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Lindsay Graham, announcing how he intends to rectify the government's inability to accomplish anything: "GRAHAM: So I am calling for a joint select committee. But for God’s sake, let the House have a select committee where you get three or four committees together to look at this situation as one unit rather than stove piping. And where are the survivors? 14 months later, Steve, the survivors, the people who survived the attack in Benghazi, have not been made available to the U.S. congress for oversight purposes. I’m going to block every appointment in the United States Senate until the survivors are being made available to the Congress. I’m tired of hearing from people on TV and reading about stuff in books.  We need to get to the bottom of this and to my house colleagues, Darrell Issa has done great job.” BENGHAZI!  We're back to this malicious lie, because they don't have anything else.  And rather than give up and help to straighten the country out, Lind...

Here , and here are a couple of articles from the last couple of days regarding the "cleanup" efforts at the Fukushima nuclear plant.They reveal the utter indifference for public safety which has characterized the efforts both of TEPCO and the Japanese government since this monstrous, ongoing disaster started.  It is clear that TEPCO is interested in nothing but surviving with as much of its profits intact, and the Japanese government is intent on nothing but minimizing public knowledge of the extent of the massive damage which this disaster continues to create. Cleanup efforts are now estimated to cost in the area of a staggering $150 billion, and that is if the spent fuel rods can be removed from the area of reactor 4.  Several hundred of these rods are jumbled together in a pile in a damaged cooling tank near reactor 4.  In normal circumstances, when they need to be handled, they are moved by robotic arms which operate with an accuracy of a small fraction of a milli...

Guy Benson, Town Hall:  "Rubio:  Let's Face It, Obamacare's Individual Mandate Must Be Delayed" Oh, it must be- it MUST be!  Because just a week ago the American people stood together behind the Republicans when they demanded that this happen!  And what is the reasoning behind all of this? "If Dems oppose Rubio's plan while explaining (correctly) that provisions like guaranteed issue and community rating would also have to be pushed back to avoid an even worse disaster...then, great. Republicans will say, "we agree, let's delay the whole damn thing -- which, by the way, we've been advising for months now. And the White House compared us to terrorists for even suggesting it. In fact, Democrats chose to keep the government shut down in order to block the very thing they now realize must be done." Democrats shut the government!  And we are going to keep screaming this lie until you people out there believe it!  And by the way, Marco, Democrats ...

Big news this last week about two past visitors to Green Eagle's pages. First, we hear that two members of one of the far right's premier families have been (once again) arrested.  Cheyne Kehoe and his father Kirby, both members of the Christian Identity movement and (of course) violent Aryan supremacists, were held on charges that they were felons in possession of a large quantity of guns.  Cheyne and his brother Chevie have been implicated in a number of murders and other crimes in connection with their plan to establish an Aryan homeland in the northwest.  Chevie, the worst of the lot, is where he belongs, safely ensconced in prison, where he will soon be joined (again) by his brother and father.  Here, if you are interested, is a bit of history of this miserable family. Chevie in all his glory. And also, news of Phill Kline, the former attorney general of Kansas, and one of the nation's most vicious persecutors of abortion providers: "Citing “cle...

I've spent some time lately documenting the ludicrous "marches on Washington" which seem to be on the agenda of right wingers every few weeks now.  The phenomenon seems strange to us, because these events seem to inevitably fall laughably short of what we imagine it would take to alter the government's actions. This is because of our perspective.  When liberals, or even moderates, think of large antigovernment demonstrations, what we inevitably remember are the marches on Washington of the civil rights era, and the anti-Vietnam protests of the late sixties.  These marches mobilized massive numbers of people, unprecedented in our nation's history, and did in fact contribute to reforming civil rights laws and ending our disastrous involvement in Vietnam.  When we compare the minuscule crowds attracted by the teabagger marches of late to these events, it seems preposterous that the wingnuts think they are going to change anything. What we do not realize is that, ...

And a good thing too.  We all know that all the right would have to do is show about five percent of sanity, and the mainstream press would fall all over itself praising how wise and reasonable and bipartisan they were.  Look how they have tried to make principled intellectuals out of the lying scum Paul Ryan and the corrupt Antonin Scalia. Well, we know that the right will not turn its back on Ted Cruz, no matter how much damage he does, and here is a perfect example from the allegedly religious Bryan Fischer, one of the right's standby commenters: "The silver lining: conservative movement now has a leader in Ted Cruz" This is the one silver lining in the dark and gloomy budget-debt ceiling showdown cloud. A clear and universally recognized leader of the conservative movement has emerged, and his name is Ted Cruz." He sure has emerged- a leader who just led them to their biggest humiliation in a couple of decades.  But apparently, that is what passes for su...

A really short one today.  Some of you may remember that there was supposed to be another teabag march on Washington yesterday.  I can understand them not being in the best of moods to go off on an adventure, what with their plan to destroy democracy being temporarily put on hold and all, but really...I can't find a single article about this march, pro or con.  I guess absolutely no one showed up, which truly represents a new low for these miserable, America-hating lunatics, and one that they (for obvious reasons) are going to have trouble topping.  Obvious, that is, if you know enough arithmetic to understand that the concept of "less than zero" has little application when it comes to counting demonstrations.  Most of the teabaggers don't seem to possess much skill in arithmetic, however, so the joke may be lost on them. Well, we'll just have to wait a whole month now, for Larry Klayman to bring the United States to an abrupt end.  Green Eagle will be ...