Sunday, May 19, 2013

Missing America ... J. D. Longstreet

Missing America
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
With Memorial Day and the 4th of July (celebrated as Independence Day in the United States) fast approaching, scribes all over the nation are dutifully dipping their quills into their inkwells to scribble the obligatory few lines on the topic: “What America Means to me”, again this year, as in every year since, well, since 1776, I suppose.

But, I must confess, I am having difficulty this year.  Each time I pull up to the keyboard, and type those few words, I have to confess, my eyes want to tear up and I get that lump in the throat that I used to associate with singing the national anthem and watching the flag march by, proudly held aloft by a veteran of the US Armed Forces. All of you Vets know exactly what I mean.  It is a common trait among those of us who have worn our nation’s uniform.

Ah, but this year, this year, the would-be tears are not only for those who have paid the price of our freedom with their body and blood - and sometimes even their sanity, it is for what we, as Americans, as a nation, have lost in recent years.

Near the top of my list of things we Americans have lost is PRIDE.  Pride at being an American.  Pride that was earned - that was paid for by the men and women who went before me into the jaws of hell and back to free a people in a country the name of which we often could not even pronounce. It was pride earned because Americans were a people who would lend a hand to their fellow man, far away, who yearned to be free from a brutal dictator.

America used to be thought of as a “can-do” nation.  It didn’t make a lot of difference what needed doing, America could, and would, do it.  It never occurred to us we could fail.  I mean, after all, we were AMERICANS!  We DON’T FAIL!

It was confidence.  Self-confidence, if you will.  We were a nation of rugged individualists who did not rely on government for a damned thing. As a matter of fact, the less government we had - the better.

The nation, itself, was founded largely by the outcasts of other nations.  Occasionally, other nations would send their criminals here as punishment.  I know that is difficult to believe but it happened!  They were people who had nothing to lose, with their backs against the wall they had one way to go and that was straight ahead - and the devil take the hind most! Those were the people who formed the bedrock foundation of the people the world would come to know simply as “AMERICANS.”  Unique in the history of the planet - there had never been a nation made of people like those Americans. They were different. They knew it and they loved it.

They were a people who wanted their freedom - and so they took it – and they took it from a world superpower, no less. They created an experimental system of government called a constitutional representative republic and made it work!  Some 80 years later they fell out, over state’s rights, and split into two separate countries and went to war against each other.   

The War for Southern Independence was unlike anything the world had seen before and since. They went at killing each other with workman like precision.  On more than one occasion soldiers would cheer and applaud the other side’s bravery in the midst of the battle! More Americans died in that war than in all the wars America has been involved in added together. Some say the way that war ended has much to do with where America finds herself today.  I cannot disagree with that.  As a result of that war’s ending we stand today as one nation containing two countries made up of 50 separate and sovereign states. At some point it is bound to unravel. 

America’s downfall came quickly once it began in the early 1990’s.

I have concluded ignorance is the cause of America’s downfall. We Americans are, as a whole, stupid.  We are the least educated, dumbest, society on earth. How else can you account for the people we elected to lead the nation?  I mean… just LOOK at that bunch!  Now… look at what they have done to the country in just the last few months!  There is no easy way to say this – the election of Obama was a huge triumph for ignorance in America.  If you STILL do not believe me, stick around for oh, a year, maybe eighteen months, or so, and watch what is going to happen and THEN tell me I am wrong.

Come on folks!  Look at the fare on your TV.  Most of it is insulting to anyone with a slightly above average IQ. You must understand the comprehension level of the average adult American today is around that of a third grader, or below. The people who produce the garbage on TV have to dumb it down so the average American can understand it!  How else are they going to be able to sell it to the networks as vehicles for their commercials? 

Our public school system (the government schools, as many now refer to them) is absolutely pathetic.  It is a colossal failure.  The curriculum has been dumbed down so that we are graduating kids who can barely function in a world that will surely pass them by.  We know what is wrong with our schools and we know how to fix them - but we won’t. You must understand that for the government (we now have in America) to continue to control the reins of power they need MORE dumb Americans - not less. Our cookie-cutter schools are turning them out by the millions every year.

So, if you say America has passed her zenith, I certainly would not argue with you. Today’s America is but a caricature of the real America.  And I really, really, miss America!

J. D. Longstreet 
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Obama’s Federal Gestapo is Going Down ... JB Williams

Obama’s Federal Gestapo is Going Down
By JB Williams

White House propaganda secretary Jay Carney finally said something that was true, which I can agree with… “This is not a scandal” referring to the IRS gestapo operations run by Obama henchmen.

He’s right, it isn’t a scandal. A scandal is something to read in the supermarket tabloid for entertainment value. No, this is a full-blown conspiracy to use the full weight and power of all federal agencies to go after and destroy all political opponents of “the one” Barack Hussein Obama.

No matter who you ask about what in this administration, you get the same answer…. “We know nothing!”

The current story involving Obama’s use of the IRS to target political opposition via going after more than 500 patriotic action groups, their donors and their volunteers, is but one piece of a much larger conspiracy to destroy the United States beginning with all who would stand in the way of that agenda.

Yes, the administration has been using the IRS to target all political opposition since taking office in 2009. They went after Tea Party, 912, Patriot, Liberty, Christian, conservative, republican, constitutional, pro-life and anti-global governance organizations.
These efforts were aimed at blocking “tax exempt” fund raising by placing the groups 501 status on hold. But they were also used to acquire lists of donors, officers and volunteers, individual American citizens who were then targeted for audits and delays in their individual tax refunds, a deeper attempt to cut-off the life blood of any political movement, the funding, and intimidate those who stand opposed to Obama.

Heads should roll on the IRS story, starting with everyone in that agency involved in carrying out these operations, those in control of the agency at the time those orders were issued to staff, and every member of congress or the administration who pushed the IRS to act in gestapo fashion as nothing more than a tool for the Democrat Party and Obama Administration. Nothing short of broad criminal prosecution is going to do on this matter.

However, the IRS story is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg…

It has also come to light that Obama’s so-called Department of Justice (DOJ) has been tapping the phones of journalists in the Associated Press (AP) and I suspect that when that investigation gets into full swing, we will learn that Holder’s DOJ was tapping journalists well beyond the AP, as well as republican members of congress.

The IRS story has been reported by independent sources since the gestapo operation began in 2009. The main stream press ignored it all until the main stream press found themselves in the crosshairs of the most criminally corrupt administration in U.S. history.
Once the press found itself a target of the Obama administration via Holder’s DOJ, the main stream press had a sudden interest in multiple “scandals” they had ignored or covered up for more than four years… Benghazi, the downing of SEAL Team 6 on Extortion 17, the IRS story, etc.

But oh, there is more…

It has been reported by independent sources and ignored by the main stream press for over four years now that Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had turned all of its assets on Obama’s political opponents as well.

In a publicly circulated operational report, Obama’s DHS openly sought to identify every freedom loving constitutionally grounded American citizen as a “right-wing extremist” and “potential domestic terrorist…” as REAL Islamic terrorists were being imported to America by the Obama Administration, accounting for FIVE known successful terror strikes on U.S. soil thus far on Obama’s watch.

These anti-American witch hunts have been passed down through the ranks of federal, state and local law enforcement and today, we see these organizations created and paid to “Protect and Serve” American citizens using their authority and power to attack, disarm, incarcerate and sometimes kill innocent law-abiding Americans.

Obama’s Department of Defense (DOD) has been assaulting the U.S. Military through suicidal Rules of Engagement (ROE), Muslim infiltrations and gay social experiments since 2009. They have American blood all over their hands in Afghanistan, Iraq and Benghazi and will likely be found responsible for the unnecessary death of 30 American soldiers in the downing of SEAL Team 6 in Extortion 17.

We will soon learn that the Obama Administration used the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to run cover for the most massive federal election fraud in U.S. history which resulted in stolen elections in 2008 and 2012, funded by hundreds of millions in illegal campaign donations from foreign sources, most of it from all over the Middle East.

We will learn that Obama has been using the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to target political opponents in the corporate world of American free enterprise too. More shoes will drop over the coming days and weeks.

Obama has used the Treasury Department to run up more than $17 trillion in U.S. debt and more than $87 trillion in unfunded U.S. liabilities, all of which threatens to destroy the entire U.S. economic system and the U.S. dollar.

Yes indeed, Obama has been a busy little beaver in his mission to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” and he is indeed, “standing with Islam” just as he promised he would in his ego-driven autobiographies and his 2008 campaign for dictatorial power.

So, let’s sum it all up here….

Imagine what would have happened if George W. Bush had done the following….
·        Used the FEC to cover up massive election fraud

·        Used DHS to identify all Democrats and Liberals as “extremists” and “potential terrorists” setting the entire intelligence, military and law enforcement community on a mission to arrest, disarm, incarcerate and kill if necessary, all Democrats and Liberals

·        Used the IRS to block ALL left-leaning 501 political action committees of just George Soros alone, stopping the billions poured into left-wing causes by simply using the IRS to go after those groups and all of their donors

·        Used the DOJ to wiretap all journalists to control the messaging like Goebbels, and then wiretap all Democrat members of congress in their private chambers in order to hear their every conversation

·        Used the DOD to dismantle and destroy the U.S. Military, leaving our soldiers like sitting ducks under insane ROE on the field of battle and leaving our diplomats unprotected and behind

·        Used the SEC to go after Democrat companies like Progressive Insurance, GEICO, Microsoft and every film and music enterprise in Hollywood

·        And then used the Treasury Department to destroy the U.S. economy and even the U.S. currency so that no “middle class” voter could find a job

·        All while importing known terrorists from around the globe, killing millions of Natural Born Americans via abortion and making room for millions of illegal aliens with an anti-American vision for America…

What would American Democrats have done to George W. Bush had he done what the Obama Administration has been doing ever since illegally seizing control of the federal government on January 20, 2009?

In America, any one of these criminal acts would rise to the level of impeachment in a heartbeat. But all of these acts combined, advanced by numerous key actors and hundreds if not thousands of useful idiots, rises to the level of conspiracy to commit treason. An act punishable by death!

It can no longer be denied or ignored; our nation is under siege… 

Every federal agency has been set on a war footing against the American people. Contrary to the steady flow of utter bullshit spewing from the mouths of left-wing operatives, Barack Hussein Obama is directly involved in every decision made in the Federal Government, the buck absolutely stops with him on all of these events.

At a bare minimum, congress should immediately move for impeachment of what is clearly the most blatantly corrupt administration in all of American history. If congress fails to do so, Americans must assume that congress is entirely complicit in all of it, or completely impotent against it.

A VERY Real Constitutional Crisis

Our problem is as follows, and this has been the problem since 20 January 2009…
Barack Hussein Obama MUST be held fully accountable for numerous blatant acts of treason, period. If this does not happen, America is finished forever. This by itself constitutes a “constitutional crisis…” but is again, only the tip of the iceberg.

Due to the massive conspiracy surrounding what can only be titled The Obama Crisis, and all of the key figures involved in that conspiracy to “fundamentally change America,” no one in the constitution chain of succession to the Oval Office can be entrusted with that office today.

Constitutional Chain of Succession – ALL Co-Conspirators
1.      The Vice President Joseph Biden
2.      Speaker of the House John Boehner
3.      President pro tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy
4.      Secretary of State John Kerry
5.      Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew
6.      Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
7.      Attorney General Eric Holder
8.      Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel
9.      Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
10.   Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank (acting)
11.   Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris (acting)
12.   Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
13.   Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan
14.   Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
15.   Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman (acting)
16.   Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
17.   Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
18.   Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

This is the very real constitutional crisis America has been living under since 20 January 2009 and every member of congress knows it, and so does every member of the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the real constitutional crisis we face… who can hold these offices once vacated, until a special emergency election can be held?

Because every individual listed in the constitutional line of succession is directly involved in the conspiracy, the cover-up or both, none of them can replace Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Military.

Many on this list must face criminal charges along with Barack Hussein Obama, including former Obama appointees Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta. Others must resign or be removed from office for their supporting roles in this massive conspiracy.

This cannot wait until the next election, much less until the 2016 election. This ship must be turned about-face right now! Unless the fraud of the 2012 election is rectified, elections are off the table as a solution.

People have to be removed from office, charged with crimes, put in prison and made an example of… and no matter how difficult it is the American people must insist that our government be cleansed of all frauds, infiltrators and criminals.

Yes, the American people have allowed this tragedy to build to a point when resolving this mess will itself be very messy. But not resolving this disaster will be even messier and disasters are not like wine, they do not get better with time.

Is this enough for the average American to wake up and get engaged yet? If it isn’t, America isn’t America anymore and it will never be America ever again.

JB Williams
Co-Founder
www.PatriotsUnion.org
www.VeteranDefenders.org
www.ThePatriotsNews.com

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JB Williams is a writer on matters of history and American politics with more than 3000 pieces published over a twenty-year span. He has a decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of Freedom, the men and women who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for all, and action oriented real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a Christian, a husband, a father, a researcher, writer and a business owner. He is co-founder of action organizations The United States Patriots Union, a civilian parent organization for The Veteran Defenders of America. He is also co-founder of The North American Law Center, a citizen run investigative legal research and activism organization preparing to take on American's greatest legal battles. Williams receives mail at: jb.uspu@gmail.com
 

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Benghazi: Where are Gen. Ham and Adm. Gaouette? ... JB Williams



Benghazi: Where are Gen. Ham and Adm. Gaouette?

