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.
@Richard Wheeler: 1)
Okay Wheeler, as best I can determine, near the end of his life, he tended to be more supportive of Dimocrats, but was he a Republican? By definition, seems so, apparently he only registered to vote in one state, Alabama, as a Republican, so that he could vote. No record ever existed that he registered as a Dimocrat (or Democrat). Another interesting piece of info I found, if you believe Snopes (which I am leery of), seems as if his real name was Michael Luther King Jr.
Would you check your poof piece by Carson and see if he admits that in his book?
@Richard Wheeler:
And you’re being a Dimocrat and ducking the issue. Most reviews and factual info I can find on Carson’s book pretty well think it is garbage as far as factual. It was put together using mostly plagiarized materials by King as a poof piece. Can you find a ‘favorable and truthful’ review of it? Even Snopes (your bible) thinks King himself did quite a bit of plagiarizing, such as in his doctoral dissertation and in his I have a Dream speech. But I know you’re not gonna believe what I say, so go read your bible (snopes).
Don’t know why you brought up these issues if you’re now gonna bob and weave and duck the issue. You’re the one ‘quoting as authority’ a non-existent autobio. Surely that’s not the standard at that school you went to, is it? If you’ll just Marine up and admit you were wrong, we can drop the issue. But continuing to bob and weave ain’t gonna cut it.
–Dr. George Brock Chisholm, 1959 Humanist of the Year and former head of World Health Organization, in the February 1946 issue of Psychiatry
That is what you need to know about the left. Their goals are not to better the lives of individuals, but to do whatever is necessary to enslave the masses for the benefit of the self-proclaimed elite….because they are just so much smarter and more worthy than we bourgeois peasantry. World government is their goal, not to end war or regional conflicts, but to ensure that there is no place for slaves to escape their totalitarian rule. See, in the mind of the socialist/marxist/leftist, once they control the whole world, they don’t have to bother with anything so troublesome as building an Iron Curtain or a Berlin Wall to imprison their slaves.
One must listen to leftists because they are so full of their self-impressed wisdom that eventually they will admit what they are doing, so you can prepare an appropriate resistance. But as far as ever trusting a leftist, you would do better trusting your throat to the maw of a rabid dog.
RW, while reading about MLK Jr, I read this: I’d like to know what you think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
I couldn’t find, and wiki didn’t say, which years and how many that either MLK Jr or his father spent in slavery and lost wages because of it. Do you happen to have any info on that?
Do you suppose that only would include black people? I was born and grew up in the rural south, do you think he would have sent me some of that money, had he gotten it? I still see a huge number of disadvantaged people here in Louisiana, of all races, wonder if they all blame it on slavery, or were only the blacks disadvantaged because of slavery.
I guess, when all you want is a government handout, you’ll come up with any excuse. To blame the failures of his generation on a practice that had been gone over 100 years, is kinda stretching it a mite, wouldn’t you say? What do the whites of today get to blame for their disadvantages, giving too many handouts to others? When you start getting to the point when you want someone else to pay you for something that happened to someone else hundreds of years ago, where do you draw the line? Clarence Thomas got a free ride to Yale because he was black (affirmative action). I grew up at the same time in the same area of the same state and nobody gave me a free ride “just because I was white”. So, was I disadvantaged? Want to send me some of your money?
@Redteam:
Gee, Redteam, do you think I could get a hand out and restitution for the land of my ancestors that was stolen by both whites and blacks? Could I be reimbursed for the lost wages of my ancestors that were slaughtered by the Buffalo Soldiers who were hailed as heroes for killing Native Americans with rapid dispatch? Will I get just the dollar amount of the year of the events or do I get current value plus interest?
Interesting concept.
RW, here’s a little info on one of your idols, wanted to make sure you didn’t miss it.
Makes me think about the 3 requirements to be President. There should have been a 4th:
4. Not be a Federal Felon.
but then we could only have Republicans.
