Incompetence, Lies and Corruption: The Obama Administration is a Glaring Example of These.

The Obama administration is rife with scandals and corruption. The problem is that there are so many of them that the media can’t really focus on a single one for too long. The scandals are so numerous that I will probably miss half of them and the list is still going to be scary long. He we go…

• The GSA scandal – where your money was wasted on extravagant conventions in places like Las Vegas.
• The IRS scandal 1 – Where the IRS blew taxpayer dollars on a Star Trek styled video training film.
• Operation Fast and Furious – where Eric Holder and his band of misfits in the ATF managed to lose track of hundreds of weapons that they were selling to the Mexican drug cartels for reasons that are still unclear. Then Mr. Holder decided to stonewall Congress and not deliver all the documents asked for by Congress. Although held in contempt, nothing ever came of this. Then his boss, Obama, invoked some executive privilege crap to further muddy the waters.
• Solyndra – this one cost the taxpayers about a half a billion dollars. These guys were major campaign contributors to Obama and then they got this super deal on free money from the taxpayers for a business that was doomed to fail before it ever started. This is one of about 3 such firms that all followed the same pattern. Nothing ever came of this, no one got fired and no one went to jail.
• The IRS targeting scandal – where the IRS specifically targeted Conservative and Tea Party groups prior to an election. This one was barely investigated by Congress. Sure they had a few hearings but as soon as the trail pointed straight to the White House the investigation and rhetoric in DC sort of faded away.
• The Benghazi attack –  this one involved the loss of 4 American lives and so many lies, cover-up and bad information that it has spawned several books and no doubt will someday make a great movie. The President lied to us on this one big time. As did then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN ambassador Susan Rice. The Consulate was attacked by terrorists of that there was no doubt. Yet the President and his cronies blamed the incident on a protest gone out of control. The protest was supposedly triggered by a YouTube video that up to that time, no one had ever seen. Even when called on this outright lie the White House continued to keep repeating it over and over for almost two weeks. A year later their excuse is that they just didn’t realize what was happening and the “fog of war” distorted the facts. The media have ignored the issue as of late because no one appears willing to call the President and his administration out on the fact that the administration KNEW they were telling lies and that they KNEW Benghazi was a terrorist attack.
• The NSA spying scandal(s) – a new one of these surfaces every week. Conveniently whenever the White House in really on the hot seat for any of the previous scandals. This one started with phone company metadata and has progressed on to revelations that the NSA is pretty much watching everything  that every one is doing all the time while violating the 4th amendment of the Constitution. This one is particularly bad because every time Congress runs some hearings on the subject we get the Director of National Intelligence at first denying the spying then later admitting to it. This guy has lied to Congress more times than Bill Clinton has cheated on his wife. The White House of course denies knowing anything about any of these spying programs. Why would they know? They are obviously too stupid to ask the guy who works for the President what the hell is going on. These leaks of information from Edward Snowden seem to crop up every time the President is involved in a new scandal. I am beginning to wonder if Snowden actually exists or if he is simply part of the most clever propaganda/media manipulation scheme in history.
• The Obamacare Website Disaster – this is the current scandal and it is a front page news item. This one has our fearless leader and his minions contracting out a website, without any bids, to a contractor from Canada, with a failed record of large projects and a direct link to Michelle Obama. The convoluted government project involved multiple sub-contractors and databases and departments. The price went from an estimated $90 million or so dollars up to over $660 million dollars. The bonus here? The web site was launched without proper testing and simply doesn’t work. The idiots who built it did everything wrong in the way of building what is essentially a commercial sales web portal. Who makes folks sign up before they ever get to see the products and prices? Did none of these people ever use Amazon.com or any other web site that sells products? Apparently the White House knew nothing about the fact that the system was nowhere near ready to launch. Of course they didn’t, they never know anything or at least that is what they expect us to believe.  The head of the government agency responsible for this smoking pile of cow excrement never did satisfactorily explain how she could have allowed this web site to go online when it just didn’t work. She and several others refuse to show Congress and the American people the web site stats. This ain’t classified info by any stretch of the imagination, but the contractor said they have stats and then the project manager from CMS said she wouldn’t release them and then Sibelius (DHS) said the stats were no good. Bottom line here is that someone is lying and someone has some stats and wants them buried. As usual our genius Congress didn’t simply demand that they take a break and send their happy asses back to their office to get a printout of the web server logs.
• ObamaCare itself – this one is going to cost everyone dearly until we can finally repeal it. In the meantime the President, who was apparently unaware he was doing so, lied to us for 3 years about keeping our insurance plans and our doctors. He also lied about premiums going down. He didn’t misspeak, he flat-out lied repeated in speech after speech and in various interviews. Now he tells us that “oh, some plans may be dropped to qualify for the new regulations”, but he never mentioned that until now. The man lied worse than a used car dealer in a plaid jacket selling a 56 Belair with “only 2200 miles” on it. ObamaCare would never have passed if the truth about plans, premiums and doctors had been told to the public up front.

