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News was made on two fronts in the House of Representative’s Committee looking into the nuclear deal with Iran but has gone unreported by seemingly every cable news and local news station on the air.  One has to wonder how such experienced and talented journalist could miss both sets of news made on that Tuesday by John Kerry but maybe this truly is more about viewership and ratings than anything else.  We all know that sex sells which is why movies and commercials are full of sexually implicit things, now we know that controversy gains viewers because instead of these stories being top news, they were pushed back for what?  Well if this is true then let me be one of the first to clue this nation in but before I do let me also make one other thing extremely clear.  Nothing anyone says about this president and his administration is going to change the minds of those who truly despise him so this is not my reason for passing on what I learned on C-Span.  The ...

I was watching MSNBC and saw a report from Luke Russert regarding the super committee and their work to reduce the deficit by 1.2 trillion dollars.   Mr. Russert and Savannah Guthrie spoke about how Republicans really had an incentive to reach a compromise if for no other reason than to avoid the deep cuts to defense. I may be wrong but I cannot help but think that a party who were willing to allow this country to go into default and have been targeting social security, Medicare and other social safety nets, would not really care about deep cuts to any program as long as it does not give this president a supposed win on anything.   I would consider it a miracle if they worked really hard at anything which involved this administration. How soon we forget, that before this president was even inaugurated, the Republicans had met and decided not to help this president in any way.   What allowed him to get as much done as he did was the majority in the House and the S...