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Do not allow yourself to be deceived.

by Guest Post ( 202 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Blogmocracy, Communism, Democratic Party, Fascism, Guest Post, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Socialism, Tranzis at May 22nd, 2013 - 8:00 pm

Gust Blogger: Doriangrey

 

Obvious exit question: Whether Attkisson was monitored or not, it can’t be just the AP and Rosen whom the feds have snooped on in four years. How many other reporters?

Those in the “Professional Blogging Class” can be so amusing at times. Helloieeeee, NEWS FLASH… It isn’t just reporters, it’s anyone who makes the mistake of disagreeing with the Obamanation Administration in anything even remotely resembling a public forum.

Yes, yes, it’s now that time in the program where the audience gets to participate. Yes, I’m obviously a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist.

If you have ever read this blog before than you now that it is anything but being a Obamanation Administration friendly blog. This blogs highest single concentration of readers by some strange coincidence just happens to be individuals residing in Mordor on the Potomac, ( a little fact I happen to be aware of courtesy of Alexa )

Sharyl Attkisson: Something fishy’s been going on with my computers since early 2011

Yea, well, you’re not the only one sweetheart. For about the last year or so my computer has periodically suffered from sudden and inexplicable bouts of inability to connect to the internet. No, there is nothing wrong with my computer, or my internet connection. It just periodically refuses to connect. Getting it to do so again requires jumping through all sorts of flaming hoops and what not. But it comes down to this, periodically my network card suddenly decides that it will not permit network traffic, then it decides that it will turn itself off.

Ya, your right, my tin foil hat is screwed on way to tight. Just because Alexa once reported that someone from the DOJ was reading my blog and then my computer started misbehaving doesn’t actually mean that there is any connection between the two events. Ya, you’re right, I probably just screwed something up on my computer that explains this strange behavior of my computer. No reason to suspect that it’s anything else, right?

It’s not like the DOJ has actually taped into the computers of individuals who refused to worship the Obamessiah… I mean, right? Ya, I know, I know, after all, I am about as small and insignificant as it’s possible to be in the grand scheme of things. No rational or logical reason to think that the DOJ or any other federal bureaucracy would bother wasting their time on anyone as insignificant as me especially while their are genuinely threatening targets out there like Attkisson or Rosen, right?

Try keeping this thought fixed firmly in your mind while considering just how paranoid and foolish this all sounds. Before the Berlin Wall came down the East German Secret Police (the Stasi) kept files on every single East German, and 1 in every 6 East Germans were informants of the Stasi.

Yes, make no mistake about it, what these various Obamanation Administration faceless bureaucrats and bureaucracies are doing is exactly what the KGB and the Stasi used to do, no, they haven’t gotten to the stage that everyone associates with the KGB or the Stasi yet, but even the KGB and the Stasi didn’t start out the way they ended.

HotAir’s Ed Morrissey threw me off HotAir for making a comment there that I had made hundreds of times over a course of two or three years. It was a act of hypocritical cowardice on Ed’s part. All things considered though, looks like Ed might have been encouraged. Is the new statistic going to be, 1 in 6 Professional Bloggers is an informant for the Obamanation Administrations Cyber Secret Police?

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Silver Linings Do Exist!

by Flyovercountry ( 121 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Progressives at May 21st, 2013 - 7:00 am

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

I always have a private chuckle to my self when the subject of the Second Amendment comes up for debate. It’s words are parsed, logical gymnastics applied, straw men erected, ad hominems bandied about, non sequiturs employed, and through it all, the true meaning of the Amendment was never kept a secret.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of
a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,
shall not be infringed.

The thing is this, we know who it was that wrote those words, and it was not done at some prehistoric time, nor was the meaning of them kept a secret. George Mason was the founding father who insisted on including this in the Bill of Rights, and he was incredibly prolific in arguing in any forum he could find on what he meant by them. The Second Amendment had nothing to do with hunting, other outdoor sports, national defense against foreign invaders, or even home defense as it would be implied today. The true and only purpose for the Second Amendment was to instill exactly the same fear in our government of we the people, as we would ever have of the government.

Certainly, there was never the intention to see acts of armed sedition, as such acts are also prohibited by that very same founding document. That is not however where that particular line of thought ended. Our founding fathers wished for a balance, one in which the federal government would always find its authority and power constrained, limited to the point where tyranny would be the last thing the citizens would have to fear. While making sedition against the law of the land, they also decided to let the government know, in a not too subtle a manner, that revolution would always be possible.

Despite the fact that this reason for that Amendment has been well documented during a time when written records were indeed kept, and exist in the Library of Congress, those of us who point to it have been labeled as the, “tinfoil behatted,” to use Jon Stewart’s indelicate phrase. How on Earth could anyone in his or her right mind ever doubt the benevolence of the United States Government or those Organizing angels who now make up the group of Marxists who recently were put in charge of our Executive Branch?

The argument has basically gone like this, tyranny is no longer possible with our government, and any fears of such are simply crazy, and all those who entertain such should be ignored, as they clearly lack the competency necessary for civil discourse. Something happened last week that has not only placed the whole gun grab push to the back burner, but has the main progenitors of that line of thinking publicly admitting that yes, the whole tyranny argument is not only a valid one for our side, but is something that we should all actively fear.

Certainly, these last two weeks will be looked back upon by future historians as a pivotal moment in the direction Americans have chosen for themselves. These were the two weeks when the other half of Americans realized that tyranny was indeed something to guard against. These were the two weeks when the other half of us realized that even if you completely trusted either George W. Bush or Barack Obama to be granted dictatorial powers as our nation’s chief executive, the next election cycle could see either George W. Bush or Barack Obama elected as the next fellow to be granted that same authority.

What gives me hope about this turn of events, and what it means for the future is not so much the things that are being said, but more who is saying them. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe, not even for a nano second, that the main stream media has suddenly realized the error of their ways and will start objectively reporting on current events, but when to a man, each of them, even the dolts on MSNBC start admitting in public that our government, and more specifically the bureaucracy run by the Obama Administration has stepped way over that line, then something noteworthy, if still subtle has indeed occurred.

I have often asked a question of my liberal debate adversaries, ever since hearing it posed by Milton Friedman first, Where are we going to find these angels who will come and organize our society for us? Dr. Friedman’s point was that power itself has a corrupting influence upon those who are granted it. That eventually, given the proper amount of time, even the most well intentioned individual, will become a part of the tyranny of which we should all be very afraid. Those individuals who began using the IRS as a political weapon for the purposes of inflicting punishment upon the ideological rivals of the current Administration doubtless felt that they were doing the nation a service. I have no doubts about their sincerity. They believe their ideology to be so superior to ours that they felt some justification in protecting the country from those who would seek limited government, lower taxes, less interference and regulation from a federal behemoth run amok. I also believe that they should be put in prison for the remainder of their lives, having doubtless used that authority of theirs to do the same to some of those whom they had harassed.

The point that Dr. Friedman was making, was that any government that needs to find benevolent altruistic people capable of running it adequately is doomed to failure. We will never find the right people to be in charge, as those people are simply a fantasy. We need to make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things.

Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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Nationwide TEA PARTY PROTESTS Set for Noon Tuesday May 21, 2013 at IRS Offices (Pass It On!)

by 1389AD ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Breaking News, Headlines, IRS, Tea Parties at May 20th, 2013 - 9:43 am

Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 19, 2013, 1:32 PM

PROTEST THE CORRUPTION – PROTEST THE CRIMINAL OBAMA IRS

Thanks to Barack Obama the Tea Party is once again outraged and motivated.

The Tea Party Patriots on behalf of Tea Party, Patriot groups, 9/12, liberty activists, and the American people, we are calling for anyone and everyone to protest the IRS’ complete abuse of power on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at noon local time.

IRS protest

CLICK TO FIND A LOCATION NEAR YOU

NOW IS THE TIME TO STAND UP AGAINST THIS HORRIBLE ABUSE OF POWER!

Tuesday – May 21 – Noon – at Your Local IRS Office.

** And, here’s a link where people can tell us their stories, either individually being targeted or their groups being targeted.

IRS target link

PLEASE PASS THIS ON—
This is step one of our national assault to FIGHT BACK.

More here.

 

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Double Flying Pig Alert: Morgan & Scarborough Say Obama Scandals Prove Gun Advocates Not Crazy

by huckfunn ( 3 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Censorship, Corruption, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, DOJ, Eric Holder, Headlines, Hillary Clinton, IRS, Janet Napolitano, Joe Biden, Marxism, Media, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Second Amendment, Socialism, taxation at May 19th, 2013 - 11:15 pm

That’s right! Two of MSM’s biggest Obama rumpswabs now admit that the IRS and AP scandals pretty much prove that the fear of increased background checks by Pro-Second Amendment groups  may have some merit.

How big of a wake-up call are the Obama scandals, especially the ones surrounding the seizing of phone records from the Associated Press and the IRS’s targeting of conservatives? So big that two of the media’s most shameful and shameless gun control advocates — Joe Scarborough and Piers Morgan — have finally conceded that arguments made by pro-Second Amendment activists against the expanding of background checks might not be so ridiculous.

In a roundtable discussion on Friday’s “Morning Joe,”  Scarborough said that because of the IRS scandal, “My argument is less persuasive today because of these scandals.” He added: “People say, ‘Hey, if they do this with the IRS, asking people what books you read, then how can I trust them with information about my Second Amendment rights?’”

Mika agreed completely: “That is a really, really good point.” Even the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein agreed.

Scarborough added that, when it comes to both background checks and immigration reform, the IRS scandal is “devastating,” because both of those pieces of legislation ask us to trust the kind of government that would seize the media’s phone records and use the IRS to target a president’s political foes.

Also courtesy of NRO, here is no-less than Piers Morgan conceding he was wrong to ridicule gun-rights activists (including our own Ben Shapiro) for making the argument that a legitimate fear of government tyranny is what makes the Second Amendment so crucial:

Read the entire article here. Hat tip Breitbart.

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Your Government Gone Wild

by huckfunn ( 164 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Business, Corruption, Cult of Obama, Debt, Democratic Party, DOJ, Economy, EPA, Eric Holder, Free Speech, government, Healthcare, Hillary Clinton, IRS, Janet Napolitano, Joe Biden, Misery Index, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Socialism, taxation at May 19th, 2013 - 2:00 pm

The above Youtube is an excerpt of Obama’s commencement address at Ohio State on May 5, just days before the IRS and AP scandals broke. The cynicism and hypocrisy of his words are truly epic. Obama is all about tyranny and all about a sinister big government that is hell-bent on using our tax dollars to take away our freedoms. If you can’t stand the sound of Dear Leader’s voice, here is the transcript of what he said.

Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.

Now this is straight from the White House. “The Law Is Irrelevant”

For anyone who took the time to watch the Eric Holder and/or IRS hearings this week, the corruption, incompetence and arrogance of the ruling parasite elite class was on full display.  Eric Holder and Steven Miller, chief executives of the Department of Injustice and the IRS respectively, testified before Congress as to their utter cluelessness and unaccountability of the nefarious goings on in the powerful agencies that they run. Steven Miller’s testimony was by far the most interesting. He testified to Congress that IRS persecution of groups of people of a particular political view is not illegal. He further testified that questioning  individuals as to the subject matter of their prayers was not improper. When asked “what would make a difference in ending the unlawful practices of the IRS?”, Miller stated that he simply needed a bigger budget. Unbelievable stuff. Holder’s testimony was not nearly as entertaining. He simply testified that he either didn’t know or couldn’t remember anything about anything that was asked of him. Both of these bureaucrats made it perfectly clear that they are above the law and are not accountable to you commoners. In fact, Steven Miller wants you to know that he views us taxpaying bumpkins as his “customers”.  EXCUSE ME, ASSHOLE!  I AM NOT YOUR CUSTOMER!  YOU WORK FOR ME AND I’M THE ONE WHO PAYS YOUR SALARY!

We need to have every cabinet secretary testify before Congress and explain their relevance and reason for existence. The former EPA Secretary needs to explain how she used bogus emails to circumvent Freedom of Information inquiries. The Department of Energy does not produce or create energy yet its 2013 budget is $27 Billion. The Department of Education does not produce or create education yet its 2013 budget is $68.9 Billion. Those 2 departments do nothing but create onerous regulations and indoctrinate socialist dogma into our youth. They should both be abolished. BTW, whatever happened to Hot Tub Bub of the GSA?

What We Know About The GSA’s Jeffrey Neely

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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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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.

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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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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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