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Secretary of State Faints,
Sustains Concussion

Associated Press, by Matthew Lee

Original Article

Posted By:JoniTx, 12/15/2012 12:30:18 PM

The State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who skipped an overseas trip this past week because of a stomach virus, sustained a concussion after fainting. She´s now recovering at home and being monitored by doctors. An aide, Philippe Reines, says Clinton will work from home next week, at the recommendation of doctors. Congressional aides do not expect her to testify as scheduled at congressional hearings on Thursday into the Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DARling, 12/15/2012 12:31:54 PM     (No. 9067497)

If she can work from home, why not testify by live link?


Reply 2 - Posted by: JAN, 12/15/2012 12:33:43 PM     (No. 9067499)

There will be no testifying on Benghazi.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: aasilver, 12/15/2012 12:33:46 PM     (No. 9067500)

A very ´transparent´ reason to NOT testify.


Reply 4 - Posted by: melman, 12/15/2012 12:34:50 PM     (No. 9067501)

Fall down drunk?


Reply 5 - Posted by: horacer, 12/15/2012 12:35:12 PM     (No. 9067502)

Isn´t that convenient. It´s going to be so hard to remember anything about Benghazi after this terrible blow.


Reply 6 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 12/15/2012 12:35:50 PM     (No. 9067503)

The faux-concussion has wiped her memory banks clean of any an all information about Benghazi. However, she does remember her offshore bank account number...


Reply 7 - Posted by: Newtsche, 12/15/2012 12:37:17 PM     (No. 9067506)

The vapors


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: pickle1, 12/15/2012 12:37:35 PM     (No. 9067508)

As usual, Hillary is playing games.


Reply 9 - Posted by: previouslyon24, 12/15/2012 12:38:19 PM     (No. 9067511)

Hillary´s latest iteration of "I don´t recall," which was her mantra during the Whitewater hearings. There´s a pattern here and with all Libs. They are cheats and liars, period.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Italiano, 12/15/2012 12:38:24 PM     (No. 9067513)

Concussion. She must have landed on her butt.


Reply 11 - Posted by: busterman, 12/15/2012 12:39:17 PM     (No. 9067515)

Dennis Rodman couldn´t have ´flopped´ any better!


Reply 12 - Posted by: JustCause, 12/15/2012 12:40:14 PM     (No. 9067520)

I had to LOL at this news as my first thought was exactly as Reply 5 and 6.

She finally discovered a better excuse than trying to explain why she couldn´t find the FBI Files.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Moritz55, 12/15/2012 12:40:28 PM     (No. 9067521)

The saddest thing about this is that the media must see through it, yet they will still give her a pass. In fact, they´ll probably accuse anyone who doesn´t give her a pass of politicizing her "injury."


Reply 14 - Posted by: golfmann, 12/15/2012 12:42:14 PM     (No. 9067524)

Just tell her fine.... we´ll be here, and waiting...


Reply 15 - Posted by: Safari Man, 12/15/2012 12:43:26 PM     (No. 9067529)

Drunken fall similar to BJ Clinton´s fall at Greg Normans house. Its that new Russian Vodka called "Virus" (short for Viruskie).


Reply 16 - Posted by: bamapreacher, 12/15/2012 12:43:58 PM     (No. 9067531)

She fell and hit her head and sustained a massive amount of improvement.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Keekng, 12/15/2012 12:46:23 PM     (No. 9067539)

How very convenient. @@


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: dr.lakerman, 12/15/2012 12:47:11 PM     (No. 9067540)

Remember that ditty on rush limbaugh when hillary couldn´t remember much about whitewater?
(to the tune of Try To Remember)
"I can´t remember, my mind´s in a blender..."

This is so obvious I snort in derision.


Reply 19 - Posted by: heartsurgeon, 12/15/2012 12:48:39 PM     (No. 9067541)

when you have no shame, anything is possible..

she will never testify


Reply 20 - Posted by: bighambone, 12/15/2012 12:49:24 PM     (No. 9067542)

Hillary Clinton is absolutely avoiding testifying about the Benghazi attack or doing any television news appearances where questions might be asked about the Benghazi attack. Whatever connection to the Benghazi security situation that she must have had must be really bad.


