Saturday Movie Matinee: ‘The Obama Agenda Is Effectively Dead’

The Necropolitan Sentinel: Doug Schoen on Lou Dobbs: Donilon Played a Key, Unexplained Role on Scandal-Plagued Admin’s Benghazi Debacle:

There’s a lot of interesting material here, but the most novel information is from Schoen, who asserts that National Security Advisor Tom Donilon has been leaking to the press in a quid pro quo to keep his own name out of the discussion. If that’s true, and Schoen seems positive that it is, calling him a “leaker par excellence,” the administration must be aware of it. So, when we compile a list of key people that the administration is evidently trying to protect from scruitiny, badly in some cases, we have to include Donilon with Hillary and with Sarah Hall Ingram, the last in the IRS scandal. Hillary, as we know, was never interviewed in the Mullen-Pickering report, and Issa has now subpoenaed both Mullen and Pickering to appear before his committee and explain the alleged deficiencies of their report. In his testimony before Issa’s committee, Mark Thompson stressed that it was very unusual from his perspective that the Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST) should not have been activated under the circumstances (whether or not they could have reached Benghazi quickly enough to save anyone), and that in essence they were cut out of the decision-making loop. This week we have learned that their division, established under Bush the Younger, had been demoted de facto under the Obama administration. The Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG), was never convened on the evening of 9-11-12, although it is supposed to play a central coordinating role under exactly the circumstances presented by the Benghazi attacks. Whether the recalcitrance was the result of a general administration disdain for Bush-era policies or the usual half-assed hubris, or both, we don’t yet know.

The segment begins with an excellent discussion about the IRS hearing, yesterday. And towards the end Shoen made a very savvy point about how the Regime is handling all the scandals, calling it “the big lie technique.”  

“There is not a direct nexus between what they’re saying, and what’s coming out, he said.” Exactly what I’ve been saying. And he ended on this note – “the Obama agenda effectively is dead.” Exactly what I said in the car coming back from BlogCon to Duane Lester and Thomas LaDuke. And they weren’t sure they agreed.

No, Obama and his grotesque Regime have finally gotten a comeuppance. Now that people have finally figured out how deceitful and corrupt they are, they will not be trusted on ANYTHING. They cannot, must not be allowed to continue to run roughshod over the Constitution.

Republicans in the House and Senate need to drop any and all bipartisan cooperation with the Regime’s agenda, immediately. (I’m looking at you Marco Rubio and John Boehner.) Holder’s on the way out. Obama is finished.

It’s over.

Obama Scandals Timeline IRS HHS DOJ EPA:

IRS, HHS, DOJ, EPA Having trouble keeping track of all of the Obama administration scandals? Your not the only one. Here’s a run down of recent abuses.

Glenn Beck Maps Out How Scandals Reveal Obama’s Goal Of ‘Fundamentally Transforming’ America:

Gateway Pundit: WOW! IRS Asked Tea Party Leader for Back-End to Group’s Website:

This is unbelievable! The Obama IRS asked a Texas Tea Party group for back-end access to their website.
This is criminal behavior!
Via an interview with Kristina Ribali from FreedomWorks.

I was in the audience when Glenn interviewed two local tea party activists for his Dallas based show on Monday, and one of them told that story. I’ve been looking for the video on Youtube because their stories were so shocking.

It’s kinda fun to watch Glenn and his crew’s live reactions  to the IRS hearing, yesterday…

The Blaze: Glenn Beck » IRS Gives Laughable Defense:

The Conversation: IRS Asked Pro-Life Group To Include The Content Of Their Prayers?! (Video)

Life News reported yesterday that the IRS subjected one pro-life group to “repeated and lengthy unconstitutional requests for information about the viewpoint and content of its educational communications, volunteer prayer vigils, and other protected activities.”

One of the more shocking revelations to come out of today’s hearing came from Republican Rep. Aaron Schock, who asked Miller if the IRS had indeed asked a pro-life group to include the content of their prayers.

 

Krauthammer Has Had it up to Here With Presidents Answers to IRS Questions:

Obama parsing in a way ”that would make Bill Clinton look unsophisticated.”

 

Mediaite: Krauthammer: If White House Had Any Connection To IRS Scandal, It Will Be ‘Fatal Problem’ For Obama:

 Charles Krauthammer sat down with Sean Hannity to react to President Obama denying he had any advance knowledge of the IRS targeting tea party groups. Krauthammer suspected that there may be more to the White House’s involvement in the scandal, predicting that if thee was any White House involvement in the scandal and such involvement becomes public knowledge, it will deal a fatal blow to the Obama administration.

