The Big Ass Second Term/Politics thread part VII: Mitch McConnell Rises

[KevinNYC]

Republicans won big on Thursday, bigger than predicted. Why?

Nate Silver says polls were biased (http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-were-skewed-toward-democrats/)towards Democrats this year as opposed to 2012 where polling bias was towards Republicans. The Democrat in VA is going to win by less than 1%. He was up 9 in the polls.

https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/silver-feature-pollbias-1.png


This evidence suggests that polling bias has been largely unpredictable from election to election. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the polling was biased against Democrats in 1998, 2006 and 2012. However, just as certainly, it was biased against Republicans in 1994, 2002 and now 2014. It can be dangerous to apply the “lessons” from one election cycle to the next one.

In fact, its much more likely to be a larger bias in off year elections when less polling is done.

[KevinNYC]

http://news247.gr/eidiseis/kosmos/news/article3124420.ece/BINARY/time.jpg

New Majority Leader McConnell gave an interview to Time. (http://time.com/3558263/mitch-mcconnell-shutdown-obamacare-majority-leader/)

No to government shutdown.
No to full Obamacare repeal. Yes to repealing the individual mandate.
Yes to approving the Keystone XL pipeline.


this part was interesting

So, in 2016, what’s your top priority?

Well, it’ll be to keep the majority, of course.

What about winning the White House?

Well, that’s not unimportant. Obviously, winning the White House is the most important thing and I think we’re going to have a good shot at it.

[Nanners]

fvck the keystone pipeline, that pipeline is awful for the american people. we take all of the risk and reap none of the rewards.

[KevinNYC]

Obama gave a speech the other day where he said he wants a new Authorization to Use Military Force to fight ISIL* and funding to combat ebola.


Some Democrats have said this is a challenge to Republicans to stop playing armchair quarterback and help solve things.



I would like to see the new Senate pass a law to make Obama call it ISIS.

[BasedTom]

http://i.imgur.com/La8liLB.jpg

just passing by

[KevinNYC]

The US targeted the Khorasan group again in Syria with drone strikes. The target of the strikes appears to be a French Jihadi who joined Al Qaeda and became a bomb maker


The United States said it conducted air strikes on Wednesday night against the so-called Khorasan group, an al Qaeda-linked militant faction based in Syria, and said the group was plotting to attack Europe or the United States.

U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a target of the strike was David Drugeon, a French-born militant and convert to Islam who some U.S. officials say is a bomb maker for the group.

General Lloyd Austin, the head of the U.S. military's Central Command, said Drugeon was one of the group's "leadership elements and one of the most dangerous elements in that organization."

He declined to say whether Drugeon was killed, telling a forum in Washington the military was assessing the results of the strikes. Asked whether Drugeon was a target, he said, "Any time we can take their leadership out is a good thing.".....


U.S. officials have described Khorasan as a grouping of skilled al Qaeda veterans who moved to Syria from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and set up operations under the protection of Nusra Front, the main Syrian al Qaeda affiliate.

[KevinNYC]

just passing by

That same guy lived under all three forms?

[theballerFKA Ace]

McConnell seems pretty smart and wise. I think he'll do alright if he can keep Ted Cruz and his more extreme minions in line. I'm excited about the shared balance of power in Washington. The Republicans have the football now, lets see how they run.

[RidonKs]

ugly stuff :(

[KevinNYC]

Ben Carson throws his hat in the ring.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/5/ben-carson-launches-tv-ad-as-gop-stars-look-ahead-/


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/5/ben-carson-launches-tv-ad-as-gop-stars-look-ahead-/
[QUOTE][B]It

[theballerFKA Ace]

Ben Carson throws his hat in the ring.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/5/ben-carson-launches-tv-ad-as-gop-stars-look-ahead-/


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/5/ben-carson-launches-tv-ad-as-gop-stars-look-ahead-/


Ben Carson may be black but he is extreme right. Like a black version of Ted Cruz. The Republicans controlling all 3 houses would be bad for the country, as well as for themselves, because there would be no Democrat punching bags for moderate America, but an extreme Republican like a Ben Carson or Ted Cruz would be a disaster.

