Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Folks... just to let you know... further Supreme Court rulings on ObamaCare minutia won't put Humpty Dumpty back together; our Constitution was directly and permanently torn asunder on June 28, 2012 when Chief Justice Roberts led a majority of the Court to violate their oaths of office and basically render the concept of the Constitutional Rule of Law moot.
Anyway... on to newsbiting... on to cataloging the history of the decline and fall of America... once home to the Free... once home to the Brave.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/201791-boehner-what-the-hell-is-this-a-joke
“What the hell is this, a joke?” Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner said at his weekly press conference.
He was responding to the administration’s announcement on Tuesday evening that people who had begun the process of signing up for insurance through the federal exchanges would have until mid-April to do so, instead of March 31.
The Speaker called the move “another deadline made meaningless,” adding it to a litany of unilateral changes that the administration has made to the law.
* AND...???
“This is part of a long-term pattern of this administration manipulating the law for its own convenience,” Boehner said.
* AND...???
“It’s not hard to understand why the American people question this administration’s commitment to the rule of law,” Boehner continued.
* AND WHAT - PRAY TELL - HAS THE SPEAKER... OR HIS COLLEAGE MITCH MCCONNELL, REPUBLICAN MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE... DONE TO PREVENT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FROM DOING AS IT PLEASES AND MAKING A MOCKERY OF THE RULE OF LAW...???
The Speaker mocked the use of the “honor system” to determine who was eligible for an extension after the administration said it would make no effort to ensure that people had actually begun the process of signing up by March 31. “Why don’t they just say, ‘We’ve moved the date to April 15’? Because that’s in effect what they’ve done,” Boehner said.
* AND... WHY... DON'T... YOU... TRY... AND... STOP... THEM... SPEAKER... BOEHNER...???
* FOLKS. WE'VE GOT TWO PARTIES. NEITHER GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION. NEITHER GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE SEPERATION OF POWERS DOCTRINE. NEITHER GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW. UNDER SUCH A REALITY HOW WE RESTORE ORDER...???
Republicans have attacked the healthcare law from virtually every angle, criticizing both its underlying regulations and the administration’s repeated decision to delay or not fully enforce them.
* TO ILLEGALLY DELAY... ABSENT STATUTORY AUTHORITY...
* TO ILLEGALLY NOT ENFORCE... ABSENT STATUTORY DISCRETION...
* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... THE MSM IS IN SYNC WITH THE POLITICIANS. THEY COULDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW EITHER! THERE HAS BEEN A BLOODLESS COUP. THE CONSTITUTION IS DEAD.
“The dates are the dates, and the law is the law,” Boehner said. “The president doesn’t have the authority to change the law whenever he wants, which he continues to do.”
* AND YET...
(*SHRUG*)
Boehner added later in the press conference: “The law says that enrollment stops at the end of March. That’s what the law says. I’ve got to live by the law; you’ve got to live by the law; the American people have got to live by the law. And guess what? The president needs to live by the law as well.”
* APPARENTLY HE DOESN'T.
(*SNORT*)
* FOLKS... FOLLOW THE ACTIONS (NON-ACTIONS...), NOT THE RHETORIC.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-agents-on-obama-detail-sent-home-from-netherlands-after-night-of-drinking/2014/03/26/86d1a8a6-b4e6-11e3-8020-b2d790b3c9e1_story.html
Three Secret Service agents responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam this week were sent home and put on administrative leave Sunday after going out for a night of drinking, according to three people familiar with the incident. One of the agents was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway, the people said.
* FOLKS... REMEMBER THE HOOKER "INCIDENTS" IN LATIN AMERICA? OBAMA HAS SOMEHOW MANAGED TO "BREAK" THE SECRET FRIGGIN' SERVICE!
The hotel staff alerted the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands after finding the unconscious agent Sunday morning, a day before Obama arrived in the country, according to two of the people. The embassy then alerted Secret Service managers on the presidential trip, which included the agency’s director, Julia Pierson.
