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.
Thanks for the update from the dark side, I never bother to peek at their sites, they make me ill.
So they really are good little drones. Willing to march lock step and be the quintessential useful idiots. I guess I am not surprised. Wondering if anything will break their trance? Then again, the hard left amounts to about 20% of the population. Squeaky wheel - oil. Same old story.
This would make a good sticker for all out-going snail mail...ie: postage paid return envelopes from credit card offers stuffed with their own sh*t, anything from AARP, any political junk mail from the RINOs asking for $$$-— but, send WITHOUT a return address! (and, cut off any code numbers on the postage paid return envelopes before sending back.)
(Good sticker for a LOT of uses. Thanks!)
They love scandal even more than Barry, plus they think the have Hillary! For 2016. - 2022 . Barry’s hit his “use by” date and there ain’t no way he recovers. He’s done
The sources I read say Nixon had no enemies list. The Lefties just started bragging that they were on "it." But unlike Obummer, Nixon never persecuted anyone or, say, took over GM and defrauded the bond-holders. He did give us the EPA and lots of "affirmative action," thanks a lot.
Bwahahahaha...ever more scandals? These antiAmerican subhumans need to be arrested and tried. Prison would be too good for them. They all are a disgrace to America.
Sure they do. That's why they left no stone unturned in their unyielding quest to discover if he was really born in Hawaii.
No, he didn't
Nixon said “I am not a crook” - he was
What exactly did he do?
What did Scooter Libby do?
What did Dick Cheney do?
What did Sarah Palin do?
What did Judge Bork do?
What did Clarence Thomas do?
No, not Teflon.
Obama is the first Flubber President. Things don’t just slide off him, they bounce off and accelerate in the opposite direction.
I’m just happy as punch some of the media is finally getting this....we need more.
Who was the whistleblower for the birth fraud deal? Oh, yeah - the redoubtable - wait for it . . Orly Taitz? LOL Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff Office Cold Case Posse? - Please
What did the President know and when did he know it?
It's certainly become a target rich environment, hasn't it? If the Republicans can't knock Obama off his perch with everything they've got him now, they just need to resign in shame.
Actually, technicaly, the birther issue started with Hillary. That notwithstanding, the media does not love scandal more than it loves Barry or it would have been all over the issue, which it was not.
It won’t go anywhere. Today’s Woodward and Bernstein are in on the cover up.
This headline will go down in history as the understatement of 2013.
1.Impeach Obama
2.Abolish the IRS
3.Repeal the income tax( 16th amendment) and replace that “sorely” needed revenue for fake global warming studies by replacing the income tax with a tax on China imports
4.But don’t forget that they are trying to sneak pass an Amnesty destroying bill through Congress( call Congress)
Impeach Obama
Obama using the IRS to target conservative groups during the election:
1.Invalidates the 2012 election
2. Is illegal and unconstitutional
3.is one of many abuses of power
Below is what McConnel says:
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/13/Exclusive-McConnell-comment-IRS
On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fired back on assertions by the IRS that its efforts to target conservative groups were relegated to low-level employees. “Of course not,” he told Breitbart News. McConnell noted that he had raised the issue of IRS targeting of conservatives in 2012, and further noted that the Washington Post “dismissed it as a bunch of red herrings.”
The scandal, McConnell said, extends up the chain. “The Obama effort to shut up opponents isn’t limited to the IRS,” he stated. “It applies to the FCC [Federal Communications Commission], SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission], FEC [Federal Elections Commission], HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] …. And you remember, the Obama campaign last year published a list of eight businessmen who it believed were enemies.”
McConnell further noted reports that the Department of Health and Human Services had been contacting businesses “skeptical about the implementation of Obamacare and asking them to contribute money to sell the program to the American people. That’s absolutely improper if not illegal. This administration will stop at nothing to get its way. It will do anything it can to silence its critics.”
McConnell said would not trust any Democrat-led investigation into the IRS scandal. He added with regard to a House investigation of the IRS’ activities, “I’
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Tingers get fangled...
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