The Senate Committee for Senator Hagel's nomination was horrible. The only thing Senator Hagel is guilty of not being briefed on the wrongful language of the Senate Committee.
Ingram saws Russia and China were probably watching. ???????????
Hagel wasn't running for office on standards set by FOX, Laura ! Senator McCain might be, but, Senator Hagel was not.
"The peak into his world view." She is wrong. Hagel is not about containment if the policy of the USA is otherwise. The prevention language is the question. Accusing Senator Hagel of not providing a defense of the USA for a strange world view is not ACCURATE. The language is lousy and outside the norm for the day he was a member of the Senate. He didn't understand the Senate definition of prevention. That is all it was.
Levin was wrong, too. When Senator Hagel stated his noted stated the administration was not containment, Levin stated there was a position on containment and that was not the position of the administration. Levin is wrong even in the current use of the word prevention. Hagel was right. The current policy is not containment it is prevention whatever that means.
When Senator Hagel was in the Senate the word prevention was not the language. Just that simple. Levin was bizarre actually. He never offered the understanding of prevention to end the confusion either. Levin should have known what is obvious. He played with the issue to avoid stating prevention includes bombing Iran.
Immigration reform. Group of eight agree on principles.
There ya go. Enforcement doesn't work, so why go there? Immigration reform has to happen. So why demand current visa holder accounting and border issues dominate the reform?
It is impossible to enforce 11 million illegal aliens. Impossible. The system is overwhelmed by numbers and it is an infrastructure issue. The reform needs to go forward. The 'ideas' of border security, current visa holder accounting and law enforcement are imagineering. There is no basis for it in the USA. All that has to be set aside to make room for real reform.
Chris has a tough job. He tries though.
Laura Ingraham does not see Republicans signing onto a bill without law enforcement. If that is the case, she needs to challenge the dialogue within her own capacity to open the discussion to the reality of the infrastructure of the USA and what the challenges are to it to carry out enforcement. Seriously. To simply say enforcement as a reality that must be in the bill is unrealistic and sets a standard the government cannot achieve. It is Ingraham's responsibility to engage reality and resolve and not political wedge issues.
Power player of the Week: Words that heal. Nice. Natasha Trethewey. Don't see a spelling of her name. Poetry. Chris. How nice. Oh, she is the National Poet Laureate. Good. The nation needs more of this. Seriously. She should be a superstar. I hope there is elevator access to the attic for access to her office by the handicapped.
Natasha Trethewey (click here) takes up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season with a reading of her work on Thursday, September 13 in the Coolidge Auditorium.
Jack Lew and Citibank.
I suppose that he can’t be much worse (click here) than Timothy Geithner, but that should be scant cause for cheer over the news that the president has nominated Jack Lew as Treasury secretary. Both championed the financial deregulation craze of the Clinton administration, and both are acolytes of Robert Rubin, the former Clinton Treasury secretary who unfettered Wall Street greed and then took his own considerable cut of the action.
A lot of people are not happy about the Treasury choices. It isn't just the political Righties.
Citigroup alternative investments. A unit was a disaster and the losses enormous. He came on 2008 and the failure is not his doing. All the bad bets were already made, so therefore???????????
Treasury Oversight Council. The retribution for President Obama stating "Fat Cats" is to believe Jack Lew is incompetent to identify risk, but, there is no fact presented to validate that. The implication is that Jack Lew was pushing consumers into bad investments. Oh, he should be prosecuted. The commentator watered it down stating Jack Lew needs to be questioned about his role in all that.
There is nothing wrong with the questions. They should be asked, but, not ad nauseam so it is the only focus of the hearing as happened with Senator Hagel.
The country needs risk assessment for high school and younger football. I don't think so. I think we know all we need to know. Even Namath says so. I really don't think there is a debate here at all. There are other team sports for young people. Soccer comes to mind. Baseball. Basketball. We don't need football to damage the brains of our young people, especially after the profession states there are sincere issues.
