Another Awesome American Crossroads Ad: Obama is so Great….

Oh man,  American Crossroads did it again, and this one is going to leave a mark.

SEE ALSO:

Bonfire of the Vanities: The American Narcissus’ Greatest Hits

Via: Marathon Pundit

Your Sunday Rap: The Obama Lies Song

You know what? I’m not a rap fan. AT ALL. Just ask my kids. The minute it comes on the radio, I reach for the dial. I have no tolerance for it, whatsoever.

But I’m absolutely grooving to this:

If you’re not already subscribing to Whateverhappentocomm’s YouTube channel, you’re missing out. He does several video commentaries a day, and it’s as he says; pure, unadulterated common sense with heaping helpings of humor.

He also has a website:Whatever Happen To COMMON SENSE

He’s CommonSense39 on Twitter.

More and people are on to our fraudulent SCOAMF every day.

It’s just a matter of time before PJTV or some other conservative operation picks this guy up.

Piling On:

The Obama Golf Counter Website.

Linked by Hyscience, thanks!

Video: Keith Judd 2012!

Since West Virginia inmate Keith Judd carried 41 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary, Tuesday, the ridiculously awesome Washington Free Beacon imagined what a Keith Judd campaign ad might look like:

House Republicans Play Hardball – Cut Justice Department Salaries Until They Answer Some Questions

I like it.

Ramping up the pressure on the stonewalling DOJ, The U.S. House of Representatives, today, passed by voice vote an amendment cutting Justice Department salaries until they fully answer questions on the failed gunwalking program.  Oversight Committee member and budding political rock star, Rep. Trey Gowdy (SC-4) sponsored the amendment, which cuts $1,000,000 from the Justice Department’s General Administration fund and is part of the FY 2013 DoJ Appropriation.

Last week, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa circulated a briefing paper and draft contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Eric Holder for refusing to cooperate with the investigation of deadly Operation Fast and Furious.

“Congress has been patient – indeed too patient in my judgment – with the Department of Justice and its failure to comply with the lawful request for the production of documents,” said Rep. Gowdy.

Click here for a summary of the Gowdy Amendment.

You can learn more about the investigation at www.FastAndFuriousInvestigation.com.

See Also:

The Daily Caller: Democrat breaks ranks, supports Issa’s push to enforce Fast and Furious subpoena

Indiana Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that he supports the House oversight committee’s efforts to enforce the congressional subpoena of Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious.

“One of the duties of Congress is to provide oversight of the Executive Branch,” Donnelly told TheDC. “There has been a serious allegation of federal law enforcement misconduct and we need to get to the bottom of this issue without playing partisan politics.”

Holder has demonstrably failed to comply with the congressional subpoena House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa served him on Oct. 12, 2011. Holder has failed to comply with all 22 categories of the subpoena that demands he provide documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. With 13 of the categories, Holder has provided no documents whatsoever. When it comes to the other nine subpoena categories, Holder is still far from compliant, as TheDC reported late last week.

Linked by AoSHQ, and I Hate The Media, thanks!

Video: Allen West Delivers Power Speech at the BREC (Broward Republican Executive Committee)

Hat Tip Brian at The Right Scoop

Mr NiceDeb

 

 

Michelle Malkin on Fire Last Night as She Calls Out Juan Williams For Tea Party Slander (Video)

A must watch for those of you who may have missed Hannity, last night.

Michelle Malkin was poetry in motion as she shot down Juan Williams’ lame and insipid defenses of the occupy movement. Her righteously indignant outrage was absolutely Breitartian by the end of the segment when Williams tried to draw a parallel between “tea party racism” and occupy mayhem.

Via Gateway Pundit:

“There is no, absolutely no parallel, between the peace-loving, tax-paying, hard working people of the Tea Party Movement and the anarchist, POO-FLINGING, Marxist Monkeys of the #Occupy Movement!”

Damn, girl!

UPDATE:

Michelle weighed in on the kerfuffle on her blog: If you’re gonna call Tea Party activists RAAAACISTS…

Hard-working, rule of law-respecting, tax-paying, job-generating Tea Party activists are sick and tired of the smears and false equivalency between their movement and the organized, poo-flinging pawns of Occupy Wall Street.

But we knew long ago it was the only card they had to play…

Thanks to people like Michelle Malkin, the leftwing media is having a tougher time than they used to in presenting their false narratives.

Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks!

Video: Why Does President I-Bama Take So Much Credit For Killing Bin Laden?

Via Jim Geraghty:

Veterans for a Strong America notices a particular pronoun that keeps coming up in the president’s discussion of the mission to get Osama bin Laden:

This so needs to be said; “heroes don’t spike footballs”

But phoney, cynical, self-absorbed narcissists do.

If Obama keeps cheapening what should be a huge positive for him,  it could become a huge negative.

SEE ALSO:

AoSHQ: The Royal “I:” The Osama bin Ladin Raid and Obama’s Stolen Valor

CNS News: Senator: ‘Clearly, This Trip Is Campaign Related;’ Obama’s ‘Spent Past Three Years Gutting Our Military’:

Man, Inhofe doesn’t pull his punches, here:

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee says Pres. Obama’s surprise trip to Afghanistan on the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden must be campaign related, since Obama’s spent the last three years gutting the military:

“Our troops on the front lines always appreciate a visit from the Commander-in-Chief.  Obama’s last visit was in December 2010, and the last time he addressed the nation about Afghanistan was June 2011.

“Clearly this trip is campaign related.  We’ve seen recently that President Obama has visited college campuses in an attempt to win back the support of that age group since he has lost it over the last three years.

“Similarly, this trip to Afghanistan is an attempt to shore up his national security credentials, because he has spent the past three years gutting our military.

MRCTV: Navy Seal does not like campaign ad about Obama’s courage to killing bin Laden

Weasel Zippers: Video: Narcissist-In-Chief Gives A Shout-Out To Himself During Speech To Troops In Afghanistan…

Oh, yes he did – go watch.

RELATED:

Big Government: Narcissist: Obama Tweets No Red or Blue States…Barack States!

Really – they need at least one sober minded person running the operation in Chicago. This is ridiculous.

UPDATE:

Like I said….

The Telegraph: Obama’s tacky ‘I Shot Bin Laden’ ad has turned a military triumph into a political disaster:

…this ugly ad compels the press to debate just how much Obama understands the cultural politics of the presidency. In the hours after bin Laden’s death, the Pres did the right thing by praising the work of the troops and promising not to “spike the ball” by over-celebrating the incident. But now he’s turned that ball into one giant spike, not only by ramming the bin Laden adventure down the voters’ throats but also by claiming sole responsibility for it. Michael Mukasey points out that it’s traditional for Presidents to ascribe victory to the troops and failure to themselves– recognising that while the Commander-in-Chief is responsible for decision making, it is the man in the field who takes the risks and so deserves the credit.

By contrast, this ad leaves the emotional impression that Obama personally swung into bin Laden’s compound on a rope and took the terrorist down with his own sweet moves. It’s tacky and unpresidential. Consider again Bill Clinton’s words, “Suppose [the SEALs had] been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for [the President].” Actually, it would have been rather more horrible for the American soldiers. Presumably, what Clinton means here is that Obama’s re-election would have been imperiled if he’d made the wrong call. Is that all that motivates this President, the hunger for four more years? If so, his need is so great that it’s causing him to make some bizarre, unforced errors.

He’s a power hungry Marxist – everything he does is motivated by self interest.It didn’t even occur to the Dems who wrote the ad how repulsive it was. They really believe that Obama is the quite the courageous hero here, because if the Navy Seals had all been slaughtered by al Qaeda, it would have made him look bad, and he would have suffered politically – so GUTSY CALL!11!

(Not that I don’t believe that Obama was pulled in against his will (and Jarrett’s) to give the go-ahead on a mission after the plan had been finalized.)

Video: Congressman Gowdy Grills Secretary Sebelius on HHS Mandate

Seen this stunning video, yet?

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made yet another embarrassing admission about the lack of constitutional analysis that went into the HHS anti-conscience mandate on Thursday.

At a full committee hearing of the House Education and Workforce Committee Secretary Sebelius was repeatedly questioned by Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on whether she had consulted Supreme Court precedent or any official legal memo before publishing a rule that burdens religious liberty of employers. Under the mandate, almost all employers are forced to provide and pay for coverage of abortion-inducing drugs and contraception — regardless of any moral or religious objections to such services.

Watch Rep Gowdy completely and utterly destroy Sebelius’ claim of ‘balance’ over her HHS mandate:

Gowdy proved that there was no legal basis for the mandate – it was purely political, and another sure loser for the Obama administration in the Supreme Court.

