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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.
ShareMore Memory Loss And Petulance From The IRS
Had to share this:
The, “It’s just not fair”, look on Miller’s face at the end of the clip is telling.
ShareBill Whittle on Entitlements
This is not the first time I caught myself nodding along with Bill’s argument. Defeating the entitlement state–short of a collapse–really is dependent upon winning the war of ideas. Changing the culture of “the 47%” and indeed the nation is the only way that wholesale change will ever be made.
Bill truly nails it when he said that it’s all about self-interest. We as conservatives and libertarians, supporters of the free market, understand this better than anyone else! When you want to absolutely, positively convince a human being to do something, do you:
A) Tell them it is the moral and right thing to do?
B) Tell them that it is for the greater good?
C) Tell them how it will help his next door neighbor?
D) Show them how it will actually enrich and benefit their own selves??
Those of us who understand the hows and whys of the free market understand that the answer is absolutely (D). You don’t tell someone to buy an item because it’s the right thing to do. You show them it’s best to buy it because it will produce the greatest value for the buyer.
ShareMore 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.”
ShareGirly men are liberals
Physically powerful men are generally conservative and weaker men are generally liberal.
Men who are strong are more likely to take a right-wing stance, while weaker men support the welfare state, researchers claim.
Their study discovered a link between a man’s upper-body strength and their political views.
Scientists from Aarhus University in Denmark collected data on bicep size, socio-economic status and support for economic redistribution from hundreds in America, Argentina and Denmark.
Men who are physically strong – like Arnold Schwarzenegger – are more likely to take a right wing political stance
Tell us something we don’t know.
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.
ShareAnybody 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.
ShareThroughout 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.
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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.
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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.”
“Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’”
Power grab? The Posse Comitatus act is no more. It was gutted:
In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama signed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 into law. Section 1031, clause “b”, article 2 defines a ‘covered person’, i.e., someone possibly subject to martial law, as the following: “A person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.”
The story:
ShareThe manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, incentives offered in the ongoing “War on Drugs.” For the average citizen watching events such as the intense pursuit of the Tsarnaev brothers on television, it would be difficult to discern between fully outfitted police SWAT teams and the military.
The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries.
The most objectionable aspect of the regulatory change is the inclusion of vague language that permits military intervention in the event of “civil disturbances.” According to the rule:
Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.
Bruce Afran, a civil liberties attorney and constitutional law professor at Rutgers University, calls the rule, “a wanton power grab by the military,” and says, “It’s quite shocking actually because it violates the long-standing presumption that the military is under civilian control.”
“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:
ShareThat’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…”
White House Sock Puppet to become National Security Advisor
Susan Rice, the woman who told the world that the attack on the consulate in Benghazi was a very negative movie review, will be the new National Security Advisor.
Insiders with ties to the Obama administration tell The Cable that U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has become the heir apparent to National Security Advisor Tom Donilon — a post at the epicenter of foreign-policy decision making and arguably more influential than secretary of state, a job for which she withdrew her candidacy last fall amid severe political pressure.
“It’s definitely happening,” a source who recently spoke with Rice told The Cable. “She is sure she is coming and so too her husband and closest friends.”
“Susan is a very likely candidate to replace him whenever he would choose to leave,” agreed Dennis Ross, a former special assistant to President Obama and counselor at the Washington Institute. “She is close to the president, has the credentials, and has a breadth of experience.”
Never let it be said that Obama doesn’t reward his blindly loyal minions.
Share“Obama fires acting IRS commissioner as pressure grows surrounding political targeting of conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status”
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.
SharePresident 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.”
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.
Share“Charlie Rangel: Obama answers not enough”
Charlie Rangel doubts Obama? That’s what Politico says:
ShareRep. 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.”
Sen. Schumer Demanded The IRS Harass Conservatives Back In 2012
He’s a real sweetheart, Chuck is. From his website:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 12, 2012
SENATE DEMOCRATS URGE IRS TO IMPOSE STRICT CAP ON POLITICAL SPENDING BY NONPROFIT GROUPS—VOW LEGISLATION IF AGENCY DOESN’T ACT
Senators Seek To End Tax Code Abuse By Political Groups Masquerading As ‘Social Welfare Organizations’
In Letter to IRS, Lawmakers Say Firm Limit Should Be Set on Percentage of Nonprofits’ Spending That Can Be Devoted To Political Activities
Reforms Also Urged To Prevent Political Donors From Claiming Tax Deduction For Their Contributions”
Yeah. That’ll Work.
How stupid do they think we are? I guess we know the answer.
ShareState 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.”
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?
ShareRevealed: 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.”
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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