31.5.13
Michele Bachmann Leaving US House, But Nancy Pelosi Is Not? Why?
By John W. Lillpop
Republican Michele Bachmann(R-Minnesota) is in many ways the ideal candidate for Minnesota and for the United States.
She is:
Knowledgeable
Blessed with Excellent Judgment
Intelligent
Honest
Morally Circumspect
Young
Attractive
Pro-American
Fiscally Frugal
Conservative
All in all, Michele Bachmann is exceptionally qualified to serve the American people as an elected representative, especially in the era of Barack Obama and the Marxists where fierce opposition is essential for the preservation of the republic.
Given Backmann’s exceptional credentials why has she opted to leave the US House by not seeking reelection in 2014?
As reported at the reference:
Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann, who last year ran for the Republican presidential nomination, announced on Wednesday that she will stand down from her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In a video posted on her website and on YouTube, the stressed that her decision to stand down from her Minnesota seat was not due to any concern she would be defeated at the next election in 2014 or the inquiries into activities of her former presidential campaign staff.
And she said she would continue to fight for the policies she believes in and that her future was “limitless and my passion for America will remain.”
“There is no future option or opportunity … that I wouldn’t be giving serious consideration if it can help save and protect our great nation,” she said.”
While Rep. Bachmann leaves the US House, her diametrical opposite, the ultra-liberal nincompoop from California, Nancy Pelosi, apparently will seek to haunt the US House for yet another term.
Unlike Bachmann, Pelosi is a natural national disaster, long past due for forced retirement at the hands of intelligent, informed voters.
The problem is that Pelosi hails from San Francisco where “intelligent, informed voters” are all but outlawed and where America is regarded as the world’s most dangerous enemy!
By comparison to Bachmann, Pelosi is:
Woefully ignorant about current events
Has the judgment of a demented ass
Dumb as baby poop
A Pinocchio clone of Barack Obama
Morally Suspect
Too damn old to do anything but die
Suffering from Botox poisoning
Anti-American on all issues
A non-believer is fiscal responsibility, and
Too liberal for Moscow, Russia
So given the Bachmann advantages, why in the hell is she leaving while Pelosi remains?
Is this definitive proof that there is, in fact, no God?
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/29/18578678-michele-bachmann-im-quitting-my-house-seat-in-2014?lite
Barack & Eric Make Amos and Andy Downright Respectable by Comparison!
By John W. Lillpop
One of the great comedies to come out of radio and the early days of television was the Amos and Andy show which was a hilarious look at the foibles and follies of life in an stereotypically dysfunctional African-American community.
The show featured the manipulative and cunning “Kingfish” always on the hunt for a get-rich scheme, usually at the expense of his good-natured, but naïve, pal, Andy.
The early story lines and characters are described in detail at the reference.
Unfortunately, the show fell victim to PC mania when humorless liberals were disturbed that the show was disrespectful of African Americans.
Looking back now, with Barack Obama and Eric Holder in positions of political power, the good old days of Amos and Andy don’t look so demeaning after all.
Despite their minor character weaknesses, neither Amos nor Andy were involved in criminal acts against the American people. They did not lie and cover up murder in a foreign land; they did not use the tyrannical powers of the IRS to discriminate against conservative Americans, and they did not act to deny journalists absolute rights guaranteed by the US Constitution!
Perhaps America would be better off if our government was managed by Amos and Andy, rather than Barack and Eric?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_'n'_Andy
30.5.13
Where Was Barack the Night of September 11, 2012? TOP TEN Possibilities Revealed!
By John W. Lillpop
As the truth about Benghazi comes out little by little, the one question that Barack Obama and his henchman have not even tried to answer is this:
Just where in the hell was the Commander-in-Chief Obama during the late night of September 11 and early morning hours of September 12, 2012 when the embassy at Benghazi was under attack and four American diplomats were murdered?
Only a demented liberal would say the answer is “Irrelevant” or “What difference does it make?”
In fact it DOES matter and it is entirely relevant to securing a logical understanding of the events of that awful September night and early morning and for holding our government accountable for protecting innocent Americans placed in harm’s way by the administration.
Right-wing pundits are postulating a number of possibilities, mostly involving treason or other impeachable offenses.
Ten of the most popular theories are presented below:
On the night of September 11 and early morning of September 12, 2012, Barack Obama was engaged in one or more of the following:
* Live Fund-Raising Event at GITMO
* “Hands on” Tutoring of UN Ambassador Susan Rice for Sunday News Shows, Re Benghazi Talking Points
* Negotiations with Hillary Clinton Lawyer re Price for Delaying Her “Insider Tell-All” Book Until After Election
* Smoker’s Anonymous: Seminar for Elitists Who Need Extra Help Giving Up Pall Mall Unfiltered Longs
* “Spanish Basics for Dummies” Class in Advance of Meeting with Illegal Aliens in Oval Office
* Four Hour Q&A Session with Richard Nixon Via White House Channel Madam Jiraiffi
* Night Golf With Tiger Woods
* Secret Meeting with IRS Chief Douglas Shulman to Discuss Easter Egg Hunt Scheduled for Spring, 2013
* Private Screening of “Innocence of the Muslims” flick Used to Hide Truth About Terrorist Attack at Benghazi
* Meeting with Harry Reid to Discuss Mitt Romney’s Tax Records
There are other possibilities, of course. It is even possible that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Jay Carney have told the truth—however, that is considered too small a probability to be seriously considered.
Where was Barack Obama the night of September 11, 2012?
Fret not Patriots: The truth WILL OUT!
Barack Obama, the Pinocchio President!
By John W. Lillpop
In a scandal that has yet to receive appropriate attention from the mainstream media, yet another impeachable offense hovers above the head of embattled US President Barack Obama and his comrades in lies in Washington, D.C.
Reliable sources are reporting that America faces a historic Pinocchio shortage brought on by a record influx of misrepresentations, denials, fabricated stories, exaggerations and out-and-out lies promulgated by President Obama, DOJ boss Eric Holder, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and a variety of unnamed co-conspirators, all Democrats, in Washington.
Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney has been rumored to be a central figure in the Great Pinocchio scandal of 2013.
Although he declined to discuss specific details of the mushrooming kerfuffel, Carney did deliver a terse statement to members of the Washington Press Corp, which reads as follows:
“Based on conversations with the president, I can state categorically that he is confident that his administration has been the most transparent, forthright, and honest in US history. That confidence extends to this reporter who has usually told you the truth, the unvarnished truth, and nothing but the truth.
The very idea that the President and or his spokesman would prevaricate on issues vital to the health and safety of the American people is highly offensive. Neither the President, myself, the Attorney General, or Former Secretary Clinton are amused by this reckless speculation.
This Administration is committed to getting to the bottom of this ugly, viscous partisan assault and we will be looking into e-mails, phone records, tax filings, video rental records, and other personal information to flesh out the truth.
Rest assured that whichever right-wing extremist group is responsible for this vendetta, remedial action will be taken.
As much as I would like to take your questions, I must decline because the matter is currently under investigation.
Good day.”
(Applause from the press.)
And so goes another lost opportunity for the media to show that it has the cajoles to meet its constitutional obligation to provide an objective, unbiased oversight of the executive branch of government!
29.5.13
Mexican Authorities Arrest Mormon-American Mother of Seven Based On Yankee Profile!
By John W. Lillpop
In Mexico, justice is readily available to all, PROVIDED that one has the money needed to bribe one’s way through the multi-layered maze of corruption that engulfs the entire legal-penal system in this third-world, failed state.
Just ask Yanira Maldonado, a Mormon mother of seven from Arizona who continues to rot in a Mexican jail on a contrived drug smuggling charge based on Mexican profiling of Maldonado because of her American heritage.
As reported at the reference:
The family of an Arizona mother who is being held in a Mexican jail, accused of smuggling drugs on her way back from a family funeral, said her second day in court will be "key" to her release.
Yanira Maldonado and her husband Gary were on a bus home to from Mexico a week ago after going to a funeral there for Maldonado's aunt when the bus they were on was stopped by soldiers at a checkpoint in Hermosillo, about 170 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
The soldiers claimed they found 12 pounds of marijuana strapped underneath Gary Maldonado's seat, only to later switch their story, and allege the drugs were underneath Yanira Maldonado's seat, her family said.
Since then, the Mormon mother to seven children has been held behind bars, despite the family's best efforts to free her — even taking the advice of a Mexican attorney and trying to bribe officials with $5,000 at the beginning of an ordeal that Gary Maldonado's brother-in-law, Brandon Klippel, described on Tuesday as a "nightmare that felt surreal."
But Maldonado was simply transferred from a Hermosillo jail to a women's facility in Nogales — not freed. She has not officially been charged.
Her first day of court, where she was represented by a local attorney, concluded yesterday without a decision on her freedom. According to Klippel, she will return to court Wednesday for a "key" day.
"They will be hearing testimony from the soldiers at the checkpoint today and our attorney will have the chance to cross-examine them. This is the crux of the prosecution, so today is key," he told NBC News via email.
On Tuesday, Klippel said, two witnesses from the bus testified that the Maldonados stowed their luggage underneath the bus and didn't bring anything on board the bus with them. Two family members also testified, sharing details about the May 19 funeral that brought the Maldonados to Mexico in the first place.