I have probably missed a few more instances of outright corruption and incompetence, but the above list should be enough for folks to wonder why Mr. Obama is still president and why a whole bunch of his friends in DC (and Chicago) are not fired, in jail or both.

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Tim

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Barack Houdini Obama is a Master of Misdirection.

We have all seen magicians at work. They create their illusions by simple misdirection. It’s very easy and when done right it is amazingly effective. The magician uses mostly visual misdirection but the spoken word can be just as effective. This brings us to the genius in the White House and his assistants. Mr. Barack Houdini Obama has pulled off an amazing trick and we are all the suckers who have bought into it. Just take a look at any news site or news channel.

A little over a week ago the internet and the news agencies were buzzing with stories on the various scandals in Washington, DC. The IRS targeting scandal was beginning to lead right to the steps of the White House. The NSA scandal proved with each press release that the President and his Director of National Intelligence were both fluent liars. The buzz on Fast and Furious was dying a bit, but there was the occasional post on the internet and maybe a weekly story on the major news outlets. Benghazi was still at the forefront of many people’s minds and was covered with regularity on Fox News and on many conservative web sites. Then some idiot in Syria decided to use some chemical weapons…

Yesterday and today I paid close attention to the news and the internet and guess what I found? There was zero stories on any of the major scandals affecting the White House. Fox News was chock full of stories on Syria, on Congress and how they should vote on Syria, on experts telling us what to target in Syria. The same held true for NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN. MSNBC was, as usual, doing stories on some unrelated liberal, left-wing, communist, crap, that no one cares about anyway. As for all the scandals, the silence was deafening.

Now how did we get to this sorry state of affairs? Well, Obama pulled a fast one on everyone. The usually timid, anti-war, clueless president suddenly said “I want to bomb Syria!”. Whoa!, we all responded, shouting about his tyrannical behavior and his decision to unilaterally go after a sovereign nation without Congressional approval. That really got the attention of both the mainstream and the conservative media outlets. It also got every member of Congress to wake up yelling “you need to get permission from us first!”. That got the attention of the press, as the pundits spoke about constitutional issues and the internet buzzed with posts about bombing Syria or don’t bomb Syria. The hills were alive with the sound of concern (sorry, not music), about the consequences of intervention in Syria. How will the Iranians and Russians and Turks and well, everyone on earth, react? What might happen to our allies in Israel? Then we got all the media and the public more confused when Obama announced that he would see what Congress had to say via a vote. Then we had news agencies feeding us stories about those bad Syria rebels or those poor dead Syrian children. It was a pretty crazy week. Most of us don’t know what to think, although I believe the majority of Americans just don’t want to get involved in another war with a bunch of ungrateful bastards who won’t ever thank us anyway.

So Obama then spends his weekend doing this G20 conference in Russia and the news is all over the meeting between the President and Mr. Putin. There is much speculation as to how that will turn out, but we are all disappointed when Putin doesn’t ask Obama to go out back and have a good old fist fight. Nonetheless, the G20 sucks up hours and hours of news coverage time. Now Congress will return this week and maybe after a lot of meetings and backroom deals they will vote on this “bomb Syria” idea. The situation of course will be covered by reporters far and wide and nary a minute’s coverage will be spent on news like the government violating your fourth amendment rights on a daily basis or the IRS looking to screw some political opponent of the present regime. No we will see hours of expert reports on the in and outs of blowing stuff up in a country that most of us really don’t give a shit about. The President will look good no matter which way the vote goes and will either blame Congress for being weak on foreign policy or praise them for following his great wisdom.

And that my friends is how you perform freaking magic. In about one week our attention has been totally diverted from impeachable scandals of an incompetent administration to the bombing of some god forsaken desert country that 3 weeks ago none of us gave a crap about. After all, the first 100,000 casualties barely caused a stir in the media. The misdirection is complete and was exceedingly effective. Look at what has been posted recently on the internet.

Poof! scandals are gone and getting the media to shift gears back to them is going to be a slow process. That means that Congress will also lose interest and hearings may or may not continue. It really was one amazingly fantastic trick and I give the S.O.B. in the White House some credit.

Now that the show is almost over, we need to get back to getting the answers to all those questions that were a high priority a few weeks back: Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS, the NSA.

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Tim

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