When a President goes rogue, take one of these and call me in the morning.................
Posted on 06/05/2014 6:51:10 AM PDT by Biggirl
What Winston Churchill said of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — that he was a bull who carried his own china shop around with him — is true of Susan Rice, who is, to be polite, accident-prone . When in September 2012 she was deputed to sell to the public the fable that the Benghazi attack was just an unfortunately vigorous movie review — a response to an Internet video — it could have been that she, rather than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was given this degrading duty because Rice was merely U.N. ambassador, an ornamental position at an inconsequential institution. Today, however, Rice is Barack Obama’s national security adviser, so two conclusions must be drawn.
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Liberals get promoted when they demonstrate they can tell absolute whoppers with a straight face.
Yep while conservatives get in trouble.
I have a hard time dealing with my own inconsequential shortcomings and moral failures.
Susan Rice. I think if I woke up and saw my face in the mirror and it was Susan Rice, well, I think I would have to kill myself.
Or not. Wretches have always existed, always made the “masses” to suffer.
There is a just God, and He will do all His pleasure.
Just please do it soon.
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I wouldn’t mind seeing a Going Rogue President, just not this one or anyone who is like him or his band of witches.
didn’t George F. Will endorse Obama in 2008? and i thought he was for closing Gitmo... he must have thought Obama was as brilliant as he is—both being so educated and all... turns out “the one” is not as educated as he seemed/faked...
Or in Obama’s case, it might be Going Rouge.
When a President goes rogue, take one of these and call me in the morning.................
WHITE HOUSE REWRITES SUSAN RICE'S LATEST SUNDAY SHOW DEBACLE
Hoping to clean this latest mess up, the White House told Henry that Rice didn't mean what she said. What she meant wasn't the words that came out of her mouth, what she meant was…
“She was referring to the fact that he was over there as a U.S. soldier, volunteered for service, and remember has just endured five years of brutal captivity; she wasn’t necessarily trying to characterize the circumstances of his capture which she said we’d have to learn more about; and let’s not get ahead of the facts that we don’t know yet, we haven’t heard his side of the story yet.”
The White House position is that when Rice said Bergdahl had "served with honor and distinction … was taken on the battlefield [and] taken in battle, "she "wasn't necessarily trying to characterize the circumstances of his capture."
Back in the 70s George Will also thought that Ronald Reagan was a dangerous whacko who should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office (well, he didn't use those words but that was the gist of his essays in the Washington Post). It seems his judgement hasn't improved over the years.
If we elected Sarah in 2016 and she spent the first hundred days of her first term repealing everything signed by Obama, starting with ObamaCare, I would be happier than I have ever been in my life. The next president will have a tough time, but she is the best person for that job (and watching liberal heads explode would be an extra bonus).
Priorities for 2017:
-Repeal Obamacare
-Cut real FedGov spending immediately
-Follow the Constitution, including the entire Bill of Rights
-Protect the borders
-Enforce immigration law so illegals will self-deport, and so employers will not hire illegals
-Give our military good Rules of Engagement or bring them home
A lot of people have said “pass the popcorn” as the utter corruption of this country is unearthed and as the usual suspects are illuminated.
I have just this to say, it breaks my heart, for my children and grandchildren. What happened? Where did we just jump off the cliff? How sick are we going to become?
Most of the WWII generation is gone. It is almost as if God is waiting for the last of them to go home before He cleanses the earth.
Or not. I really do not know what I do not know. I just know that each day is a new heartbreaker and it parades itself as if no one any longer cares. That is what disturbs me most, it is as if no one cares.
Dear Father in Heaven please grant me the grace to go on, please forgive my sins, they are legion, please have pity on a nation that has abandoned your truth. Please grant peace and forgiveness, take away the anger, and arm us always with Your Word in these perilous and horrific times.
I would like one day to not awaken and be shocked anew.
This all happened before. Jeremiah wote of it.
I know I am not a “good” man. I know I am a repentant man, and I was paid for by the only good man that ever lived.
Even His closest friends could not be bothered to stay awake with Him, on the eve of His death. They all slept.
Please God, come back now. Your will be done.
Father-in-law (Navy, South Pacific and North Atlantic) is still here...92.
Susan Rice is merely a useful idiot. She has already demonstrated that she will say whatever nonsensical prepared remarks are put in front of her. The not useful idiot is Obama who is proving that an incompetent and reckless President is something that the country cannot afford. Saxby Chambliss says that he can no longer believe anything that Obama says. Welcome home Saxby. There are plenty of us who are not necessarily the brilliant intellects of the Washington scene who figured that out a very long time ago.
Amen.
When "progressives" use the term "rule of law," one must be clear on precisely what is their interpretation of that Constitution.
Perhaps a public reading of George Washington's "Farewell Address," with its cautions about ways by which "the People's" Constitution might be subverted, could be helpful about now.
The following excerpted portion seems relevant to what is happening in America today under this administration:
To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute. They must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate union and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans, digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests.
However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Toward the preservation of your Government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember especially that for the efficient management of your common interests in a country so extensive as ours a Government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest Guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This Spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual, and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield." (End of excerpted portion of Washington's "Farewell Address")
Amen.
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