Reply 21 - Posted by: youngtexan, 12/15/2012 12:51:09 PM     (No. 9067545)

She´s doing everything she can to prevent from testifying in court. That´s all this is.


Reply 22 - Posted by: The Advocate, 12/15/2012 12:51:51 PM     (No. 9067547)

Maintaining her viability for 2016.
Put her under Oath from home.
This lying, corrupt woman has polluted the body politic from her time with watergate when she failed her dc bar and could not get a letter of recommendation because of unethical conduct.
Hillary- the chickens are coming home to roost and you have the blood of four Americans on your hands-you ARE responsible.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: yo-yo, 12/15/2012 12:52:08 PM     (No. 9067548)

FTA "...She´s known for her grueling travel schedule and is the most traveled secretary of state..."

However, she is better known for her penchant for lying under oath, and for being the most corrupt first "lady" in our nation´s history.


Reply 24 - Posted by: mustang flyer, 12/15/2012 12:52:51 PM     (No. 9067550)

Cripes! First she jets off to South America right after Benghazi, then she rushes back to catch her flight to Australia to ´test´ some wines...(did anyone see anything about which wine she liked best)meanwhile she is getting paid for all this...then she shoots off to the Middle East ´looking for peace´, she returns and as Benghazi heats up awaiting her testimony she ´sustains´ a concussion...not that she hasn´t had one since marrying old Bill...now she is ´laid´ up for a week...I guess next we will hear she is pregnant and can´t get out of bed for 8 months...TRANSPARENT MY A**!!!


Reply 25 - Posted by: fhancock, 12/15/2012 12:53:12 PM     (No. 9067552)

"I cannot recall"


Reply 26 - Posted by: mitzi, 12/15/2012 12:53:22 PM     (No. 9067554)

No doubt there will be some memory loss from the concussion... /s


Reply 27 - Posted by: Freeloader, 12/15/2012 12:57:09 PM     (No. 9067562)

In the immortal words of Macon, Georgia´s most illustrious son, "Little Richard"..."Slipping and sliding...Peeping and hiding...Won´t be your Fool no more."


Reply 28 - Posted by: dixonnh, 12/15/2012 12:58:01 PM     (No. 9067565)

Her testimony will be deemed unreliable due to head injury.


Reply 29 - Posted by: vhs68, 12/15/2012 12:59:09 PM     (No. 9067567)

Rush is gonna have fun with this come Monday!!!


Reply 30 - Posted by: KTWO, 12/15/2012 1:01:03 PM     (No. 9067570)

Been expecting her to leave just before Christmas for health reasons. It just made sense once Rice was out of the way.

And people really do get ill or hurt.

Sometimes.


Reply 31 - Posted by: happywarrior, 12/15/2012 1:03:42 PM     (No. 9067571)

Awwwww, now PIAPS will have to be a Pig In A Pajama Suit.


Reply 32 - Posted by: nonsense, 12/15/2012 1:09:46 PM     (No. 9067578)

Soros will help her to feel better by buying her a mansion at the location of her choice.

Faint, my aunt Fanny. Concussion, don´t make me laugh. What fakery.

Keep re-scheduling her testimony until she has no choice but to appear.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Twinkle93, 12/15/2012 1:13:10 PM     (No. 9067582)

The House should state that they will not pass any appropriation for the State dept. until Bengazi has been fully investigated.


Reply 34 - Posted by: Psalm91:11, 12/15/2012 1:14:24 PM     (No. 9067585)

They think we are stupid.


Reply 35 - Posted by: jj1319, 12/15/2012 1:17:07 PM     (No. 9067589)

There is a solution as I saw this very thing happen years ago:

Gilligan got bonked on the head by a falling coconut causing amnesia. The ONLY way to reverse this condition is to sustain additional head trauma, ie, another head bonk with a coconut. Throw her down the stairs.


Reply 36 - Posted by: Chuzzles, 12/15/2012 1:18:15 PM     (No. 9067590)

As much as it pains me, I agree with #30. People actually do get sick. She may have a hidden health issue that needs dealing with here.

I am willing to give her a very small benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. After all, we expect same from libs when someone like Dick Cheney gets ill. (I know, I know, but hope springs...)


Reply 37 - Posted by: Tanker76, 12/15/2012 1:18:44 PM     (No. 9067594)

#31 has nailed it!!!

Too bad the fall won´t knock any sense into her addled liberal brain.......


Reply 38 - Posted by: LittleHoodedMonk, 12/15/2012 1:20:43 PM     (No. 9067641)

Someone must have tweeted her the picture of Anne Hathaway seen round the world. Something about leather and those B&D "boots." Can one catch a virus from an item that went "viral" on the Internet? That would be the ultimate "mind control."

PIAPS has just found an excuse to return for more time in her pod before leaving the State Department without having to do anymore tiresome decision making. Testify? HA!


Reply 39 - Posted by: killerbee, 12/15/2012 1:27:58 PM     (No. 9067651)

Slightly off topic: and true to form -- never let a crisis go to waste -- Obama chooses the execrable John Effin´ Kerry to be the next Secretary of State. While everyone is completely distracted with the horror in CT, the Won makes his move.


Reply 40 - Posted by: snakeoil, 12/15/2012 1:40:32 PM     (No. 9067663)

Was the ground injured?


Reply 41 - Posted by: mainelysane, 12/15/2012 1:42:17 PM     (No. 9067668)

Atrial fibrillation secondary to dehydration and fatigue... is my Dx.


Reply 42 - Posted by: Scribelus, 12/15/2012 1:44:52 PM     (No. 9067674)

Lucrezia Borgia!


Reply 43 - Posted by: Spidey, 12/15/2012 1:45:57 PM     (No. 9067677)

They´re sending subs to testify in her place but still this is way too convenient.


Reply 44 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 12/15/2012 1:46:02 PM     (No. 9067678)

Would the real reason be that Bubba finally hit HER with an ash tray?


Reply 45 - Posted by: harleynyc, 12/15/2012 1:47:11 PM     (No. 9067681)

what a croc. she and obama are quilty of gun running to al qaeda.


Reply 46 - Posted by: Dante, 12/15/2012 1:47:43 PM     (No. 9067685)

This is how she escapes testimony, what a "lucky" break.

She´s a bloated, criminal liar right down to her festering core.


Reply 47 - Posted by: Sheepfarmer, 12/15/2012 1:48:04 PM     (No. 9067687)

Call me cynical...


Reply 48 - Posted by: RedLegLeader68, 12/15/2012 1:48:12 PM     (No. 9067688)

Oh, Pah-leeze!! Her last name for lo these many yeas is Clinton. She was never going to testify, and now she´ll probably skate.

Interesting to see if any RINOS actually enforce her testimony after she "recovers."


Reply 49 - Posted by: halfnorsk, 12/15/2012 1:50:15 PM     (No. 9067692)

The alleged smartest woman in the world gets an owie on her noggin. Rich.


Reply 50 - Posted by: Sae4236, 12/15/2012 1:52:00 PM     (No. 9067693)

What a pathetic joke she is. I can´t believe she could be the next president of the sheeple.

I´ll pray for her non-recovery.


Reply 51 - Posted by: Griz70, 12/15/2012 1:52:37 PM     (No. 9067696)

How many ways can you say BS. Sorry, but I don´t believe a word of this injury. Prove me wrong.


Reply 52 - Posted by: M2, 12/15/2012 1:54:13 PM     (No. 9067699)

Verify the concussion. Then we´ll talk.


Reply 53 - Posted by: krause, 12/15/2012 1:56:29 PM     (No. 9067703)

With her and all the top political minds on the left, and this is the best out they can come up with?


Reply 54 - Posted by: dman, 12/15/2012 1:58:14 PM     (No. 9067707)

I share the cynicism on this thread.


Reply 55 - Posted by: Nevadadad46, 12/15/2012 1:59:58 PM     (No. 9067710)

Folks, the fix is in! Time is all they need and time is working well for them with this latest outrage of right winger crazy gun wielders distraction. Yep- Benghazi is so last week!


Reply 56 - Posted by: Namma, 12/15/2012 2:02:20 PM     (No. 9067713)

so what...a concussion lasts for weeks and weeks...I didn´t know that!!!!!
must be mind altering...


Reply 57 - Posted by: ragu, 12/15/2012 2:09:35 PM     (No. 9067729)

I want proof of a concussion.

Does anyone know? Can she be called to testify after she is no longer Sec. of State? Does she get a complete pass after she leaves office?


Reply 58 - Posted by: Beca, 12/15/2012 2:11:58 PM     (No. 9067733)

Maybe now that she hit her head. She can remember a few things


Reply 59 - Posted by: franq, 12/15/2012 2:14:04 PM     (No. 9067734)

Right, let´s see how taut her face is when she emerges from her "recovery".


Reply 60 - Posted by: LAW428, 12/15/2012 2:16:18 PM     (No. 9067735)

My thoughts exactly, #17..."how convenient!"


Reply 61 - Posted by: woofwoofwoof, 12/15/2012 2:19:36 PM     (No. 9067738)

It took a week for this to come out?

I guess that´s because she´s been telling everyone for months that she´s the QUeen of Hearts and screaming, "Off with her head!" about that Alice Rice girl, but everyone thought that was normal.


Reply 62 - Posted by: loosecannon1, 12/15/2012 2:20:00 PM     (No. 9067739)

How can anyone with ankles that thick fall down when she faints? Wouldn´t her head just sort of drop?


Reply 63 - Posted by: Not your typical New Yorker, 12/15/2012 2:20:40 PM     (No. 9067741)

How stupid do our ruling elite think the nation is....?

THIS STUPID.....AND MORE!


Reply 64 - Posted by: happy conservative, 12/15/2012 2:22:23 PM     (No. 9067744)

#57, the proof was shredded along with the birth certificates, college records, passport, and the Clinton´s Whitewater files.

Nothing to see here, move along...


Reply 65 - Posted by: fleetusa, 12/15/2012 2:22:26 PM     (No. 9067746)

Yes, #17, How convenient! Just like Clintons of old.


Reply 66 - Posted by: SouthSanAntonio, 12/15/2012 2:24:55 PM     (No. 9067752)

It´s not the tesitying that PIAPS is worried about. She can lie there as well as anywhere.

But it´s having to put her hand on a Bible that scares her so much. She knows she will probably immediately catch on fire as soon as she touches it. Pure evil and pure good just can´t collide without some sort of massive reaction.

So she will do ANYTHING to get out of that nasty little swearing in part...


Reply 67 - Posted by: mozey, 12/15/2012 2:25:19 PM     (No. 9067754)

Hill´s not going to take the fall for Zero. She just took her own fall.


Reply 68 - Posted by: redwhite&blue2, 12/15/2012 2:25:32 PM     (No. 9067755)

Lets see...A flaming lefty liberal tells a lie or acts stupid (Obama, Biden, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Frank, Dodd, either Clinton, Rice) and the rump-swab willing lap dogs of the flaming lefty liberal media give them a pass. Amazing, isnt it?....NOT!

Do we have just ONE person who represents we conservatives with enough chutzpah to challenge ANY of the left´s many lies????


Reply 69 - Posted by: athina, 12/15/2012 2:25:42 PM     (No. 9067758)

Better put some ice on that


Reply 70 - Posted by: novakid, 12/15/2012 2:27:07 PM     (No. 9067759)

She has a concussion? How can they tell?


Reply 71 - Posted by: sheltee2, 12/15/2012 2:27:40 PM     (No. 9067760)

Reminds me of Jesse Jackson, Jr. suddenly gets an illness when he is caught in his scandal.

