Greensboro News Record job article misleading, Orwell exuberance or Democrat pressure?, Manufacturing, jobs up in Triad, Economist Don Jud quoted
“The United States economy has lost more jobs than it has added since the recovery began over a year ago.”…NY Times Sept. 20, 2010.
“Guilford (Large NC County) appears on it’s way to a third consecutive year with annual jobless rates in double digits. Economists say that likely hasn’t happened since the Great Depression.”…Greensboro News Record December 2, 2011
“the Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quarter of 1983, which was also the sixth quarter of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones.”…George Orwell, “1984″
Donald Patterson and the Greensboro News Record have done a decent job lately of reporting the facts on the NC jobs situation. However, yesterday, June 19, 2012, the front page headline stated:
“Manufacturing, jobs up in Triad”
and the article quoted economist Don Jud to paint a rather rosy picture of the job situation in the triad (largest city Greensboro). Any good news is welcome but this had too close a ring to Obama touting jobs created while omitting the jobs lost and drop in labor force participation rate.
From the Greensboro News Record June 18, 2012.
“It’s not often that our part of the world comes in first in anything . But economist Don Jud has found an example. And it’s a biggie.
In recent months, Jud says, the Greensboro-High Point metro area has far outpaced state and national averages for employment growth in goods production.
That means companies in Guilford, Rockingham and Randolph counties, which make up the local metro area, are hiring people to make stuff.
“That’s the best news I know,” Jud said.
But there’s just one problem: Jud and others can’t say with any certainty why we’re doing so much better than everyone else.
“I think I have spotted a trend,” said Jud, who defined goods-producing jobs as those in construction and manufacturing. “Why it is ongoing and how likely it is to continue, I really don’t know.”
Jud said that from April 2011 to April 2012, goods-producing employment in the area increased 6 percent. That compares to a 1.8 percent growth rate nationally and just 0.2 percent for North Carolina.
During those 12 months, Jud said, employment in the local metro has grown by 5,200 jobs, with more than 75 percent of that coming from the goods-producing sector.
Area people involved in economic development welcomed the surge.”
http://www.news-record.com/content/2012/06/18/article/manufacturing_jobs_up_in_triad
Now compare the above to the tone of a June report by Economist Don Jud.
“Tracking the Triad Economy
The recovery from the most recent recession which began in July 2009 has generated a very anemic rate of employment growth over the past 34 months. Nationally, employment is up just 2.2% since the recovery began, which is even slower than the tepid 2.3% pace of employment growth registered during the previous two recoveries. In North Carolina, the employment recovery has been even slower, with employment growing just 2.1%. The pace of the employment recovery in the state is much slower than the average 4.2% increase recorded during the first 34 months of recovery following the previous two recessions.
Since the recovery began, employment is up in 9 of the state’s 14 metropolitan areas, but it is lower in 5 areas. The most rapid rate of employment growth has been recorded in Raleigh, with a gain of 4.6%. It is followed by Burlington and Charlotte with gains of 3.9% and 3.8% respectively. The biggest decline in employment was registered in Durham, where employment is down 1.8% since the start of the recovery. It was followed by Rocky Mount with a drop of 1.3%.
The Triad as a whole (which subsumes the Burlington, Greensboro/High Point, and Winston-Salem MSAs) has recorded a 1.2% rate of employment growth since the onset of the current recovery, lagging both the state and the nation.”
http://www.uncg.edu/bae/tbi/gdp-triad.htm
Recently I applauded the Charlotte Observer for presenting factual data on jobs.
“Only 1,400 more people had jobs in April. More than 11,000 people left the labor force in April compared to May, the figures show. More than 21,000 people had joined the North Carolina labor force since April a year ago.”
From the Greensboro News Record June 16, 2012.
“North Carolina’s unemployment rate was unchanged last month at 9.4 percent, breaking a four-month streak of declining unemployment rates, state officials said toay.
The total number of unemployed North Carolinians dropped by almost 4,000 people, but the rate remained the same because the size of the work force got smaller.
The rate was previously unwavering at 10.7 percent between July and September, but had been gradually declining since October.
North Carolina’s May unemployment rate is 1.1 percentage points lower than its May 2011 rate. The state fares worse than the national rate, which rose slightly to 8.2 percent in May.
“The NC state economy is continuing to not grow at a sufficient enough rate to put much of a dent in the unemployment rate,” said Harry Davis, professor of banking at Appalachian State University. “We simply are not creating enough jobs to lower the unemployment rate and absorb people entering the labor force.”
The largest job creation was in the Trade, Transportation and Utilities sector, which added nearly 2,000 jobs. Government jobs slightly declined by about 700 positions. Davis noted continued declines in the construction and leisure sectors as particularly problematic.
“It’s not making the comeback needed to get the unemployment rate down very much,” Davis said of the construction industry. “It continues to flounder, and if it wasn’t for apartment buildings there wouldn’t be much going on right now.”
The size of the work force in North Carolina continues to shrink. Nearly 10,000 workers left the labor force between April and May.
“Unfortunately, I believe we’re going to live with an unemployment rate in the 9 percents for quite some time, at least for the rest of the year,” Davis said. “Hopefully, that’s not the new norm.””
http://www.news-record.com/content/2012/06/15/article/state_unemployment_rate_holds_steady_in_may
My impression was that the News Record article was placed at the top of the front page to prop up the economy and Obama, as a kind of peace offering for telling the truth in previous months. Or perhaps it was just exuberance over good news.
Citizen WElls 
IRS coming for Trump?
http://www.globemagazine.com/story/845
Obama Vows to Destroy Trump
Furious at Donald Trump for trying to prove he wasn’t born in the U.S. and for backing Republican Mitt Romney, President Obama has vowed to destroy the boss of TV’s Apprentice and put The Donald at the top of his secret “hit” list. Learn about Trump’s reaction and the other surprising names on the President’s “hit” list – all in the new GLOBE!
Zach, Donald Trump has a plane, he should go to Kenya to get the real Birth certificate and end the crime against the citizens of the USA.
Good Morning All; ZachJones, this is what the IRS is for…a tool for the feds since Capone…this is one of the many reasons we need a flat tax, to keep us all protected from a vindictive government and politics…
Obama Vows to Destroy Trump
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How long is America going to allow this fraud to destroy the country and it’s Citizens?
Come on! Who’s in charge of security? Nobody knows his legal name, he has shown forged birth documents, forged Selective Service document, and uses a stolen Social Security number, that won’t pass E-Verify.
Romney vs Obama ENORMOUS DIFFERENCES!
CitizenWells,
Thank you for once again keeping your eye on the ball, the real issues that are destroying Americans and their futures. Indeed, the employment issue in this country is devastating to families and consumer confidence. The questions that people, whom care about their fellow Americans, should be asking are these: 1) Why is unemployment so high? 2) Where have the jobs gone to, and how do we get them back? 3) What forces have causes sustained joblessness? 4) What effects have these had on everyday American families and their children? 5) How do we build from here and create quality jobs and an economy? The answer to these questions is very complex and cannot be addressed here, but they must be answered to secure a future for our children.
The high rate of unemployment is directly reflective of the loss of manufacturing jobs from the US economy over the last 25 years. Many forces here are at work, but the cost of manufacturing in the United States has forced many of these jobs overseas. That cost is centered first and foremost around energy, the most expensive part of manufacturing. The second cost is manpower, which requires more money that a third world country. The third is government costs including taxes and regulations.
The ‘non-recovery’ recovery is reality because the United States is left with only the option of printing paper money for goods and services that are no longer created here. The dollar devalues, foreign debt increases, security is lost, family wealth is destroyed, and we are rapidly heading to destroying the middle class. In short, the current policies are devastating to American families and American securities and futures. The government inability to shrink with the economy, has created a ‘gorilla’ eating up all available capital for ‘entitlement programs’. This leads to a lack of investment capital for business and provides an endless cycle of unemployment, borrowing, and enlarging entitlement base. The simple would view this as ‘swirling in the toilet bowl’ economy.
In order to ‘fix’ the economy I would recommend the following. First, cut government regulations and environmentalist attacks to a bare minimum. Second, cut the federal government to 15-18% of GDP. Third, a REAL energy policy for the United States that uses ALL available resources for cheap energy to manufacturing. Fourth, Federal Government unions are unacceptable and prevent a peoples government, and must be eliminated. Finally, review and police products that are imported from areas where laborers don’t get adequate treatment.
My liberal friends may look and say “this is the same conservative drivel we have heard for years”. I would ask them to look carefully at what their ‘democratic’ party has done for manufacturing and non-government unions roles in the last few years. Now that 70% of GM cars are made in China, did you get your taxpayer money’s worth? Unions are welcome in my vision of America, and as manufacturing increases Unions will grow in strength. Reasonable sacrifices to the environment will be required for a energy policy, and raw materials, for manufacturing. Now it’s time to consciously decide if you would rather return to a functional government and economy, or wait for another country to come in and harvest our natural resources because we could not use common sense.
Americans everywhere now see the above to be self-evident, and that the policies of ‘no energy’ ‘no manufacturing’ and ‘big government spending’ have lead to catastrophic collapse of middle class Americans. We must say NAY to the progressives whom would continue to drive Americans future overseas and weaken this country to a point of that foreign influence will determine the inevitable harvest our resources. Those whom cannot see this now are blinded by ideology, American self-loathing, or self project lobbying, which has afforded us our current POTUS and past Congress.
Pete
Sorry Obama, nobody likes your crap.
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Women march in Rio to protest ‘green economy’ .
Thousands of women march during a demonstration against “green capitalism” and violence …
Thousands of women representing social and farm movements marched in central Rio Monday to rail against the “green economy” advocated by the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development.
Behind a large banner from the international peasant movement Via Campesina proclaiming “the peoples are against the mercantilization of nature”, they marched several miles to the Flamengo park, the venue for the “People’s Summit” organized by civil society groups on the sidelines of the Rio+20 event.
Several hundred men closed off the march to show their solidarity.
Perched atop a truck fitted with loudspeakers, a female activist howled: “This is a march of urban and rural women against this Rio+20 charade.”
“No to green capitalism! Yes to an economy based on solidarity, yes to people’s sovereignty,” she added.
Link to above story.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
It would be great if Lewis allows Klayman to amend his complaint (as follows) and then a lot of discovery would be permitted for the first time in a court….including Sheriff Joe’s evidence:
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/freedom-press-not-free/2012/jun/18/florida-court-questions-obama-natural-born-citizen/
snip….
