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Politico: Bill Clinton Breaks With Obama On Syria

Source: Talkingpointsmemo Livewire

Bill Clinton said Tuesday that President Barack Obama should do more to aid rebels in the Syrian civil war and that he risks looking like "a total fool" if he allows public opinion polls to govern U.S. policy on that front, according to audio obtained by Politico.

The former president made his remarks to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), one of Obama's fiercest critics on Syria, during a question-and-answer session at an event for the McCain Institute for International Leadership in Manhattan. Clinton told McCain that he sides him on this issue, and not Obama.

"Some people say, ‘Okay, see what a big mess it is? Stay out!’ I think that’s a big mistake. I agree with you about this,” Clinton reportedly told McCain. “Sometimes it’s just best to get caught trying, as long as you don’t overcommit — like, as long as you don’t make an improvident commitment."

An ABC News/Washington Post poll released late last month found that 68 percent of Americans oppose U.S. military intervention to end the bloody civil war in Syria. But Clinton appeared to scoff at the idea that polls should influence the President's decisions.

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Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/politico-bill-clinton-breaks-with-obama-on-syria?ref=fpb



Why attend the 'McCain Institute for International Leadership?' Isn't that an oxymoron?

Tom Toles: 'Scandals'

Luckovich nails the Republicans once again

Tom Toles on the Republicans' quest to end the Obama presidency

Tony Auth on Republicans and their faux scandals

Obamacare now requires hospitals to charge uninsured patients same rate as those with insurance

The new regulations were apparently issued by the IRS in April.

From an Ezra Klein wonk blog post this morning: Here's why hospitals set high prices

In April, the Internal Revenue Service issued new regulations under the Affordable Care Act that change the way hospitals demonstrate “community benefit.” Among other changes, the new regulations requires hospitals to charge uninsured patients a rate that not more than the “amounts generally billed” to patients with insurance coverage.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/19/heres-why-hospitals-set-high-prices/




Luckovich today on Republicans and Benghazi

Dear Republicans: This kind of ugliness will only make Democrats more supportive of Hillary Clinton

National Review Cover Shows Hillary Playing Fiddle During Benghazi Attack (PHOTO)

TOM KLUDT 10:52 AM EDT, FRIDAY MAY 17, 2013

The latest issue of the conservative National Review depicted a caricature of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton playing a fiddle with the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya burning behind her — an allusion to the Roman Emperor Nero, who is said to have "fiddled while Rome burned."



http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/national-review-cover-shows-hillary-playing-fiddle-during

Luckovich nails the Republicans once again re "scandals"

Wapo's Jonathan Bernstein: You want a scandal? Here's a scandal.

You want a scandal? Here’s a scandal.

By Jonathan Bernstein, Published: May 13, 2013

Want a real Washington scandal — one worse than the (phony) Benghazi scandal and the (apparently real, but apparently limited) IRS scandals combined? Try the continuing, and possibly accelerating, obstruction of executive branch nominees by Senate Republicans.

Don’t think it’s a scandal? It’s pretty basic: Republicans, by abusing their Constitutional powers, are — deliberately, in several cases — preventing the government from carrying out duly passed laws.

The New York Times yesterday highlighted two of the more recent ways that Republicans have manipulated loopholes in Senate rules to delay confirmation of Secretary of Labor nominee Thomas Perez and Environmental Protection Agency nominee Gina McCarthy. It’s worth stepping back and realizing: what’s happening here is that Republicans are delaying these nominations beyond their eventual insistence that almost all nominees must get 60 votes. In other words, they’re filibustering on top of their own filibusters.

That’s just two examples. There are numerous others; again, with virtually all nominees required to have 60 votes, one can accurately say that Republicans are filibustering every nomination. But perhaps the worst are the “nullification” filibusters, in which Republicans simply refuse to approve any nominee at all for some positions — the National Labor Relations Board, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — because they don’t want those agencies to carry out their statutory obligations.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/05/13/you-want-a-scandal-heres-a-scandal/
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