Today is a good day... (Ya wanna know why...?)
It's SHOPRITE food shopping day!
Oh, yeah, baby... Cracker Barrel cheese on sale: $1.77
(*DOUBLE THUMBS UP*)
Oh... almost forgot... and of course the ELECTION results...
I stuck to principle and refused to vote for RINO retread Nan Hayworth. (Left my congressional ballot blank.)
Andrew Cuomo won re-election of course. (The tipping point has been... er... "tipped" here in New York.)
Nationwide... "we" won. (By "we" I mean Republicans.)
Actually, though... I don't really mean "we."
I supposed both "We the People" and "me" personally are better off with RINOs running both houses of congress as opposed to Pelosi/Obama/Reid Leftists running one or both houses of congress... but I fear under Boehner and McConnell our national suicide will basically proceed - only at a slightly slower pace.
Here's my question to you folks: How confident are you that the results of last night's election will disway Obama from going through with his threat to ignore the Constitution and issue Amnesty to millions of illegal aliens absent legislation allowing... (let alone requiring)... such action?
Me? I'm not confident at all.
Is anyone confident that the likes of Boehner and McConnell can - or will even try to - stop Obama?
Is anyone confident that millions of liberal Democrats will stand behind millions of constitutionists and DEFEND the Constitution even as that means going against their own policy preferences and partisan loyalties?
YEAH... THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT...
Well... time to shower and hit ShopRite! Gotta stock up on that sale cheese!
6 comments:
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/4/justice-dept-submits-64k-pages-fast-furious-docs/
The Justice Department sent Congress 64,280 pages of documents it had previously withheld from the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking operation on Tuesday, in a move Republicans said was an admission by President Obama that he overstepped his legal bounds.
* WELL... WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU CALL IT?
Investigators had sought the documents for years, with the House even suing in federal court to force their release.
Mr. Obama had asserted executive privilege, claiming the documents were part of the “deliberative process” of White House decision-making and therefore didn’t need to be divulged...
(*PURSED LIPS*)
...but the court rejected those claims.
* AND JUSTICE (THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION) DIDN'T APPEAL. (WHICH TELLS YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.)
“When Eric Holder wants to know why he was the first attorney general held in criminal contempt of Congress, he can read the judge’s order that compelled the production of 64,280 pages that he and President Obama illegitimately and illegally withheld from Congress,” said Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
* YEP.
* FOLKS... CONSIDER HOW BLATANTLY IRRESPONSIBLE IT WAS FOR THE PRESIDENT TO CLAIM EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE NOT OVER A SINGLE CONVERSATION WITH AN ADVISER, BUT OVER 64,280-PLUS (YEP... MORE TO BE RELEASED) OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS!
Fast and Furious was an operation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that was intended to try to catch gun traffickers in Arizona.
* AND HOW MANY GUN TRAFFICKERS WERE ARRESTED, TRIED, AND CONVICTED? (AS BEST I KNOW, THE ANSWER IS NONE... ZIP... ZERO.)
Agents knowingly let guns be sold to traffickers, and many of them ended up being carried across the border to reach Mexican drug cartels.
* AND SUPPOSEDLY... AT FIRST... HOLDER DIDN'T KNOW THIS. AND SUPPOSED NEITHER DID OBAMA... NOR HILLARY - THEN SECRETARY OF STATE.
The operation was quickly halted after two of the weapons turned up at the scene where Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in a shootout with Mexican bandits, but by then several thousand weapons had gone unaccounted for.
* SEVERAL... THOUSAND... WEAPONS...
* HOW MANY DEATHS ARE HOLDER, OBAMA, AND CLINTON RESPONSIBLE FOR IN MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA? (COUNTRIES WITH STRICT ANTI-GUN LAWS AS A CERTAIN U.S. MARINE SERGEANT CAN TELL YOU!)
Initially, the Justice Department assured Congress that no guns were ever knowingly allowed to be taken into Mexico.
* A LIE.
But months later the department had to recant that assurance, admitting that officials did in fact know that agents weren’t tracing the traffickers who were buying the guns.
