Boehner and Co. get cracking on bringing back the K Street project in the new GOP Capitol Hill.
On this lazy, enervating Friday morning I wanted to flag your attention to this piece by Bernard Avishai over at TPMCafe. Over the years, as the Israelis and Palestinians prove themselves endlessly incapable of embracing the obvious, there are recurrent calls that the time for a ‘two state’ solution has passed and that now only a ‘one state’ solution is possible. This has always struck me as profoundly crazy. These two people are so angry, intractable, episodically violent to each other and unwilling to compromise that the only solution is to make them all live peacefully together in one pluralistic, compromise-based state. Truly a genius idea. As Avishai notes, the alternative to two states isn’t Belgium it’s Bosnia where you could have a pleasant bloodbath for a decade or so until you came out the other end with two states or something like you have now. In any case, this isn’t so much his point as his premise. And what he does describe are some provocative thoughts on what the two states will eventually look like. Definitely give it a read.
The Pentagon has lifted its edict banning Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, from going to Guantanamo to cover the military commissions there. Rosenberg is the leading journalist on the story of Gitmo, military detentions and tribunals, so that’s good news.
The bad news is there doesn’t seem to be any formal resolution to the underlying practice of the Pentagon issuing such a ban in the first place.
Because the enthusiasm gap means you end up with a pool of “likely voters” more than half of whom, according to one new poll, think President Obama’s a socialist.
Gay service member groups debate whether or not to fill out the Pentagon’s new gays in the military survey, which was just sent out to about 400,000 active duty, guard and reserve members of the military.
CA Tea Partier struggles to get fellow Tea Partiers to turn out to protest women vets event.
We’re four months out. What do you think is going to happen in the 2010 midterm elections? And why?
Self-funding Florida Gov’s candidate says campaign finance law is cramping his millionaire campaign style.
Okay, we’ve now gotten a copy of the survey the Pentagon is sending out to members of the military on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. See it here.