IS END OF WORLD NEAR? NYT Editorial:Obama Admin. Lost All Credibility On Transparency & Accountability

Yid With Lid 

"The [NY Times] editor went on to attack the reaction of the White House which was basically "trust us."

The senior administration official quoted in The Times said the executive branch internally reviews surveillance programs to ensure that they “comply with the Constitution and laws of the United States and appropriately protect privacy and civil liberties.”

That’s no longer good enough. Mr. Obama clearly had no intention of revealing this eavesdropping, just as he would not have acknowledged the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, had it not been reported in the press. Even then, it took him more than a year and a half to acknowledge the killing, and he is still keeping secret the protocol by which he makes such decisions.

..... It is the very sort of thing against which Mr. Obama once railed, when he said in 2007 that the Bush administration’s surveillance policy “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.”

 Hat tip to Jeffrey Dunetz
 

The Real Danger of Liberal Bias: It's That the Powerful Keep Winning and the Weak Keep Losing

This story must have legs because Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Bloggers on Facebook both promoted it today.

RedState  I’m going to tell you what media bias is really all about. It’s about a dying, 10 year-old girl and a sexagenarian, politically connected trial lawyer. It’s about official malfeasance treated as human error when a Democrat is President. It’s about power and systemic corruption that is unremarkable to people offended that George W. Bush didn’t call his advisers liars to their face.
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"Liberal media bias is about small people crushed under a leviathan while the great and the good ride high on its back. It is about small stories that add up to a giant, sickening picture being systematically ignored. It is about the failure of people who think the First Amendment was crafted for their personal use not bothering to exercise it.

"Someone’s baby girl will either die because she didn’t give to Democrats; or won’t, because she was the rare one whose father worked the system to shame the powerful.

"How many others of the weak will suffer while the powerful who gave to the ruling party prosper? And will we ever hear about it?"

Bashir: ‘IRS’ Is The New N-Word In The ‘War Against The Black Man In The White House’

Mediaite  "On Wednesday, MSNBC host Martin Bashir accused President Barack Obama’s critics, who are focusing on the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, of using the IRS scandal in place of attacks on the president’s race.
"Bashir scolded a variety of Republican commentators who he said “laid the groundwork” for Mitt Romney to make a “racist comment” in 2012 when he joked that no one ever needed to ask for his birth certificate."

Army Punishes Soldier who Served Chick-fil-A

Todd Starnes  "Last summer the soldier had received his promotion to master sergeant. The promotion coincided with a national controversy surrounding Chick-fil-A’s support of traditional marriage. Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told a newspaper that he was “guilty as charged” when it came to supporting the biblical definition of marriage. Gay rights advocates were infuriated and some Democratic leaders – most notably the mayor of Boston –  attempted to stop the popular restaurant chain from opening restaurants in their cities.

"Crews said the soldier decided to hold a party to celebrate his new position. The invitations read, “In honor of my promotion and in honor of the Defense of Marriage Act, I’m serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at my promotion party.”

"After the party, the solider received a letter of reprimand. Crews said at issue was the combination of the sandwiches and the soldier’s support of DOMA (which happens to be the law of the land)."

Fry this man, then free Bradley Manning!

‘Not Fit To Lead’: GOP Rep. Rails Against Obama’s ‘Vengefulness And Lack Of Moral Compass’

Mediaite  "On the House floor on Monday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) spoke only for a minute but squeezed in some harsh criticism of both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden — whom he deemed “unfit” to lead. Decrying Obama’s incompetence and “lack of moral compass,” Bridenstine lamented that Biden was even worse.
"Bridenstine began with specific criticisms, many aimed at the current scandals involving the IRS and the Justice Department — as well as a nod to other controversies, such as Benghazi. In addition to Obama and Biden, he called out Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius."

On Samantha Power's appointment by Obama

Samantha Power, Obama's pick as America's Ambassador to the UN, will fit right in   "Power writes of her willingness to impose solutions on the Israelis and Palestinians and that she would be willing to:

"alienat[e] a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import; it may more crucially mean sacrificing...billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the state of Palestine."

...."Ms. Power also derided concerns about Iran's nuclear weapons program in a Time magazine column, stating that it was a figment of the imagination conjured up and promoted by George Bush to gin up pressure on Iran . She counseled, what else, outreach and engagement not further pressure. She will be great at the United Nations: great for Iran, great for Hezb'llah, great for Hamas."

Loyalty Rewarded: Susan Rice and Samantha Power  "Power has what one might call a western European sensibility and attitude toward the U.S. That outlook is hardly limited to Europe, of course; it’s one that is also rampant among most of the American left. What’s more, it seems to be shared by Obama himself — although for political reasons he has rarely articulated it quite as fully and clearly as Power — the conviction that the U.S. has blood on its hands and that we, like the Germans after WWII, must go on bended knee in order to achieve a similar catharsis."

The Power Doctrine

Breaking – Strong advocate of “mea culpa” foreign policy to be nominated for U.N. Ambassador  

In 2003, Power advocated "instituting a doctrine of the mea culpa" as U.S. foreign policy. Keith Urbahn tweet 

Samantha Power, hater of Israel   "If you want to take money away from Israel and give it to Palestinians, whose charter (whether Fatah or Hamas) calls for the destruction of Israel, you clearly are anti-Israel.
"But Power didn’t just argue for a massive shift in resources from Israel to Palestinian interests. She also favored American military intervention to create a Palestinian state:"....

