The 2014 Campaign - 2nd Term Blues

The New York Times: Reports on how the Republicans and Democrats stand as they prepare for the 2014 Mid Terms, the article finds that the Republicans will keep the House and even could retake the Senate or cut the Democratic majority down. 

Lets Get Real:

It is to early for this blog to make a prediction on the 2014 Mid Terms, the reporting of the NYT could be spot on, it could turn out that the Republicans keep the House but the Senate by a narrow majority remains in the hands of the Democrats and the Oval.  That is the pray of Democrats if they believed in God, otherwise if the Republicans retake the Senate it could be a very cold and rough last two years for President Obama.   The Senate Republicans would start to investigate ALL the scandals of the Obama Administration that the Oval and Democratic Senate have stalled.   

Hillary Clinton, Benghazi and 2016

CNN - Politics: Reports the following on remarks by Hillary Clinton on Benghazi, " Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya was her biggest regret ....".

Lets Get Real:

This ALL about 2016, the issue of Benghazi is haunting the Clinton Campaign for 2016, they need a PR answer that allows Hillary Clinton to take the blame as she was the Secretary of State but without taking ownership for the deaths of four Americans in Libya.    Lets be very honest here, the Democrats will stress her time in the Senate and her appointment as Secretary of State to President Obama, but and this is the BUT the Republicans will use, her election to the Senate was based on her running for the Presidency in 2008, and she lost when see was seen by everybody as the future nominee before the arrival of President Obama.  In her time in the State Department was more about air miles that success, her restart with Russia has seen Putin replace Obama as the World's leader, also Syria started under her watch, then we have the terrorist attack in Libya.   Hillary Clinton is NO Bill Clinton, lets see if there are Second Chapters when you fail to win a Presidential Nomination. 

Ukraine Crisis - Great Russia Threat

Guardian: Reports the following from the Ukraine, " Ukraine threatens state of emergency after protesters occupy justice ministry...Anti-government demonstrators now occupy four buildings in the centre of Kiev, including the city hall ".

Lets Get Real:

One has to wonder how much pressure that Russia is placing on the Ukraine President to keep the line, not to allow new elections that could move the Ukraine from Russian influence to the EU path favoured by the Western part of the Ukraine.   On the whole the US, UN and the EU have been very quiet about the protests in the Ukraine, the failure of the above to react to Syria has shown the weakness of the World Community.   Lets see if Putin's Russia does something before the Winter Olympics, keep an eye on the Eastern part of the Ukraine, this area looks to Russia as its protector, interesting times in the Ukraine.