* WHO IS PROBABLY TOTALLY UNQUALIFIED FOR HER JOB...
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed Tuesday evening that the agency “did send three employees home for disciplinary reasons” and that they were put on administrative leave pending an investigation. Donovan declined to comment further.
The alleged "incident" took place in Noordwijk at the Huis Ter Duin Hotel, where the president stayed Monday night, a White House official said Wednesday morning. This is a resort town in the Netherlands about 15 minutes outside The Hague. According to two people familiar with the Amsterdam incident, the three are members of the Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team, known in the agency as CAT.
* GEEZUS...
The alleged behavior would violate Secret Service rules adopted in the wake of a damaging scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, in April 2012, when a dozen agents and officers had been drinking heavily and had brought prostitutes back to their hotel rooms before the president’s arrival for an economic summit.
* AS IF THERE WERE NO "RULE AGAINST THIS" PRIOR TO 2012...
(*SNORT*)
Under the requirements, anyone on an official trip is forbidden to drink alcohol in the 10 hours leading up to an assignment.
* GIVE ME A FRIGGIN' BREAK! THESE PEOPLE ARE "ON-CALL" 24/7. WHEN THEY'RE ABROAD ON ASSIGNMENT - PARTICULARLY PROTECTION DUTY ASSIGNMENT - THEY SHOULDN'T BE GETTING DRUNK - PERIOD!
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
As members of the advance team for a presidential trip, the CAT members would have been called to duty sometime Sunday for a classified briefing ahead of the president’s arrival on Monday. Drinking late into the night Saturday evening and Sunday morning would have violated that rule.
* IMAGINE THE POSSIBLE RAMIFCATIONS FOLKS... THESE DUMB BASTARDS PUTTING THEMSELVES IN LINE FOR BEING KIDNAPPED.. BLACKMAILED...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
The three involved in the drinking incident were GS-13-level agents, according to one person familiar with the investigation of the case. One of the three was a “team leader” on counterassault, but he was not in a supervisory position in the agency, the person said.
(The Counter Assault Team’s job is to protect the president if he or his motorcade comes under attack and to fight off assailants and draw fire while the protective detail removes the president from the area.)
* AND WHAT IS THE HUNGOVER COUNTER ASSAULT TEAM'S JOB...?
* NO... SERIOUSLY, FOLKS... THIS ISN'T FUCKING FUNNY... (BUT IT DOES SEEM TO BE A PATTERN! OBAMA HAS BROKEN THE SECRET SERVICE!)
Two former agency employees with experience on foreign trips described the counterassault team as one of the most elite units in the agency, responsible for “the last line of defense” for the president. Those selected for CAT are required to be highly skilled shooters and extremely physically fit, with a demanding training regimen, said the two former employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal operations.
There are also high expectations for personal conduct on the squad, they said. On foreign trips, one former agent recalled, the counterassault team often worked shifts as long as 12 hours, the former agents recalled, and agents were expected to get rest during their time off to be in prime condition.
* THAT WAS THEN... THIS IS NOW... WELCOME TO THE AGE OF OBAMA...
“They received the best technical training in the service,” said one of the former agents. “They were the only team constantly training — training on assaults, on evacuations, all sorts of things. They were very squared away. It was really difficult to get on CAT.”
* APPARENTLY NOT...!!! (NOT ANYMORE, THAT IS!)
In the Cartagena scandal, the Secret Service employees’ actions were discovered when one prostitute got into a noisy dispute with agents in a hotel hallway about an agent’s refusal to pay her fee. Colombian police reported the incident to the U.S. Embassy there.
Obama said at the time that the agents’ behavior was unacceptable. “We’re representing the people of the United States, and when we travel to another country I expect us to observe the highest standards, because we’re not just representing ourselves,” he said in Cartagena.
* WORDS... JUST WORDS... (AS THE PRESENT SITUATION PROVES!)
