Senator John McCain is off on a new tear, attacking President Barack Obama over the freeing of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdhal!
Four months ago, McCain was attacking Obama for failing to resolve the captivity of Bowe Bergdhal in Taliban hands for nearly five years, declaring that America NEVER leaves its soldiers behind, and negotiates to accomplish their freedom.
Senator McCain is, once again, being a total hypocrite, and he has well displayed that he is a warmonger, ready to send troops into every nation in the world that has revolution or turmoil, including Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Ukraine among others!
There is no military conflict that McCain seems to think America should and can avoid, despite the war weariness of the American people after 13 years of war in Afghanistan and almost nine years of war in Iraq, creaing the massive number of war veterans that now need physical and psychological care!
We can thank divine grace for the fact that John McCain was NOT elected President, and also that we were not cursed by a Vice President Sarah Palin, who continues to poison the political atmosphere with her stupid, inane, and divisive rhetoric! Additionally, with the advanced age of McCain, we would have to live with the nightmare possibility of a President Palin!
McCain should be condemned for his double standard, saying one view out of one side of his mouth, and another opposing view out of the other side of his mouth! Hopefully, he will NOT run for reelection to the Senate in 2016!
Eric Cantor got beat by a Tea Partier.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/11/politics/cantor-upset-analysis/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Hello Pragmatic Progressive,
Congressman Eric Cantor’s reelection loss just reconfirms my comment of, “If you don’t vote, you can be sure that someone who is much crazier than you will”.
Which brings me full circle once again of my warnings to Jack Kemp when I voiced my concerns and prediction results nine years ago of embracing the Reactionary Right segment and giving them the validafying voice of being welcomed within the Party. The result was it gave their lunacy legitimacy.
Now this of course is just the Republican Primary and if the sane and well adjusted citizens of Virginia don’t want to become another poster child of ignorant conservative politics, and included in the list of laughing stock States such as Texas, and Mississippi; they had better get motivated to go to the poles and vote against them in November.
Hello Professor,
More disturbing news brought on by conservative politics.
Judge shoots down California teacher-tenure laws.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2014/06/11/judge-shoots-down-teacher-tenure-laws.html
Just like industry did years ago after busting unions, you will see teachers who are older and experienced being purged because they are at the top of their pay scale and with more vacation and medical benefits. After these once tenured teachers are purged, their salary can be used to put two recent college grads into classrooms.
Of course they are selling it as the need to make it impossible to get rid of low-performing teachers. Don’t swallow this bull, its about the dollars…plan and simple.
The other casualty will be the protection of science teachers who refuse to present, “Intelligent Design” as an alternative to “Evolution”. Religious Fanatics who took over school boards like we saw in Dover, Pennsylvania. They wanted to fire any science teacher who refused to teach intelligent design as science. It was the teacher’s tenure that prevented this. This also came up on trial and it was the Religious Fanatics who were found lying under oath.
https://www.au.org/church-state/june-2008-church-state/featured/the-devil-in-dover
I heard that re-districting helped play a roll.
Engineer, I have been away on vacation in New Orleans, and the news is flying thick and fast. As you can see, I wrote just now on the dangers of the extreme right wing.
You have just written on Eric Cantor and on the teacher tenure laws, and as soon as I get settled, you can be sure I will write on both topics.