SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET: 

UNBELIEVABLE – From the Washington Times:   Democrats will try to mount a filibuster to block the Iran nuclear deal from even having to reach President Obama’s desk for a veto, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid signaled Saturday in a statement.  He and his party colleagues already have enough committed supporters that they would be able to sustain an Obama veto and allow the Iran deal to proceed, but a filibuster would be an even bigger coup, halting the issue earlier in the process and heading off a protracted — and potentially politically costly — veto fight.  This is sickening.  Are we still the United States of America?   Are we being told that the United States Senate will be blocked from voting on the most important foreign-policy initiative in recent years?  All for the greater glory of Barack?  I hope Republicans make this a huge campaign issue, but I'm afraid the establishment may just go along with it.

HER PRIVATE GOVERNMENT – From Fox:   Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday confirmed that she and her family personally paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private email server that Clinton used when she led the agency.  “We obviously paid for those services and did so because during a period of time we continued to need his technical assistance,” the former secretary of state told reporters after a campaign stop in Portsmouth, N.H.  I think it's so wonderful that our gracious queen paid out of her own pocket for her e-mail system.  I mean, she does own the government, doesn't she?  I think we should give her the White House.  It's only right after all she's been through.

OH, THEY DIDN'T MEAN IT – From Breitbart:  Pentagon officials said Thursday that five Chinese warships that appeared near Alaska during President Barack Obama’s visit this week passed through U.S. territorial waters–and hastened to defend China’s actions as being consistent with international law.  The rush to avoid an international crisis contrasts sharply with China’s own aggression any time the U.S. approaches Chinese waters or airspace, even where Chinese claims are dubious.  We must understand our Chinese friends.  Who are we to question their cultural traditions?  Seriously, it is obvious that Obama, a profoundly leftist man, is determined to weaken this country and its responses as much as possible during his remaining months in office.  We see his appeasement of Iran and Russia.  Now we're seeing it with China.  I wonder what he'll give the Chinese next.

September 5, 2015