Lewis noted that “there is not an allegation in the complaint that the candidate was born somewhere other than in the United States or the jurisdiction of the United States,” to which Larry Klayman, attorney for plaintiff Michael Voeltz replied, “I believe there is your honor … it says that he submitted a birth certificate that is fraudulent and that’s what the issue of fact is.”
Lewis asked the plaintiff’s lawyer, “if I give you leave to amend can you amend that he was born somewhere outside of the jurisdiction of the United States?” to which the reply was yes.
Herron, representing President Obama, urged the court to “grant the motion to dismiss … thus not permitting an amendment to change the course of action to something other than an election contest.”
“I made a note that you (plaintiff) would like to amend,” Judge Lewis added a moment later. “I would not have done that if I thought there was nothing you could amend.”
If Lewis rules against Herron’s motion to dismiss, an amendment expanding the complaint beyond the issue of Constitutional eligibility to appear on Florida’s ballot to accusations that Obama’s birthplace was outside the United States could open the door to discovery and submission of evidence of alleged forgery of the Hawaii Certificate of Live Birth posted to the White House website.
The DemoRATS are jumping ship……..
Three senior democrats in West Virginia have stated they will not attend the “Charade in Charlotte” in September…
Earl Ray Tomlin, whom I know and respect as a decent man, Senator Joe Manchin, the junior senator, and Nick Joe Rahall, longtime Congressman.
All said they had better things to do, like holding their shaky seats in WVa. In fact, Manchin has stated he wasn’t sure he would even vote for Obama in Novembe since Obama has vowed to kill coal, the lifeblood of the state..
Now that’s an endorsement I can live with.
We can only hope that other state officials in the Democrat party follow suit and jump ship too. That’s the best insult to Obama I have come across lately.
Thanks Pete.
As you have probably heard already – Romney has not vetted Senator Marco Rubio. This will make you pull your hair out!
Is Marco Rubio a Natural Born Citizen?
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=Is+Marco+Rubio+a+Natural+Born+Citizen%3F&oq=Is+Marco+Rubio+a+Natural+Born+Citizen%3F&aq=f&aqi=g-K2g-q1&aql=&gs_l=hp.12..0i30l2j0i22.4345.26839.1.32332.38.16.0.22.22.0.184.1494.13j3.16.0…0.0.ysJ5ZxtnEr8&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=9b6c7f81dbed2a17&biw=1344&bih=740
I would say Romney decided he was NOT an NBC. Thank God
RMinNC,
That is something I mentioned yesterday, jumping ship.
I don’t think it has anything to do with the democrats believing their progressive socialist movement is incorrect, rather they realize a bit too much has been pushed too soon and a hard pill to swallow for the American public to support.
This appears to me, nothing more than politicians wanting to stay in power knowing the high risks of sticking to their own party.
I did wish to mention this.
I have only reviewed a portion of the written reports of the Florida case pertaining to Obama. Having said that, what I find most interesting is Obama’s attorney asking the judge “TO IGNORE THE EVIDENCE”!!!
That folks, is powerful…. and says a lot – in and of itself. Words mean everything.
Rubio autobiography proves he’s not eligible for VP?
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/rubio-autobiography-proves-hes-not-eligible-for-vp/?cat_orig=politics
Read with Globe headline – this is interesting.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/47420
More from DHS Insider
…“Right now, it seems as if the duties of DHS overlap those with political issues, such as the re-election campaign. As I mentioned before and can’t stress enough, the line between domestic terror threats and political ‘enemies’ is blurred beyond recognition,” stated my source.
“Understand this: This administration has a very effective mechanism in place to monitor, in real time, internet posters and postings. This is one group of people who understand how the internet works, and is using their people to compile potential threats. Not Islamic terrorist websites, either. American websites and social networks. We are spying on our own people, not for domestic threats, but for political ones against this administration. it’s called ‘the war room,’” stated this source. “This is different than the campaign war room full of young volunteers hopped up on Red Bull and experienced in video games. This is “eyes only.’”
I asked for examples of “political surveillance,” and my source had plenty. “Drudge, of course, [Andrew] Breitbart, although that threat seems to have been timely diminished, Glen Beck, Sheriff Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse, [Alex] Jones, and a host of conservative, anti-affordable health care, and anti-abortion sites for others. I’m not going to get into other names, as we could compromise everything as the list is closely guarded and updated constantly. And I don’t think I need to specifically mention your group, do I,” he asked rhetorically….
William………………….
I too feel that way…..a politician would sale his mother on the streets to stay in power.
Manchin, Rahall, and Tomlin are no different.
I am thrilled to read the article revealing that Rubio has not been vetted for the VP position. In every note or survey to the RNC I have declared him in eligible and stated the need for a natural born citizen. I can only hope that my notes were added to the pile of millions like me who want the Constitution to be followed.
As far as Florida is concerned I can only assume the judge will be threatened or bribed or spineless just like all of the others. It would be lovely to get a positive decree but I won’t be holding my breath, just praying.
Finally,
I did read the Homeland security ‘Insider” interview and how the WH is keeping up with all the blogs against this Obama administration, reports being reviewed by Val herself.
All I can say is this: Hey Val, I just stated two (2) words for you and a hand sign supporting my words. Its not Rocket Science; we gave that away to the Russians. Maybe you call contact Putin and ask in the case your are dumbfounded……
RMinNC,
Least we not forget Senator Spector.
William…
Got a great laugh out of that…
Ex-Senator Spector sold everything he had to remain in power in Congress, his integrity,his momma, wife, children, and even his soul…….and he still lost…and went under Obama’s bus.
Like that old saying goes;
the road to hell is paved with the souls of the best intended, be they in politics. the courts, or Congress.
William……………..
“Ignore the evidence”……..HAR DE HAR.. I wonder what Herron thinks all of this is about? Such a request is totally LUDICROUS. Perhaps the JUDGE will see it similarly.
OLD SALT……
Go look. responded to your comment reference DETONATING the TRIGGER on the last CW post….
Go look.
Mr.Bill………………
My question to ALL who think Rubio is an NBC……..Can you read at all? If soo simply read the dates of his birth and the dates of his parents’ naturalisations. Both of his parents were NOT naturalised until several years A-F-T-E-R Rubio’s birth. These facts are CERTIFIABLE from PUBLIC RECORDS. He is NOT a NBC. But I hasten to add that I have a gut feeling that the US would not now be hard upon the reef which Soetoro’s steerage has impaled us had Rubio been at the helm. I personally think that Rubio is a very intelligent young man,and would be a great benefit to Florida,and subsequently the US……..clearly UNLIKE the mental derelict who steered our ship into the reef.
SYRIA IRAN RUSSIA CHINA plan War Games.
Guess who’s in their TRIGGER sights?
……….I would say that Marco Rubio would be in the same category as the TERMINATOR.
RMINNC……………..
You will find the phrase “detonate the trigger” in Jacqlyn Smiths comment posted on June 18 @ 1:08 AM (prior thread)
Salt…
Thanks I will check it out…..
RMINNC……………
Perhaps MMMMSSSS. Smith simply got her tongue wrapped around her EYE tooth and couldn’t SEE what she was saying……..ohhhh wellll, happens to all of us occasionally.
Old salt…
You could be right, but to me DETONATE means blow up…TRIGGER means squeeze ( like in don’t squeeze the Charmin, please)
RMINNC…………
The only way that I can come up with to “DETONATE A TRIGGER” is to pack about 1 lb. of C-4 around it, install a DETONATOR,get back about 100 yards, and DETONATE the C4. Of course there is another problem in this…….what about whatever the trigger is attached to? It too will be history. Would that be DETONATING a TRIGGER, or would we be simply DETONATING another detonator.? I guess the person who figures out the answer to that one will definitely be far above my paygrade. Here is another afterthought………perhaps we would be DETONATING a TERMINATOR. But you will have to ask Arnold about that.
Another Barack Obama Biography Calls Out Obama As A Fake
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/06/19/another-barack-obama-biography-calls-out-obama-as-a-fake/
……….but be very careful of your aim when you squeeze the trigger on your gun.
BYE BYE Time for my return to Bora Bora. Godbless
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO and tell me what you think. This guy is good! Don’t know who he is, but he is pointing out the anomalies in the different “copies” of Obama’s BC.
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Published on Jun 19, 2012 by Bigone5555J
Although the Hawaii Department of Health claims they sent Obama two certified copies of his “original Certificate of Live Birth”, three different
versions of Obama’s long form Birth Certificate have been released to the public and all three are different.
Three Different “True Copies”
PS, no expert here, but the #4 looks to me like a doctored #1.
“ERIC HOLDER AND ISAIAH 51”
by Bradlee Dean
Excerpt:
“Eric Holder’s Fast and Furious scheme has sparked outrage among the American people. The Department of Injustice’s Fast and Furious operation placed guns into the hands of drug smugglers who would have committed crimes through entrapment and who are directly responsible for the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Holder’s ultimate goal, of course, was to circumvent his own criminal activity by blaming gun stores in America for selling the very guns the ATF put into the hands of the smugglers. Of course, his plans were botched before they could lay the blame on the innocent.
On Tuesday of this week, Sen. John Cornyn from Texas (who called for the resignation of Holder) stated concerning both Fast and Furious and this administration’s national security leaks: “I worried that when Attorney General Holder was nominated, that his conduct during the Clinton Justice Department would demonstrate his inability to separate himself from covering for the politics of the administration, and I questioned his ability to demonstrate independence when it was called for as the chief law enforcement officer of the government, and unfortunately everything I’ve seen since he was confirmed by the Senate has demonstrated that my worst fears have in fact become true, because he’s basically providing political cover for this administration rather than doing the nonpartisan independent investigation. So now he appoints a political crony of the president (somebody who worked in his own administration) and claims now that it is an independent investigation … and it’s not, it’s in essence a part of the cover-up and it’s just unacceptable.”
56 Million Exterminated Under The Guise Of Gun Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln56Zp22res&feature=player_embedded
Published on Mar 22, 2012 by BdeanSonsofLiberty
“This video is a short portion from Bradlee Dean’s documentary called, “My War.” Gun Control is not about guns so much as it is about control.”
“America, I ask, are we talking about government corruption in a Third World country, or are we talking about the government in our country? Do the American people think that this will just go away some day? Because it will not! It must be dealt with!
This is crime – crimes against We the People – by criminals in our government who apparently do not think like you and I think. They think they are demigods, above the rest of us, and act as if they are not subject to the laws we are subject to.
In conclusion, herein lies resolve that only our God can give us, as stated in Isaiah 51:4-5, 7:
Hearken unto Me, My people; and give ear unto Me, O My nation: for a law shall proceed from Me, and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of the people. My righteousness is near; My salvation is gone forth, and Mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon Me, and on Mine arm shall they trust.
Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.”
In other words, DEAL WITH THE CORRUPTION!
Why Eric Holder Wants To Brainwash The Youth” Video Continues At Link Below:
Continue To See The Entire Article And The Videos Here:
http://www.wnd.com/wnd_video/eric-holder-and-isaiah-51/
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The president is not the king
Obama, who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, knows that the founding fathers crafted a government with a separation of powers among the executive, judicial and legislative branches so that a president could not govern as if he were a king, above the law.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jun/17/the-president-is-not-the-king/
Is there a possibility that you could work backwards and discover whose HDOH number he stole to present his “new and improved” version of the LFBC he presented on line? Is it in any way similar to Virginia Sunhara’s?
I know SueK is up on that more than I. A little background SueK if you please? I may be way off base, BUT just wondering how much was fabricated from existing docs.
“BORDER PATROL GROUP CALLS FOR HOLDER’S RESIGNATION”
By Jerry Seper
The Washington Times
Monday, June 18, 2012
“The National Border Patrol Council, which represents all 17,000 of the agency’s non-supervisory agents, called for the resignation Monday of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for his role in the botched “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation that resulted in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Council President George E. McCubbin III, a 25-year Border Patrol veteran himself, described Mr. Holder’s actions in the case as “a slap in the face to all Border Patrol agents who serve this country,” adding that the attorney general has shown “an utter failure of leadership at the highest levels of government.”
Two semi-automatic AK-47 assault weapons found at the scene of the Dec. 15, 2010, killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry were traced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to “straw buyers” who bought the weapons as part of the Fast and Furious investigation.
Agent Terry died during a gunfight with heavily armed Mexican bandits along the U.S.-Mexico border south of Tucson. More than 2,000 weapons purchased during the ATF-led Fast and Furious operation were “walked” to drug smugglers in Mexico. More than 600 of them are still missing.
Mr. McCubbin said Border Patrol agents are indoctrinated from day one of their training that “integrity is their most important trait … and that without it, they have little use to the agency.” He said agents who lie or show a lack of candor are quickly disciplined.
“The standard that applies to these agents should at a minimum be applied to those who lead them,” Mr. McCubbin said. “If Eric Holder were a Border Patrol agent and not the attorney general, he would have long ago been found unsuitable for government employment and terminated.
“The heroism that Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry demonstrated on that cold night in the desert of Arizona was in keeping with the finest traditions of the United States Border Patrol and will never be forgotten by those who patrol this nation’s borders,” he said.
Mr. McCubbin said the “political shenanigans” surrounding the Fast and Furious operation and “passing the blame” must stop.
He noted that a Border Patrol agent cannot accidentally step foot in Mexico without myriad U.S. and Mexican government agencies being made aware, so Fast and Furious had to have been conducted with the knowledge and tacit approval of the Justice Department and the Obama administration.
“It is time for Attorney General Holder to show the least shred of responsibility and leadership and resign his post,” Mr. McCubbin said. “Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry deserves nothing less.”
See The Entire Article Here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/18/border-patrol-group-calls-holders-resignation/
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“JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR INFO ABOUT FAST AND FURIOUS CONNECTION TO WHITE HOUSE”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
“The Obama administration has clammed up on Fast and Furious. We’re having trouble getting almost anything out of them. No wonder, as the Fast and Furious lies and killings makes it one of the worst scandals in recent American history. The American people deserve to know what White House officials knew and when they knew it,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.”
See The Entire Article & Video – ATF Special Agent John Dodsen Exposes USA Government Employees Are Being Ordered To Commit High Crimes & Act Completely Lawlessly As An Illegal Criminal Mafia Government Here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/18/judical_watch_sues_for_info_about_fast_and_furious_connection_to_white_house
“BEFORE 5 PM MEETING HOLDER DOESN’T DELIVER”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
June 19, 2012 4:13 PM EST
“In less than an hour, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa will meet with Attorney General Eric Holder about Operation Fast and Furious. Issa made it clear that Holder should submit requested documents Tuesday morning and as expected, Holder didn’t deliver as promised.
As of 4:15 PM ET, a contempt vote for Holder is still set for Wednesday at 10 AM.”
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/19/before_5_pm_meeting_holder_doesnt_deliver
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Darrell Issa tweets at 4:12 pm: The Justice Dept. has not shown or delivered ANY of the Fast and Furious docs it said it will…
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“OBAMA’S BIRTH CONTROL MANDATE “COMPROMISE” REJECTED BY CATHOLICS AGAIN”
Kevin Glass
Managing Editor, Townhall.com
“This comes in the wake of the announcement in late May that major Catholic groups are filing a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the birth control mandate, setting up a legal showdown over religious liberty.
Obama’s “compromise,” of course, was not actually a compromise at all. Shifting the mandate from employers to insurance companies doesn’t mean a thing. Money is fungible, and while it means that Catholic institutions wouldn’t have to directly pay to subsidize birth control, it still means that individual Catholics are paying for it.”
See The Entire Article Here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2012/06/16/obamas_birth_control_mandate_compromise_rejected_by_catholics_again
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“HEALTHCARE, BORDERS, AND UNION OH MY: THE WEEK IN SCOTUS”
Kate Hicks
June 18, 2012
Excerpt:
“With just two weeks until the end of its spring term, the Supreme Court has nine outstanding rulings, and while healthcare is the issue on everyone’s mind, a few other cases are worth a glance, too. Here’s a quick rundown of the Justices’ week ahead:
[…]
“Arizona v. United States The much-maligned immigration law known as SB1070 had its day in court in April, and it’s second to healthcare in terms of politicized cases the Court heard this year. The case centers on what kind of power Arizona is exerting through SB1070. The state claims it’s merely cooperating with federal immigration law, and doing so using the states’ right to police power. The government, on the contrary, says Arizona is overstepping its bounds, and encroaching on the federal government’s power to control the border.
Importantly, racial profiling is not at issue here. The Court will not rule on the substance of the law; that issue could very well come up again later, but it will require a new challenge at the lower level. Right now, the Court is only dealing with the question of enforceability: can Arizona go ahead with its law, or does it preempt federal regulations?
Given that this was the last case the Court heard during its oral argument period, and given its controversial nature, it will likely be one of the last rulings handed down. Depending on whether the Court adds an extra decision day (more speculation on that below), this one could come on Monday or possibly later next week.
And finally, of course…
Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, et al The Court technically has four different questions to decide here, using three cases (colloquially, however, they’ve all been bunched together). It’s likely the Justices will issue them all in a lump sum opinion, though. First, they’ll rule on whether or not the individual mandate is a tax. If it is, then the Court can’t actually rule on the ACA, owing to the anti-injunction act, which prohibits citizens from suing the government for a tax that has yet to be collected. It’s much more likely that they’ll rule it isn’t a tax, however, which means we move on to issue number two: the mandate. The Justices will have to decide whether the individual mandate, compelling all individuals to purchase health insurance or pay a fee, constitutes an overstep of Congress’ power. If it is, then the Court moves on to the question of severability: if the mandate goes, does the rest of the law have to go, or can it stay? If the rest of the ACA stays, the Justices will tackle the issue of Medicaid expansion, and whether it constitutes coercion of the states.
This case likely to be the last one they hand down, so expect it Monday, or possibly next Wednesday or Thursday (we’ll find out later this week if they add an extra decision day).”
See The Entire Article Here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katehicks/2012/06/18/healthcare_borders_and_unions_oh_my_the_week_in_scotus
SueQ | June 19, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Hi Sue,
Actually, Jonah is the expert on this stuff; I do Radiation, but Jonah does Genealogy!
I just heard Eric Holder’s presser. Can anyone talk more and say less than he? Oh, yeah………the occupant of the W.H.
It is reported that he still has released only about 5% of the documents requested. He did NOT deliver tonight, so unless they are forthcoming, the contempt vote is still scheduled for tomorrow. If there is nothing to hide, then why the delay?
Jerome Corsi:
“‘Obama has aged 10 years in 4 years'”
“NEW YORK – Is the pressure of the Oval Office getting to Barack Obama?
A noted presidential scholar thinks so, suggesting he looks 10 years older than when he assumed office on Jan. 20, 2009.
“I think President Obama has aged 10 years in four years,” noted Harold Holzer, senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in an in-person exclusive interview with WND.”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/obama-has-aged-10-years-in-4-years/
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Which ‘Obama’ is aging?
Why has the ‘noted presidential scholar’ not noticed the different ‘Obamas’?
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“PHOTOS”
http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/photos/
“BREAKING: AFTER ISSA AND HOLD MEET, STILL NO DOCUMENTS, CONTEMPT CHARGES STILL LOOMING”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/19/breaking_after_issa_and_holder_meet_still_no_documents_contempt_charges_still_looming
Comment:
“If Holder is innocent, why is he hiding documents from a committee that has legitimate oversight?”
Starla………
Because he’s guilty….it’s a Catch 22 situation.
Starla | June 19, 2012 at 7:45 pm |
Comment:
“If Holder is innocent, why is he hiding documents from a committee that has legitimate oversight?”
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Starla,
My guess is, Obama is implicated in the scandal, and the documents being sought, prove it.
It’s the cover up that always brings them down. I am going to pop some corn.
Another Case, and Another Florida Ballot Challenge Hearing Scheduled
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/06/another-florida-obama-ballot-challenge.html
Linked from Drudge:
Obama’s grandfather tortured by the British? A fantasy (like most of the President’s own memoir)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161817/Obamas-grandfather-Stanley-Armour-Dunham-tortured-British.html#ixzz1yIM2f5zy
A new biography of Barack Obama has established that his grandfather was not, as is related in the President’s own memoir, detained by the British in Kenya and found that claims that he was tortured were a fabrication.
Jack Cashill:
“Biographer admits: There was no Obama family”
“In all the talk about David Maraniss’ new book, “Barack Obama: The Story,” the chattering classes seem to have overlooked the most significant of Maraniss’ revelations, namely that the story on which Obama based his 2008 candidacy is “received myth, not the truth.”
…
What Maraniss has laid bare, perhaps without meaning to, is a journalistic scandal of historic proportions in which, alas, he himself has played a part.”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/biographer-admits-there-was-no-obama-family/
In all the talk about David Maraniss’ new book, “Barack Obama: The Story,” the chattering classes seem to have overlooked the most significant of Maraniss’ revelations, namely that the story on which Obama based his 2008 candidacy is “received myth, not the truth.”
