Thursday, May 23, 2013

Barkerizing Buchanan... Obama and the IRS... Obama and The Age of Obama!


Pat Buchanan (and yours truly) make a few points and pose a few questions regarding Obama and the IRS... Obama and The Age of Obama...


The AP, IRS and Benghazi matters represent a scandal not of presidential wrongdoing, but of presidential indolence, indifference and incompetence in discharging the duties of chief executive.

* I DISAGREE. EVEN IF OBAMA IS "SIMPLY" GUILTY OF INDOLENCE, INDIFFERENCE AND INCOMPETENCE (WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE; I BELIEVE HE KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON) SUCH "GUILT" AMOUNTS TO PRESIDENTIAL WRONGDOING.

The Barack Obama revealed to us in recent days is...a spectator president, clueless about what is going on in his own household, who reacts to revelations like some stunned bystander.

* AGAIN. I DON'T BUY IT! BUT IF I DID BUY IT... IF ANY OF YOU READING THIS DO BUY IT... THEN SHOULDN'T WE BE CALLING FOR OBAMA TO RESIGN ON ACCOUNT OF NOT BEING ABLE OR WILLING TO ACTUALLY DO THE JOB HE'S BEEN ELECTED TO DO... TWICE?

Consider. Because of a grave national security leak, President Obama’s Department of Justice seized two months of records from 20 telephones used by The Associated Press.

* ACTUALLY... IT TURNED OUT THAT THERE WAS NO GRAVE NATIONAL SECURITY LEAK.

An unprecedented seizure. Yet the president was left completely in the dark. And though he rushed to defend the seizure, he claims he was uninvolved.

* UH-HUH...

While the AP issue does not appear to have legs — we know what was done and why — it has badly damaged this president. For his own Justice Department treated the press, which has an exalted opinion of itself and its role, with the same contempt as the IRS treated the Tea Party.

The Benghazi issue is of far greater gravity. Still, Obama’s sins here as well seem to be those of omission, not commission.

* BULL! THE BUCK STOPS ON THE PRESIDENT'S DESK. TO PASS IT IS TO IDENTIFY ONE AS UNFIT FOR THE OFFICE!

The president was apparently completely in the dark about the urgent requests from Benghazi for more security.

* BULLSHIT! I DON'T BELIEVE THIS FOR A MOMENT!

* BUT, FOLKS... FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT ASSUME THERE'S SOME TRUTH IN THIS SCENARIO. YET... WHO HAS BEEN FIRED? WHO HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE?

Obama was also apparently completely out of the loop during the seven-hour crisis of Sept. 11-12, when Ambassador Stevens was assassinated, calls for help from Benghazi were denied and two heroic ex-Navy SEALs died fighting to defend U.S. personnel from the roof of that CIA installation.

* FOLKS... OBAMA SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE SITUATION ROOM "RUNNING" THE CRISIS FROM HOUR ONE TILL HOUR SEVEN... TO HOUR FOURTEEN... FROM BEGINNING TO END!

No one seems to know where Obama was that night.

* OF COURSE THEY KNOW! THEY'RE SIMPLY NOT TELLING! OBVIOUSLY OBAMA KNOWS WHERE HE WAS... HE'S NOT TELLING!

The following week, as the State Department, CIA and National Security Council all worked the “talking points” to make it appear that this preplanned terrorist atrocity was a spontaneous event triggered by an anti-Islamic video, Obama knew nothing of the discussions.

(*SMIRK*)

Thus, almost a week after the massacre, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice was put on six networks to move the line that we could not have better prepared for what would happen in Benghazi because it was all a spontaneous event triggered by a YouTube video.

* YEP...! THAT'S WHAT SHE DID! RICE... NOT CLINTON... NOT PANETTA... NOT BIDEN... NOT ANY OF OBAMA'S KEY PEOPLE... AND CERTAINLY NOT OBAMA HIMSELF!

* AGAIN, FOLKS... THERE'S A REASON RICE WAS SENT TO LIE ON THE PUBLIC RECORD; 1) SHE WAS EXPENDABLE; 2) SHE WAS WILLING. AND SO OBAMA LET HER.

(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)

Rice’s version was untrue, but consistent with Obama’s campaign message: “Bin Laden is dead, and al-Qaida is on the run.”

Yet if Rice’s credibility was crippled by what she was sent out to parrot, a week after she got the egg all over her face, Obama was himself peddling the same line at the United Nations. Obama, it seems, may have been the last man to know the cover story had collapsed.

* OBAMA WAS DOUBLING-DOWN. THAT'S WHAT HE DOES! AND, HEY... HE GOT AWAY WITH IT... THE MEDIA LARGELY SUPPLIED COVER FOR HIM... ROMNEY GOT SCARED AND BACKED OFF... OBAMA WON RE-ELECTION.

(*SHRUG*)

* WHAT'S IT MATTER NOW? IT'S NOT LIKE REID IS GOING TO ALLOW OBAMA TO BE IMPEACHED, CONVICTED, AND REMOVED FROM OFFICE! OBAMA'S GAMBIT PAYED OFF!

As for the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status, this bureaucratic misconduct began as far back as 2010, when the Tea Party was a national sensation. Yet, despite Tea Party protests to members of Congress, who made inquiries of the IRS, the discrimination against groups with “Tea Party” and “Patriot” in their names continued, and was extended to groups whose proclaimed mission was to defend the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... DEMOCRAT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHERE GETTING THE COMPLAINTS AS WELL AS REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. UNLESS EACH AND EVERY DEMOCRAT MEMBER OF THE HOUSE AND EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT SENATOR SIMPLY IGNORED SUCH COMPLAINTS - WHICH JUST DOESN'T TRACK - THEN THIS MEANS THAT THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH WAS HEARING THE (TRUTHFUL!) ACCUSATIONS FROM BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS! AND IGNORNING THEM! LETTING THE IRS GO ON DOING WHAT THEY WERE DOING FOR YEARS!

Literally for years this went on.

* YES, PAT... I JUST SAID THAT!

(*GRIN*)

Investigations were begun by the IRS, and the results reported to the Treasury Department. But nothing was made public before the election of 2012.

* AGAIN...

But nothing was made public before the election of 2012.

* AGAIN...

But nothing was made public before the election of 2012.

(*SHRUG*)

This weekend we learned that the White House counsel was told this April about the IRS misconduct and the investigations, but she did not inform President Obama. He learned about it from news reports.

(*RAISING ONE EYEBROW*)

* AGAIN, FOLKS... LET'S PRETEND THIS IS BELIEVABLE. SO... WHEN OBAMA FINALLY FINDS OUT... HE DOESN'T FIRE THIS WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL WHO KEPT HIM IN THE DARK? HE DIDN'T FIRE THE TREASURY OFFICIALS WHO KEPT HIM IN THE DARK? HE HASN'T EVEN FIRED THE IRS OFFICIAL WHO "TOOK THE FIFTH" YESTERDAY...?!?! COM'ON...!!!

What we have here, it appears, is a government out of control and a president clueless about what is going on in that government.

* AND THAT'S... BEST... CASE... SCENARIO...!!!

And that is the best case.

* GEEZUS, PAT! GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE!

For it is difficult to believe the IRS could conduct a full-court press on Obama’s opponents, that IRS higher-ups knew about it years ago and that Treasury knew about it before the election — but the White House was kept in the dark about a scandal that could have derailed the Obama campaign.

(*STRUMMING MY FINGERS ON THE DESK*)

* ANYONE BUYING IT...? ANYONE AT ALL...??? AND IF YOU DO... WHAT SHOULD BE THE RESPONSE?

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