Kristallnacht, literally, “Night of Crystal,” is often referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass.” The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops.
Instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA (Sturmabteilungen: literally Assault Detachments, but commonly known as Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth, Kristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the pogrom—broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses plundered and destroyed during the violence.
First they came for Romney donors.
Then they came for the Tea Party.
Then they came for Obama critics.
Then they came for those critical of Obamacare.
Then they came for the Friends of Abe.
Then they came for the big names in Conservatives.
Conservative Kristallnacht.
In 2009 Barack Obama “joked” about auditing his enemies.
Barack Obama owes his presidency in no small part to the power of rhetoric. It’s too bad he doesn’t appreciate the damage that loose talk can do to America’s tax system, even as exploding federal deficits make revenues more important than ever.
At his Arizona State University commencement speech last Wednesday, Mr. Obama noted that ASU had refused to grant him an honorary degree, citing his lack of experience, and the controversy this had caused. He then demonstrated ASU’s point by remarking, “I really thought this was much ado about nothing, but I do think we all learned an important lesson. I learned never again to pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA brackets. . . . President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.”
It wasn’t funny.
Just a joke about the power of the presidency. Made by Jay Leno it might have been funny. But as told by Mr. Obama, the actual president of the United States, it’s hard to see the humor. Surely he’s aware that other presidents, most notably Richard Nixon, have abused the power of the Internal Revenue Service to harass their political opponents. But that abuse generated a powerful backlash and with good reason. Should the IRS come to be seen as just a bunch of enforcers for whoever is in political power, the result would be an enormous loss of legitimacy for the tax system.
It was a red flag. It was a warning. It was a harbinger. He told us he was going to do it. And now it’s here.
Ostensibly no longer a candidate for office, Obama has unleashed full fury of the IRS onto conservatives. It is now a tool of Organizing for Obama America and DNC. No one is safe. And now it’s in the open and out of control and they’re not even disguising it any longer.
Obama brought the power of the IRS to bear in the 2012 campaign:
Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check.
Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames you for “betting against America,” and accuses you of having a “less-than-reputable” record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.
Are you worried?
Obama singled them out by name and slandered them with innuendo:
Save Mr. Obama, who acknowledges no rules. This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having “less-than-reputable records,” the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that “quite a few” have also been “on the wrong side of the law” and profiting at “the expense of so many Americans.”
These are people like Paul Schorr and Sam and Jeffrey Fox, investors who the site outed for the crime of having “outsourced” jobs. T. Martin Fiorentino is scored for his work for a firm that forecloses on homes. Louis Bacon (a hedge-fund manager), Kent Burton (a “lobbyist”) and Thomas O’Malley (an energy CEO) stand accused of profiting from oil. Frank VanderSloot, the CEO of a home-products firm, is slimed as a “bitter foe of the gay rights movement.”
These are wealthy individuals, to be sure, but private citizens nonetheless. Not one holds elected office. Not one is a criminal. Not one has the barest fraction of the position or the power of the U.S. leader who is publicly assaulting them.
Then rapacious assault began:
Two months later, the IRS informed VanderSloot he and his wife were going to be audited, Strassel reported. Two weeks after that, VanderSloot was notified by the Labor Department that it was going to “audit workers he employs on his Idaho-based cattle ranch under the federal visa program for temporary agriculture workers,” reported Strassel.
“The H-2A program allows tens of thousands of temporary workers in the U.S.; Mr. VanderSloot employs precisely three,” Strassel wrote. “All are from Mexico and have worked on the VanderSloot ranch—which employs about 20 people—for five years. Two are brothers. Mr. VanderSloot has never been audited for this, though two years ago his workers’ ranch homes were inspected. (The ranch was fined $8,400, mainly for too many ‘flies’ and for ‘grease build-up’ on the stove. God forbid a cattle ranch home has flies.)”
“This letter requests an array of documents to ascertain whether Mr. VanderSloot’s ‘foreign workers are provided the full scope of protections’ under the visa program: information on the hours they’ve worked each day and their rate of pay, an explanation of their deductions, copies of contracts,” she continued.
The IRS leaked the donor list for the National Organization for Marriage to the Obama campaign which then excoriated Romney:
Solmonese, then still the HRC’s president, said in the release he felt Romney’s “funding of a hate-filled campaign designed to drive a wedge between Americans is beyond despicable.”
“Not only has Romney signed NOM’s radical marriage pledge, now we know he’s one of the donors that NOM has been so desperate to keep secret all these years,” Solmonese added.
(Note: If you don’t agree with the radical views of the left you’re despicable.)
A Romney donor even found an Obama operative digging into his divorce records. Such skullduggery is a common practice for Obama.
An Obama capo apparently accessed the tax records of the Koch brothers who were then slandered:
A administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity in the background briefing, pointed to Koch Industries as an example of “multibillion-dollar businesses that are structured as partnerships in ways that allow them to avoid paying sizable corporate taxes.”
The Tea Party was targeted repeatedly by Obama’s IRSS:
Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the Internal Revenue Service scandal over special scrutiny of conservative groups, specifically targeted tea party applications and directed that they be held up in 2011 in order to come up with an agency policy, according to several of Ms. Lerner’s emails released by a House committee Thursday.
In one 2011 email, Ms. Lerner specifically calls the tea party applications for tax-exempt status problematic, which seems to counter Democrats’ arguments that tea party groups weren’t targeted.
To make certain nothing would come of it Obama appointed one of his donors to investigate.
Dr. Ben Carson was critical of Obama in a prayer breakfast. BANG, audit.
The latest revelation came Thursday from Dr. Carson, the renowned neurosurgeon who told The Washington Times that he was targeted for an audit just months after he gave a speech in front of President Obama that challenged America’s leadership. The agency requested to review his real estate holdings and then conducted a full audit.
In the end, the IRS found no wrongdoing, Dr. Carson said, but it raised his suspicions about being singled out for his speech.
“I guess it could be a coincidence, but I never had been audited before and never really had any encounters with the IRS,” Dr. Carson said in an interview. “But it certainly would make one suspicious because we know now the IRS has been used for political purposes and therefore actions like this come under suspicion.”
A Stage 4 cancer patient was publically critical of Obamacare found himself the subject of an IRS audit– and so was the insurance broker who aided Elliott:
Now suddenly Bill Elliot is being audited for 2009 with an interview only scheduled in April 2014. Assuming he lives that long. That might be a coincidence, but Tucker is being audited back to 2003.
That’s a rather strange coincidence.
Now the IRS is targeting conservatives in Hollywood:
LOS ANGELES — In a famously left-leaning Hollywood, where Democratic fund-raisers fill the social calendar, Friends of Abe stands out as a conservative group that bucks the prevailing political winds.
A collection of perhaps 1,500 right-leaning players in the entertainment industry, Friends of Abe keeps a low profile and fiercely protects its membership list, to avoid what it presumes would result in a sort of 21st-century blacklist, albeit on the other side of the partisan spectrum.
Now the Internal Revenue Service is reviewing the group’s activities in connection with its application for tax-exempt status. Last week, federal tax authorities presented the group with a 10-point request for detailed information about its meetings with politicians like Paul D. Ryan, Thaddeus McCotter and Herman Cain, among other matters, according to people briefed on the inquiry.
The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the organization’s confidentiality strictures, and to avoid complicating discussions with the I.R.S.
Their crime? Being conservative:
Friends of Abe — the name refers to Abraham Lincoln — has strongly discouraged the naming of its members. That policy even prohibits the use of cameras at group events, to avoid the unwilling identification of all but a few associates — the actors Gary Sinise, Jon Voight and Kelsey Grammer, or the writer-producer Lionel Chetwynd, for instance — who have spoken openly about their conservative political views.
Obama is now hunting the big game- Dinesh D’Souza. His crime? Making 2016– a movie about Obama.
Dinesh D’Souza, director of the 2012 documentary “2016: Obama’s America,” was arrested and indicted for campaign finance fraud on Thursday, Reuters reports.
The conservative filmmaker and best-selling author allegedly contributed $20,000 in 2012 in the name of others to Republican Wendy Long’s U.S. Senate campaign. Long ran for Hillary Clinton’s vacated Senate seat, but lost to Kirsten Gillibrand.
Federal law in 2012 limited election campaign contributions to $5,000 per person per candidate. Breaking this law is punishable to two years in prison.
“As we have long said, this Office and the FBI take a zero tolerance approach to corruption of the electoral process,” Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, said in a statement.
Attorney Benjamin Brafman told The Hollywood Reporter that his client “did not act with any corrupt or criminal intent whatsoever … at worst this was an act of misguided friendship by D’Souza.”
Follow this case intently- when a democrat does this it’s a misdemeanor.
The Kristallnacht pogrom is in full frenzy. Barack Obama has ordered the IRS to write new rules specifically designed to muzzle the Tea Party while exempting unions and the OFA.
And an IRS rule that purports to—as Mr. Werfel explained—”improve our work in the tax-exempt area” completely ignores the biggest of political players in the tax-exempt area: unions. The guidance is directed only at 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups—the tax category that has of late been flooded by conservative groups. Mr. Obama’s union foot soldiers—which file under 501(c)(5)—can continue playing in politics.
Treasury is also going to great lengths to keep secret the process behind its rule. Cleta Mitchell, an attorney who represents targeted tea party groups, in early December filed a Freedom of Information Act request with Treasury and the IRS, demanding documents or correspondence with the White House or outside groups in the formulation of this rule. By law, the government has 30 days to respond. Treasury sent a letter to Ms. Mitchell this week saying it wouldn’t have her documents until April—after the rule’s comment period closes. It added that if she didn’t like it, she can “file suit.” The IRS has yet to respond.
Mr. Camp has now authored stand-alone legislation to rein in the IRS, though the chance of Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) allowing a Senate vote is approximately equal to that of the press corps paying attention to this IRS rule.
So that puts a spotlight on newly sworn-in IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who vowed during his confirmation hearing to restore public trust in the agency, and now must decide whether to aid in a new and blatantly political abuse of IRS powers. The White House is using the agency to win an election this fall. They gave the proof this week.
Sen. Schmuck Schumer (D-NY) has called for persecution of a segment of the population because they are guilty of a crime- the crime of dissent.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) proposed using the Internal Revenue Service to curtail Tea Party group funding during a speech on how to “exploit” and “weaken” the movement at the Center for American Progress on Thursday.
Arguing that Tea Party groups have a financial advantage after the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, Schumer said the Obama administration should bypass Congress and institute new campaign finance rules through the IRS.
“It is clear that we will not pass anything legislatively as long as the House of Representatives is in Republican control, but there are many things that can be done administratively by the IRS and other government agencies—we must redouble those efforts immediately,” Schumer said.
“One of the great advantages the Tea Party has is the huge holes in our campaign finance laws created [by] the ill advised decision [Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission],” Schumer said. “Obviously the Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.”
You’d think a Jew would know better than to incite government action against a portion of its citizens, wouldn’t you?
NY Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson has called the Obama regime “The most secretive in history.”
Well, I would slightly like to interpret the question as “How secretive is this White House?” which I think is the most important question. I would say it is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering, and that includes — I spent 22 years of my career in Washington and covered presidents from President Reagan on up through now, and I was Washington bureau chief of the Times during George W. Bush’s first term.
Leaks that were a great thing when Romney donor info was leaked but not when information is leaked about this dictatorship:
I dealt directly with the Bush White House when they had concerns that stories we were about to run put the national security under threat. But, you know, they were not pursuing criminal leak investigations. The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It’s on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.
The Obama regime even spies on selected reporters.
Pair all of this this with the fact that no one in the Obama regime has been held accountable for anything- not indicted, not fired, nothing. Not for Benghazi, not for Fast and Furious, not for the IRS abuse (despite the IRS chief counsel suffering amnesia 80 times), not for the NSA scandal- nothing.
Obama called for this pogrom- it is undeniable. He published an IRS hit list. This is the guy who took hundreds of millions in untraceable dollars in both 2008 and 2012.
Dissent is not patriotic any more. It’s a crime against the state. The stench of Nazi Germany is detectable on the breath of Barack Obama and Schumer every time they speak.
It’s got to stop. It is super-important that the GOP take the Senate and contain the fascist beast that Barack Obama has become. It would be highly gratifying for the GOP to retake the White House and visit upon these far left radical democrats the grief they have heaped upon conservatives.
And the economy still sucks.
UPDATE
Obama: “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone. And I’ve got the IRS”
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
George Orwell’s 1984 novel had Thought Police who used surveillance and psychological monitoring to find and eliminate members of society who challenge the party’s authority and ideology.
Just as Orwell’s Thought Police had telescreens which worked as spies inside everyone’s homes, so, too, Obama has encouraged ”smart” appliances, from computers to refrigerators and dishwashers that can report on such things as web site choices and water use (waste).
Last week we heard NY’s political leaders divisive speech which would have been prosecuted as hate speech if spoken by the wrong people.
Eric Holder recently doubled down on his old statement that Americans are racists.
And, in a world of sue-then-settle, all of these charges against Conservatives ARE the punishments.
Individuals cannot bear all of the costs of defending themselves even if innocent…..so many people simply settle and always ever after appear to have been guilty.
Cute.
I had family in some of those homes and businesses during the original Kristallnacht.
One night was enough to set them on the run out of Europe and into the USA.
Where will people here run to if it gets that bad here?
@Nanny G: @Nanny G:
Although they have a long way to go, Canada under Steven Harper is looking better and better every day. And Australia has booked a hard right with their most recent elections.
But I suspect that if it “gets that bad here”, Nan, we will see a second civil war. Americans, or at least those of us who contribute to our society and are not a drain on it, are an independent bunch that will be willing to be pushed around for just so long.
You left out the best part.
Hitler lost World War II on Kristallnacht. Reason? He chose that time to fire the entire General Staff of the German Army. They were disloyal, don’t you know. The German Army was never thereafter as organized as before 1938. Substituting orthodoxy for skill, Hitler appointed a group of lickspittle sycophants to the highest posts in the Army, and appointed some shockers to Field Marshall status.
That is how Hitler got bogged down in Europe, and postponed his invasion of Russia until late fall. Then the old enemy, winter, killed off the pride of the German Wehrmacht.
Judging from history, Zero has lost all the wars he is fighting, having discharged his best and most knowledgable officers. They have been replaced by drones.
@Nanny G:
Yep. On top of the atrocities, many Jews stayed in Germany despite the oppression. I remember reading of the son of a Jewish WWI recipient of the Iron Cross (one of Germany’s highest military decorations) pleading with his Father to flee Germany– the reply was something like “Nonsense, I am a war hero. They would never hurt me!”. The son and some of the family survived the camps but the Father and Mother did not.
There are no worse fanatics than those who have NO remorse and think they are doing the right thing to others who truly earned what they are receiving. This mindset is strongly being suggested by Obama’s current attitudes. This works well with sycophants in their vested interest and zealous acolytes, which, again, we tend to see a lot today. Amazingly though, even in the SS in Germany, there were many people who were there for reasons that didn’t condone murder, treason and horror. I have often read about the SS unit commanders complaining that their recruits did not “have the stomach” for the Final Solution when faced with the reality. It was too late then to stop the Nazi machine but is there a possibility that some of the Americans supporting that group care enough to stop it before the ax falls? I would love to think so but I am far too cynical of human nature, viz- being part of a “winning team”.
If you will recall, Obama and the White House encouraged supporters to send negative emails to them so those generating or forwarding such anti-government incitement can be “corrected”. I was immediately reminded of a story I read of a young Soviet boy awarded a medal for turning in his father for black market activity.
The ends always justifies the means.
@mathman2:
You forgot Obama already fired a few hundred senior officers who would not go along with his agenda.
The lesson SHOULD be that the IRS needs to go…
You forgot Obama has already fired several hundred senior officers of the armed forces. Anybody who does not swallow his cool aid gets “86’d.
Guess what happens when you trot out poorly written analogies that involve Hitler that can be taken as possibly minimizing the reality of the Holocaust? People don’t listen to what you are are saying. They think you are a nincompoop at best.
@MItten:
Wait, you think a passing thought to the fate of millions of murdered Jews is going to get in DrJohn’s way when he gets to gleefully photoshop Obama as a Nazi for the ninth time this week? No, no, no, my friend. Newsflash: what’s happening now is the exact same thing after all, give or take everything that happened on Planet Earth between 1930 and 1945. Give him some credit. Look how cleverly he spelled “conservative” with a “K”. So sinister. And remember, he’s just fulfilling a demand. What’s passes as a political philosophy is mostly just a blind visceral response these days. The teeth gnashing has commenced. The perpetually angry peanut gallery is looking for some red meat. Who better to supply the intellectual equivalent of a stale Happy Meal than the konservative interwebs reigning clown?
IT WILL TAKE ONLY A SNEEZE TO ERUPT THE VOLCANIC ASHES,
AND HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE,
THAT IS WHAT HE IS WAITING FOR TO UNLEACH HIS PLAN,
TO BE PREPARE IS TO NOT BE SORRY,
IF THERE ONLY BE A ONE SHOWING HIS ABILITY TO KNOW WHEN AND HOW TO SEND THE SIGN,
@ mitten. Guess what happens when you mistake the Holocaust for the totaliarian subjugation that made the Holocaust possible but was not the Holocaust? You look like either an historically ignorant fool or a rank ameture political hack caught in the act of trying to divert the conversation away from the topic @ hand. That topic being Obama acting like a dictator trying to silence the opposition.
i JUST CAME OUT OF A POST WHERE THERE WAS SOME OTHER MITTEN SPITTING,
AND FIND SOME HERE, ALSO SPITTING,
@Bill Burris:
Too bad this post proves nothing of the sort. Some guy didn’t like Obama. Some guy is under investigation. Prove the causality. You can’t. That might be a good thing to do before calling someone Hitler, you think?
If you’re so hung up on proving Obama is wielding his power as President in an abusive manner, why not use a metric that can be evidenced instead of baseless accusation? How many Executive Orders has the “dictator” issued compared to other POTUS, for example? Or if you want to just howl at the moon, god, at least show a little creativity. Using the same Nazi comparison over and over and over is nothing if not hopelessly boring.
@ Tom. Apparently you are unfamiliar with how totlitarian regimes operate. Silencing dissent is the first step and what we have here is a catalogue of the steps and processes used by Obama. The only thing lacking is Obama sending Biden in to burn down the Capital so he can declare a state of emergency (a Reichtag fire reference, so you aren’t confused). If you had any sense of history, any knowledge of the mechanism of Nazi Germany and Hitler’s rise to power, and if you weren’t blinded by ideology, you cold see the clear parallels. Sure, you are on the side of the dictators today, but what if the spirit and good of the majority of the American people prevents them from falling for these transparent schemes? You could find your self on the wrong side of the jack boot of precedence.
And now, leftists resent Hitler references; I find that odd, considering how often the left uses Nazi, Gestapo and Hitler references themselves. Hypocrisy, anyone?
Perhaps Dinesh D’Souza actually committed campaign finance fraud. There has apparently been an investigation that has resulted in an indictment. There will be a trial, at which evidence will be submitted and a verdict rendered.
He isn’t accused of making a movie. He’s accused of using straw donors to exceed the legal limit for personal campaign donations. That limit is intended to help prevent people with lots of money from buying seats in the U.S. Senate, among other things—seats that are then used to push the agendas of big money even further. If such laws aren’t enforced, democracy devolves into plutocracy. We’ve gone a bit too far down that road already.
@MItten:
My Jewboy homies agree with me. Liberals make all sorts of feeble and overwrought associations. Kristallnacht was not part of the Holocaust.
But it was an antecedent. Kind of scary, no?
@Greg:
Greg!
What about all that untraceable dark money Obama collected? That’s HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars, not this pissantly small sum.
And are you going to let me know when a fetus becomes a person? Do you champion the Eugene Robinson “fully formed person” which would aborting kids up to 18 years of age?
@Greg:
No, but he getting his ass reamed because of the video.
So the story goes. It’s a politically useful story, but no charges have resulted. Doesn’t that seem a little odd, when people such as Darrell Issa are in a position to conduct in depth investigations? That guy has been all over anything that seemed like an exploitable avenue of attack against the Obama administration. If this particular story has been off his list, it’s either because he knows nothing substantive is there, or because republicans have concerns about the propriety of their own fund raising. Or maybe both.
I’ve expressed my opinion on that before, and recently, I think. I don’t believe a person exists until there’s measurable cortical brain activity.
@Greg:
Gee whiz, you mean that irrevocably corrupt Holder hasn’t chosen to investigate his filthy boss?
I am shocked, I tell you!
@Greg:
Greg
Do you have the first clue – the teeniest, tiniest clue why Holder was appointed in the first place and why he stays on?
And how about that fetus-person conversion date?
@Tom:
None of the overwhelmingly obvious acts prove anything. Duh. They’re all coincidences, eh? This is what makes liberals so God-awfully stupid.
This is why I want a GOP President. I want him or her to absolutely destroy liberals with the IRS and EPA and prosecute for jaywalking.
All in coincidence.
@Tom:
Obama posts the names of Romney donors on a website, claims they’ve broken the law and says someone ought to look into it, and the IRS does his bidding.
And it’s just coincidence.
And that goddam Schmuck Schumer wants the IRSS to act as the Gestapo and says it out loud.
You people are very sad excuses for Americans.
@Greg:
D’Souza is being accused of “bundling” and then giving money back to donors. But I guess you think that every name on this list is beyond doing anything illegal:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/bundlers.php
How many of those names do you think skirted the law, Greggie?
@DrJohn, #22:
Holder can’t stop a House investigative committee from looking into anything they choose. I don’t believe the DOJ has devolved into a political instrument of the Obama administration.
I added a response to that in post #20 when I realized I’d missed the question.
@Greg:
That happens at around 25-27 weeks. So are you on board with a fetus becoming a person at 25-27 weeks?
@Bill Burris:
So you side-step my request for a discussion based on fact and pompously declare that I should believe Obama is the next Hitler because it seems to you, the hopelessly biased guy who wants it to be true more than anything else in the word, that that’s the case. You apparently actually believe your own bullsh*t, that you have an intuition that trumps the need for evidence. But just because you obviously have fantasies of running around shooting liberals doesn’t change the simple fact you have zero evidence to prove your laughable assertion. You do realize Obama has less than three years left in office and nothing, nothing, people like you have predicted in the last five years around this topic has come to pass. No race wars, no personal security force. Nothing. So when it is going to happen, Bill? Next week, in a year, the night before the 2016 inauguration? Is that when Biden is going to “burn down the Capitol” (LOL)? The truth is that what you’ve chosen to believe is completely illogical, and you can’t see that because of the privileged role you’ve assigned yourself in your own ridiculous fantasy. Obama will never hold power a day after his terms is scheduled to end. Never. The reason is because it’s not just self-appointed Hero’s of the Republic like yourself who won’t stand for it, it’s everyone: Republicans, Democrats, Congress, the US military, Hilary Clinton, me. Everyone. I know this puts a crimp in your delusions of being a hero in waiting, one of the only ones who sees it, but that’s the truth. And it”s your misunderstanding of history to think our current government and society are in any way or shape analogous to Germany in the 1930s. The only actual real danger I can see resulting from all this idiocy is if someone truly deranged buys into your silly fantasies and acts in the real world instead of venting his resentments and paranoia online.
