http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/incompetence/ en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 18:38:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022614/posts The embattled mayor of Pennsylvania's financially crippled capital of Harrisburg was ousted on Tuesday when she lost the Democratic primary to the owner of an independent bookstore. Mayor Linda Thompson's loss to Eric Papenfuse comes after a tumultuous term in which her outbursts and statements caused a loss of confidence in her administration. Papenfuse is likely to win the general election in this heavily Democratic city in November, but he must still face off against independent candidate Nevin Mindlin. Reuters, via Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022614/posts#comment Wed, 22 May 2013 18:38:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3020888/posts President Obama's Press Secretary Jay Carney bristled at the suggestion the Administration is embroiled in three major scandals. “What scandals?” Carney demanded to know. “The President has been giving his utmost to this country and now people are trying to package a run of bad luck into a series of scandals? It's unfair.” The “run of bad luck,” as Carney sees it, is “a media that is paying undue attention to relatively minor screw-ups by low level employees. Rather than being lauded for his efforts to employ a broader range of the 'differently- abled,' the President is now pilloried for... Semi-News/Semi-Satire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3020888/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 02:44:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018572/posts Thomas Pickering - the former UN ambassador who along with former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen prepared the Accountability Review Board report on the State Department's handling of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya - says he didn't think it was necessary to interview former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "because in fact we knew where the responsibility rested." BOB SCHIEFFER: And good morning again. Ambassador Thomas Pickering is the one who led the State Department's investigation into how those Benghazi attacks where handled. Mr. Ambassador, you and I have known one another as you had... RealClearPolitics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018572/posts#comment Sun, 12 May 2013 21:31:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015896/posts Obamacare is “working fine,” President Obama said yesterday in his press conference. It’s made health insurance “stronger, better, more secure than it was before.” There are just a few slight details left to be implemented, but we shouldn’t worry about those, according to the President. Right. There’s nothing to worry about, which is why Members of Congress are trying to exempt themselves and their staffs from Obamacare. In reality, health insurance premiums are rising, and states—meaning taxpayers—are staring down some astronomical expenses. A new study from the Government Accountability Office cites Obamacare and Medicaid costs as budget busters for states... Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015896/posts#comment Sun, 5 May 2013 11:26:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3006985/posts So, about that "we'll never come take your guns thing." From The Blaze: On April 1st, a legal gun owner in upstate New York reportedly received an official notice from the state ordering him to surrender any and all weapons to his local police department. The note said that the person’s permit to own a gun in New York was being suspended as well. The gun owner contacted attorney Jim Tresmond (a specialist in gun laws in New York) and the two visited the local police precinct. Mr. Tresmond reportedly went into the precinct and informed the officers that his... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3006985/posts#comment Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:36:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004072/posts Even Joe Klein is seeing the handwriting on the wall: ObamaCare is in big trouble! Klein is blaming it on incompetence but I have a couple of words for Joe and other startled liberals who can't believe what they are watching. ObamaCare is in trouble because it violated a couple of rules that a nice counselor taught me at a high school Junior Achievement class in Wisconsin. First, don't bite more than you can chew. In other words, who in their right mind thought that bureaucrats could take over 1/6 of the US economy competently? How arrogant are these people?... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004072/posts#comment Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:24:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2998239/posts The White House is facing pressure from House Republicans to defend President Obama's decision not to address the Knesset on his upcoming trip to Israel. A group of Republicans wrote to Obama to "commend" him for traveling to Israel but also questioning the choice not to address members of the Knesset, which they describe as "a customary and symbolic gesture that celebrates our shared democratic ideals and the special relationship between Israel and United States." The letter notes that both of Obama's most recent predecessors, President Clinton and President George W. Bush, addressed the Israeli legislative body, Bush doing so... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2998239/posts#comment Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:30:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2997973/posts Obama lectures about peace, but the war intensifies. North Korea has cut the hotline with the south, after threatening war, and warns of imminent attack. The Saudis have once again warned Iran to stay away from Abu Musa island. What if they don’t? Meanwhile, a leading cleric warns of domestic unrest in the kingdom (h/t Drudge), where the Iranians have long incited the Shi’a minority to confront the Wahabbi royal family. Small and not-so-small armies are marching over and around Syria. It is said that we are training the Free Syrian Army at a base in Jordan. Cyberattacks against our... P J Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2997973/posts#comment Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:39:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2991013/posts