Fast and Furious still biting DOJ where it hurts

Fast and Furious: Eric Holder’s bizarre House Judiciary testimony  " "How about those wiretap applications, smuggled out of Justice by a whistleblower, which prove beyond question that Holder’s inner circle was well aware of “gun walking” tactics, long before Agent Terry’s death?  Well, according to the Attorney General, that’s all George Bush’s fault." "

Holder Claims Emails Using Words ‘Fast and Furious’ Don’t Refer to Operation Fast and Furious  Oh...all right then.

Holder said "that email referred to Wide Receiver, it did not refer to Fast and Furious. That has to be noted for the record.”

"Chaffetz, after a long pause, said, "No, it doesn't. It says Fast and Furious. 'Do you think we should have Lanny participate in press when Fast and Furious and Laura’s Tucson case [Wide Receiver] are unsealed?' It's specific to Fast and Furious. That is not true, Mr. Attorney General. I'm happy to share it with you." "

Holder Caught in More Lies About Fast and Furious     During a House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder stuck to his guns on Operation Fast and Furious. He lied, denied and acted smug while his posse, Reps. Waters, Lee and Conyers held the race line.

NY Daily News Columnist: Racist Nation Prepares To Reject Obama Because He Is Black

Mediaite  "New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupicawent a little overboard in his analysis of the political landscape in a column on Friday. Lupica could not even mask his spite and resentment for the American people when he determined that the nation, still simmering with latent racism, is ready to let their most ignoble instincts take over in the fall and unseat the President. Lupica calls Barack Obama’s race “the silent issue that could doom” his election chances and says being black makes Obama the underdog ahead of November." 

Thanks for the help, Willy,er...Mr. President

The Slick Genius of Slick Willie  "It’s no secret that Clinton isn’t exactly a big fan of President Obama’s. Clinton might be the master of making other people mad, but he himself was red-faced pissed off after Team Obama accused him of racism during the 2008 primary fight. And for good reason, too. My personal take is, that was the moment the Race Card lost its trump. Playing it on Clinton, our “first black president”? Dumb move, Barack.

"And now comes the payback."   Stephen Green

Defending Bloggers from Attacks, Intimidation, and Frivolous Lawsuits

David French "There have been a series of new and particularly pernicious attacks on bloggers’ free speech. For those who haven’t been following the story, roughly three weeks ago a number of conservative bloggers (both independent and affiliated with larger publications) began investigating the story of Brett Kimberlin, a radical domestic terrorist who’s been funded by several prominent leftist donors. As the investigation gained momentum, Red State’s  Erick Erickson  was subjected to a “SWAT” attack, where a fake call is made to local police reporting a shooting at the blogger’s home. Erick is not the first blogger to experience a SWAT-ing."
...."Today at the American Center for Law and Justice, we announced that we’re representing Ali and the National Bloggers Club. We intend to aggressively respond to any and all attacks on bloggers’ free-speech rights. The truth is a defense to frivolous libel claims, and the law exists to protect free speech, not enable its attackers. It is appalling and inexcusable that major leftist organizations fund a convicted domestic terrorist. It is even more appalling that the price of reporting these facts is a campaign of threats and legal intimidation."
David French is a Senior Counsel for the ACLJ. A Kentucky native, David is a 1994 graduate (cum laude) of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a 1991 graduate (summa cum laude, valedictorian) of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.


GOP Senator Calls On DOJ To Investigate ‘SWAT-ting’ Attacks Targeting Conservative Bloggers

Megyn Kelly Airs Audio From ‘Swatting’ 911 Phone Call Targeting Conservative Bloggers    "Gallagher said that police responded to the call with helicopters and drawn weapons, waking up Frey’s family in the middle of the night. Gallagher also says that conservative bloggers are being targeted by a tactic known as “Google bombing” in which large amounts of erroneous and personal data is released – including false arrest records – to embarrass those targeted conservative bloggers."