PJTV: TRIFECTA — Targeting Tea: Obama’s IRS Singles Out Conservative Groups:

The Obama Administration took a page out of the Nixon playbook when its IRS targeted the political enemies of the President. How high up the food chain does the new IRS scandal go, and is President Obama involved? Hear what Trifecta has to say.

The Conversation: 54 out of 64 CO Sheriffs File Lawsuit Against New Anti-Gun Law (Video)

84% of all Colorado sheriffs have filed a lawsuit against the new gun law that passed earlier this Spring in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting. The  sheriffs are hoping to have the new restrictions invalidated because they believe they violate the Second Amendment.

The Colorado Legislature passed two laws that are set to take effect July 1 which limit the size of the of ammunition magazines to 15 rounds and expand background checks to private and online firearm sales.

Sheriffs from 54 of the state’s 64 counties are involved in the lawsuit because they believe it’s their duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

Goth Andrew De Leon Amazes The Judges With His Voice:

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My Fox Philly: Father Of Late SEAL Speaks Out About Suing Obama, Biden:

The Right Scoop: Uh Oh. The IRS lied about existence of Tea Party documents to avoid FOIA request

IRS Rep Told Dr. James Dobson They Wouldn’t Approve His Application Because He Had Been “Critical Of President”

Dr. James Dobson was a guest on the Hannity show Friday night to talk about the run-around his Christian, pro-family, group, Family Talk Action got from the IRS when they applied for a 501(c)(4), a process he said “went on and on and on” for 19 months.

When his lawyer called the IRS to find out what the problem was, an IRS rep named Medley told him, “we don’t think we’re going to approve your application.” And when he asked, “why not? She answered, because you’re a right wing organization, and you’re political, and you’ve been critical of the President and we don’t think you give other people an opportunity to express their views, and besides that – you’re not educational.” An answer Dr. Dobson took great umbrage at.

“Do you want to rewrite your application and resubmit it?” she asked.  He answered, “no, we’ll just have to litigate”, and about eight days later they gave them their 501(c)(4).

Obama definitely set the tone for these abuses. “Punish your my enemies”,  he ordered from on high. The only question is whether he was ever more explicit, or personally aware that his minions in the IRS was doing his bidding.

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AIM:  The IRS Targeted Conservative Media:

Of the IRS abuse cases that have recently come to light, the use of the IRS to enforce the defunct “Fairness Doctrine” on broadcasters is one of the most disturbing.

“I am alarmed by reports that suggest a federal official at the IRS instituting a de facto Fairness Doctrine,” National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) President & CEO Dr. Frank Wright said in apress release. Wright was referring to long-time Christian radio host Dr. James Dobson revealing that his organization had to submit sample radio programs to the IRS, and that an IRS agent indicated that his criticism of President Obama would prevent his ministry from getting a certain form of non-profit status.

A press release about the controversy was issued under the headline, “IRS Subjects Dr. James Dobson and Family Talk Action to Viewpoint Discrimination.”

In other words, Dobson’s views were singled out by the IRS because they were conservative, Christian, and critical of President Obama.

The Right Scoop: MUST WATCH: Mega Romney donor says he was targeted by Obama campaign, then audited by IRS and Labor Dept

This is not my country. The Chicago thugocracy we have in the White House is every bit what Michelle Malkin has always said it was, using government to target and oppress political ‘enemies’.

In this segment, Frank Vandersloot tells BillO that after he gave Romney one million to help his campaign, he was then targeted by the Obama campaign on their official website along with seven others. Shortly after that he received a letter from the IRS saying he would be audited. And then on top of that, he also had the Labor Dept. come calling because they wanted to look at his books.

FLASHBACK:

July, 23, 2012

When Is The MSM Going to Condemn Obama’s Enemies List?

Just asking.

Because Obama does have an enemies list– literally.  His Orwellian “Truth Team”  lists on his campaign website  the names of some of Mitt Romney’s biggest donors.

While President Nixon kept his Enemies list secret, Obama’s list is right out in the open and designed to inspire scorn, rebuke and retribution from his minions.

The truth is,  anyone who runs as a Republican or donates to conservative causes can count on being targeted for intimidation by the organized left.

When did this become okay? When did it become okay for the President’s party to attack, insult, and slander private citizens for no other reason than they gave money to his opponent?

When did it become okay for a President to sic government agencies on private citizens who give to the “wrong” campaign?