A magistrate in Nogales must rule on Maldonado's case by 6 p.m. Friday, or she will be sent to another facility for what could be several more months of jail time.
The family fears what might happen if she is transferred.
“Our greatest fear right now is that our sister will be lost,’’ Klippel told Savannah Guthrie on TODAY Wednesday. “One of the things the attorney said to us right in the beginning is that once you’re in the federal prison system (in Mexico), they move you around without keeping good records. In fact, she was lost for the first day in the prison system when this first started."
So while our addled president and Congress work 24/7 to grant amnesty and citizenship for 11 million invaders from Mexico and points south, Mexico treats American citizens as cash cows ripe for milking/bilking.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/29/18586944-today-is-key-says-family-of-american-woman-jailed-in-mexico?lite
Eric Holder Investigating Eric Holder: What It Says About Barack Obama’s “Moral Authority”!
By John W. Lillpop
President Obama has done a lot of foolish, ill-advised, impeachable, disrespectful, arrogant, anti-American, unconstitutional, illegal and inexplicable things during the nearly four and one half years in which he has held the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue captive to Marxism and Islamic extremism.
Obama’s missteps have harmed the American economy and the prospects of prosperity for untold future generations; he has jeopardized national security with foreign policies that punish American allies, while rewarding terrorists and would be terrorists; he has refused to protect the US borders and has encouraged the invasion of American soil by millions of non-English speaking, uneducated, unskilled foreign peasants just to grow the Democrat Party; he has ravaged the First amendment rights of religious institutions and journalists; he has refused to face the severity of the nation’s spending addiction, by demanding that taxes be increased when even he knows that higher taxes stunt economic growth; he has wasted valuable tax dollars on alternative energy sources only to watch those dollars vaporize into bankruptcy, and he has exacerbated already strained race relations by using race as a political weapon to divide Americans.
In other words, Barack Obama is, and has been, a complete failure as president except to illegal aliens, sleeper cells, and socialists dreaming of ending capitalism in America.
However, despite Obama’s rich legacy of scandal, fraud, lies, and cover up, one situation rises above all the rest as proof that Barack Obama has not now, or ever had, the moral authority to lead America. The situation?
In spite of all the evidence against Eric Holder, Barack Obama continues to express confidence in the contemptible Attorney Journal, and refuses to “clean the swamp” by putting Holder on a fast track to private life, off the government teat.
Face it patriots: Barack Obama is an awful president not just because of his lack of experience in a real job, or his fondness for Marxism and Islam. Rather, Barack Obama is a failure because he lacks the moral integrity required to lead a great nation.
When it comes to moral authority and Barack Obama, there is no there there!
Labor Unions Finally Finding Out What’s in ObamaCare, & They Are NOT Amused!
By John W. Lillpop
In one of the dumbest quotes ever attributed to a sitting member of the US Congress, in 2010 Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the following about Obamacare: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it…”
That sort of mind-numbing idiocy should have sent chills up and down the spines of all intelligent Americans, including labor union leaders who ended up providing a great deal of money and muscle to make Marxist health care the law of the land.
Pelosi’s faux pas was an accurate, if unintentional, affirmation that government run by morons generally produces moronic legislation.
Which Obamacare certainly is!
However, now that America is finding out exactly what’s in the wretched Obamacare, some of the core constituencies that helped Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi bulldoze the bill through Congress are having second, third, and fourth thoughts.
In fact, some labor unions are actually calling for the “Affordable Care Act” to be repealed.
These are not Republicans or Tea Party advocates, folks: These are hard core far-left Democrats!
As reported at the reference:
The White House is losing support for Obamacare from some leading labor unions that are concerned their members could lose healthcare coverage once the program is fully implemented.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) said it is worried that its members will actually lose healthcare coverage they have now once the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented early next year, reports The Hill.
Joe Hansen, president of the UFCW, a 1.3 million-member group that endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, wrote in an editorial published in The Hill that Obama's claim at the 2009 AFL-CIO convention that union members could keep their current insurance under the new law “is simply not true for millions of workers.”
“You can’t have the same quality health care that you had before, despite what the president said,” Hansen asserted, adding: “Now what’s going to happen is everybody is going to have to go to private for-profit insurance companies. We just don’t think that’s right. … We just want to keep what we already have and what we bought at tremendous cost.”
At issue is the fact that many UFCW members have multi-employer Taft-Hartley plans, and the law apparently does not provide tax subsidies for the approximately 20 million people covered by them.
Hansen said in The Hill editorial that his members normally negotiate with their employers to receive better healthcare services in lieu of higher wages, and that the bargaining chip could be eliminated because some employers won’t have the incentive to keep their workers’ multi-employer plans without tax subsidies.
Hansen’s concerns are shared by other labor groups. Last month, the president of the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers issued a statement calling “for repeal or complete reform of the Affordable Care Act.”
Unite Here, a prominent hotel workers’ union, and the International brotherhood of Teamsters are also calling for changes, according to The Hill.”
Hmm, Repeal Obamacare, you say?
That sounds like a great idea, albeit a bit late, and is one of the major reasons why voters extracted the US House from the incompetent hands of Pelosi and awarded the gavel of majority to Republicans in 2010 and let it stand in 2012!
The desire to repeal Obamacare may be a new to labor unions, but it has been quite popular among conservatives for three years!
ALERT: Let the Obamacare train wreck serve as a warning to those who would dump 11 million (at least) illegal aliens on the backs of American citizens! As he did with Obamacare, Obama has mislead and misreprsented the probable results of amnesty.
Let’s NOT pass some ridiculous amnesty bill that will destroy the greatest society in the history of the human species.
https://www.sodahead.com/united-states/unions-turn-against-obamacare-face-loss-of-coverage-the-united-food-and-commercial-workers/question-3704027/
28.5.13
Will “Gang of Eight” Amnesty Flesh Out Hardened Criminals?
By John W. Lillpop
One of the more specious arguments advanced by proponents of amnesty for illegal invaders is that the bill
would require illegals to submit to criminal background and other checks to determine suitability for citizenship.
Presumably, those checks would be used to cull out undesirables, with those so identified shipped back to Mexico or other third-world nation of origin. Unless, that is, Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama conjure up another phony scheme for postponing, or canceling, deportations all together.
So, if we are to believe Senator Rubio and his seven equally- addled brothers in the US Senate, those who have crossed our borders illegally, taken up residence in violation of our immigration laws, stolen public goods and services to which they are not entitled, evaded income taxes, unlawfully voted in elections, and otherwise pummeled legitimate American citizens will suddenly find Jesus and become ideal candidates for US citizenship?
Are you serious, Senator Rubio?
Do you really expect Pedro, an illegal who has repeatedly been deported, only to invade again and again, to come forth voluntarily in repentance for the promise of amnesty, if and when, he passes a background check?
The same Pedro who has several DUI violations on his record and whom may have been involved in predatory sexual crimes?
Of course, not all illegals are drunken perverts! Perhaps not even most!
Still, the point is that illegals, although obviously disdainful of the rule of law and how it applies (or does not) to them, are NOT complete idiots—otherwise they would be in the US Senate kissing the ring of Harry Reid and the posteriors of those whom have “hijacked the most deliberative body in the world!”
Fact is, any illegal alien who has a tarnished past of any significance will be most reluctant to come forward and voluntarily confess to a “Rap Sheet” that would qualify him or her for a life time term at GITMO, rather than US citizenship!
Wise up Senator! Illegals are expert at gaming the system and manipulating dunderheads like you into really stupid actions!
JUST SAY NO TO AMNESTY!
Work for the interests of American citizens for a change!
26.5.13
In Rush to Generate Revenue, Why Has Obama Failed to Unleash IRS on Illegal Aliens?
By John W. Lillpop
Over the past years, Barack Obama has stubbornly, and blindly, countered demands for cuts in spending with counter demands for new or increased taxes.
Which is why the federal government is $16.5 trillion in debt, and growing, every year that Obama remains in office.
Give Obama’s maniacal obsession with taxes it seems curious that he has all but ignored a growing segment of American society that is notorious for deliberately evading their “fair share” of the tax burden.
That would be illegal aliens, who illegally feed at the public trough to take welfare, food stamps, and other public services intended for citizens, but many of whom pay no taxes.
Why has Obama not ordered brass-knuckled goons at the IRS to smoke out illegal aliens and force these scam artists and freeloaders to pay up, and get out?
Instead, Obama wastes precious IRS resources to harass, hound, and intimidate American citizens with the audacity to call themselves “patriots” or Tea Party members.
Just what the hell sense does that make?
The only explanation is a very sinister, political one: Illegal aliens are future Democrats.
There you have the Barack Obama formula for growing the Democrat Party: Refuse to secure the US- Mexican border, legalize the millions of invaders who make it into America, and convert the legalized illegals into voting Democrats!
Looking for Revenues? Why Not Target Illegal Aliens, Rather Than Law-abiding American Citizens?
By John W. Lillpop
In resisting every attempt to cut out-of-control spending at the federal level, Barack Obama constantly wails for more taxes. More taxes, and even more taxes!
However, while the scandal-ridden Marxist president uses the enormous powers of the IRS to harass and intimidate conservative organizations, he conveniently ignores the revenue opportunities available by targeting non-citizen invaders who do not belong here and who, in greater numbers than most, simply do not pay taxes!
Indeed, it is well known that illegals are expert at getting paid under the table, thereby avoiding their “fair share” of the tax load. These are the same scam artists and free loaders* who illegally feed at the public trough to take welfare, food stamps, and other public services intended for citizens!
They cost American taxpayers $113 billion a year in services to which they are not entitled!
So why in the hell does Obama not sic his blood-thirsty IRS on the millions of illegal aliens in order to collect taxes due and payable? To reduce the deficit, Barack?
He should do so rather than using the IRS to harangue conservatives whose only sin is being patriots or Tea Party advocates!
Of course, illegal aliens, unlike conservatives, are future Democrats. Right Barack?
* As labeled by Harry Reid years ago
In resisting every attempt to cut out-of-control spending at the federal level, Barack Obama constantly wails for more taxes. More taxes, and even more taxes!
However, while the scandal-ridden Marxist president uses the enormous powers of the IRS to harass and intimidate conservative organizations, he conveniently ignores the revenue opportunities available by targeting non-citizen invaders who do not belong here and who, in greater numbers than most, simply do not pay taxes!
Indeed, it is well known that illegals are expert at getting paid under the table, thereby avoiding their “fair share” of the tax load. These are the same scam artists and free loaders* who illegally feed at the public trough to take welfare, food stamps, and other public services intended for citizens!
They cost American taxpayers $113 billion a year in services to which they are not entitled!
So why in the hell does Obama not sic his blood-thirsty IRS on the millions of illegal aliens in order to collect taxes due and payable? To reduce the deficit, Barack?
He should do so rather than using the IRS to harangue conservatives whose only sin is being patriots or Tea Party advocates!
Of course, illegal aliens, unlike conservatives, are future Democrats. Right Barack?
* As labeled by Harry Reid years ago
Memoralizing the Loss of a Great Nation: Did Our Brave Heroes Die in Vain?
By John W. Lillpop
Notwithstanding the fact that contemporary celebrations of Memorial Day have more to do with three-day weekends, back yard barbecues, reckless episodes of alcohol abuse, and other frivolities, the original purpose was to set aside a national spiritual holiday to remember and honor the brave American men and women whom sacrificed their very lives in the service of this blessed nation.
Indeed, in the beginning, it was conceived as a day to memorialize those patriotic American men and women whom made the ultimate sacrifice to defend and preserve the liberties and precious freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
No one can deny that horse shoes, watermelon, and fried chicken add zest to the celebratory spirit of Memorial Day.
However, in much the same manner as Christmas is not really about glitterytrees, blinking lights, and mistletoe, so it is that the genesis of Memorial Day is really about things spiritual, rather than slothful excuses to overeat, over drink, and otherwise engage in intemperate behavior.
Memorial Day History*
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his , and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.
The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war).
It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead.
Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. While there are towns and cities that still hold Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some people think the day is for honoring any and all dead, and not just those fallen in service to our country.
Did Our Brothers and Sisters Die in Vain?
One cannot help but wonder whether the prices paid by American men and women in years past are justified given the fact that America is currently run by politicians who simply do not respect traditional American values, traditions, the Constitution or laws passed by Congress.
Ponder the following:
Our government is presently involved in three simultaneous scandals which involve:
1. Abandoning American citizens under attack at Benghazi, Libya in which four American diplomats were slaughtered by terrorists. The Obama administration proceeded to lie and cover up the real story behind the attack to protect a corrupt President in the closing weeks of a very close election.
How many American lives were sacrificed so that our government could deliberately leave American diplomats behind to die at the hands of Muslim terrorists and then cover-up the events, based on political expediency?
2. Using the oppressive powers of the IRS to target conservative organizations with the audacity to include the words “patriot” or “Tea” Party in their profiles.
How many of our precious men and women gave their all so that the government could use the IRS to plunder those foolish enough to call themselves “patriots”?
3. Using the Department of Justice to harass, intimidate, and smear members of the media with the audacity to exercise the 1st Amendment right to seek and report truth.
How many Americans were sacrificed to allow Eric Holder and Barack Obama to abuse the Freedom of the Press in persecuting journalists?
All of this makes clear that this Memorial Day the grieving should be for the tragic loss of an entire nation and the liberties and freedoms which that nation embraced, until now.
*http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html
25.5.13
Obama Must Not Surrender in War On Terror; Must Order IRS and Eric Holder to “Stand Down”!
By John W. Lillpop
The realization that Benghazi is not going away anytime soon has finally made it into the conscious mind of Barack Obama. As a result, the president returned to his 2012 campaign rhetoric in a feeble attempt to soothe anxious Americans with a “Counter-Terrorism” speech last week.
The gist of Obama’s speech was that Al-Quaeda has been decimated and the war on terror has been won … thanks to the stellar leadership of Barack Obama.
As reported in the media, Obama’s speech was both farcical and fanciful in an area of government that requires sober reflection and honest talk:
Yet, even as the new fronts in the war on terrorism sprang up, the Administration continued to argue that it was winning. After Islam terrorists murdered Americans and burned a U.S. consulate to the ground in Benghazi, the President claimed he was winning. As homegrown terrorists kill in Boston and London, he claims he is winning. As the Taliban mocks the U.S. standing down in Afghanistan, he claims he is winning.
Rather than admit failure and change course, faced with criticism here at home, the President has decided to declare victory, hoping this will reenergize support from the left. In his speech, he promised to do even less and make the less more transparent. This will no doubt please progressives who were unhappy that Obama carried over any vestige of the Bush policies.
While this speech may make the President more popular with the progressive caucus, it amounts to Maginot Line strategy: The U.S. won’t go after them if they don’t come after us. If they do come after us—we will treat them like any other criminal. If they do get through—it won’t be our fault; it will be the result of addled minds and “senseless” violence. Obama has warped backed to the Clinton counter terrorism strategy of the 1990s without remembering that was the strategy that led to 9/11.”
President Obama needs to recognize that the Boston Marathon bombing and the London meat cleaver terrorism are clear signs that the war goes on---despite his campaign rhetoric!
Why not set aside foolish pride for a moment, Mr. President, and work to defend and protect the American people from terrorism, AND order IRS and Eric Holder to “Stand down” in their ruthless assaults on Americans?
And keep GITMO open to house IRS liars and other administration deniers! Sir!
24.5.13
Proselytizing for Allah—with a Meat Cleaver!
By John W. Lillpop
Advocates for western religions usually try to “spread the word” and increase their numbers by demonstrating as many positive benefits as possible to would be converts.
This, they usually showcase love and compassion for the poor and elderly, rigorous honesty, kindness, forgiveness, and other positive attributes practiced by their denominations.
Islamic preachers, on the other hand, are less concerned with gentile methods and are far more likely to frighten “infidels” with vivid examples of what can happen to those who do not repent and give their all to Allah.
From London, Michael Adebolajo, a Jihadist with attitude, served up a chilling testimonial on behalf of Allah by slaughtering an innocent UK soldier to death with a meat cleaver.
How can murdering in cold blood be sanctioned as a justifiable religious ceremony by anyone, regardless of how nutty and radicalized?
This is where linguistics comes into place. As everyone knows, Muslims claim to be adherents of the “Religion of Peace.”
In fact, these 7th century retards should be called the “Religion of Piece,” …piece of neck bone here, piece of hand there, piece of brain here, and so forth.
Peace is not really a part of the Islamic game plan at all.
To Muslim extremists, the new rallying cry is, “Leave it to cleaver.”
Allah willing, that is!
23.5.13
How Much More Insanity from “Religion of Peace” Loons Will Civilized Society Tolerate?
By John W. Lillpop
The machete slaughter of an innocent British soldier by an Islam thug in London has sent shock waves throughout the UK and the world.
Except, that is, in America where our addled Muslim-fancying president continues to insist that America is NOT at war with Islam.
As reported at the reference:
Clutching a bloodied meat cleaver, the man suspected of executing a soldier on a crowded street declared: 'you and your kids will be next'.
In a chilling rant captured on camera, the knife-wielding man declared: 'The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers.'
The man who launched the terrifying diatribe in Woolwich, south-east London, is believed to be Michael Adebolajo, who has been identified on Twitter and web forums as one of the two people arrested.
In the video obtained by ITV News he added: 'Remove your governments - they don't care about you. You think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start bursting our guns? You think politicians are going to die?”
Until the world musters up the testosterone muster to stick the likes of Michael Adebolajo in a one- way box to hell at birth, all civilized people are at risk of being victimized by a 7th Century bozo who believes that he is doing God’s will each time he slices an infidel into small bits and pieces of blood-soaked flesh.
Prediction: The day will come, in the not too distant future, when Muslims will be prevented from practicing their religion, reproducing, or owning pressure cookers and sharp objects of any type.
Sad to note, but the world has every right to ban the practice of Islam from the planet in order to protect civilized members of the human race!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329089/Woolwich-attack-Two-men-hack-soldier-wearing-Help-Heroes-T-shirt-death-machetes-suspected-terror-attack.html#ixzz2U91v5t22
Thought Anthony Weiner Had Petered Out? Not So Fast!