Rand Paul looks like the most promising Republican but I hope Hillary wins. The country doesn't function well with all the power in one party's hands.

[GimmeThat]

http://i.imgur.com/La8liLB.jpg

just passing by


I am wayyyy late

but I thought I just found the guy who thought he came up with the name Dumbo

[Patrick Chewing]

Mitch's voice is so annoying. Sounds like he has marbles in his mouth.

[KevinNYC]

Mitch's voice is so annoying. Sounds like he has marbles in his mouth.
John Stewart does a good impression of him as the Looney Tunes Turtle.

http://looneytunes.wikia.com/wiki/Cecil_Turtle

[KevinNYC]

On a Friday night before Thanksgiving week, comes a good Friday night newsdump.

The Benghazi "Scandal" is over. (https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/11/22/house-intel-panel-debunks-many-benghazi-theories/8r5P2mjyti0cwk3rdftkFK/story.html) The House Intelligence Committee killed it.
House finds no government wrongdoing in Benghazi

two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.

Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, and no missed opportunity for a military rescue.


It also found no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, intelligence about who carried it out and why was contradictory, the report found. That led Susan Rice, then US ambassador to the United Nations, to inaccurately assert that the attack had evolved from a protest, when in fact there had been no protest.

But it was intelligence analysts, not political appointees, who made the wrong call, the committee found. The report did not conclude that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people.

The House Intelligence Committee report was released with little fanfare on the Friday before Thanksgiving week. Many of its findings echo those of six previous investigations by various congressional committees and a State Department panel. The eighth Benghazi investigation is being carried out by a House Select Committee appointed in May.

[KevinNYC]

"People in and out of government have alleged that a CIA response team was ordered to ‘‘stand down’’ after the State Department compound came under attack, that a military rescue was nixed, that officials intentionally downplayed the role of Al Qaeda figures in the attack, and that Stevens and the CIA were involved in a secret operation to spirit weapons out of Libya and into the hands of Syrian rebels.

None of that is true, according to the House Intelligence Committee report."

[KevinNYC]

Chuck Hagel is out as Defense Secretary. Post election, national-security team shakeup? NBC is reporting he was forced out. (http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/forced-out-obama-announces-chuck-hagels-resignation-n254846)


Behind the scenes, the departure appeared to be less rosy. Senior defense officials told NBC News Monday that Hagel was forced to resign. Those officials said the White House lost confidence in the former Nebraska senator to carry out his role at the Pentagon.

According to one senior official, “He wasn’t up to the job.”

Another senior administration official said that Hagel has been discussing a departure from the White House "for several weeks."

Multiple sources also said that Hagel was originally brought to the job to wind down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but, as the fight against the Islamic State ramped up, he was not as well matched for the post.

"Rather than winding down two wars, we’re winding up,” said one source close to Hagel and top Pentagon officials.

[KevinNYC]

The Senate Report on Torture is coming out. The summary is supposed to be out tomorrow.

Ex-CIA folks are pushing back (http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/08/exclusive-former-spies-launch-ciasavedlives-com-to-combat-torture-report/?utm_content=buffer94c32&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) with a website called

[KevinNYC]

In one of her final acts after six years as chair of the committee that oversaw the review, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) plans to discuss the findings in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday morning as the report’s 480-page executive summary is released online. A response by Republican members of the committee will be released almost simultaneously, as will one by the CIA itself. But the full 6,300-page report on Rendition, Detention and Interrogation, or RDI, will remain classified.....


The inquiry is expected to reveal how the agency used waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques more frequently than was legally authorized at then-secret prisons known as “black sites,” the Chicago Tribune/Los Angeles Times Washington bureau has reported.

