how is this mismanagement?

..and have a Grand Opening. Idiots.

This is so inappropriate. The media and the public MUST see through this?

...in the main, they probably won't. For the most part, the media will do the usual they said/they said routine, while the public is suggestible.

For example, last week, literally within hours of Chen leaving the embassy for the hospital and the supposed deal unraveling, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) were holding a hearing without any Democrats at all, but with a former Reagan administration official, Michael Horowitz (now with the Hudson Institute), as one of the witnesses. Things were still unfolding and indeed undecided in China, and already Horowitz was condemning the State Department staff in general as completely incompetent, and Wolf was demanding a detailed account from the administration.

One of my co-workers -- not a right-winger, not at all -- took the performance completely at face value, despite the tone that was informing the whole thing.

But attention spans being what they are, the media will move on, and so will the public. The GOP is just trying to milk this.

I wondered when and how Graham was going to insert himself into this election. Fellow DUers I submit that Ayotte will be Mittens running mate. Graham is not about to introduce a bill with a second stringer. Not that media whore. Jus sayin...

if a couple of Democratic Seantors pulled a stunt like this during sensitive negotiations in progress for the release of someone like Chen during a Republican administration? There would be howls of treason on every damn Sunday talk show. Fox would be in a state of perpetual BREAKINGNEWS frothing at the bit to start a recall campaign.

Scandalous. I would expect something like this from Inhofe or DeMint but not from Graham.

Mitts already weak on china. and we have nothing to show for it for all the Right wing crack downs on our civil rights during the OWS protests. china will point this out. We can't go after china if we are doing just the same thing...

Right wing crack downs on our civil rights during the OWS protests. china will point this out. We can't go after china if we are doing just the same thing...

Really? Are you talking about this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/occupy-oakland-violence-_n_1073325.html
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/30/oakland-mayor-quan-says-occupy-protesters-using-city-as-playground/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203687504577002113940129568.html

So the Democratic mayors of Atlanta and Oakland are the Right wing?

And you want to compare the actions of these Democratic mayors to the human rights record of China, with its occupation of Tibet, ethnic cleansing in Tibet and Xinjiang, forced sterilizations, abortions, and infanticide under the one-child policy, Tiananmen Sq., etc.?

Talk about an infantile sense of moral equivalency. Sheesh.

Democratic is how you act, what you are, not what you claim to be, not what you name yourself.

There is nothing "Democratic" about repressing free speech. And "Democratic" mayors need to remember that.

In fact, it is our job to remind them.

...is not free speech. Neither is vandalism of public and private property.

But that begs the question - do you agree that what these mayors did is equivalent to Chinese actions?

goppers don't care about human lives.

as "closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out" and my dad as "Monday morning quarterbacking."


rocktivity

And everything to do with sabre rattling with China -- a move that would be sure to backfire by making relations worse between the two nations. This is a case where the Republicans need to STFU.

It's like a little whiny dog chewing on your ankle.

Although, I must say it's amusing, very amusing, to see Republicans, any Republicans, going on about somebody else's human rights record or diplomatic efforts.

Our Congress is officially a JOKE

the people IN CHARGE of the situation cut a deal where EVERYONE saved face and EVERYONE got what they wanted.

so shut the fuck up cause you rethugs sound like spoiled babies crying cause mommy won`t give up another sucker.