Lois Lerner Sued Christian Coalition- Largest FEC Action in History

The arrogance of power. Lois Lerner Sued Christian Coalition In Largest FEC Action in History -

So simply, Lois was up to her old tricks it turns out. How many more have had audits? “I have not done anything wrong.” So she takes the Fifth yesterday. Her buddies remain arrogant to the core.  Defiant to the core.Here we go:

Under the direction of Lois Lerner, the Federal Election Commission sued the Christian Coalition in the 1990s. She harassed the Christian Coalition for three election cycles. She lost her case. Lerner even asked one conservative during the case if Pat Robertson prayed over him. (Sound familiar?)

These actions landed her at the IRS where she used the same tactics against conservatives and Christians – only on a much larger scale. 500 conservative and Christian groups were illegally targeted by the Obama IRS during her tenure. For twenty-seven months the Obama IRS refused to approve any Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status. At the same time the Obama IRS approved dozens of progressive applications.

The Weekly Standard has more on Lois Lerner’s history of inappropriate religious inquiries

Lerner was appointed head of the FEC’s enforcement division in 1986  and stayed in that position until 2001. In the late 1990s, the FEC  launched an onerous investigation of the Christian Coalition, ultimately costing the organization  hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours in lost work. The  investigation was notable because the FEC alleged that the  Christian Coalition was coordinating issue advocacy expenditures with a  number of candidates for office. Aside from lacking proof this was  happening, it was an open question whether the FEC had the  authority to bring these charges.

H/T:Gateway Pundit

Benghazi: Where are Gen. Ham and Adm. Gaouette?

While Issa flails away at getting to the truth of Benghazi, the simple act of calling on two former military men would bring a quick answer to much of it.

Two men who had distinguished  careers before Obama got rid of them. Ham and Gaouette. But they were not the first nor the last.  For the background and the disposal of these men and the rest check out an earlier post: Obama gets rid of more Generals.

All of these men were highly decorated. Until Obama got through with them.

Marine Gen. John Allen

Gen. Mad Dog Mattis

Gen. David Patraeus

Gen. David Mc Kiernan

Gen. Stanley Mc Crystal

Gen. Carter F. Ham

Maj. Gen. Ralph Baker

Gen. William “Kip” Ward,

Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette

Freedom Fighter’s Journal asks ARE GENERAL HAM AND ADMIRAL GAOUTTE OBAMA’S POLITICAL PRISONERS?

Nothing the Obama administration has told the people about Benghazi is true… but who is responsible?

General Carter Ham and Admiral Charles M. Gaouette know the answer to this question. Where are Ham and Gaouette today? Why hasn’t Issa’s investigative committee called these decorated Military officers to testify before the committee investigating Benghazi?

We have known since 30 October 2012 that these two officers… Was it because they

 

1.      Were ordered to STAND DOWN in Benghazi

2.      Ignored those orders

3.      Were relieved of duty for refusing orders to STAND DOWN?

 

Ask the questions what did they know, and when did they know it, and who ordered them to do what.

 

Stars and Stripes reported October 18, 2012 that General Ham is being replaced by Gen. David Rodriguez. They also reported on October 27, 2012 that Adm. Gaouette is being replaced by Rear Adm. Troy M. Shoemaker.

 

The Navy stated that it was “replacing the admiral in command of an aircraft carrier strike group in the Middle East, pending the outcome of an internal investigation into undisclosed allegations of inappropriate judgment.”

 

What were the “inappropriate judgments” of these two decorated Military leaders? Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy’s chief spokesman, declined to discuss the investigation.

 

What we know is that these two highly unusual acts to remove two highly decorated commanders is related to the 11 September 2012 strike on Benghazi. We also know that the congressional investigation has not yet called these valiant men in to give testimony.

 

If you want to know what really happened in Benghazi, demand that Issa’s congressional committee subpoena both Gen. Ham and Adm. Gaouette to testify before the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform.

 

H/T: Freedom Fighter’s Journal

Pfeiffer: ‘Susan Rice is owed an apology’

It really isn’t anything new for Obama and the Chicago machine. They have just moved it to D.C. We all thought it, believed it, and now this piece from the Chicago Trib tells us. Tells us how it works, how they play the game. What became clear after hearing the Sunday talkies, Dan Pfeiffer who is now the reincarnation of Susan Rice, spun, spun, spun with more lies and deceit. The same five Sunday shows, the same statements. First I give you a sample of the Susan Rice redux, then go to the Trib for how the game is played.

The high point is when addressing the issue, Pfeiffer argued that Republicans owe UN Ambassador Susan Rice an apology. Sir, we the American people as well as the families of the dead Americans are owed the apology,

Chicago Tribune: IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way

…Because if you want to understand The Chicago Way of things in Washington these days, with the guys from Chicago in charge of the White House and the federal leviathan, there’s one place you start:

You start in Chicago.

…We talk politics every Sunday, we fight about this and that, so why aren’t you politically active outside?

Why don’t you get involved in politics?

There was an immediate silence. The older cousins looked away. The aunts and uncles stared at me in horror, as if I’d just announced I was selling heroin after school.

You could hear them breathing. No one spoke. I could feel myself blushing.

