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IRS official Sarah Hall Ingram, targeter of the Tea Party, now in charge of Obamacare enforcement

by 1389AD ( 49 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections 2012, Healthcare, Tea Parties at May 17th, 2013 - 7:57 pm
Obama's IRS henchwoman Sarah Hall Ingram
Obama’s IRS henchwoman Sarah Hall Ingram

ABC News: IRS Official In Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

By John Parkinson @jparkABC
Steven Portnoy @stevenportnoy
May 16, 2013 6:15pm

The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.

Her successor, Joseph Grant, is taking the fall for misdeeds at the scandal-plagued unit between 2010 and 2012. During at least part of that time, Grant served as deputy commissioner of the tax-exempt unit.

Grant announced today that he would retire June 3, despite being appointed as commissioner of the tax-exempt office May 8, a week ago.

As the House voted to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act Thursday evening, House Speaker John Boehner expressed “serious concerns” that the IRS is empowered as the law’s chief enforcer.

“Fully repealing ObamaCare will help us build a stronger, healthier economy, and will clear the way for patient-centered reforms that lower health care costs and protect jobs,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said.

“Obamacare empowers the agency that just violated the public’s trust by secretly targeting conservative groups,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., added. “Even by Washington’s standards, that’s unacceptable.”

Sen. John Cornyn even introduced a bill, the “Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013,” which would prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury, or any delegate, including the IRS, from enforcing the Affordable Care Act.
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Why Obama must have known exactly what Ingram was doing

Washington Examiner: UPDATED: IRS tax exemption/Obamacare exec got $103,390 in bonuses; Did Obama OK them?

Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.

More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director of the tax agency’s Obamacare program office, a position that put her in charge of the vast expansion of the IRS’ regulatory power and staffing in connection with federal health care, ABC reported earlier today.

Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year, for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.

The 2010, 2011 and 2012 bonuses were awarded during the period when IRS harassment of the conservative groups was most intense. The newspaper obtained the data via a Freedom of Information Act request.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., described the Ingram awards as “stunning, just stunning.”

Bonuses as large as those awarded to Ingram typically require presidential approval, according to federal personnel regulations.

High-ranking career federal civil servants like Ingram are eligible for recognition through citations known as Distinguished and Merit Service awards that can carry with them cash bonuses of anywhere from five to 35 percent of their base salary.

The largest of such awards, however, require presidential approval, according to the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the federal civil service workforce.

“If the recommended award is over $25,000, the Director of OPM reviews the nomination and forwards his/her recommendation to the President for approval,” according to the OPM guidance.

A key point on OPM’s “checklist” for federal bosses considering an employee for such a bonus is making sure that “the proposed award recipient has not been involved in any action or activity that could cause the President embarrassment …”
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IRS Exempt Organizations Division director Lois G. Lerner “apolitical”? Not so much!

  • Daily Caller: Lerner’s admission of IRS’s inappropriate behavior was pre-planned public disclosure

    WASHINGTON – Last week, Lois Lerner, head of the tax exempt division of the Internal Revenue Service dropped a bombshell: The IRS had been applying extra scrutiny to conservative groups claiming tax exempt status.

    The revelation came seemingly out of the blue, in response to a question during a panel at an American Bar Association conference, leaving the audience baffled, according to reports.

    As it turns out, it was not a spontaneous revelation. The question, said outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee Friday, was planted, as part of a prepared strategy for the IRS to release this information to the public…

  • Daily Caller: Embattled IRS official Lois Lerner’s husband’s law firm has strong Obama connections

    The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official who apologized for targeting conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny is married to an attorney whose firm hosted a voter registration organizing event for the Obama presidential campaign, praised President Obama’s policy work, and had one of its partners appointed by Obama to a key ambassadorship.

    IRS Exempt Organizations Division director Lois G. Lerner, who has been described as “apolitical” in mainstream press coverage of the IRS scandal, is married to tax attorney Michael R. Miles, a partner at the law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan. The firm is based in Atlanta but has a number of offices including in Washington, D.C., where Miles works.

    The 400-attorney firm hosted an organizing meeting at its Atlanta office for people interested in helping with voter registration for the Obama re-election campaign…

  • Daily Caller: IRS official Lerner speedily approved exemption for Obama brother’s ‘charity’

    Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by the president’s half-brother that operated illegally for years.

    According to the organization’s filings, Lerner approved the foundation’s tax status within a month of filing, an unprecedented timeline that stands in stark contrast to conservative organizations that have been waiting for more than three years, in some cases, for approval.