I often wonder what people like you are going to think after Obama sails into the sunset. Will you feel duped, ashamed, embarrassed, angry? Will you just plow ahead oblivious, like you do whenever any of your harbingers of doom fail to materialize? Or maybe you’ll hold onto the dream and believe that Obama isn’t done, that he’s just plotting his return from his own personal Elba. I doubt for a true fanatic it ever ends.
So here we have you stooping to the “well they do it too” excuse for your actions? There is no hypocrisy, at least from me. There is only what we’ve both written here. I have called something reprehensible and you have defended it. I bet if we look back through the 800 or so odd FA’s posts hyperventilating about the Liberals = Nazis, we’ll find you well represented. Try owning your rhetoric and your actions.
@Greg:
But he could press a real investigation of IRS Chief Counsel Wilkins’s 80 part amnesia and the stonewalling of F&F.
Then again, if he did that he’d be violating his contract.
@retire05, #25:
No, he’s being accused of using straw donors to personally donate more money to a single candidate than is allowed by the law. Bundling involves combining money from multiple sources—not spreading out money from a single individual to make it look as if it comes from multiple sources.
@DrJohn, #27:
I think at that point the issue of a second person arises, and that there’s a legitimate basis for considering restrictions that there was no basis for considering earlier. It can be argued that termination of a pregnancy beyond that point should require justification. I think serious medical issues should be the primary consideration. I really don’t want to get into another off-topic discussion about that. I don’t have much to say that hasn’t been said before.
@Greg:
OK, while I disagree I’ll accept that.
@DrJohn:
Thank you for admitting you have no proof. Do you know how many people voted against Obama, have spoken or written against him in the last six years? So is your point that if any of them commits a crime, they should not be prosecuted, because of appearances? What about the literally thousands of published Obama opponents who haven’t been investigated or arrested? Do you really think Dinesh D’Souza is at the top of Obama’s enemies list, or even in the top 1000? Your silly confirmation bias knows no bounds.
@DrJohn:
And you’re the type of guy who writes a pathetically dishonest post railing against the race card one day and then plays it the next. Short-term memory problem, perhaps?
2012……no President in history was more vulnerable than Him…..how’d that work out?
Fast ‘n furious……IRS scandal…..Solyndra ….hundreds of billions of “stimulus” dollars….deaths in Benghazi…..Obamacare disgrace….and probably another dozen or so that I can’t think of.
Not one hide nailed to the barn door, by all those we sent to Washington to do just that.
2014…..damned if I’ll count the chickens before they hatch…….again.
@Greg:
And how many of those Obama bundlers, like Jeffrey Katzenberg, do you think threw more than $2,500.00 into the pot when they were bundling for Obama? Are you going to tell me that the Obama campaign was so diligent that there was not ONE liberal on that list that violated the law?
If you believe that, I have some ocean front property to sell you. It’s right outside of Lubbock, Texas.
Dr.J I actually find you one of the most intelligent Conservatives here at FA. You debate in a relatively friendly manner and rarely rely on name calling or attempts at character assassination. Kudos
Here’s the thing. I KNOW your posts comparing Obama to Hitler are done with tongue firmly placed in cheek.
Problem is you are firing up the few that actually BELIEVE your grave yard humor. They seem ready to take up arms and goose step behind their fearless physician.
Question is –When they show up at your house, burning torches held high,will you tell them of your ruse?
BTW Are we in agreement MLK JR. was not a card carrying Repub, and per his auto-biography voted for JFK in 1960?
@Tom:
Yep.
@Richard Wheeler:
If he has any sense, he’ll lock and load.
@Richard Wheeler:
Great point. DrJohn is the type of person who claims to “not” be a lot of things, but clearly plays to those who are. I happen to think what a person thinks in his head is his own business. Likewise, I think a self-described non-racist who has a platform and plays to racism f0r personal gain is much worse than a racist who keeps his opinion to himself.
@Tom: Dr. John, of Jewish faith, is too smart to believe BHO in the same ballpark,hell the same universe as Hitler.
