Losing is hard. Especially when you’ve been trying to win for a really, really long time and you start to see the whole thing slipping through your fingers. You probably saw this video yesterday of former Vice President Cheney’s rather comically ill-timed speech pushing to block the Iran Deal. In it there are some protestors who interrupt Cheney’s speech, hold up some signs, all pretty standard stuff. But in the video there’s a man who gets into a wild wrestling match with one of the protestors, flailing around his body, doing everything he can to tear her sign apart before finally sitting down.
We’ve got a deep dive look here on the latest unexpected turn in the long-running and definitely not done federal Bridgegate investigation. The part of the probe into top Christie crony – sometimes termed Christie’s political godfather – David Samson just led to the firing of several top executives at United Airlines, including the CEO, seemingly because they got their hands caught in the Christie/Port Authority pay-for-play cookie jar.
House right-wingers come up with brilliant scheme to foil President Obama on the Iran nukes deal: We just won’t vote at all!
With AIPAC staffers grousing that Benjamin Netanyahu ruined their chances of blocking President Obama’s deal with Iran and House conservatives trying to think of other ways to act out now that the battle is lost, advisors to Netanyahu are claiming that, despite appearances, he achieved a fabulous victory. Specifically, they’re pushing back against criticism in the Israeli press by claiming that by opposing the deal they’ve won a big new security package for Israel.
United Airlines CEO canned as probe into Bridgegate crony, David Samon, heats up.
Late Update: We’ve just updated the piece. This part should be interesting …
On at least one occasion, August 23, 2013, Chris Christie and David Samson together met with United CEO Smisek to discuss this arrangement. Two months prior to that meeting, and two months after signing of the new lease at Newark, thirteen United executives donated a total of $31,500 toward Christie’s re-election effort.
A new day? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like it. The White House has given over basically its entire website front page to a merciless clip video of all Dick Cheney’s most ridiculous predictions and Iraq and Iran nonsense. Watch.
Confusing reporting coming out on just what is prompting the federal judge in Kentucky to release Kim Davis from jail and what comes next. Apparently her lawyers are saying she will block her deputies from issuing same-sex marriage licenses after she is released. Does that mean the judge may scuttle her release? Haul her right back to court as soon as she gets back to the office and starts causing trouble? Will Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz shackle themselves to her flowing tresses and insist on being jailed, too? Stay tuned!
I was on vacation last week. But I didn’t miss that the White House finally secured enough votes to block any attempts to scuttle the Iran Deal negotiated by the US, Iran and other world powers. We now know the Iran Deal antis have definitively lost. And today we have news of the final indignity: The White House has secured 41 votes for the deal in the Senate, which means that in all likelihood the GOP and Netanyahu and Ambassador Dermer won’t even get the vote they were hoping to use to embarrass the President and delegitimize the deal even if they couldn’t block it. But even more than in whip counts, which have been bubbling up over recent weeks, you could see this coming watching the social media accounts of the key propagandists and pressure group operatives as things went south and they made their journey from frustration, to disbelief and rage, culminating finally in a species of spittle-based vitriol and vainglorious derp.
After the early dog whistle on immigration, Trump has actually toned things down. Here’s a smart explanation on why.
One of the world’s most notorious eccentrics openly ponders run for the White House.