Obama implodes: Feds stop at nothing to silence critics

Scandals, Benghazi, IRS scrutiny, phone taps = “I” word

MyWay News reports the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. When an agency clearly favorable to the Obama administration is under siege by the very regime they helped put in place, the impact of now seeing them bite the hand that fed them is monumental.

The Washington Post writes that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative and tea party affiliated groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed.

Breitbart News reveals Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s assertions regarding “the Obama effort to shut up opponents isn’t limited to the IRS. It applies to the FCC [Federal Communications Commission], SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission], FEC [Federal Elections Commission], HHS [Department of Health and Human Services”

The Wall Street Journal exposes the IRS’s scrutiny of conservative groups went beyond those with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names — as the agency admitted Friday — to also include ones worried about government spending, debt or taxes, and even ones that lobbied to “make America a better place to live,” according to new details of a government probe.

The UK’s Daily Mail includes this threatening 11-page IRS questionnaire sent out to the Richmond Tea Party after it applied for tax-exempt status.

The Benghazi cover up alone has reached a level of either incompetence or deceit that makes Watergate — the senate hearings which began 40 years ago this week May 17, 1973 — resemble chump change.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on his radio show this week, “I believe that before it’s all over, this president will not fill out his full term. As bad as Watergate was because it broke the trust between the president and the people, no one died. This is more serious because four Americans did in fact die. And President Obama has yet to explain why did they did.”

No wonder Sen. James Inhofe the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee  told broadcaster Rusty Humphries that President Barack Obama could be impeached over the growing White House cover-up following last year’s attack in Benghazi, Libya. Inhofe accused Obama of overseeing “the most egregious cover-up in American history.”

But the ubiquitous John McCain wants none of it.  No siree.

Although McCain told ABC’s Martha Raddatz that he believes the Obama administration’s response to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, constituted a “cover-up” because “there was willful removal of information, which was obvious” — he has also defended his friend Obama against impeachment, saying, “I do not believe that the president has committed impeachable offenses — that’s high crimes.”

McCain might think covering up the Obama administration’s malfeasance, is not a high crime.  But even Señor Juan McCain should agree that illegally tapping the phones of reporters and the illegal targeting of conservative groups by the IRS do rise to the impeachable level:

“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ….cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”

— Article II, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment against then-President Richard M. Nixon, adopted by the House Judiciary Committee, July 29, 1974.

Obama’s Marxist redistribution plan is underway

The Washington Post runs a 5-page report on the efforts undertaken by food stamp recruiters to coax people into signing up for taxpayer financed benefits. Potential recipients are lured with free food, gift packages for themselves and even their pets, and told “you deserve it.” Some states host SNAP-themed bingo games, others distribute fliers that read: “Be a patriot. Bring your food stamp money home.” Still other states throw food stamp parties where new recipients sign up en masse at the gift giveaway tables. Recruiters, functioning as commission sales reps, actually have quotas to fill — at least 150 new people a month. It matters not that one Florida husband and wife, just completing  nine holes of golf — clubs still on their cart — showed up and were signed up.

To help enroll more seniors, the government has even published an outreach guide instructing on “blending compassion with sales techniques,” generating some — but not enough —  protests in Congress. The guide teaches recruiters how to “overcome the word ‘no,’” even suggesting answers for likely hesitations:

Welfare stigma: “You worked hard and the taxes you paid helped create SNAP.” 

Embarrassment: “Everyone needs help now and then.”

Sense of failure: “Lots of people, young and old, are having financial difficulties.”

Today, nearly 50 million Americans now rely on what was previously known as food stamps, now going by the snappy acronym of SNAP for ‘Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.’ In Florida alone, enrollment has risen from 1.45 million people in 2008 to 3.35 million in 2012.

As the Obama regime furloughs FAA traffic controllers and cancels school childrens’ planned  trips to the White House under the politically machinated sequestration strategy, ask yourself why taxpayer’s dollars are paying recruiters to expand programs that are already costing more than the economy can bear?

It was disgusting to read that the Boston Marathon bombers — whose next target was to be New York’s Times Square — and their families received welfare benefits, among the one in six Americans currently on the dole. In Britain, most terrorists turn out to be welfare recipients. Being unemployed, they have time on their hands to become radicalized and plan acts of violence. One U.K. extremist Islamic imam, who praises terror attacks, urged his followers to think of welfare benefits as a form of the jizya tax non-believers are supposed to pay Muslims – or, as he put it, “a Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.”  Human Events reports here.

Redistribution has always been part of Obama’s Marxist mindset. Speaking at a conference at Loyola University in 1998, he admits, “I actually believe in redistribution.” Now as president, he is implementing that which was so near and dear to the hearts of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their Communist Manifesto, as they advocated the incentive busting, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

American Thinker clearly defines what the phrase “redistribution of wealth” actually means to the future of America.

Council candidate Kate Gallego subject of incendiary race baiting

Arizona Republic mum on “political lynching”

Who could forget the egocentric Jarrett Maupin, II, who as an Al Sharpton protégé found himself in a bit of trouble and was arrested back in 2008 for false reporting after he lied to both the FBI and the Sheriff about allegations involving then-Mayor Phil Gordon? 

Maupin ran against Gordon in the mayoral race but was tossed off the ballot after the Maricopa County Clerk’s Office determined that nearly 185 of the signatures gathered to ensure Maupin’s spot on the ballot were illegally collected by felons.  Later in 2011, the sterling Maupin served time in federal custody for violating the terms of his probation in the 2009 conviction, and was given 36 months of supervised probation upon release.

Now, like his mentor, Sharpton, notorious for his involvement the infamous Tawana Brawley case, the disgraced Maupin has taken up the loathsome mantle of race-baiting, interjecting himself into the District 8 Phoenix City Council race. 

Maupin flings the entire can of garbage at Kate Gallego, a woman who has the temerity to think she has the right as an American citizen and resident of Phoenix to run for a council seat that some in the black community think they own. In an inane effort to out her as a non-minority, Maupin even hyphenates her Hispanic married name with her maiden name, a practice she does not appear to follow, to expose “who she really is.”

As we pointed out recently, when she was being hammered for her ethnicity and skin color by former city councilman Calvin Goode, Kate Gallego is married to state Representative Ruben Gallego. Both are Democrats.

Seeing Red AZ is a politically conservative site, not in the business of giving aid and comfort to Dems.  However, the vicious assaults on this woman are reprehensible, and standing by in silence would be condoning this despicable behavior. We would be remiss not acknowledging that fact, regardless of race or party affiliation.

To complicate this sordid mess, Maupin, who fashions himself as a civil rights leader and a minister, is livid because Councilman Michael Nowakowski, a Hispanic with a Polish surname, has endorsed Kate Gallego — who is neither black nor Hispanic.  Maupin is goading him to “do the right thing and withdraw his endorsement of Kate Widland-Gallego.” Maupin chides Nowakowski to “support black leadership and promote diversity,” and calls Gallego a “white sham candidate in brown face,” “an interloping political puppet,“ (albeit with a degree from Harvard and an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania) and “a white political patsy.”  He also refers to her as “a power-hungry white…who not is openly campaigning as white.”

And if that’s not stomach-turning enough, Maupin accuses Councilman Nowakowski of “practicing the politics of racial exploitation and engaging in the attempted political lynching of Phoenix’ black community.”

“Lynching?” Now there’s a hot button term intended to dredge up some vicious acts, although it’s clear this lynching is in reverse.

Unless we’ve missed it, not a word from the illustrious Arizona Republic newspaper on this outrageous behavior directed at Kate Gallego. Would the silence be so deafening if she were not a “white sham candidate in brown face?”