Pete
thank you,
this is so easy to understand , and so truthful,
AND SO SCARY TO BE IN FRONT OF SUCH EVIL,
IS THAT WHY THEY TRY TO GET RID OF ANYTHING ABOUT GOD?
YES I BELIEVE SO,
WHERE WAS BEFORE OBAMA THE MEDIAS GIVING THE ATHEIST THE PUBLIC FORUM?
NONE, NEVER BEFORE, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE CREDIBILTY, NOW THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN IT,
EVEN BEEN TAKEN THE PLACE OF A MAN OF GOD ,
THEY WHERE SENT BY OBAMA BEING THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF USING HIS POWER TO ELIMINATE GOD ANY WHERE, EVEN
WITH THE WARRIORS SOME HAVE DIED WITHOUT THE PRESENCE OF A MAN OF GOD,
IN THE WARZONE,
THOSE ATHEIST SAYING WELL ALL THE MILITARY WANT IS TO BE HEARD SO THEY SAID THEY FIT IN THERE,
IS IN IT A SIGN OF TIME ACCEPTING EVIL? YES IT IS,
@Bill Burris:
With no intent to change the subject of this discussion but to correct the record, I submit that this MSM/Democrat talking point was, and still is simply wrong and ignorant of the known facts. The military correctly reported that WMD’s were indeed found in Iraq, (500 WMD weapon munitions,) but simply were not found in Iraq in the vast quantities that world intelligence agencies thought Saddam had on hand.
Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq
WMD: Lost and Found
Iraq’s WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says
Redteam
THAT IS VERY VALUABLE FOR THE NEXT ELECTION,
it bring TO MY MIND A NATURAL THOUGHT THAT THOSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FELONS WHO CANNOT FIND A JOB ALL BEFUSED, THEY HAVE BEEN BRANDED FELON STILL AFTER PAYING THEIR ERROR FOR MANY JUST AN ERROR NOT A DANGER TO SOCIETY, THOSE ARE MANY THOUSANDS,
REJECTED BY COMPANIES WHO CAN ONLY CLICK ON GOOGLE TO SEE 10 YEARS OF FELONY AND THE NAME AND LABEL ,
WHEN THEY HAVE PAID THEIR TIME AND ARE FREE OF ANY OTHER ERRORS, AND STILL GIVEN THE LABEL FELON,
WELL THEY SHOULD BE FREE OF IT LIKE CLINTON HAS BEEN SO FREE AS TO BECOME PRESIDENT,
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH AMERICA? TAKING A FELON PRESIDENT FOR HIS PROMISSES,
TO REALIZE HE IS A RUNAWAY FELON OR A MAD PSYCHO RUINED BY THE COCAINE,
Ditto
wow, IT SHOW THE DEMOCRATS’ ignorance and refusal to believe anyone but themselves,
which bring failure to do the right thing, at the right time, or to not do what is seen as a bad consequence,
of course they don’t look further than that,
and the FRAMERS WOULD NEVER ENVISAGE SUCH IDIOCY
to take place by the people they gave the power to change the wrong done to them, in the next two century,
THEY MUST BE TURNING IN THEIR GRAVES,
@Ditto: I would not be at all surprised to hear that many of the weapons were transfered to Syria, as has been supposed in the past. Without the actual finding, though, I never use that in an argument. However, I have argued that, as opposed to Bush using what he supposedly knew was a false claim of WMD’s in Iraq as the reason for going to war (we went to war in Libya and almost in Syria to keep WMD’s out of the hands of terrorists), had he actually known there were no weapons to be found, a good schemer would have had it arranged to “find” enough to justify the invasion. Instead, Bush just said “oops, I really thought they were there” and took his embarrassing lumps.
@ilovebeeswarzone:
Bee,
I have difficulty sometimes trying to determine which was the worst, most destructive president in our history – Clinton or Obama. At the present I am leaning towards Obama, but Clinton surely is right on his heals.
Have a great weekend.