I am getting tired of the Mind Speak. Until tomorrow.
Ingram saws Russia and China were probably watching. ???????????
Hagel wasn't running for office on standards set by FOX, Laura ! Senator McCain might be, but, Senator Hagel was not.
"The peak into his world view." She is wrong. Hagel is not about containment if the policy of the USA is otherwise. The prevention language is the question. Accusing Senator Hagel of not providing a defense of the USA for a strange world view is not ACCURATE. The language is lousy and outside the norm for the day he was a member of the Senate. He didn't understand the Senate definition of prevention. That is all it was.
Levin was wrong, too. When Senator Hagel stated his noted stated the administration was not containment, Levin stated there was a position on containment and that was not the position of the administration. Levin is wrong even in the current use of the word prevention. Hagel was right. The current policy is not containment it is prevention whatever that means.
When Senator Hagel was in the Senate the word prevention was not the language. Just that simple. Levin was bizarre actually. He never offered the understanding of prevention to end the confusion either. Levin should have known what is obvious. He played with the issue to avoid stating prevention includes bombing Iran.
Immigration reform. Group of eight agree on principles.
There ya go. Enforcement doesn't work, so why go there? Immigration reform has to happen. So why demand current visa holder accounting and border issues dominate the reform?
It is impossible to enforce 11 million illegal aliens. Impossible. The system is overwhelmed by numbers and it is an infrastructure issue. The reform needs to go forward. The 'ideas' of border security, current visa holder accounting and law enforcement are imagineering. There is no basis for it in the USA. All that has to be set aside to make room for real reform.
Chris has a tough job. He tries though.
Laura Ingraham does not see Republicans signing onto a bill without law enforcement. If that is the case, she needs to challenge the dialogue within her own capacity to open the discussion to the reality of the infrastructure of the USA and what the challenges are to it to carry out enforcement. Seriously. To simply say enforcement as a reality that must be in the bill is unrealistic and sets a standard the government cannot achieve. It is Ingraham's responsibility to engage reality and resolve and not political wedge issues.
Power player of the Week: Words that heal. Nice. Natasha Trethewey. Don't see a spelling of her name. Poetry. Chris. How nice. Oh, she is the National Poet Laureate. Good. The nation needs more of this. Seriously. She should be a superstar. I hope there is elevator access to the attic for access to her office by the handicapped.
Natasha Trethewey (click here) takes up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season with a reading of her work on Thursday, September 13 in the Coolidge Auditorium.
Jack Lew and Citibank.
January 11, 2013
I suppose that he can’t be much worse (click here) than Timothy Geithner, but that should be scant cause for cheer over the news that the president has nominated Jack Lew as Treasury secretary. Both championed the financial deregulation craze of the Clinton administration, and both are acolytes of Robert Rubin, the former Clinton Treasury secretary who unfettered Wall Street greed and then took his own considerable cut of the action.
A lot of people are not happy about the Treasury choices. It isn't just the political Righties.
Citigroup alternative investments. A unit was a disaster and the losses enormous. He came on 2008 and the failure is not his doing. All the bad bets were already made, so therefore???????????
Treasury Oversight Council. The retribution for President Obama stating "Fat Cats" is to believe Jack Lew is incompetent to identify risk, but, there is no fact presented to validate that. The implication is that Jack Lew was pushing consumers into bad investments. Oh, he should be prosecuted. The commentator watered it down stating Jack Lew needs to be questioned about his role in all that.
There is nothing wrong with the questions. They should be asked, but, not ad nauseam so it is the only focus of the hearing as happened with Senator Hagel.
The country needs risk assessment for high school and younger football. I don't think so. I think we know all we need to know. Even Namath says so. I really don't think there is a debate here at all. There are other team sports for young people. Soccer comes to mind. Baseball. Basketball. We don't need football to damage the brains of our young people, especially after the profession states there are sincere issues.
I am getting tired of the Mind Speak. Until tomorrow.
