There's something so sweet when you can put politics to music...I just can't help myself, or maybe I prefer not to. Anyway, here's a good song for John McCain and company pertaining to their fiasco with/about Susan Rice.

Charlie Crist connected with Chris Christie, Christie Brinkley, and Peter Criss from KISS on Christmas.

say that a few times fast...

"Meet my demands or America gets it"?

I really think America will get it by 2014 and Mr. Boehner should be very worried!

Rachel, you stated tonight that the Affordable Care Act was passed because the Massachusetts Governor appointed a Democrat to take the place of Senator Kennedy after his death, so the Democrats had a 60 person filibuster proof majority. I thought it was passed after Brown was elected in the special election, so they had to pass the Affordable Care Act as a "budget" item so that it could be passed with a simple majority. Who's right?

The McCain/Brown theory only works if there is an Obama/Reid collaboration on filibuster reform. If Harry reforms the filibuster then it kinda doesn't matter if Brown wins the seat. Plus...I'm not convinced we don't have another Kennedy to run for that seat if Kerry gets tapped for SoS.

Any Kennedy can beat Brown. Even if they are not related to the real Kennedy's. Just have the last name Kennedy and its a lock. Heck, Maria Shriver can beat Brown.

Personally, I think McCain is just still butt hurt over being whooped by Obama.

Gov. Crist is an example of what the GOP needs...restructure by causing those of us in the middle, the fence sitters, the undecided to choose by squeezing down the 'independent' gap between the parties...shift to the left and leave the Tea Partiers and hard line conservative (? whole nuther discussion) to the right into their own unconsequential party...so we can return to a strong 2 party system...of honest and fair debate with passion but courteousness and compromise that doesn't necessarily mean meeting in the middle - it is give and take, sometimes choosing the least of the worst and joining to make the same decision.

I'm certainly willing to consider Rachel's hypothesis-theory about Susan Rice's pseudo-problem with John McCain. Surely the republicans are up to something. Conspiracy is a constant theme in republican rhetoric. It implies, indeed almost insures, that the conspiracy they are projecting is, in fact, really their own. Her Scott Brown notion may be true.

I would add though that the republicans have an almost genetic hatred for the United Nations. This goes back at least to the first world war. They have this constant rhetorical beat going on "fear one world government". The international right wing, including our own republicans, have embraced the WTO (World Trade Organization). Here there is no mention of the fear of a "one world government".

When President Wilson was trying to get the League of the Nations approved the actual problem was the republican party. Everyone embraced the League of Nations except the United States. Our republican congress refused to sign on. There are historians that are willing to ascribe the origin of the Second World War to the absence of a League of Nations. The thinking goes something like this. The settlement imposed by the French was badly one sided. This fact was not lost on the Germans. The League would have had a good chance of making that settlement more realistic. A realistic settlement might have defused some of the German anger. Those thinkers are willing to consider that the Second World War was caused by the republican congress of the United States.

Do some of Susan Rice's problems stem back to the First World War? Possibly. But the current activity seems outsized. It seems so large that it lends credibility to Rachel"s thesis. It looks like an uncaused cause.

Gov. Crist is an example of what the GOP needs...instead of opening the chasm of 'independents', 'fence sitters', 'middlers', 'undecided'...slide the party left, allow those of us in that 6% to join a strong 2 party system. Shove the Tea Party and Ultra Conservatives to the right into their own unconsequential party. Recognize that compromise isn't always 'meeting in the middle'...it sometimes means having to agree to choose the best of the alternatives and openly explaining to the constituency why the choice had to be made for the good of the whole without ignoring the minority.

It is time that the people of the United States ascribed the republican party to the trash bin. We need a progressive left party to lighten the democrats. There are enough right leaning democrats to make up a whole party.

With regard to Ms. Susan Rice, I think Sen. McCain should be
informed of the authority and responsibilities of an Ambassador in the U.S.
Department of State. Whether addressing a foreign head of state or the United
Nations, and Ambassador only has the authority to assert the position of his or
her Government. Furthermore, a U.S. Ambassador is not responsible for
developing and sharing intelligence with the public, and he or she has no
responsibility to say anything to anyone based on intelligence reports he or
she might have read. The Constitution gives the President authority to make
foriegn policy and represent the interests of the U.S.
with other countries. Ambassadors serve at the pleasure and discretion of the
President. What they say in public is what the President and Secretary of State
want said.

The President and Secretary of State might have many reasons
for taking the position that an attack on a consulate stemmed from a riot versus
a planned organized terrorist scheme. They are entitled to do this when they
find that taking this position advances the National Security Interests of the United
States. Senator McCain is jousting with
windmills of his own making for his own reasons and those of his party. There
is no excuse for his conduct, he knows better than to pursue such fatuous
goals, and he should be ignored or fully exposed as a champion of an issue that
never existed. Ambassador Rice did and said exactly what her job required of
her. Any Republican Ambassador serving under a Republican President would have
done the same thing. Had McCain been president, he might well have taken the
same position that Obama and Clinton did.

There are times people need to ask themselves why they are
even talking about things that appear to be issues.

In regard to President Obama finding a way around the House Republicans to raise the debt ceiling on his own, I can guess where that would lead. There would be such an outcry by the Republican Party, that they would move to impeach the President for usurping the powers of Congress. It wouldn't matter if the people of this country would be hurt by the GOP once again putting us in financial peril, they'd love nothing better than to impeach this President (sound familiar?). I think they'd like to be able impeach him over Benghazi!

Rachel, re: the nude protest in Boehner's office - of the 7 people, three were arrested; the three were all the women, and the four men were what, just escorted out and NOT arrested? That is THE MOST SEXIST POS I have ever heard! What law enforcement agency do I write to here? That is just not acceptable; if nudity is unlawful, then it is for MEN TOO!!!!!

Video: How hugging the president lead to Crist's downfall

Do you people not know how to spell "led"? Seriously?