By John W. Lillpop
Just when you thought the Democrat Party could sink no lower, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, a very liberal Democrat, shows up and throws his hat into the ring by announcing that, although more perverted photos from his seedy Twitter account days may surface, he has decided to sacrifice his own comfort in order to give the people of New York the governance they so richly deserve by running for Mayor of the Big Apple.
Folks, Michael Bloomberg, current Mayor of New York, is universally recognized as a pompous ass who has deluded himself into believing that his Nanny skills are invaluable to New York and, modern civilization for that matter.
Mayor Bloomberg, a weak-minded lefty anarchist affiliated with the 16 OZ. sugary-drink wars, is dreadfully awful, but at least he has the decency to keep his clothes on, and is now know for taking pictures of his own anatomy for public consumption.
With Anthony Weiner, on the other hand, he seems proud to broadcast the fact that, when it comes to his manhood, there is no there there, and just to prove it, the lunatic encloses graphic photos!
As reported at the reference, Weiner’s reemergence as the village idiot, with a large D next to his name, has not enthralled leaders of the Democrat Party:
Democrats are obviously not happy with the idea of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner running for mayor of New York City. In an editorial meeting with some local newspapers, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said "shame on us," if Weiner is elected.
Rogers: "So if Anthony Weiner wants to run for mayor, he can run for mayor."
Cuomo: "He runs? He runs."
Rogers: "And if we elect him?"
Cuomo: "Shame on us."
Other than the fact that his own Democrats are already turning against him, Weiner has a number of other problems on his hands above and beyond the extra-marital sexting that forced his resignation from Congress.
For starters, Weiner cannot say that other pictures might not bubble up. But worse than that is that he is unable to say for certain that those he engaged in this kind of behavior with were of age.
Finally, above and beyond the salaciousness of the scandal, Weiner repeatedly lied to his constituents and the media for days about his behavior and also attempted to smear Andrew Breitbart, the man who factually and accurately broke what would become known as Weinergate.
Weiner can attempt to recreate Mark Sanford's rehabilitation campaign all he wants, but his sins run much deeper than those of the Republican from South Carolina. Who knows how many shoes are yet to drop in Weinergate.”
A perverted liar…just what the Democrat Party needs to take the public spotlight off Barack Obama’s scandal juggling!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/23/Cuomo-Flogs-Weiner-Shame-On-Us-If-We-Elect-Him
22.5.13
Chris Matthews: “Glad” for Deaths, Carnage in Oklahoma?
By John W. Lillpop
MSNBC heretic Chris Matthews waxed thankful last November for Hurricane Sandy and the Lady’s assistance in helping reelect Barack Obama, now confirmed as the Worst President in American History.
Mixed among the spit and slobber emanating from Matthews out-of-control mouth, he managed to say, “I'm so glad we had that storm last week…”
Glad, you see, because the storm gave the bewildered poser, Barack Obama, the opportunity to look “presidential” for the evening news shows; thus, breaking the momentum building for Republican Mitt Romney.
With the myopic vision of a retarded donkey, Matthews celebrated the Obama election triumph, even though it took a perfect storm to reinstall the narcissistic liar (Obama) in a position of unmerited power and authority.
Eight months later, Barack Obama is mired in a quagmire of scandal, both domestic and foreign. Impeachment is mentioned as a serious option to cleanse the nation of the filth and corruption now rampant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Obama’s second term “agenda”—elimination of the Constitution and all of the protections for we the people set forth therein, is in jeopardy, so say the pundits.
Financial ruin is not only plausible, but, under Obama, now seems probable.
Clearly, Barack Obama and his demons on the left are in desperate need of a major story to drive Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and Eric Holder’s vicious vendetta against conservative media off the front page and out of the breaking news cycle.
So, Mr. Matthews, are you “glad” for the 200 MPH winds and devastation visited on the people of Oklahoma in recent days? Entire cities and towns wiped off the face of the earth in the blink of an eye?
Every dead body and destroyed home is worth it to protect Obama from the truth, right Chris?
Shame on Chris Matthews and the idiots who allow this moron to pollute the air waves!
21.5.13
Another Day, Another Expose of High Crimes and Misdemeanors by Obama Tyranny Team!
By John W. Lillpop
Barack Obama’s “legacy” continues to erode as more and more corruption, government abuse of power, lying, and cover up stories are exposed and made public.
In the latest derailment of the Obama tyranny express, it has been reported by The Washington Post, of all institutions, that Eric Holder and Barack Obama have declared all-out war against conservative media types at FOX NEWS.
As reported at the reference:
The Fox News Channel is outraged over new revelations that three of its reporting staffers were targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice in criminal investigations related to their attempts to obtain information from government sources.
James Rosen, the network's chief Washington correspondent, has become a First Amendment cause celebre over his treatment by the Obama administration. But the DOJ, Fox says, also investigated the Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter William La Jeunesse and Fox News producer Mike Levine.
Rosen, according to affidavits filed by FBI agents, was considered a possible criminal co-conspirator.
The Washington Post reported Monday morning that Rosen was the subject of a Department of Justice probe in relation to his reporting about North Korea's likely reactions to new UN sanctions in 2009. Federal investigators read his personal emails, obtained his phone records, and tracked his comings and goings through government buildings.
An FBI agent filed an affidavit in that case claiming that he thought Rosen had broken the law, 'at the very least, either as an aider, abetter and/or co-conspirator.'
None of the three journalists targeted by the Obama administration was notified that the government was spying on his records and emails.
'All three of our colleagues say they were never contacted by the government,' Fox News Channel correspondent Shannon Bream reported on Monday afternoon.”
What next? Will Obama issue an Executive Order declaring the 1st Amendment “null and void” in instances where right-wing fanatics (FOX News) seek to harm the American people, IN THE OPINION OF THE ADMINISTRATION?
A simple truth emerges: Tyranny Is an evil that simply cannot be countenanced in a free and open society committed to liberty and democratic justice!
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328031/Report-Justice-Department-targeted-TWO-Fox-News-reporters-producer-talking-government-sources.html#ixzz2TwA5UhUc
20.5.13
Kill Two Birds With One Stone: Abolish IRS!
By John W. Lillpop
Americans are paying hundreds billions of dollars each year to fund a corrupt, biased, lying gaggle of unaccountable accountants and bean counters whose sole mission in life is intimidate and harm American citizens. That would, of course, be the IRS, the American version of the Gestapo and KGB morphed into one dysfunctional arm of the White House and Democrat Party.
Even more appalling is the fact that ObamaCare, 2,000 pages of gibberish and taxes originally promised to make health care easier to secure and more affordable to get, will add 16,000 IRS agents to the already-bloated government work force.
Because of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi conspiracy against American citizens, ObamaCare cannot be implemented without the brutal presence of the IRS.
What to do?
Let’s abolish the IRS, and Obamacare will melt away like an unprotected scoop of ice cream in July.
Send the IRS into oblivion, leaving millions of Americans free from the tyranny of the tax man!
Kill two birds with one stone!
Engulfed by Scandal, Will Obama Opt for the Fog of War?
By John W. Lillpop
Pundits have long been befuddled by Barack Obama’s seeming inability to deal with “foreign entanglements” on a timely basis. Examples include unresolved disasters in Iran, Syria, and North Korea, the sum of which has lead to the charge that Obama is indecisive, muddled, and lazy, or all of the above.
The word “dithering” seems quite apt in describing the president’s indifferent arrogance with respect to issues which do not involve raising taxes, expanding unaffordable entitlements, or transforming America into an forced colony of third-world Mexico through amnesty.
But perhaps Obama has an even more sinister ploy up his sleeve?
Is it possible that Obama has been stockpiling scandals in order to secure the greatest political advantage at a later date?
Think about it: With Benghazi, criminal abuse by the IRS, and Eric Holder’s “I know nothing” dance around the AP scandal on his plate all at once, Obama is in need of a major distraction.
Something to kick Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and the State Department whistle blowers off the front page. A major story that will overshaow the unlawful profiling of conservatives by the IRS.
Now more than ever, Obama needs a credible alternative to the Benghazi scandal, and, say, isn’t it about time that Iran be slapped around and put back in her box?
Similarly, the IRS kerfuffel and the AP mess pale in comparison to American boots on the ground in Syria or North Korea!
The big question: Can heretofore deferred actions on international matters be parlayed into an aggressive action plan that will save the Obama presidency and legacy?
19.5.13
Obama Whereabouts During Benghazi “Irrelevant;” Questions About His Handling of Attack “Offensive”
By John W. Lillpop
To put the Benghazi scandal in proper perspective, it is vital to remember that four American patriots were murdered while serving the nation as diplomats in Libya.
Eight months later, monumental questions concerning events before, during, and after the terrorist attack remain unanswered, apparently due to deliberate stonewalling and possible cover up.
The very premise that no politician, including the president, is above the law and that government must be held accountable to we the people, is being challenged by President Obama and his men and women.