 

The Tea Party Express Rides Again!

Today, The Tea Party Express “Restoring the American Dream” bus tour  kicks-off in Cranberry Township, PA. It is their 6th national bus tour.

Tea Party Express has hosted over 300 rallies across the country. The organization will be traveling with several speakers and entertainers, including Tea Party Express Chairman Amy Kremer; Our Country Deserves Better PAC Chairman Howard Kaloogian; Mike Holler, author of The Constitution Made Easy; Entertainer Lloyd Marcus who wrote The Tea Party Anthem; Diana Nagy who preformed live during the Tea Party Republican Presidential Debate on CNN; conservative youth rapper Polatik; and comedian Jim Labriola who is famous for his role on the popular TV show “Home Improvement.”

Chief Strategist Sal Russo of Tea Party Express said, “This tour’s route focuses on some of the key states for 2012 on either the Presidential or Congressional level.  We have already endorsed five candidates for the U.S. Senate, and we will be making more endorsements while on this tour.  Our goal will be rallying activists in support of some of the upcoming primary election battles and the general election.

They are scheduled to make a stop in Kansas City, at 11:30 a.m. on May 2. They’ll be in St. Louis at 6:00 p.m. More information on the tour schedule can be found here.

 

Breitbart Is Here Tribute Video

A beautiful tribute to the late great, Andrew Breitbart, our fearless leader in the war against the institutional left; written and performed by Chris Cassone. Video by BigFurHat.

The footage of the bloggers were taken at BlogCon Charlotte,last weekend. I make an appearance toward the end – 4:20.

I couldn’t make myself smile.

 

Report: The Georgia Democratic Party’s Political Director Is a Criminal Recidivist

Same guy?

The MSM has yet to pick up on it, and the Georgia Democratic party has not yet responded to this explosive report posted April 17  by a Georgia political blogger alleging that the state’s Democratic Party’s Political Director is a Criminal.

Georgia Politics Unfiltered has been brutally frank about what he has discovered:

Pardon the poor english, folks.

There ain’t no need to sugarcoat this.

Pictured right is one of many mugshots featuring Ali Rashad Richey.

Rashad Richey is better known as the Political Director for the Democratic Party of Georgia.

Richey was, in 2011, one of the first hired by newly-elected state Democratic Party chairman Mike Berlon. Before being employed by Georgia’s Democratic Party, Rashad Richey collected over $38,000 in consulting fees from Democrat candidates Gail Buckner and Carol Porter.

Here’s just one of his many bookings filed at the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.

Booking No	0615617
Last	RICHEY
First	ALI
Middle	RASHAD
Suffix
Current Location	Released
Date Arrested	4/30/2006
Release Date	5/11/2006A Georgia Political blogger has

 Georgia Politics Unfiltered reports that Rashad Richey has been arrested twelve times on a variety of charges including:

• Burglary;
• Driving with revoked license;
• Battery;
• Family violence;
• Obstructing an officer; and
• Violating probation.

His last arrest was in 2010.

The question is – is it the same Ali Rashad Richey? He sure looks like the guy…

Ironically, according to  Richey’s glowing bio on the Future Movement Radio webpage, he has a masters degree in theology:

Rashad Richey is the hard hitting host of “Community Impact”, which airs every Thursday live from 3pm– 4pm and special broadcasts during the week, highlighting issues that matter to our local and national communities. He can be heard on 1420 WATB, 1430 WGFS – GA, and 93.5 FM – New York. Community Impact also has a sizeable internet audience that can be viewed on futuremovementradio.net, weeradioonline.com, and watb1420.com. Rashad is a successful business owner, Political Director of the Democratic Party in Ga, Sr. Political Director for Democracy In, LLC (a political advocacy and community development firm) and a member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders which is a U.S. State Department organization dedicated to the educational enhancement of international government relations.

In addition to his political activism, Rashad serves on the board of directors for multiple organizations throughout GA and has helped develop many community groups through applying the skills of a strategic planner, organizer, grant-writer, political strategist, and fundraiser. Rashad studied at Morehouse College before finishing his undergraduate degree in counseling at the American College of Theology in 2002. There he continued his studies to complete his master’s degree in theology in 2004. Rashad has since earned multiple certifications in the fields of policy development, community outreach, and business development. Rashad is currently a PhD candidate at Scofield Graduate School.