* SO WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE...???
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
Congress’s investigation now centers on that letter and the rest of the aftermath, with Republicans questioning whether there was a cover-up to try to protect top political aides to Mr. Obama.
* OF COURSE THERE WAS! FOLKS... NOT THAT I BELIEVE FOR A MOMENT THAT HILLARY AND OBAMA WERE KEPT IN THE DARK... BUT IF THEY WERE... THAT WOULD ALSO BE GROUNDS FOR HEADS TO ROLL... FOR THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE TO GO TO JAIL FOR ENGAGING IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY (CONSPIRING TO SHIP ILLEGAL GUNS ACROSS THE U.S. BORDER INTO SOVEREIGN MEXICO) THAT COULD EASILY BE CONSTRUED AS A WARLIKE ACT AGAINST MEXICO! (FOLKS... IMAGINE IF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT WERE FOUND ASSISTING THEIR CARTELS TO SHIP WEAPONS INTO AMERICA!)
The 68,280 pages turned over this week represent most of the documents Congress was seeking.
The Justice Department is also battling an open-records request from Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm that is seeking many of the same Fast & Furious documents.
The government in that case last month turned over a “Vaughn index” — a list of documents it was withholding and the reason it was denying release. Judicial Watch said some of the documents appear to show Mr. Holder’s personal involvement in crafting talking points and timing release of some of the information surrounding the Fast & Furious investigation.
Mr. Holder has announced his resignation as attorney general, effective upon Mr. Obama winning confirmation of a successor.
* ERIC HOLDER NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPOINTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE MARC RICH PARDON SHOULD HAVE PRECLUDED ANY FUTURE POLITICAL APPOINTMENT! (BUT IT DIDN'T...) (BECAUSE OBAMA IS CORRUPT...)
In a letter accompanying the submission to Congress, John Tyler, a department official, indicated they’d rushed to put the documents together and indicated that they may have made mistakes and still redacted information that should have been released.
(*SMIRK*)
“Given the time constraints, in some circumstances it has been necessary for the department to employ redaction methods used in Freedom of Information Act processing to ensure that law enforcement sensitive information is not disclosed publicly, which may have resulted in more redactions than the department ultimately will want to press in this case,” Mr. Tyler said.
Mr. Issa, the House’s chief investigator and the man who has pursued the documents, said the redactions may violate the judge’s order, but said the initial release was “nonetheless a victory for the legislative branch, a victory for transparency and a victory for efforts to check executive branch power.”
Mr. Issa also said he will continue to pursue the court case to try to shake loose other documents still being withheld.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/irs-admits-court-hasnt-searched-missing-lerner-emails/
Judicial Watch announced today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted to the court that it failed to search any of the IRS standard computer systems for the “missing” emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials.
* FOLKS... ONE MORE TIME...
...the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted to the court that it failed to search any of the IRS standard computer systems for the “missing” emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials.
* THIS... IS... UNBELIEVABLE...!
The admission appears in an IRS legal brief...
* SON... OF... A... BITCH...!
In its September 17 Motion for Limited Discovery, Judicial Watch argues that, despite two orders, the IRS had consistently failed to provide information detailing how “the missing emails could be retrieved from other sources and produced to Judicial Watch.” On October 17, IRS attorneys asked the court to deny the Judicial Watch request, even while admitting that additional Congressional requests “could result in additional documents being located ….”
In its October 27 Reply in Support of Motion for Limited Discovery, Judicial Watch argued that declarations submitted by the IRS in response to the Judge Sullivan’s orders fail to answer important questions about the missing emails:
* NAMELY...
"[I]t has become apparent that the IRS did not undertake any significant efforts to obtain the emails from alternative sources following the discovery that the emails were missing. The emails are potentially responsive to Plaintiff’s FOIA requests, and the IRS’s failure to search for them in other record-keeping systems raises material questions of fact about whether the agency has conducted a reasonable search."
* YA THINK...?!?!
Judicial Watch lawyers reviewed the IRS court filings and concluded that the agency “did not undertake any significant efforts to obtain the emails.”