In a stunning statement shown at the link, a top aid to Barack Obama insists that Obama’s whereabouts on the night of September 11, 2012 is IRRELEVANT, and furthermore, that questions concerning Obama’s handling of the scandal are “offensive”:
Watch the video below and mourn the “transformation” of America from a free and open society committed to universal justice to a brutal tyranny in which elitist arrogance in the pursuit of uninterrupted power trumps everything:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JEHHeQuQXOw
To Pfeiffer and the rest of the Obama administration: The “offensive” part of the Benghazi scandal is not legitimate questions posed by the media, rather it is the lack of concern that the Obama administration has exhibited for the lives of the four patriots who were left to die in Benghazi!
The REAL offensive behavior is when the Secretary of State in office during the massacre screams, “What difference does it make?” at Congressional investigators striving to get to the bottom of the scandal for the victims, their families, and the American people!
God Bless Chris Wallace and the other media which is committed to following the truth, wherever it leads.
Because, IT SURE AS HELL DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
18.5.13
Obamacare MAY Actually Result In Positive Benefits!
By John W. Lillpop
Barack Obama’s signature legislation, ineptly titled the Affordable Care Act will most likely be a huge flop when it comes to the promises made by Obama and the left.
For example, it is almost a sure thing that that the cost of health care will NOT be reduced as a result of adding 30-40 million people to the rolls of the insured.
It is almost certain that the quality of healthcare will not improve.
It is almost certain that waiting times and access to care will NOT improve under Obamacare.
Despite all of these false positives, there is one possibility that life might be improved directly because of Obamacare.
Namely, because of the anticipated ObamaCare train wreck, Democrats may very well loose the US Senate and fail to seize the House from Republicans during the 2014 midterm elections.
Those results would effectively end Barack Obama’s reign of terror and put America back on track for prosperity and success!
Obama’s “Transformed” America: Safe Haven for Baby Killers, Invading Aliens, & Terrorists!
By John W. Lillpop
Recent scandals now confronting the Obama Administration have educated the general public, and the world at large, about the inherent dangers of empowering progressive politicians with power, particularly when said power is unchecked by reasonable people in possession of common sense.
Put simply, progressives cannot be trusted to do the “right thing” instinctively because they universally lack those instincts which produce common sense, intelligent thought, and moral decency.
Which is why America, under the curse of Barack Obama and his Marxist, mobster friends, is a safe haven for baby killers, alien invaders, and terrorists, while being aggressively hostile toward those who advocate patriotism, rule of law, the sacred institution of one man-one woman marriage and traditional American values.
Progressive insanity is why four American patriots in Benghazi, Libya were left to die while faithfully serving their nation, and why the Obama administration deliberately lied and covered-up the facts to avoid embarrassing the president whose misguided policies and naïve presumptions were causative in the loss of those four precious American lives.
Progressive insanity is also why the IRS was used illegally against Republicans, and why that truth was withheld from the American public until after the November election.
Progressive insanity is why the First Amendment rights of the Associated Press were ignored by Eric Holder and his corrupt Department of Justice, and which is why Holder ducked behind an undocumented claim of his personal recusation to avoid answering questions before Congress.
Progressive insanity is why Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano has spent millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase unneeded ammunition just to infringe on the 2nd Amendment rights of gun owners.
16.5.13
IRS Employee In Charge During IRS Abuse of Conservatives Will Run Obamacare at IRS !
By John W. Lillpop
In what appears to be divine ‘piling on’ against Barack Obama, it was disclosed that the woman in charge of the unit that harassed Conservatives at the IRS has a new job and will be responsible for the IRS office that will oversee Obamacare!
As reported at the reference:
The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.
Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.
Her successor, Joseph Grant, is taking the fall for misdeeds at the scandal-plagued unit between 2010 and 2012. During at least part of that time, Grant served as deputy commissioner of the tax-exempt unit.
Grant announced today that he would retire June 3, despite being appointed as commissioner of the tax-exempt office May 8, a week ago.
As the House voted to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act Thursday evening, House Speaker John Boehner expressed “serious concerns” that the IRS is empowered as the law’s chief enforcer.
“Fully repealing ObamaCare will help us build a stronger, healthier economy, and will clear the way for patient-centered reforms that lower health care costs and protect jobs,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said.
“Obamacare empowers the agency that just violated the public’s trust by secretly targeting conservative groups,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., added. “Even by Washington’s standards, that’s unacceptable.”
Sen. John Cornyn even introduced a bill, the “Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013,” which would prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury, or any delegate, including the IRS, from enforcing the Affordable Care Act.
“Now more than ever, we need to prevent the IRS from having any role in Americans’ health care,” Cornyn, R-Texas, stated. “I do not support Obamacare, and after the events of last week, I cannot support giving the IRS any more responsibility or taxpayer dollars to implement a broken law.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also reacted to the revelation late Thursday, stating the news was “stunning, just stunning.”
Good heavens, the best Hollywood script writers could not conjure up a scenario with more intrigue, bedlam, and outrage than the mess that Obama faces this summer.
What to do?
Why not ‘man up’ Barack, and take the initiative by aborting Obamacare on your own? Just pretend that it is an innocent baby rather than 2,000 pages of rubbish intended to kill health care in America!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-official-in-charge-during-tea-party-targeting-now-runs-health-care-office/
Black Eyes Lying in the Rain!
Barack Obama's scandal machine brings to mind the Willie Nelson song, "Blue Eyes Crying
in the Rain."
In Obama;s case, the verse would be "Black Eyes Lying in the Rain!"
Chris Matthews: No Longer “Glad” for Hurricane Sandy and the Reelection of Obama?
By John W. Lillpop
Chris Matthews is one of the major reasons that the US media is regarded with such contempt and disrespect by enlightened voters.
The redoubtable Matthews hit at all time low in stupidity, partisan groveling and fawning over Barack Obama last November 7 when, despite the loss of human life and billions of dollars of property damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy, the addled Matthews actually expressed how “glad” he was that the storm helped reelect Barack Obama.
As reported at the reference, Matthews spit and sputtered his descent into hell with the following idiotic statement:
“I'm so glad we had that storm last week…”
Six months and several major scandals later, Matthews appears to have had second thoughts about both Hurricane Sandy and her primary benefactor, the clueless Barack Obama.
As reported at reference 2:
Five years ago, MSNBC host Chris Matthews famously declared that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama gave him a "thrill up my leg." Now, amid two ongoing scandalous situations at the White House, Matthews said that the Obama presidency no longer has any "thrust."Actually, there IS a thrust to the Obama presidency, Chris. Unfortunately, Obama’s thrust would, if allowed to continue, transform America into third-world, failed state stuck in a quagmire of tyranny and failed Marxist principles, administered by anti-American liberal bureaucrats!
For the last two days, Matthews has delivered blistering critiques of Obama. Matthews has combined his own frustration at Obama's inability to pass any of his agenda with the flap over the IRS and AP phone scandals that have developed over the past week.
"There's a reason the President's an easy target tonight," Matthews said on Tuesday, opening his show "Hardball."
"He's a ship with the engine off. He can go play golf, take Marine One up to Manhattan, but none of that matters. None of it. What matters is that he commands no big cause. There's no thrust to his presidency right now."
And THAT would be a tragedy of such huge proportions that even a Category 5 hurricane during an election would be unable to right the American ship!
The bottom line: Be careful what you give thanks for!
Ref 1
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/11/07/chris_matthews_im_so_glad_we_had_that_storm_last_week.html
Ref 2:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-matthews-obama-irs-scandal-ap-phone-benghazi-2013-5#ixzz2TTBenO00
15.5.13
Given Barack Obama’s Contempt for Rule of Law, Why Is Anyone Surprised By Lawlessness at IRS?
By John W. Lillpop
How amusing to watch Democrats, from Barack Obama to Harry Reid, feign outrage, shock, and horror at the tyranny practiced by the Internal Revenue Service.
Almost from the day he took over the White House on that dreary January,20 in 2009, President Obama has been on a mission to “Fundamentally Transform” the American way.
Unfortunately, Obama’s sinister plot has included gutting the rule of law so as to weaken American sovereignty, immigration laws, and deportation of illegal aliens.
Obama has refused to secure US borders with Mexico, has ignored 11-20 million illegal aliens squatting here unlawfully, and has issued Executive Orders to support Janet Napolitano in her redefinition of illegal aliens as “newly arrived refugees,” to be welcomed with open arms, rather than deported as required by law.
Given Obama’s defiant disregard for the rule of law in the area of immigration and others, just how in the hell does he expect the IRS to be run in accordance with law and ethical behavior?
Obama has set an awful example for government agencies and employees. Namely, the rule of law is not absolute and is subject to the whims of an administration looking to establish a strangle hold on political power.
Maintaining political power trumps the rule of law—according to Barack Obama!
Strategy for “At Risk” Conservatives In Avoiding Harassment by IRS
Satire by John W. Lillpop
With the latest revelations of felony abuse by the IRS against conservatives, those of us who profess to be right-minded need to recognize that we are at war with the Obama administration, or to be more precise, they are at war with us.
And it ain’t no “cold war,” brother, for these blokes will strip the gold fillings out of your teeth at the slightest provocation!