Porta-Potties to Antiques: The Curious Journey of Obama’s ‘Green Jobs’

PJ Media;  Lawmakers accuse the Labor Department of using some broad definitions to give the president toutable green-jobs statistics.
"Galvin also answered “yes” to a string of occupations listed by Issa that the administration considers green jobs.

These include school bus driver, the guy who gases up the school bus, and a clerk at a bicycle repair job.
"And it also includes someone who works at an antique dealer, someone who sells rare books and manuscripts, or someone who works at the Salvation Army thrift shop or a consignment store. Those jobs are now considered “recycling.”
 “Do garbagemen have green jobs?” Issa asked.
 “Yes,” Galvin responded.
“How significant is it when they claim 3.1 million jobs and it seems like these are not significant at all?” Issa said, noting that “porta-potty emptying” is now considered a green job. “You weren’t training for ‘magical new jobs,’ you were training for jobs that existed.”    Bridget Johnson

 

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/environment/ig/Environment-Cartoons/Green-Jobs.htm

Rick Moran: 'Green jobs' that aren't, but counted as such  
"Obama has claimed that "clean energy industries created 2.7 million jobs and were 'expanding rapidly.'" Maybe if you include housepainters who use green paint, you might get close to that number. Otherwise, just another epic failure of the Obama administration to deliver what he promised."

Why MSNBC is our first choice for excellent journalism

Hat tip to NewportMac on TEA Party Patriots
RealClearPolitics: Jon Stewart has fun with the media coverage of the Wisconsin recall:
Video here.

American Presidents in Uniform

Hat tip to Cal at TEA Party Patriots on Facebook

The Bush portrait unveiling; is there a cartoon theme here?

http://theweek.com/section/cartoon/12/228416/barack-obama

Obama’s Memorial Day Photo-Op Blocks Families, Vets From D.C. Vietnam Memorial Wall For 7 Hours

Thoughts From A Conservative Mom: "On Memorial Day, the Vietnam Memorial in D.C. is supposed to look like this:"

"Instead, for seven long hours, it looked like this:"

"Obama’s secret service shut down the memorial for most of the day, as families and veterans who had come to pay their respects to fallen loved ones were forced to stay hundreds of feet away."....

"In his campaign speech remarks, Obama made sure to mention that:...

“As long as I’m president, we will make sure you and your loved ones will receive the benefits you’ve earned and the respect you deserve,” Obama said. “America will be there for you.”

"... How did our veterans ever get their benefits before the benevolent Obamessiah came to office?   Is that his argument for why they should vote for him?  Because their benefits are only available “as long as I’m president?”"
Hat tip to Robert Hope, Sacramento; former fellow Marine stationed with the TD in Hawthorne, Nev. Thanks, Bob.

 The White House account  


Right: The official White House photo of the day.   Chosen by someone at the White House, naturally. I think the halo is a nice touch, don't you?


Via Moonbattery, which commented: "Those names represent heroes who died fighting socialism, not crypto-Marxist weenies who prospered by ramming it down America’s throat."
Comments to this post included this one by "Hedgehog":

When I saw that photo it occurred to me that the people who put Comrade Obama in the White House are the same people who helped to put many of those names on the Wall. They did so by knowingly conspiring with the enemy in time of war.

Like Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dohrn? Then "Czuch" added:

 Remember, he wanted wounded Vets to pay their hospital bills. They [volunteered] after all.

From "good knight"

... he declared the way Vietnam vets were treated as shameful, while most of those who engaged in these ant-war shameful acts are his major constituency.The 60′s hippies were tools of communist propaganda just like the OWS dirtbags .. the end result, millions of Vietnamese were tortured and killed after the US pulled out… how many Americans will die because of Obama’s shameful support of OWS attacking American Capitalism?

