Posted on 06/03/2013 5:26:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats are blushing. And not because Anthony Weiner is back on Twitter, direct-messaging pretty young girls.
Vice President Joe Biden has long held the title of “Liberal Loose Cannon.” But Biden is such a grand hugger and hand-shaker that Democrats still let him work the crowds, crossing their fingers that he won’t say something like: “In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans, moving from India; you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent… and I’m not joking!”
Slips-of-tongue are easily forgiven (we all make them). But, lately, the Obama administration has been exposed for outright evasion and cover-ups, causing disappointment, anger and embarrassment among independents and Democrats.
Let’s run though how independents and Democrats are expressing their embarrassment in the Obama administration’s lack of transparency:
MADDER THAN HELL AT HOLDER:
Cue King Herod: the press corps wants the head of Attorney General Eric Holder on a metaphorical platter.
On May 23, the front page of the Huffington Post read: TIME TO GO, HOLDER OK’D PRESS PROBE. On Twitter, the Huffington Post editors taunted Holder: “We have a message for Attorney General Holder over at http://huffingtonpost.com,” inviting him to read their scorching assessment of his record.
Obama’s highest law enforcement officer failed to uphold the laws protecting free speech, due process and private property and now he also appears to be lying about his malfeasance.
Holder violated the Constitution and the Department of Justice’s own regulations by approving subpoenas for the phone records of journalists from the Associated Press, the New York Times and Fox News. In the Fox News case, Holder wrongfully classified reporter James Rosen as a “criminal” in order to obtain a 2010 search warrant to tap five lines associated with Rosen. Neither the Associated Press nor Fox News were notified of these probes until afterward, contrary to the law:
“Justice Department regulations call for subpoenas for journalists’ phone records to be undertaken as a last resort and narrowly focused, subject to the attorney general’s personal signoff. Under normal circumstances, the regulations call for notice and negotiations, giving the news organization a chance to challenge the subpoena in court,” explains the New York Times. Plus: “…Congress has forbidden search warrants for journalists’ work product materials unless the reporter committed a crime.”
During a May 15 hearing, Holder said: "With regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that I've ever been involved in, heard of or would think would be a wise policy. In fact, my view is quite the opposite." This is hard to believe since NBC confirmed that Holder approved the Fox News search warrant.
When Holder offered to meet with the press on condition that the meeting be “off the record,” the media said: “Heck no!” Here are a few of the media groups that refused to meet with Holder:
· CNN
· CBS News
· Fox News
· The New York Times
· Associated Press
· Huffington Post
· McClatchy
James Asher, Washington bureau chief for McClatchy, expressed the sentiments of the entire media when he said: “If the government wants to justify its pursuit of journalists, they ought to do it in public.”
The left-leaning press may have helped Obama get elected by boosting his ego, finessing his community organizer resume and overlooking his flaws. But now that Obama is biting the hands that fed him, those hands are slapping him in the face.
LET DOWN BY OBAMA:
On May 9, Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik wrote a 12-page paper on the state of politics in America. He wrote:
“The country is still looking for change that it can believe in.
Since the beginning of Obama's second year in office, every NBC/WSJ poll has shown that half or more of Americans believed that the country is headed in the wrong direction, at one point reaching as high as 74%. Their most recent April poll found that more than 60% of Americans believe the country is still on the wrong track.”
Obama on Benghazi:
Many members of the mainstream media (think CBS’ Bob Schieffer and Sharyl Attkisson) are showing their frustration over Obama’s refusal tocome clean with the press on the Benghazi talking points. The facts show that the White House crafted inaccurate public talking points and sent U.S. diplomat Susan Rice to deliver this false narrative on five Sunday talk shows. Rice claimed that an obscure You Tube video (not terror) caused the attack that took the lives of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012
“There’s no ‘there’ there.” This was the President’s petty response to the press on May 13 regarding Rice’s talking points. He basically insulted serious journalists on both the right and the left, accusing them of creating a “political circus” when in fact he is the ringleader of an act bigger than Barnum and Baily’s.
Obama on IRS targeting:
“Irrelevant.” On May 19, during the heat of the IRS scandal, Obama’s adviser Dan Pfeiffer went on five Sunday news shows and proclaimed that it was “irrelevant” whether the IRS violated the law when targeting the applications of non-profits from tea party groups.
ABC’s left-leaning George Stephanopoulos challenged Pfeiffer: “You don’t really mean the law is irrelevant do you?”
A May 30 Quinnipiac University poll found that President Obama’s job approval rating has slipped significantly among independents, by nine percentage points since May 1. This poll indicates that May’s big three scandals—the IRS-targeting of tea party and patriot groups, the testimonies of Benghazi whistleblowers and Eric Holder’s probes into reporters—have tainted the public’s trust of Obama’s leadership.
Obama used to be the cool kid but he is losing his cool factor. His former Democratic and independent allies are keeping their distance. This situation is simultaneously revitalizing and sad because it would ultimately be best for our country if the President and his administration were trustworthy and reliable.
Whatever our political views, we all want free speech; we all want the Department of Justice to administer justice and we all want our President to tell us the truth.
Legacy....none...
And all us white folks will be deemed racists.
And I hope the Martin Luther statue in DC falls over. It doesn't belong there.
Eric Withholder has had more baggage than Samsonite for a very long time. The secret of his success is that for every one of his, he’s got a few hundred of someone else’s.
I don’t see him going quietly and he sure won’t be let go talking.
Give them a couple of weeks and the Media will be back in line waiting to kiss the Obama buttocks again.
How can haughty humans with no shame ever feel embarrassed?
“How Obama is Embarrassing Democrats and Independents”
The Hussein Heads simply doubled down on attacks on Republicans and posts screaming about the “state by state takeover” by the evil Koch brothers.
Hussein Heads never extracted their craniums from Hussein’s posterior to even be able to SEE anything about which to be embarrassed.
They consider Holder to be the scape goat. They are wrong...... he is merely e pluribus unim
Thousands will go before it is over in 2016
After the executive branch comes the congress and the courts
They have no shame.
Their footsoldiers are too stupid and corrupt to worry about things like “shame.”
The higher-ups aren’t worried because they believe that once they get the upper hand, they’ll just rewrite history and make themselves out to be heroes. All the nasty bits will be erased, along with any witnesses.
Commies are never embarrassed.
Why is it that when I read the article, that the main ‘vibes’ I get is that Obama “lied to us”, “Obama deceived us”, etc.
It’s all about them, the press, but what about the rest of the country?
Oh... Yeah, flyover country. Well you guys are on your own. Nice pics of Tornadoes, don’t ya’ think? Yadda Yadda. No wonder we the people are turning off the nightly news in droves.
But...how about those Obama sellouts who attended the Holder press conference ‘off the record’???.
Talk about Obama lackeys....
They aren't immoral - that implies they would have to have or had some knowledge of morality in the first place. The are amoral.
Their doctrine is evil, and their weapons are lies, obfuscation and quietly organized law-breaking (in situations where they control agencies like the DOJ, IRS, ICE, DHS, et al.) Words and RINO bleats mean nothing to them. This country (the America we know_ will eventually come to the realization that words won't be enough.
Exactly...
How can you tell a commie ‘Rat is lying?
Their lips are moving....
“Give them a couple of weeks and the Media will be back in line waiting to kiss the Obama buttocks again.”
Exactly. The principal rule of all white leftists is to NOT appear racist. This rule trumps all others. By the way, a corollary to this rule is if you disagree with a white leftist you are instantly called a racist. Sometimes I admire the simplicity of the leftist approach.
But they won't be. If they're "embarrassed", no big deal. But being "appalled" may necessitate wiping the ever-enticing Obama stardust out of their eyes....even having to admit they voted for the wrong presidential candidate TWICE....and this kind of penance they won't do.
Always remember, liberalism, socialism, marxism and Democratism are collectively and individually a mental disease.
Leni
“How can haughty humans with no shame ever feel embarrassed?”
Very true. No dictator in history has been shamed or embarrassed by his actions - Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Mao. Clinton was not embarrassed by Monica. Obama and Holder have no sense of shame.
Who would have given Obama any moral compass? Certainly not his absent mother and father. The grandparents who partially raised him failed with the mother so likely did nothing to teach him values. His mentor Frank Marshall Davis was another soulless human being. Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and the Marxist professors at Columbia and Harvard had no morality to share with a young man under their tutelage.
Since Mikey Moore was able to co-opt Fahrenheit 451 for his own 911 uses, how about we do “The Story of 0”?
(That’s a zero)
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