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.
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.
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.
House right-wingers come up with brilliant scheme to foil President Obama on the Iran nukes deal: We just won’t vote at all!
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.
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.
Louis Gohmert vows to quit Congress and await the “nuclear holocaust” if Iran Deal goes through.
Between this and the Clawson story, do we need to bring in one of those grief support teams for DC Iran Hawks, like the folks they bring in after an airline disaster to provide crisis emotional support and grief counseling? It’s a tragic thing when you lack the emotional balance to avoid getting lost in your own theatrics and derp.
You’ve heard this tune before: Legally suspect Obamacare lawsuit brought by health care reform dead-enders suddenly finds receptive federal judges and turns into real live threat to the biggest social justice reform of the last half century.
Here we go again.
Fascinating news on the possible discovery of a new species in the prehistoric human family tree. The sheer number of fossil specimens found in the South African cave that gives the new species its name — Homo naledi — is remarkable. Here’s how the New York Times put it: