Republican Party Priorities

And note:  On the one with the most time and money spent on it, they found nothing.

Zero.

But a foreign nation? Ostensibly our arch-enemy? Attack our elections and election system?

What I've said about FDR and Pearl Harbor for years

New article out today: FDR warned of Pearl Harbor attack days in advance. England had been bombed for a year--a full year straight. Europe wanted and needed us--the US--to join the fight against the Germans and their allies in the war and badly. The American people were strictly isolationist and didn't think they had to get involved. It was "their war", after all. President Roosevelt knew what was going on in Europe, having consulted directly with England's Prime Minister Churchill and many others, and for a long time. I always thought that someone, somewhere, might, one day, find some communication that showed that FDR knew the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was coming but intentionally ignored it. He knew, I think, he needed the nation behind him and this was likely the only way, unfortunately, tragically, to get them there. He probably hoped it would be a small attack, of course, and that not many would be hurt or--heaven forbid--killed. He likely crossed his fingers, turned out his bedlamp and went to sleep, aware of what might come. All that said, it's what needed to happen, again, unfortunately. He made the right call. But then, admittedly, this is easy "Monday morning quarterbacking." What he did took guts. Links: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fdr-warned-pearl-harbor-attack-days-advance-164032040.html; http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/29/declassified-memo-hinted-of-1941-hawaii-attack-; http://www.amazon.com/December-1941-Changed-America-Saved/dp/1595554572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322568083&38;sr=8-1

Quote of the day--on the US and war today

WAR! (don't look!)

Nov 2, 2010 - A new isolationism is metastasizing in the American body politic. At its heart lies not an urge to avoid war, but an urge to avoid contemplating the costs and realities of war. It sees war as having analgesic qualities - as lessening a collective feeling of impotence, a collective sense of fear and terror. Making war in the name of reducing terror serves this state of mind and helps to preserve it. Marked by a calculated estrangement from war's horrific realities and mercenary purposes, the new isolationism magically turns an historic term on its head, for it keeps us in wars, rather than out of them.
Old-style American isolationism had everything to do with avoiding "entangling alliances" and conflicts abroad. It was tied to America's historic tradition of rejecting a large standing army - a tradition in which many Americans took pride. Yes, we signed on to World War I in 1917, but only after we had been "too proud to fight".
Even when we joined, we did so as a non-aligned power with the goal of ending major wars altogether. Before Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Americans again resisted the call to arms, looking on Adolf Hitler's rise and other unnerving events in Europe and Asia with alarm, but with little eagerness to send American boys into yet another global bloodbath.
In the decades since World War II, however, "isolationism" has been turned inside-out and upside-down. Instead of seeking eternal peace, Washington elites have, by now, plunged the country into a state of eternal war, and they've done so, in part, by isolating ordinary Americans from war's brutal realities.

Links:  http://warisacrime.org/content/war-dont-look;  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LK02Ak01.html