At risk conservatives include those who are: Known, or suspected of being, Christian, sexually straight, supportive of the 2nd Amendment, pro-life, scoffers who believe global warning to be a money-grabbing crock from the wild, scrambled psyche of Al Gore, opposed to big government and high taxes, favor austerity and reduced spending by government, are opposed to the wanton slaughter of innocent babies in the name of Roe V. Wade, believe in American Exceptionalism, and those who demand that illegal aliens be denied amnesty and deported ASAP!
Should you or loved ones fall into one or more of these categories, due diligence is required to defend you and yours against brutal attacks from the IRS and Eric Holder.
Another tip: When completing your Income Tax returns, always include a footnote on the original which reads: I am an avowed Communist who voted twice for Barack Obama!
With that disclaimer duly recorded, you will never be targeted by IRS AND your tax refund will be processed immediately!
14.5.13
Words of Jesus Concerning Those Who Abuse Children Should Leave Kermit Gosnell Afraid. Very Afraid!
By John W. Lillpop
Kermit Gosnell has been convicted of murder for slaughtering young babies whom survived his later-term abortion genocide.
Temporal law will decide if Gosnell is executed for his heinous crimes, or if he will be allowed to die in prison.
One can only hope and pray that the jury and judge involved will use common sense and concern for the brutalized babies in deciding what to do with the sub-human monster from Pennsylvania.
However, given the unpredictable, sometimes goofy, nature of the law in America it is possible that Gosnell’s life will be spared, based on some idiotic liberal application of the “Cruel and unusual” protection provided in the 8th Amendment.
Nonetheless, Gosnell would be well advised to consider the following words of Jesus Christ:
Referring to children as "little ones," he warns, "If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matt 18:6).
Be afraid, Mr. Gosnell. Very afraid!
Planned Parenthood’s Sickening Reaction to Gosnell Murder Convictions
By John W. Lillpop
Rather than expressing condolences, outrage, and even a little sorrow for the innocent human babies slaughtered by Kermit Gosnell, Planned Parenthood deliberately ignored the victims of the late-term abortion infanticide and issued the following self-serving statement(See reference 1):
"The jury has punished Kermit Gosnell for his appalling crimes. This verdict will ensure that no woman is victimized by Kermit Gosnell ever again.
“This case has made clear that we must have and enforce laws that protect access to safe and legal abortion, and we must reject misguided laws that would limit women's options and force them to seek treatment from criminals like Kermit Gosnell.”
--Eric Ferrero, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Vice President for CommunicationsNot a single word about the helpless babies, human beings all, alive and kicking, who were butchered like wild hogs by the evil Gosnell.
May Gosnell AND Eric Ferrero burn in the hottest hells of fire for eternity!
And may this case serve as an impetus to overturing Roe V. Wade!
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report-bret-baier/blog/2013/05/13/planned-parenthood-statement-gosnell-conviction#ixzz2THpONS4s
13.5.13
Gosnell Guilty!
By John W Lillpop
In a day when breaking news is EVERYWHERE, big news comes from Philadelphia as reported at the reference:
A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over abortion.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of a patient who had undergone an abortion. He was cleared in the death of a fourth baby, who prosecutors say let out a soft whimper before he snipped its neck.
Gosnell appeared hopeful before the verdict was read and calm afterward; jurors and lawyers on both sides were more emotional.
The jury will return May 21 to hear evidence on whether Gosnell should get the death penalty.
Former clinic employees testified that Gosnell routinely performed illegal late-term abortions past Pennsylvania's 24-week limit, that he delivered babies who were still moving, whimpering or breathing, and that he and his assistants "snipped" the newborns' spines, as he referred to it.
"Are you human?" prosecutor Ed Cameron snarled during closing arguments as Gosnell sat calmly at the defense table. "To med these women up and stick knives in the backs of babies?"
The grisly details came out more than two years ago during an investigation of prescription drug trafficking at Gosnell's clinic in an impoverished section of West Philadelphia.
Authorities said the clinic was a foul-smelling "house of horrors" with bags and bottles of stored fetuses, including jars of severed feet, along with bloodstained furniture, dirty medical instruments, and cats roaming the premises.
Pennsylvania authorities had failed to conduct routine inspections of all of its abortion clinics for 15 years by the time Gosnell's facility was raided and closed down. In the scandal's aftermath, two top state health department officials were fired, and Pennsylvania imposed tougher rules for clinics.”
Will the media even bother to report this? Will the American people give a damn?
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DA68K3IO0
How DOES Obama Manage It All?
By John W. Lillpop
To mere mortals such as this reporter, it appears as though President Obama’s cup is running over with crisis, both foreign and domestic, both from external sources and self-induced.
Consider the major issues that Obama faces over coffee each morning, as of today:
Benghazi Scandal
IRS Scandal
Boston bombing
Looming Obamacare Train Wreck
Amnesty for (at least) 11 million illegal aliens
Gun control and 2nd Amendment
Unyielding Unemployment
Sequestration, budget, out-of-control spending, debt limit
Syria
Iran nuclear
North Korea
Closing GITMO
Strained relations with Russia
Israel
Detroit
Keeping Joe Biden off the front page
Second term staffing and appointments
Still, the question persists: How DOES he manage it all, with only a staff of several hundred and three dozen czars at his beckon call?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-attend-3-democratic-fundraisers-monday_722435.html
To mere mortals such as this reporter, it appears as though President Obama’s cup is running over with crisis, both foreign and domestic, both from external sources and self-induced.
Consider the major issues that Obama faces over coffee each morning, as of today:
Benghazi Scandal
IRS Scandal
Boston bombing
Looming Obamacare Train Wreck
Amnesty for (at least) 11 million illegal aliens
Gun control and 2nd Amendment
Unyielding Unemployment
Sequestration, budget, out-of-control spending, debt limit
Syria
Iran nuclear
North Korea
Closing GITMO
Strained relations with Russia
Israel
Detroit
Keeping Joe Biden off the front page
Second term staffing and appointments
Ah! The key words are “fund raiser,” an activity which has priority over all other issues of the day, at least in Obama’s mind!
In addition, there are probably at least another half-dozen “under the radar” calamities that Obama is being pelted with, but which the mainstream media continue to ignore.
Despite this bloated “To Do” list, one is shocked to discover that Barack Obama has managed to “squeeze in” three fund raisers for May 13, as reported at the reference:
President Barack Obama will start the week by attending 3 Democratic fundraisers in New York City, according to the White House.
"In the afternoon, the President will travel to New York City. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport will be open press," the president's schedule reads.
"While in New York City, the President will deliver remarks at two DNC events at private residences and a joint DCCC/DSCC event at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The DNC events are print pool for remarks only and the DCCC/DSCC event is pooled press.
"In the evening, the President will depart New York City en route Washington, DC. The departure from John F. Kennedy International Airport and the arrival on the South Lawn will be open press.
As the New York Post reported previously, one of the events tonight will be at the home of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. "He won a second term, but Barack Obama isn’t done fund-raising. The president will appear at a cozy reception for fewer than 65 guests with tickets priced at $32,400 per couple at the Manhattan home of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and his designer wife Georgina Chapman on May 13, Page Six has exclusively learned," reports the Post.”
Still, the question persists: How DOES he manage it all, with only a staff of several hundred and three dozen czars at his beckon call?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-attend-3-democratic-fundraisers-monday_722435.html
12.5.13
Benghazi and IRS Scandals Prove That America Is Threatened by REAL, Not IMAGINED, Tyranny!
By John W. Lillpop
During the recent gun control wars in the US Senate, Senator Harry Reid characterized the legitimate concerns of gun owners thusly, as reported at Reference 1:
“And I will vote for the ban because saving the lives of young police officers and innocent civilians is more important than preventing imagined tyranny.”
Imagined tyranny, Senator?
Since Reid made his foolish remarks, two scandals have exploded into the news headlines:
Benghazi Cover-up:
During a hearing in the US House on May 8, three whistle-blowers confirmed that the Obama administration has, at the highest levels, worked to cover-up the truth surrounding the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack that cost four American patriots their lives.
Scrubbing the “Talking Points” memo to remove references to Al-Quaeda and other facts inconsistent with Obama’s campaign rhetoric can hardly be seen as anything but an attempt to misrepresent the truth (lie!) about the tragic murders of four American diplomats.
Deliberately oobscuring the truth about the murder of Americans strictly for political reasons IS tyranny, Senator, real and in your face!
IRS Profiles Based on Political Ideology:
While Hillary Clinton, the White House, and other key administration departments and figures were working to keep Benghazi contained, it turns out the IRS was abusing their power by selecting conservative groups for review based on the fact that the groups were conservative.
IRS weasels were particularly fond of looking into the doings of organizations with the words “patriot” and “tea party” in their profiles.
Singling out citizens who call themselves “patriots” for extra scrutiny by the IRS certainly sounds like REAL tyranny to me, Senator!
In addition, have you forgotten the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Marxist health care nightmare which was passed against the wishes of the American people and despite stern warnings from conservatives of both parties, Senator?
It is called ObamaCare, sir, perhaps the most hideous example of REAL tyranny ever dumped on the American people by elected ‘representatives,’ whom wisely exempted themselves and their families from the third-world devastation to medicine passed by fiat in the twilight hours of Washington, D.C.