“My parents shared not only an improbable love,” said Obama famously in his 2004 Democratic Convention keynote, “they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.” This concept of multicultural romance shaped his persona and his campaigns.
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At the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver, Obama leaped into the story in the very first sentence. “Four years ago,” he began, “I stood before you and told you my story – of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren’t well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to.”
As Maraniss concedes, these two young people shared very close to nothing. “In the college life of Barack Obama in 1961 and 1962,” writes Maraniss, “as recounted by his friends and acquaintances in Honolulu, there was no Ann; there was no baby.”
Although Maraniss talked to many of Obama Sr.’s friends, none of the credible ones ever so much as saw him with Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham.
One Obama friend, a Cambodian named Kiri Tith, knew the senior Obama “very well.” He had also met Ann through a different channel. “But he had no idea,” writes Maraniss, “that Ann knew Obama, let alone got hapai (pregnant) by him, married him, and had a son with him.”
Only Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie claims to have seen the pair together during the presumed courtship stage, but he is not close to credible.
“Maybe I’m the only one in the country,” Abercrombie told the Los Angeles Times in December 2010, “that could look you right in the eye right now and tell you, ‘I was here when that baby was born.’” This was pure lie, no other word for it.
A few days later, Abercrombie clarified to Mark Niesse of the Associated Press that he didn’t exactly see Obama’s parents with their newborn son at the hospital, but that he “remembers seeing Obama as a child with his parents at social events.” Another lie.
Maraniss should have quoted Abercrombie with the stated qualifier that he has proved unreliable on all things Obama, but he did not. Abercrombie was too important. Without Abercrombie, there is no contemporary witness to any kind of relationship. Maraniss, however, knew enough not to quote Abercrombie on his claim to having seen the baby with his parents.
Despite his Herculean digging into the dung of Obama’s life, Maraniss’ shovel comes up empty on the couple’s alleged February 1961 wedding. He footnotes his comments thusly: “Marriage facts recorded in divorce records.”
There is no doubt that both Ann Dunham and Obama claimed a wedding. It suited both their purposes, Obama to extend his visa and Dunham to legitimize her baby with a black husband.
As to the divorce, Dunham at the time was desperately trying to keep her future husband, Lolo Soetoro, in the country. The INS believed her to be married to Obama. Even if she were not married, a divorce would have been useful to clear the way for a marriage to Soetoro.
Like all other biographers of either Obama or his parents, Maraniss is totally silent on Dunham’s whereabouts from the February marriage to the August birth. He adds one detail, however, that deepens the mystery.
According to the birth certificate and the newspaper announcements, the young family lived at 6085 Kalanianole Highway where Dunham’s parents lived. Obama Sr. clarified to the INS that mother and baby lived there without him.
Maraniss definitively states that “[Dunham] and Obama and the infant never lived [at 6085 Kalanianole].” There was no room. The senior Dunhams shared the house with the Pratt family. The Pratt daughter “has no memory of the Dunhams’ daughter bringing an infant home.”
And yes, finally, an Obama biographer admits what the blogosphere has known for the last four years: “Within a month of the day Barry came home from the hospital, he and his mother were long gone from Honolulu, back on the mainland. …”
“This period, Washington State revisited,” Maraniss writes, “is missing from the memoir the son would write decades later.” In fact, as recently as Father’s Day 2012, Obama was claiming that his father left home when he was 2.
What Maraniss does not say is that he missed the Seattle hegira story himself in the 10,000-word Washington Post article he wrote on the eve of the 2008 election.
He was hardly unique. No one in the mainstream media wanted to blow the whistle on the fraudulent family fable that got Obama elected president.
The New Yorker’s David Remnick chose to overlook it in his 2010 Obama bio. The New York Times’ Janny Scott overlooked it in her 2011 bio of Obama’s mother. The Boston Globe’s Sally Jacobs overlooked it in her 2011 bio of Obama’s father, and the Times’s Jodi Kantor overlooked it in her 2012 book on the whole extended family.
Worse, conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza chose not to report the fraud in his disingenuous best-seller, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” As D’Souza explains, Obama was “his father’s son.” Dunham served largely as the vehicle through which the absent Obama exercised his will on the young Obama, she being “Obama Sr.’s first convert” to anti-colonialism.
D’Souza should have known this was nonsense. Conservative writer Michael Patrick Leahy had broken the Seattle story as early as 2008 in his book, “What Does Barack Believe.” It was accepted knowledge in the conservative blogosphere by 2009.
What Maraniss has laid bare, perhaps without meaning to, is a journalistic scandal of historic proportions in which, alas, he himself has played a part.
Good Morning! Now this is how it’s done.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/303329/austerity-works-michael-tanner?utm_medium=twitter#
Good morning Zach, et al.
Great article!
Doing the opposite of Krugman is a good strategy.
Mr. Bill(ms. helga) | June 19, 2012 at 10:54 am |
As you have probably heard already – Romney has not vetted Senator Marco Rubio.
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GUESS WHAT? HE HAS NOW BEEN VETTED!! Is this appeasement or what?
The unraveling begins – “Sew the wind and reap a whirlwind.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161817/Obamas-grandfather-Stanley-Armour-Dunham-tortured-British.html
Obasma has just asserted “Executive Privilege” over the Fast and Furious documents..
What does this mean…simply that Obama is knee deep in this cover up of gun running to Mexico.
Breaking news on FOX.
Holder wants Obama to claim executive privilege to keep documents out of the hands of congress.
This tells me Obama’s name is on those documents, and the trail of criminality leads to the WH.
RMinNC | June 20, 2012 at 10:02 am |
Obasma has just asserted “Executive Privilege” over the Fast and Furious documents..
What does this mean…simply that Obama is knee deep in this cover up of gun running to Mexico.
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Time to pop some more corn, as we watch our government at work.
CRIMINAL COVER-UP…
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/
Wow color me surprised. Executive privilege from the great executive order, by-pass Congress, do what I want, fake Pres. Oh his name is on those papers alright and his little minion Holder ran out of wiggle room this morning. So bring on the big block, executive privilege. Obama is sealing his own fate everyday if only people wake up and see the truth of this whole regime. They will stick it in the American people’s face until we stop them with an overwhelming vote against them all. No need to count on Congress we can do it ourselves and we must.
Bob Strauss…..
Yep…I just made me a tall lemonade, and got the chips out.
Now lets see if Issua and Congress have enough golf balls (as old salt would say) to carry through on this criminal enterprise.
If Congress caves here, thats a clear sign wedo not have representative government any more.
ALLEN WEST VIDEO:
PROGRESSIVES ARE COMMUNISTS
http://commieblaster.com/index.html
Is this really happening? The world is one giant mental ward where the inmates have taken over….and we have their sickest one:
Is that really just a fly? Swarms of cyborg insect drones are the future of military surveillance
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2161647/Is-really-just-fly-Swarms-cyborg-insect-drones-future-military-surveillance.html#ixzz1yLKUxsQg
You GO Issua….GO
I bet Hilder is hiding under his desk right now, or perhaps over with Obama and both are hiding under his desk!
correction….should have read Holder….
observer | June 20, 2012 at 10:22 am |
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I’ve got my fly swatter ready to go.
Who missed the memo? Don’t you know this is the most transparent administration in history? They are except for the little matter regarding the Fast and Furious documents, Obama’s BC, Obama’s college admission records, Obama’s passport records, Obama’s adoption records, Obama’s Selective Service Records, Obama’s social security records, Obama’s law license, and Obama’s medical records. Yep. Really transparent.
Bob Strauss; I am watching Fox News, it is unbeleiveable!!! They are saying it is NOT legal, the only way you can have “executive privilege is if you have “direct” communications with the President…Obama and Holder have both said that, they did not have any communications on ‘fast and furious’ after February of 2011…Soooo if they did NOT communicate with each other “executive privilege” does not apply.
Could this possibly mean that Congress will now have the opportunity to confront the President directly through the impeachment process? Has bo finally played the last card?…..just how many cards are there anyway?
If I remember correctly, WHI said to watch this issue very carefully, as it was the one that really most concerned the WH.
This would appear to be last-ditch political maneuvering at it’s most obvious.
Bessie,
To THIS Administration, it does.
Holder, just YESTERDAY told the press that he went to Issa and said he would give a briefing on the documents ONLY if Issa said he would drop the investigation after the briefing was held.
That would be like a MURDERER (which Holder is by allowing the guns to walk) going to the Presecutor and telling him/her, I’ll confess if you drop the charges.
Now Holder sends a letter stating the President was applying “Executive privlege”. Where is the President’s letter to Issa? We have to take the word of someone who has been PROVEN a liar (by sending the Feb 4th letter to Congress) that with NO communication from Obama himself, that Obama wants to apply “Executive privlege”.
And “We the people” sit around on our iPhones, iPads, smart phones, facebook, Playstation or Xbox and IGNORE what is going on around us.
I think it’s just too easy to be corrupt.
Moderation, it’s like sarsaparilla! More, Mr. Wells, from Twitter:
natasha korecki @natashakorecki
IRS and FBI say Raghu Nayak paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to doctors who worked@ his surgical centers http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/13299911-418/story.html#.T-Hg48A_PgI.twitter
Bribing your own employees? Hmmm…
Advise to Chairman Issua…..
DON’T BLINK….PLEASE DON’T BLINK
Hold this criminal in Contempt of Congress today
The OVEREDUCATED WORDSMITHS are still trying to hammer,twist,reshape,and/or INTERPRET laws that DO NOT NEED INTERPRETATION. There is NO SUCH THING AS EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE when documents are under SUBPOENA from an investigative body. If fools believe this then it is time to remove the fools also. Hopefully the FOOL named HOLDER will realise that the contempt of Congress charge could lead to a Congressional Grand Jury. If that happens Holder could find himself charged with CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER. This charge could also be applied to Soetoro,if it is proven that he did in fact know what Holder was doing. There is NO WAY that Soetoro could side step a subpoena from a Congressional Grand Jury. Just like Slick Willy could not side step it. He will probably try to sidestep it but at that point he should face IMPEACHMENT. There would be MORE than enough to get Holder and Soetoro. It is called CRIMINAL INTENT! Look it up!