Pete
I respect your judgement, and your decisions are just and fair,
BEST TO YOU,
Bill Burris
the President Bush was a very smart man, by saying it, he was giving a message,
to his opponent to question him,
he was daring them to accuse him of not having done the right decision,
and he knew a lot more than they thought,
they did not dare,
OH, AND HE DID NOT GO THERE FOR THAT SPECIFICALY,
HE WENT TO DESTROY THE MONSTER HE KNEW VERY WELL, FROM HIS FATHER WHO HAD WAGE A WAR WITH SADDAM
INVADING HIS NEIGHBOR ALLYED WITH THE USA,
AND THE JOB WAS LEFT UNFINISH, SO HE FINISHED IT,
WHILE THE DEMOCRATS WHERE ALL OVER HIM,DEMONZING
HIM, GETTING READY FOR OBAMA TO TAKE THE PRESIDENCY,
AS SOON AS THE PRESIDENT BUSH LEAVE,
THE TAKE OVER OF AMERICA BY FOREIGNERS
THE DEMOCRATS ARE JUST THE FROG IN THE HOT WATER,
BETWEEN THE UNIONS COMMUNIST, THE MARXIST SOCIALIST,
AND THE ARABS MUSLIMS,
bye
@Pete: I’d kinda have to go with Worst Obama, next Carter, next Clinton. We have really scraped the bottom of the barrel on the Dim side, maybe the scum is now off the floor.
@Ditto, #108:
FOX News was instrumental in selling a totally unnecessary invasion of Iraq to the American public to begin with. The Weekly Standard is a neoconservative propaganda outlet. This character is connected with both of them.
The Iranian WMDs that Bush hyped simply didn’t exist. No evidence that they did was ever found. A few collections of misplaced weapons from earlier decades were uncovered. Those were so old that they were no longer viable weapons. They remained hazardous primarily because they were so old that they were potentially unstable. Does anyone seriously believe Saddam Hussein would have rid himself of his most effective weapons precisely at the point when he might have had need to use them?
The story that stockpiles were moved to Syria is nothing more than a story. I remember aerial photos that were touted as “evidence.” The interpretation of what the convoys were doing was completely cockeyed. There’s no evidence that they were doing anything more than decentralizing and distributing conventional war materials in preparation for the impending invasion. I suppose continued belief in the threat of Saddam’s WMDs helps to rationalize one of the biggest, most pointless, and most costly foreign policy blunders in the history of the United States. One thing that’s being evaded when we do that is an important lesson.
People are casually tossing out pronouncements that Clinton or Obama were the nation’s worst presidents. There must be a short-term memory problem involved. The administration of George W. Bush was a catastrophe on multiple fronts. There’s hardly any point in making a list for those who can’t figure out why. It’s taken the better part of 6 years to tidy up after that debacle. The economy is still limping. The wars and their associated problems are still with us. The total costs will likely exceed 6 trillion dollars. Then there’s the debt that was run up during those 8 years themselves, largely a result of totally irresponsible high-end tax cuts that fueled an overheated economic binge. All of which, of course, gets blamed on the guy who walked in after the party ended.
GREG
how dare you come here to say that, with your tail in the 9/11 MASSACRE, 6 THOUSANDS CIVILIANS,
AND MORE POLICES AND FIREFIGHTERS STILL DYING FROM THEIR WORK IN THERE,
AFTER YEARS OF MISERIBLE SICK LIVES,
PRESIDENT BUSH CARED FOR THOSE, HE SHOULD HAVE SENT A
NUCLEOR BOMB INSTEAD HE CHOSE TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT PEOPLE, AND GO AFTER THE MONSTER,
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana.
GREG
you see the difference BETWEEN RETALIATE ON ENEMY ,
AND DOING NOTHING, NOW, AND CHUMMY WITH THEM,
Greg, you are the one who has forgotten the past.
Remember how Saddam scammed the UN’s Oil-For-Food arrangement to arm himself while starving his people?
Remember how our ”containment” program of a double (in the north and in the south) ”no-fly-zone” was costing us over $3 million a day?
It had gone on 12 years with no sign it could ever have ended.
Remember Saddam’s cash payments for families of terrorists who had killed an American, an Israeli or an Infidel?