Perhaps you, in your declining years, Senator, still take pride in replacing the world’s greatest health care system with Marxist tyranny.
However, fellow Democrat Max Baucus does not share your foolish pride. He sees an imminent train wreck as the Obama administration struggles to implement the 2000 pages of idiocy that Nancy Pelosi urged passage of so that “we could learn what’s in it.”
Imagined tyranny, indeed!
Had ObamaCare been subject to the normal procedures for Democratic debate, the damn thing would have been incinerated before it was promulgated!
But that is what happens when real tyranny rules, driven by the desire to create a legacy for an unqualified community organizer posing as president!
Then we have the matter of 20 million or so illegal foreign aliens nesting in America at a cost of $113 billion a year to the American taxpayers besides threatening home land security and American culture.
These invaders should have been sent home long ago, but because of tyranny and corruption, they remain an albatross around the necks of law-abiding citizens and the whole concept of rule of law in America.
Shame on you and other tyrants, Senator, who are about to force 20 million illegal aliens down the throats of we the people!
That is genuine tyranny, sir!
Lest we forget, the federal government has run up about $16.5 trillion dollars in debt, an act of tyranny that may very well drive the nation to economic ruin.
From these examples, it should be obvious to everyone who cares that the American government is completely out of control and in the hands of maniacal tyrants!
Imagined tyranny, Senator? Hell no!
Reference 1
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/17/reid_mocks_gun_rights_gun_control_more_important_than_preventing_imagined_tyranny.html
Reference 2
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/294501-baucus-warns-of-huge-train-wreck-in-obamacare-implementation#ixzz2Qpgs19IB
During the recent gun control wars in the US Senate, Senator Harry Reid characterized the legitimate concerns of gun owners thusly, as reported at Reference 1:
“And I will vote for the ban because saving the lives of young police officers and innocent civilians is more important than preventing imagined tyranny.”
Imagined tyranny, Senator?
Since Reid made his foolish remarks, two scandals have exploded into the news headlines:
Benghazi Cover-up:
During a hearing in the US House on May 8, three whistle-blowers confirmed that the Obama administration has, at the highest levels, worked to cover-up the truth surrounding the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack that cost four American patriots their lives.
Scrubbing the “Talking Points” memo to remove references to Al-Quaeda and other facts inconsistent with Obama’s campaign rhetoric can hardly be seen as anything but an attempt to misrepresent the truth (lie!) about the tragic murders of four American diplomats.
Deliberately oobscuring the truth about the murder of Americans strictly for political reasons IS tyranny, Senator, real and in your face!
IRS Profiles Based on Political Ideology:
While Hillary Clinton, the White House, and other key administration departments and figures were working to keep Benghazi contained, it turns out the IRS was abusing their power by selecting conservative groups for review based on the fact that the groups were conservative.
IRS weasels were particularly fond of looking into the doings of organizations with the words “patriot” and “tea party” in their profiles.
Singling out citizens who call themselves “patriots” for extra scrutiny by the IRS certainly sounds like REAL tyranny to me, Senator!
In addition, have you forgotten the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Marxist health care nightmare which was passed against the wishes of the American people and despite stern warnings from conservatives of both parties, Senator?
It is called ObamaCare, sir, perhaps the most hideous example of REAL tyranny ever dumped on the American people by elected ‘representatives,’ whom wisely exempted themselves and their families from the third-world devastation to medicine passed by fiat in the twilight hours of Washington, D.C.
Perhaps you, in your declining years, Senator, still take pride in replacing the world’s greatest health care system with Marxist tyranny.
However, fellow Democrat Max Baucus does not share your foolish pride. He sees an imminent train wreck as the Obama administration struggles to implement the 2000 pages of idiocy that Nancy Pelosi urged passage of so that “we could learn what’s in it.”
Imagined tyranny, indeed!
Had ObamaCare been subject to the normal procedures for Democratic debate, the damn thing would have been incinerated before it was promulgated!
But that is what happens when real tyranny rules, driven by the desire to create a legacy for an unqualified community organizer posing as president!
Then we have the matter of 20 million or so illegal foreign aliens nesting in America at a cost of $113 billion a year to the American taxpayers besides threatening home land security and American culture.
These invaders should have been sent home long ago, but because of tyranny and corruption, they remain an albatross around the necks of law-abiding citizens and the whole concept of rule of law in America.
Shame on you and other tyrants, Senator, who are about to force 20 million illegal aliens down the throats of we the people!
That is genuine tyranny, sir!
Lest we forget, the federal government has run up about $16.5 trillion dollars in debt, an act of tyranny that may very well drive the nation to economic ruin.
From these examples, it should be obvious to everyone who cares that the American government is completely out of control and in the hands of maniacal tyrants!
Imagined tyranny, Senator? Hell no!
Reference 1
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/17/reid_mocks_gun_rights_gun_control_more_important_than_preventing_imagined_tyranny.html
Reference 2
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/294501-baucus-warns-of-huge-train-wreck-in-obamacare-implementation#ixzz2Qpgs19IB
11.5.13
IRS Admits Profiling Based on Political Ideology! If Only the Liberal Media Would Be So Honest!
By John W. Lillpop
Conservatives have long known that right-wing organizations have been singled out for extra scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) based on ideological profiling.
Of course, the left-wing media and political cabal have denied that any such bias exists, and have ridiculed conservatives for even suggesting such an outrage.
Imagine the shock in liberal news rooms and Democrat conclaves this day when the IRS actually admitted their profiling naughtiness and apologized for same.
As reported at the reference:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.The IRS apology is worthy of emulation, from, say, the liberal media?
IRS agents singled out dozens of organizations for additional reviews because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their exemption applications, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups. In some cases, groups were asked for lists of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.
The agency — led at the time by a Bush administration appointee — blamed low-level employees, saying no high-level officials were aware. But that wasn't good enough for Republicans in Congress, who are conducting several investigations and asked for more.
"I call on the White House to conduct a transparent, government-wide review aimed at assuring the American people that these thuggish practices are not under way at the IRS or elsewhere in the administration against anyone, regardless of their political views," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
"The admission by the Obama administration that the Internal Revenue Service targeted political opponents echoes some of the most shameful abuses of government power in 20th century American history," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Many conservative groups complained during the campaign that they were being harassed by the IRS. They accused the agency of frustrating their attempts to become tax exempt by sending them lengthy, intrusive questionnaires.
The forms, which the groups have made available, sought information about group members' political activities, including details of their postings on social networking websites and about family members.
IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told Congress in March 2012 that the IRS was not targeting groups based on politics.
"There's absolutely no targeting. This is the kind of back and forth that happens to people" who apply for tax-exempt status, Shulman told a House Ways and Means subcommittee.
The IRS said senior leaders were not aware that specific groups were being targeted at the time of the hearing.
"While we acknowledged centralization of these applications last year, the IRS did not acknowledge the use of names as part of the process earlier because the details were not initially known to senior leadership and (the inspector general) has been reviewing the situation," the IRS said in a statement. "Their work is now far enough along that it was appropriate to address the issue when it came up during (Friday's) tax conference."
Ref: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/irs-apologizes-targeting-conservative-groups
9.5.13
Justice Prevails in Phoenix: What About Washington, D.C.?
By John W. Lillpop
May 8 was a memorable day across America for stories about murder and justice and for the pursuit of justice.
On the one hand, consummate liar and ruthless killer Jody Arias was convicted for the premeditated, gruesome murder of Travis Alexander, a romantic figure in her life until her gun and knife ended Alexander’s romantic capabilities and life, all in one fell swoop.
Justice prevailed in Phoenix; thus, Arias faces the prospect of execution or, if she is lucky, life in prison with no chance for parole.
While common sense and justice were being meted out in Phoenix, in Washington, D.C. a hearing was being held in the US House of Representatives to discuss the murder of four American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, and the action (or inaction) taken by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her boss, the community organizer posing as President.
The Benghazi hearing featured three prominent, lifetime career professionals from the State Department who told Congress and the American people facts about the Benghazi slaughter which contradicted the narratives espoused by the Obama administration in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack and continuing for weeks.
UN Ambassador Susan Rice was exposed as little more than a lower-level campaign worker working feverishly to keep the truth from coming out, lest the re-election bid of President Obama be negatively impacted.
The “Whistle Blower” testimony left little or no doubt as to the lack of veracity associated with Hillary Clinton’s testimony before Congress and raised new questions about President Obama’s role in the cover-up of the crime which cost four Americans their lives.
At this point, it appears as though the system of justice has worked in Phoenix, which means that Jody Arias will probably die at the hands of the law in Arizona.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the prospects for justice in the Benghazi murders. That is because Democrat politicians seem more concerned with the political viability of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama than with justice for Ambassador Stevens and the other murdered diplomats in Libya.
Shame on America and the Democrats if equal justice under the law is usurped by partisan politics!
Another “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy,” Hillary?
By John W. Lillpop
In 1998 during the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky abuse of power scandal, Hillary Clinton decided to “Stand by Her Man”, and all the power and wealth that he had access to as President of the United States.