By JB Williams




Who knows the whole truth about why Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty along with State Department officials Chris Stevens and Sean Smith died in Benghazi 11 September 2012?

It’s now public knowledge that the ever evolving official administration stories on Benghazi are all bold faced lies. It’s clear that the four Americans who were brutally murdered in Benghazi did not have to die. What’s not clear yet, is who is responsible for these murders? Nothing the Obama administration has told the people about Benghazi is true… but who is responsible?

General Carter Ham and Admiral Charles M. Gaouette know the answer to this question. Where are Ham and Gaouette today? Why hasn’t Issa’s investigative committee called these decorated Military officers to testify before the committee investigating Benghazi?

We have known since 30 October 2012 that these two officers…
1.      Were ordered to STAND DOWN in Benghazi
2.      Ignored those orders
3.      Were relieved of duty for refusing orders to STAND DOWN

We know from the unclassified cables between Benghazi and DC and the subsequent Executive Brief, that cables were firing in all directions in the hours before and during the Benghazi attack that ended in the brutal death of four Americans.

General Ham was head of AFRICOM and Commander of the 2011 US-NATO operation to depose Gadhafi in Libya. Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette was in command of the Carrier Strike Group Three (CSG-3), then deployed in Middle Eastern waters during the attack on Benghazi. 

Both Ham and Gaouette reported receiving the same desperate cables for additional security and backup that Obama administration officials received and ignored from Benghazi. They did not ignore those desperate calls for help ringing out from the Benghazi installation on 11 September 2012.

No, both Ham and Gaouette attempted to launch ready response teams in the region capable of provided the much needed assistance during the seven hour long assault on Benghazi. Both were then relieved of command for their actions, described by the US Military as “allegations of inappropriate leadership judgment.”

General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready to deploy to Benghazi. Then, General Ham received the order to stand down. His response was “screw it,” - he was going to help anyway.
Within minutes after issuing an order to deploy his ready response team, Ham’s second in command apprehended the General and told him that he was now relieved of his command. Ham knows who issued the order to STAND DOWN as well as the order to relieve him of his command at AFRICOM.

Adm. Gaouette had also received the startling requests for support as the attack unfolded in Benghazi. Like Ham, he readied a response from Carrier Strike Group Three (CSG-3). Gaouette was also ordered to STAND DOWN and like Ham, he decided to refuse those orders. Gaouette readied vital intelligence and communications operations for an extraction effort to be launched by Ham.

Stars and Stripes reported October 18, 2012 that General Ham is being replaced by Gen. David Rodriguez. They also reported on October 27, 2012 that Adm. Gaouette is being replaced by Rear Adm. Troy M. Shoemaker. The Navy stated that it was “replacing the admiral in command of an aircraft carrier strike group in the Middle East, pending the outcome of an internal investigation into undisclosed allegations of inappropriate judgment.”

What were the “inappropriate judgments” of these two decorated Military leaders? Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy's chief spokesman, declined to discuss the investigation.
What we know is that these two highly unusual acts to remove two highly decorated commanders is related to the 11 September 2012 strike on Benghazi. We also know that the congressional investigation has not yet called these valiant men in to give testimony.
We know that months’ worth of warnings and requests for additional security at Benghazi we ignored and denied by the Clinton run State Department and that someone gave the DoD order to STAND DOWN when American troops were in the region and ready to assist.

We know that the Obama administration manufactured a lie about some obscure anti-Islam youtube clip that had nothing whatsoever to do with the events of 11 September 2012 Benghazi. We know that the Obama administration is holding that filmmaker in prison today. We know that Benghazi survivors have been threatened and silenced.
But most of all, we know that Gen. Ham and Adm. Gaouette can provide very real answers to a laundry list of very important questions regarding the Benghazi attacks and Issa’s alleged investigation.

On 23 April 2013, Five House Committees investigating Benghazi issued a joint Interim Progress Report. In it, all five committees fail to ask the right questions and all five demonstrate a clear intent to keep the truth about Benghazi under wraps, though the report does confirm almost everything stated herein.

The attack in Benghazi of 11 September, 2012 is now almost eight months old and yet, the truth about that attack is still a distant fog sheltered by government officials engaged in blatant obstruction of justice, made possible by the help of a totally incompetent or complicit press.

If you want to know what really happened in Benghazi, demand that Issa’s congressional committee subpoena both Gen. Ham and Adm. Gaouette to testify before the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform.

And then, recall Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta once Ham and Gaouette have testified.
Someone is responsible for the murder of Americans in Benghazi and the lies that followed. That someone, in fact, all who are involved in the Benghazi murder and the cover up, must be held fully accountable.


JB Williams
Co-Founder
www.PatriotsUnion.org
www.VeteranDefenders.org
www.ThePatriotsNews.com

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JB Williams is a writer on matters of history and American politics with more than 3000 pieces published over a twenty-year span. He has a decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of Freedom, the men and women who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for all, and action oriented real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a Christian, a husband, a father, a researcher, writer and a business owner. He is co-founder of action organizations The United States Patriots Union, a civilian parent organization for The Veteran Defenders of America. He is also co-founder of The North American Law Center, a citizen run investigative legal research and activism organization preparing to take on American's greatest legal battles. Williams receives mail at: jb.uspu@gmail.com


Friday, May 17, 2013

When YOUR Ox Is Gored ... .,.. J. D. Longstreet

When YOUR Ox Is Gored ...
Attack of the Lapdogs!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

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WOW!  What a turn around!  I refer of course, to the repentance of the Mainstream Media. Repentance here is meant in the classic definition:  turn around and go the other way.  That's what the press has done the past few days.  And , yes, it IS remarkable!

It is nigh on to laughable to observe the MSM in high angst going after the Obama administration after learning about the "monitoring" of AP reporters phone calls, both personal and business.  It really does depend, I suppose, upon whose ox is being gored.

As long as the Obama White House was persecuting conservatives, and backing and filling the Benghazi cover-up, everything was hunky-dory with the Mainstream Media. 

But the moment they (the MsM) become the target of the Obama administration the MsM went ballistic! 

You may recall the Fox News Channel was out there, all by itself, on the Benghazi affair for months and months.  The MsM just yawned and looked the other way.  The IRS harassment of the Tea Party and other conservative groups received only cursory and lukewarm interest amongst the denizens of the press.

But WAIT!  The inviolate MsM has been violated by none other than their messiah! Suddenly they feel betrayed -- and with good reason.  They HAVE been betrayed.

But -- HEY! Countless times we have warned the leftist press that under a tyrannical government the press would be among the very first targets for censoring, and for ultimate control by the government.  Now they have had a taste, just a taste, mind you, of what we have been warning them about for years now.  And they seem blind-sided by it all.  It is just unbelievable.

As of this writing vast holes have appeared in the circle of wagons around Mr. Obama. And Obama is -- suddenly -- vulnerable.

Hours before this writing the dems were scrambling to find a way -- some way, ANYWAY, to bribe the MsM back into their corner.  They began by suggesting that now might be a good time to revisit the proposed reporter/press shield law that made its way ignominiously into the "round file" the last time it reared its head on Capitol Hill.

Judging by the reception of Obama's suggestion, the shield law bribe is not working.

It is gratifying to actually witness the MsM rediscover their purpose.  They were to be the people's watchdog over the government.  Instead they became the Obama Administration lapdogs.  Suddenly they were transformed from reporters to stenographers reporting the White House's -- AND -- the Democratic Party's "talking points" as news.

This loss of their mission not only affected the national media it reached all the way down to community news organizations, as well. As a result, Americans have only seen a white wash of the Obama Administration -- and the Democratic Party -- for the past four and a half years.

What little esteem for the MsM held by those few Americans who actually derived their news from those sources must now feel themselves betrayed, as well. Unarguably they have been deluged by a tsunami of left wing propaganda employed by the west wing f the White House, and various executive departments under the direct or indirect control of the Obama Administration.

Now "the chickens have come home to roost" as a famous religious leader said a number of years ago. 

I have no idea where all these scandals will lead, eventually.  But understand -- even if an impeachment proceeding is begun, and Obama is impeached in the House of Representatives, it will take a vote by the Democratic Party controlled US Senate to convict Obama and that is about as likely to be successful, as rolling a snowball clear across Hell in the middle of August. It ain't gonna happen.

We're asking ourselves today, if Obama's protective bubble has finally burst, if his Teflon coating as developed a scratch, will we actually get to see Obama for what he truly is before some sort of makeshift barrier is erected to insure that the real Obama is never exposed to the scrutiny of the "low info voters" who put him in office -- not once-- but twice.

This could be a pivotal  moment in American history.

