Posted on 05/13/2013 8:39:01 PM PDT by smoothsailing
May 13, 2013
Joe Battenfield
President Obama’s second-term campaign slogan was “Forward,” but instead we’ve got cover-ups, congressional investigations and the government persecution of political opponents and reporters.
That sounds like “backward” to me. All the way to, say, 1972.
Who would have guessed that just a few months into his second term, President Obama would be compared to Tricky Dick. And by a liberal Massachusetts Democrat — U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano.
Republicans could not even have scripted this one. The agency most hated by voters, the Internal Revenue Service, admits to going on a Nixonian witch hunt against Tea Party and conservative groups during the re-election campaign.
This is a story even the most partisan Massachusetts liberal cannot defend. It’s so bad that even Ed Markey is calling for heads to roll.
Now we learn that the Justice Department has secretly obtained the phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors in what appears to be an investigation of an AP story that disclosed details of a CIA operation that stopped a terrorist attack.
Going after the Tea Party is one thing, but the media? What an outrage. Who knows, the press may get so mad they won’t laugh at Obama’s jokes during the next White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
This does not bode well for Obama’s second-term agenda. He already had lost a vote over gun control, and the Benghazi hearings didn’t go so well, either.
The focus for the next few months will be on the investigation and likely cover-up of the IRS effort to get dirt on Obama’s political opponents. The initial explanation — that it was the handiwork of just a few rogue IRS workers — sounds about as plausible as blaming the Benghazi attacks on an anti-Muslim video.
Voters should demand to know who was responsible for the IRS witch hunt. If anyone in the White House or Obama campaign was aware of it, then the Richard Nixon and Watergate comparisons will be eerily accurate. It was Nixon, after all, who invented the “enemies list,” and it looks as if someone in the Obama administration’s IRS came up with one.
The disclosures might even trigger a resurgence for the Tea Party movement, which suffered some setbacks in the last election. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), one of the Tea Party candidates who won, could get a boost all the way to the GOP presidential nomination.
So enjoy the next few months, President Obama. It’s not time yet to get Marine One revved up on the White House lawn, but if you start talking to portraits of dead presidents, then it’s time to get worried.
Bammy’s been in over his head since his first immaculation.
ObamaGHAZI indeed! My man!
“... if we impeach him he will become a political martyr.”
If conservatives look at him/her cross-eyed, he’s a political martyr.
I don’t think we can impeach him/her...I think we should ramp up investigations into Valerie Jarrett-—take Bath-House Barry out of the spotlight and he’ll cry. He’s a pathological narcissist—I wanna see him/her throw a tantrum at the loss of the limelight for a time...and it won’t take long.
Good One!
What is that, sarcasm? Irony? When did the MSM ever speak for us?
Upon what facts do you base this assertion?
I do not recall any fact based charges of Nixon being a crook.
The charges leveled against him had to do with the Watergate cover up and various abuses of power but nothing about him being a crook.
It was an unfounded aspersion tossed around by his enemies, much like the canard about Sarah Palin saying she can see Russia from her house.
You can read the articles of impeachment here:
It is difficult to believe that at one time, I was a technical writer.
Internet forums are always laced with typos.
I like the way you think.
No he is not.
Zer0 is just a Richard.
This is like a three ring Circus!
Awesome graphic. I just posted it on my FB page.
Tonight, he’s decided to go the other route. He’s “Shocked, I tell you, Shocked” to discover the IRS (whatever that is) has been targeting his political enemies.
Plan on the morning shows slobbering over our “wonderful leader” for his “committment to get to the bottom of this”.
Sadly, the LIV’s will buy it.
Nice. That will leave a mark. BTT.
The bunker with Eva Braun?
OMG what a fruity little popcorn fart this Obama is. LOL. This is an American president?!
IIRC, and I lived through the Watergate scandal, it was never shown that the “enemies list” was drawn up by Nixon personally. It was Colson and John Dean that came up with it....but Nixon was held responsible for it because it was his administration.
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