RMinNC | June 20, 2012 at 10:32 am
Hi RM,
Yep, both are under the desk and….wait….I see a blue dress! Is Monica under there, too? Par-tay! Please send some lemonade and chips for me, too……
In 2010, the Sun-Times reported that Nayak had cooperated with investigators and told them that it was Jackson who directed him to talk to Blagojevich and offer him not $1.5 million but $6 million in exchange for the Senate seat. Nayak said the conversation was between himself and Jackson, with no one else present, and took place while Nayak was in Washington, D.C., during an October 2008 trip.
http://www.suntimes.com/13299911-418/ex-fund-raiser-for-jesse-jackson-jr-key-in-blago-case-arrested-by-fbi.html
IB……………….
How the hell can anything happen to me when I have my IPOD,my smartphone,and all the rest of my toys to play with. That is ALL I need. Now I KNOW IT ALL! This alone does not cause me to know it all, rather it is said that It is “what you learn” AFTER you ALREADY know it all which counts.
RMinNC | June 20, 2012 at 10:32 am |
You GO Issua….GO
I bet Holder is hiding under his desk right now, or perhaps over with Obama and both are hiding under his desk!
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Now we know what Holder was referring to the other day when he said the words, “constitutional crisis”. Remember?
Good comments this morning. (I just got up and the first news is THIS.)
P.S. What will the RINOS do NOW? It is getting down to where the rubber meets the road.
Two things,
First, if Mitt Romney chooses Rubio, as I stated before, then its his to lose and seriously under-estimates the American people.
Secondly, Obama cannot exert Executive Privilege over Congressional investigations. This is outside the Constitutional scope of Executive powers over the Legislative branch. But again, I doubt the golf ball-less GOP reps do anything about it but to state reasons why Obama must be defeated in 2012.
Cowards…. and this is who we want to lead over Obama?
Daverg……………..
A few threads back you mentioned that it would take CRIMINAL charges from Congress to bring Soetoro down. I stand in the same belief. If Soetoro can be connected in any way to Fast and Furious,he will probably end up facing a Congressional Grand Jury,and possible impeachment. The only thing that saved Slick Willie’s a$$ was the THREE NITWITS CHUCKY PIE SCHUMMER, DINKY DURBINE, and limburger Leahy.
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said this assertion raises more questions than answers.
“The assertion of executive privilege raises monumental questions,” Grassley said. “How can the President assert executive privilege if there was no White House involvement? How can the President exert executive privilege over documents he’s supposedly never seen? Is something very big being hidden to go to this extreme? The contempt citation is an important procedural mechanism in our system of checks and balances. The questions from Congress go to determining what happened in a disastrous government program for accountability and so that it’s never repeated again.”
http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/20/holder-asks-obama-to-assert-executive-privilege-over-fast-and-furious-documents/
House Speaker John Boehner’s spokesman Michael Steel told The Daily Caller that President Obama’s claim of executive privilege implies a startling new allegation pertaining to Fast and Furious: The White House was either involved with the operation or a cover-up.
FOLLOW THE LIVE TWEETS FROM CAPITOL HILL: LIVE TWITTER FEED – KATIE PAVLICK IS CALLING FAST & FURIOUS – MURDERGATE AND OBAMAGATE NOW HERE WITH LIVE UPDATES HERE:
“LIVE FROM CAPITOL HILL: ERIC HOLDER’S CONTEMPT VOTE IN THE HOUSE”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
June 20, 2012 09:45 AM EST
“Attorney General Eric Holder faces a moment of truth today as the House of Representatives prepares for a vote on holding him in contempt. Keep an eye on the Twitter feed below for instant updates from Capitol Hill.”
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/20/live_from_capitol_hill_eric_holders_contempt_vote_in_the_house
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William ………………
Our so called REPS don’t have the golf balls to do ANYTHING other than run to another state when it is time for them to cast a vote, both at state and federal level. Just hope like hell NONE of them are ever in the same infantry platoon as you are. All they know how to do is RUN THEIR MOUTHS,and RUN LIKE HELL………in the face of adversity,or an enemy!
All done! BYE BYE ………off to Bora Bora!
CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS REPORT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER
MARKUP HEARING
June 20, 2012 – House Committee Oversight and Government Reform
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee met to consider a report holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.
The committee subpoenaed documents related to the FBI’s “Fast and Furious” operation, but the attorney general refused to turn over all the documents.
LIVE – House Of Representatives – June 20, 2012 – VIDEO: Darrell Issa Speaking Before The House Of Representatives Here:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HolderM
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observer | June 20, 2012 at 10:22 am |
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And they will be armed with grain-of-sand sized atom bombs!!
“ERIC HOLDER TO FACE CONTEMPT CHARGE TODAY”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
June 20, 2012 07:01 AM EST
“BREAKING: Just 15 minutes before the House Oversight Committee vote against Attorney General Eric Holder takes place, the Department of Justice has asked the White House to insert Executive Privilege for all Operation Fast and Furious documents according to Chairman Issa’s press secretary Becca Watkins. Regardless, the vote will move forward.
* If President Obama decides to invoke Executive Privilege, it is an indication that President Obama was involved in Operation Fast and Furious, which he has boldly denied.
After failing to produce 1300 requested documents surrounding Operation Fast and Furious at a last minute meeting last night, the House Oversight Committee, headed by Chairman Darrell Issa, will proceed with contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder today on Capitol Hill.
The vote comes after more than a year of stonewalling, frustrating statements and misleading information from the Justice Department. Holder has failed repeatedly to produce documents requested in an October 2011 subpoena, claimed he would show up to last night’s meeting would documents and then didn’t deliver.”
“Ahead of today’s vote, Josephine Terry, murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s mother, is hoping for justice.
You can watch today’s Oversight meeting here at 10 AM ET.:
Full Oversight Committee Markup
June 20, 2012
10:00am in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
To consider a report holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to produce documents specified in the Committee’s October 12, 2011, subpoena.
Resolution recommending that the House of Representatives find Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, in contempt of Congress:
http://oversight.house.gov/markup/full-committee-business-meeting-29/
See The Entire Article & Videos Here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/20/eric_holder_to_face_contempt_charge_today
Hey All,
Watching the “markup” and what strikes me is that the Democrats CONTINUALLY want to go back to the previous Administration’s Operation Wide Receiver, where guns were allowed to “walk” and were TRACKED. Fast and Furious guns were NOT TRACKED.
No difference there, I guess.
But this continual reference to Operation Wide Receiver, is really a distraction, because the murder of Terry came from Fast and Furious guns, NOT because they were TRACKED to the crime, but because it was FOUND OUT because of the serial number on the weapon.
And IF Obama asserts Executive Privlege (I have heard Issa say that all he has received is a letter stating the President was asserting EP, he hasn’t received a letter from Obama himself), then he is ADMITTING that Holder LIED when he testified LAST YEAR that Obama knew nothing about this. What Obama is actually doing by claiming Executive Privlege is that the WHOLE Department of Justice is part of the White House.
Again, this SCANDAL makes Watergate seem like a simple break in, and it cost the President his job, because he recommended that those involved to cover it up. Fast and Furious is our Government ENCOURAGING and ALLOWING CRIMINALS to get weapons to be used in CRIMES so that those involved could be brought to Justice.
If the Feb 4, 2011 letter isn’t enough evidence of the arrogance of this President’s Administration, then the Democrats who are speaking today in this “markup” are blind.
“Oh, Holder made a mistake by allowing the Feb 4 letter to go to Issa and the Committee, but it was an “honest” mistake.”
Let’s concentrate on the Bush Administration and Operation Wide Receiver.
Give me a break.
PLEASE READ THIS VERY INFORMATIVE ARTICLE!!
“OBAMA ASSERTS EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE OVER FAST AND FURIOUS DOCUMENTS”
By Matthew Boyle
Published: 10:00 AM 06/20/2012
Excerpt:
“Indiana Republican Rep. Dan Burton, a former chair of the oversight committee for six years, said Issa has been “patient.” He said the president’s decision to assert executive privilege to withhold documents makes him wonder if Obama knew of Fast and Furious.
“The attorney general has asserted on numerous occasions that he didn’t know about this, now the president of the United States has claimed executive privilege,” Burton added. “And now that brings into question how much Holder knew about this, and that the president knew about this. My question is, who knew about this, how high up did it go, did it go to the attorney general or president of the united states and when did they know about this?”
New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney said she was “horrified” that Issa was moving forward with contempt proceedings after Obama asserted the executive privilege. She accused Issa of conducting a “political witch hunt” against Holder.
Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash tweeted that Obama’s assertion of executive privilege means Fast and Furious “must rise all the way to Pres. Obama.”
“Stunning admission by White House,” Amash tweeted.
House Speaker John Boehner’s spokesman Michael Steel told The Daily Caller that President Obama’s claim of executive privilege implies a startling new allegation pertaining to Fast and Furious: The White House was either involved with the operation or a cover-up.
“Until now, everyone believed that the decisions regarding ‘Fast and Furious’ were confined to the Department of Justice,” Steel said in an email. “The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the ‘Fast and Furious’ operation or the cover-up that followed. The Administration has always insisted that wasn’t the case. Were they lying, or are they now bending the law to hide the truth?”
Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said “it’s sad” and “it’s disappointing” that this scandal has “come to this.”
“This isn’t about Holder, this is about the Department of Justice and justice in the United States of America,” Chaffetz said. “I hope we have the guts and the perseverance to get to the bottom of this. We have 2,000 weapons purposely given to drug cartels. We have a moral obligation to get to the bottom of this.”
Read The Entire Article Here:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/20/holder-asks-obama-to-assert-executive-privilege-over-fast-and-furious-documents/#ixzz1yLxWkDKW
I thought Holder said he stopped the gun walking operations?
What’s this woman from California talking about?
Pathetic, the U.S. Border Patrol armed Brian Terry with “bean bag guns” and armed Mexican cartels with the deadly weapons that killed him…Citizens of the United States should be outraged!!!
It’s been over 16 months of asking, and these Democrats claim the AG is willing “to work” with Congress to release the documents.
I think the NEW definition of stalling is “willing to work with”.
As oldsalt has stated UP is DOWN.
The Congress is sick and is in need of a transplant. Hopefully it will happen in November.
And don’t shoot if they are running away.
Forget that they fired 10,000 rounds at them before they ran away, the simple fact that they were running away is all you need to know.
Hey All,
This AG won’t prosecute people who intiminate people at the polls, but he will refuse to release documents, and his Department will sue STATES that want to take NONcitizens from their voter rolls and STATES that pass laws stating that their local law enforcement can ENFORCE laws on the Federal books.
Hey don’t forget this gun walking stuff started under Bush.
Geesh the “Bush excuse” is getting old.