Samantha Power’s Five Worst Statements She gets credit for Obama's apology tour of the world.

"Power recommended that United States officials should apologize to the world for its past failures in order to enhance credibility with foreign countries."

 

Benghazi… New Source Claims Ambassador Stevens Died From Lethal Injection

DC Clothesline  "In a shocking claim, Abdallah Dhu-al-Bajadin, who has been identified by U.S. officials as a known weapons expert for al-Qaeda, said in a recent online posting that U.S. Ambassador
Chris Stevens was killed by lethal injection after a botched plan to kidnap him in Benghazi failed on September 11, 2012.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:
“…according to the March 14 posting on an al Qaeda-linked website, Abdallah Dhu-al-Bajadin, the al Qaeda weapons expert, stated that Stevens was given a lethal injection and that the injection was overlooked during the medical autopsy.
According to Dhu-al-Bajadin, “the plan was based on abduction and exchange of high-level prisoners.”
“However, the operation took another turn, for a reason God only knows, when one of the members of the jihadist cell improvised and followed Plan B,” he wrote on the prominent jihadist web forum Ansar al-Mujahideen Network.

Read more... 

Tips for Right-Wingers on the IRS Scandal

Doesn't this make you even just a teeeensy bit mad?

 Ann Coulter   "The IRS leaked the donor list of The National Organization for Marriage to their political opponents, the pro-gay-marriage Human Rights Campaign. This is not idle speculation: The documents had an internal IRS stamp on them. The list of names was then published on a number of liberal websites and NOM's donors were harassed.

"The IRS demanded that all members of the Coalition for Life of Iowa swear under penalty of perjury that they wouldn't pray, picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood. They were also asked to provide details of their prayer meetings."

Audience Cheers at Ryan’s Rebuttal to McDermott

Washington Free Beacon   'I am going to deviate from my original question in response to what I just heard' 

 

"Applause rang out as Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) slammed Rep. Jim McDermott’s (D., Wash.) implication that the Tea Party and conservative organizations were responsible for their own targeting by the IRS Tuesday in the Ways & Means Committee hearing:"

IRS Agent to Pro-Life Group: ‘Please Explain in Detail the Activities at [Your] Prayer Meetings’

Yes, when I pray to our Lord, I usually check in with my local IRS office to ensure I’m not transgressing their authority by appealing to Him.  We are The Bureaucracy, and thou shalt have no other God before us.

 

Remember those death panels Democrats scoffed at? Watch them in action as we speak

HHS Secretary Sebelius Will Let 10-year old Die 

...."Look to Sarah Murnaghan for our future. Sebelius made the heartless decision to let her die.
"Sebelius ordered a review but the review will take a year and Sarah has weeks to live.
"Sebelius has an opportunity to make an exception in the lung transplant case of this 10-year old child who is weeks from death but Sebelius has declined to intervene.
"She said someone lives and someone dies:

“I would suggest, sir, that, again, this is an incredibly agonizing situation where someone lives and someone dies,” Sebelius replied. “The medical evidence and the transplant doctors who are making the rule — and have had the rule in place since 2005 making a delineation between pediatric and adult lungs, because lungs are different that other organs — that it’s based on the survivability [chances].”

"In other words, the rules of the unbending government bureaucracy take precedence. Some live, some die…"
It is indeed a hard decision that requires hard choices when the government runs healthcare. In non-government health care, family of this girl have more voice in her future.
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"The government rules say that a child must be 12 to be placed at the top of the list to receive adult lungs and Sarah is just shy of her 11th birthday. The age is an arbitrary cutoff because younger children can receive adult lungs. The lungs would work in her case according to her doctors.

"There are far more adult lungs available than children’s lungs."
 

Did IRS Target Homebuilders on Behalf of Laborers Union?

National Legal and Policy Center  Quoting this article from Townhall: 

 Did IRS Target Homebuilders on Behalf of Mobbed-Up Union? 

Ray LaHood

“In a letter [from the Labor Department] cited by The [Wall Street] Journal,” wrote Crain’s Detroit at the time “homebuilders were asked to immediately turn over the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, pay rates and hours worked for all employees over the past two years. The letter from the Labor Department asked for the names of all contractors hired in the past year. The letter didn’t allege any specific violations of law. “
No. It was just the usual harassment that the Obama administration gives anyone when they have a disagreement with a key Obama constituency. The constituency in this case was unions that are all mobbed up. Re-write the rules, send investigators in, bury them in document discovery and government lawyers until they cave.
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So now we have the Obama administration hooking up the Department of Labor with the IRS to join together union muscle to shakedown homebuilders, mafia style.
A third-world president elected by third-world voters.

Supporting a Traitor: Hollywood Creates ‘I Am Bradley Manning’ Video

Newsbusters "With the start of the Bradley Manning court martial, a number of famous and not-so famous Hollywood liberals have created a video in support of their hero.
"It includes the likes of Oliver Stone, Russell Brand, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Moby, Tom Morello, Wallace Shawn, and the perilously liberal so-called journalists Matt Taibbi, Phil Donahue, and Chris Hedges (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):"

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The video ended with Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello saying, “If you know nothing about Bradley Manning, you should find out, and then you should help me bust him out of jail.”

"Yes, let's bust a traitor out of jail, shall we?"