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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (788262)	6/7/2014 12:08:11 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1576184

The Obama administration’s handling of the Bergdahl fiasco has been beyond laughable. By Jonah Goldberg The White House is run by clowns. It’s like a Fellini movie over there. For years, the White House had certain mechanisms in place that helped to ensure dignity of the office and protect the president from saying too many things he’d later regret (like calling the Benghazi attack a “ bump in the road”). . In the old days, there was an unwritten rule of politics: Don’t put the president next to a guy who looks like he just emerged out of spider-hole with Mullah Omar But these are more relaxed and tolerant times. Still, in the Washington of yore, the president’s advance team would at least go over with the president’s guests what they might say when standing alongside the leader of the free world. You know just to make sure everyone is on the same page. But that’s hard to do when the page is written in . . . Pashto! Release the Hacks! When you run foreign policy like a domestic political operation, it turns out that both the policy and the politics can blow up on you This president, we are constantly told, gets his information about scandals in his own administration the same way we do: from the newspapers. This raises an interesting question: Why have an office in the White House? Apparently you can do this job from anywhere. “Hey, let’s type Bowe Bergdahl into the Google machine and hit the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button!” If they’d done that, they would have at least known not to say Bergdahl was captured on the “battlefield” and that he had served “with honor and distinction.” This White House went a different way. They sent Susan Rice — Susan Rice! — out on the Sunday shows to beclown herself again. This woman was going to be secretary of state until she went out on the Sunday shows and read Ben Rhodes’s talking points verbatim. Apparently that’s sort of her thing. She reads what the hacks above — or below — give her. “Give these talking points to Susie, she’ll say anything.” And now, to cover their mistakes, these guys are complaining anonymously to Chuck Todd that Bergdahl is being “swiftboated” by his former comrades. What’s the point of putting the hacks in charge if they can’t even hack right?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (788262)	6/7/2014 12:09:13 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1576184

They sent Susan Rice out on the Sunday shows to beclown herself again. This woman was going to be secretary of state until she went out on the Sunday shows and read Ben Rhodes’s talking points verbatim. Apparently that’s sort of her thing. She reads what the hacks above — or below — give her. “Give these talking points to Susie, she’ll say anything.”

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (788262)	6/8/2014 1:58:33 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB joseffy Respond to of 1576184

are you an idiot the Koch brothers have given away 10-50 times what zuckersmuck has

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (788262)	6/8/2014 2:02:28 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB joseffy steve harris Respond to of 1576184

ZUCKERSMUCK ONLY GAVE 100 MILLION THE CHEAP FUKKING BASTARD, HEll us tax payers gave him over 400 million and he only gives 100 probably went to friends and relatives of his During the year it went public, Facebook made $1.1 billion in profits. But thanks to some nifty accounting, the company won't be paying any federal or state taxes on it — instead, it will actually be receiving a federal tax refund of about $429 million. Citizens for Tax Justice, a research group, predicted this would happen back when Facebook went public last year, and just released a breakdown of what Facebook pulled off in its 2012 annual report. Essentially, because of a tax deductibility on executive stock options, options which Facebook gave out plenty over the past year, the deductible ended up actually equaling more than Facebook owed in taxes to the state and federal governments. So instead of paying anything to the government, the government will instead be paying Facebook a refund of almost half a billion dollars. The refund comes on taxes they had paid in 2010 and 2011. Not only that, but Facebook is actually carrying "forward another $2.17 billion in additional tax-option tax breaks for use in future years." Basically, they would like to do this every year. One of our most successful new companies is not paying a dime in taxes. Yes, let's please cut Medicare. That's the thing that's broken.