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The Republican Response to Libya

September 12, 2012 by Matthew 7 Comments

Some Republicans are using the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya as an opportunity to stage their own attack on the people running the embassy. Senator Jon Kyl, for example, said that the embassy was at fault because they had deigned to condemn an anti-Islamic film.

KYL: It’s like the judge telling the woman who got raped, ‘You asked for it because of the way you dressed.’ OK? That’s the same thing. ‘Well America, you should be the ones to apologize, you should have known this would happen, you should have done — what I don’t know — but it’s your fault that it happened.’ You know, for a member of our State Department to put out a statement like that, it had to be cleared by somebody. They don’t just do that in the spur of the moment.

Jon Kyl – Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)

One Small Problem: Rice for Veep

July 10, 2012 by Max 1 Comment

Condoleezza Rice has repeatedly said she has no interest in elected office, but that hasn’t stopped many of her fellow conservatives from hoping she’ll be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential choice.

–Lori Stahl, “Condi Rice as veep: the allure of the anti-Palin,” Washington Post

I’d be shocked if Obama were quailin’
At the Condi-Vice-President push.
Though she’d make us forget about Palin,
She would also remind us of Bush.