I’m still in considerable pain and hoping the donor site heals soon. I’m in a wheelchair and have taken a lap around the unit chasing nurses. I’m still to slow to ketch one, dang it!! 
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: On “ABC This Week,” Bernie was asked if he thought his agreements with Clinton outweighed his disagreements.
“Well, that’s — 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.”
“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,”
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.
From NY Times: A Senate security officer stepped out of the December chill last year and delivered envelopes marked “Top Secret” 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.’s 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.
Today, those discs sit untouched in vaults across Washington, still in their original envelopes. The F.B.I. has not retrieved a copy held for it in the Justice Department’s safe. State Department officials, who locked up their copy and marked it “Congressional Record — Do Not Open, Do Not Access” as soon as it arrived, have not read it either.
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’s counterterrorism future from reading about its past. There is also the possibility that the documents could remain locked in a Senate vault for good.
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 “learning from the mistakes of the past to ensure that they are not repeated.”
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!
from The Washington Post: 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, keeping the new program on hold nearly a year after President Obama announced it.
“The Department of Justice remains committed to taking steps that will resolve the immigration litigation as quickly as possible,” said Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for the agency. “The Department disagrees with the Fifth Circuit’s adverse ruling and intends to seek further review from the Supreme Court of the United States. “
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’s term. Republican presidential candidates have said they would dismantle the program, adding urgency to the administration’s efforts to get it started.
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.
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13 Responses to “On the Edge–11/10/2015”
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Love your cartoon.
Hate that the fate of so many innocent children is in the hands of SCOTUS now–but hope compassion and morality win the day.
The one thing I am proudest of Di Fi for–so sad those who claim to be for law and order are not screaming the house down (the one in Congress is not deserving a capital from me just now).
Yes–Bernie does speak truth even when it might be viewed as supporting an opponent.
Speed of wheelchair use should improve with practice.
Cross posted to Care2 at:
http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3926294
Thanks for the cross post!
A good summary of GOP candidates on immigration and the related problems at:
http://thinkprogress.org/progress-report/walling-off-the-american-dream/
Daily Kos – Not only did Bernie speak the truth, but he made me so proud to be a Democrat. As he did in the clip from the first debate when he told the media to quit it with the damn emails. To paraphrase an old bad joke, the only thing two Republicans can agree on is how awful a third candidate is. Bernie shows the way campaigns should be run – with respect despite differences.
During the period, relatively brief though it was, Bernie and Hillary were in the Senate together, they voted the same way 93% of the time. That has to say something.
NY Times – Yeah. The elephant in the room is an elephant. Surprise, surprise. JL, yu and all other Californians have the right to take pride in DiFi for her action here.
WaPo – Yes, it may be a mistake. But he is somewhat between a rock and a hard place on it. If he doesn't push for it, that's not good either. Sad all the way around. I wish it luck. It will need it.
Cartoon – LOL! Well, wheelchairs do at least turn on a dime. At least mine does. Don;t give up.
Another take on immigration – this was in the email from The Nation for 11/11:
http://www.thenation.com/article/why-immigration-activists-are-celebrating-their-loss-in-federal-court/
which suggests to me that Obama was responding to this pressure – and had little other choice.
If you click through (and I hope you will), be sure to catch every quote from the dissent by Judge Carolyn Dineen King. Some will undoubtedly be used by the Administration in its SCOTUS brief.
DK: I love Bernie more and more with what he says. He speaks the truth, and wants what's best for our Nation.
NYTimes: Glad she wrote the letter, the repug monkeys are riding the Elephant. Kudos to Ms. Feinstein for raising concerns.
Cartoon: Cute, TC !
I hope that your pain is reduced in the next few days. In the meantime, obey all traffic signals, and maintain a slow speed going around corners. Pretty soon, you'll be a pro. Take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Be careful, you might catch one of those nurses and end up married again!
Daily Kos: I agree with Bernie and you. The worst Democrat will always be better than the best Republican as things stand now.
NY Times: This is a disgrace. Is the Justice Department still owned by Bush, Cheney, and their ilk. Just like spring cleaning, you need to get rid of the dust and unnecessary items. It is past time for that group to be investigated. The Justice Dept. is effectively tying the hands of Congress with these actions.
Cartoon: If you find the naughty nurse, you won't have to get married. 🙂
Washington Post: The present SCOTUS will never let this be law, they are too invested in the Republican party, or the party of despair, to do it.
By the sound of it you're getting enough exercise despite the pain you're still in, TomCat 😉 By the time you're fast enough to catch a nurse, they're going to transfer you to another hospital. It's all part of your fitness test.
Daily Kos: Bernie Sanders now feels the effects of the enormous leg-up Hillary Clinton's been given by the GOP with their inane Benghazi hearing, but is not giving in just yet. Perhaps he's continuing as strong as ever more in the hope he can push her even further to the left on that all important item: the exorbitant wealth difference and on the way the country is ruled from Wall Street, than in the expectation to regain what he's lost through that hearing. And of course any Democrat will be a better candidate than any in the Clown's Car.
NY Times: One can safely assume that this 6,700-page classified report on the C.I.A.’s secret prison program has cost the taxpayer a tidy sum, running in the millions, and now the results are officially off-limits to the people who ordered Senator Dianne Feinstein to investigate it? No-one can read it? And the C.I.A. especially doesn't want to read it because they know they can learn from it? You are quite right, TomCat, America has no moral authority as a nation if they don't deal with the war crimes that were perpetrated in the past. And by the looks of it, it's not going to deal with any war crimes perpetrated right now and is in fact sanctioning those of the future. Forget about authority, start by finding a moral.
Washington Post: It's highly unlikely that the Terrible Five are going to rule in favor anything Obama has put forward, but I would expect them to make it easy on themselves and put Obama out of other options by refusing to take it on this spring. If they take it on at all, it'll be by the end of Obama's last term. And because they will take it on, but far too late, Obama has deprived himself of any other option. Which will leave up to 5 million immigrants in the lurch.
Cartoon: I see you're increasing the possibility of catching a nurse, TomCat, by going after the right one straight away,
I agree with Lona . . . fitness training!
Keep up the good work. You'll be out of there in no time. Don't catch one of those nurses. We can be dangerous.
Daily Kos ~ Bernie is the best candidate for the job of POTUS. I hope the rest of the country gets to know him better in the coming months.
NY Times ~ What a mockery of justice!
Washington Post ~ No good can come of this.
Cartoon ~ She does have a sly smile.
Thanks all. Hugs!! Time for a nap.
I hope that nap ws a good one, with a dynamite dream about having caught thenurse with a sly look!
Dianne F. rocks, but we are not going to see the war criminals behnd locks.