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Mystery.. Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens' Sick Souled Neurosis

Thu, 2008-07-03 16:42Kevin Grandia

"Global warming is a sick-souled religion."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121486841811817591.html

Really?

Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens thinks so in his article, Global Warming as Mass Neurosis.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121486841811817591.html

Unfortunately for Stephens' and the rest of the planet, his evidence for such an inflammatory claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

http://www.desmogblog.com/wall-street-journal-bret-stephens-global-warming-sick-souled-religion

Brett Stephens has an anti-Obama neurosis too it seems.

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AP confirms "October Surprise"

Tue Oct 02, 2012 at 10:19 AM PDT

by angry marmot .. 378 Comments

On the heels of Craig Unger's excellent piece at Salon yesterday (GOP's October Surprise?) .. http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/gops_october_surprise/ , the first major move in the Romney/Ryan/GOP macabre politicization of the 11 September events in Benghazi is now apparent. In an AP piece ( via WaPo .. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/house-committee-says-requests-for-more-security-for-us-diplomats-in-libya-were-denied/2012/10/02/82183b4c-0cac-11e2-97a7-45c05ef136b2_story.html ) .. are some details of a letter .. http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10.2.12-Issa-Chaffetz-to-Clinton.pdf .. sent by Issa (R-CA) and Chaffetz (R-UT) of the House Oversight Committee to Secretary of State Clinton regarding planned hearings concerning the events in Benghazi.

WASHINGTON — American diplomats in Libya made repeated requests for increased security for the consulate in Benghazi and were turned down by officials in Washington, leaders of a House committee said Tuesday.

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chairman Darrell Issa and Rep. Jason Chaffetz said their information came from “individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya.”

These hearings are planned for (surprise, surprise) 10 October, one day before the vice-presidential debate and six days before the second presidential debate. Ryan (with Dan Senor's assistance) will clearly take the lead on introducing the attack in Benghazi, the status of Libya and MENA policy during the debates; depending upon how that goes, Romney can then tweak or abandon the attacks.

For the (il)logical structure of how the Romney/Ryan campaign, GOP politicians and their allied media flufferazzi will advance this attack against both the Administration generally and President Obama specifically, take a gander at the execrable Bret Stephens' column in today's Wall Street Journal, entitled "Benghazi Was Obama's 3:00 AM Call."
http://online.wsj.com/article/global_view.html

The U.S. ignores warnings of a parlous security situation in Benghazi. Nothing happens because nobody is really paying attention, especially in an election year, and because Libya is supposed to be a foreign-policy success. When something does happen, the administration's concerns for the safety of Americans are subordinated to considerations of Libyan "sovereignty" and the need for "permission." After the attack the administration blames a video, perhaps because it would be politically inconvenient to note that al Qaeda is far from defeated, and that we are no more popular under Mr. Obama than we were under George W. Bush. Denouncing the video also appeals to the administration's reflexive habits of blaming America first. Once that story falls apart, it's time to blame the intel munchkins and move on.

It was five in the afternoon when Mr. Obama took his 3 a.m. call. He still flubbed it.

This shit is going to get ugly.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/02/1138848/-AP-confirms-October-Surprise?detail=hide

Issa must be suffering Fast and Furious withdrawal.