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The Philadelphia Jewish Voice, an on-line publication produced by local progressive activists in response to the (arguably) unabashedly right-wing tilt of the Jewish Exponent (local paper published by Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia) has a rather revealing interview with short-termer Jim Gerlach here.
For a few real gems from the interview, flip the page...
But if you take a bird's eye view, you now have two countries, Iraq and Iran, former dictatorships with strong ties to extremist Muslims, that are now on the road to democracy, and that's a very positive thing in a broad, historical sense.
Ok, give him the benefit of the doubt that he was only referring to Iraq about the road to democracy thing, but strong ties to extremist Muslims? Silly me, I thought Hussein and the Bath Party were secularists?
It's very hard to define what the Christian Right really is. I haven't seen a lot of evidence where religious leaders themselves, say evangelical Christian or very conservative Christians, have much influence on the rank and file of the Republican conference or on the leadership.
He's joking, right? On another planet? (maybe I should add a poll...)
If I recall the President's statement, he said if anyone has been found to have broken the law by disclosing the name of a CIA operative, they should be fired. But so far, nobody has been charged with violating the law. Apparently the special prosecutor is continuing his investigation, but after two years of investigation there is no evidence that anyone broke a law. Just over the past few days, there have been people on national television saying that they were told by this Wilson fellow that his wife worked for the CIA. So I have yet to see any evidence of any crime being committed involving the outing of a CIA operative in violation of Federal law. And clearly the special prosecutor hasn't found anyone to indict for that.
Had any koolaid lately Congressman?