IF THERE was an award for screwing up, Rep. Darrell Issa would be the top contender, with his latest investigation, which focuses on the IRS targeting Tea Party groups, hoping he’d ensnare the White House, going down in flames. Instead of Issa proving the Tea Party screening was concocted out of the Obama White House, [...]
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Gallup, Hillary and the Right-wing Benghazi Buzzsaw
THE Republican parade of falsification and fulmination on Benghazi and the efforts of the right-wing to tar Hillary Clinton with the death of four Americans has had an effect, according to Gallup. It’s just not near what they had hoped. Politics, especially if she announces she’s running for president in 2016, was always going to [...]
IRS Targeted Conservatives, Obama Not Involved
“I don’t believe this was something thought up in the Cincinnati office, but I have no evidence that goes to the White House.” – Senator Lindsay Graham THE PRESIDENT isn’t the great and powerful Oz, no matter who he is, which should be instructive for conservatives. That it won’t be is clear whenever Rep. Darrell [...]
Classic David Plouffe Tweet on Darrel Issa
Strong words from Mr Grand Theft Auto and suspected arsonist/insurance swindler. And loose ethically today.thehill.com/video/house/30… — David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) June 2, 2013 IT ALL started when Rep. Darrel Issa called White House spokesperson Jay Carney a “paid liar” on CNN. David Plouffe fired back. “Their paid liar, their spokesperson, the picture behind, he’s still making [...]
IRS Lois Lerner: “I Have Not Done Anything Wrong”
**UPDATED** THE IRS scandal keeps getting worse, with the IRS official Lois Lerner taking the fifth before Congress, but not before she changed the narrative, if only slightly. Reading a statement, Lois Lerner put into the congressional record “I have not done anything wrongd,” broke no laws and did not provide false testimony to Congress. [...]
President Obama and the Frothing Hyenas
PRESIDENT OBAMA fires the acting (interim) head of the IRS, appoints Daniel I. Erfel from the OMB, but that’s scene as “damage control.” What would Ronald Reagan have done? Whatever it was it would have been enough. After all, he got away with Iran-Contra. George W. Bush got away with secret torture chambers and lying [...]
Eric Holder Rips Darrell Issa [Video]
“The way you conduct yourself as a member of Congress is unacceptable and shameful.” – Attorney General Eric Holder to Rep. Darrell Issa [Video via TPM] THE Republican-led House Judiciary Committee is grilling Attorney General Eric Holder. When Rep. Issa had his turn he used the Sean Hannity model of questioning. Interrupt. Filibuster. Over talk. [...]
Voters Trust Clinton on Benghazi Over Republicans
PPP’s newest national poll finds that Republicans aren’t getting much traction with their focus on Benghazi over the last week. Voters trust Hillary Clinton over Congressional Republicans on the issue of Benghazi by a 49/39 margin and Clinton’s +8 net favorability rating at 52/44 is identical to what it was on our last national poll [...]
Pickering on Benghazi “Cover Up”: “Pulitzer Prize-Winning Fiction”
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “We met with Hillary Clinton. We did so before the report was finalized. … We believed and we still believe the decision making was made quite well below her level. It was reviewed below her level.” – Thomas Pickering THE REAL loser today [...]
Benghazi Hearings, The 2016 Preemptive Strike
The express purpose now is to protect Hillary Clinton, to make sure none of this touches her. – Rush Limbaugh [Liberals Will Protect Hillary at All Costs] THE BENGHAZI hearings today are trained on Hillary Clinton, which became clear if you’ve been listening to Republicans or Rush on right wing radio. The hyper partisan House [...]
Benghazi “Whistler-blowers” and the Partisan Hacks
Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, told congressional investigators that the State Department internal review of the catastrophe at the mission in Benghazi “let people off the hook,” CNN has learned. [CNN] THERE ARE no two people more associated with partisan brawls than Joseph diGenova and Victoria [...]
Chris Wallace to Axelrod: Did Obama “Make Calculated Decision to Run Out the Clock” on Benghazi Questions?
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News TODAY ON Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace took the baton from Sean Hannity and the rest of the FNC partisans, who concocted a CIA narrative that’s been proved false, a story which ABC [...]
Tabloid TV: Fox News Becomes the Benghazi Channel
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ON FOX News channel yesterday, former General Jack Keane refused to play ball with Megyn Kelly, in what has developed on the FNC network as All Benghazi (almost) All The Time. Ms. Kelly’s frustration and disappointment read on the screen. However, Keane is an exception and FNC doesn’t make [...]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Partisans Who are Killing this Country
CONGRESS IS a feckless chamber of Executive Branch fluffers, or if you’re in the minority, a hopeless group of obstructionists. Debbie Wasserman Schultz sadly becomes the example of the former, while yesterday I easily revealed Darrell Issa as the latter. The job of Congress isn’t to do either, but instead to represent the people over [...]
Wake Up America: Issa Dumps Docs, Endangers U.S. Allies in Libya, as CIA Confirms Rice
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) compromised the identities of several Libyans working with the U.S. government and placed their lives in danger when he released reams of State Department communications Friday, according to Obama administration officials. – Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy THIS IS an example of what happens when you have circus performers [...]
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