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This Is A Test…

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Testing the Obama machine:

Lerner’s admission of IRS’s inappropriate behavior was pre-planned public disclosure

What is going on right now in Washington DC is a test of the Obama machine. That’s what I prefer to call it even though it consists of much more than the Obamas.

The goal all along was to bring the Chicago machine national. Everyone in positions of control in Washington is from the second city. They even had a member of the Daley family in for council for a while.

The national machine had to be structured differently because there are so many concerns there that don’t exist in Chicago. But, the control over the finances, the police, the courts, the media, and the public that has existed in Illinois formed a blueprint for tyranny on a national scale.

After four and a half years time most of the necessary controls are in place. It’s time for a test. How would you accomplish that?

First you have to create a flurry of ‘Scandals’. Then you watch to see how well your machine deals with them. It’s gutsy. If it fails there will be hell to pay. But if it doesn’t fail the controls will be understood to be in place… and permanent. By everyone including your enemies.

“I don’t remember” is a brilliant ploy. Brilliant because it works and everyone knows it’s fake – and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

The Republican leadership is weak. Some, like John Boehner, are worse than weak. They are complicit. This is the perfect time to test the new machine.

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More Memory Loss And Petulance From The IRS

Had to share this:

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The, “It’s just not fair”, look on Miller’s face at the end of the clip is telling.

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More on Obama’s question dodging…

Regarding Obama’s non-response to the question of whether he or anybody in the White House knew about the IRS’s targeting of conservatives before last Friday, according to Charles Krauthammer, had him “parsing words in a way that makes President Clinton look unsophisticated.”

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Obama admits he knew about IRS profiling?

Yesterday in a press conference Obama was asked this question…

Mr. President, I want to ask you about the IRS. Can you assure the American people that nobody in the White House knew about the agency’s actions before your Counsel’s Office found out on April 22nd? And when they did find out, do you think that you should have learned about it before you learned about it from news reports as you said last Friday?

Here was his answer…

She didn’t ask him about the IG report and he certainly didn’t answer the question she did ask. I’d say that his unwillingness to say definitively that he didn’t know about the IRS scandal is tantamount to an admission that he did.

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Anybody Read Mark Steyn’s Column?

It’s scathing. He undestands the depths of the depravity and he calls them out for it. Here are a few highlights. The rest is here.

Throughout the all-night firefight in Benghazi, Washington’s priority seems to have been to do everything possible to deny that what was actually happening was happening at all. To send “soldiers” on a “mission” to “fight” the “enemy” was at odds with the entire Obama narrative of the “Arab Spring” and the broader post-Bush Muslim world. And so the entire U.S. military was stood down in support of the Commander-in-Chief’s fiction.

Chris Stevens was the poster boy for Obama’s view of the Arab Spring; he agreed with the president on everything that mattered. The only difference is that he wasn’t in Vegas but out there on the front line, where Obama’s delusions meet reality. Stevens believed in those illusions enough to die for them.

Where’s the “partisan politics”? Obama, Clinton, Panetta, Clapper, Rice, and the rest did this to one of their own. And fawning court eunuchs, like the ranking Democrat at the hearings, Elijah Cummings, must surely know that, if they needed, they’d do it to them, too.”

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Why do we care?

Why do we care if the IRS is used as a political enforcer? Why do we care if Americans are left to die in terrorist attacks and then the details covered up? Why do we care if the Administration is tracking the phone calls of reporters? Why do we care if the EPA helps politically favored groups and stonewalls others? Why do we care?

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) explains we don’t care; it is “a figment of his pigmentation.”

Of course the reality is that it is a pigment of his imagination.

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“Would You Believe The Administration Got Phone Records of The House Of Representatives?”

That doesn’t surprise me. Nothing surprises me any more when it comes to the Obama administration. But if this is true, how will the Congress react?

From Hot Air
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That’s the revelation made by California Congressman Devin Nunes, who sits on the House Ways And Means Committee on Hugh Hewitt’s Show Wednesday night. Here’s the key part of that transcript:

HH: The idea that this might be a Geithner-Axelrod plan, and by that, the sort of intimation, Henry II style, will no one rid me of this turbulent priest, will no one rid me of these turbulent Tea Parties, that might have just been a hint, a shift of an eyebrow, a change in the tone of voice. That’s going to take a long time to get to. I don’t trust the Department of Justice on this. Do you, Congressman Nunes?

DN: No, I absolutely do not, especially after this wiretapping incident, essentially, of the House of Representative. I don’t think people are focusing on the right thing when they talk about going after the AP reporters. The big problem that I see is that they actually tapped right where I’m sitting right now, the Cloak Room.

HH: Wait a minute, this is news to me.

DN: The Cloak Room in the House of Representatives.

HH: I have no idea what you’re talking about.

DN: So when they went after the AP reporters, right? Went after all of their phone records, they went after the phone records, including right up here in the House Gallery, right up from where I’m sitting right now. So you have a real separation of powers issue that did this really rise to the level that you would have to get phone records that would, that would most likely include members of Congress, because as you know…”

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“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.”

