Wednesday, June 20, 2012

House panel votes 23-17 to place Holder in contempt of Congress

The Hill  "The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Republican Chairman Darrell Issa (Calif.), approved a resolution along party lines to place Holder in contempt after battling him for months over access to internal agency documents about the gun-tracking operation known as "Fast and Furious."
"The vote came after Obama escalated the conflict by sending a letter to the committee claiming executive privilege over the documents the panel had sought.Political Cartoons by Bob Gorrell
"All 23 Republicans on the committee voted for the contempt resolution, while all 17 Democrats voted against it. Every member of the panel was present for the vote."
BBC  "Historically, Congress and the White House have negotiated agreements to avoid a court battle that would limit either Congress' subpoena power or executive privilege itself.

"In a separate development on Tuesday, the family of an Immigartion and Customs Enforcement agent killed in Mexico has filed a $25m wrongful death lawsuit against several US officials, including Mr Holder.
"Jaime Zapata's family say the weapons that killed him were brought into Mexico because of US investigations into gun trafficking."

The Potemkin President Disintegrates

Potemkin: "a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition. "Po·tem·kin village  Origin of POTEMKIN VILLAGE: Grigori Potëmkin, who supposedly built impressive fake villages along a route Catherine the Great was to travel. First Known Use: 1937
The Potemkin President Disintegrates
...."The political unifier who claimed, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America,” has been exposed as one of the most divisive and partisan presidents of modern times. The post-racial candidate who supposedly transcended our racial divisions has intensified them, whether by crudely racializing incidents like the Trayvon Martin shooting, or by allowing the Justice Department to facilitate race-industry attacks on state voter-identification laws, or by calling his own grandmother “a typical white person” for fearing black criminals.".... 
"Indeed, any mention of Wright even today calls forth shrill charges of “race-baiting” and “racial politics” from the Democrats and MSNBC. The same media that in 2006 hyperventilated over Republican Senate candidate George Allen saying something that sort of sounded like what maybe was an obscure ethnic slur apparently didn’t see a story in the fact that Obama’s spiritual mentor hates white people and had glorified the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as “chickens coming home to roost.” "  Emphasis added.


Canada Free Press: Barack Obama, the Illusion   " In other words, Obama’s spun fairytales on his Kenyan family were as bogus as the faux Greek columns from which he first strode onto the world stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
....
"Designed down to the last politically correct detail, for making it well past his best-before date, he just had to be half black, half white, metrosexual, the Underdog of Underdogs; an illusion that could never be nailed down and exposed."

Issa vs. Holder: It's Go Time!

Via Drudge; Issa pushes ahead with Holder contempt vote despite Obama intervention

"Rep. Darrell Issa pressed ahead with a committee vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, despite an 11th-hour move by President Obama to exert executive privilege over the Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the dispute. 
"The announcement instantly touched off a caustic debate on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, as Democrats accused Issa of prosecuting a "political witch hunt" and Republicans stepped up their criticism of Holder's "stonewalling" over the Fast and Furious probe. Even for Washington, the tone at the hearing was decidedly bitter and accusatory."


FLASHBACK: Obama Blasts Bush For "Hiding Behind Executive Privilege"
"You know, there's been a tendency on the part of this administration to -- to try to hide behind executive privilege every time there's something a little shaky that's taking place. And I think, you know, the administration would be best served by coming clean on this. There doesn't seem to be any national security issues involved with the U.S. attorney question. There doesn't seem to be any justification for not offering up some clear, plausible rationale for why these -- these U.S. attorneys were targeted when, by all assessments, they were doing an outstanding job. I think the American people deserve to know what was going on there.”



 M Catharine Evans; Holder Met with Issa, Didn't Bring the Goods  "Issa has a textbook contempt case against Holder. The attorney general is required by law to comply with a congressional subpoena so what is Holder going to the mat for?
"The mainstream media is complicit as well. Their deafening silence coupled with Holder's arrogance must be inversely proportional to their level of guilt."

