‘Politics’ Archives
$2M FEMA ‘safe room’ grant for Moore, OK was Delayed by Government Red tape
The National Weather Service tornado emergency warning for the Oklahoma City area Monday afternoon was blunt: “You could be killed if not underground or in a tornado shelter.” And people in the city of Moore responded as best they could, taking cover in underground shelters or above-ground safe rooms when they could, huddling everywhere from closets to bathtubs to school hallways as a last resort. What was not available was a new $2 million "safe room" program the city had hoped to start. Moore got money to help with such shelters after tornadoes in 1991 and 2004, but city officials posted a message in February advising residents their pursuit of a Federal Emergency and Management Agency grant remained "on hold" pending approval of the city's hazard mitigation plan. The [...]
US Attorney going after Fox News Journalists is Obama Donor, Worked for Campaign
The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald C. Machen - the man responsible for the aggressive surveillance and phone record scrutiny at Fox News - is also a big donor to the Obama Campaigns. At the time of his appointment, the Washington Post wrote a profile on Machen including this tidbit: Over the years, he has donated $4,350 to Obama's campaigns. He gave $250 to Obama's U.S. Senate campaign in 2003, a year before Obama, then an Illinois state senator, emerged on the nation's political radar, according to campaign finance records. Read More Prosecutor Going After FOX News Worked for Obama for America Furthermore, in June of 2012, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) questioned Attorney General Eric Holder about the appointment of Mr. Machen to head-up the leaks investigation. [...]
Special Prosecutor in the IRS Scandal Inevitable
This administration’s management of the Obama Internal Revenue Service scandal so far consists of a slow-walking, rolling disclosure of facts; equal parts equivocation, amnesia and indignation from IRS witnesses; deer-in-the-headlights non-responses by the White House press secretary; parsed, lawyerly statements from the president himself; and now one of the central key players is taking the Fifth. And all this comes from what the president claimed would be the “most transparent administration ever…” If we give the president the benefit of the doubt and assume he knows the truth is going to come out, the question remains: Does the administration appoint the special prosecutor sooner or later? The calculus inside the White House is how to best protect the president’s political [...]
The Internal Revenue Circus
Over A Week Later, Obama’s IRS Scandal – And The Administration’s Reaction To It – Gets More Troubling By The Day THE WEEK IS HARDLY HALFWAY OVER – HOW MANY OTHER SHIFTING STORIES WILL THERE BE IN THE UNFOLDING IRS SCANDAL? National Journal’s Ron Fournier: “Shifting Stories Cast Doubts On Answer To Core Question: Did Team Obama Know About IRS Abuse In Real Time?” (Ron Fournier, “Why You Can't Trust The White House (Even If Nobody's Lying),” National Journal, 5/21/13) “In Politics, As In Life, When You Constantly Change Your Story, Even On Small Matters, You Sow Doubt About Your Credibility And Competence.” “And yet the revelations cost the Obama White House some measure of credibility. In politics, as in life, when you constantly change your [...]
Barack ‘Magoo’ Obama
by Joe Keck Obama should live in Vegas. Of course, luck favors the Mainstream Media pets, but you gotta' admit, even if Lady Liberty stands in our current President's way, Lady Luck has a soft spot for him. I can just picture it. Obama walks into a casino and all the slots stop at triple cherries, the craps dice flip to 7's, and all the blackjack tables deal aces and faces. Why? Well, let's see. On his watch, a shoe bomber tried to blow up a plane but screwed it up. So, ridiculous as it is, the Obama Administration looks like it stopped a terrorist attack. A triple on that one-armed bandit! Then there was the underwear bomber. Again, it blew up in idiot's pants as he tried to deploy it. He was caught and arrested and no one was hurt. Shortly after, according to the [...]
Obama Strategy: Run the show, then say “I Didn’t Know”
"Americans have a right to be angry about it, and I'm angry about it." Isn't it comforting to know that our Pretender-in-Grief, Barack Hussein Obama, is upset over the recent IRS scandal? As scandalous skies continue to darken over Washington, the president continues to ensure us “that the responsible parties will be held accountable.” Quite fittingly, the press has not reported on the president’s own detective work; Mr.Obama apparently located one of the “responsible parties” as he fixed his tie in the mirror. How long can an administration perpetuate the lie that their leader has little or no knowledge of what is going on? Furthermore, how much of the general public still believes that the most powerful man in the world is simply ‘out of [...]
Army General Byran T. Roberts Commander of Fort Jackson, SC suspended
The Army announced it has suspended the commander of Fort Jackson, S.C., amid misconduct allegations that include adultery and a physical altercation, according to a spokesman for Training and Doctrine Command. Brig. Gen. Bryan T. Roberts was suspended today of his duties as commander of the Army Training Center and Fort Jackson by Gen. Robert W. Cone, the commander of Training and Doctrine Command, according to a statement from spokesman Harvey Perritt. Cone’s decision was based on preliminary information from an investigation by Army Criminal Investigation Command, which pointed to a breach of good order and discipline, “which was contrary to Army values and could not be condoned.” Via armytimes.com. According to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, the [...]
IRS Official Lois Lerner to invoke Fifth before Congress
self–in·crim·i·na·tion - incrimination of oneself; specifically : the giving of testimony which will likely subject one to criminal prosecution. So the Most Transparent administration in history continues! IRS Official Lois Lerner to invoke Fifth Amendment before Congress WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. [...]
Is the DOJ investigating Sharyl Attkisson for Investigating the DOJ?
Isthe DOJ investigating Sharyl Attkisson's for Investigating the DOJ? Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation. "I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I'm not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I've been patient and methodical about this matter," Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. "I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public." Read More Sharyl Attkisson's computers compromised FlashBack: CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Says WH Spokesman Screamed and Cursed at Her Over Fast & Furious [...]
Obama loses Eugene Robinson over abridging the Freedom of the Press
The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their e-mails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn’t chilling, it’s just plain cold. It also may well be unconstitutional. In my reading, the First Amendment prohibition against “abridging the freedom . . . of the press” should rule out secretly obtaining two months’ worth of the personal and professional phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors, including calls to and from the main AP phone number at the House press gallery in the Capitol. Yet this is what the Justice Department did. The unwarranted snooping, which was revealed last week, would be troubling enough if it were an isolated [...]
