Obama: 'phony scandals'...'ginning up the base.'

Obama will forever be in denial about these mistakes, botches, bad moves and out-and-out crimes his administration has done over the last 5 plus years.

He truly believes that he is doing great work for the American people, and that the media is simply obsessed by the 'phony scandals' and doesn't cover any of the good work he is doing.

Brent Bozell pointed out the coverage of these phony scandals is less than 1% of air time as compared to all other news by the mainstream media.  And Obama thinks that's too much.

Since elected, the Obama administration has had to deal with a minimum of the following 'phony scandals:'

• Fast and Furious - Obama gave guns to Mexican gangs in hopes that Americans would be outraged that the gangs killed people with American guns.  Of course, he didn't want the word to get out that he was the one providing the guns.  But this one is a phony scandal.
• VA Scandal - untold numbers of veterans actually died while on fake waiting lists created so that VA administrators could fudge the number of weeks patients waited for treatment in order to collect bonuses.  Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
• IRS Scandal - Obama is using the power of government to suppress opposition from political foes via audits and refusals by the IRS to grant valid exemption status.  This is not the America most of us would recognize.  No scandal here, though.
• Bergdahl exchange: Five murdering terrorists exchanged for a traitor.  Nothing more needs saying here.
• Benghazi - See above, the reason for the Bergdahl exchange given by Obama is that America leaves nobody behind - except four dead Americans at the embassy in Benghazi since no effort at all was made to help them during a 12 hour assault on our assets by terrorists, and Obama insisted for weeks that no terrorism was involved, only reaction to a video.  No scandal here, no siree Bob.

Ginning up the base?  Yes, probably. Sady, the above list is only the tip of the iceberg.  And remember: Nixon was forced to resign for far less.  Obama will continue to believe he is working on behalf of the American people well on into the future, but history will judge this pathetic man as the worst scandal ridden president in American history.

Worst prisoner exchange deal in the history of history

Shrewd.  This administration just doesn't 'get it' and never will 'get it.'  It shall remain clueless forever and ever.

We just exchanged five of the world's most lethal, deadly and dangerous murderers for the release of a cowardly loser who went AWOL, Bowe Bergdahl, who shed his uniform, threw down his weapon and crossed into Taliban hands willingly.

These five Taliban murderers, who have been credited for the deaths of thousands and thousands of innocents, will now spend a year in Qatar before being unconditionally released to follow their passions: which is dealing death to innocents (they call them infidels), primarily.

And we get in exchange a coward, a loser, a pathetic traitor whose father, Bob Bergdahl, hates America and apparently passed that hatred onto his cowardly son.  What kind of a deal is that?

That's like trading five immaculate 1961 Ferraris (the 'Ferris Buehler' car) in exchange for a rusty 1971 Gremlin.  And we are the one's getting the Gremlin.

We'll just wait and see what kind of deal we got.  After these murderers chalk up a few thousand more deaths, I think we'll have our conclusion.

This administration can't end soon enough.

Upcoming recession? Nope, Obama will see to it that doesn't happen

Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) results came out for first quarter of 2014: our economy shrank 1%.  As we all know, the technical definition of an economy in recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth, and I can all but guarantee you that this will not be allowed to happen by the Obama administration, no siree Bob.  Not before the 2014 election in November, not a chance.

Just like they cooked the books on the unemployment figures to make sure they dipped below 8% in time for the 2012 elections (they plummeted to 7.7% just prior to Americans casting their ballots, remember those bogus numbers?), Obama will fudge the numbers to ensure that we don't get that second negative quarter in a row.

Not only will he fudge the numbers, he will make sure that the bogus numbers look so good, we will all be amazed at the turnaround in the second quarter of 2014, all the while seeing the roles of the number of Americans no longer included in the labor participation rate increase from the 91 million mark to perhaps 100 million, maybe more.

But we will be guaranteed by this administration that there will be no recession on their watch.

Take that to the bank.  

VA 'death list' scandal: this is our future, folks

An honorably discharged U.S. Army veteran walks into the VA Hospital closest to where he lives to deal with a chronic medical problem he has been ignoring, but now ignoring it is no longer an option.  He is greeted by a grumpy receptionist after waiting in the lobby for maybe 15 minutes.  Not too bad, but this is as good as it gets for this guy.