Calvin Goode: Former councilman proposes racial gerrymandering

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”  — Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream” speech: August 28, 1963

In the most overt example of the racially bigoted thinking we had all hoped represented a bygone era, Calvin Goode, 86, shames himself and embarrasses the rest of us with his blatant racism. Imagine the outcry from minority communities if this letter to the editor had been written by someone who was not black:

Goode’s “Support Council Diversity” has been copied here, since the daily newspaper is now using a pay wall.

I have lived in Phoenix since 1944 and served on the Phoenix City Council from 1972 to 1994. Cody Williams and Michael Johnson both have commendably served since my retirement.

At the time the district system was instituted, led by former Mayor Terry Goddard and me, it was determined that District 7 would be for Latinos and District 8 would be for African-Americans. Currently on the City Council there are two Latinos (Districts 5 and 7) one African-American (District 8) and six Whites.

Recently, Kate Gallego announced her intention to be a candidate for District 8. She is White. She states she will represent all District 8 citizens, including African-Americans. I find it strange that I have not seen her at any African-American affairs or events. I am unaware of a single action that she has demonstrated to support African-Americans.

Our government is based on the premise “of the people, by the people and for the people,” which includes African-Americans as equal participants in the decision-making process. We urge all voters who believe in diverse democratic government and the inclusion of all ethnic groups in government to vote to maintain African-American leadership and preserve diversity on the Phoenix City Council as we attempt to be a government for all people, including African-Americans.

– Calvin C. Goode, Phoenix

The disturbing concept of contrived raced-based districts, conceived, Goode says, in a scheme cooked up by him and former Mayor Terry Goddard, both Democrats, is mind boggling. In this letter, he expounds on the impropriety of a “white woman” running in a council district that he says is uniquely black. Kate Gallego, also a Democrat and married to state Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Hispanic Dem, has been endorsed by Councilman Michael Nowakowski, another Democrat Hispanic, who bears a Polish surname.  A scorecard is needed to follow this twisted meandering.  For clarity, just remember this: Race trumps political affiliations, and some districts are owned by certain ethnicities.

The “white” interloper, Kate Gallego, with credentials galore, has been quoted as saying, “I don’t think there’s an African-American or Latino way to fill a pothole.” Makes sense to us.

Meanwhile, to ward off Gallego’s racial intrusion, Pastor Warren Stewart of the First Institutional Baptist Church has been recruited to enter the race — as in campaign, not skin pigment. He is expected to announce this coming week.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.  Somewhere along the way, it appears Phoenix’ black community forgot that.

RINO Kathy Petsas aids Dem fundraising machine

Arizona Democrats are desperately trying to get their finance mechanism greased up with some cash infusions from “the folks.” The task becomes tougher as Obama’s schemes to further separate Americans from their money take hold.

Still, we were surprised to see a recent missive from Frank Camacho, the party’s Communications Director. After nearly 30 years in the KTVK-Channel 3 newsroom, the former anchor should be a bit more savvy — but, after all, he is a Democrat.

In the email pitch for cash Camacho claims that conservative Republicans are an embarrassment to the state of Arizona. His pathetic plea sits atop an editorial from the liberal Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic), which opines “some Arizona Republican leaders…still don’t understand messaging.”

“Help the Arizona Democratic Party fight back, make a contribution now!” Camacho’s plea fairly screams.  He makes liberal use of the term  “kook,” the word of the moment to denigrate Republicans.  And where did that highly charged, hypercritical word get its legs?

Left-leaning Republican Precinct Committeeman Kathy Petsas (Dist. 28) was often quoted by columnist Laurie Roberts in the República. The duo tossed the terms “kook” and “kooky” around with wild abandon. Then came the doozy: “Dekookification.” That referred to a purging of conservatives, most notably from the state legislature and intra-party office holders.

Petsas must be proud her word is gaining traction.  Now the Democrats are using her terminology to fundraise.

Nice going, Ms. Petsas.  Since you’re aiding the Democrats with their fundraising strategy, perhaps you should give some thought to officially joining them.  You could probably work your trophy status into a lofty job with Macho Camacho.

We previously wrote about Petsas’ efforts to rid the AZ GOP of conservatives HERE.

Wannabe AZ Gov. spews virulent bigotry on Iran TV

Mike Harris feeds despicable, Naziesque lies to America’s enemies

Few are likely to remember gubernatorial candidate Kenneth “Mike” Harris.  He was what is known in the trade as a flash in the political pan, although he flashed in 2006, 2008 and 2010. He was even assessed $1,450 for late filing fees after his losing campaigns filed four late reports. Mike Harris for Arizona’s Future were largely self-funded, self-aggrandizing ventures.

Now we see that the man who was initially recruited as a precinct committeeman by his former district chairman, Thomas Haney (no relation to Rob Haney), is satisfying his need for egocentric showboating in a much more revolting fashion.

Watch “Mike” Harris being interviewed on PressTV, Iran’s 24-hour English language news network. Harris claims that Israel perpetrated a ‘false flag’ terrorist attack on 20 American 6-and 7-year-olds and 6 adults, in Newton, Connecticut as alleged punishment to Barack Obama for American foreign policy toward Israel and the Palestinians. He also blames Jews for the massacres of 77 Norwegian campers, 12 moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado and the Arizona shooting in which U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was wounded and Federal Judge John Roll was among six killed in Tucson. Many others were seriously wounded in these carnages.

It apparently hasn’t registered with this vicious bigot that Noah Pozner, the youngest victim who had just turned 6 on Nov. 20, and was shot 11 times, and Congresswoman Giffords were both Jewish.

 

Read more on Bare Naked Islam.

According to this campaign bio, Harris is certified as a substitute teacher with the Peoria Unified School District, teaching middle-schoolers. 

Given his vicious anti-Semitic spew in this Iranian TV interview, the district should place Harris on a permanent ‘no-hire’ list, to keep this creature from interacting with any impressionable children.

Judge Robert Bork: He gave us more than a word

Former federal judge, U.S. solicitor general and acting attorney general Robert Bork, has died at age 85.

Judge Bork, a  brilliant legal scholar was a conservative who endured the slings and arrows of a viciously coordinated attack from the left during his senate confirmation hearing. He was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court  by President Ronald Reagan in 1987.

The term “Borking” came to describe the savage process to which the Democrats subjected Reagan’s Supreme Court nominee.

“The highest court in our land will not enjoy the services of one of the finest men every put forward for a place on its bench,” Reagan said after Bork’s defeat. “Judge Bork will be vindicated in history.”

A prolific writer, his best selling 1996 book, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, exposed the radicalism that undergirds liberalism, identifying how it has become the major contributing factor in America’s  social, cultural, and political decline.

Here is Robert Bork being interviewed in 2009 by Eugene Meyer, president of the Federalist Society, on his book, “A Time to Speak.” The book is a collection of Judge Bork’s writings over the past four decades.  Click on the You Tube link to view.

Liberal political ideology sweeps movie awards

Dinesh D’Souza‘s box office smash ‘2016: Obama’s America,’ the top-performing political documentary of 2012, was submitted for Academy Award consideration, but the Academy didn’t deem it worthy of a nod.  It was omitted from the list of the 15 documentaries the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it would advance in the voting process — making it ineligible for an Oscar. The film made more money than the combined earnings of the 15 films the Academy regard as eligible.

Quite a snub for the second highest grossing political documentary in U.S. box office history. ‘2016’ earned $33.4 million at the domestic box office since it’s mid-July premier. But then again, the film is an exposé of Barack Obama and it isn’t called Hollyweird without reason.

After seeing it, we wrote about the film which explores Barack Obama’s past to find answers to who is actually sitting in the White House — the most unknown president to ever occupy the highest office in the United States. The film gives insights into Obama’s ideology and what drives his agenda.

Gerald Molen, who produced the Academy Award winning ‘Schindler’s List,’ said the box office success of the Obama exposé proves the film was a hit: “The action confirms my opinion that the bias against anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival in Hollywood.”

This list tells the rest of the story. Still want to go to the movies?

Conservatives targeted in LD 28

Establishment “DeKookification” efforts underway 

If triteness rings your chimes, you might be among the handful of readers of Laurie Robert’s column in the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic).  Roberts frequently gives sycophantic coverage to a woman named Kathy Petsas, a RINO who coined the term  “DeKookification” to describe her efforts to rid the Republican party of …you guessed it…conservatives!

This past Tuesday evening, Petsas chaired the nominating committee for the statutory meeting of the precinct committeeman of Legislative District 28. As an integral part of her mission to ensure the defeat of grassroots conservatives, she put out this slate. Given the tone taken by Ms. Petsas, this glaring typo at the top of the page tells the whole story:

LD28 STATE COMMITTEEMEAN RELIABLE REPUBLICAN SLATE.

The district’s squish chairman Scott O’Connor, the son of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, is part and parcel of the effort.

One longtime precinct committeeman wrote of his desire to “…ask Scott O’Connor why those of us who put forth effort for the Party are singled out as unworthy,” adding, “I’m honored to be in such a prestigious group with the former State Chairman and current Maricopa County Chairman!”

Among the conservatives Petsas singled out for dismissal were former State Chairman Randy Pullen and current Maricopa County Chairman Rob Haney, who has been twice elected as county chair by wide margins.

A committed establishment functionary, Petsas has brazenly reveled in her sham notoriety courtesy of columnist Roberts. It’s a big deal to Petsas, given that the district — the most liberal GOP LD in the state — has long been the home of Arizona’s two U.S. Senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl.

And soon-to-be-retired Sen. Jon Kyl?  If you think that this lowly election of state committeemen, who will in turn vote to elect internal state officers is far off his radar screen, you couldn’t be more mistaken.

Kyl, who has repeatedly asserted his opposition to the very primary endorsements he and John McCain hand out like candy, has been working overtime attempting to sell his endorsed slates of RINOs to commandeer the grassroots level precinct committeemen elections in all contested precincts. The importance of these elections is extremely relevant since it is the elected precinct committeemen who elect the party leadership. Here is the postcard Team Kyl has been mailing out in an effort to dilute the conservative base. 

Or as Petsas and Roberts would say, “DeKookify” the Arizona Republican Party.

Arpaio’s win doesn’t count for much at AZ Republic

Laurie Roberts is breaking a sweat today, railing against Joe Arpaio’s latest election victory. It wasn’t enough to suit the sanctimonious columnist struggling to hold on to her post at the shriveling Arizona República newspaper. It clearly nettles her that Arpaio, first elected as Maricopa County Sheriff in 1992 is embarking on an unprecedented — actually historical — sixth four-year term.

Roberts says his triumph at the polls, beating out the newspaper’s endorsed candidate, Paul Penzone, wasn’t “a mandate.”  In fact, she calls it “a warning,” concluding with the hilarious caution that “2016 isn’t that far off.”

It’s a good bet Arpaio’s job is more secure than hers.

Arpaio’s career in law enforcement is unmatched by any Arizona sheriff or police chief. After serving in the U.S. Army, he was a police officer in both Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, Nevada.  He then went on to build a federal law enforcement career and a reputation for fighting crime and drug trafficking around the world — first as a federal narcotics agent, establishing a stellar record in infiltrating drug organizations from Turkey to the Middle East to Mexico, Central, and South America to cities around the U.S. His expertise and success led him to top management positions around the world with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration — where he concluded his remarkable federal career as head of the DEA for Arizona, before running for sheriff. 

Arpaio is one smart guy.  That’s why following his advice makes sense: