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Obama Walking the Plank of His Own Making. Fellow Democrats Sawing Plank.

21 Apr

Schadenfreude.  It’s what’s for dinner.

Democrats are running away from Obamacare, which will likely be ruled unconstitutional in June.

Sen. Jim Webb said the law would be Obama’s “biggest downside” in the election and had cost him “a lot of credibility as a leader.”

Some of us were at your office, providing such advice to this affect during the run up to this vote, Jimmy.  I saw you walking down the hallway towards your office and once you saw us gathered outside your office you ran from us.  We were there and we were ignored.  Now you hike up your skirt and run away from a re-election bid because you know you screwed up big time.

No worries though, mate.  We’ll release the same fury against your replacement candidate, Timmy Kaine, that we would have on you.  Timmy is a big Obama guy.  Big Obama guys don’t do so well with the electorate since 2008.

And then there’s this from former Congressman Artur Davis from Alabama.

“I think the Affordable Care Act is the single least popular piece of major domestic legislation in the last 70 years,” he said. “It was not popular when it passed; it’s less popular now.”

And now Democrats are running away from President Obama’s blockage of the Keystone XL Pipeline.  Funny how constituent feedback about the pain at the pump brings new wisdom to even the most radically green Democrats.

Sharks are swirling below the plank.  Sharks of Obama’s own creation.  Shutting down and restricting coal fired power plants isn’t going to help, either.  When electricity rates ‘necessarily skyrocket’ (your words, not mine) going into the cooling season, this will add more pressure.  Coal fired power plants are shutting down because of Obama.

When GSA employees lavishly waste taxpayer money and flaunt it on You Tube, that doesn’t help either. 

When Obama uses the Justice Department to promote illegal gun running resulting in the deaths of American border and ICE agents and this Justice Department turns a blind eye to voter intimidation perpetrated by the Black Panthers while harassing states over voter ID laws and immigration enforcement laws, that doesn’t help either.

When Obama racks up $5 Trillion in debt in 3 years, tosses our money at pet projects that are massive failures like Solyndra, LightSquared, and others, that doesn’t help either.

When Obama takes an unprecedented number of vacations while the ranks of the unemployed moved from gainful employment and self esteem onto demeaning government dependency, well that don’t much help, either.

You know what, Champ?  You’re doomed.  If your cratering poll numbers don’t advise you, then your own party distancing themselves from you certainly does.

America’s got a big party planned for November 6th. 

You’re not invited.

 

 
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Posted by on April 21, 2012 in Barack Obama, Coal Mining, Debt Crisis, Deficit Reduction, Election 2012, Energy Policy, Entitlements, Environmentalists, EPA, Eric Holder, Gas Prices, Harry Reid, Healthcare, Jim Webb, Obamacare, Seriously Stupid Democrats of all levels, Socialism, Tim Kaine for Senate

 

Obama’s Money Laundering Operation

03 Apr

This video is breathtaking.

A major hat tip to commenter Linda for bringing this incredible video to my attention.  She runs a blog called NoOneOfAnyImport and it seems that she has seriously undersold herself with that name.  What you have here is vitally important and needs to go viral.  Not sure if DTN is the platform.  But maybe it can provide a little boost.

I made a throwaway post about the amount of spam email begging for money that I get from the Obama operation last week.  But Linda points us to a video where the Obamafia have suspended credit card security, allow multiple names for the same card. allow foreign addresses and will take funds from virtually anyone, including Nidal Hassan.  The video also shows that Mitt and Rick are playing by the rules.

Watch this, make your own conclusions and get back to me.  And her.

 

I would characterize this as UNBELIEVABLE, but it isn’t.  Not one little bit.  America, your republic is under siege from lawless thugs, in case you didn’t already know.

 
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Posted by on April 3, 2012 in Barack Obama, Corruptacrats, Election 2012, Eric Holder, Stealing Elections

 

Bill Whittle Throws Down the Gauntlet

29 Mar

This is his finest Afterburner yet and that’s saying something.

In ‘Merchants of Despair’ he catalogs all of the major misdeeds and malevolence of the Obama administration and at the end he speaks to you conservatives that sit on the couch on election day.

How do we find these bellyaching nonpartisipants, register them to vote and get them to the polls this November? That is the challenge and the only solution to our national despair.

And of course, as I always do when I post a new Whittle video, I urge you to go to PJTV and become a subscriber.

