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Enter
speaker of the House, who made
his name tangling with a president of another party — and he
doesn’t even bat an eyebrow at
Menendez confessing that it is
okay with him if Obama opts to
just ignore Congress if it ends up
not granting him the authority to
use force in Syria.
Nevertheless, Crossfire didn’t
achieve the apotheosis of stupidity until the end of the show,
when Cutter and Gingrich returned to make good on a promise
to present “something we agree
on.” I kind of thought the point of
LOOKING FORWARD
IN ANGST
Crossfire was to sow disagreement
at every turn, but I decided to
stick it out, in genuine interest of
finding out where Cutter and Gingrich had found common ground.
It was not worth getting excited
about. Here is a list of the things
upon which they agreed:
1. “Today’s development with Russia is a great development.”
2. “The president has a big
mountain to climb in terms of
getting Congress to approve his
resolution.”
3. This is a “tumultuous period
of change.”
4. “The last 48 hours, so many
different things were happening.”
5. “It’s going to be interesting to
HUFFINGTON
09.15.13
Former U.S.
senators Joe
Lieberman
and Rick
Santorum
joined hosts
Van Jones
(left) and
S.E. Cupp
(middle) on
Crossfire.