The revelations in Cartagena led to the removal of 10 agents from their jobs, multiple federal and congressional investigations, and the rules aimed at preventing similar activity in the future. Mark Sullivan, the Secret Service director at the time, apologized for his employees’ conduct. Sullivan retired in February 2013 after 30 years in the agency.
* AND THIS NEW CHICK - JULIA PIERSON - SEEMS TO BE A CHIP OFF THE OLD (INCOMPETENT) BLOCK.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/25/Sessions-Report-Demolishes-Obama-Deporter-In-Chief-Myth
Fully 98% of individuals deported from the United States in 2013 were either criminals, apprehended while illegally crossing the border, or had been previously deported, according to a new analysis from Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
The three-page document, labeled a “Critical Alert” by the senator’s office, found three executive actions by President Barack Obama providing amnesty to groups of illegal aliens meant that virtually no one who did not meet other criteria beyond simply being in the country illegal was deported.
“The evidence reveals that the Administration has carried out a dramatic nullification of federal law,” Sessions said in a statement to Breitbart News. “Under the guise of setting ‘priorities’, the Administration has determined that almost anyone in the world who can enter the United States is free to illegally live, work and claim benefits here as long as they are not caught committing a felony or other serious crime.
(*SHRUG*)
* YEP... THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS...
Obama's well-known executive action granted virtual amnesty to so-called DREAMers – individuals who claim to have entered the country as minors under their parents' guidance.
Two are lesser known executive actions include an Aug. 23, 2013, DHS directive “expanding that [summer 2012 executive DREAM Act] amnesty to illegal immigrant relatives of DREAM Act beneficiaries” and a Dec. 21, 2012, DHS directive “reinforcing that almost all immigration offenses were unenforceable absent a separate criminal conviction.”
In 2013, Sessions’ staff found, 98% of ICE’s removals of illegal aliens fit the agency’s “enforcement criteria.” There are four such criteria for illegal aliens to be considered deportation-worthy by ICE: a conviction of committing a serious criminal offense, an apprehension made while an individual is crossing the border, the resurfacing of someone previously deported, or someone having been a fugitive from the law. “Remarkably, the first two categories — border apprehensions (which are not deportations as commonly understood) and convicted criminals — account for 94% of the 368,000 removals (235,000 and 110,000, respectively),” Sessions’ staff wrote in the memo.
* IN ENGLISH... REACTIVE ENFORCEMENT ACCOUNTS FOR 98% OF DEPORTATIONS. OBAMA HAS BASICALLY TAKEN PROACTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFF THE TABLE WHEN IT COMES TO OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS... LAWS PASSED "THE OLD FASHIONED WAY"... LAWS PASSED ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION... IN LINE WITH SEPARATION OF POWERS DOCTRINE.
* AGAIN... FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... OBAMA'S AMERIKA IS A NATION UNDER ONE MAN - NOT A NATION UNDER CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
Only 0.2% of an estimated 12 million illegal aliens in the U.S. who were actually placed into removal proceedings in 2013 did not have a violent or otherwise serious criminal conviction on their record. Only .08% of the total number of illegal aliens placed into removal proceedings were neither repeat or serial immigration law violators nor convicted of a serious crime. Even with that .08% of removals who were not caught crossing the border or being a serial immigration law violator or being convicted of serious crimes,
(Sessions’ staff notes that ICE officers who communicate with his office say that there is likely some other serious security risk for allowing them to stay in the country that is cause for their removal.)
* WORKING FOR THE DRUG CARTELS PERHAPS...
(*SHRUG*)
The report was enough to prompt a chorus of outrage from Sessions' like-minded colleagues in the House, who slammed the Obama administration for enacting amnesty by fiat.
* A "CHORUS" OF OUTRAGE, HUH? "SLAMMED" OBAMA, HUH? WHY THAT'LL TEACH 'EM!