Here is a reminder of how Obama got to where he is today. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Down the memory hole to 2009.

“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” That’s what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.

A few weeks ago, Mr. DeFazio voted against the administration’s stimulus bill. The comment from Mr. Obama was a presidential rebuke and part of a new, hard-nosed push by the White House to pressure Congress to adopt the president’s budget. He has mobilized outside groups and enlisted forces still in place from the Obama campaign.

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“Obama fires acting IRS commissioner as pressure grows surrounding political targeting of conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status”

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If Obama thinks this will ease the pressure he hasn’t read history. It will only make the blood thicker in the water. To complete the metaphor the sharks are circling.

Daily Mail:

President Barack Obama has thrown his acting IRS commissioner overboard, making Steven Miller the highest-ranking casualty in a series of scandals that have swept his administration in recent weeks.

In a hastily called press conference in the East Room of the White House, Obaam told reporters that he had asked Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew to find out who was responsible for a program that targeted tea party groups and other conservative organizations for a special level of intrusive questioning after they applied for tax-exempt charitable status.

‘Lew took the first step by requesting and accepting the resignation of the acting director of the IRS,’ Obama said.

But in an email to IRS employees, Miller claimed he would only be leaving next month because his assignment would be over.

‘It is with regret that I will be departing from the IRS as my acting assignment ends in early June,’ Miller wrote. ‘This has been an incredibly difficult time for the IRS given the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation’s tax agency.”

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Eric Holder’s Alzheimers Defense

Holder: I can’t remember when I recused myself from the AP investigation, and I know I didn’t do it in writing

Huh?

Holder said he recused himself but now says he doesn’t remember doing it. He’s trying to have it both ways. He wants the protection that recusing himself provides but, just in case that doesn’t work, he wants to be able to say he was temporary insane.

Here is Attorney General Holder being questioned in Congress. He says he was a ‘fact witness’ but then he doesn’t know any facts.

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“Charlie Rangel: Obama answers not enough”

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Charlie Rangel doubts Obama? That’s what Politico says:

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that he believes President Barack Obama owes the American public explanations for both the seizure of Associated Press phone records by the Department of Justice and the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

“I don’t think anyone truly believes that the president has given us a sufficient answer for America, much less the press,” Rangel said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I think this is just the beginning and the whole idea of comparing this with Nixon, I really think is just, it doesn’t make much sense. But the president has to come forward and share why he did not alert the press they were going to do this. He has to tell the Americans, including me: What was this national security question? You just can’t raise the flag and expect to salute it every time without any reason and the same thing applies to the IRS.”

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Yeah. That’ll Work.

How stupid do they think we are? I guess we know the answer.

State Department shuts down Benghazi questions: ‘You’ll have to take my word for it’

“You’ll have to take my word for it,” said a spokesperson for the most transparent administration in history when reporters asked her to substantiate her claim that the CIA removed references to terrorists from the Benghazi talking points before the State Department ever saw them.

“If you look at the talking points and the train of that, the reference to al Qaeda was taken out even before the State Department saw the talking points,” Jen Psaki, former traveling campaign press secretary for the Obama team in 2012, told reporters during the State Department press briefing Monday.

This comment put Psaki in a tight spot because she had just denied a reporter’s request that the State Department release all drafts of the talking points.”

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Uh Oh! How Does This Play With, “I Got Bin Laden”?

This looks suspicious. After a raid like the one we have been taught to believe in on Bin Laden’s compound you would think that some sort of proof would have been a natural thing to provide. There isn’t any. If no one saw his body, and the SEAL team that performed the raid is dead in a helicopter crash and there is no coroborating evidence by Navy doctors or corpsemen … then what? Is it possible that the whole thing never happened?

From the UK Daily Mail:

Revealed: Military emails show that NO U.S. sailors witnessed Osama bin Laden’s secret burial at sea

Although the Obama administration has pledged to be the most transparent in American history, it is keeping a tight hold on materials related to the bin Laden raid.

In a response to separate requests from the AP for information about the mission, the Defense Department said in March that it could not locate any photographs or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden’s body. It also said it could not find any images of bin Laden’s body on the Vinson.

The Pentagon also said it could not find any death certificate, autopsy report or results of DNA identification tests for bin Laden, or any pre-raid materials discussing how the government planned to dispose of bin Laden’s body if he were killed.”


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Today’s Administration Scandal: EPA

The EPA played favorites with its fees waiving them almost universally for green groups and almost always imposing them on conservatives.

Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

CEI reviewed Freedom of Information Act requests sent between January 2012 and this spring from several environmental groups friendly to the EPA’s mission, and several conservative groups, to see how equally the agency applies its fee waiver policy for media and watchdog groups. Government agencies are supposed to waive fees for groups disseminating information for public benefit.

“This is as clear an example of disparate treatment as the IRS’ hurdles selectively imposed upon groups with names ominously reflecting an interest in, say, a less intrusive or biased federal government,” said CEI fellow Chris Horner.