Hillary needs to be subpoened and made to testify. Vince Foster, McDougal, Ron Brown, billing records, and on and on.

She has all the qualities Obama requires.


Reply 72 - Posted by: DCGIRL, 12/15/2012 2:27:42 PM     (No. 9067761)

Call her to testify anyway. Who cares if she has a concussion.


Reply 73 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 12/15/2012 2:29:24 PM     (No. 9067764)

My brain´s in a blender, it´s jello, jello, jello.


Reply 74 - Posted by: pasco, 12/15/2012 2:29:26 PM     (No. 9067765)

The fall was due to a high center of gravity.


Reply 75 - Posted by: Pearson365, 12/15/2012 2:30:04 PM     (No. 9067766)

Did she have her panty around her ankles when she fell? Would be same as Bill´s fall at Greg Norman´s, with women causing both underwear drops.

Didn´t Hell take an oath of office as SoS? She never did as First Lady.


Reply 76 - Posted by: melanie, 12/15/2012 2:30:33 PM     (No. 9067768)

So the brass breasted, titanium tushed, Amanonian Feminazi has the vapors? What a total crock. Feminism is truly as fraudulent as global warming. Can you imagine a man trying this???


Reply 77 - Posted by: melanie, 12/15/2012 2:31:53 PM     (No. 9067769)

I meant "Amazonian"... just typing in a frenzy, I guess.


Reply 78 - Posted by: Daria, 12/15/2012 2:33:24 PM     (No. 9067771)

Beats "The dog ate my testimony"...


Reply 79 - Posted by: planononna, 12/15/2012 2:35:03 PM     (No. 9067773)

Her mind is like ´jello´


Reply 80 - Posted by: Grambo, 12/15/2012 2:35:10 PM     (No. 9067775)

She´s shaped like one of those knock down dummies that keeps coming back upright. How could she fall down?


Reply 81 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 12/15/2012 2:46:54 PM     (No. 9067790)

Reply #4 beat me to it and #80 has a good visual (Weebles wobble but they don´t fall down.) Drunk or sober, Hitlery can still throw a mean ashtray. Stay low.


Reply 82 - Posted by: WilliamTell, 12/15/2012 2:48:33 PM     (No. 9067792)

As Gibbs of NCIS says: "I don´t believe in coincidents"

This is beyond the pale. I am not stupid Zero


Reply 83 - Posted by: jdmii, 12/15/2012 2:50:37 PM     (No. 9067795)

Perhaps it is the result of a STD from one of her "advisors".


Reply 84 - Posted by: glcinpdx, 12/15/2012 2:54:12 PM     (No. 9067797)

# 34, based on the results of the last election I say that proves them right...we...as a nation ARE stupid...


Reply 85 - Posted by: CaptainLibra, 12/15/2012 2:59:43 PM     (No. 9067807)

Has Webb Hubble been called to her bed side?


Reply 86 - Posted by: fayebeck, 12/15/2012 3:01:12 PM     (No. 9067811)

She fainted? Typical woman.


Reply 87 - Posted by: Teleologicus, 12/15/2012 3:04:24 PM     (No. 9067817)

Besides being childish -"Mommy, I am sick and cannot go to school today"- this transparent maneuver strongly suggests genuine desperation about her responsibility for the Benghazi massacre. There must be something really, really bad they want to keep under wraps as long as possible in the hope the public will lose interest in the whole business.

It would be interesting to know if there is any precedent in U.S. history for the attempt by a Cabinet officer to evade sworn testimony before a Congressional investigating committee by claiming a concussive head injury. The Clintons are always breaking new ground and transgressing fresh boundaries in their never-ending war on truth, justice and the American way. Hillary may have the honor of being the first Cabinet level officer to pull a stunt like this. Americans really do seem to be getting dumber and dumber. No one would have dared to do something like this in earlier generations, because they would have known that the public would never fall for it. Now, though, with the dismal evidence of American voter incompetence before us in the form of -inter alia- the election and re-election of a character like Barack Obama for president, who can blame Hillary &Co. for thinking such a trick could very well work?


Reply 88 - Posted by: Aunt Agnes, 12/15/2012 3:14:08 PM     (No. 9067831)

What #76 said - I know someone just like this & every time there´s hard work to do or if she just wants to be babied, she develops a "back problem" & takes to a wheelchair! According to her, she´s the world´s toughest feminist & keeps a poster of Rosie the Riveter in her LR. Her latest gambit is getting "food poisoning" every time she doesn´t get to go to the restaurant of her choice & is forced to eat home cooking. It is passive aggression - just like the smartest woman in the world saying, "I don´t recaaalll.. in that laconic way of hers.


Reply 89 - Posted by: Wendybird, 12/15/2012 3:30:14 PM     (No. 9067846)

Unfortunately, all of the so far hidden and unidentified survivors have also slipped and suffered concussions.


Reply 90 - Posted by: Fiesta del sol, 12/15/2012 3:31:46 PM     (No. 9067848)

An acute case of Benghaziosis. The symptoms are forcing underlings to lie on the Sunday Shows, and apology videos. The only known cure is total avoidance of testifying under oath.


Reply 91 - Posted by: steveracer, 12/15/2012 3:55:03 PM     (No. 9067878)

Vince Foster was unavailable for comment.


Reply 92 - Posted by: xiphos, 12/15/2012 4:03:13 PM     (No. 9067886)

She fainted alright, Bill came home WITHOUT lipstick on his ......... collar.


Reply 93 - Posted by: ufos4, 12/15/2012 4:08:44 PM     (No. 9067891)

Hearings can be rescheduled. Testimony from a prominent cabinet member can require a postponement. This is such a farce.

Thank #35. I needed that laugh.


Reply 94 - Posted by: sailor43, 12/15/2012 4:08:52 PM     (No. 9067892)

I think she hit her head long, long ago ... )


Reply 95 - Posted by: TnEm, 12/15/2012 4:16:11 PM     (No. 9067897)

Out of sight for at least 2 weeks - long enough to get her eyes done and little nip tuck here and there.


Reply 96 - Posted by: mythman, 12/15/2012 4:36:46 PM     (No. 9067923)

#95 says it for me. Remember Jon Fraud Kerry´s lie last summer that he had got his two black eyes playing hockey - coincidentally coinciding with a shiny new facelift? Serials liers, both of them.


Reply 97 - Posted by: sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 12/15/2012 4:59:47 PM     (No. 9067949)

Lucky for her Huma was so close at hand and is experienced in mouth to mouth.


Reply 98 - Posted by: tulipwood, 12/15/2012 5:01:57 PM     (No. 9067955)

How convenient.


Reply 99 - Posted by: ebuilder, 12/15/2012 6:04:26 PM     (No. 9068045)

Perhaps the persian carpet didn´t agree with her.


Reply 100 - Posted by: formerNYer, 12/15/2012 7:39:04 PM     (No. 9068159)

She only has to have sex with Bill once a year, tomorrow was that day.



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He headed the U.S. government’s immigration enforcement agency during one of its most controversial periods, and as the nation’s focus was on reforming the system. But now John Morton is calling it quits. On Monday, he announced that he is leaving the job after more than four years. He says in a note sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees Monday that he´s leaving his job at the end of July and to take a position at a private company. He did not identify the company. Morton, who has previously worked for the Justice Department,

Ed Markey’s boasts a job bust
Boston Herald, by Hillary Chabot & Joe Battenfeld    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 6/17/2013 5:06:36 PM     Post Reply
U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, who has boasted in his U.S. Senate campaign about bringing high-tech jobs to Massachusetts, backed one of the biggest telecom busts in his own hometown, funneling $35 million in taxpayer dough to a 17-year project that’s failed to create a single Internet job.The planned Telecom City — re-named Rivers Edge after the site failed to become a dot com boomtown — was supposed to attract at least 7,500 high-tech jobs. The 200-acre site that straddles Malden, Medford and Everett instead has produced only 300 jobs so far, none of which are