It also rebuts claims that the interrogations were key to locating Osama bin Laden or thwarting other terrorist plots, concluding that nearly all the intelligence gleaned through harsh techniques could have been obtained from more traditional intelligence-gathering systems.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-torture-report-senate-release-20141208-story.html

[MightyWhitey]

Thank GOD Republican's are back. And with a vengeance. It's time conservatives set this country back on track. The so called "Progressives" are progressively getting bad and worse as time goes on. Middle class American's have had enough of these liberal anti-American bums!

[longhornfan1234]

Thank GOD Republican's are back. And with a vengeance. It's time conservatives set this country back on track. The so called "Progressives" are progressively getting bad and worse as time goes on. Middle class American's have had enough of these liberal anti-American bums!

Preach brother. We're taking our country back. :bowdown: :bowdown:

[KevinNYC]

Thank GOD Republican's are back. And with a vengeance. It's time conservatives set this country back on track. The so called "Progressives" are progressively getting bad and worse as time goes on. Middle class American's have had enough of these liberal anti-American bums!

Enjoy it while it lasts!

Voter Turnout in Midterm Elections Hits 72-Year Low[QUOTE]The last time voter turnout was this low, the U.S. was fighting WWII

The last time voter turnout for a national election was as low as it was on Nov.4, Hitler was still in power, and Mitch McConnell was only nine months old.

Only 36.4% of eligible voters voted in this year

[KevinNYC]

Senate Torture Report (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/senate-report-finds-cia-interrogation-tactics-were-ineffective-n264621)

[QUOTE]The harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the years after Sept. 11 were essentially useless, and far more brutal than the spy agency told Congress and the public, according to a Senate report released Tuesday.

It found that CIA interrogation tactics, employed for days or weeks at a time, never led to imminent threat" intelligence

[MightyWhitey]

Senate Torture Report (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/senate-report-finds-cia-interrogation-tactics-were-ineffective-n264621)
Imagine that. The CIA tortures people while Al Queda and ISIS just give everyone hi-fives :rolleyes: Feinstein, a Democratic "progressive", is nothing more than a liberal lemming trying to hurt this great American nation.

[KevinNYC]

Imagine that. The CIA tortures people while Al Queda and ISIS just give everyone hi-fives :rolleyes: Feinstein, a Democratic "progressive", is nothing more than a liberal lemming trying to hurt this great American nation.

So the CIA should act like Al Qaeda and ISIS? Have you just made them morally equivalent?

[Nanners]

calling feinstein a "progressive" is a great way of proving that you are a complete moron :oldlol:

[KevinNYC]

:facepalm
We're about to have another government shutdown.

Made it by 7 votes

Congress narrowly averts government shutdown

Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown that was slated to take effect at midnight. The House approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill that keeps the government open through September. The Senate agreed to a two-day extension of current funding levels to give itself time to approve the House bill.
After a tumultuous day, the House passed the spending bill in a 219-206 vote.

This one of those omnibus bills that kind of have to pass, but some ugly shit got stuffed into it.
Also the Department of Homeland Security is only funded through Feburary.

[MightyWhitey]

So the CIA should act like Al Qaeda and ISIS? Have you just made them morally equivalent?act like al Qaeda and Isis? :lol you're too liberal to realize that the CIA is not staging beheading videos for YouTube or stoning women to death for removing their burka in public. Last time I checked democracks were all for the security of this nation by any means. Now that they're irrelevant they release anti american info to fire up more terrorist activity :facepalm so someone suspected of terrorism gets water boarded or sleep deprived. This is part of and has been part of the CIA tradecraft for decades. Now it's problem? Can you say political hocus pocus on the part of the democracks

[KevinNYC]

act like al Qaeda and Isis? :lol you're too liberal to realize that the CIA is not staging beheading videos for YouTube or stoning women to death for removing their burka in public. Your argument was the behavior of the CIA should be compared to the behavior of ISIS. The implication is as long the CIA is somewhere south of ISIS beheading video is all good.