    Lerner also appears to have broken with the norms of tax-exemption approval by granting retroactive tax-exempt status to Malik Obama’s organization…

  • Weekly Standard – Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election

    “[I]f this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.”

The IRS wasn’t the only government agency targeting conservative groups, donors, and even small businesses:

The fight is on:

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Washington DC considers $250K Insurance Policy for Gun Owners

by Rodan ( 85 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Fascism, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Second Amendment, The Constitution at May 17th, 2013 - 11:30 am

Despite Obama and OFA’s spectacular defeat at the hands of the NRA, The Progressives have not given up on Gun Control. They are enacting laws at the local level to restrict American’s Constitutional civil rights to bear arms. Washington DC is now looking to add another hurdle to Gun ownership. They are contemplating forcing gun owners to get a $250,000 insurance to own a gun. The average person can not afford this, thus an end run around the Supreme Court’s Heller case.

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Two D.C. councilmembers said Thursday that they support some form of mandate that gun owners carry liability insurance, but they would have to overcome the objections of Mayor Vincent Gray for the District of Columbia to become the nation’s first jurisdiction to require such coverage.

Councilmembers Vincent Orange and Mary Cheh said after a hearing Thursday that any bill they pursue would likely be narrower than Cheh’s initial proposal, which includes a requirement that gun owners insure themselves against intentional as well as accidental shootings

At least a half-dozen states are considering insurance requirements for gun owners, although none of the bills has made it past the hearing stage.

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The district has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the nation. Handguns were banned outright in the nation’s capital until a landmark 2008 Supreme Court ruling, and since then, about 2,000 people have legally purchased firearms. The 13-member council includes 11 Democrats and two left-leaning independents, potentially making the city fertile territory for those pushing an insurance mandate.

This is a disturbing development and end run around people’s Constitutional Rights.

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Republicans should be careful about overreaching on the Obama scandals

by Rodan ( 130 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Corruption, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Eric Holder, Progressives at May 17th, 2013 - 7:00 am

The trifecta of Benghazi, IRS and AP scandals has in the early stages some limited damage to Obama. He still has not suffered major damage in the polls yet, but he is clearly wobbled. That said, the normal political rules do not apply to Obama. This man is a cult figure and has weathered problems that would have destroyed another politician. The best bet is to see where the chips fall.

Sadly, many Republicans are giddy and are already counting Obama out. Many think that now the 2014 and 2016 elections are a walk. They forget Obama has an emotional hold on the public and has gone through political crisis before. The danger in this overconfidence among Republicans is that they may overreach and give Obama a lifeline for a political comeback.

Republicans are worried one thing could screw up the political gift of three Obama administration controversies at once: fellow Republicans.

Top GOP leaders are privately warning members to put a sock in it when it comes to silly calls for impeachment or over-the-top comparisons to Watergate. They want members to focus on months of fact-finding investigations – not rhetorical fury.

“We have to be persistent but patient,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told us. “I think where there’s smoke, there’s fire. If we present ourselves to the American people as intelligent, we’re going to be in a great place as far as showing that this administration is not transparent, is obsessed with power, and hates dissent. But you don’t call for impeachment until you have evidence.”

It is important to remember that there is no evidence any of the specific controversies directly link to President Obama himself. No one knows what the various congressional probes will turn up, but until there is a direct connection to the president, the best Republicans can probably do is use the three episodes to illustrate what they see as the dangerous reach — and pervasive incompetence — of the Obama government.

Meantime, the incentives for the incendiary are strong, as the PPP polls show: It helps Republicans raise money, get on Fox, and excite conservatives. It also provides an easy way for someone like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to show skeptical conservatives that he is one of them – and therefore should not be challenged in an upcoming GOP primary. This is true for most House Republicans: redistricting has left them far more threatened by a primary challenge from the right than by a general election challenge on the left.

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Republican leaders privately say the best and only way to avoid a public backlash is by using their congressional powers to aggressively investigate each matter – and let the facts carry the news, rather than stunts or rhetoric. “We have stuff here that’s real, so you don’t need the distraction of politics to give people an excuse to say we’re being silly,” said a House Republican leadership aide involved in the investigations. “Everyone is keenly aware of the overreach risk.”

Obama is a more than a politician, he’s a cultural symbol and sadly too many Americans have emotional feelings towards him. The GOP should proceed with a death by 1000 cuts strategy and slow bleed Obama. Every fact that makes Obama look bad, helps weaken the hold he has on Americans. The Right should not pop the champagne cork. They need to be patient and play their cards right and let Obama self destruct.

Too many Republicans still don’t know what they are up against with Obama. They continually underestimate him and do not realize that his a symbol.

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GOP FILES BILLS LIMITING IRS OVERSIGHT OF OBAMACARE

by huckfunn ( 11 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Corruption, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Eric Holder, government, Headlines, Health Care, Misery Index, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Socialism, taxation, Uncategorized at May 16th, 2013 - 10:28 pm

 

Here we go! Enforcement of the  monstrosity known as Obamacare falls primarily to the IRS. The IRS is expected to hire 16,000 (at a cost of $5 to $10 billion) enforcement agents to ensure that you are in compliance with Obamacare. A vision of Dawg Teh Bounty Hunter kicking down my door and demanding my “papers” just flashed before my eyes. At any rate, GOP Congressmen just filed a bill which would block the IRS from enforcing Obamacare.

In the wake of IRS admission that it targeted tea party and conservative organizations, Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to block the agency from implementing ObamaCare. Under current law, the IRS is tasked with collecting billions in new taxes, designing rules for subsidies and tax credits and enforcing the individual mandate. The new legislation would block what one member described as IRS “bullying.”

Legislation introduced by GA Rep. Tom Price would block the IRS from implementing or enforcing any part of the ObamaCare law. ”When it comes to an individual’s personal health care decisions, no American should be required to answer to the IRS — an agency that just forfeited its claim to a reputation of impartiality,” Price told The Hill. “It has always been an untenable and unacceptable scenario, and we ought to take this common sense step to take the IRS out of healthcare.

Separate legislation filed by VA Rep. Randy Forbes would prevent the IRS from hiring the estimated 18,000 new agents it needs to enforce the health care law. ”The IRS would be better to police its own than to police the millions of Americans who believe this healthcare law to be bad for their families and bad for our businesses,” Forbes said. NV Sen. Dean Heller is working on similar legislation in the Senate.

The unfolding IRS scandal shows an agency taken over with a political agenda. The repercussions of IRS action in these events was somewhat limited, though, because it only impacted organizations seeking non-profit, tax-exempt status. Unless current law is changed, the agency will have greater powers over the lives of every American. Under this Administration, the IRS can’t be trusted to keep political calculations out of their work. So, it should be kept out of ours.

Here is the link to the article. Hat tip – Breitbart.

Posted in Barack Obama, Corruption, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Eric Holder, government, Headlines, Health Care, Misery Index, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Socialism, taxation, Uncategorized | 11 Comments »

Democrat Gun Control Bill inspired by James Bond

by Rodan ( 109 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Progressives, Weapons at May 16th, 2013 - 6:00 pm

The Democrats are really reaching with gun control.  Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) is now proposing a bill that would only allow guns to be produced that can be used by the owner only. He got this idea from the latest James Bond film, Skyfall.

A House Democrat inspired by the last James Bond movie has offered legislation to produce handguns with “personalization technology.”

The idea is to produce guns that can only be used by the gun’s owners. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) cited the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall, as inspiration for the bill.

“In the most recent James Bond film, Bond escapes death when his handgun, which is equipped with technology that recognizes him as its owner, becomes inoperable when it gets into the wrong hands,” Tierney’s office said in a statement introducing the bill. “This technology, however, isn’t just for the movies — it’s a reality.”

These clowns are delusional, but dangerous.

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Palooka Of The Month: May’s Winner – Darrell Issa

by Flyovercountry ( 134 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Republican Party at May 16th, 2013 - 2:00 pm

What angers me most about our canvas kissing champion this month is what he didn’t say. He didn’t say, “we’re going to follow the evidence where ever it leads, and take the appropriate action, according to the laws of our land.” What he chose to do instead, was to send the signal that with his position as the chief investigator of the Republican controlled House, he would make certain that Hillary Clinton would be protected against the harshest of forthcoming political consequences for what at the very least, was a level of incompetence rarely exhibited by members of our species.

Not everything in life has to be politically motivated. Certainly the tragedy that befell the four American citizens in Benghazi should escape that realm. However, it is impossible to separate politics from the task of figuring out which politician or bureaucrat fomented that disaster. It is most especially impossible to separate politics from the process when political considerations being given a higher priority than national security was itself the root cause of the tragedy.

Hillary Clinton’s hands may very well have been tied by the man child President, and his foreign policy agenda which centers on projecting American weakness, but she at the same time did keep mum on things afterward and subsequently campaigned hard to help secure his reelection. Looking back at that time period, I seem to remember suggestions being made to place Hillary’s picture on milk cartons in order to locate here. Rush Limbaugh issued an Amber Alert for Secretary Clinton. At no point did Hillary step forward and decide that telling the truth was the way to go. As a matter of fact, she did come forward after a month to accept blame, and promptly spent the next six months attempting to deflect said blame.

When the whistle blowers came forward last week and confirmed for many of us what we already knew, our side had securely placed victory well within our grasp, if not already achieved it outright. Which is why it hurts to watch Palooka Issa take the dive and allow a woman to escape that quite possibly may one day win the Presidency. If the investigation into this event accomplishes nothing else for the American people, it should highlight at the very least why Hillary Clinton is woefully short of the makings of a good President. Her behavior throughout all of this should preclude that from ever being even the remotest of possibilities. Yet here we have Darrell Issa, who in one minute and nineteen seconds, let Hillary off of the hook, that goddamned palooka!

I can only guess as to the motivations of Congress Critter Issa, and why he chose to publicly let Hillary off of the hook. Not a single one of those guesses is at all flattering for Representative Issa. They range from bizarre to perverse, and in this case, the perverse would be the best case scenario for Darrell. I will add this however, should our nation one day be saddled with the prospect of addressing Hillary as Madam President, we, and I mean every one who considers him or herself a conservative, should surround Darrell Issa with lit torches and pitch forks and run his ass out of town.

Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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Chris Matthew’s tingle is gone

by Rodan ( 112 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Cult of Obama, Progressives at May 16th, 2013 - 11:00 am

The Charles Johnson of cable news, Chris Matthews has been a fanatic Obamabot. He accuses any opposition to his god-king as racism. He even agreed that Obama was a god and the perfect man. Now after the IRS and AP scandal stories come out, he has soured on his icon.

President Obama “obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch,” Chris Matthews said tonight.

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“What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn’t like dealing with other politicians — that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn’t particularly like the press…. He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft,” Matthews said.

Obama’s godhood status is starting to crumble. Republicans would be best serve by just staying out of the way and see how this plays out.

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Anthony Weiner to run for NYC Mayor

by Rodan ( 6 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Headlines at May 15th, 2013 - 4:26 pm

This may sound crazy, but Anthony Weiner will be one of the saner candidates running for NYC Mayor.

Anthony Weiner’s bid to rise from the political dead is ready to begin in earnest — the disgraced former congressman will announce he is running for mayor as early as next week, according to sources.

“He’s definitely running,” one Weiner ally told The Post.

After weeks of hinting at a run, Weiner has taken a major step toward firing up his campaign by hiring a manager to guide his mayoral bid, according to a report.

Weiner has tapped political adviser Danny Kedem, who recently worked on a Staten Island congressional race, to run his impending mayoral campaign, according to a report on Politico.com.

I’m sure Mark Sanford will endorce him!

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Washington Democrats might be turning on the god-king

by Rodan ( 244 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Progressives at May 15th, 2013 - 3:00 pm

Obamacrumbles

Obama whether Conservatives like it or not, is a cultural icon. No matter what he does, the American people support him and trust him. But recent scandals are turning many Democrats in Washington against him. Obama’s arrogance and cult following never sat well with many Establishment Democrats. Now that scandals are occuring, some of them might be turning on the god-king.

The town is turning on President Obama — and this is very bad news for this White House.

Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama — and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now. Establishment Democrats, never big fans of this president to begin with, are starting to speak out. And reporters are tripping over themselves to condemn lies, bullying and shadiness in the Obama administration.

Obama’s aloof mien and holier-than-thou rhetoric have left him with little reservoir of good will, even among Democrats. And the press, after years of being accused of being soft on Obama while being berated by West Wing aides on matters big and small, now has every incentive to be as ruthless as can be.

This White House’s instinctive petulance, arrogance and defensiveness have all worked to isolate Obama at a time when he most needs a support system. “It feel like they don’t know what they’re here to do,” a former senior Obama administration official said. “When there’s no narrative, stuff like this consumes you.”

Republican outrage is predictable, maybe even manageable. Democratic outrage is not.

The best thing Republicans can do is just let the facts come out and let the chips fall where they may. If they start with hyperbole and hysteria, the public will tune out these scandals. Jon Stewart going after Obama has more impact on the public than Rush Limbaugh ranting. Death by a 1000 cuts is a better strategy than an attempted knock out blow that too many Conservatives think they will achieve.

Obama is NOT a normal politician. He’s a cultural icon and has a hold on the majority of Americans whether we like it or not. Its best for the Right to let the Regime self destruct as they appear to be.