Agreeing 100% With Michelle Malkin – Stop Saying Obama Is A “Nice Guy”

May, 10, 2012

…When we all know he ain’t.

This has been a point of contention for me, too…Does the Republican establishment think that the American people can’t handle the truth? Why do they insist on raising the white flag in the battle for hearts and minds, by ceding to the left one of their weakest propaganda points?

It’s so easy to point out all of the things that make Obama a not-so-nice bully, yet the establishment doesn’t even try.

There is a reflexive desire among a certain species of moderate Republicans to be perceived as “civil” by liberal opponents who believe that the mere existence of free-market, limited-government conservatism is an indecent affront to humankind. All aboard the U.S.S. Lost Cause.

This disastrous, bend-over bipartisanship is a hard habit to break. In 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain rode the “Barack Obama is a nice guy, but vote for me” wave to crashing defeat. In 2012, McCain’s endorsee, Mitt Romney, has made “Barack Obama is a nice guy but in over his head” a standard stump-speech talking point.

Conservatives of good will who’ve watched President Obama brutalize his enemies have one question for the nice-guy niceties: Why, GOP, why?

Romney’s smarter-than-thou strategists explain that he can’t scare off independents and Democrats with straight talk about Obama’s thuggery. But he’s turning off the conservative base, on whom his hold is tenuous. More importantly, Romney’s McCain-lite impersonation is also writing off independents and Democrats who’ve come to realize what the myriad targets of White House bullying have learned the hard way over the past four years: Barack Obama is not a “nice guy.”

Ask Gerald Walpin, the former AmeriCorps inspector general who was pushed out of his job by the Obamas afterexposing fraud and corruption perpetrated by Democratic mayor of Sacramento and Obama friend Kevin Johnson. Walpin was unceremoniously fired and smeared by Team Obama. The White House baselessly questioned the veteran watchdog’s mental health and never apologized for slandering him.

Ask the family, friends and co-workers of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. They have been forced to sue the Obama administration to combat the Operation Fast and Furious cover-up of deadly policy decisions that led to their hero’s death. “I think they are liars, and I would tell them that,” Terry’s father, Kent, said of Obama’s henchmen.

As Townhall editor Katie Pavlich makes clear in her devastating new book, “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up,” the president, his corrupt attorney general, Eric Holder, and their minions weren’t “in over their heads.” They knew exactly what they were doing and have obstructed investigations into the bloody consequences of their policies ever since.

That’s not “nice.” It’s rotten to the core.

Video: Bob Woodward Compares BenghaziGate to Watergate

BOOM.

Via Gateway Pundit, transcript via Weekly Standard:

“But if you read through all these e-mails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, ‘Oh, let’s not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let’s not tell the public that there were warnings.’ I hate to show, this is one of the documents with the editing that one of the people in the state department said, ‘Oh, let’s not let these things out.’ And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, ‘Oh, let’s not tell this, let’s not show this.’ I would not dismiss Benghazi. It’s a very serious issue.As people keep saying, four people were killed. You look at the hydraulic pressure that was in the system to not tell the truth, and, you know, we use this term and the government uses this term, talking points. Talking points, as we know, are like legal briefs. They’re an argument on one side. What we need to get rid of talking point and they need to put out statements or papers that are truth documents. Okay, this is all we know.”

Take that White House spinmeisters:

Meanwhile, hacktastic Jay Carney on CNN, last night, proclaimed that the emails proved that the White House was right all along, and that Republicans were perpetuating a “faux controversy.”

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Fox Nation: KRAUTHAMMER: White House Should Try the Truth …

Just hours into the Benghazi assault, Hicks reports, by phone to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself, on the attack with absolutely no mention of any demonstration or video, later to become the essence of theSusan Rice talking points that left him “stunned” and “embarrassed.” “My jaw dropped,” he testified last week to Congress.

But Hicks is then ordered not to meet with an investigative congressional delegation — the first time in his 22-year career he had been so ordered. And when he speaks with them nonetheless, he gets a furious call from Clinton’s top aide for not having a State Department lawyer (and informant) present. His questions about the Rice TV statements are met with a stone-cold response, sending the message — don’t go there. He then finds himself demoted.

Get the facts and get them out? It wasn’t just Hicks. Within 24 hours, the CIA station chief in Libya cabled that it was a terrorist attack and not a spontaneous mob. On Day Two, the acting assistant secretary of state for the Near East wrote an e-mail saying the attack was carried out by an al-Qaeda affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia.

What were the American people fed? Four days and 12 drafts later, a fiction about a demonstration that never was, provoked by a video that no one saw (Hicks: “a non-event in Libya”), about a movie that was never made.

The original CIA draft included four paragraphs on the involvement of al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists and on the dangerous security situation in Benghazi.These paragraphs were stricken after strenuous State Department objections mediated by the White House. All that was left was the fable of the spontaneous demonstration.

That’s not an accretion of truth. That’s a subtraction of truth.

House Hearing: Congress Begins Investigation into IRS Targeting Conservative Organizations (Live Blog)

House Ways and Means Hearing on the IRS targeting of conservative organizations, can be watched live on CSpan.

==> RT @judicialwatch We’ve opened up an investigation into he #IRS scandal. RT to support our efforts! twitter.com/JudicialWatch/…

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 17, 2013

SEE ALSO: 

The Daily Caller: Republican senator: New IRS commissioner a “White House insider,” will do “absolutely nothing” to restore public trust

The Conversation: IRS Official in Charge During Political Persecution of Conservatives Now Running ObamaCare Office

The Conversation: IRS Tax Exemption Exec Was Richly Rewarded For Her Efforts

Peggy Noonan, WSJ: This Is No Ordinary Scandal

Twitchy: Unreal: Acting IRS chief whines that ‘targeting’ is a ‘pejorative term’ for agency’s harassment of conservatives

Gateway Pundit: PAUL RYAN Nails IRS Commissioner at Hearing – Progressive Groups Were Not Targeted By IRS (Video)

NRO: IRS Head Can’t Remember Who Was Responsible for Targeting:

Rep Kelly tore it up out there, today. He grandstanded a little, but the standing O he received was well deserved.

Ace of  Spades: 

Oh, by the way, he was also asked if he made any notes about these matters. Notes which could be subpoenaed.

His answer: “I don’t remember.”

And then later, this happened:

Rep Roskam: Why do you say you need to check your notes if you you’re not sure you have notes? Miller: “Please!” #IRS

— Nice Deb (@NiceDeb) May 17, 2013

Breitbart: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION KNEW OF IRS SCANDAL 5 MONTHS BEFORE ELECTION:

In no uncertain terms and with no hedging, The New York Times reports that the Obama administration was aware of the fact that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups as far back as June of 2012. The Treasury Department’s Inspector General confirmed that he told senior Treasury officials in June of 2012, a full five months before Election Day:

The Treasury Department’s inspector general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was investigating the Internal Revenue Service’s screening of politically active organizations seeking tax exemptions, disclosing for the first time on Friday that Obama administration officials were aware of the matter during the presidential campaign year.

We still don’t know for sure what the President knew or when he knew it, but this does confirm that the administration was aware of the fact that Obama’s political enemies were under fire by the IRS and covered that fact up during an election year.

As Lisa Meyers of NBC News told “Morning Joe” today, “Imagine if we — if you can — what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.”

Video: A Thursday Night Scandalpalooza

I would usually save these for my Saturday Movie Matinee, some of these videos are too good to wait until Saturday.

Especially good is Judge Jeanine Pirro’s opening monologue from her show, last weekend:  Obama Admin Lied To America!!

Mark Levin: Investigate Senate Democrat Carl Levin:

Mark Levin: Obama Scandals Are Examples of a Tyrannical Government:

Mediaite: Megyn Kelly Explodes At Liberal Guest Over Benghazi – ‘Come On! Can We Have Some Honesty?’

Out Come The Baseball Bats – TheBlaze:

 Intim-O-Gate – TheBlaze:

The President Knows Nothing – TheBlaze:

Obama Drama - TheBlazeTV – The Glenn Beck Radio Program – 2013.05.15:

Donald Rumsfeld – TheBlazeTV - The Glenn Beck Radio Program – 2013.05.15:

Dana Loesch v. Leslie Marshall Debate IRS Scandal on Sean Hannity – 5-16-13

Listen to the shamelessly hacktastic Jay Carney try to spin the Benghazi talking points release into a “victory” for the administration, calling the concern over the WH lies a  ”faux controversy” drummed up by Republicans: Piers Morgan Grills Jay Carney About IRS, Benghazi: Has This Been ‘Your Toughest Week’ Ever?

ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports on the Obama Administration’s Release Benghazi Emails:

Hat tip Brian B for many of these videos.

Heroes Day Fun Run/Walk, Buckner MO Saturday May 18

In an effort to raise  money to provide homes for homeless veterans, Heroes Coming Home, an organization based in Independence Missouri, is  having a Heroes Day Fun Run/Walk Saturday May 18.

The event will be held in  Buckner, Missouri from 8:45am to 3:00pm (rain or shine). Location: Heisler-Burns Park, 305 Park Avenue, Veterans Drive, Buckner, Missouri

There will be a 9am Presentation of the Colors by Young Marines Color Guard, proclamation by Hon. Dan Hickson, Mayor, Buckner, MO and welcome Remarks by Doug Friend, CEO, Heroes Coming Home. The race will start following the remarks.

Details: Information about the Heroes Day Fun Run/Walk can be found at http://heroesday.eventbrite.com/. In-person registration will be available starting at 8:45 am. There is no limit on the number of participants.T-shirts and wristbands are available for purchase on the day of the event.

Sponsorship: We are still seeking sponsors for this year’s event to cover other costs associated with the race. Current sponsors include: City of Buckner, Heisler-Burns Park Board, Brenda Ayers, Becca Blake Photography, Blue Springs Ford, bodywork by ted, Casey’s General Store-Buckner, Frontier Bag, Inc., Play Hard Think Pretty LLC, Rangel Distributing Company: Office Supplies and Furniture, Rita’s Hearing Aids, and Debra Webb. Special thanks to Tim and Beth Cline, Jeanie Tobin and Ian and Maria Scott.

Organization: Heroes Coming Home is a 501(c)(3) founded by Doug Friend, a once homeless Veteran who now serves as the organization’s CEO. It is dedicated to aiding less fortunate Veterans who have served their country diligently, faithfully, and honorably, who are homeless or classified as a homeless Veteran by the Veterans Administration definition and guidelines for homelessness. Its mission is to provide homes to help get our Veterans back on their feet and to begin living lives with a renewed sense of hope and purpose they have surely earned.

White House Taunting ObamaCare Opponents On Twitter

They wonder where people get the idea that we’re living in a thugocracy.

Today, the House is voting for the 37th time to repeal ObamaCare. As a part of making good on their promise to repeal it, House GOP members are tweeting using #ObamCareInThreeWords and asking other folks to join in.

Because they have nothing better to do, the White House and Barack Obama are trolling the hashtag, literally. The official White House Twitter account (run by OFA Alinskyites) tweeted out this:

It’s. The. Law. #ObamaCareInThreeWords, twitter.com/whitehouse/sta…

— The White House (@whitehouse) May 16, 2013

Dave @bigdave0908 responded, “Without. GOP. Votes.”

@SpeakerBoehner tweeted: “Arrogance of power”

 Twitchy snarked:

Someone needs to put on his big boy pants, it seems. Is the White House Twitter feed taking its cues from the non-partisan (wink wink) OFA @BarackObama Twitter account? That account recently stomped its foot at “severe conservatives.” Why is the White House Twitter feed being used to childishly troll the GOP and sneer at citizens?

Apparently the White House doesn’t  have enough on its plate with all the jaw dropping scandals, (including Kathleen Sebelius’s recent ObamaCare shakedown of health care companies.)

I can still hear the voices of Barack Obama and the other con artists behind ObamaCare telling us how it would reduce the deficit.  Now it can only survive if we either pour even more taxpayer money into it, or private industry executives agree to pony up a little charity.  It’s like a Jerry Lewis telethon, except the disease is bureaucratic sclerosis.

How far did ObamaCare exceed its cost projections?

The Affordable Care Act included $1 billion to be used in overall implementation of the law. Congressional Budget Office projections, however, estimated that federal agencies would need between $5 billion to $10 billion to get the law up and running over the next decade. And as many states have refused to partner with the federal government in setting up the law, the burden on HHS has grown.

Oh, so it was only off by a thousand percent or so!  Sebelius shouldn’t have too much trouble getting those health industry executives to shake $9 billion in loose change out of their pockets, right?

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ObamaCare gives the State vast new powers to control individuals, too.  The same IRS that just got busted for using tax audits as weapons against political dissidents – including both Tea Party and pro-Israel Jewish groups – will be among the primary enforcers of ObamaCare.  We’re already well into banana-republic territory; we’ll have even more bananas to contend with in the future.

Max Baucus is so fed up with this trainwreck of a healthcare law, he’s bailing out of the Senate, but the leaders of this Regime are always the last ones to know when there are any problems, so I guess it’s not in the least bit surprising that they would still be gloating that “it’s. the. law.”