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2013-05-19 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 ~~OBAMAGATE~~ OBAMA STY #3

Posted by junkiron 2013-05-19 04:37|| 2013-05-19 04:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I wanna know why the fourth scandal is off the screen for now.

What about Sibelius extorting money from private companies to fund their "non-profit" Obamacare exchanges.

Makes a nice set with Benghazi, IRS, AP phones. And that doesn't include all the sequester, stimulus and gun running fun.

Posted by AlanC 2013-05-19 08:26|| 2013-05-19 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Problem with Champ is he averages 3 scandals a day. No one can keep up. Lets just stick with these three for now.

Posted by Titus Ulans4144 2013-05-19 12:21|| 2013-05-19 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 The spreadsheet of Benghazi is a start. We need a database NOW. This thing will grow like an aggressive tumor.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-05-19 15:51|| 2013-05-19 15:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Add also Joseph Grant and especially Sarah Hall Ingram to the long list.
I already gave up trying. I can't even draw fish fast enough to keep up.

Posted by junkiron 2013-05-19 16:40|| 2013-05-19 16:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Finding out where Champ was that fateful night should not be difficult.

Data feeds from intelligence platforms are classified as are Video Tele-Conferences (VTC), so they go to a SCIF, or Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). . The WH Situation Room is bound to be in SCIF of some sort. SCIF's require access, members of the press or the idle and curious can't just walk in and plop their tired arsses down to listen in. Access is gained through the appropriate security clearance, via badge and cypher lock or physical guard or both. Cypher locks are computerized and track who has come and gone, ie, records are kept. As I have said previously, the WH Communications Detachment maintains all coms.

Failing that, the US Secret Service has "eyes on" POTUS [or the room he is in] 24/7.

If congress wants to know where he was or is, it's really not that difficult.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-19 16:50|| 2013-05-19 16:50|| Front Page Top

#7 snug as a bug in a rug in his separate bed (from FLOTUS) getting his fundraising beauty sleep

Posted by Frank G 2013-05-19 16:56|| 2013-05-19 16:56|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't think so Frank. I don't think he could let go of the stick that long. But he "won't be able to remember anything". Just my hunch.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-19 16:57|| 2013-05-19 16:57|| Front Page Top

#9 I think he was stoned. Like totally blown away man.

Posted by bman 2013-05-19 17:46|| 2013-05-19 17:46|| Front Page Top

#10 An old Alaskan long-liner once told me a story about getting so many fish on the line they couldn't reel it in without sinking the boat. They had to cut the line.
Obama's strategy may be the same. Overwhelm the low interest public to the point that they simply ignore it all.

The MSM cuts the line, the fish all rot on the bottom, and Obama whistles all the way back to safe harbor.

As horrific as Obama's (Benghazi) actions may have been, (like the Monica Lewinsky Scandal), pinning the President down on any specifically illegal act is probably doubtful at best.

The IRS and AP scandals, on the other hand, clearly exibit illegal actions committed by individuals directly under the supervision of the Obama Administration.

Whether anything concrete comes of any of this, in my opinion, hinges entirely on whether or not Congressional Investigators have the guts, tenacity, and fortitude to force investigations all the way to the top of the food chain.
I don't see any high level politicians actually or honestly assuming the grit, attitude, or courage, necessary to bring any of these accusations to any actual or beneficial fruition.

Peggy Noonan at WSJ is absolutely correct, but (without boots on the ground in Congress and Senate) it all adds up to nothing more than Republican political efforts to "out parrot" Obama, and his pretty words.

Posted by junkiron 2013-05-19 20:44|| 2013-05-19 20:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Overwhelm the low interest public to the point that they simply ignore it all.

That's a strategy, but it yields to the 'they're all crooks anyway' mentality. Which means that when the system is in danger, the vast majority won't give a damn. See the collapse of the Politburo.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-05-19 20:53|| 2013-05-19 20:53|| Front Page Top

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