Caroline May
The Daily Caller
9/3/2013
Matt Drudge, founder and editor of the conservative website the Drudge Report, took to Twitter Tuesday to voice his displeasure with the Republican Party.
Tuesday morning, Drudge tweeted:
Why would anyone vote Republican? Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) September 3, 2013
His rhetorical question was preceded by the assertion that there are no longer differences between Republicans and Democrats. “It’s now Authoritarian vs. Libertarian. Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties…” he wrote…
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Related: Big Journalism has more.
So much news coming out of and around the very odd and dubious march toward military action against Syria based on a limited use of chemical weapons that still have no real evidence to indicate who was responsible. Even more troubling though are Republicans willingness to march along to the Obama administration’s orders on this. Matt Drudge breaks through the static to lay out quite succinctly the question of what is going on in America these days regarding the seeming spineless actions and reactions coming out of the Republican Party:
“It’s now Authoritarian vs. Libertarian. Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties…” …
These are the “rebels” the Obama administration hopes to protect in Syria. Here they hold the severed head of Catholic Priest François Murad
Read the whole thing.
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A new poll from Washington Post/NBC shows broad public opposition to any US military intervention in Syria. Support for an attack on Syria if it used chemical weapons has fallen precipitously since early Summer. As Congress debates whether to authorize military action, a more relevant finding is the 70% of Americans who oppose any efforts by the US to arm Syrian rebels. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham have made arming the rebels a condition for their support of military action…
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…ELIZABETH O’BAGY: I think the key thing is that any action the U.S. engages on needs to have some sort of strategic objective. It needs to be more than just a punitive measure, and this is partly because this is a real turning point for the population and the opposition in terms of the impact of these more radical and extremist groups. And this could be a really critical turning point in terms of an irreversible process of radicalization by which those moderate forces that are very much active and are currently serving as the bulk of the forces could quickly be taken over in terms of ideology by the extremist groups.
Update: In case you missed it, the murder of Father François Murad was covered by The New York Daily News.