(*SNORT*)
“This is another clear warning to anyone who thinks immigration reform is possible under President Obama,” said Rep. John Fleming (R-LA). “He has repeatedly shown a willingness to enforce the law selectively, while looking the other way when it doesn't fit his agenda.”
* AND YOU BASTARDS HAVE LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT!
“At the same time President Obama hypocritically tells people he is for income equality, he violates federal immigration law, floods the labor market with wage-suppressing illegal aliens, and destroys the chance millions of hard-working Americans have of attaining self-sufficiency and the American dream,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said. “It is clear that President Obama believes it is more important to pander to voters based on race than it is to enforce immigration laws that protect American workers’ ability to earn a living wage.”
“The Obama administration’s subversion of the Constitution and the rule of law make enforcement of our immigration laws virtually impossible,” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said in an email. “The law-abiding and taxpaying Americans who oppose this executive amnesty policy are paying the price with lower wages and fewer job opportunities.”
Brooks and Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar said the findings raise grave questions of constitutional law. ”Perhaps the most important role of the President is defined in Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, which states that the President ‘shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,’” Gosar said in reaction to Sessions’ new report. “From President Obama’s capricious ObamaCare delays to his arbitrary refusal to enforce current immigration laws, his transgressions against the Constitution are egregious and must stop. The first step in restoring the rule of law is holding Attorney General Eric Holder – our nation’s chief law enforcement officer – accountable for allowing and participating in the Administration’s blatant disregard for the Constitution.”
“The President should be ashamed of himself for violating his oath of office, violating his Constitutional duty to enforce America’s laws, and making illegal aliens a higher priority than the livelihoods of hard-working Americans,” Brooks said.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-agents-sent-home-from-netherlands-were-warned-to-avoid-trouble/2014/03/26/ff01c618-b54e-11e3-8020-b2d790b3c9e1_story.html
* FILE UNDER: "THE AGE OF OBAMA"
As the U.S. Secret Service arrived in the Netherlands last weekend for a presidential trip, managers were already on high alert to avoid any further embarrassing incidents involving agents.
The agency’s director had admonished supervisors after two counter-sniper officers suspected of drinking were involved in a March 7 car accident during a presidential visit to Miami, according to several people with knowledge of the incident.
* TWO COUNTER-SNIPER OFFICERS...
* SUSPECTED OF DRINKING AND DRIVING... (WHILE ON DUTY...??? THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE!)
The driver passed a field sobriety test and was not arrested.
* PASSED A FIELD SOBRIETY TEST GIVEN BY...??? (*SNORT*) NO BREATH TEST? NO BLOOD DRAWN?
So in Amsterdam on Saturday night, Secret Service supervisor George Hartford had the Miami incident in mind when he issued a warning to a group of agents gathered for dinner: Go out if you want, but stay out of trouble.
* A WARNING... UH-HUH... AS IF THEY WERE A TOUR GROUP OF HIGH SCHOOLERS... ONLY WITH GUNS... AND CARS...
By the next morning, Hartford was pounding on the hotel door of a 34-year-old junior agent who had passed out drunk in a hallway and later had to be lifted into his room by several hotel employees, according to a hotel spokesman and two other people familiar with the incident. The agent claimed to have no memory of the events.
* THIS IS THE AMERICAN SECRET SERVICE IN THE AGE OF OBAMA!
* QUESTION: PASSED OUT. AS IN... PASSED OUT WITH HIS GUN IN HIS HOLSTER... HIS CREDENTIALS IN HIS JACKET POCKET...? (YEAH... THINK ABOUT IT...)
That night on the town has created another highly public embarrassment for the elite Secret Service, which is still attempting to recover from a tawdry drinking-and-prostitution scandal two years ago during a presidential trip to Cartagena, Colombia.
* THAT TOO WAS THE AGE OF OBAMA!