The grumpy receptionist shoves a stack of forms for the guy to fill out, and demands two pieces of photo I.D.  He only has his driver's license on him.  'Tough,' says the grump.  'Go get one more.  NEXT!'

The guy comes back later on that afternoon with an additional photo ID, waits another 15 minutes to speak to the same grumpy receptionist.  When he is finally 'greeted', she acts like she had never seen the guy before in her life.  He explains that he had been in earlier, and was only missing an additional piece of photo ID.  The grump then shoves the exact same pile of forms to the guy, who tells her that he already filled them out earlier.  The grump threatens to send him to the back of the line unless he shuts up and fills out the damn forms.  Again.

And so it goes.  This is our government at work, and in this case its in the health care industry.  Wherever the government interacts with the public, this is the way things work.  There is no joy, no patience and no common sense.  It is government at its worst.

Obamacare now looms over us.  While the government is not yet directly involved in the actual care, but rather only the paperwork, we are in for an initial shock as to the nature of government workers in their natural habitat: a cubicle where they are immune from criticism of bad performance, exempt from common courtesy and entrenched in their position to the point that they are virtually free from performance accountability.

Just wait until Obamacare is perverted inexorably into government paid health care providers.  What you will have then is what we all see in the Phoenix VA hospital.

Monsters who care not a whit whether their charges live or die, monsters who only care about their performance bonuses and incentives, doing the right thing be damned in their pursuit of a few bucks.

We all see what these government workers chose to do to these poor retches who wandered into their lobbies, seeking treatment to potentially life threatening conditions: they chose to put their care into limbo, fudge the books and subsequently collect their bonuses for meeting performance objectives while these veterans languished on phony waiting lists and then ultimately perished.

This VA scandal is the tip of the iceberg, I am afraid.  We are all in for this kind of poor service once Obamacare morphs into what we all know it will: another government office just like the DMV or the VA.  Full of low performing scumbags who doesn't really care whether you live or die.

This is our future, folks, unless we open our eyes.

Nixon resigned for MUCH less

Richard M. Nixon was forced to resign the presidency in 1974 by a rabid media who were outraged at his Watergate transgression: does anyone other than dumb ol' Fredd remember what this God awful, unforgivable CRIME that Richard Nixon committed was?

Anybody?

I remember it like it was yesterday.  Richard Nixon's ONLY "crime" was this: lying to the American people regarding his knowledge of the Watergate break in AFTER it occurred.

That's it.  That was the unforgivable sin that Richard Nixon committed that worked the press into a rabid frenzy.

Given Obama's weekly and even daily lies about all things major and minor, poor old Richard Nixon's sins seem almost quaint.  We now know for a fact that Obama lied about the facts of terrorists overrunning our embassy and embassy annex in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, and not just once.  He lied over and over.  And his administration sent surrogates out on a daily basis to lie and lie again.

This president has lied about so much now, it is expected of him.  He lied about taking public matching campaign funds in 2007.  He lied about being the most transparent administration ever.  He lied about reducing the deficit by half in four years.  He lied about closing Guantanamo Bay.  He lied about Fast and Furious.  He lied about the IRS scandal (not a smidgen of evidence, he says), and he lied about nearly everything that matters to the American public.

Then he lied about the major selling point on the hated Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare): 'if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.  Period.  If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.  Period.'

And now the smoking gun has been revealed by the release of a White House email from communications director Ben Rhodes: distract the public from a wider failure of policy by pointing to a video.  Lies, lies that are certainly high crimes and misdemeanors.

The stuff of impeachment.

Richard Nixon was forced to resign for a single offense far less offensive than Obama's crimes.

If this smoking gun comes and goes without some sort of serious and major blow back against Obama and the Democrats politically, we are lost as a nation.

David Gregory: this century's version of "Network's" characater Howard Beall

With the death of Tim Russert, 'Meet the Press' anchor and successful political commentator several years back, this highly rated Sunday talk show was then taken over by uber liberal socialist, David Gregory.  Since then, the ratings of Meet the Press have been sliding into the basement.  Now its ratings are completely awful, and NBC execs, rather than fire this raging Marxist, have hired psychologists to treat David Gregory and even go so far as to have these shrinks interview his friends and his wife.  These NBC poobahs are convinced that if they find out why people don't like David Gregory (HE'S A RAGING MARXIST WHACKO, GUYS!!"), then they can alter his delivery to suit their audiences' tastes, and turn ratings around.