My point is that the CIA behavior should be based on American laws and values and (hopefully, a wise long term strategy.) Torture is illegal, immoral and counterproductive. Lots of folks in the CIA, FBI, the US Military recognize that though you only focus on Democrats. Lots of Republicans oppose torture too.
Last time I checked democracks were all for the security of this nation by any means. Now that they're irrelevant they release anti american info to fire up more terrorist activity Yeah, it's pretty clear, you don't know what the **** you are talking.

A. The report has been in the making since 2009. The vote to authorize the report was 14-1 that is not a partisan vote.

B. The initial report was complete in 2012 and sent to the CIA for review and to go through declassification procedures.

C. 6 months later the CIA responded in a formal reubttal.

D. In their rebuttal the CIA contested the conclusions of the Senate Report. However, this rebuttal did not match the CIA said in its classified internal review of the detainee program. The CIA did not realize that the Senate had this internal report.

E. In response the CIA hacked the Senate computers (http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/cia-admits-it-improperly-hacking-senate-computers-20140731). The hack happened in 2013, it became public in March 2014 and the CIA admitted in the middle of the summer.

F. The vote to release the report summary was 11-3. Not only Democrats voted for it. The vote was taken in April 2014 looooooooong before the elections.

G. The public version of the summary was sent to the White House and CIA for redactions. The White House replied in August. Negotiations with the CIA lasted through November.

H. The report was release in September.
so someone suspected of terrorism gets water boarded or sleep deprived. This is part of and has been part of the CIA tradecraft for decades. Now it's problem? Can you say political hocus pocus on the part of the democracks
CIA tradecraft? Are you ****ing kidding me? On 9/11/2001, the CIA had NO as in ZERO trained interrogators. They had been out the business of detaining people for decades. This is why had to go and sign a $180 million contract with outside contractors
(http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808)

[KevinNYC]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article4546833.html
US talking with Cuba

The United States and Cuba will start talks on normalizing full diplomatic relations, marking the most significant shift in U.S. policy toward the communist island in decades, American officials said Wednesday. The announcement comes amid a series of new confidence-building measures between the longtime foes, including the release of American Alan Gross and the freeing of three Cubans jailed in the U.S.

President Barack Obama was to announce the policy changes from the White House at noon Wednesday.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article4546833.html#storylink=cpy

[KevinNYC]

Congress is holding hearings about the plan to lift the travel ban to Cuba.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/02/03/255314/as-congress-bears-down-on-cuba.html

[KevinNYC]

GOP wants to thin the herd (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/gop-establishment-114806.html?ml=po#.VNFPb53F_zg) quick this time around. This article says this is what convinced Romney to quite and why Sarah Palin's recent speech was trashed by so many conservatives.


[QUOTE]The GOP Elite Puts Its Foot Down
For 2016, only the strongest candidates need apply.

hots have been fired. The GOP herd is beginning to be culled. In less than a week, the establishment hounded Mitt Romney out, and the conservative movement wrote Sarah Palin out. The message from Republican insiders is clear: We cannot let our primary become another clown show.

Priebus and every other leading Republican strategist knows that recent GOP nominees have been weakened by a primary debate stage dominated by fringe characters—along with front-runners doing too little to distinguish themselves from the extremes. The resulting spectacle presents a horrible image of the party to general-election voters, weighing down the eventual winner.
Priebus’ recent declaration that candidates will have to perform above a certain threshold in polls to warrant inclusion in debates, a threshold that will get stiffer later in the campaign, suggests he is aware that he needs to get as many fringe characters off the stage as possible. But he can’t be confident that the poll respondents will oblige and elevate only mature candidates above the bar./QUOTE]

[Droid101]

[QUOTE=KevinNYC]
Priebus

[KevinNYC]

lol last time they wouldn't even let a legitimate primary vote state winner, Ron Paul, take their place at the RNC right?

It's clownshoes already.