Here he is in February of this year introducing Chairman Mike Berlon to  the crowd at the Democratic Party of Georgia’s “Georgia Deserves Better Rally” at the State Capitol. I have to say, he seems like a responsible, competent guy:

But Georgia Politics Unfiltered is 100% sure that Ali Rashad Richey the Democrat Political Director, is the very same Rashad Richey the jailbird.

Last week, he reported: Georgia Democrat Director of Politics Kept on Gail Buckner’s Payroll Even While in Jail:

Records show Rashad Richey’s last visit to the DeKalb County Jail included a 28-day stay in one of their private, luxurious suites.

Booked into jail on February 3, 2010, Richey (mugshot pictured right) was assigned booking number 0471219 and released March 1, 2010. During that same period, Rashad Richey cashed checks from Democrat Secretary of State candidate Gail Buckner.

A few days before his arrest, Rashad Richey received a paycheck from Gail Buckner. Campaign finance reports filed with the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission indicate Ali Rashad Richey received a payment of $4,000 from Gail Buckner on January 29, 2010.

Then, on February 26, 2010, Rashad Richey received another $4,000 paycheck from Gail Buckner. Yes. You did read that correctly. Gail Buckner paid $4,000 to an inmate.

Rashad Richey was released from jail March 1, 2010. Twenty-five days later, Gail Buckner paid him another $4,000 on March 26, 2010.

All told, Gail Buckner paid Rashad Richey $30,750 for “consulting work” in 2010.

Apparently crime pays, and it pays well. Either that or Georgia Democrats truly cannot do better than Rashad Richey the recividist.

Last Friday Georgia Politics Unfiltered posted: Readers Respond to Richey’s Recidivism:

For those keeping up, it’s been four days since I broke the news of Rashad Richey’s criminal history. He still has a job.

J.M. emailed, “You have got a lot of people pissed off and especially right at DNC delegate elections and JJ dinner this Saturday. You are insulting their savior to win back Ga to be Democratic. They grooming him for greater office someday.“

Really? That would be amazing . . . amazingly stupid if Democrats ran Richey for any office.

E.G., also via email, wrote, “If the party was duped into hiring someone with a record they were unaware of, then this is the craziest thing I’ve seen or heard in a LOOOOONG while. Thoughts on what the h happened?“

Honestly? If common sense were common, then everyone would have some. There is a significant lack of common sense at Democratic Party headquarters these days. No wonder they can’t win elections in this state.

This Friday,  the President and Mrs. Obama  will be visiting Georgia  to visit with troops and military families at Fort Stewart.

“I was notified this morning about this exciting trip,” said The Democratic Party of Georgia’s Chairman Mike Berlon said Monday. “He will be visiting with the troops, veterans and military families that have been crucial to our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Georgia Politics Unfiltered wonders: Will Recidivist Rashad Richey Get Secret Service Clearance for Obama’s Return to GA?

Good question.

He had clearance to pose with Obama’s campaign manager, Jim “Punch back twice as hard” Messina:

UPDATE:

Michael Bates of Batesline has done a little internet sleuthing and emails:

The 1st Quarter 2010 report for Gail Buckner for Secretary of State lists three expenditures of $4,000 each to “Raschad Richey” of [redacted] Morrow, GA 30260, on Jan. 29, Feb. 26, and March 26, 2010.

The DeKalb County arrest record for Ali Rashad Richey dated Feb. 3, 2010, lists his address as [redacted] Morrow, GA 30260.

(It’s the same address, but I don’t like posting peoples’ addresses on my blog.)

One more interesting Google find: Ali Rashad Richey’s ministerial qualifications appear to come from a mail-order outfit called United Christian Ministries International.

It’s the same guy, folks.

UPDATE II:

RICHEY, ALI RASHAD	Height:	68	Race:	Black
1834 CARLA DR	Weight:	160 LBS	Sex:	Male
MORROW, GA 30260	Hair Color:	Black	Complex:	—

The address 1834 Carla Dr., (which I previously redacted) happens to be the address of the Dem District Office, not his private residence, but it certainly ties Rashad Richey, the jailbird to the GA  Democrat party.

See Also:

Publius Forum: Why is the Georgia Democrat Party Employing a Convicted Criminal?