"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely"  -- The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

We Americans must continually guard against the encroachment of tyranny. 



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The President as Sergeant Schultz ... Alan Caruba

The President as Sergeant Schultz



By Alan Caruba

How is it that, time and again, the most powerful man on the planet doesn’t seem to have a clue what is happening in his own government? Famed for never accepting blame for anything, the more I see President Obama these days, the more I am reminded of Sergeant Hans Schultz of the TV sitcom, “Hogan’s Heroes”, that ran from 1965 to 1971.
The wonderful John Banner the actor who played the prisoner of war guard left an indelible legacy with his repeated denials, “I know nothing. I hear nothing, and I see nothing”; often all three at the same time to avoid being implicated in Col. Robert E. Hogan’s manipulation of Werner Klemperer’s Col. Wilhelm Klink, the camp commandant of Luftwaffe Stalag 13.

Obama’s way of dealing with everything has been to talk it to death and he has been responding to questions from the press, claiming that the accusations are all “a sideshow” or that “there’s no there, there.” It is not working. In the case of Benghazi-Gate, his lies are so blatant that it has gone from an embarrassment to a full-fledged cover-up.

Similarly, the Attorney General, Eric Holder, has relied on claiming ignorance and putting distance between himself and his Department of Justice’s increasing list of scandals, from Fast and Furious that earned him a citation for contempt of Congress in June 2012 for his lack of candor. His latest “I know nothing” testimony regarding the DOJ’s seizure of the phone records of Associated Press editors and reporters makes one wonder why the President continues to retain him in office or, for that matter, why he isn’t in jail for stonewalling about Fast and Furious, an ATF gun-running scheme that got a border patrol and ICE agent killed.

Those of us who follow the President closely know that he has been lying consistently before and since being elected--twice. His two “memoirs” have been picked apart by reporters who have written their own books on the subject. It would appear that Obama picked up the habit of lying early on in life as the son of a Kenyan who had abandoned his mother, the step-son of an Indonesian whom his mother also divorced, and a man who remarkably was a friend or associate of a long list of shady characters you might more likely find in a detective novel.

He dismissed his close friendship with former 60s Weatherman terrorist, Bill Ayers, as someone who lived in his Chicago neighborhood. He had to throw his longtime pastor, Jeremiah Wright, under the bus when it became known he said many bad things about America over the course of the many years Obama was a member of his church. The man who conducted Obama’s wedding and christened his children said of 9/11, “the chickens have come home to roost” as if it was America’s fault it was attacked.

Even so, this is small potatoes compared to the way the many “renewable energy” companies received billions in government loans and rapidly went bankrupt. It turned out that many of the many of the men who created those companies where major “bundlers” and contributors to his 2009 presidential campaign. Of the most famous bankruptcy, Solyndra, Obama said, “That was not our program, per se. Congress-Democrats and Republicans—put together a loan guarantee program…” Maybe so, but we have not seen such a program lose so much money in such a short time, betting on solar and wind power projects. The taxpayers got stuck with the bill. The number of actual “green” jobs ended up costing over a million dollars each to create.

Of his failed “stimulus” package, Obama said “Apparently there weren’t as many shovel ready jobs as we thought.” Before spending millions to allegedly revive the economy, you are supposed to know such things.

If not Benghazi-Gate, than the IRS targeting of conservative, patriot, and constitution education groups could provide the fulcrum to bring down Obama’s presidency. Despite his denials of knowledge about the program within the IRS to harass and deny these groups non-profit status, vital to raise donations and funding, and the firing of the IRS commissioner, this is a scandal with which ordinary taxpayers can identify, fearful of audits. Imagine now as the realization sinks in that it is the IRS that will be administering Obamacare!

Up to now Obama could count on the mainstream media to ignore much of the blunders, failures and lies that characterized his first term, but the scandals coalescing as his second term begins have a weight that includes the growing unhappiness of the White House press corps who are tired of being lied to or having to listen to press secretary Jay Carney speak to them as if they were a bunch of witless clowns.

It is said that “the fish stinks from the head” and what we are witnessing is an administration whose corrupt political practices have seeped deep into the government agencies for which Obama is responsible.

It is still too soon to know which scandal or combination of scandals will bring down his presidency, but it will only take a few more eye-witnesses and whistle-blowers to turn Obama into the Wizard of Oz, hiding behind the curtain and pulling the levers to fool Dorothy and her pals or, in our case, those of us who still believe laws should be obeyed and power should not be abused.

© Alan Caruba, 2013 
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