It was a $25,000 cash payment he did EVERY time he could.
Getting Saddam OUT then tried and executed was worth the price of the Shock-and-Awe campaign.
Recall, too, how two-faced Turkey promised the US/allies a route into Iraq from the north so a lightning-fast pincer campaign would have been possible ….only to back out AFTER we had positioned our forces.
The repositioning of those forces were two things: 1. the BIGGEST movement of forces in all history, and 2. the reason Saddam was able to dig in.
@Greg:
LOL, only because Bush was a Republican. If he’d been a Dimocrat, it would all have been hunky dory.
The many huge truck convoys that left the country just prior to the invasion were all empty. Nothing was carried out. Only one driver per truck. Even the people didn’t leave the country. They just wanted to get all the empty trucks out of the country.
yes, likely just a nursery rhyme. all those trucks were empty. (tho I think the fairy god mother might have slipped out in one of them.
Now, that’s one of them intelligent statements that Liberals tend to make, note: it starts off with “There’s no evidence” and then goes on to say what the ‘no evidence’ proved. Hows that for Dimocrat logic. We have no evidence that they distributed all those weapons to anywhere, but they definitely only distributed them within the country. That’s what our “no evidence” proves. Wow, a real knee slapper.
You think it might rank up there with Obamacare?
There’s nothing casual about it. They are deadly serious about how huge a catastrophe Obama, Carter and Clinton were and are.
Yes, especially amongst Dimocrats. And here’s a sample of brilliant Dimocrat logic:
Obama has been in for 6 years and everything is still GWB’s fault. Does that mean that everything that happened during GWB term was the fault of Slick Willie, or is it only the Repubs that are ever at fault for anything bad? Seems as if all this crap Obama is responsible for is really gonna hit the fan about the time the next president comes in, but, no worries, he can blame it all on Obama.
Nanny G
yes, as always, you find the words.
THANK YOU,
@Gerry: #81
The USA is not a democracy.
@Greg: “FOX News was instrumental in selling a totally unnecessary invasion of Iraq to the American public to begin with. ” The necessity for the war was sold to Congress with the intelligence that was available; hell, even Hillary supported it and I doubt she has ever watched Fox.
At some point, Greg, the left is going to have to come to grips with their failure to lead and accomplish and stop blaming all their failures on a singular news outlet.
The economy limps (crippled due to the left wing CRA, not Bush) because there apparently is not a liberal alive that has the slightest notion as to how to improve it and they (Reid, Democrats, Senate) are loathe to allow anything coming out of the Republican House to pass for fear that someone other than the Democrats might take some responsibility for any improvement. Add to a general economic incompetence making passage of a terrible law with devastating economic impact (Obamacare), an EPA gone wild (or crazy) and tens of thousands of pages of new, economy-retarding regulations and you have our stagnant economy. The damage was brought about by liberals and the lasting pain is caused by liberal inability to utilize the power of capitalism to improve it.
@Aqua:
Hi Aqua,
I believe your chart speaks to EO’s per annum. Certainly I get your point that Obama is one EO ahead of the GWB’s pace, but my claim is certainly not “not true”, since I think it’s clear I was speaking about totals, or at least a reasonable person could assume. Anyhow, I think either way my point is supported, as your link speaks to:
@Bill Burris:
I understand how conspiracy thinking works, thank you. Again, I wonder, how impartial is your thinking?
@Bill Burris:
You failed to mention one other thing that is terribly disturbing about this current administration; the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into high places in our federal government.
Here is an interesting article:
http://spectator.org/articles/57483/obama-six
The left wing will pooh-pooh this disturbing trend, but make no mistake, history has already proven that we can, and have been infiltrated by enemies, i.e. the number of Communists that made it into previous administrations.