Batesline: Democrats behaving badly and their enablers: Georgia

Bates has more on that address listed on that 2010 jail booking record: 1834 Carla Drive, Morrow, Clayton County, Georgia, also listed by Gail Buckner as “District office”: It’s a HOUSE…

The house is owned by Gail Buckner (go here to search the county land records), and it’s the same address listed on the Buckner campaign’s 1st quarter 2010 expenditure report, as the address of “Raschad Richey,” paid $4,000 on January 29, February 26, and March 26, 2010, for “campaign work.” It was also listed as her “district office” during her stint as state senator.

(Note: A free login here is required to view DeKalb County arrest records, such as the above link.)

The same address was used by Richey to register Democracy In, LLC on March 3, 2010, just two days after his release from the DeKalb County hoosegow.

UPDATE III:

The GA Democrat party put Criminal recidivist, Rashad Richey in charge of a voter registration drive, last November that was cynically held in conjunction with a Thanksgiving “Feed the Hungry” event for the poor and homeless  of Atlanta:

Volunteer with Georgia Democrats this Thanksgiving

By Georgia Democrat On November 21, 2011 · In Georgia Democrats

On Thanksgiving, we will be conducting a voter registration drive at Hosea Feed The Hungry, an organization that has distributed over $3 billion in food, cleaning and medical supplies to the poorest amongst us.

Their annual Thanksgiving Dinner is expected to serve over 50,000 poverty-stricken people at the World Congress Center in Atlanta.

Can you give time this Thanksgiving to help us register voters at this event? Dedicated Democrats will be volunteering on Thursday to create positive change in our community. We could use your help.

WHEN: Thanksgiving Day from 8 am to 4 pm (one to two hour shifts).
WHERE: Georgia World Congress Center, B side. Parking is free.
WHY: To register new voters at the annual Hosea Feed the Hungry Thanksgiving Dinner.

Please call Rashad Richey at 404-549—- or email at Rashad@GeorgiaDemocrat.org for more information. We can work around your holiday schedule, and you are welcome to bring friends and family.

UPDATE IV:

Democratic Party Political Director Assaulted Girlfriend & Kicked In Her Front Door:

As someone wise once said, “And the plot thickens.”

A reader emailed over copies of the police report from Rashad Richey’s December 19, 2007 arrest. Rashad Richey is, as most readers now know, the political director for the Democratic Party of Georgia.

The police report, authored by DeKalb County Police Officer E.D. Dent, is not pretty.

Read the report and decide for yourself whether or not this guy is just what Dan Reihl would call, “a nuisance, perhaps with a problem with authority, or self-control.”

Perhaps a problem with authority and lack of self control ?

Linked by iOWNTHEWORLD, and AoSHQ and Doug Ross, thanks!

Video: Allen West Spars With Soledad O’Brien on Commies in Congress – Doesn’t Back Down

Rep West went into hostile territory, last night, when he sparred with Soledad O’Brian on CNN, and he didn’t give an inch.  Soledad, as Greg Hengler of Townhall puts it, “is notorious for her more artificial than Katie Couric perky exterior while underneath it all she is seething disdain and contempt for her Republican guests.”

She started out by informing him that  the public doesn’t want him for Romney’s VP choice, and asked him to comment on that. From there, she wanted him to comment on whether of not the Romney campaign “went far enough” in condemning Ted Nugent’s recent controversial statements that got him in trouble with the Secret Service, as if it’s Allen West’s job to comment upon every move the Romney campaign does or doesn’t make. Finally she moved on to his own comments regarding the 78-81 members of Congress whom he recently stated were Communists, conveniently cutting off the part of the clip where he explained he was talking about the Progressive Caucus – a neat trick a lot of libs in the media have been playing.

Do you mean “card carrying Communists?” she asked, barely containing her seething disdain and contempt. Without contesting anything he said in his answer, she attempted to shame him by  challenging him to “name names”:

I wish his last answer had better addressed the laughable statement she cited from the Vice Chairman of the National Communist Party, who condemned West for using “guilt by association”. How sincere can he be when he calls association with his group, “guilt”. Yeah, that guy knows Communism! All Marxists know how to lie and obfuscate and cover for fellow travelers.

They know it’s not safe to come out of the closet, yet.

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

Video: Allen West Not Backing Down From Calling Dem Progressive Caucus Communists – Tells Reporters: “Maybe You Should Do a Little Research”

The Right Scoop calls this “red meat for conservatives, “ and that it is.

