{"id":17359,"date":"2015-11-10T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17359"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:24:35","slug":"on-the-edge11102015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/on-the-edge11102015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge–11\/10\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still in considerable pain and hoping the donor site heals soon.  I\u2019m in a wheelchair and have taken a lap around the unit chasing nurses.  I\u2019m still to slow to ketch one, dang it!! \"Disappointed<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>On \u201cABC This Week,\u201d Bernie was asked if he thought his agreements with Clinton outweighed his disagreements.<\/p>\n

“Well, that\u2019s — well, the answer is yes and no,” Sanders responded. “Yes, we do agree on a number of issues, and by the way, on her worst day, Hillary Clinton will be an infinitely better candidate and President than the Republican candidate on his best day.” <\/p>\n

“But having said that, we have very significant differences and the key difference is I see a nation in which we have a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality,”  <\/p>\n

Bernie is as right about this, as he is about virtually everything else. The very worst Democrats are infinitely better than the very best Republicans.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A Senate security officer stepped out of the December chill last year and delivered envelopes marked \u201cTop Secret\u201d to the Pentagon, the C.I.A., the State Department and the Justice Department. Inside each packet was a disc containing a 6,700-page classified report on the C.I.A.\u2019s secret prison program and a letter from Senator Dianne Feinstein, urging officials to read the report to ensure that the lessons were not lost to time. <\/p>\n

Today, those discs sit untouched in vaults across Washington, still in their original envelopes. The F.B.I.<\/a> has not retrieved a copy held for it in the Justice Department\u2019s safe. State Department officials, who locked up their copy and marked it \u201cCongressional Record \u2014 Do Not Open, Do Not Access\u201d as soon as it arrived, have not read it either. <\/p>\n

Nearly a year after the Senate released a declassified 500-page summary of the report, the fate of the entire document remains in limbo, the subject of battles in the courts and in Congress. Until those disputes are resolved, the Justice Department has prohibited officials from the government agencies that possess it from even opening the report, effectively keeping the people in charge of America\u2019s counterterrorism future from reading about its past. There is also the possibility that the documents could remain locked in a Senate vault for good. <\/p>\n

In a letter to Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch last week, Ms. Feinstein, a California Democrat, said the Justice Department was preventing the government from \u201clearning from the mistakes of the past to ensure that they are not repeated.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Elephant in this room is that, if DOJ goes after Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the other Republican war criminals for their atrocities, little else will get done in the resulting Republican gridlock. Nevertheless, we have no moral authority as a nation, as long as Republicans keep getting away with war crimes!<\/font> <\/p>\n

from The Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The Obama administration will ask the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court injunction that has held up a new program that potentially would shield up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. The decision to take the case to the high court comes a day after a federal appeals panel ruled against the administration<\/a>, keeping the new program on hold nearly a year after President Obama announced it. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department of Justice remains committed to taking steps that will resolve the immigration litigation as quickly as possible,\u201d said Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for the agency. \u201cThe Department disagrees with the Fifth Circuit\u2019s adverse ruling and intends to seek further review from the Supreme Court of the United States. \u201c <\/p>\n

Administration officials said they hope the court will take the case in the spring and issue a ruling by June, which, if favorable, could allow the program to begin in the summer, with just months left in Obama\u2019s term. Republican presidential candidates have said they would dismantle the program, adding urgency to the administration\u2019s efforts to get it started. <\/p>\n

Obama may well be making a mistake to put their fate in the hands ok SS Scalito, KKK Kennedy, Teabag Thomas, Republican Roberts, and worst of all, Schtupidenfuhrer Scalia, the five Injustices of SCROTUS, Republican Constitutional VD.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Cartoon:<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m still in considerable pain and hoping the donor site heals soon.  I\u2019m in a wheelchair and have taken a lap around the unit chasing nurses.  I\u2019m still to slow to ketch one, dang it!! Short Takes: From Daily Kos: On \u201cABC This Week,\u201d Bernie was asked if he thought his agreements with Clinton outweighed […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}