NBC execs are bound and determined to keep this raging Marxist in place, a liberal whose crackpot communist philosophical views anger at least half the nation on a weekly basis.   Gregory will in the short term at least remain as host of Meet the Press, God Awful ratings be damned.  The shrinks will fix things.

Right.

This plot is straight out of a 38 year old Hollywood script: "Network."

Decades ago, this movie was released that gave us the phrase 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

"Network," starring an aging William Holden as an over the hill network executive and Faye Dunaway, the young fresh upstart mover and shaker in the news business, depicted a fictitious TV network that was suffering ratings blues, and took steps including murder and sensational madmen TV anchors to  bolster their sagging ratings.

Peter Finch played the madman Howard Beall, who in the throes of awful ratings, announced one day on the set that he was going to kill himself on live TV.  The execs in the studio were aghast, and then when the following day they noticed that the ratings went ballistic on their news hour, with the entire nation tuning in to see what happened next, young Faye Dunaway ran with it.

Howard Beall then was the hit dujour, and his ratings saved the network in the short run (no, he did not kill himself on live TV, as it turns out). He just started ranting and raving about everything in general.  Then, in the fullness of time, Howard's rants and raves started to sour with the public, and Faye Dunaway wanted to can the creep.

Here's where the plot thickens: the owner of the network, a super rich shadowy figure portrayed by Ned Beatty (Mr. Jensen), stepped in and insisted that Howard Beall be kept on the air, regardless of ratings.  Mr. Jensen liked the morose, bad news that Howard Beall continued to spew, as in his view this was the philosophy he supported, and was good for his business ventures overall.  Jensen did not care a whit whether Howard Beall's newscasts LOST money, he was to be kept on the air regardless the ratings.

The way the writers ended 'Network' was to assassinate Howard Beall.  I wonder how NBC will finally pull the plug on David Gregory?

Stay tuned, film at 11......

The 'revenoo-ers' are coming for you, too

I would guess that nobody under the age of 50 will read this post, as all of those young whipper snappers are all committed heart and soul to their Facebook pages and have human contact only via 140 characters or less on Twitter.

Accordingly, I will jack up the font and address this for those of us who need cheater glasses (at least) in order to read it.

Most of you probably remember John Rose's old cartoon "Snuffy Smith" (a spin off of an even older cartoon, 'Barney Google'), where a poor backwoods Appalachian moonshiner and his wife, Weezy, scrapped a living off of the land where they could, and Snuffy would cook up some corn squeezin's with his still.

Snuffy was constantly on the alert to roaming 'revenuers' or as I like to spell them as did Snuffy as 'revenoo'ers.'  These revenoo'ers were from an unnamed federal agency, probably back in Rose's day the Department of the Treasury or perhaps the IRS, and now are represented by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

In any event, these revenoo-ers were constantly trying to smash Snuffy's still, and Snuffy was constantly shooting back, protecting his property from these over reaching revenoo-ers.

Now we are seeing a modern day Snuffy Smith, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, fending off the power of the over reaching federal government in the form of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).  

These BLM revenoo-ers have unilaterally decided in 1993 that some desert tortoises on this land that was used by this rancher to graze cattle were threatened by this grazing, and the BLM withdrew his previously granted grazing rights.  When asked why this decision was made, a simple statement was issued that the tortoise and its habitat were adversely affected, and that grazing rights were no longer allowed.

The tortoise is threatened?  Sez who?  Sez the BLM.  When asked for the data supporting this decision, none was ever provided.  This data has been requested for decades now after this 1993 unilateral decision to protect this threatenened tortoise, and these requests have been ignored to the present day.

And this seems to be how things work now.  An unaccountable, unelected bureaucracy makes decisions that impact Americans, and no recourse or grievance is allowed.  No sir.  Just do it, peons.  The U.S. government has spoken.

Hopefully we wake up, and see just what is going on in Nevada currently.  On the surface, a guy is ignoring the law.  A law made up out of whole cloth, voted on by nobody, and accountable to nobody.  What kind of law is that?

If we stand back and allow the BLM to win on this, by upholding this 'law' and crushing this little rancher, then the precedence has been set.  

They came for Cliven Bundy's cattle.  The revenoo-ers can come for you, too.