That's because they don't have a primary, they have a caucus with goofy rules. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Iowa,_2012# Selection_of_delegates)

Paul didn't win the votes, he came in third. Both Santorum and Romney got almost 4,000 more votes than he did.
Santorum, Richard J. "Rick"..................29,839 24.56%
Romney, Willard "Mitt".........................29,805 24.53%
Paul, Ronald E. "Ron" ..........................26,036 21.43%


However, according to Iowa's goofy rules, the vote doesn't decide the delegates. You have other hoops to jump through.
According to the Associated Press (AP), the Iowa Republican system "puts a premium on getting the most votes in individual congressional districts. If a candidate's supporters can control a congressional district convention, they can choose national delegates and slate committee members who support their candidate.".......... Paul ultimately did extremely well in the delegate race. Indeed, despite the fact that Paul finished in third place in the popular vote, 22 of Iowa's 28 delegates ultimately voted for Paul at the Republican National Convention. Since Iowa's delegates are not bound to vote for a nominee based on the results of the caucuses, Paul supporters were able to exert a substantial influence on the delegate race by mastering Iowa's arcane election rules and winning key positions on state election committees.

[KevinNYC]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/syrian-fighter-group-that-got-us-missiles-dissolves-after-major-defeat/2015/03/01/286fa934-c048-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html

Syrian rebel group that got U.S. aid dissolves[QUOTE]The first Syrian rebel group to be given U.S. weapons collapsed Sunday after losing control of its headquarters to Syria

[KevinNYC]

netanyahu is talking to congress about iran and nukes tomorrow... some things never change

Well a whole bunch of retired Israeli generals came out against it. (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=11083766) That seems new.

As Netanyahu’s plane was in the air Sunday en route to Washington, a group called Commanders for Israel’s Security, made up of 180 retired generals and national security officials—including three former heads of Mossad—denounced the prime minister’s trip. “The present policy constitutes a destruction of the alliance with the U.S.,” said retired Major General Amnon Reshef, a hero of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, who co-founded the group.

On the eve of the visit, Michael Oren, a distinguished historian who was an ambassador to the United States under Netanyahu but has since broken with him, denounced the trip as a “cynical political move.”Israel has elections in two weeks. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

[KevinNYC]

Say what you will about the limitations of the two party system, but it makes election polling a whole lot easier to read

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54871108e4b009dea54b1828/t/54ecaafde4b021b682d1267a/1424796414494/February12-panels-maariv.png

I think Cyan's days are numbered. Cerulean's got the momnetum.

[KevinNYC]

This seems pretty big. (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0)
[QUOTE]

[longhornfan1234]

I'm disgusted with my party right now. Why invited invite a foreign dignitary in to speak negatively about our president, on the floor of our house ? I can't believe people support this shit. It's borderline treasonous and sets a precedent that could have disgusting impact. :facepalm

[Rodmantheman]

For all the talk about how evil Putin is Netanyahu is the more dangerous one. Half of his country is against him. If he bombs Iran that could possibly trigger WW3 and guess who will do most of the fighting yet again USA.

[Rodmantheman]

WW3? Who is going to come to Iran's defense?

It could easily escalate hope it never comes to that. This netanyahu has been rambling for years about Iran itching to attack them. If they attack Iran and they retaliate who knows how many countries might get involved in this conflict Iran is a very capable of defending it's self.

[KevinNYC]

I'm disgusted with my party right now. Why invited invite a foreign dignitary in to speak negatively about our president, on the floor of our house ? I can't believe people support this shit. It's borderline treasonous and sets a precedent that could have disgusting impact. :facepalmGood on you.

Also the guy is up for election in two weeks which makes it look like we are interfering in their domestic politics which makes even worse.

Also if the nuclear talks with Iran fall through what's the next option? War?

[KevinNYC]

This seems pretty big. (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0)
A different take on the Clinton email thing. (http://www.businessinsider.com/how-hillary-clinton-used-her-personal-email-2015-3#ixzz3TPIFv6eo)

"Like Secretaries of State before her, she used her own email account when engaging with any Department officials. For government business, she emailed them on their Department accounts, with every expectation they would be retained," Merrill said.