Another day, another revelation of corruption in the administration of President Alinsky.

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NBC Nightly News Ignores Jay Carney’s Plea That They Not Compare Obama To Nixon

Of all the reports on Carney’s tardy press conference today the Washington Times’ report is as good as any. Carney was asked by a reporter if there was a ‘Siege Mentality’ at the White House. He said, “Absolutely not!”. It sounds like he was lying …again.

In the midst of revelations that the IRS targeted some of President Obama’s conservative opponents inappropriately, a reporter asked White House press secretary Jay Carney about comparisons to President Nixon, whose administration compiled an “enemies’ list.”

“People who make those kind of comparisons need to check their history,” Mr. Carney replied. “It is a reflection of the sort of rapid politicization of everything that you have that kind of commentary.”

Mr. Carney said categorically that nobody at the White House knew about the IRS controversy until a few weeks ago, and said top White House officials then received information only “very broadly” about it.”

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Politico Continues Its Transformation: “D.C. turns on Obama”

Once the liberal leaning blog Politico was firmly in the tank for President Obama. That is changing. The website has been reporting on the travails of the Obama administration for some time. That’s news because they used to protect him from exposure.

Today they have a reasonable report on how Washington DC and the media establishment are changing their tune.

Obama is in trouble and they want to pile on.

Obama’s aloof mien and holier-than-thou rhetoric have left him with little reservoir of good will, even among Democrats. And the press, after years of being accused of being soft on Obama while being berated by West Wing aides on matters big and small, now has every incentive to be as ruthless as can be.

This White House’s instinctive petulance, arrogance and defensiveness have all worked together to isolate Obama at a time when he most needs a support system. “It feel like they don’t know what they’re here to do,” a former senior Obama administration official said. “When there’s no narrative, stuff like this consumes you.”

Republican outrage is predictable, maybe even manageable. Democratic outrage is not.

The dam of solid Democratic solidarity has collapsed, starting with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s weekend scolding of the White House over Benghazi, then gushing with the news the Justice Department had sucked-up an absurdly broad swath of Associated Press phone records.”

It really sucks when you act imperially but the serfs finally see that you have no clothes. They come out with pitchforks, tar and feathers. It has happened many, many times in the history of the world. It will continue to occur.

The IRS scandal caused a lot of people who otherwise supported Mr. Obama to begin to doubt him. But the attack on the Associated Press caught the attention of the news media. They supported him until he attacked them.

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Obama Sicced IRS On More Than Conservatives

After all it’s about getting even:

Reporter Claims IRS Harassment After Tough Obama Interview

St. Louis Reporter Larry Conners revealed via Facebook yesterday that he has been “hammered” by the IRS since his much-discussed interview with President Obama. Conners, a veteran reporter, asked tough, but fair question during the interview which was slammed by progressives in media. Conners says:

Shortly after I did my April 2012 interview with President Obama, my wife, friends and some viewers suggested that I might need to watch out for the IRS.
I don’t accept “conspiracy theories”, but I do know that almost immediately after the interview, the IRS started hammering me.
At the time, I dismissed the “co-incidence”, but now, I have concerns … after revelations about the IRS targeting various groups and their members.”

Just like they do it in Chicago.

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What’s This About? WH Twitter Account Has A ‘Fallen Eagle’ As A Background

This is no mistake. The eagle is upside-down. Why?

Look for yourself here.

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Hat tip to Gateway Pundit

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The Maturing Of Leftist Kirsten Powers Continues

Powers has come a full 180 degress from being an Obama sycophant to here calling him a liar.

He’s so centrally involving himself with these repeated lies. And, I’m just going to call them lies because they’re lies. They’re on tape. Nobody thought that he called it a terrorist attack. Last night I went up and I looked at the New York Times how they reported it (Benghazi) the day after. They never reference that we had a terrorist attack against the United States. On September 20th, however, they run a story that says Libyan envoys killing was a terrorist attack. And they say until now White House officials have not used that language in describing the assault. That is September 20th. That is The New York Times. Now at what point are people going to get tired of the president coming out and over and over saying things like don’t believe your lying eyes?”

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Obama Administration Scandal Number Three

First there was the lack of interest they showed in protecting the lives of four Americans as an American facility in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. The four were murdered and the Obama administration covered it up by lying about what happened and why. They’re still doing it.

Second the Internal Revenue Service harassed conservative groups like the TEA party and others. Also several other groups with connections to Israel were targeted. The administration first said it was low-leve people who did it. Then the head of the IRS said it was a top-level decision and apologized for it. The asministration denied knowledge.

Third it was reported today that the Department of Justice has been spying on the Associated Press by illegally tapping their telephone lines. It went on for months.

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know,” Pruitt said.”

So, we have the Department of State in a scandal because of the handling of Benghazi, the department of the Treasury for the IRS lawbreaking, and now the Department of Justice for illegally tapping the phones of the AP.

How many more departments are there and how many of them are engaged in scandalous behavior? Things are breaking fast. The Chicago way is being exposed for what it is: corrupt.

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