We need to be asking; why did the Obama administration support, nay, defend, the Morsi administration in Egypt knowing that the Muslim Brotherhood, which Morsi belonged to, has long been considered a terrorist organization by our own nation? Why was Obama so set on removing Mubarak, knowing that he had been a buffer between the United States and jihadists coming out of Egypt? Why support the removal of Gaddafi, when Gaddafi had been neutralized when it came to the U.S.? Why was Hillary Clinton singing the praises of Baby Assad, only for Obama to decide that he would rather support Al Qaeda in Syria rather than leave Assad in power?
The Congressional report is out. Benghazi could have not only been prevented, it was badly mishandled from the git-go.
We, and by “we” I mean our government, is facilitating our enemies. Obama supports the MB in Egypt; Obama gives a shout out to ISNA, another terror supporting organization; Obama appoints MB members to high positions in our national security departments; CAIR is a frequent visitor to the White House. And if it hadn’t been for Congress, we would have boots on the ground in Syria today backing the AQ operatives that are trying to depose Assad. Multi-million dollar grants are given to public libraries and college libraries for programs like the Muslim Journeys to be inserted into schools, even at the high school level, all to sanitize and white wash Islam to students. Why?
The Communists knew they could use cultural Marxism (i.e. political correctness) to work against the United States and radical Islam has taken that from their playbook.
We are aiding and abetting our enemies and no one is paying attention to it.
@retire05:
Interesting. I had no idea. Who are these MB members? Please, don’t respond without unambiguous evidence that these people in “high postions” are members of the MB. I would hate to think you’re peddling Islamaphobic slander. It would be shocking, coming from you.
@Tom: Impartial enough. Again, in the face of all the circumstantial and substantial evidence that Obama knew about the IRS actions, it would be in his best interest if he were to open the subject fully to investigation instead of doing nothing (but for promoting those responsible) for a year, then putting a campaign supporter and contributor in charge of the “investigation”. Now, if impartiality is important to you, Tom, do you think you are seeing it there? What I suspect is, actually, impartiality is NOT very important to you.
@Bill Burris:
Bill, as bonafide expert in simplistic historical analogy, as you listen to your fellow conservatives vilify Muslims and immigrants, blaming them for everything that’s wrong with this nation, claiming they’re taking jobs from the “native born”, that they’re a security risk, does that remind you of the tactics of any particular group in history? Think hard. Did any group, say in Europe, try to scapegoat “outsiders” like that? Think harder. Maybe it happened in the 30s, the 1930s? Keep trying, Bill. I know you’ll find that analogy in the end.
@Bill Burris:
Bill, you are aware that there was a Congressional investigation and that three people ultimately resigned, right?
@Tom:
You can start with Mohamed Elibiary. At the end of last September, he posted the Rabia sign on his twitter page. I suggest you look that up, Tom. I know you’re a smart guy, you can learn what the Rabia sign means.
Elibiary took a lot of heat for that and other twitters calling him down on it at which he responded “Why all the R4biaphobia?”
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Do you even have a small clue what “phobia” means, Tom? Because if you do, you should understand that just because I understand we have enemies doesn’t mean that I fear them. But then, “Islamaphobia” was a nice catch phrase created by CAIR to stop people from talking about radical Islam since we must be, at all times, politically correct even when it will harm our nation, right?
Common sense would be shocking coming from you.
@retire05:
That’s funny. I thought you were going to prove someone “high up” was in the Muslim Brotherhood. Do you want to try again?
@retire05:
Oh, I’m sorry. You’re a person who hates Muslims. Is that better? Is “hate” strong enough? We can tweak it. You’re a person who labels an entire minority group of American citizens as your “enemies” and preaches hatred against them, conveniently enough on a post about Nazis. How ironic. You must be with Obama!
@Tom:
Boy, you have Saul Alinsky down pat, don’t you? But let’s take a look at your comparison, shall we? Hitler scapegoated the Jews, the Gypsies, the Catholics, the homosexuals. Ummm, remind me again when any members of those groups were bombing German protestants in cities like Berlin, Dresden, et al. I seem to have missed that part of the history of Germany.