Hillary Clinton thus defended her problem boy-child by referring to Ken Star and the Republican Congress as a “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” looking to score a political KO, than after truth and justice.
As history proved decisively, the Former First Lady turned out to be dead wrong.
President Clinton DID have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky, and as a result of incessant lying while under Oath, Clinton was eventually impeached by the Congress, but not removed from office because of a vast left wing conspiracy by Democrats in the US Senate whom decided to Stand by Their Man, despite perjury and subornation of justice, and, most awful, his rampant abuse and harassment of women.
Hillary’s vast right-wing conspiracy turned out to be truth tellers who refused to waffle despite a campaign of Bullying from the Presidential Pulpit and from the naïve Hillary who claims to have believed Bill Clinton in spite of a sordid history of adultery and lies.
Fifteen years later, it is Hillary who is under public scrutiny for her role in the deaths of four foreign diplomats in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. Once again, loyal Democrats have placed political ambitions and position above truth and, in Hillary’s case, the lives of four patriotic Americans.
Congress held an illuminating hearing on May 8 during which three well-respected career officials testified about the events at Benghazi that dreary September evening in 2012.
The “Whistle Blowers” left little doubt that Hillary Rodham Clinton abdicated her responsibility as Secretary of State in order to protect and defend Barack Obama and his campaign for re-election. Clinton made a mockery of the State Department and of the whole notion of service to the nation.
She should be arrested for treason, disbarred, and prohibited from running for elective office ever again. Even more punitive measures should be taken against this congenital liar, although her age and vast left-wing conspiracy resources will surely shield her from justice.
What say you, Ms. Rodham Clinton? Another ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’?
7.5.13
Several Months Too Late, Liberal Media FINALLY Starting to See Obama, sans the Halo and Wings!
By John W. Lillpop
History will note that the decline and fall of America began with election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008, accelerated during four awful years of the first Obama term,
and climaxed with the complete dumbing down of the American people in 2012 with the reelection of Barack Obama.
More than just a footnote to history is the fact that the raping of America was aided and abetted by the liberal mainstream media, that cowardly gaggle of dim wits who fell for Obama’s idiocy hook, line, and sinker.
Now, after the dismal community organizer has been reinstalled in a position way over his head, the media seem to be tuning in to his words and comparing them to his pitiful actions.
The picture is not pretty, as reported at the reference:
Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing“The World Turned Upside Down.”
In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks in the “mainstream” media’s coverage of President Obama.
From reporters to opinion writers, from newspapers to television, after a mere four and a half years of economic fecklessness, foreign policy failure, unseemly narcissism, and a Nobel Prize for deeds to be named later, prominent liberal-leaning pundits and organizations may have finally realized that reality, if not journalistic ethics, demands a more clear-eyed look at the president they have been so deeply invested in.
Or maybe they’ve just noticed that their fawning and sycophancy has meant declining circulation and viewership.
But whatever the reason, the dominant establishment mass media’s turn is as remarkable as it is welcome.
The first major crack in the dike may have come from New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd in an April 20 piece entitled “No Bully in the Pulpit” in which she bemoans President Obama’s inability to pass restrictions on gun rights. It is not the liberal writer’s anger over the outcome that is surprising; it is that instead of the usual “it’s all the Republicans’ fault” meme, she lays the blame directly at the feet of the previously Teflon-coated president:
It’s unbelievable that with 90 percent of Americans on his side, he could get only 54 votes in the Senate. It was a glaring example of his weakness in using leverage to get what he wants. No one on Capitol Hill is scared of him. Even House Republicans who had no intention of voting for the gun bill marveled privately that the president could not muster 60 votes in a Senate that his party controls.”
Dowd’s criticism of Obama was, by N.Y. Times standards, withering:
“President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that’s not how adults with power respond to things.”
“When you go into a fight saying you’re probably going to lose, you’re probably going to lose.”
And most to the point, “Unfortunately, [Obama] still has not learned how to govern.”
Apparently, Maureen Dowd gave other reporters and columnists a “permission structure” to tell their cloistered liberal readers what much of the rest of the country has long understood. Over the ensuing two weeks, they’ve used that permission, raining down a deluge of criticism of Obama.
On April 30, Dana Milbank — a liberal columnist for the Washington Post who recently asked in writing “Is there nobody who can tell Ted Cruz to shut up?” (Dana, I suggest you walk over there and try it yourself) — called Barack Obama “A presidential bystander.”
This was in response to Obama’s press conference that morning in which “The president was out of sorts from the start.…He didn’t attempt to set the tone for the event.…And he often found himself remarking on the difficulty of his job.”
Milbank closed his note with this advice for Obama: “[L]ively leadership is the way to resuscitate a moribund presidency.”
Also in response to Obama’s disastrous press conference performance, another liberal columnist, Frida Ghitis, says that the president is “failing on moral leadership.”
Ms. Ghitis argues that “The president is smart and eloquent. But leadership, especially for someone who has achieved that level of power, requires three elements: It must communicate a clear vision and a commitment to its realization; it must mobilize and inspire others into action; and it must produce results.” On a wide range of issues, she seems to believe Obama is accomplishing none of those things — and, regardless of political viewpoint, who could disagree?
Her conclusion echoes those of Milbank and Dowd: “Of course, the problems he has to deal with are difficult and often offer choices between bad and worse. But the time is right for a new display of conviction, of effectiveness, of leadership.”
It’s not just opinion writers but also reporters who suddenly seem willing to criticize President Obama’s abilities or leadership or favored programs and policies.
The highlight (or for Obama, the lowlight) of the April 30 press conference was a question by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl: After laying out a list of Obama’s political failures including gun control and the sequester, Karl asked “So my question to you is do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through this Congress?” No, that wasn’t Fox News’ Ed Henry, but the White House reporter for one of the three old-line broadcast networks who dared to ask such a question.
In typical Barack Obama style, the response was a 9-minute passionless sermon best described by Tom Lehrer’s description of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas: “Full of words…and signifying nothing.”
No doubt asking hard questions of a man so richly deserving of them was a liberating renewal for Mr. Karl and maybe part of a new permission structure for his Obama-adoring colleagues: “Oh, now I remember why I went to journalism school.” But perhaps I am too optimistic.
On April 25, N.Y. Times reporter Sharon LaFraniere published a remarkable piece of investigative journalism in criticism of a fraud-infested race-based scheme used by Democrats to buy elections. When I mentioned to Ms. LaFraniere how impressed I was to see this story in the Grey Lady, she responded “the NYT really wants to uncover the truth. There are no sacred cows.” Frankly, when it comes to Times management, I don’t believe it…though I believe LaFraniere does, and she can rightly point to the fact that she was allowed to publish a 5,300 word, front-page story which must have caused many Democrats, including Times editors and President Obama, to cringe.
A week later, a group of four Times reporters published another front page article — a dagger in the heart of what little foreign policy credibility President Obama has left, even among the left. In that story, readers learn that Obama’s infamous “red line” regarding the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in Syria was an unscripted ad-lib which came “to the surprise of some of his advisers” and which “defined his policy in a way some advisers wish they could take back.”
By putting his foot in his mouth, by implicitly committing to some substantive American response to a particular event that may now have happened, Obama may have cornered himself into taking an action that he doesn’t want to take, namely “providing lethal assistance to the Syrian rebels” — which is, despite Congressional chicken hawks’ pleas to go down that very road, a truly terrible idea.
In short, the article suggests that by not understanding the significance of his words, the president has narrowed his options, possibly forced his own hand, and impacted the already jaundiced eye that America’s allies and enemies alike turn toward any American foreign policy statements of this administration. Obama has through his egocentrism and naïveté added instability to an already dangerously unstable world. May I remind you: this was the New York Times.
And last week, following a “sunny speech in Mexico,” reporters at the Los Angeles Times penned an article stating that “audience members didn’t necessarily agree with [Obama’s] assessment” of Mexico’s current situation and likely future progress.
The article corrected several Obama claims on issues like immigration and an emerging Mexican middle class, noted that “many among the several hundred people in attendance said he seemed too upbeat about their country” and quoted audience members with reactions like “Obama is fantastic, but I believe that today he was talking about another country, not ours.”
Particularly when it comes to foreign affairs, Barack Obama is no longer the adoringly-fêted citizen-of-the-world who, on July 24, 2008 spoke in Berlin to 200,000 adoring, mindless fans, in a speech that German magazine Der Spiegel called “People of the World, Look at Me.”
To be sure, not all of the usual suspects in the liberal media have changed their tunes. Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, still bitter over losing his job in an attempt to smear George W. Bush with a forged document, says that Obama’s Republican opponents “want to cut his heart out and throw his liver to the dogs.” (One wonders what they want to do with the heart.)
But when reporters and columnists from the N.Y. Times to the Washington Post, L.A. Times, CNN, ABC News, and others have suddenly come out of their Obama-critique group-laryngitis and are telling the world that the president is a reckless, feckless, spineless non-leader, the political world has indeed turned upside down.”
And so it goes. If only Maureen Dowd et al. had been honest seven months ago, America would still have hope. As it is all we can hope for now is a cataclysmic change like impeachment or resignation.
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/05/07/turning-on-obama/1
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