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New State Department scandal:
Whistleblower accuses consul general
of trysts with subordinates and hookers

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New York Post, by KATE BRIQUELET    Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 10:53:38 AM     Post Reply
In the latest black eye for the scandal-ridden State Department, a whistleblower claims she was run out of the foreign service after complaining about a consul general’s alleged office trysts with subordinates and hookers.Kerry Howard says she was bullied, harassed and forced to resign after she exposed US Consul General Donald Moore’s alleged security-threatening shenanigans in the Naples, Italy, office. As the post’s community-liaison officer, Howard was charged with keeping workplace peace and advising higher-ups on the state of morale, but when she revealed allegations about her boss, State Department officials swept it under the rug,

Who is he? Obama keeps allies,
enemies guessing in second term

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The Hill, by Justin Sink    Original Article
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Five months into his second term, allies and enemies are as confounded as ever about who President Obama really is. Is he the dyed-in-the-wool liberal that his biggest supporters and critics suggest? Or is he a pragmatic, even cynical, politician who cares more for his popularity than taking risks for his ideological goals or living up to his rhetoric? Even in the short period since his reelection, Obama has provided evidence to support conflicting interpretations. His efforts to pass immigration reform, the unsuccessful push for stricter gun controls and tax hikes on high earners buttress the case for Obama-as-ideologue.

Jeb Bush labels conservative
critics ‘the chirpers’

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Washington Post, by Aaron Blake    Original Article
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Jeb Bush says he’s not worried that his work toward comprehensive immigration reform and his ties to the GOP establishment will alienate conservatives and negatively impact a potential 2016 presidential campaign, referring to critics as “the chirpers.” “If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record,” the former Florida governor said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody. “And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.” Bush (R) pointed to his conservative

Barbara Walters Defends Maher
Calling Trig Palin Retarded:
‘I Don´t Think He Intended
it to be Mean-Spirited’

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Newsbusters, by John Nolte    Original Article
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As NewsBusters reported last week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called out vulgarian comedian Bill Maher for referring to her Down Syndrome son Trig as "retarded." On ABC´s The View Monday, co-host Barbara Walters astonishingly defended Maher saying, "I don´t think he intended it to be mean-spirited" (video follows with transcript and commentary): WHOOPI GOLDBERG: At a recent standup show in Las Vegas, comedian Bill Maher apparently called Sarah Palin’s five-year-old developmentally-challenged son Trig retarded. And Sarah blasted him on Twitter as a bully. Is that, is it, is he a bully? Is he a bad, what is he?

Melendez warns without
legal status ´there will
never be road to
White House for GOP´

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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson    Original Article
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Gang of Eight member Bob Menendez advised Republicans to accept legalization status for current illegal immigrants if they ever want to see another president from their party. “I would tell my Republican colleagues — both in the House and the Senate — that the road to the White House comes through a road with a pathway to legalization,” the New Jersey senator said on State of the Union this morning. “Without it, there’ll never be a road to the White House for the Republican party.” Menendez also warned of triggers on border security

Rubio Aide: ‘There Are American
Workers Who, For Lack of a
Better Term, Can’t Cut It’

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National Review Online, by Rich Lowry    Original Article
Posted By: trapper- 6/16/2013 11:18:45 PM     Post Reply
Politico’s Playbook has an excerpt from a new Ryan Lizza piece from the New Yorker that is not yet online. It contains a passage on the back-and-forth between labor and the Chamber that has a quote from a Rubio staffer that is going to raise eyebrows, to say the least: “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly.” Here is the entire context:

Threats made to figures at center
of IRS controversy: sources

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Reuters, by Patrick Temple-West and Karl Plume    Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 6:48:57 AM     Post Reply
A current and a former top tax official have been physically threatened in recent weeks as the scandal over Internal Revenue Service targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups has gathered steam, people familiar with their situation say.Ousted IRS acting commissioner, Steven Miller, has received such threats, according to a source familiar with his situation. The source declined to elaborate on the nature or the source of the threats.


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