CNN; Obama asserts executive privilege over 'Fast and Furious' document  "President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege over document sought by a House committee investigating the botched Fast and Furious gun-running sting, said a letter to the panel Wednesday from Deputy Attorney Gen. James Cole.
"The move means the Department of Justice can withhold the documents from the panel."

What would your rebuttal be to this Muslim's charges?

American Thinker  "(culled from an anonymous blogger from the UK)"
Your infidel lifestyle has proven to be a total and absolute failure. Your degenerate Western way of life is collapsing all around you. You are unable to solve your own problems. Look at what your decadent culture and sick societies have produced: sexual immorality, pornography, prostitution, divorces, broken families, filthy movies, homosexual marriage, drugs, alcohol, gambling, consumerism, materialism, hedonism... Why do you persist in your filthy decadent Western culture? It is self-destructive. It destroys families. It destroys children. Nothing good comes out of your sick poisonous culture. The Sharia will save you from yourselves. We will never let you spread the pollution & poison our children's minds. We will fight to the death in order to keep your decadent culture out of our societies. You decadent infidels are disgusting. Keep your vile culture to yourselves. Stop trying to export it to our countries. We will fight you to the end ... and we will prevail ... even if it takes 100 years. Allahu Akbar!

Still think Lady Gaga, Madonna and rappers are popular worldwide? And that Western culture is the envy of the world?

What should we fear most?

President Obama's Evolution

NBC being NBC...again

What a Democrat propaganda machine; they should write all NBC newscasts off their income tax as in-kind political contributions.

Boortz; Back to the MSNBC editing suite  "There was no reference in the MSNBC piece about Romney’s lengthy comparison of the innovation in the private sector vs. government.  The purpose of the editing was to make Romney sound completely out of touch … completely bamboozled by technology. 
All part of the effort of the ObamaMedia to make sure their tracks are covered and their guy is reelected. 
"Tell me again how the media isn’t biased."

NBC News Covers Up Andrea Mitchell's Misleading Edit
We ran clips of Mitt Romney in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, talking about his trip to WaWa. Well, the RNC and the campaign both reached out to us saying that Romney had more to say about that visit -- about federal bureaucracy and innovation in the private sector. We didn't get a chance to play that, so here it is now.
" "This is another outrageous example of how NBC will do anything to help Obama in 2012, no matter how unethical, irresponsible, and dishonest it is." "


"A remix concentrating on the two most dishonest sentences read off a teleprompter in recent memory. Watch Andrea Mitchell say a pair of carefully crafted sentences to first explain a misleading edit as a simple timing choice and second to segue quickly out of the embarrassing topic. As the face of MSNBC’s dishonestly edited video, she owes her first apology to professional journalists."


More MSNBC; Lawrence O'Donnell Mocks Ann Romney's MS Recovery

Doesn't this strike you as pretty tacky? 

Obama's Got Your Back

Krauthammer: Europe Doesn't "Give A Damn" What U.S. Says Under Obama

Real Clear Politics  "Charles Krauthammer offers his analysis of President Obama's G20 speech: The second thing I picked up is the subtlety of the gibberish he offered on Europe -- which was the only thing he could do because the fact that he didn't have anything to say or to offer is the perfect reflection of the decline of the American influence everywhere in the last three and a half years. I think it's a bigger decline in U.S. influence in all areas of the world -- in the Middle East, in Syria, in Europe, economically and every other way than any other three and a half years since the end of the second World War. 

"This is a president who speaks for the United States so weakly that nobody cares what he says. The Europeans care what Angela Merkel says about Greece and Spain and Italy. They don’t give a damn what the United States says because it is irrelevant"

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Who'd ever think that music could stir up so much hate from the Taliban and the Democrats?



"Ms Javed, who was popular with young, progressive ethnic Pashtuns in northwest Pakistan, was reportedly driving home with her father when a motorcycle raced towards their car and opened fire. 
"She was hit with six bullets and and pronounced dead along with her father at a hospital in Peshawar, according to CNN.
"In recent years the rise of the Pakistani Taliban, who disagree with singing and dancing, made it difficult for Ms Javed and other artists to perform and record songs in the country.
"Ms Javed had started recording many of her songs and music videos, which she sang in her in nearby Dubai."
Gateway Pundit; NYC School Children Heckled By Adults While Singing “God Bless the USA”   "What an awful display.  A group of New York City school children were not allowed to sing “God Bless the USA” in school during their Kindergarten graduation ceremony. So, the children went to a playground to sing it where a group of adults heckled them."



Rush Limbaugh; Bob Turner Stands with Kids as Libs Heckle Them for Singing Lee Greenwood Song
 "Folks, I still can't get over what happened.  In New York, a bunch of kindergarteners who were told they couldn't sing "God Bless the USAin school because it was divisive, essentially, go to a playground to sing it, and a bunch of Democrat adults show up to heckle them.  And a Republican candidate for the Senate, Bob Turner, is there, standing in solidarity with the kids, the kindergarteners." 

That Obama-Putin deep freeze

White House Wages Rescue Effort for ‘Reset’ Rhetoric  "Asked if the meeting, which began half an hour late, was important for the Russians, a Russian diplomat said: “Yes, but even more for the Americans.” "
Putin knows Obama is an easy mark who is prepared to give away the store and continue to treat our adversaries better than he treats our friends.
Political Cartoons by Glenn Foden

"The first item listed was the “expansion of trade and investment relations,” specifically Russia’s bid to join the World Trade Organization and the Obama administration’s push for Congress “to terminate, as soon as possible, application of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment with respect to Russia and extend Permanent Normal Trade Relations to the Russian Federation.”
"The statement then gushed about Obama’s pet project of nuclear nonproliferation. “We recognize the achievements made through the Nuclear Security Summits, including the removal and elimination of nuclear materials, minimization of the civilian use of highly enriched uranium, and worldwide improvements in a nuclear security culture,” it states.
" “As a priority, we intend to successfully implement the New START Treaty, and to continue our discussions on strategic stability. Despite differences in assessments, we have agreed to continue a joint search for solutions to challenges in the field of missile defense.” "

Political Cartoons by Nate Beeler
"The hardened tone appears to mark the endpoint of Obama's "reset" of ties with Moscow, pursued with Putin predecessor Dmitry Medvedev and touted by the White House as a signature foreign policy accomplishment."

Obama's conferencus interruptus

Boortz; The interruption incident  "This occurrence has the proggies race-pimp’s thongs in a wad.  Here’s not one but four examples of proggies saying that Obama was interrupted … because he’s black!"
...."As this campaign continues we’re going to see more of this.  The worse things look for Obama the more the left is going to start tossing the race card out there.  After all, what do they have left?"

(Video)  Don Lemon: 'Neil Munro, How Dare You'

Speaking of that, Andrew Klavan; Sam Donaldson declares Neil Munro is RACIST! Klavan writes: "Some on the left have unleashed wild accusations that I harbor a primal animosity toward Obama’s shredding of the Constitution, or his opposition to the ideals of the American founding. They think I look at Obama’s membership in a European-style socialist party (about which he lied) or his close relationship with anti-American terrorist William Ayers (about which he lied) or his twenty year tutelage under the racist, anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright (about which he almost certainly lied) or the several attempts at government encroachments so overweening that they have been struck down 9-0 by a normally divided Supreme Court — and see all that as evidence that this president is less committed to the American project than any leader of this continent since King George.
"Wrong!  I’m just not down with this whole African-American business." 
Anyway, back to the original subject...


Geraldo: Daily Caller Scribe's Incivility Akin to 'Interrupting Lincoln' During Gettysburg Address  "Am I reading too much into Rivera's remarks to wonder if he's aware that the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order, not a speech delivered by Lincoln?
"Henceforth the Obama administration might want to signal when questions will be allowed from the media and when reporters will be expected to emulate statuary."