When a reporter from Red Alert Politics asked him, “Do you have any regrets about making those comments, Congressman?” West answered without hesitation – (in fact he didn’t even wait for the guy to finish asking his question):  “No, I don’t regret it, whatsoever”. Then he launched into an in depth defense for his assertion, reciting the evidence most of us hardcore conservatives already know. In fact, I’ve been saying since the beginning of 2009, it’s time to rebrand the Democrat party as Democrat Socialists, because that is what they are.

More Congressmen and women  should be speaking out like this. It’s not mean, it’s not “unfair”, it’s not “red-baiting”, it’s not “McCarthyism”,  and it’s certainly not “extreme” to “call a spade a spade”, as West put it.  They’re the “extreme” ones, as anyone who follows the left, understands.

It’s not difficult to make the case, as West does beautifully, here:

Allen West is America’s Congressman.

SEE ALSO:

Newsbusters: Robin Leach: Obama Is a ‘Socialist’ – He Is ‘Whipping Up This Racial War and This Economic Divide’

CAVUTO: Just set it to record. You are not a fan of what is going on here.

LEACH: No, I think it is deadly dangerous and I don’t use those two words lightly.

Look, what Obama is proposing you’ve got to cut right down to it, it is socialism. It is so ugly and evil. It doesn’t work – it’s never worked. And we went through this in Britain until Maggy Thatcher and rescued us from a fate worse than what’s going to happen here.

CAVUTO: He takes great umbrage to that socialist description.

LEACH: Of course, because it is the truth.

CAVUTO: He says, “I’m trying to level the playing field.”

LEACH: What is level the playing field? It’s a colloquial, warm, fuzzy expression that means I am a socialist.

CAVUTO: OK. I’m going to try this one you. They argue that over the last ten years, 20 years more to the point, the rich have lopsidedly benefited from what’s been going on and they believe that the only way to correct that, Robin, is to bring the rich down by paying more in taxes.

LEACH: Punish the rich. Whip the rich. Make them as middle income and as poor as the people who aren’t rich.

New Republican Ad: “Obama’s Favorite Amendment”

You thought the Obama administration hated the Constitution, but it turns out there is one amendment Obama corruptocrats like very much:

As Guy Benson at Townhall said; The Most Transparent Administration In Human History Sure Likes To Plead the Fifth, Huh?

Another day, another killer RNC video needling the Obama administration.  This time, they’re taunting members of the executive branch for repeatedly declining to incriminate themselves during sworn Congressional testimony. A doff of the cap to whomever thought of framing the clip around the question of identifying Obama’s “favorite” constitutional amendment.  Not only is it cheeky within this context, it also calls to mind the president’s recent legal struggles, attempted demagoguery of the Supreme Court, and subsequent feeble spin. 

Wait….isn’t this supposed to be the most “scandal free” administration evah? That’s what some libs were saying, last Fall if you remember.

…we have Jonathan Alter  reviving the narrative in a piece that reads like The Onion at Bloomberg News:

President Barack Obama goes into the 2012 with a weak economy that may doom his reelection. But he has one asset that hasn’t received much attention: He’s honest. (emphasis mine.)

Stop laughing – it gets better:

…the president’s Teflon is intriguing. How did we end up in such a scandal-less state? After investigating the question for a recent Washington Monthly article, I’ve been developing some theories. For starters, the tone is always set at the top. Obama puts a premium on personal integrity, and with a few exceptions…

I’ll tell you how he got into such a -uh – “scandal-less state”. Most of the idiots in the MSM aren’t reporting on the scandals as they should be, (in some cases they’re actively running interference for the administration – *cough* NYTs *cough* . So those who don’t watch Fox News, read conservative media, or page 23 D of the newspaper the one and only time the scandal’s mentioned, don’t get to find out what is really going on.

But the White House’s intense focus on scandal prevention has had mixed results. The almost proctological vetting process has ended up wounding Obama as much as prospective nominees. He gets cleaner but often less imaginative officials.

Bwahahahah…*breathe, breathe* Bwahahahaha!

Who was the proctologist in charge of the Van Jones vetting process? Eric Holder? Kathleen Sebelius?

There were over 1,600 comments and 99% of them were as incredulous as me.

Another fake liberal narrative bit the dust.

MORE:

Another excellent ad from from the GOP: From ‘Hope’ to Hypocrisy: Excuses, Excuses:

 

 

 

 

Fast and Furious: Next Up on the Congressional Oversight Hot-Seat, White House Aide, Kevin O’Reilly (Video)

Ed Henry reporting for Fox News:

Two top Republican lawmakers investigating the Fast and Furious controversy are demanding the White House make a former aide available for testimony to see whether the scandal reached the upper echelons of the administration, according to a letter obtained by Fox News.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, fired off the letter Wednesday urging the White House to make available Kevin O’Reilly, a former National Security Council staffer who is currently stationed in Iraq for the State Department.

 The lawmakers are giving White House staffers the deadline of April 4 to respond, with Republican aides privately saying the back-and-forth could provoke a showdown over executive privilege if the administration tries to shield O’Reilly from talking to investigators.

Senator Chuck Grassley today joined Jon Scott on Fox News’ Happening Now to discuss the letter he and Congressman Darrell Issa sent to the White House.

Did you catch this at 3:22?:

Grassley: But that raises an important question for the congressional oversight that I’m involved in – we need to know what the White House knew about Fast and Furious, and there may be some evidence that we can get from Kevin O’Reilly on that matter, and is anyone in the White House implicated in the Fast and Furious operation? – Right now we can only take (it) to the highest levels of the Justice Department.

Outstanding.

It sounds like they’re satisfied with what they have on Holder, and are now focusing on the Prez.

Who is Kevin O’Reilly? I’m glad you asked…

Last Fall, Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars called O’Reilly a  “political Rasputin” who just happened to be emailing “Gunwalker Bill” Newell:

Typical, and reinforced by other accounts except on one major point, is this from a source with long government experience:

O’Reilly is a very left-wing operator. Has wide and long contacts with the “CHANGE” gang, Axelrod and Emanuel. . . (He is) a “One World” true believer, who has in the past three years, become close to U.S. Amb. to U.N. Susan Rice. This gives him an entree to the scab-suckers @ U.N.

The fact that he is in the N.S.C. is very troubling. The fact that he has so much juice … is dangerous !

He has John Donilan’s ear… which makes him the political Rasputin who gets to whisper the last thing into The N.S.C. Advisor’s ear before he talks to POTUS. He has some long-standing relations with Fmr. CIA’s John Brennan (Now Counter-terrorism Guru @ N.S.C.) but can’t pin it down to a time and place. May have been during the
election run-up in 2008.

He was a player in forcing Adm. Dennis Blair to resign as Director of National Intelligence, I am told. He made a reputation for himself as a very crafty … and clever. A staffer up on the Hill, who has a lot of Juice with left wing crowd.

(MBV Note: Probably refers to O’Reilly’s time as a Pearson Fellow in the office of Illinois Senator Dick Durbin.)

My sources tell me that he was the “MOLE” inside the N.S.C. who pulled the rug out from under the best National Security Advisor we’ve had in a long, long time; Gen. Jim Jones, USMC (Ret). He under-mined the General and was rumored to being the leak
at the White House on some very key matters, such as Troop “Surge” in Afghanistan, the McChrystal mess and the embrace of the Obama-labeled “Arab Spring” bullshit. .

MORE BACKGROUND:

Late Friday WH Fast and Furious Document Drop Shows Extensive Communications Between Phoenix ATF Office and WH

ATF Phoenix Manager shared Fast and Furious Info with White House (With Videos)

The Latest On Gunwalker: Remember the name, Dan Restrepo

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Anthony Martin, The Examiner: Gunwalker’s Kevin O’Reilly–the man who knows too much?

UPDATE:

Issa was also on Fox, today: White House Ordered Kevin O’Rielly Not To Speak To Oversight about Fast & Furious:

He said investigators want to know who knew about this operation on the political end, but the White House has ordered O’Reilly not to Oversight…

Eric Schultz, the White House Spokesman who was hired to provide disinformation to the media on Fast and Furious, (and is notorious for screaming and swearing at reporters on the phone), sent the Committee what Issa characterized as a “mealy mouthed letter”:

“White House Counsel is reviewing the letter and will respond as appropriate. But broadly speaking, while some personnel in the White House were made aware of ATF’s efforts to combat gun trafficking along the southwest border, including Operation Fast and Furious, there has been no evidence to suggest that anyone at the White House knew about any decision to allow guns to ‘walk’ to Mexico.”

“No evidence?”

We’ll see about that.

Hat tip: Your Daddy’s Politics