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Of course in your case it is third hand instagram memes.
 
queery said:
Of course in your case it is third hand instagram memes.
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We all can't be as smart as you.

BTW, isn't it about time you reminded us once again how sooperior your intellect is compared to us commoners? It's been over 24 hours since your last reminder......
 
The Anatomy of an Obama Scandal
Ed Krayewski, Reason.com (Libertarian)

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First, a scandal has to erupt. Often, it arises when the narrative pushed by the president and administration officials reaches the point where it's impossible to reconcile with known truths. For example, the Obama administration considered the Affordable Care Act, passed through Congress divisively in 2010—and which cost Democrats control of the lower chamber in elections later that year—a landmark piece of legislation, a "big fucking deal" in the words of Vice President Joe Biden. It took a lot of promises to get Obamacare passed, promises to legislators and to the public. The president's most famous promise, that if you liked your insurance plan you could keep it, ended up a lie. It could be no other way. The structure of Obamacare relied on restricting the kind of insurance plans individuals could purchase for themselves; the Obamacare website, moreover, may have been destined for failure from the beginning, possessed as administration officials were with the idea that it would succeed through will alone.

Similarly, the fact that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was targeting Tea Party-like 501(c)4 groups for extra scrutiny shouldn't have come as a surprise. The Obama campaign spent the run-up to the 2012 election demonizing the Tea Party as well as demonizing both 501(c)4s specifically and campaign spending in general despite, of course, making use of both. Democrats pushed for extra scrutiny for Tea Party groups, so why should it be a surprise when that scrutiny happened?

In Benghazi, meanwhile, the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission, which came less than two months before the election, flew in the face of President Obama's campaign trail assertions that Al Qaeda was on the run. So the president and his underlings instead blamed the terrorist act on a movie clip found on YouTube. The administration's efforts to twist the truth to fit a preferred political agenda is also sometimes abetted by the media. During one of the 2012 presidential debates, for example, CNN's Candice Crowley helped President Obama get away with spinning the specifics of the Benghazi reaction by backing him in a "fact check" while later admitting that debate opponent Mitt Romney was indeed "right in the main."

Second, victims and whistleblowers step forward. So it was with the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups. Naturally, the groups being victimized by the IRS knew about the IRS's actions immediately, and claims of an "enemy's list" came long before the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration's May 2013 report. Other times the attention is first drawn to the scandal by whistleblowers. Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) were partly responsible for bringing the botched Operation Fast & Furious to light. That law enforcement exercise involved walking guns to Mexico for tracking purposes. But then many of those guns went missing, with some popping up at crime scenes south of the border. The most important whistleblower during the Obama administration may have been Edward Snowden, whose revelations reminded the media, and the public, that the government was continuing to engage in the same kind of inappropriate data collection (and more) that scandalized the George W. Bush Administration.

Long wait times at veterans hospitals aren't new either. The Obama administration, in fact, was warned about the issue when it was still transitioning to the White House. The Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) was blasted for understating wait times at veterans’ hospitals in a V.A. Inspector General's report in 2012. The administration didn't make it an issue because the reality at these hospitals didn't mesh with the idea that veteran care is a top priority for the Obama administration. A series of whistleblowers and revelations of long wait times and cover ups at hospitals across the country over the last month catapulted the scandal into the news cycle.

Third, Obama tells America he's angry. He did it when the IRS scandal couldn't be ignored in the media anymore, telling the press he was angry about it. Obama was angry about the botched Obamacare website rollout, too. This past weekend, the president relayed his anger over the V.A. scandal via an aide. And when he's not angry, he's concerned or frustrated, as he said he was in the wake of whistleblower Edward Snowden's NSA revelations. The president insisted he was preparing to tackle the issues surrounding the secret surveillance programs even before Snowden forced the issue into the public sphere. He said, in fact, that he welcomed the debate, even as his government moved to prosecute Snowden, the whistleblower who made that debate possible. The important thing for the president is to signal to the public that he cares—even in circumstances where he claims he only found out about the issue by reading about it in the paper.

Fourth, the administation starts to drag its feet, and maybe also throws a low-level official under the bus. The Obama administration knew, or should've known, that Healthcare.gov was not ready for its October 2013 launch date. Yet after the botched launch, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius could only say that the administration was working to fix it. It took until December for the administration to say it would order a review of the botched launch. In the meantime, the chief information officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services resigned. Similarly, while Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki says he'll serve as long as he has the president's support, a lower-level V.A. official, an undersecretary for health, did resign this past weekend. Sometimes the resignations are rejected, as NSA chief Keith Alexander’s reportedly was. Sometimes higher-level resignations come months later, as Sebelius' did.

The resignations work to create room for the Obama administration to dodge answering questions about the scandals. When President Obama said he was angry about the alleged IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, he also announced the resignation (read: retirement) of the IRS chief.

Fifth, after enough time has passed, the administration will dismiss the scandal as either the result of partisanship or refer to it as "old news." IRS official Lois Lerner, for example, invoked the Fifth Amendment in a congressional hearing on the tax agency's targeting of conservative groups. Just last month she was held in contempt by that congressional committee. Yet President Obama has dismissed the outrage over the IRS scandal as a contrived attempt to make government look bad. But if it's just a partisan stunt, why is Lerner invoking the Fifth Amendment?

The scandal surrounding Benghazi is perhaps the best example of this. A year and a half after the attack, the government says it still doesn’t know who perpetrated it. The administration says it's still investigating. That passage of time allows the administration to dismiss open questions about Benghazi as old news. As Hillary Clinton put it, what difference does it make "at this point"? Nor is Clinton alone in that attitude. "Dude, this was like, two years ago," a former National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News when asked for details about the White House's reactions to Benghazi.

Finally, an Obama scandal has run its course when no consequences are felt and the status quo remains the same. Few people are ever actually held accountable for an Obama administration scandal. Most of the IRS officials who left in the wake of the Tea Party debacle have managed to keep their pensions. Indeed, even when such officials purport to resign, they actually just retire; such was the case even for Lois Lerner, who flat-out refused to cooperate with Congress in its investigation. Meanwhile, despite many resignations and retirements, none of the officials implicated in Operation Fast & Furious were fired. The ATF agent who blew the whistle on the program, on the other hand, was fired.

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Dances With Falsehoods said:
The Anatomy of an Obama Scandal
Ed Krayewski, Reason.com (Libertarian)
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The Anatomy of an Obama Scandal
  • Fox News and/or Breitbart spins the news of the day to reflect poorly on President Obama, his administration and/or Hillary Clinton
  • The Chief cut-n-pastes this outrage du jour, declares it to be Worse Than Watergate™
  • Wat Tyler agrees with the Chief
  • The General Board mocks the Chief
  • The Chief bemoans his Eternal Victimhood
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
The Anatomy of an Obama Scandal
Ed Krayewski, Reason.com (Libertarian)
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At this point they could use the collected footage of Jay Carney to make an animated answer-bot like that Burger King chicken a while back.

He could cluck out his denials and obfuscations. Even he looks bored with his answers these days, and he has completely lost that blush of "am I really saying this?"
 
He reminds me of Baghdad Bob proclaiming that the Americans were not there as their vehicles rolled by in the background...


;) ;)
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
He reminds me of Baghdad Bob proclaiming that the Americans were not there as their vehicles rolled by in the background...


;) ;)
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He looks like the kid who got caught breaking the window and is trying to lie his way out of it.
 
miles said:
The only place he'll ever be able to find a job again is within the Democrat Party. Lying is embedded in their culture.
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Like so many of them, he can bounce back and forth between reporting for the lies and telling the lies long after Obama has exited, Stage Left...

They need to get Candy at the White House.
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
Like so many of them, he can bounce back and forth between reporting for the lies and telling the lies long after Obama has exited, Stage Left...

They need to get Candy at the White House.
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The revolving door between 'journalists(?)' and the administrative branch is almost as much a danger to the Republic as the revolving door between the financial sector and the administrative branch. (Which is a case to ask, "Where the hell is Andrew Jackson when you need him?")

Ishmael
 
23 May 2014

Dear Rep. Bachmann:

I have a favor to ask. The favor is not for me personally: it is for every American concerned about the future of this Republic.

I know you are a patriot. I know you are courageous. I know you care deeply about the future of this nation. Therefore I have addressed this request to you and you alone.

Hillary Clinton, like Barack Obama, is a radical leftist who despises the Constitution and the free market. Her troubling history is well-documented, as even The Washington Postobserved in 2008 when the editors of that dying journal were trying to get then-Senator Obama nominated.

Hillary Clinton and her husband have some secrets you can help expose.

The Cox Report

The Cox Report was issued in 1999, when Democrats put country before party, after an investigation of some shocking transfers of military technology to the Communist Chinese military.

This special committee, created by a 409-10 vote of the U.S. House of Representatives on June 18, 1998, was tasked with the responsibility of investigating whether technology or information was transferred to the People's Republic of China that may have contributed to the enhancement of the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles or to the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction... ...The committee's final report was approved unanimously by all 9 [bipartisan] members. The redacted version of the report was released to the public May 25, 1999.

The full report has never been released.

Why might that be?

Because the Clintons appear to have traded military secrets to the Red Chinese in exchange for millions in campaign contributions.

For instance, on 9/13/1995, President Clinton met with John Huang and James Riady (pictured below). During the meeting, Huang expressed an interest in becoming a fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee.

In this position at the DNC, Huang raised $3.4 million. The DNC was later forced to return nearly $2 million when a Congressional investigation revealed "problems" with the source of the funds. Huang was later convicted of crimes related to illegally reimbursing campaign contributions with Asian funds. Riady was also convicted of related campaign finance crimes. A U.S. Senate campaign finance report stated that Riady had a, "long-term relationship with... Chinese intelligence."

On 3/14/1996, President Clinton signed an order transferring license-granting authority for military/industrial technology from the State Department to the Commerce Department. This order made it easier for the Chinese military (the PLA) to launch American satellites, over objections from the Pentagon and the State Department. During the Clinton administration, focused Chinese espionage efforts made significant headway in thetheft of U.S. military/industrial secrets including those concerning nuclear weaponry.

On 5/25/1999, the U.S. House of Representatives released the Cox Report ("Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China"), which detailed publicly for the first time China's espionage campaign against the United States. The report was a redacted version of a still-classified report. Approximately 30% of the original report, the unanimous product of a bi-partisan committee, remains classified.

Rep. Bachmann, you can release the full Cox Report.

The Barrett Report

Another little-remembered scandal involving the Clintons, The Barrett Report:

...is a 400 page report created by special prosecutor David Barrett. Initially tasked with investigating allegations of lying to the FBI against Henry Cisneros, Secretary of the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Bill Clinton, the investigation eventually delved into allegations that President Clinton had used the U.S. Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service as political tools against American citizens.

Before the release of the report, three Democrat U.S. Senators, John Kerry, Dick Durbin and Byron Dorgan, forced the redaction of certain pages by attaching a rider to an unrelated appropriations bill.

Cisneros, a former San Antonio mayor, eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI. He paid a US$10,000 fine and was pardoned by President Clinton on Clinton's final day in office.

So three powerful Democrat Senators did their level best to cover up reports that Clinton used the IRS and the DOJ to attack political opponents!

Rep. Bachmann, you can release the full Barrett Report.

So my request is as follows

Rep. Bachmann: please read the redacted portions of The Barrett Report and The Cox Report into the Congressional Record. The classification of this information is not an issue for members of Congress.

Professor Bruce Ackerman and others have stated that members of Congress "cannot be prosecuted for reading classified material into the public record."

Let's find out what Hillary Clinton and her husband were really up to when they occupied the White House for eight years.

The citizens of this country need to know in order to properly vet this woman for elected office. The citizens of this country deserve to know the truth. Please help us discover the truth.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Doug Ross

Links: http://americanthinker.com/assets/3...nese_baggage_could_see_the_light_of_day_.html
 
Just one question: How does he know Ms. Bachmann is courageous, a patriot, and cares about the future of this nation? Is this something you can look up somewhere or something?
 
Adre said:
Just one question: How does he know Ms. Bachmann is courageous, a patriot, and cares about the future of this nation? Is this something you can look up somewhere or something?
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That is two questions and one of them is a three part question.

Did you want just one answer?

....Or was the question rhetorical?
 
The problem with all of the conspiracy theories about the Clinton is wading through the sheer volume of them.

Some seem a bit silly to me...some have the ring of truth.

I am not a big proponent of the maxim, "Where there is smoke there is fire..'

At a bare minimum the Clintons are greedy opportunists, vindictive back-stabbers, glib liars, and are not averse to playing fast and loose with the rules.
 
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