Mercenary Territory

Crystal Clear
His answer is to make it crystal clear in the Constitution that corporations are not people, through his Saving American Democracy Amendment. (Bernie Sanders e-mail, 1/20/2012)


U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has a simple solution for people who don't like all the political advertisements unleashed by the court's decision two years ago that ended limits on corporate contributions in political campaigns – change the channel or turn off the TV. (Huffington Post.com, 1/21/2012)


Scalia tells Bernie Sanders what to do! And, by the way, if corporations are not "people" does that mean that unions are not people either?


Ethics Violation
It was Mr. Gingrich who pulled the race into the gutter, where he found considerable support. He repeatedly called Mr. Obama “the greatest food-stamp president in American history,” and lectured a black questioner at Monday’s debate about the amount of federal handouts to blacks, suggesting their work ethic was questionable. (NYT, 1/22/2012)


It's always racism with Liberals. More than half the country opposes Obamacare? Racism! Obama's approval ratings below 50%? Racism! Gingrich wins South Carolina? Racism!


Got the Fever
The foreign minister’s statements, taken with other developments, suggests that the war fever over a quick confrontation at the strait is ebbing. There’s no progress yet on the core issue of Iran’s nuclear program, but the United States has clarified its “red lines” in the crisis, and Iran has indicated by its public response that it understands. (David Ignatius, Washington Post, 1/20/2012)


Post writer Ignatius tells us that the Iranians got the tough message sent by the U.S. and now - presumably - we do not have to worry about their nuclear weapons development program. Naivete can be charming......and deadly. We trust the Iranians at our own peril, a lesson learned from the North Koreans.


Tilted
Deborah Howell, Post ombudsman from 2005 through 2008, said at the end of her tenure that “some of the conservatives’ complaints about a liberal tilt [at The Post] are valid.” I won’t quibble with her conclusion. I think she was right. (Patrick B. Pexton, Washington Post, 1/20/2012)


The Washington Post vows that THIS time they are really going to examine the Obama record.