President Obama urged compromise Monday as he pushed congressional Republicans to reach an agreement to avoid big spending cuts due to take effect at the end of the week. "There are always going to be some areas where we have genuine disagreement ... but there are more areas where we can do a lot more cooperating than we have seen in the past couple years," Obama told a meeting of the National Governors Association at the White House. "At some point, we've got to do some governing. And, certainly, we can't keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis." .... Pollutico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2991013/posts#comment Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:49:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2989347/posts Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified at hearings before House and Senate committees recently. The hearings were largely tense affairs that had Clinton on the defensive for much of the time. In the aftermath of the attack on our consulate in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, the Obama Administration and State Department stuck by an unlikely narrative that the obvious terrorist attack was the result of a spontaneous protest over a YouTube video that got out of hand. The pushing of this narrative in conjunction with the State Department’s unwillingness to act on requests... Tea Party EMail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2989347/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:52:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2957894/posts When Republican fundraisers solicited the party’s big donors on behalf of Mitt Romney this year, the centerpiece of the pitch was a state-of-the-art campaign to identify the party’s likely voters and make sure they came to the polls on Election Day. Political pros call these county-by-county, block-by-block campaigns the ground game. And while most of the media attention focuses on candidate speeches, debates, and ad buys, it’s the ground game where elections are won and lost. On Tuesday, Republicans lost the election on the ground. As the Republican Party picks up the pieces from overwhelming defeat, the first fingers are... The Daily Beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2957894/posts#comment Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944493/posts "Fox military analyst Col. David Hunt checked in with us again after the revelation that there were multiple listening posts which heard the cries for help from the US Embassy in Libya and none of them did anything. The State Department says they still do not know what really happened in Libya." WRKO Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944493/posts#comment Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:49:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939091/posts Has the national media finally decided to react to the false narrative peddled to it by the Obama administration on the assassination of a US Ambassador and the sacking of a consulate in Benghazi? Last night, CNN began using the term "cover-up," and today's editorial in USA Today wonders whether anyone in this administration knows what's going on at all: Three weeks after an attack in Libya killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, we now know that it did not spring from a spontaneous protest, spurred by an anti-Muslim video, as the Obama administration originally described it. In... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939091/posts#comment Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:46:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2934039/posts A bumper sticker is making the rounds with Joe Biden's words: Osama is Dead; GM is Alive. Apparently, that resonates with democrat voters who want to believe Obama knows a thing or two about foreign relations. Not. Ambassador Stevens is Dead...Al Qaeda is Alive. Ambassador Stevens is Dead...The Muslim Brotherhood is Alive. The above are the real truth, and any chest thumping on the part of Obama is really misplaced self-congratulatory narcissism. We all know it was our special operations forces who took out Osama. We're pretty sure that Obama did not put on a black mask, take up a... Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2934039/posts#comment Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:59:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2933906/posts Despite repeated, self-serving claims by Obama officials that the Administration did everything it could to head off and then respond appropriately to the violence against American facilities in Libya and Egypt last week, their blunders in policy, intelligence and security illustrates an incompetence every bit as profound as exhibited by the administration of Jimmy Carter in Iran 33 years ago. It appears nothing has been learned in more than three decades; despite significant gains in technology available to the U.S. government during those intervening years. In 1979, the Carter Administration precipitously abandoned the Shah of Iran, Washington’s long-time and loyal... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2933906/posts#comment Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:13:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2931981/posts Complete title, too long to fit in space: Former Secret Service Agent Tells Wilkow Obama Administration Has Shown ‘Sheer Incompetence’ in Handling Libya Attack ### On Friday, TheBlazeTV’s Andrew Wilkow hosted former Secret Service agent and GOP Senate candidate Dan Bongino to discuss the facts surrounding the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya earlier this week. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff were killed when an angry mob of Islamists stormed the compound. Bongino said there are only two possible reasons the U.S. was as unprepared for the fiery assault as it was. “Either... The Blaze http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2931981/posts#comment Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:41:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2931187/posts ihadi groups in Egypt, including Islamic Jihad, the Sunni Group, and Al Gamaa Al Islamiyya have issued a statement threatening to burn the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to the ground. According to El Fagr, they are calling for the immediate release of the Islamic jihadis who are imprisonment and in detention centers in the U.S. including Guantanamo Bay: “The group, which consists of many members from al-Qaeda, called [especially] for the quick release of the jihadi [mujahid] sheikh, Omar Abdul Rahman [the "Blind Sheikh"], whom they described as a scholar and jihadi who sacrificed his life for the Egyptian Umma,... PJ Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2931187/posts#comment Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:28:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2927024/posts The closure of seven coal-fired electric plants in four states could be a sign of things to come as tough new emissions standards threaten to relegate America’s top energy source to the back burner. FirstEnergy Corp., headquartered in Ohio, closed power plants on Saturday in Albright, Rivesville, and Willow Island, W.Va., along with four others in Ohio, Maryland and Pennsylvania as the company phases out aging facilities that cannot comply with new environmental regulations. Three others in Ohio also will be closed in 2015, company officials told FoxNews.com. “We estimate that it will cost approximately $975 million to make our... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2927024/posts#comment Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:52:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2921757/posts Poway residents want to know how a financing plan for school construction could end up costing almost nine times what was borrowed. Poway Unified School District board members listened Monday night as residents voiced their concerns about the $105 million loan that could take taxpayers close to a billion dollars to repay. The loan is part of Proposition C, a bond measure passed by voters in 2008 to complete renovations and repairs to 24 aging school that began in 2002 under Proposition U. The district promised the property tax rate would not go up again but with property values in... NBC San Diego http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2921757/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:16:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2909568/posts Barack Obama has made it clear that he is a big believer in big government and has adopted a economic plan to run trillions of dollars in annual deficits for as long as possible. Obama remains steadfast against making any dramatic cuts in government spending and when pressed to announce some half-hearted effort to cut the size and the cost of government, his administration has resisted the cuts, and has transformed even the puniest efforts to cut federal spending into even greater demands upon taxpayer funds. The Obama Administration’s cost cutting efforts within federal agencies are so ineffective, they often... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2909568/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:35:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905267/posts MADISON – If something’s not rotten in the City of Racine, well, Republicans say something sure stinks. The smell could be something fishy, or merely sour grapes. Either way, it’s the second time in two years in Wisconsin that election results have sparked significant questions over management of its elections and whether Wisconsinites can trust election results. And the Racine allegations are simply the latest indication that Wisconsin election officials are struggling to fulfill their duties. “I think this whole (state election) system needs to be redone, remapped, because it’s not good for a huge portion of the population to... The Wisconsin Reporter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905267/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:49:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903658/posts The parents of a 17-year-old girl they say was coerced into prostitution knew that her pimp was in San Francisco but chose to take the law into their own hands rather than call police, a prosecutor said Friday. New evidence in the case in which the girl's mother, father and two other men are charged with murdering 22-year-old Calvin Sneed of Compton shows that the June 4 shooting was more a revenge slaying than an effort to protect a young girl, said District Attorney George Gascón. "I think when you look at the level of premeditation that went on, the... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903658/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jul 2012 00:18:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903653/posts The 3-year-old son of a San Jose police officer died after he was shot in his family's Gilroy home Thursday, police said. The boy, Preston Orlando, was shot with a handgun in the home on the 7500 block of Kentwood Court just before 5 p.m., Gilroy police said. He died on his way to a hospital. San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903653/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jul 2012 00:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903643/posts William Lynch never disputed that he had punched a retired Catholic priest in an old folks home in Los Gatos. He said the cleric raped him nearly four decades ago, that he had simply snapped when he demanded an admission of guilt. He didn't expect a jury to overlook the letter of the law and let him go. But Thursday, in a verdict that drew gasps of astonishment in a San Jose courtroom, the jury said the 44-year-old Lynch was not guilty of felony assault and elder abuse in the 2010 attack on Jerold Lindner, 67. The panel considered a... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903643/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jul 2012 23:39:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903633/posts Growing concern about crime in the Oakland hills, and a withered Police Department's apparent inability to do anything about it, has given rise to a new neighborhood strategy embraced by both residents and police: Buy surveillance cameras. Lots of them. Since November, Oakland police have attended at least a dozen neighborhood meetings in Montclair and other hillside areas where they preach the benefits of wiring residential streets with security cameras, then make way for salesmen to pitch surveillance products to residents. For police, residents' cameras are a new way to collect evidence at a time when depleted staffing levels have... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903633/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jul 2012 23:17:32 GMT