I am not clairvoyant enough to have known when Obama would sink but instinctively I knew it would only be a matter of time.
Arrogance and unjustified self-assurance are dangerous and when a president believes he can drink his own bath water that is even more dangerous.
Incompetence often takes time to reveal itself and with protection from the media and press Obama was able to defer the consequences but eventually all pigeons come home to roost and that also applies to turkeys.
There is nothing racial about being sickened by the use of White House power to attack your enemies, using the power of the Justice Department to investigate reporters, and the many cover-ups that have surfaced.
Putting campaigning over protecting the lives of Americans, pitting American against American is not leadership. It is naked and raw Chicago style politics, it is mean spirited and, most important of all, it reveals a lot about Obama. It was there all the while for those not blinded by his insincere smile, speechifying, the press and media's leg tingling nonsense and the fact that Obama's election was necessary to prove we had moved past racial intolerance.
When you take your eye off the ball you fumble! When you start by lying it often takes more lies to keep the hot air in the balloon. (See 1 and 1a below.)
Benghazi, IRS, AP Reporter and seeking money to prop up 'Obamascare' are scandals and cannot be rated one over the other because they have a common root - corruption and lying to cover up!
If anyone believes the investigations of these transgressions are racially motivated or are a purposeful attempt to bring Obama down they are not only deceived fools they too are dangerous because they know little about the fragility of our Republic which rests upon adherence to law and faith in the elected.
It appears the IRS rogues in Cincinnati were directed by the rogues in The White House
These pillars have been breached by an administration bent on punishment not competence.
These are sad times indeed. (see ` below.)
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Sen. Frank Lautenberg's death and his successor appointed by Gov. Christie should provide insight into where Christie stands philosophically. Stay tuned.
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1)Holder's Odd Defense
Justice now says its affidavit against a Fox News reporter wasn't true.
As they try to save Attorney General Eric Holder's job, not to mention his reputation, Obama Administration officials are employing some strange logic to defend the Justice Department's investigation of journalists. It'll be interesting to see if our liberal friends in the media buy it.
In its 2010 affidavit seeking a warrant to search the email of Fox News reporter James Rosen, Justice said there was "probable cause" to believe Mr. Rosen "has committed or is committing a violation" of the Espionage Act "as an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator." That sounds like a serious criminal charge, and Mr. Holder personally approved the warrant request.
Yet now, amid a media uproar, Mr. Holder's spinners are saying Justice never intended to prosecute Mr. Rosen. But if that's true, then the Department's warrant affidavit contained false claims about Mr. Rosen. Prosecutorial dishonesty is more common than it should be, but Justice officials don't usually cop to it as a way of defending an Attorney General. Should judges assume that the "probable cause" and "co-conspirator" claims in Justice's next warrant request are also a ruse?
The other odd assertion is that President Obama and Mr. Holder now suddenly want to revise the Justice Department's guidelines on dealing with journalists. But the current guidelines already require prosecutors to investigate journalists only as a last resort, inform the media organization of the request to see if a compromise can be worked out, and then narrowly tailor any request in order to limit damage to the First Amendment.
So we are now supposed to believe that the same man who ignored these current rules in pursuing Mr. Rosen is going to write new rules that he and his minions will suddenly follow. Aren't Attorneys General supposed to obey the law from the start?
1a) Issa: IRS Targeting of Conservatives Directed by Washington
By Greg Richter
The IRS agents in Cincinnati who were involved in the targeting of conservative groups were "being directly ordered from Washington," Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Sunday.
Issa, who is heading the House investigation into the affair, accused the White House of lying about the involvement of IRS headquarter officials in the scandal.
He also called White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a "paid liar."
"The administration is still - their paid liar, their spokesperson, picture behind - he's (Carney) still making up things about what happens and calling this local rogue," Issa said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"The reason that Lois Lerner tried to take the Fifth [Amendment when called to testify before Congress] is not because there's a rogue in Cincinnati," Issa added. "It's because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of Washington headquarters And we're getting to proving it.
"The administration is still trying to say there's a few rogue agents in Cincinnati, when in fact the indication is they were directly being ordered from Washington," he said.
Interviews of IRS workers from the Cincinnati office by House investigtors are providing evidence that the orders stemmed directly from Washington, Issa said. Though he stopped short of saying that President Obama was involved.
"My gut tells me that too many people knew that this wrongdoing was going on before the election, and at least by some sort of convenient benign neglect allowed it to go on through the election, allowed these groups, these conservative groups, these, if you will, not friends of the president to be disenfranchised through an election," Issa said. "Now, I'm not making any allegations as to motive, that they set out to do it. But certainly, people knew it was happening."
The public and the agency itself needs to be reminded that "we're watching," said Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, referring to lawmakers.
Issa said that one IRS agent was so uncomfortable with forcing conservative groups to jump through extra hoops that the agent requested a transfer.
But that agent should have become a whistleblower, and it was his committee's aim to change the culture of the tax-collecting agency where a whistleblower does comes forward, Issa said.
"These folks cannot get a pass by saying, 'I was ordered to do it.' Because ethically, they clearly knew this was wrong; they should have become whistleblowers," Issa said. "They should have done something on behalf of the American people … If the IG had been told, 'I'm being ordered to do this,' this investigation might have ended very differently."
Too many people were aware of the targeting before the election, Issa said, "and at least by some sort of convenient, benign neglect" allowed some "not-friends-of-the-president to be disenfranchised through an election."
Issa said people certainly knew that the targeting was happening. "They could have done something, and would have done something, I'm sure, if these had been progressive groups or groups that supported the president."
Issa denied trying to tie the wrongdoing at the IRS directly to the president. "What we've tried to do," he said, "is to get the kinds of transparency we were promised, which we're not getting."
In a separate controversy, Issa was asked whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath in the targeting of Fox News reporter James Rosen.
"He certainly could have been more candid if he remembered. And he should have remembered," Issa said.
It would be kind to say that Holder misled Congress when he said he had never been personally involved in prosecuting the journalist who received a leak of classified material, Issa said.
"It would be less kind and more accurate to say that would rise to be a lie by most people's standards."
But should Holder resign?
"That's up to the president," Issa said.
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