TemplarKormac
Political Atheist
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Who cares about how 4 embassy employees in Benghazi who were killed by rebels that the Obama administration armed.
Who cares about the IRS targeting every rightwing talk show host or PAC that donates to conservatives.
Who cares that the DoJ is shaking down banks, insurance companies, and big businesses for cash through lawsuits.
Who cares that guns the Obama Administration gave to drug cartels are still turning up at crime scenes along the border.
Who cares that the Administration refuses to enforce our laws or enforces them selectively.
Who cares that our government has brought down several dictators in the Middle East and allowed Islamic radicals to take over in their place.
Who cares that not only is the Administration allowing Iran, our mortal enemy, to continue building nukes, but they're also scaring everyone else in the region into wanting them for their own defense, seeing as how they can't count on us to protect them anymore.
Obama likes the fact that more are not working than in the last 30 years. For every job created last month 5 people dropped out of the workforce and cannot be counted as part of the ever growing terminally unemployed. Obama sees this as progress, a strong economy, strengthening the Middle-Class. He claims that unemployment is good for the economy. His primary concern isn't that more aren't working but that they aren't all making the same income. He says that his website isn't indicative of the mess his administration has become. The fact that not only can't he be trusted to keep his promises but even when he does do what he says he'll do it always turns into a hassle to everyone involved.
Who cares that with every new rule or regulation the costs of running a business goes up astronomically and the costs to the consumer goes up as well. Who cares that the EPA is intentionally driving the costs of energy through the roof.
Who cares.
The worst thing you could do is hold up traffic in NYC. This is the worst thing you can ever do. This is just the tip of the iceberg folks. More will come out about this, they promise us. This is one seriously huge scandal of all scandals. Somebody cause a traffic jam on the GWB and people died, or at least probably died. This can't happen in America. But when it comes to national security and the stagnant economy. Who cares.
1. One year after 9/11 and investigation took place into what went wrong. The 9/11 commission took several months to end and recommended several things take place. This generated the Department of Homeland Security and a vast array of new security protocols. Like them or hate them there was a finality to it.
Benghazi? Almost immediately there was an "investigation". Almost all classified documents submitted to Issa were leaked to the press. This led to the discovery that the CIA was maintaining an outpost in the consulate, that they may have been keeping prisoners and led to the resignation of Daniel Petraeus. Additionally, the committee under Issa refuses to review any evidence that contradicts his conclusions. This investigation has continued for more than a year, has not reached any conclusions or made any recommendations. In other words, it's an open ended witch hunt.
2. The IRS employees involved in this "scandal" were Bush appointees. Couple that with regulations and laws adopted during the Nixon administration which prohibit interaction between the President and the IRS as well the fact that "Citizen's United" opened up a new avenue for funneling of money into political campaigns and you have multiple reasons why these procedures were adopted. One of the things that came out in the investigation is the fact that PACs who engage in politics are breaking the law. The law and IRS regulations do not comport. Has Issa done anything about that? Nope. Another open ended witch hunt.
3. Banks and Financial institutions were re-capitalized on the tax payers dime after pulling one of the biggest fiascoes in history. They came very close to collapsing the economy of the entire world. For anyone to complain about new regulations is disgusting.
4. Iran is "our mortal enemy" why? Because we (The US) manufactured a coup in their country and undid a Democratic election? Because we subjected them to the misery of a brutal shah and a deadly secret police? Because we backed a bloodthirsty dictator, Saddam Hussien, and gave him Chemical Weapons to wage war on Iran? After all these things, what country would NOT seek nukes to defend itself?
5. The Obama administration NEVER gave guns to Drug Cartels. That was the Bush administration during operations WIDE RECEIVER.
Reality isn't the strong point of you folks.
1. One year after 9/11 and investigation took place into what went wrong. The 9/11 commission took several months to end and recommended several things take place. This generated the Department of Homeland Security and a vast array of new security protocols. Like them or hate them there was a finality to it.
Benghazi? Almost immediately there was an "investigation". Almost all classified documents submitted to Issa were leaked to the press. This led to the discovery that the CIA was maintaining an outpost in the consulate, that they may have been keeping prisoners and led to the resignation of Daniel Petraeus. Additionally, the committee under Issa refuses to review any evidence that contradicts his conclusions. This investigation has continued for more than a year, has not reached any conclusions or made any recommendations. In other words, it's an open ended witch hunt.
Your entire premise died for this point with the utterance of the words "witch hunt." You strangely have an obsession with Issa. Is this an attack on the facts the investigation revealed, or on the man himself?
2. The IRS employees involved in this "scandal" were Bush appointees. Couple that with regulations and laws adopted during the Nixon administration which prohibit interaction between the President and the IRS as well the fact that "Citizen's United" opened up a new avenue for funneling of money into political campaigns and you have multiple reasons why these procedures were adopted. One of the things that came out in the investigation is the fact that PACs who engage in politics are breaking the law. The law and IRS regulations do not comport. Has Issa done anything about that? Nope. Another open ended witch hunt.
You're going on a wild goose chase. Yet another attack on Issa, without so much as a modicum of fact. First, depending on when those laws were passed during the Nixon Administration, they didn't stop him (Nixon) from pressuring the IRS Secretary to audit people on his enemies list. Second, whether these employees were Bush appointees or not is irrelevant. This happened on Obama's watch, the IRS specifically targeted conservative groups and what the IRS did does not comport with the law. Has Obama done anything about that? It appears he did.
3. Banks and Financial institutions were re-capitalized on the tax payers dime after pulling one of the biggest fiascoes in history. They came very close to collapsing the economy of the entire world. For anyone to complain about new regulations is disgusting.
I will complain with the best of them. Regulation is fine, but this amount of regulation is absurd. There comes a point when so much regulation can cause the result you intend to avoid. The amount of government meddling into the banking sector is doing more harm than good.
4. Iran is "our mortal enemy" why? Because we (The US) manufactured a coup in their country and undid a Democratic election? Because we subjected them to the misery of a brutal shah and a deadly secret police? Because we backed a bloodthirsty dictator, Saddam Hussien, and gave him Chemical Weapons to wage war on Iran? After all these things, what country would NOT seek nukes to defend itself?
That's all well and good, but when Iran's president stands before the entire UN and threatens to eliminate Israel, you would question the country's need to have nukes in the first place. Case in point.
In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be eliminated | Reuters
5. The Obama administration NEVER gave guns to Drug Cartels. That was the Bush administration during operations WIDE RECEIVER.
Actually you're wrong. Operation Fast and Furious was launched on October 31, 2009 and ended in 2011. Wide Receiver took place in 2006 and ended in September 2007. Your chronology is questionable at best. If the Obama Administration never gave guns to cartels, why did it work so hard to suppress any knowledge of it? They went about targeting whistleblowers and sealing official records of the Operation. Lastly, Obama falsely claimed that Fast and Furious began under the previous administration, when in reality it was launched 9 months into his presidency:
President Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program ?Begun Under the Previous Administration? - ABC News
And you say we are challenged with reality?
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