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Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Democratic Party Panic ... Alan Caruba
Democratic Party Panic
By Alan
Caruba
On
December 28th, the Democratic National Committee sent an email to “Obama for
America” supporters. The subject line was “Impeachment.”
“What do
these people have in common?” asked the text as it quoted Republican James
Inhofe of Oklahoma, Rep. Michele Bachman of Minnesota, Rep. Kerry Bentivivolio
of Michigan, and Rep. Blake Farenhold of Texas, all of whom discussed the
possibility of impeaching Obama, citing instances of official misconduct. The
DNC said, “Republicans are actually excited about the idea.”
Ten days
earlier, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the DNC, had sent an email
to supporters updating them on the party’s strategy to win elections in 2014.
“What you need is good strategy, smart people, and ideas you’re proud to stand
behind…” The one thing missing from the email was the mention of a single idea.
No mention of Obamacare, amnesty, or any other Democratic policies.
When I
visited Democrats.org on December 29, the website was telling members that
“The economy could face a credit downgrade if Republicans continue to threaten
to default on our loans.” No mention of
the first such downgrade in the history of the nation which occurred during
Obama’s first term and was a response to the nearly six trillion dollars he had
added to the nation’s debt.
Under the
headline “Dirtier”, the DNC claimed that “All the gains we’ve made for our
environment, like two million acres of preserved land and rivers will be on the
line.” That’s right, Republicans want
dirtier air and water, and the way to protect the nation is to ensure that
millions of acres cannot be used by Americans, especially if there is lots of
coal or oil is under those acres. According to Wikipedia, “As of
March 2012, out of the 2.27 billion acres in the country, about 28% of the
total was owned by American citizens represented by the National Federal
government according to the Interior Department.” That’s
right, more than a quarter of all the landmass of the nation is owned by the
federal government.
The
headline “Less Fair” was followed by “Our voter protection efforts and
workplace equality work will be undone” but it is Democrats who oppose any
state effort to pass laws that require proof of citizenship or even residency.
And, under “Less Healthy” it accused all who want to “’Repeal Obamacare’. Need
we say more?” Apparently a law that deprives you of your personal physician and
imposes higher costs on government-approved healthcare insurance plans is a
good thing.
Not only
are we witnessing a full scale panic in the Democratic National Committee, we
can read just how devoid of any truth and any sense any of their policies are.
If a few Republicans in Congress had a passing comment on impeaching President
Obama, it comes as no surprise whatever.
In late
December, Forbes magazine published an article by Ira Shapiro, a senior fellow
in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato
Supreme Court Review. The title was “President Obama’s Top 10 Constitutional
Violations of 2013.” Shapiro didn’t even have to go back any further to include
others during his first term.
Among
those cited was Obama’s delay of out-of-pocket caps, a change that requires
actual legislation. Similarly, the delay of Obamacare’s employer mandate was
cited because, if Obamacare is the “law of the land”, such changes require
action by Congress. Several other
changes to Obamacare by the President were cited for the same reason.
Political
profiling by the IRS was cited such as an internal BOLO, “Be on the lookout”.
for organizations engaged in political activities, citing “Tea Party”,
“Patriots” and “Israel” as words to identify them. The targeting continued
through May 2013 until it was exposed.
You can
read Shapiro’s article here.
What
Republicans and independents know and Democrats do not want to acknowledge is
that Obamacare is, to use its most frequent description, “a disaster.” Many
suspect that Obama was and is ineligible to be President. The birth certificate
put forward by the White House has been declared a forgery. His Social Security
number is suspect. It is common knowledge that his college records are all
sealed even though he may have applied for admission as a “foreign student.”
So, yes,
the Democratic National Committee has a lot to hide about the President and its
support for legislation and regulations based on “climate change” and other
liberal notions that lack the knowledge of science and warp its practice. It
continues to advocate spending billions, if not trillions, the U.S. does not
have. And, finally, the President’s foreign policies—not mentioned in its
emails or on its website—have been a dismal failure, making the world more
dangerous.
The
Democratic Party has one thing going for it---the mainstream media. In the
Sunday before the New Year, the New York Times published a 7,000-word article
claiming that the attack on the Benghazi consulate where our ambassador and
three others were killed was not related to al Qaeda. In the words of former
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, “What difference does it make?” Answer: A
lot. This “newspaper” is the U.S. equivalent of Pravda during the days of
Stalin.
In
November, Americans have the opportunity to remove Democratic Senators and
Representatives who voted for Obamacare and replace them with candidates who
believe the Constitution means what it says.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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Pundits, so I am told, on or about, December 31st, are expected to make predictions for the coming year. 
Normally, I don't do this, preferring to make all sort of wild predictions throughout the year, most of which turn out to totally wrong. The good thing about being a pundit is the reader's very bad and extremely short memory! It has saved my derriere any number of times.
Howsoever, never let it be said I did not do my part to muddy the future waters of the new year 2014.
So -- here goes:
If you liked 2013 you're gonna LOVE 2014!
This IS an election year. (I'm so old I can remember when we actually had some space between elections! These days the pols just campaign non-stop!) We have the Democrats, the Republicans, and the Conservatives (Yeah, I deliberately carved conservatives out of the GOP. Wishful thinking on my part. See, I'd like to see conservatives with their own political party. As I said -- wishful thinking.) all vying for leadership positions that, for the most part, NONE of them is equipped to handle.
In 2014, I see the Obama Administration doing a pretty good imitation of the Hindenburg, (Oh! The humanity ... ! Remember? OK, so Google it!) as it continues to crash and burn. Ratlines are already being established for "antsy" members of the administration ready to beat a hasty retreat out of Foggy Bottom and lose themselves amongst the proletariat, at least for a few years -- til the furor blows over.
Obamacare has turned out to be the suicide pact for the democrats we warned it would be. The pay-off for those of us who fought Obamacare tooth and nail will come in November with the pending purge of the Congress of the current brood of vipers now in residence, hopefully ending the polymorphous perversity of that particular band of brigands. I hope!
Obama will tell more lies. (I don't think that needs any elucidation... do you?)
US troops will continue to leave Afghanistan leaving only a token force to secure Mr. Karzai's head in it's current position atop his shoulders. However, the Taliban has laid claim to the other end of his anatomy and may yet collect their prize!
There will be no peace between the Israeli's and the so-called Palestinians. (Actually, I cheated on this one. I read the Bible.)
Iran will continue to manufacture the ingredients for a nuclear bomb, some call the Islam Bomb. They will continue to smile -- and lie through their teeth -- and string Obama along like the simpleton they believe him to-be.
Resistance to Syria's Assad will slowly diminish as Assad runs out of fellow Syrians to kill.
The US will become entangled in a militaristic adventure in Africa, which we will not win. It would be politically incorrect for America to win a war with a black opponent.
Back here at the asylum, er, at home, Obama will pull out all the stops to get amnesty through Congress and into law to grab as many Latino voters as possible in an effort to save the collective rear ends of his Democratic Party cohorts and set the stage for Hillary's run for the Presidency in 2016.
Hillary will deny she's running, of course. But then: "What difference does it make now" (Sorry 'bout that ... couldn't resist.)
America's paternalistic elite ruling class will continue to lead the nation into a virtual police state form of society and government. The constitution will be proclaimed null and void.
The Marxocrats in the West Wing will continue their endeavor to fundamentally transform America into that socialist/communist dung heap we have warned of for so long, while those of us in the conservative commentariat continue to call them on it at every opportunity.
Congress will vote to give California to China as partial payment of all the loans we owe them. Expect China to refuse -- unless we agree to keep Governor "Moonbeam."
I could go one, but, frankly, it's too depressing.
It is already shaping up to be another lousy year in the land of the formerly free.
Happy New Year!
J. D. Longstreet
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Obama: The Law Giver ... J. D. Longstreet
Obama: The Law Giver
Obama Giveth -- and -- Obama Taketh Away
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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All
this time I have been laboring under the false impression that the
Congress was constitutionally assigned the duty of making and changing
(amending) law(s) for the country.
Silly me! I am SO embarrassed! Just shows how dumb a poor ole swamp rat like yours truly can actually be, I suppose.
Anyway, Mr. Obama has set me straight on that. He has shown me that HE has the power to make law, and change law, and enforce law or -- choose NOT to enforce law -- as HE chooses.
Why, Mr. Obama has changed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) some 19 or 20 times now (For more on Obama's changes to Obamacare visit politifact.com at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/sep/25/tom-graves/rep-graves-says-obama-has-changed-aca-19-times/ ) all without any aid from the national legislature -- the Congress.
All things considered, one must ask WHY we even have a Congress? Couldn't we save major bucks by just dissolving the Congress and have done with it? I mean, heck, we've got Obama -- The Law Giver as our President! What need have we of a Congress?
With Obama it is all give and take. He gives -- AND -- he takes. The man refuses to acknowledge his limitations under the constitution. He just ignores it in part or in whole -- as the notion strikes him.
This is not just wrong, gentle reader, this is ILLEGAL.
Playing fast and loose with the US Constitution, under normal circumstances, would get one placed UNDER the jailhouse! No longer.
But these are not normal times. We live now in a "post constitution era" in America. We find ourselves in the short-lived period between freedom and slavery. Once a nation begins a slide into slavery the pace quickens and doesn't take very long to find an entire people clasped in the bonds of involuntary servitude.
I find it ironic that Obama, a black man, is so intent on leading his people, white and black, into tyranny induced slavery in America. There's something just plain vulgar about that.
The Obama administration is proving to be more corrupt that the Grant, the Harding, or the Nixon administrations. I was not around for the first two, but I lived every minute of the Nixon administration and I can tell you the American people never sensed a threat to their freedom from Nixon as they do from Obama.
When Nixon's party, the Republican Party, realized the enormity of his misdeeds, they quickly formed a committee and paid Nixon a visit and read him the riot act. They told him, flat out, that he was going to be impeached and the Congress WOULD find him guilty and he WOULD be removed from office in disgrace, unless, he resigned -- and resigned immediately. Nixon resigned and managed by doing so to save SOME face and enough dignity to gracefully exit the White House while staff and a few members of his administration stood clustered near the helicopter LZ looking on in tears.
It was a trying time for the republic, but we survived and the constitution proved, once again, its value and worth as a foundation document and the protector of freedom.
On December 31st, 2012, the non-partisan Judicial Watch released its annual "Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington List." On that list were: President Obama and key members of his Democrat cabinet like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and UN Ambassador Susan Rice. They were among the top ten names on the list. That was last year. We can hardly wait for this years list to be released. Judicial Watch is a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption. You may see the entire list at: http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-announces-list-of-washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2012/
Let's see. Right now, Americans are attempting to deal with a host of Obama administration scandals: The NSA scandal, the IRS Scandal, the Navy Seal scandal, the Benghazi scandal, and the Fast and Furious Scandal.
Then there is Obamacare.
Obama and his minions have trashed the constitution. Mr. Obama claims to be a constitutional scholar, indeed, taught constitutional law in college. Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years! Seems to me that with that sort of background he should know better!
In an article at Front Page Magazine, Arnold Ahlert says the following: "Perhaps the most contemptible effort in that regard is President Obama’s transparently unconstitutional effort to suspend various parts of the Affordable Healthcare Act. How Americans feel about that piece of legislation is irrelevant. What’s relevant is that Congress passed the law, including the part that calls for its implementation beginning on Jan. 1, 2014, and the president signed it. There is no Constitutional way the president can simply choose to ignore sections of a law he doesn’t like, or go around Congress completely when they won’t kowtow to his agenda.
Yet that’s precisely what Obama and other administration officials have done. In 2012, the president unilaterally decreed that the same DREAM Act rejected by Congress 18 months earlier would be implemented for the children of illegal aliens. He also gutted part of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, in clear violation of the statute. Obama is still ignoring a ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and federal appeals courts in D.C. and Philadelphia, all of whom ruled his “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were unconstitutional." -- SOURCE: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/just-how-corrupt-is-the-obama-administration/ (We strongly recommend you read this article in its entirety.)
Let's cut to the chase. There is a serious shortage of intestinal fortitude in Congress today. There is a palpable lack of guts within the ranks of the GOP in the House of Representatives. A Bill of Impeachment ought to be introduced, voted on, and passed in the House ASAP.
Having said that, please understand that I am not so foolish as to believe that the US Senate, controlled by the President's own party The Democratic Party) , therefore by Obama, himself, will find him guilty. But this administration's corruption needs to be documented, publicly, and made a part of the historical record of the country for future generations. With the phalanx of protection the Mainstream Media has thrown up around their president, the ONLY way that will happen is -- through impeachment.
In the meantime, things in America are only going to get worse.
Every time Obama gets away with a violation of the constitution, it emboldens him, it becomes easier for him to so it again and again. I am concerned Congress has already waited too long. I suspect many in Congress fear an uprising of civil unrest (riots) among the black population of the country should they impeach Obama. Then so be it. NOTHING should get in the way of doing the RIGHT thing.
Impeaching Obama IS the right thing to do. The rape of the constitution must be ended.
J. D. Longstreet
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Obama Giveth -- and -- Obama Taketh Away
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
*****************
Silly me! I am SO embarrassed! Just shows how dumb a poor ole swamp rat like yours truly can actually be, I suppose.
Anyway, Mr. Obama has set me straight on that. He has shown me that HE has the power to make law, and change law, and enforce law or -- choose NOT to enforce law -- as HE chooses.
Why, Mr. Obama has changed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) some 19 or 20 times now (For more on Obama's changes to Obamacare visit politifact.com at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/sep/25/tom-graves/rep-graves-says-obama-has-changed-aca-19-times/ ) all without any aid from the national legislature -- the Congress.
All things considered, one must ask WHY we even have a Congress? Couldn't we save major bucks by just dissolving the Congress and have done with it? I mean, heck, we've got Obama -- The Law Giver as our President! What need have we of a Congress?
With Obama it is all give and take. He gives -- AND -- he takes. The man refuses to acknowledge his limitations under the constitution. He just ignores it in part or in whole -- as the notion strikes him.
This is not just wrong, gentle reader, this is ILLEGAL.
Playing fast and loose with the US Constitution, under normal circumstances, would get one placed UNDER the jailhouse! No longer.
But these are not normal times. We live now in a "post constitution era" in America. We find ourselves in the short-lived period between freedom and slavery. Once a nation begins a slide into slavery the pace quickens and doesn't take very long to find an entire people clasped in the bonds of involuntary servitude.
I find it ironic that Obama, a black man, is so intent on leading his people, white and black, into tyranny induced slavery in America. There's something just plain vulgar about that.
The Obama administration is proving to be more corrupt that the Grant, the Harding, or the Nixon administrations. I was not around for the first two, but I lived every minute of the Nixon administration and I can tell you the American people never sensed a threat to their freedom from Nixon as they do from Obama.
When Nixon's party, the Republican Party, realized the enormity of his misdeeds, they quickly formed a committee and paid Nixon a visit and read him the riot act. They told him, flat out, that he was going to be impeached and the Congress WOULD find him guilty and he WOULD be removed from office in disgrace, unless, he resigned -- and resigned immediately. Nixon resigned and managed by doing so to save SOME face and enough dignity to gracefully exit the White House while staff and a few members of his administration stood clustered near the helicopter LZ looking on in tears.
It was a trying time for the republic, but we survived and the constitution proved, once again, its value and worth as a foundation document and the protector of freedom.
On December 31st, 2012, the non-partisan Judicial Watch released its annual "Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington List." On that list were: President Obama and key members of his Democrat cabinet like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and UN Ambassador Susan Rice. They were among the top ten names on the list. That was last year. We can hardly wait for this years list to be released. Judicial Watch is a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption. You may see the entire list at: http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-announces-list-of-washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2012/
Let's see. Right now, Americans are attempting to deal with a host of Obama administration scandals: The NSA scandal, the IRS Scandal, the Navy Seal scandal, the Benghazi scandal, and the Fast and Furious Scandal.
Then there is Obamacare.
Obama and his minions have trashed the constitution. Mr. Obama claims to be a constitutional scholar, indeed, taught constitutional law in college. Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years! Seems to me that with that sort of background he should know better!
In an article at Front Page Magazine, Arnold Ahlert says the following: "Perhaps the most contemptible effort in that regard is President Obama’s transparently unconstitutional effort to suspend various parts of the Affordable Healthcare Act. How Americans feel about that piece of legislation is irrelevant. What’s relevant is that Congress passed the law, including the part that calls for its implementation beginning on Jan. 1, 2014, and the president signed it. There is no Constitutional way the president can simply choose to ignore sections of a law he doesn’t like, or go around Congress completely when they won’t kowtow to his agenda.
Yet that’s precisely what Obama and other administration officials have done. In 2012, the president unilaterally decreed that the same DREAM Act rejected by Congress 18 months earlier would be implemented for the children of illegal aliens. He also gutted part of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, in clear violation of the statute. Obama is still ignoring a ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and federal appeals courts in D.C. and Philadelphia, all of whom ruled his “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were unconstitutional." -- SOURCE: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/just-how-corrupt-is-the-obama-administration/ (We strongly recommend you read this article in its entirety.)
Let's cut to the chase. There is a serious shortage of intestinal fortitude in Congress today. There is a palpable lack of guts within the ranks of the GOP in the House of Representatives. A Bill of Impeachment ought to be introduced, voted on, and passed in the House ASAP.
Having said that, please understand that I am not so foolish as to believe that the US Senate, controlled by the President's own party The Democratic Party) , therefore by Obama, himself, will find him guilty. But this administration's corruption needs to be documented, publicly, and made a part of the historical record of the country for future generations. With the phalanx of protection the Mainstream Media has thrown up around their president, the ONLY way that will happen is -- through impeachment.
In the meantime, things in America are only going to get worse.
Every time Obama gets away with a violation of the constitution, it emboldens him, it becomes easier for him to so it again and again. I am concerned Congress has already waited too long. I suspect many in Congress fear an uprising of civil unrest (riots) among the black population of the country should they impeach Obama. Then so be it. NOTHING should get in the way of doing the RIGHT thing.
Impeaching Obama IS the right thing to do. The rape of the constitution must be ended.
J. D. Longstreet
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