Obama’s Third-Party History

Stanley Kurtz  "I have more to say on the New Party’s ideology and program, Obama’s ties to the party, and the relevance of all this to the president’s campaign for reelection. See the forthcoming issue of National Review.
"In the meantime, let us see whether a press that let candidate Obama off the hook in 2008 — and that in 2012 is obsessed with the president’s youthful love letters  — will now refuse to report that President Obama once joined a leftist third party, and that he hid that truth from the American people in order to win the presidency."   Also here.

Obama as World Leader

Heritage: Barack Obama’s Unwelcome Jubilee Present to Britain  "Barack Obama was all smiles in his carefully scripted message of congratulation to Queen Elizabeth II on her Diamond Jubilee. But...his administration was actively undermining Great Britain ...
....
"The inhabitants of the Falklands are more than 95 percent British and have no desire to be ruled by Argentina, a point that both the OAS and the Obama presidency are happy to ignore. This is a clear-cut case of ... a slap in the face for both the Falkland Islanders as well as the British people. In his message to the Queen today, Barack Obama paid lip service to the Special Relationship, but his actions over the Falklands demonstrate that in practice he has nothing but disdain for America’s closest friend and ally."


Secretary Gates’s STFU Policy   ....“By Wednesday of that week, Gates went to see Donilon, offering up a barbed assessment of how the White House had handled the aftermath of the raid.
“‘I have a new strategic communications approach to recommend,’ Gates said in his trademark droll tones, according to an account later provided by his colleagues.
" “What was that, Donilon asked?
" “‘Shut the f@*k up,’ the defense secretary said.” "


Rick Moran: Panetta: US reaching the 'limits of its patience' with Pakistan  "Every president and Secretary of State and Defense has said this for the last decade. "We're getting close...Lookout! We're going to do something really, really serious - like dash off an angry letter or something." "


Obama fails to commemorate D-Day  "An acknowledgement of the sacrifices of so many Americans on that fateful day would seem to be automatic if you're president. For Obama, nothing is automatic when it comes to American traditions and history."

Caroline Glick, Israel: The reign of the fantasists   "As for the US, to win the support of Europe, Iran and Turkey, Obama has adopted policies that enable Iran to become a nuclear power, make Assad the most attractive leader in Syria, empower the most anti-American forces in Turkey and pressure Israel to renounce its right and ability to defend itself. 
"Standing alone never looked so good."

Bill Kristol: The Administration's Claim that we Need U.N. Authorization to Act in Syria is Just an Excuse   "The fault, of course, is less Panetta's (though he should be ashamed of making this argument) than Obama's."

Blackfive: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: REMEMBER WHEN “TOP SECRET” ACTUALLY MEANT SOMETHING?  "This sort of behavior, for pure political gain, compromises our intel gathering capabilities and is likely to hurt future operations.   We spend years trying to develop human intelligence networks and agents and in one fell swoop we compromise them (the double agent in Yemen and the doctor in Pakistan).

"Who is going to trust us now?" (Emphasis added.)

...."Amateurs are dangerous.  Amateurs who leak classified information for political gain are even more dangerous.

"It’s time to stop “amateur hour at the White House.” "

The left reacts to the Walker win

Schultz On Walker Win: He Could "Be Indicted In The Next Few Days"  "Ed Schultz, an ardent supporter of unions and the recall of Gov. Scott Walker, reacts to the Wisconsin electorate voting to keep Walker as governor.
...."Ed Schultz concluded the segment by making a wild assertion. "Scott Walker could very well be indicted in the coming days," the MSNBC host said."


Sodahead:  What's this about the possible indictment of Gov. Walker that the left is salivating over?     "This morning, a criminal complaint filed in circuit court alleges that William Gardner, the president and CEO of Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co., skirted campaign donation laws by soliciting employees to give to Scott Walker’s campaign and then reimbursing them.... It has also come out that Walker’s campaign then reimbursed Gardner and seven additional railroad employees to the tune of $43,800, which indicates a criminal probe is imminent of Walker’s campaign."