The new incident — which unfolded in the hotel where President Obama was scheduled to arrive the following day — prompted immediate condemnation Wednesday from lawmakers in Washington. Sen. Ronald H. Johnson (R-Wis.) said the agency has a “systemic” problem of rowdy and inappropriate behavior by its agents, who are sworn to protect the president and other senior officials from harm.
* SO... WHO DOES JOHNSON WANT FIRED?
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters flying on Air Force One on Wednesday that Obama had been briefed on the Netherlands hotel incident. The president believes “that everybody representing the United States of America overseas needs to hold himself or herself to the highest standards,” Carney said, adding that Obama retains confidence in Secret Service Director Julia Pierson.
* OF COURSE HE DOES...!!!
After the unconscious agent was found in the hall Sunday morning, the hotel staff alerted White House staff that it had relayed the news to Secret Service managers, according to the people familiar with the incident. After a series of interviews, agency managers concluded that the passed-out agent and two others who went drinking with him had violated new rules meant to prevent improper conduct on official trips.
* SO ALL THREE HAVE BEEN FIRED - RIGHT? (YEAH... SOMEHOW I DOUBT IT...)
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
In Amsterdam — a city of 1 million with an international reputation for partying, open drug use and legalized prostitution — the trio had stayed out drinking until about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, though all were scheduled to start work at 10 a.m., according to a preliminary investigation. The time frame would put them in violation of a ban on drinking in the 10 hours before an assignment.
* 10 HOURS...?!?! THAT'S WHAT THE BOZOS CAME UP WITH AFTER HOOKGATE...?!?!
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said one of the agents involved was sent home Sunday afternoon and the other two went back early Monday morning; all are on administrative leave. Pierson, who traveled with Obama aboard Air Force One to the Netherlands, signed off on the decision, he said.
The alleged misconduct did not jeopardize the president’s visit or cause “operational issues,” Donovan said. Obama’s safety was “not affected by the three getting sent home.”
* REALLY...? THAT'S HOW THEY'RE PLAYING IT? GEEZUS, FOLKS... WE'VE GOT A REAL PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS HERE...
The men, all members of the agency’s Counter Assault Team (CAT), had to be temporarily replaced by other agents in the country until additional agents could be flown in to meet up with Obama’s entourage at his next destination, Brussels, the people familiar with the matter said.
* AT WHAT COST? (FINANCIAL COST?)
Those with knowledge of the internal investigation said the incident infuriated managers because it came less than three weeks after the traffic accident in Miami, which led to the two officers involved being sent home. Local police gave one of the officers a field sobriety test on suspicion of drunk driving but released him with a citation for the accident and no additional charges, those familiar with the incident said.
* PROFESSIONAL COURTESY... (*SMIRK*)
The two officers, who serve in the uniformed division, notified their superiors of the accident. They were ordered to return to Washington under Pierson’s “no tolerance” policy, an official familiar with the matter said.
The two men continue to work for the agency.
* SO MUCH FOR "ZERO TOLERANCE."
It was one of several times in her year-long tenure that Pierson reiterated to her senior aides the need for all personnel to abide by agency rules of conduct, the official said.
* OH... WELL... IF SHE "REITERATED..."
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
At home, the news sparked fresh outrage from members of Congress. Some cited the incident as evidence contrary to the findings of a December report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, which asserted that the Secret Service does not have an agency-wide cultural problem that encourages and tolerates personal misconduct. “It shows that the report was a cover-up and a whitewash,” said Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “There are significant cultural problems there that need to be addressed, systemic problems.”
* OBVIOUSLY THE SAME APPLIES TO HOMELAND IF THEY'RE ENGAGING IN COVER-UPS AND WHITE-WASHES!
Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.), the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said the Netherlands case was the first report of potential misconduct he and colleagues had heard about since Pierson assumed leadership of the Secret Service a year ago. “But for a person charged with protecting the president to be found unconscious in a hotel hallway puts a real question mark in the minds of a lot of people as to whether or not those rules have been understood,” Thompson said.
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