Split in Democrats OVER NSA Spaying - 2nd Term Blues

BBC News: Reports that House Democrats will support the Republican Amash amendment to block the NSA spaying on Americans. 

Lets Get Real:

Lets recall folks that the 2014 Mid Term Elections is around the corner, the liberal base of the Democratic Party will be asked for money by Congressional Democrats, the extreme liberal base reject the idea of BIG GOVERNMENT, if this was happening under a Republican President there would be calls for a Watergate type investigation, but since this is the 1st African American President and liberal to boot, they left on the whole has been quite, but they will want their people on the Hill to support any move to curb the power of the NSA, thus folks, lets see what pressure that the base places on the HILL, if the Republicans retake the White House in 2017 expect the Democrats to return to normal, by 2017 they will be going bonkers, the Obama Administration is not pure liberal as they expected, they will need to vent by 2017. 

Obama and the NSA - 2nd Term Blues

The White House: Press Statement by the White House Press Secretary on the Amash Amendment that would block NSA funding to spy on the phone records of US Citizens. The Statement states the following, " In light of the recent unauthorized disclosures, the President has said that he welcomes a debate about how best to simultaneously safeguard both our national security and the privacy of our citizens.  The Administration has taken various proactive steps to advance this debate including the President’s meeting with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, his public statements on the disclosed programs, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s release of its own public statements, ODNI General Counsel Bob Litt’s speech at Brookings, and ODNI’s decision to declassify and disclose publicly that the Administration filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.  We look forward to continuing to discuss these critical issues with the American people and the Congress.

However, we oppose the current effort in the House to hastily dismantle one of our Intelligence Community’s counterterrorism tools.  This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process.  We urge the House to reject the Amash Amendment, and instead move forward with an approach that appropriately takes into account the need for a reasoned review of what tools can best secure the nation.  ".

Lets Get Real:

The liberal base of the Democratic Party will not be happy that the Oval is trying to block this Bill that would prevent the National Security Agency from collecting the phone records of ALL of Americans.  From the left point of view its BIG BROTHER gone wild, but this is the age after 9/11, THE Oval can not afford for something to go wrong on his watch.  Even if this passes the House it should die in the Senate, in less Majority Leader Reid can not control his group.  One can argue that this move is more of warning shot over the bow of the Oval, keeping the Oval aware that the Congress is a equal branch of the US Government.  On this the Oval is right, Nixon would have loved the spaying of the NSA one would assume. 

Obama and the the Freedom of the Press - 2nd Term Blues

The New York Times: Reports that a Federal Court has ordered  that one of its reports James Risen " ..must testify in the criminal trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency official charged with providing him with classified information.  ".

Lets Get Real:

This is a wise move by the Federal Court, when it comes to National Security there must NOT be a shield for reporters, it is far to easy for reporters and bloggers it must be said to use the argument that they should be allowed to release matters of State, even a liberal democracy needs its a secrets, this is not the 1970s and Watergate/Vietnam folks, that time is OVER, after 9/11 the State has to carry out ACTS that will not look good on the front page of the ubera liberal NYT.   Of late we have seen the release of the fact that the drone kill list goes up to the Oval, thus they are the Obama kill list for terrorists, that there was an attempt to sabotage the nuclear plants of Iran, thinks folks if the press during World War Two had released the fact that the Allies had broken the signals of the German Subs, also the military messages of the Germany Army, that the US had broken the signals of the Government of Japan.  What if the press had leaked the story of the lies that were used up to D - Day, they result could have been very different folks.    Thus good view of the US Federal Court system.  Liberals have to learn folks, even reporters, security comes first. 

Is Kerry hearing what he WANTS to HEAR? - Middle East Peace!

CNN  - Politics: Reports the following after the statement by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to new talks, the article raises the issue of Israeli concessions, " Reuters report quoting an Israeli official who said the Jewish state agreed to a plan for peace talks based on pre-1967 borders and land swaps. ".

Lets Get Real:

Folks THIS Israeli Government will not agree to the 1967 borders, the US, EU and the UN can go blue in the face and this is not going to happen, the present Coalition Government is Israel would fall if it tried to give East Jerusalem as a Capital to the Palestinians, also the new Israeli Government will NOT STOP building, this is smoke screen is to please the Oval, also force the Oval to deal with the problems of Syria and Iran.    One has to ask is Secretary Kerry hearing what he wants to hear, what people say in the Middle East and what they do are two different things folks, out of ten folks, 9/10 these talks will fail after the UN general meeting in September, and we will be back at the start folks, that is the history of the Middle East folks. 

The REAL Israeli Position and the Palestinians

Telegraph: Reports the following from an Israeli source when it comes to the new talks, " ..But one Israeli official indicated that the agreement was fragile. ".

Lets Get Real:

As the article notes the real reason for Israeli agreeing to these talks is to BLOCK the Palestinians doing an end run at the UN to get the status of a State, once that is OFF the table these talks will fail, no Israeli Government is going to give up East Jerusalem as a Capital for the Palestinians, a REAL Palestinian State, with its own air force and army would be a threat to Israel, lets look at how Al Qaeda has formed a base in Syria due to its Civil War, the security of Israel must come FIRST for any Government of Israel, no matter what the Oval, EU or even the UN wants, they will not be there if it goes wrong and the Jewish people are forced in to the water because they have done what makes the above happy, Obama will be gone in 2017, the EU has its own problems, and the UN is just a talking shop at the end of the day.   The Israeli Government should not allow itself to be a sucker for the wishes powers who are not under threat.   This is the real world folks. 

Real Middle East Talks or just TALK ? - 2nd Obama Term

Guardian: Reports the following on the new talks between Israel and the Palestinians, " Fears that Netanyahu could drag out any negotiations were fuelled by an unidentified Israeli government minister saying the prime minister's primary objective was merely to show willingness to negotiate, and that he did not intend to engage in a far-reaching peace process.  ".

Lets Get Real: 

The players in the Middle East know how to play out the clock, the Israeli Government can wait out President Obama, and Democrats need the Jewish vote in 2014 as not to lose more House Seats and keep the Senate, thus it comes down to supporting the Oval or getting re-elected the Democrats on the Hill will only support a deal that benefits Israel, and does not go down well with liberals, the EU and the Palestinians.    This US election cycle is ruthless folks, we are now in the 2014 Cycle, after November  2014  the US election cycle moves on to the Presidential cycle, thus the expected Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton can not afford to upset Conservative Jewish voters who tie their vote to the future of Israel, thus the Clinton's if in their interest will make sure that there is space between the Clinton Camp and the Oval.   The Middle East crushes the ego of most residents of the Oval folks. 

New Middle East Talks - Obama 2nd Term

BBC News: Reports that Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to resume talks in Washington D.C.

Lets Get Real:

This could be Israel playing D.C, it has seen how successful Iran has been at playing the Oval, when it agrees to talks, this gets the Oval off the back of Israel while Israel could be planning to attack the nuclear plants of Iran.  The two State stage solution is dead folks, it had its time and the Palestinians when Bill Clinton was in office walked away, NO Israeli Government is going to agree to a right of return for those Palestinians forced out of Israel, IF Israel agreed to a right of return, the Jewish State would no longer be a Jewish State, no Israeli Government will agree to that, also the US Congress will back up Israel against any Oval pressure.    This is a sideshow folks, Syria and Iran are the major hot spots.