IRS attorneys conceded that they had failed to search the agency’s servers for missing emails because they decided that “the servers would not result in the recovery of any information.”
They admitted they had failed to search the agency’s disaster recovery tapes because they had “no reason to believe that the tapes are a potential source of recovering” the missing emails.
And they conceded that they had not searched the government-wide back-up system because they had “no reason to believe such a system … even exists.”
* WHAT "THEY SAID" IS A PACK OF UNSUPPORTABLE LIES! AGAIN, FOLKS... "PLAUSIBILITY" MEANS "BELIEVABLE IN THE REAL WORD," NOT SIMPLY ANY CLAIM... NOT SIMPLY GIVING CREDENCE TO ANY UTTERANCE OR RIDICULOUS CLAIM.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
The IRS admitted to Judge Sullivan that the agency failed to “submit declarations about any of the foregoing items because it had no reason to believe that they were sources from which to recover information lost as a result of Lerner’s hard drive failure.”
* "BECAUSE" DOESN'T MATTER! IT WASN'T THEIR CALL! THEY WERE UNDER COURT ORDER! THEY WERE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO SEARCH IN GOOD FAITH!
Department of Justice attorneys for the IRS had previously told Judicial Watch that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe. The Obama administration attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search. In the October federal court filing, the IRS does not deny that the government-wide back-up system exists, and acknowledges to the court that 760 other email “servers” have been discovered but had not been searched. The IRS also refuses to disclose the names of the IRS officials who may have information about the IRS scandal, citing unspecified threats.
* AGAIN... NOT THEIR CALL!
Incredibly, the IRS has not searched any of the IRS’s regular computer systems for any missing records and admits that it has only searched a “database” that it knows does not contain the missing records being sought by the court, Judicial Watch, and Congress.
* AND WE'RE FINDING THIS ALL OUT TODAY... THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION...
Rather than provide information to Judicial Watch and the court under oath about the missing records, the IRS intends for Judicial Watch to wait indefinitely for its production of the records. Judicial Watch argues the IRS’ continuing “failure to provide complete information highlights the need for limited discovery. Neither Judicial Watch nor the court should have to rely on incomplete transcripts, out-of-court conversations, or the other, limited information Judicial Watch’s attorneys have been able to glean from congressional correspondence, media reports, and the internet to determine what system of records the IRS should reasonably search to recover the missing emails.
As in all FOIA litigation, an “asymmetrical distribution of knowledge” exists between the IRS on the one hand, and Judicial Watch and the court on the other. It is precisely because the IRS has refused to provide pertinent, complete information that limited discovery is necessary.”
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391818/what-would-ted-cruzs-gop-senate-do-joel-gehrke
‘Utter foolishness...”
That’s what Ted Cruz has to say about the agenda Republican leadership is looking to pass in this next meeting of Congress, the lame-duck session.
Cruz doesn’t like the idea of passing anything in the lame duck, and he doesn’t like what leadership has planned for that session - or a GOP-controlled House and Senate [come next year].
“I think it makes zero sense for Congress to do anything of significance in a lame duck with a bunch of members of Congress who will have just been voted out of office,” Cruz says.
Republican leaders have ... [already] ... tried to temper conservative expectations for the next Congress.
“We are going to have to convince people that we are not going to be perfect, but let’s at least move the ball down the field and try to do things many of us have wanted to do for a long time,” South Dakota’s John Thune, a member of Senate leadership, told the New York Times.
* I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS - BUT IF MCCONNELL APPROVES OF IT AND CRUZ DOESN'T... I'M SCARED.
House majority leader Kevin McCarthy has emphasized the need for Republicans to “prove we could govern,” a line that is becoming something of a refrain from GOP leadership in both chambers.
* THE RINO IDEA OF "GOVERNING" IS WHAT LED TO THE DEMOCRATS TAKING OVER BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS VIA THE 2006 ELECTION!
* THE RINO IDEA OF "GOVERNING" LED TO OBAMA WINNING THE 2008 ELECTION!
* LOOK - CRUZ AGREES WITH ME...
That’s exactly the wrong way for Republicans to go about leading Congress, Cruz believes. “We saw small-bore leadership in the mid 2000s with Republican leadership and it’s what ushered in the Obama presidency,” he says.
* FOLKS. LOOK AT THE HISTORY. REAGAN SAVED AMERICA. THEN WITHIN ON FOUR YEAR TERM GEORGE H.W. BUSH SO ALIENATED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THEY VOTED CLINTON INTO OFFICE! THEN... 1994... THE GINGRICH ERA BEGINS AND REPUBLICANS RETURN TO FOLLOWING THE PATH OF REAGANISM... UNTIL... UNTIL... A CABAL OF JEALOUS IDIOTS STAB GINGRICH IN THE BACK... TOPPLE HIM... RETURN TO RINOism... AND WE'RE BACK FULL CIRCLE TO 2006 AGAIN.
Now, Cruz says, “We need to stand for principle,” emphasizing that Republicans shouldn’t limit themselves to passing bills that Obama will agree to sign into law.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
The lame-duck session, which takes place after the November elections but before new lawmakers take the oath of office in January, presents the first test for Republicans. Cruz panned McCarthy’s plan to pass a long-term funding measure before a new Congress is sworn in.
* WHY WOULD WE WANT TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE FOLKS WHO WERE JUST THROWN OUT OF POWER ON FUTURE SPENDING...? THAT'S ABSURD! LOGICALLY AND ETHICALLY THE NEW CONGRESS SHOULD HIT THE GROUND RUNNING... WITH FRESH IDEAS... REPUBLICAN IDEAS!
Cruz wants to pass a short-term funding measure that would give a Republican Congress some leverage over President Obama — if they’re willing to use the power of the purse to push certain policies.
* OF COURSE! (WHO BUT A DEMOCRAT WOULDN'T WANT REPUBLICANS TO HAVE LEVERAGE OVER OBAMA...?!?!) (WHO BESIDES A DEMOCRAT... OR A RINO, THAT IS...)
Cruz also thinks Republicans will hurt themselves with too much legislating during the lame-duck session, when some in the GOP want to collaborate with already-defeated Democrats to pass unpopular policies. One issue, for instance, is a little-noticed policy fight that Cruz believes could hamstring the GOP’s efforts to win over working-class voters: the Internet sales tax. “That is one of the favorite causes of the corporate lobbyists on K Street, to jack up taxes on millions of mom-and-pop Internet retailers,” Cruz he says. “Now, that helps all the big businesses at the expense of the little guy.”
* YEP! WHILE THERE ARE CERTAINLY ARGUMENTS TO BE MADE IN FAVOR... THERE ARE ARGUMENTS AGAINST AS WELL; BUT WHEN YOU THROW THE POLITICS IN... REPUBLICANS SHOULD TOUCH THIS! NOT DURING THE LAME DUCK; NOT DURING THE NEXT TWO YEARS. (AT LEAST NOT ABSENT OPEN AND HONEST DEBATE!!! CONVINCE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! AS I WROTE ABOVE, THERE CERTAINLY ARE ARGUMENTS ON THE "PRO" SIDE!)
Cruz’s warnings are part of an effort to rally the conservative grassroots against party leadership, but he also believes that passing conservative legislative priorities will help build a broader political coalition.
* AND AGAIN I AGREE WITH CRUZ!
* FOLKS... I'M NOT YOUR STANDARD "CONSERVATIVE." I'M A LIBERTARIAN-LEANING CONSTITUTIONIST TRUE (RATHER THAN CRONY) CAPITALIST!
Cruz says the alternative to the leadership governing platform isn’t pie-in-the-sky legislating: He just wants Senate Republicans to take up the hundreds of economy-related bills that have already passed the House and died in a Democratic Senate.
* SOUNDS REASONABLE...
Cruz's fights with leadership have taken place mostly because of his unwillingness to play Washington games. “What I have tried to do since the day I was elected to the Senate is two things: Do what I said I would do and tell the truth,” he says. “It says something about Washington that those are viewed as such radical courses of action.”
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