Now, let’s take a look at what has happened in our own nation: 19 men flew three plans into tall buildings, along with the one that crashed in a field in PA. What was their common trait? Two brothers set off bombs during the Boston Marathon. What did they have in common with the 19 hijackers? A U.S. Army officer walked into a facility at Fort Hood and slaughters American soldiers. What did he have in common with the 19 men and the two brothers in Boston?
Now, if you can equate the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and Catholics of 1930’s Germany doing anything remotely similar, please inform all of us what those events were and when they happened. I’m sure we will appreciate the history lesson that our educations have failed to provide to us.
@Tom:
Just because I realize someone is not my friend doesn’t mean I “hate” them, Tom. I leave that kind of emotion to you radical leftists.
@retire05:
Thanks for butting in. Who is Saul Alinsky? The point of my request for a simplistic historical analogy seems to have flown right over your head. Glad to hear you’re a big supporter of homosexuals. I guess it was a different crotchety old biddy who hates the gays on this site.
@retire05:
You don’t hate your enemies? Perhaps you love everyone and just suffer from a rather dyspeptic personality.
@Tom:
Well, Elibiary seems to have enough clout in the Department of Homeland Security that Janet Napatanio defended him during a Congressional hearing. Maybe you were busy that day and she couldn’t reference you.
So you use tactics of someone you never heard of? Yep, that’s indoctrination.
As people, have nothing against homosexuals. As a political movement, I find them disgusting. Comprende?
old biddy?
Coming from a real a$$hole like you, I consider that a compliment.
Still waiting on your historical German comparison of people who were “scapegoated” by the Nazis who blew up buildings and slaughtered German protestants.
@Tom: 125.
I don’t think EO’s should be referred to as a decree. It is officially an order of instructions as to how to implement or carry out a law that was passed by the congress. It is not an instrument for the president to decree an order. I hope this clears it up.
@Tom:
Well, let me rephrase that. I only hate left wing a$$holes like you who I consider an enemy of the Constitution.
TOM
don’t feel sorry FOR THE BROTHERHOOD,,
THEY ARE WITH OBAMA ADVISING HIM IN THE GOVERNMENT BEST SEATS,
and you are nothing but TOM
@retire05:
Uh… but what about the whole proving he’s in the Muslim Brotherhood detail? Any chance that will happen this century? Please don’t tell me the twitter thing is all you have. I’ve laughed enough today.
In other words, you tolerate them as long as they know their place. It’s only when they ask for what you have that you get upset (a tidy summation of modern American far right conservatism). You’re so generous to overlook their moral turpitude, and look how they repay you.
retire05
this prove the suspicion so many on both sides have of him,
it took some times but the truth always come out,
too bad it”s before the votes of the people,
look at the small Tom trying to paint all who speak the truth islamophobe,
SICKENING
@retire05: Isn’t Tom’s ignorance a real beacon to you? Wonder who ties his shoes for him each morning.
@Tom:
couldn’t reference you.
Yeah, Elibiary flashed the MB sign because he hates them, right? And he accused others of R4biaphobia because…………….?????
So the man’s own words on Twitter is not proof enough for you. Got it. Denial is not a river in Egypt, Tom, but it does seem to be your credo.
Their place? You mean they have a place? And where is that place? Is it marked on a map? Can it be located with a GPS? Maybe we could let the radical Muslims know where their place is and just let them fight it out and leave the rest of us alone.
Still waiting on that German comparison from you. Having a hard time finding one, Tommy Boy?
@Redteam:
His keeper. But it is nice that mental patients like him now have computer access, isn’t it?
@ilovebeeswarzone:
small Tom is a very good description.
@Redteam:
I wear slippers. I’m lucky a genius like you even cares about my lace related issues. A borderline retarded person who somehow learns to use a computer would be the opposite description of you. As would a person who is an embarrassment to his entire alleged cause. Think how awful it would be if you were that person ,an object of ridicule, the opposite of the great man you are, who you think you are, whom everyone loves and respects.
@retire05:
Do you even know what Twitter is? If i tweet I’m dating Angelina Jolie, what does that prove? Perhaps you should stick to your spinning wheel and your confederate flag quilt.