But like the Little Corporal he has the ability to fire up his Gentile followers and Nan G .For what purpose? He’s got a misplaced,wicked humor.
@Tom:
Muslim is not a race.
@Tom: Who is it that invents such nonsense as the Republican “war on women”, “war on gays”, “war on immigrants” or “war on the poor”? Well, Tom, that would be your team. And why does the left do this? For propaganda purposes, because they have no facts to support their arguments and no successes to support their ideology. Who accused Bush of being Hitler, who accused him or acting with Gestapo characteristics as he enacted his Homeland Security, yet Obama amped those programs to the hilt to spy on everyone and everything, regardless of connection to terrorism or any portion of a communication being off-shore. So, you on the left have absolutely NO right to complain; it is your specialty.
But, to the subject of the post; Obama uses the IRS to harass and silence political opposition, uses the DOJ to investigate, wiretap and try to intimidate journalists, threatens to use executive orders to enact whatever he likes if he cannot get his way and you cannot see how anyone can make the comparison to a totalitarian regime? Really? You leftists, as described above, seem to have a good sense of what constitutes a totalitarian regime, since you invoke the image whenever you have no argument in your own support.
“You do realize Obama has less than three years left in office and nothing, nothing, people like you have predicted in the last five years around this topic has come to pass. ” Well, there you couldn’t be more wrong. Obama makes every attempt to incite racial animosity. He incites anarchists to destroy, as he did with the OWS thugs. He promotes anyone who disagrees with Republicans to “punish your enemies” and we see black on white violence all across the nation. And, of course, the failure of the economy and Obamacare have certainly come to pass.
As to Biden, you really do expose your ignorance of the subject at hand. Look up van de Lubbe. You will see a clear parallel between him and Biden, if you have spent any time observing Biden. While the burn the Capital/burn the Reich comparison is tongue in cheek, we are certainly not too far distant, and this regime is certainly capable of, some sort of domestic incident that could be used as a pretense for seizing power and, possibly, negating upcoming elections. Anyone that would stage Fast and Furious to exaggerate the gun control problem, use the IRS to attack political enemies, intimidate honest reporting, punish and harass political opponents and waive law requirements for political supporters would be capable of anything. Obama uber alles. If you don’t like being associated with totalitarian regimes, stop supporting those who act like them.
@Greg:
And I’m quite sure all the libs are certain that no libs have ever done anything that egregious, heaven forbid, donate too much money….. uh, uh, uh.
@Richard Wheeler:
“I don’t think the Republican party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic party. They both have weaknesses … And I’m not inextricably bound to either party.”
@Richard Wheeler:
A lot of people have misinterpretations.
@xsnake: So, you take perverse pride in an administration that lied about economic accomplishments, had 95% of the media covering his ass, supporting his lies, propagating his lies about the opposition, using the IRS to silence opposition and won by a mere 3 million votes? What a pitiful life.
@Tom:
It’s all coincidence.
OBAMA will retire and take HILARY with him’
and all the DEMOCRATES ,
NO MORE CRAZY LAWS NO MORE RETRIBUTION, NO MORE REGULATIONS,
NO MORE OBAMACARE, NO MORE IMPLEMENTATION, NO MORE REVENGE, NO MORE PUNISHMENT, NO MORE PAY THE FINE FOR THAT BOOK OF MULTI THOUSANDS LAWS,
NO MORE ARROGANT IRS, NO MORE LIES, NO MORE MARXIST COMMUNIST ROAMING THE PARKS, NO MORE DIVIDE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE, ALL AMERICAN,
FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS, WITH THE CONSERVATIVES, AND THEY WILL RECLAIM AMERICA, FOREVER FOR THE PEOPLE TO BE MASTER OF THEIR LIVES,
AND THE TEA PARTY WILL CONTINUE THEIR WATCH FOR FREEDOM TO STAY WITH THE PEOPLE, ALWAYS,
@Richard Wheeler:
All he needs is more time, Rich. Obama thinks he’s God and liberals believe it too.
Baba Wawa: