environment of the GOP primaries in 2016. However, if one were to extrapolate the current GOP environment to 2016, Christie could very well face the same problem that Rudy Giuliani faced in 2008; a lot of GOPers liked him and wanted to see him as the GOP nominee, but where does he actually win?
Why desecrate a perfectly good landfill?
Well, the body has to go somewhere. I suppose cremating and tossing the ashes at sea is as good as anything. As a Christian, I can tell you no amount of holy water and prayer from others can save any soul. Only true repentance and atonement by the one with the sole can save it (along with some not so insignificant other things). It looks like to me, though, this criminal neither repented nor atoned and probably didn't do the other things either. So, I'm sure it is rather painful where he is right now. Just a guess, not a judgement. That part isn't up to us.
Obama has pushed the GOP over the cliff. However, it didn't happen in a vacuum and Obama had to go over the cliff with the GOP to push them over. So, the ground is not favorable to Obama. He will come out of this with more than the GOP. Fact of numbers. But in the process he could really do damage to his presidency, his party, and his signature achievement. Let's ignore Cruz now and focus on the real fight. Think Britain's WWII victory and the impact on its empire.
Peter, I agree with you and have agreed with you on this from the beginning. However, we are beyond Cruz now. Cruz is a bit player now. The real issue is that Republicans have to be tactically smart and calmly explain their case and make the case that Obama has to move some to be able to forge a reasonable compromise. They are not doing too badly right now, actually. Eventually Americans will blame everyone in Washington. Today, yes they probably blame the Republicans more than the Dems and Obama. However, this will change as it becomes more apparent that Obama is being unreasonable, Republicans are passing funding for things the Dems are complaining about, and Obama defends a program and taxes that the people by and large don't want. Yes, Obama will eventually win. He is the president. It is the GOP's job to make sure the win is pyrrhic and to get something on Obamacare. This has nothing to do with Cruz.
It has been a bad year for Obama. What's worse (for him) is it is almost entirely self-inflicted. The thing is, he cannot hide his personality forever. He is a most unlikable, unsympathetic, shallow, egotistical figure. His policies reflect this and his attacks on anyone who disagrees with him on anything magnify it greatly. It's easy to support a guy on your team you don't really like all that much when he is making things go well. However, it's even easier to hate him and kick him while he's down when things aren't going so well for your team. That's where Obama finds himself. He may not much care for Democrats in Congress. But, they don't much care for him either.
I would also assert that most anti-semitism in the U.S. and globally eminates from the political left today.
John, I appreciate your sense of decorum urged you to apologize. Perhaps it was also a sense of geography. I don't know. However, I stand beside you today, and I also would have stood beside you had you decided not to apologize. In the real world of politics, war, and humanity, it is true: Marxism = Nazism. Hell, the Communists in Russia were as anti-semetic and as cruel as the Nazis. That's just a historical fact.
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