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*)
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