The GOP could turn Social Security into a annual “crisis” like the debt ceiling.
New Chair of Senate Immigration panel says he’ll focus on hard working Americans hurt by “record immigration.”
I’m going to be holding a Live Chat at The Hive (sub req) at 3 PM eastern this afternoon. Get your questions in in advance at the thread right here, then join me at 3 PM. I look forward to chatting.
Disneyland measles outbreak casts spotlight on anti-vax moron community.
Over at The Slice, Alana Levinson explains why Millennials won’t vote for old, white dudes just because they tweet like teens. Boehner, we’re lookin’ at you.
There seems to be a growing backlash to the Netanyahu-Boehner speech stunt, both in the United States and Israel. As you can see from our current feature story, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren has said the speech threatens a rift with the US and should be canceled. I want to say more about Oren’s remarks and their context. But before getting to that, a few other developments.
Boehner and McConnell say Obama’s economy only benefitting the wealthiest Americans.
Ambassador Dermer: Netanyahu has “sacred duty” to speak before Congress to attack President’s Iran policy.
I’ve been reading through your responses to my earlier post on the Netanyahu/Boehner Pact and the speech imbroglio. The question many of you are asking is, Will it matter? Will it have an effect? The simple answer is, I don’t know. Unfortunately, that’s the complicated answer too: I don’t know. With anything to do with Israeli politics in the last quarter century, an important first rule of thumb is: do not underestimate Benjamin Netanyahu. The man is a scoundrel and deeply damaging to Israel’s future. But as I noted earlier, he is a master of manipulating the pliable and broken parliamentary dynamics of the Israeli state and he repeatedly made himself as necessary and he is disliked. It is amazing how many things the guy has come back from.
Indiana Governor to start state news service to compete with the MSM.