Ok, back to bed.
I just happened to wake up and am caught up in this “markup”.
Issa said they were taking a break after these “speeches”, so I’ll be interested in hearing what happened when I wake up.
Why don’t they all (crooks in congress) just reveal the little voo doo dolls of Bush and show all the pins they’ve stuck in him. It would save a lot of hot air of their repetitive blame game. Of course….what else do they have??!! And I would not doubt that some in this crowd have such mechanisms…..after all, mom-in-law in WH was reported to rely on such type stuff.
Now, if this power crazy pRes would only have executive privileged himself months ago rather then, once again, wasted time and $$$$ of the American true workers, Holder could have gone on to the other scheduled scams and plans of this lawless regime! By now Holder could have justified American drone targets. This may have put them a little behind on their wreck America “as we’ve known it” schemes. If nothing else it keeps them talking rather than making up more regulations and tax justifications against true Americans.
Holder retracts claim Bush team knew about Fast and Furious
http://washingtonexaminer.com/holder-retracts-claim-bush-team-knew-about-fast-and-furious/article/2500157
The ranking democrat member of the fast and furious committee is some kind of stupid…..his remarks are completely out of line for the investigation..For example, hr states that the committee has reviewed MILLIONS of emails on fast and furious.To that statement, I would just say that Mr. Cummings is full of bullsh*t and lying though his teeth.
I think the committee chairman said Holder had released only 7, 500 documents(most pertaining to Wide Receiver) out of a minimum of 80,000 (possible 0ver 120,00)pertaining to fast and furious.
Cummings is a lawyer too…every democrat this morning had a reason to DELAY or AVOID or CANCEL the Contempt hearing…
Yes thats political..yes they want to protect Holder who is protecting Obama…….they areall protecting the ONE.
WOW! This link is a keeper – I found it on ORYR. All tidied up in one explosive package.
Scroll through, but he ends with this:
Implications for Her Majesty’s Government
The implications of this affair for Her Majesty’s Government are considerable. The apparent forgeries, with the failure of Mr. Obama and of the State of Hawaii to ensure access to the original long-form birth certificate of which the document on the White House website is said to be a copy, have cast legitimate and growing doubt upon Mr. Obama’s fitness to hold office. His hostility to the United Kingdom, evidenced by his removal of the bust of Churchill from the White House, may have been somewhat assuaged by his relationship with the present UK Prime Minister: however, almost any other foreseeable candidate for his office would be less inimical to the United Kingdom.
If any successful moves are made against Mr. Obama or his key supporters, whether via ballot challenges in the civil courts, or via the exercise of Brady rights by a defendant accused of a crime signed into law by Mr. Obama, or via a disqualification from office under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, a dislocation considerably more severe than the fall of Nixon may be anticipated, leaving the free world leaderless at a time of great financial uncertainty. Therefore the issue, peripheral though it may at first seem, is not only of central importance to the United States, whose Constitution may have been flouted and circumvented in a material respect, but is also potentially of great consequence to Britain and to the West. – (Lord) Monckton of Brenchley
NBC News to GOP Rep: ‘You’re Not Entitled To Those Documents’
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/06/20/NBC-News-to-GOP-Rep-Youre-Not-Entitled-To-Those-Documents
IB…………………
Sadly the GOOD GUYS are playing against a STACKED DECK. When that happens it is time to put a HOGLEG on the table in FULL view. Issa is up against a stacked deck as well. Time for him to take action that will provide a new unopened deck,by pursuing a Congressional grand jury convention. Prove CRIMINAL INTENT against Holder and the stigma will attach itself to Soetoro as well.
Katie……………….
Lord Monckton is exactly right!
“REP. GOWDY RIPS DOJ APART WITH FAST AND FURIOUS EVIDENCE”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
Video:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/20/rep_gowdy_rips_doj_apart_with_fast_and_furious_evidence
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Tweets:
Katie Pavlich is tweeting that Judge Napolitano has said that Executive Privilege applies if Obama is personally involved in Fast & Furious:
“KatiePavlich Judge Nap: Executive Priv. only applies if Obama personally involved ow.ly/bI9Ll Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal #fastandfurious
about 1 hour ago”
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“KatiePavlich Holder says investigation by #justbloggers is because he is black, fails to mention hundreds of dead Mexico as result of #fastandfurious
about 1 hour ago”
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“KatiePavlich Okay. Can we please vote now? #fastandfurious #contempt #murdergate
about 1 hour ago”
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“KatiePavlich Just last week Holder was saying #fastandfurious was a “low level op” then y need for exec. privilege today? MurderGate”
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“KatiePavlich Votes coming in 20 minutes
47 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich YIKES! ow.ly/i/I7fA
58 minutes ago”
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“DarrellIssa This is who has been hurt by #EricHolder’s felony stupid #FastAndFurious INFOGRAPHIC: bit.ly/vOwk0I #holder #tcot about 1 hour ago”
LIVE Tweets From Capitol Hill Here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/20/live_from_capitol_hill_eric_holders_contempt_vote_in_the_house
……….and it could be the UK that administers the final and game ending strike against Soetoro. There are several actions open to the UK, should they decide to take action. ……One of which is for the British government to DECLARE all treaties, signed by Soetoro with Britain to be formally, and legally disolved. Britain then would follow up by pulling out of NATO,and the UN. Then Britain would refuse to send any further military anywhere,and/or everywhere. Many other countries would follow Britain’s move.
If indeed born in Kenya, then Britain should have aka Obama’s birth certificate in their vault of colony births in London.
“MORGAN FREEMAN: I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books, they read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He has proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he’s managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push back is amazing. And I think, this is Morgan Freeman’s personal thought, we’re going to be in a lot of trouble if we don’t reelect him because people on the other side of the fence scare me.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/06/20/morgan-freeman-were-lot-trouble-if-we-dont-reelect-obama-people-other#ixzz1yLg7ocFD
Quick comment regarding Obama side-stepping Congress on immigration and now claiming executive privilege for himself and Holder –
I hope the SCOTUS is paying attention to the fact that if Obama is reelected, their jobs will be greatly reduced in stature. Also, Judge Lewis in Florida might want think very carefully about dismissing the ballot challenge case against Obama because of political pressure placed on him because if Obama is reelected there will only be a minimal appearance of a real justice system. Obama’s road is an extremely dangerous road. It is a time for men and women of principle to stand up and be willing to take what comes at them for doing the right thing.
H/T Katie Pavlich:
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) Slams Administration Over Fast & Furious
See: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/20/rep_gowdy_rips_doj_apart_with_fast_and_furious_evidence
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AVery Informative Article:
“OBAMA ASSERTS EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE OVER ‘FAST AND FURIOUS’ DOCUMENTS”
By Jerry Seper
The Washington Times
Updated: 12:33 p.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/20/obama-asserts-executive-privilege-over-ff-docs/?page=all#pagebreak
Comments:
“Looks like this coverup is growing by leaps and bounds.”
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“The thugs cover up. Now their goose is cooked. Bye bye Obama.”
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“I’m heating up the pan to make the gravy.”
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CW…………..
With regard to “exuberance” I would add the prefix “IRRATIONAL”
Margieurb……………
Trump owns two aircraft. But I would question if he has TWO of the necessary endowments to actually confront Soetoro, with CERITFIED documents. He has a great deal to lose,and Soetoro would indeed do anything he could do against Mr.Trump if he was to actually do it. But it is a great thought.
“REP. ISSA: PANEL ‘EVALUATING’ OBAMA’S EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE CLAIM”
By Jordy Yager and Jonathan Easley – 06/20/12 12:40 PM ET
“President Obama on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over documents sought by a House panel ahead of a scheduled panel vote where Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to be held in contempt of Congress.
It’s the first time Obama has used executive privilege since taking office. A White House aide said the president had gone longer without asserting the privilege in a congressional dispute than any other president in the last three decades.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said his panel was “evaluating” the letter from Deputy Attorney General James Cole asserting the privilege that came minutes before Issa’s committee was to begin contempt proceedings. The vote was to take place Wednesday after a last-ditch effort to reach a deal over documents related to Operation Fast and Furious failed on Tuesday night.
Issa said the letter “falls short of any reason to delay today’s proceedings” but that the House is “currently working” to determine what assertions can legally be upheld.
He said the committee may recess its markup of the contempt resolution if the House gets an official assertion from the White House of executive privilege.”
Read The Entire Article & See A Video:
http://thehill.com/video/house/233811-rep-issa-house-committee-is-evaluating-the-letter-asserting-executive-privilege-
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“OBAMA HIDES BEHIND ‘EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE’ IN DAMAGE CONTROL OVER FAST AND FURIOUS”
Patrick Henningsen
Infowars.com
June 20, 2012
“The House Oversight Committee hearings have put both Eric Holder and the White House on their back heels this morning, further fueling a scandal which has now forced the White House into a rear-guard action.”
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“Since the scandal surfaced back in early 2011, some commentators had warning that the gravity of the arms trafficking crimes in question could make ‘Fast and Furious’ this White House’s Watergate moment, and a potentially devastating blow to the flagging Obama during the run-up to this November’s US Presidential election.
During a in-depth Infowars.com investigation into Fast and Furious, it was discovered that ATF, DEA and FBI agents working under the direction of the US Department of Justice, were illegally acquiring firearms through straw purchasers in states like Arizona, and then intentionally flooding the black market around the Mexican border regions with thousands of illegal guns – in order to demonize and regulate gun sellers in US border states. As a result, multiple lives were lost at the hands of gangs using Fast and Furious weapons including federal agents in the line of duty. The operation was ultimately designed to set the stage for further restrictions on the Second Amendment and increased gun restrictions in the near future.
Obama’s latest retreat towards executive privilege may be construed by the public and some media as an indirect admission of guilt by association, and will most likely lead to an increase in damage control from White House spin doctors – hoping to avert a similar fate suffered by Richard Nixon, whose cover-up went from bad to worse and eventually led to his humiliating resignation.
Ultimately, Fast and Furious could be the straw which breaks this administration’s grip on the strings of power in the White House.”
See The Entire Article & Video Here:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-asserts-executive-privilege-over-the-department-of-justices-gun-running-scandal.html
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“OBAMA CRITICIZED BUSH FOR TRYING TO ‘HIDE’ BEHIND EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE”
Amie Parnes
The Hill
June 20, 2012
“President Obama criticized former President George W. Bush for trying to “hide” behind executive privilege in 2007, after the Bush administration refused to turn over subpoenaed documents over the controversial firings of nine U.S. attorneys.
In an interview on CNN’s Larry King Live, Obama said there’s been “a tendency on the part of this administration to try to hide behind exec privilege every time there’s something a little shaky that’s taking place.”
“I think the administration would be best served by coming clean on this,” Obama said, after Bush claimed executive privilege on the issue.”
See The Article Here: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/233765-obama-criticized-bush-for-trying-to-hide-behind-executive-privilege
Starla -We need more like Trey Gowdy. I watched him live this AM.
Zach……………..
That is a really BIG 10-4!
I AM not really SURE IF “Fast and Furious” was a product of the Bush administration. Sounds as though the OVEREDUCATED WORDSMITHS are at it again.
“BREAKING: AFTER ISSA AND HOLDER MEET, STILL NO DOCUMENTS, CONTEMPT CHARGES STILL LOOMING”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
“Senator Charles Grassley, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, also issed a statement:
“The Attorney General wants to trade a briefing and the promise of delivering some small, unspecified set of documents tomorrow for a free pass today. He wants to turn over only what he wants to turn over and not give us any information about what he’s not turning over. That’s unacceptable. I’m not going to buy a pig in a poke. Chairman Issa is right to move forward to seek answers about a disastrous government operation.”
During remarks to reporters from Attorney General Eric Holder, he said he made an offer to Issa and the Oversight Committee to make these things [Fast and Furious documents] available and blamed politics for the looming contempt vote. He said the vote will move forward due to Issa “rejecting his extraordinary offer.” His offer, in short, was to brief the Oversight Committee on documents they’ve already requested be handed over.
“They are acting more in political gamesmanship than trying to get the information they say they need,” Holder said. “Ball’s in their court.”
Holder also said there is no effort by his Department to mislead or deceive Congress in their Fast and Furious investigation.
“We need the documents, not the briefing,” Issa said.”
Read More Here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/19/breaking_after_issa_and_holder_meet_still_no_documents_contempt_charges_still_looming
Katie | June 20, 2012 at 2:04 pm | WOW! This link is a keeper – I found it on ORYR. All tidied up in one explosive package.
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Yes, I saw that too and was going to link to it. Thanks!
The seriousness of this is more internationally recognized than here. Wonder if this could be submitted to any of the courts now hearing the various ballot cases…..to underline the importance of this question, beginning in the states but having implications re: every action taken by this guy, internationally. If these little cowardly judges would only recognize the huge responsibility they have for the whole world. I guess no one wants to be a hero these days….and when it’s soooo easy…just allow the evidence to be presented.
An approach that should be taken in some future case:
Attorneys for anyone accused of a criminal offence signed into statute by President Obama under Art. I, s. 7, have the right to request access by their forensic investigators to the Hawaii Health Department’s original birth record for Mr. Obama to satisfy them that the President is the President, the statute the statute and the alleged offence an offence. By the precedent set in Brady v. Maryland (373 US 83, 1963), “The suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process [14th Amdt.] where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment”. Therefore, the courts will be obliged to grant any such defence request. By the supremacy clause (Art. 6), Hawaii must comply.
If a Congressional Grand jury subpoenas ALL of the documents, and they get stonewalled then it is time to go forward with IMPEACHMENT action. Just as was the case with Slick Willy. But conspiracy to commit murder is not adultorous behavior, and a LIE to cover it up. It is a FELONY CHARGE, and if convicted he is TOAST. That is why all of the PROPONENTS involved in the Contempt of Congress charge and vote should KEEP THE PRESSURE on,and if they can they should INCREASE the pressure, both in DC and in Hawaii,while the Holder debacle is in everyone’s mind. It is all INTERTWINED.
GO GET EM ISSA……….SIC EM.
“LIVE FROM CAPITOL HILL: ERIC HOLDER’S CONTEMPT VOTE IN THE HOUSE”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
LIVE Tweets from Capitol Hill Here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/20/live_from_capitol_hill_eric_holders_contempt_vote_in_the_house
“KatiePavlich “When you obstruct, it costs, when you coverup, it cost.” -@darrellissa #fastandfurious 2 minutes ago”
KatiePavlich “WaterGate cost a lot of money,” -@Darrellissa #fastandfurious 2 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich Democrats now very interested in the cost/spending for #fastandfurious investigation, amazing 3 minutes ago”
KatiePavlich There are three amendments pending, my god #fastandfurious 9 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich just. vote. already. #fastandfurious 26 minutes ago”
“KatiePavlich Hey @jasoninthehouse @darrellissa #fastandfurious ended in December 2010, then how did Holder “end” it if he didnt know about it? 29 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich I have been in this hearing room for FIVE HOURS, after reporting #fastandfurious for more than a year, VOTE ALREADY 33 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich “Regardless of the c”ontempt vote, I am not done looking at Justice” -@darrellissa #fastandfurious 37 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich Dems are asking for MORE time, dear god, it’s been more than a year! how much time do you want?! #fastandfurious 38 minutes ago”
“KatiePavlich READ THIS: ow.ly/bIkXK from @ElectionLawCtr 42 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich Rep. Welch offers an amendment to postpone contempt and investigate Bush administration #fastandfurious”
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“KatiePavlich All of you people who think #fastandfurious is “Faux outrage” should be ashamed of themselves #rememberbrianterry 46 minutes ago”
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Mssssssssssss Malony (D-NY) is explaining her admendment to the committee now….
Msssssssssssss malony looks like she got her finger stuck in a 240 outlet. Her hair is unkemp…she looks like she has just come around from a 5 day bing….
I don’t know what she had for lunch, but apparently it hasn’t agreed with her.
As all other good democrats have done today, she too wants to DELAY, AVOID, or CANCEL the Contempt against Holder.
The vote is going forward today, and Holder will be held in contempt by this committee. It will go to a full floor vote
I am not in Washington D.C. today and I am following the tweets of what is going on in the House on Capitol Hill:
Katie Pavlich tweets that the Rep. Welch offer for an amendment to postpone contempt and investigate Buch administration is squashed – thank God!!!:
“KatiePavlich Welch amendment squashed #fastandfurious
27 minutes ago”
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/20/live_from_capitol_hill_eric_holders_contempt_vote_in_the_house
“‘OBAMA’ REFUSES TO HAND OVER ‘FAST AND FURIOUS’ DOCS”
“CITES EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE IN PROBE IN BOTCHED OPERATION”
“The resulting scandal has focused on who authorized such activities, who knew about them, and who was responsible.
Issa and Holder had met yesterday to discuss the DOJ’s refusal to turn over thousands of documents on the situation that the House had subpoenaed. Reports say Holder insisted that Issa back off on his investigation.
A committee vote for contempt could be followed by a discussion on the issue in the full House. Ultimately, a contempt citation could be produced and delivered to the U.S. attorney in Washington.
One focal point is a letter delivered to Congress that allegedly was intended to mislead members on the issue. The Justice Department later withdrew the statement.
Analysts said the move on the part of the White House could backfire, in that the investigate now could turn its focus on the White House.”
Read More Here:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/obama-declares-executive-privilege-on-doj-documents/?cat_orig=s
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“‘THIS IS SIMPLY INVITING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD'”
“AUTHOR OF HIT BOOK SAYS ‘CELEBRATING’ SIN A STEP TOO FAR”
“He said, “With such a worldview thoroughly ingrained within the institutions of our culture we now reap what we have sown. The abortion holocaust could not happen without first convincing the nation to believe that we are nothing more than a mere animal. The radical homosexual movement could have never risen to its current level without first persuading the nation that there is no standard of right and wrong concerning our sexuality. Homosexual marriage would have never been considered until first the nation became convinced that marriage is nothing special or divinely ordained, and that marriage can be defined anyway in which man finds pleasing to his flesh and lust.”
When WND asked Gallups what his specific observations were concerning the celebration of “Gay” Pride Month in the military, he had this to say, “A few years back on my talk radio program, I observed that if open homosexuality was ever fully allowed in the military that we would be opening Pandora’s Box on all manner of perversion. I told my audience that if that day ever came that the military would actually be celebrating Gay Pride Month openly. I had listeners call in who were outraged with my predictions. They called me a ‘reactionary,’ an ‘exaggerator,’ and ‘out of touch with reality,’ in this matter.
“Well, here we are,” Gallups said. “Open homosexuality has been enacted and in less than a year the military is celebrating Gay Pride Month. This downward progression was easy to forecast and I fear the worst is yet to be seen in this matter.”
Read More Here:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/this-is-simply-inviting-the-judgment-of-god/
OT, but…….
Verichip Corp. RFID Microchip – First Official TV Commercial
http://vimeo.com/44261058
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And, again, those little “buggers”. The question is….are we men or are we insects to be controlled by human insects????
youtube.com/watch?v=zIRoIdpNyZc
“FROM A SUPPORTER THOMAS BENNINGTON”
Posted on | June 20, 2012 |
Thomas Bennington
Submitted on 2012/06/19 at 5:19 pm
“Dear Orly and Michael:
You are both dear people and both probably correct. I don’t know how a cocaine using illegal alien aquired the nuclear biscuit and hijacked Air Force One, but he didn’t do it by himself. Michael I miss you in the 8:00p time slot on WTN Talk Radio in Nashville and Orly, I read your site daily and appreciate your relentless fighting of the most corrupt government in our nations history. You are both leaders and I pray we can get the direction of our country back on track. All the best to both of you.”
“Michael Savage to Taitz: did you know that Obama lived with illegal alien, who snorted cocaine. Taitz to Savage: Wrong, Obama IS the illegal alien, who snorted cocaine!!”
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=119212
I hope this is only the beginning and we learn more about what OB knew and when did he know it. The only people who seal their records are people who have something to hide.
Off Topic…..send this all over the world…show we do care.
June 15th, 2012
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2012/06/15/wwii-veteran-forced-out-of-home-and-forced-to-exhume-wifes-body-needs-your-help/
Serving in Co. B, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division Warren earned two bronze stars while making three combat jumps in the Philippine Islands in 1945.
~~~But despite the well established fact that Mr. Bodeker was in the hospital, the trustee, Christy Brandon, opposed the motion to continue the hearing. And even after knowing that Warren Bodeker was in the hospital and that he was set to undergo a competency examination which could show that he lacked the capacity to enter into the stipulation, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, the Honorable Ralph B. Kirscher, denied Warren’s motion to continue the hearing and granted the Trustee’s motion for an order for Warren to vacate the property. The trustee, Christy Brandon, then emailed Warren to tell him that she would be there at the home on Monday, June 18, 2012, accompanied by a Sheriff’s deputy, to kick him out of his home and have the locks changed.~~~
Tweets From The House:
House Oversight Committee passes out Contempt with a Yea vote on Holde and this Contempt Resolution Moves To The Full House. House Adjourns For The Day:
“DarrellIssa 23-17: We just sent the #EricHolder #contempt resolution to the full US House of Representatives – 4 minutes ago”
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“DarrellIssa That’s all folks…#FastAndFurious #contempt business meeting stands adjourned. (gavel noise) 3 minutes ago”
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“jasoninthe House Oversight Committee passes out Contempt with a Yea vote. – 4 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich 23-17 HOLDER HELD IN CONTEMPT, now moves to the House #fastandfurious – 4 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich Gowdy amendment rendering Obama executive privilege not applicable in this case passes. #fastandfurious
6 minutes ago”
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“KatiePavlich Votes starting now
15 minutes ago”
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/20/live_from_capitol_hill_eric_holders_contempt_vote_in_the_house
AN OUTSTANDING & VERY INFORMATIVE ARTICLE!!
“OBAMA’S MURDERGATE: FAST AND CURIOUS INVESTIGATION TO CONTINUE REGARDLESS OF CONTEMPT VOTE”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
June 20, 2012
“UPDATE: 4:14 PM: Attorney General Eric Holder has been voted in contempt of Congress by the House Oversight Committee by 23-17. The vote came down after three Demcratic amendments to the contempt charge were voted down. An amendment introduced by Rep. Trey Gowdy rendering President Obama’s invokation executive privilege not applicable or relevant to this case at this time. The contempt charge will now move to the House floor.
Capitol Hill – Attorney General Eric Holder got a temporary lifeline from President Obama today just minutes before the House Oversight Committee started debate over whether to hold Holder in contempt with a vote. […].
The assertion of executive privilege came after Holder failed to produce 1300 Fast and Furious documents and asked Chairman Issa to drop the Congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious at a meeting yesterday.
“Brian Terry has been dead over 500 days now and nobody has been held accountable,” Rep. Buerkle said. “The lack of transparency with the death of a Border Patrol Agent is sickening.”
* Executive privilege is used to keep communications directly involving the President confidential. The fact that the president invoked it for Holder today at the very last minute raises more questions about who in the White House knew what and when about Operation Fast and Furious.
“For the first 11 months, the administration denied participation in this,” Rep. Mica said. “This is a sad day when Barack Obama would exert himself at the last minute.”
* President Obama has claimed he knew nothing about the program before the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. He first spoke about the topic during an interview with Univision in March 2011, yet Holder said didn’t “know” about the program until May 2011.
* “The assertion of executive privilege raises monumental questions. How can the President assert executive privilege if there was no White House involvement? How can the President exert executive privilege over documents he’s supposedly never seen? Is something very big being hidden to go to this extreme? The contempt citation is an important procedural mechanism in our system of checks and balances. The questions from Congress go to determining what happened in a disastrous government program for accountability and so that it’s never repeated again,” said a statement from Senator Charles Grassley, who has been investigating the scandal.
* Speaker John Boehner accused the White House of engaging in a cover-up of the Fast and Furious program.
* “The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the ‘Fast and Furious’ operation or the cover-up that followed. The Administration has always insisted that wasn’t the case. Were they lying, or are they now bending the law to hide the truth?” Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement.
* The White House defended the move. Despite President Obama’s previous claims he knew nothing about Fast and Furious, at least three of his senior White House national security advisors received emails about the program, including Obama’s Senior Advisor to Latin America Dan Restrepo.
* “Now, was fighting the drug gangs at the border a sensitive national security matter? And, if so was the President of the United States of America personally involved in making decisions as to how to conduct that fight? If that’s the case, this has reached a different level and we now know why the attorney general has ferociously defended these documents,” Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Fox News.”
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* “The Attorney General is not above the law,” Rep. Scott DesJarlais said, while Rep. Gosar added, “Finding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt is long overdue.”
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* Gowdy presented multiple pieces of evidence to justify contempt and to prove the Justice Department has been less than honest in its response to Congressional inquiries.
* “This was not Mr. Chairman as initially the administration mantra an Arizona investigation. Senior level officials within the Department of Justice in Washington knew about Fast and Furious well before Special Agent Brian Terry was murdered. Senior level DOJ officials were briefed, they discussed press conference opportunities, they discussed the unsealing of indictments, they traded emails about the status of the case, they approved wiretap applications and most significantly Mr. Chairman they actively discussed the tactic of gunwalking well in advice of Special Agent Brian Terry’s murder,” Gowdy said.
* Issa said that a contempt vote will not be the end to his investigation into the Department of Justice on this issue.”
Please Read The Entire Article Here:
http://townhall.com/columnists/katiepavlich/2012/06/20/obamas_murdergate_attorney_general_eric_holder_held_in_contempt/page/full/
In two sentences or less, what ‘is’ fast and furious about and why is it important??
As I told you, justice will prevail. Keep your spirits high and continue the good fight.
Re: God | June 20, 2012 at 5:15 pm |
As I told you, justice will prevail. Keep your spirits high and continue the good fight.
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Yes this is true!!
Re: God | June 20, 2012 at 5:15 pm |
Oh by the way, Thank you for reminding people about GOD.
GOD the SAVIOR of humanity is Yeshua – Lord Jesus Christ Emmanuel, who happens to remind people & says that GOD is The Way, The Truth, and The FOREVER LIFE!! In God The Father, Son, & Holy Spirit!!
JAYJAY……….
Thanks for the post reference the old soldier who is being kicked out of his home in Montana. I went to the vidio of the 89 year old soldier who served in the 511th Airborne Regiment of the 11th Artborne Division in the Pacific during WWII. His wife died from cancer last year. Now he is on the verge of loosing everything but his life.
What this bankruptcy lawyer is doing to this old soldier is criminal. One moment, I was in tears feeling for the old soldier, the next I wanted to go to Montana and show that sleezy lawyer what justice looked like. Please, please, every veteran look at this video that JAYJAY has posted and help this old soldier overcome some some of his financial problems.
He deserves to die on his land and he deserves to be buried there with his wife. Here is what JAYJAY posted:
June 15th, 2012
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2012/06/15/wwii-veteran-forced-out-of-home-and-forced-to-exhume-wifes-body-needs-your-help/
Serving in Co. B, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division Warren earned two bronze stars while making three combat jumps in the Philippine Islands in 1945.
~~~But despite the well established fact that Mr. Bodeker was in the hospital, the trustee, Christy Brandon, opposed the motion to continue the hearing. And even after knowing that Warren Bodeker was in the hospital and that he was set to undergo a competency examination which could show that he lacked the capacity to enter into the stipulation, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, the Honorable Ralph B. Kirscher, denied Warren’s motion to continue the hearing and granted the Trustee’s motion for an order for Warren to vacate the property. The trustee, Christy Brandon, then emailed Warren to tell him that she would be there at the home on Monday, June 18, 2012, accompanied by a Sheriff’s deputy, to kick him out of his home and have the locks changed.~~~
Ms. Christy Brandon is the lowest form of human being I have even encountered after listening to Mr. Bodeker’s statement. Please, every veteran go to the website and hear this old soldier’s story.
Help if you can.
JayJay | June 20, 2012 at 5:10 pm |
In two sentences or less, what ‘is’ fast and furious about and why is it important??
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Oh, okay…govt allowed criminals to buy guns so they could track ‘said’ guns to drug cartel….
Govt lost track of guns…border patrol agent killed by one ‘said’ gun that govt sold to track cartel. No one knows where many guns are.
Geeze!!!!
My email to spawn of Satan and I don’t mince words…
I was having a great day till reading this. And I DO NOT answer these type of things or usually get involved.
Are you just pure evil or just a moron?
May your soul be spared from HELL, but I doubt it. May your day be as miserable as this man you’ve caused misery.
Bigfork, Montana…remember to NOT stay there, visit, or buy anything passing through.
JayJay, et al.
Thanks. New thread.
JayJay:
“ON FAST & FURIOUS, “BLAME BUSH” IS A LIE”
Guy Benson
Posted at 2:26 PM ET, 6/20/2012
“Throughout today’s House Oversight Committee hearings on possible contempt charges for Attorney General Eric Holder, Democrat members repeatedly asserted and imtimated that the deadly gun-running program had originated under the previous administration. Their clear aim was to muddy the waters on who is ultimately culpable for this blood-stained travesty, to suggest that Republicans are engaged in a shameless partisan witch hunt, and to feed the pliant mainstream media a handy alternate narrative as they begin to cover the controversy. Katie documented why this variant of “Blame Bush!” isn’t remotely applicable to Fast & Furious in her book, and former federal prosector Andy McCarthy exposed and distilled the Left’s deliberate obtuseness on this subject last November:
The key to [Democrats’] strategy is conflating two very different programs: Operation Fast & Furious and a Bush era ATF initiative known as “Operation Wide Receiver.” In the questions from Judiciary Committee Democrats principally, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer —there may have been others but, again, I didn’t see the entire hearing), it emerged that Wide Receiver began in 2006, when Alberto Gonzales was the Bush administration attorney general…Wide Receiver actually involved not gun-walking but controlled delivery. Unlike gun-walking, which seems (for good reason) to have been unheard of until Fast & Furious, controlled delivery is a very common law enforcement tactic. Basically, the agents know the bad guys have negotiated a deal to acquire some commodity that is either illegal itself (e.g., heroin, child porn) or illegal for them to have/use (e.g., guns, corporate secrets). The agents allow the transfer to happen under circumstances where they are in control — i.e., they are on the scene conducting surveillance of the transfer, and sometimes even participating undercover in the transfer. As soon as the transfer takes place, they can descend on the suspects, make arrests, and seize the commodity in question — all of which makes for powerful evidence of guilt. Senator Schumer’s drawing of an equivalence between “tracing” in a controlled-delivery situation and “tracing” in Fast & Furious is laughable. In a controlled delivery firearms case, guns are traced in the sense that agents closely and physically follow them — they don’t just note the serial numbers or other identifying markers. The agents are thus able to trace the precise path of the guns from, say, American dealers to straw purchasers to Mexican buyers.
To the contrary, Fast & Furious involved uncontrolled deliveries — of thousands of weapons. It was an utterly heedless program in which the feds allowed these guns to be sold to straw purchasers — often leaning on reluctant gun dealers to make the sales. […]”
See The Entire Article: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/06/20/on_fast__furious_blame_bush_is_a_lie