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The Stark Reality Of A Governing Philosophy

by Flyovercountry ( 61 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Progressives at May 15th, 2013 - 11:30 am

Political Cartoons by Jerry Holbert

The alternate headline would be, “see what happens GOP professional campaign idiots when you actually take this man child President on and apply a little pressure.”

I read this at Hotair today. While I usually have a decent amount of respect for Allahpundit’s articles, which means, I’m a fan, he missed the point here, completely. He got it right that the Bamster returned to his familiar and comfortable ground of setting up the straw man that Rush Limbaugh, from his broadcast booth in South Florida somehow manages to control not only the entirety of the Republican Party, but also the thoughts of all who consider themselves conservatives, and then destroying said straw man in a debate where no answer to his charges can be given. He also got it right that this retreat into that familiar territory was fomented by the plethora of breaking scandals that should have plagued him much sooner than they did. Here’s where he got it wrong:

“What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008,” Obama said today, according to the pool report. “My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet. But I am persistent. And I am staying at it. And I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them…“As a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government,” he told donors. “My intentions over the next 3 ½ years are to govern. … If there are folks who are more interested in winning elections than they are thinking about the next generation then I want to make sure there are consequences to that.”

I believe that there are two phrases in that quote from the Washington Examiner story
which should have us all hopping mad, and not just those of us who are conservative, but all citizens in general.

“What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008,” Obama said today, according to the pool report. “My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet. But I am persistent. And I am staying at it. And I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them.”

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“As a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government,” he told donors. “My intentions over the next 3 ½ years are to govern. … If there are folks who are more interested in winning elections than they are thinking about the next generation then I want to make sure there are consequences to that.”

Elected representatives should be mindful of their voting base. That’s the whole point of a representative republic. These people who make up the Legislative Branch were not sent to our nation’s capitol solely for the purpose of acquiescence to the President’s demands. They were sent there by a base of voters who want their interests represented. In the case of the Republican lawmakers, they were sent to Washington on behalf of people who want the President’s agenda stopped dead in its tracks. For those of you with learning disabilities who make up the main stream media, that does not mean coming together in some sort of grand compromise which will ultimately decide the best way forward with the President’s plan to fundamentally transform America into Amerika, which will exist somewhere to the left of the European style of Socialism that plagues Greece, France, and Spain. It means that we sent them there as a cease and desist order, to inflict gridlock upon a federal behemoth run amok.

Even more chilling is the concept that Barack Obama is comfortable with the concept of our government acting in direct opposition to the will of the people. In fact, according to this rare candid glimpse of this mans thoughts, he feels as though this is preferable to the more antiquated notion that representatives should actually live up to their campaign promises and legislate according to the wishes of those who sent them to do that task.

It’s not very often that we get to see and hear the real thoughts of our President, who spends more of his time lying to us than anything else, (formidable when you consider the amount of time he spends playing golf, partying with show people and such.) The reason for this of course is that he is finally facing a minimal amount of pressure from the consequences of his malfeasance. Right now, Mitt Romney should be throwing darts at the mug of which ever genius adviser told him not to take this man on during the campaign, that this would be viewed as mean spirited and petty, (especially considering the amount of mud flung in Romney’s direction during the months of September and October.)

The other phrase missed of course is the second one that I have highlighted. Somehow, our President has gotten it into his head that his job is to punish Americans in general should he not get his way. Our Legislators made the correct decision to let the Sequestration go ahead and happen, and our President has used that slowed growth of wasteful spending as a tool with which to inflict pain on anyone he could. Here too, he has allowed, however accidentally, that rare glimpse into his true thoughts, and what has been revealed is that he intends to punish all those who will not simply go along with his whims as our nation’s ruler. Those law makers who place the wishes of their constituents above the wishes of Dear Leader will face his wrath, which apparently means some formal consequences. The public airing of one of those aforementioned scandals, which happens to be some of those consequences for the crime of opposing Dear Leader, the IRS inflicting conservative groups with heightened scrutiny, and the lesser talked about targeting of Romney donors with unwarranted audits, has apparently rattled the man to the point where he’ll admit his most closely held ambitions.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this emotionally broken product of a dysfunctional upbringing seems to be truly convinced that he was elected to the position of Emperor of the United States of America. Unfortunately for the Bamster, there is no such office. In America, we have a President, an office that is constrained by the consent of the governed. Fortunately for us, his fundamental transformation of America into Amerika has been at least so far, temporary. What he has done, can still be undone. The damage he has wrought can be repaired. We just need to win one hell of a lot of elections in order to make that a reality.

Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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