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I really like the way the guys are wrapping up their Switchel.

Finally, someone in the “mainstream” media recognizes what the GOP is doing and focuses not on play-by-play, but on the overarching strategy.  As Pierce writes at Esquire, the GOP is “actively working to undermine the American union. . . . They want the country to come apart so they can sell off the pieces to the people who run their campaigns.”

Yes, the 47 Republican senators who signed the unprecedented, seditious communique to Iran’s leaders are “itching for war,” as Senator Sanders correctly accuses them.

But so are the bi-partisan senators on the Appropriations committee demanding we get on the express train to war with Russia by sending more arms to Ukraine.

Yes, as Peter Baker in The New York Times reports, Obama is resisting the critical mass of insanity on the Appropriations committee, but as we all know, he never resists calls for military escalation very long. . . .

Robert Parry writes at consortiumnews about the inability of U.S. politics and media to acknowledge that our foreign policy blunders and belligerence go a long way toward breeding anti-U.S. sentiment globally.

Lindsay Graham’s stupid, nasty, sophmoric crack about Pelosi’s nips and tucks demands one course of action: Pelosi must compile and publish a list of all the old, rich, white Republicans in the House and Senate who regularly expend their ill-gotten gains on Viagra. Tell us who and how much.

The alacrity with which her “people” are bandying around right-wing catch phrases like “politics of envy,” denotes an unwillingness on the part of her campaign team to antagonize Wall Street, and thus an inability to construct a platform voters will be able to distinguish from what the opposition customarily peddles (though the GOP may just run rings around her by running to her left).

“Politics of envy,” of course is a copycat GOP-derived slogan designed to shift attention from the brutal economic engineering that has devastated this country’s middle class as well–so what else is new?–its poor (which now includes enormous swaths of the formerly-middle class.)

She’s still trying to triangulate, and it will very likely cost her the presidency once again.

That’s what Representative Grayson rightly calls the inevitable result of the current U.S. syndrome whereby “every time we see something on our computer screens that we don’t like, we go ahead and bomb it.”

So now we have Fox operative Andrea Tantaros picking up the GOP refrain of the moment and tootling the anti-Semitism jingle.

I am waiting for Barbara Boxer to slap down Tantaros the way she so brilliantly did Giuliani.

And Fox gets the use of our air waves for free to spew this filth!

Spoke to an eighty-nine-year-old woman in New England today; she was out snowshoeing for an hour this afternoon!

First, one GOP-er lobs out of left field a scurrilous, preposterous claim about a Democratic big wig. The claim is so vicious and out-there that it knocks the recipient on his/her back foot. (And you know how easily–if I may mix figurative expressions–Democrats get the wind taken out of them).

Then, one-by-one other GOP-ers take up the scurrilous refrain as if they’re singing a round. Then when there’s an outcry, they say they’re tewwibly, tewwibly sorry, and of course they would never dream of saying what they just said.

That’s called affirmation by negation. You can thank one of my college rhetoric teachers for being supplied with that factoid.

At least the Democrats seem slightly less gobsmacked by the latest assault (s).