 
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Posted by on March 29, 2012 in Bailouts, Barack Obama, Budget, Class Warfare, Debt Crisis, Energy Policy, Entitlements, Environmentalists, Eric Holder, Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Healthcare, Illegal Immigration, Justice Department, Lisa Jackson, Regulation, Socialism, Spending, Taxes, Tyranny, Unions

 

Ted Nugent: There’s a Monster in the White House

18 Mar

Ted Nugent doesn’t mince words.  He’s very direct and extremely funny, too boot..  If only our Republican contenders took his advice and went to the Army surplus store to buy a box of scrotums.  OK.  That’s probably not how I would phrase it.

Listen to this excerpt of the Nuge field dressing Obama, his administration, and the Republican field.

Update:  I had another thought on the rotten apples portion of the video and have replaced it with even more rotten fruit.  It’s called artistic license.

Go here to listen to the entire interview with Phoenix, AZ talker Mike Broomhead from KFYI.   The interview covers a range of topics including his love of hunting, his personal brand of ammunition soon to come to market, his upcoming tour and more.

 
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Posted by on March 18, 2012 in Barack Obama, Congress, Corruptacrats, Election 2012, Elena Kagan, Eric Holder, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Occupy Movement, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Socialism, Ted Nugent

 

Senator Alexander to AG Holder on Obama recess appointments; “A blatant lack of regard for the constitutional checks and balances”

08 Mar

During a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing today Senator Lamar Alexander asked AG Holder about the decision made by President Obama to disregard precedent and the constitution’s advise and consent clause (Article II Section 2). After first stating that we need to consider the reality of the totality, Holder gave the following twisted and contorted nonsensical answer.

“The determination was not made by the president. The determination was made by the office of legal counsel and then shared that opinion with the president and the president made the decision as to what he wanted to do.”

If nothing else, Holder deserves some kind of award for lawyerly doublespeak lying.

 
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Posted by on March 8, 2012 in Barack Obama, Eric Holder

 

Now, even the left is calling on Kagan to recuse herself from hearing Health care case.

10 Dec

Now that the Supreme Court has officially decided to hear the challenge to the constitutionality of the PPACA (Obamacare), the calls for Justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself from the case are flooding in. The issue is whether or not the Justice and former Obama administration Solicitor General through her previous duties, involvement, and expressed opinions, would be able to maintain the appearance of impartiality as required by federal statute. Predictably, these calls have come from pundits and politicians on the right. As noted in a previous post on DTN, Obama Attorney General Eric Holder does not see any reason for Kagan to recuse herself. I was unable to find any direct commentary on this from the president but his spokesman Jay Carney stated that this issue was examined and settled during the nomination process and any further calls to revisit the issue “sure sounds like a political thing”. Of course, Carney’s explanation makes no sense whatsoever, the senate confirmation process is an effort to determine whether or not that body should consent to the appointment of that individual to the court, not to excuse them from recusing themselves from any future case that court may hear. Also, as Fred Lucas of CNS news noted, we now have new evidence in the form of DOJ internal emails that strengthen the case for recusal.

Now a prominent and self-professed liberal and loyal Democrat constitutional professor of law is making the same argument. Eric Segall of Georgia State University College of Law recently made a non-political, fact based case for recusal. First, Segall explains the law as it pertains to judicial recusal;

A federal statute requires that any “justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” Federal law also requires that a judge recuse herself if the judge previously served in governmental employment “and in that capacity participated as a … counsel, adviser, or material witness concerning the proceeding or has expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy.”

He then goes on to make a brilliant matter of fact case for recusal.

1)  She served as the solicitor general of the United States during the time that the ACA was furiously debated in Congress, discussed in town halls across the country, and enacted;

2) The ACA is the most important, controversial, and partisan piece of legislation put forward by the Obama administration while Kagan worked as the president’s top lawyer to the Supreme Court. If he didn’t consult with her about it, he should have;

3) She was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama shortly after the ACA was passed, and the president is closely and personally identified with the law;

4) She has to review the law just a few months before President Obama runs for re-election;

5) His re-election might well be affected by how the Supreme Court rules; and

6) We know she celebrated the passage of the law.

We know about her celebrating the passage from a recently released email from Kagan to Laurence Tribe, a liberal Harvard constitutional law professor who was also working for the administration at the time the law passed, in which she said, “I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing.” The email’s subject line was “fingers and toes crossed today!”

Now CNS is reporting that yet another email is indicating that Kagan was brought into the loop on Mark Levin’s Obamacare complaint. As evidence piles up and calls for recusal from both sides increase, it will be interesting to see if, as Eric Segall asks, Kagan views herself as a judge of law who is obligated to approach legal issues objectively and open-mindedly without regard to partisan political outcomes or if she is merely a left-wing ideologue with no regard for the integrity of the court.

 
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Posted by on December 10, 2011 in Elena Kagan, Eric Holder, Healthcare, Justice Department, Obama, Obamacare, politics

 

Eric Holder’s testimony today reminds me of fishing for striped bass

08 Dec

One of the best ways to catch a big striper (OK, rock fish for you Chessie types) is with a big, juicy live eel.  Getting a big, juicy live eel on a fish hook can be a bit of a challenge and it takes a while to get the knack of it.

Eels are slimy and next to impossible to grasp with the bare hand.  Eels are fast.  Eels are cagey and do not much like having a sharp hook inserted under the jaw and plunged through that jaw and out through an eye.  They’ll fight you every step of the way, will wrap around your wrist and if given a chance, will ball up into your fishing line and within seconds turn the whole rig into a useless piece of junk.

Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas tried to rig up for striped bass fishing today and Eric Holder was in no mood to become bait.  Holder was as slippery as any eel I’ve ever tried to employ and he did his best to wrap himself into the fishing line.

Holder’s last congressional testimony asserted that Elena Kagan never played any role in the Obamacare defense strategy when she was Solicitor General.  This was a eely secretion of slime that was being deployed to prevent her from the hue and cry of people rightly insisting that for her to sit on the Supreme Court decision about the constitutionality of Obamacare would be a conflict of interest and that she should recuse herself. 

Smith tried to get the eel to qualify a timeline, asserting that it would have made no sense for her to not perform her primary job in working as the President’s lead counsel during the formation of the arguments for defending it.

But the eel twisted, slimed, squirmed and wrapped its tail around Smith’s wrist, refusing to get on the hook.

But Smith fought back nobly and inquired about the documentation and personal testimony he’d requested from Justice, insisting that Holder either declare some sort of legal privilege or surrender to his request.

Lamar Smith had the eel in his grasp.  He had the hook in the other hand.  He struggled against the mighty eel, but in the end he hooked the bastard.  Now he can drop in his line and catch the big fish.  

As a man who can not only hook up eels and catch big stripers, I can do it from a kayak. 

I think Lamar can do it from an inner tube.  Nice job, Mr. Smith.

 
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Posted by on December 8, 2011 in Elena Kagan, Eric Holder, Obama, Obamacare, politics, Socialism

 

Sensenbrenner to Holder: If you don’t want to cooperate House may have to go the Impeachment route

08 Dec

Wha????  Did he really use the ‘I’ word?

In the Fast & Furious hearings with Attorney General Eric Holder today there were many fine moments between the stonewalling Holder and various Representatives.  This is one of those moments.

Pay attention to Sheila Jackson Lee at the reacting to the impeachment talk, making a parliamentary inquiry and then getting shut down by the chair.

 
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Posted by on December 8, 2011 in Eric Holder

 

Attorney General Eric Holder spins Elena Kagan’s role in Obamacare

16 Nov

When asked by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) about Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s involvement in the framing of and defense of Obamacare while she served as Solicitor General, president Obama’s chief legal council throughout the process, Holder makes the statement that not only wasn’t she involved, but when the topic of Obamacare came up she was asked to leave the room.

Carrie Severino over at Judicial Crisis Network lays out the case that not only was Kagan heavily involved in every phase of Obamacare, but she was went to extraordinary measures by involving the office of the Solicitor General in the earliest defense strategy at the lowest levels of the court system.

Because it is so unusual for the Solicitor General’s Office to get involved at the District Court level, not to mention before a law is passed, Kagan’s approval, tacit or explicit, would have been required. The fact that she encouraged her Office’s involvement at such an early stage could only mean that she believed it was necessary to ensure that the strongest possible arguments in defense of the law would be raised at the outset to set the stage for all the appeals that would certainly follow. Her actions had the added effect of communicating to the President and the rest of his Administration that the Solicitor General herself was on top of the legal challenges from the beginning and would not be caught off guard.

Severino goes on to debunk the premise of Holder’s statement. 

During her confirmation hearings, Kagan stated that she was present at “at least one” meeting in which the challenges to PPACA were discussed. But JCN has obtained documents indicating that her involvement was much more substantial than merely attending a single meeting.

So here we go again.  Just like in ‘Fast and Furious’, Eric Holder is either woefully incompetent and ill informed or he is purposefully obfuscating and lying.

No matter.  Either way, it is quite evident that for Elena Kagan to sit in judgement on the Obamacare Supreme Court proceeding is an unacceptable violation of judicial ethics.  She’s been involved with Obamacare throughout the process and again, referring back to Carrie Severino’s excellent article, the answer is obvious.

It requires recusal where the judge “has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy.” 28 U.S.C. §455(b)(3).

If you prefer the uneditorialized raw video footage of the Lee/Holder exchange without the dulcet tones of Frank Black click below.  Most of it is on Fast and Furious.

 
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Posted by on November 16, 2011 in Elena Kagan, Eric Holder, Obama, Obamacare, politics

 

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NRA Preps Members for Unpopular & Unwise Harry Reid Endorsement

22 Aug

It has been rumored for some time now that the NRA (National Rifle Association) will endorse Harry Reid in the Nevada Senate race against the conservative Sharron Angle.  This is confusing to most because while Sharron Angle is a 100% Second Amendment supporter, Harry Reid pretends to be pro-gun but uses his position in the Senate to undermine the right to keep and bear arms.

While the NRA has gone out of their way to state that they have yet to endorse anyone in this race.

For the record, the NRA-PVF has not yet made an endorsement in the Nevada U.S. Senate race.  In fact, there have been no announced endorsements for any U.S. Senate seat for the November general elections—period.

It is increasingly apparent that the Reid endorsement is coming. The August issue of the NRA magazines included a preemptive explanation for the unpopular recommendation titled Making Endorsements Count which regurgitates the NRA-PVF Endorsement Policy. They go on about being non-partisan and a single issue organization that  is incumbent friendly.

The NRA-PVF is non-partisan in issuing its candidate grades and endorsements. We do not base our decisions on a candidate’s party affiliation, but rather on his or her record on Second Amendment issues. The NRA is a single-issue organization. The only issues on which we evaluate candidates seeking elected office are gun-related issues. While there are many issues a candidate must address with voters, and while voters evaluate a number of non-gun-related issues in factoring which candidate they will support or oppose, NRA-PVF’s sole criteria in issuing grades and endorsements is a candidate’s position on gun-related issues.

The problem is Harry Reid’s voting record on gun issues is not great. The Gun Owners of America has given him an F. Red State listed dozens of examples where he voted opposite of the wishes of the NRA. Erick Erickson also points out that the impending endorsement is payback for a $61 million earmark for a Clark County, Nevada shooting park and the NRA carve out in the Disclose Act. I also found another little nugget that Reid stuffed into in the same Health Care bill amendment that contained the famous Cornhusker kickback.

S Amendment 3276

-Specifies that health care coverage, premium rates, and any participation in health and wellness programs shall not be affected by an individual’s lawful ownership, use, or storage of firearms or ammunition, nor shall such data be collected on individuals (Sec. 10101).

The wisdom of endorsing such a candidate is debatable, Harry Reid is a powerful incumbent who has shown while not reliable, on occasion he can deliver a favorable vote, earmark, or carve out. What makes this coming endorsement so unforgivable is Senator Reid’s destructive and disastrous record on his leadership and votes to confirm radical anti-gun nominees and to vote no on pro 2nd amendment nominees. Harry Reid has voted yea on AG Eric Holder ( who supports banning many semi-automatic firearms), Justices Kagan, Sotamayor, Breyer, and Ginsburg all liberals with a predilection to limit or restrict gun rights while casting no votes on the pro Second Amendment Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Alito, and Thomas. The NRA needs to realize that it is futile to have endorse candidates who vote the “right way” on legislation only to confirm Justices who will strike down our Second Amendment Rights.

The NRA should not endorse Harry Reid and it is not enough for them to stay neutral. Chris Cox and Wayne LaPierre need to endorse Sharron Angle for Senate.

 
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Posted by on August 22, 2010 in Eric Holder, Harry Reid, NRA, politics, Sharron Angle

 
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