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An article @FoxNews.com relates that, “Two more Democratic defections over the Iran nuclear deal have exposed deep divisions at the top echelons of the party just as lawmakers entered the August congressional recess, putting added pressure on President Obama to lock down support ahead of a vital vote next month.”

 

The two Democrats referred to are Senator Chuck Schumer and  Rep. Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, both of them from New York. And, if Fox’s information is accurate, both made a huge mistake in the timing of their decision.

 

Schumer, who’s never made a decision that didn’t further his career and ambitions above all else, waited so long to present his opinion on the nuclear deal that the only rational conclusion one could reach would be that he wanted to be certain that the deal would pass before he announced his position. One would also have to assume that Engel did the same thing.

 

However, if Schumer’s defection actually has some negative effect on Democrat votes, he may very well have taken himself out of contention as their Senate leader. Which is not only a major political mistake but would also make him appear as doing the right thing for the first time in his self-serving career.

 

In response on Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry said "I profoundly disagree" with Schumer and Engel. Which in and of itself indicates that their opposition is the right thing to do, and best for the nation..

 

On another subject, today Maureen Dowd analyzed Trump’s performance in the debate in her Op-ed column @nytimes.com. While the article itself was simply more recapping of the subject which is getting repetitive and was boring to begin with, a reader posted a self-descriptive comment about the event. 

 

Ken Camarro wrote: “What was missing? I don't remember any GOP third-rail questions on gun-safety regulations, the need for new kinds of police and community training, confirmation of the rights of gay and lesbian Americans, the need to raise the level of USA education, energize our infrastructure rebuilding, raise our diplomacy might even more, and the need to counter-attack climate change and expand energy conservation. There were no substantive questions on the 11 million undocumented immigrants and how they may have earned a place for citizenship just based on their performance as quasi-citizens. There was no address to what kinds of businesses, jobs, and job training might change our income and opportunity equations."

 

And the reason that those issues weren’t raised is because this was a Republican debate that dealt with the major issues affecting the nation and its future. Thus if Mr. Camarro wants to repeat the past eight years, watching the U.S. go toward unbridled socialism and spend it’s time and resources on fictional subjects, he should have waited a few more months and viewed the Democrat debate, if they actually ever have one.    

 

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife, which is focused on one of her rivals, Joe Biden.

 

Josh Lederman of the Associated Press via Drudge, writes that, “while Biden has yet to ask staff to organize on his behalf, he has started showing interest in details like filing deadlines and what it would take for him to raise enough money to build a campaign structure in the limited time left, said the aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to comment publicly.

 

“A Biden candidacy is still believed by his associates to be unlikely. It would dramatically reshape the Democratic race and undercut the sense of inevitability surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton. Although still the clear front-runner, Clinton has seen declines in her favorability ratings just as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been drawing large crowds, demonstrating the appetite in the party for a Clinton alternative.”

 

Notwithstanding Biden’s wishes should he prefer not to enter the presidential race, he may be forced to do so. Because the way things are going regarding investigations by the Justice Department, FBI and committee’s in congress, into possible criminal conduct on the part of Bill’s wife while in office, Democrat voters may need him. In fact, it now looks like both Bill’s wife’s poll numbers and she herself might wind up in the tank.

 

Leading to the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you reading this?

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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