The two former officials said efficiency was one reason Clinton set up her own address. At the time, State Department policy would not have allowed her to have multiple email addresses on her Blackberry. Because of this, the officials said, she opted to have one address for both personal and governmental communications. They echoed Merrill's statement and said Clinton took care to correspond with other State officials exclusively on their governmental addresses. The officials said this meant all of her emails and those sent to her were immediately preserved on government servers.

According to the two officials, regulations discouraged the use of personal email but did not prohibit it. Merrill also argued that Clinton's use of private email was not against the rules.

"Both the letter and spirit of the rules permitted State Department officials to use non-government email, as long as appropriate records were preserved," he said.


Indeed, Clinton is not the first secretary of state to use personal email. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell used a private address while he held the job from 2001 until 2005. Harf, the State Department spokeswoman, said Clinton's successor, John Kerry, was "the first Secretary of State to rely primarily on a state.gov email account."

Seems that the law was strengthened after she left office.

[KevinNYC]

Stock Market Bull Run (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-numbers-behind-the-stock-markets-bull-run/2015/03/09/06b4fd08-c633-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3_story.html)is six years old today.[QUOTE]The bull market has turned six, one of the longest runs for stocks since the 1940s.

The Standard & Poor

[KevinNYC]

NJ Senator (http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/politics/robert-menendez-criminal-corruption-charges-planned/index.html) about to get hit with corruption charges.


The Justice Department is preparing to bring criminal corruption charges against Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, alleging he used his Senate office to push the business interests of a Democratic donor and friend in exchange for gifts.

People briefed on the case say Attorney General Eric Holder has signed off on prosecutors' request to proceed with charges, CNN first reported. An announcement could come within weeks. Prosecutors are under pressure in part because of the statute of limitation on some of the allegations.

I think the last Senator to be convicted of a crime was back during the ABSCAM probe of the American Hustle days.

[KevinNYC]

I'm disgusted with my party right now. Why invited invite a foreign dignitary in to speak negatively about our president, on the floor of our house ? I can't believe people support this shit. It's borderline treasonous and sets a precedent that could have disgusting impact. :facepalm

Wow. They have crossed the borderline.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_tIcSmWIAAEHVd.jpg

[Droid101]

Wow. They have crossed the borderline.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_tIcSmWIAAEHVd.jpg
Looks to be illegal. We'll see if anything happens. Most likely not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

Edit: All four of those guys must rank pretty high on the "punchable faces" charts. Jesus christ. Is it a prerequisite to being a Republican?

[longhornfan1234]

Wow. They have crossed the borderline.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_tIcSmWIAAEHVd.jpg
I have no words for this except it's borderline treason. :facepalm

[Cactus-Sack]

-"Dem's: Stunt risks a war"


Is that your answer to everything you fvckkwits?

[falc39]

I guess it's fine these days to break a law "out of convenience".

[zoom17]

Wow. They have crossed the borderline.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_tIcSmWIAAEHVd.jpg

:facepalm Are these guys serving Israel interests or US.

[KevinNYC]

http://images.dailykos.com/images/131002/large/AaronSchockGlacier.png

Rep. Schock is stepping down. Got caught doing the short grift.


Tuesday, less than 12 hours after POLITICO raised questions about tens of thousands of dollars in mileage reimbursements he received for his personal vehicle.
Schock billed the federal government and his campaign for logging roughly 170,000 miles on his personal car between January 2010 and July 2014. But when he sold that Chevrolet Tahoe in July 2014, it had only roughly 80,000 miles on the odometer, according to public records obtained by POLITICO under Illinois open records laws. The documents, in other words, indicate he was reimbursed for 90,000 miles more than his car was ever driven.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/aaron-schock-resigns-116153.html#ixzz3UffqW4Oa