Someone quickly changed the subject to some safe old story. It could have been the one about how our grandfather named the family mule — a white, big-headed animal — after President Truman. My sin seemed forgotten.

But I couldn’t forget it. I couldn’t understand how we could argue about politics over baklava and watermelon and coffee, but not put it into practice.

This is America, I said.

“Are you in your good senses?” said my father. “We have lives here. We have businesses. If we get involved in politics, they will ruin us.”

And no one, not the Roosevelt Democrats or the Reagan Republicans, disagreed. The socialists, the communists, the royalists, everyone nodded their heads.

This was Chicago. And for a business owner to get involved meant one thing: It would cost you money and somebody from government could destroy you. Full read at Chicago Tribune with a neat clip by the author. He believes Jay Carny will take the ride out.

Obama: ‘I am not a Dictator’

A busy busy week for us bloggers. For my Sunday respite I chose this video, so perhaps not a respite as I would prefer. It sums up the week, doesn’t it?

This was created March 2, 2013 by  Granny Jan and Jihad Kitty.

Hillary Clinton: Watergate, Our first taste of her delicious corruption

Let’s go down a bit of memory lane. Where to start on our gal Hillary.The video starts with Watergate. Her first taste of power and corruption as she participated in denying Nixon his constitutional rights.  Comrade Matrix sent me this post from American Thinker to continue the tale. Obama learned from the knees of the Clintons. Here we go:

Obama  appeared to be taking his cues from the Clinton playbook, improvised in their  desperate effort to retain the White House after the electoral debacle of  November 1994: Shift the narrative, ridicule the critics, bury the truth  tellers.

….To  pull this off, the Clintons would be called upon to shift the narrative no fewer  than five times in the two utterly corrupt years before the 1996 election. The  media, dismayed by the Newt Gingrich ascendancy, fully enabled  them. American Thinker fills in the details.

 

It looks to me that it is George Soros in the beginning of the clip with Hillary?

IRS steals10 million medical records in CA

When I caught from The Hill this morning that the Dems are sleeping sounding, believing all is well in Obamacare regardless of the IRS kerfuffle, I simply started laughing myself silly.   No warrant required.

A growing chorus of Democratic leaders says the current controversy surrounding  the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should have no effect on the agency’s work  implementing President Obama’s healthcare reform law.

A number of Republicans have said the recent revelation that IRS officials had  targeted conservative groups leaves the agency with no credibility as it  prepares to implement those parts of the reform law under its watch.

Courthouse News had a twitter out here that should put a bit of a chill down the Dems spine:

Class Calls IRS Rude, Crude and Abusive –  By the way, sign up and catch us on twitter @Bunkerville

DIEGO (CN) – A lurid but vague class action accuses corrupt and abusive IRS agents of stealing 10 million people’s medical records without a warrant – including “intimate medical records of every state judge in California.”

John Doe Company sued 15 John Doe IRS agents in Superior Court.

“In a case involving solely a tax matter involving a former employee of the company, these agents stole more than 60,000,000 medical records of more than 10,000,000 Americans, including at least 1,000,000 Californians.

“No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search. IT personnel at the scene, a HIPPA [sic: recte HIPAA] facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records.

The IRS agents ignored and discarded each of these warnings, ignored their own published and public-reliant rules and governing ethical requirements, and ignored the limitations of the court’s search warrant authorization, seizing the records under threat of destroying company property.” Full story at Courthouse News

Obama’s half brother illegal scam foundation- IRS approval in one month

When I saw the Drudge header IRS official Lerner approved exemption for Obama brother’s charity and that Obama’s half-brother got not-profit status in a month, I recalled I had done a couple of posts on this fine fellow. What the post doesn’t state that it was illegal in the State of Virginia. Not only that the IRS made it retroactive for three years.

The New York Post also reported that the foundation was not registered in Virginia at the time the article was written in May, despite a Virginia legal requirement that an organization register before soliciting donations in that state.

“Since one of the Obama Foundation’s founders and directors, Mr. Alton R. Baysden, stated publicly in May 2011 that the foundation had not even applied for tax-exempt status, it is inconceivable that the IRS can now claim that the status was granted in June 2011, retroactive to 2008,” Ken Boehm, the head of the National Legal and Policy Center, told WND.

GuideStar.org, the private website that posts for public view IRS documents regarding nonprofit organizations, said for the Barack H. Obama Foundation no audited financial statements were available.
Read more: Influence of Obama’s brother Abongo felt in Washington WND

Obama’s scam artist brother runs for Governor of Kenya

.. then let’s go down memory lane. Obama’s brother gets special tax treatment. Wander over for full coverage of the family tree. .

Malik Obama – a half-brother of Barack Obama – is running for a governor’s position in the country’s nationwide elections on Monday, though he said he’s not sure what impact his relationship to the American president has on his campaign.

AP

President Obama’s half-brother, who runs a foundation that collects funds in the United States, was able to get approval of a tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service in an unheard-of time period of only a month, records reveal.

Barack Obama’s half-brother Abongo Malik Obama, also known as “Roy” Obama, appears to have received the sudden IRS approval to operate as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization in only 30 days. The result was made retroactive for three years.

The Barack H. Obama Foundation, (Check out the link) which runs out of a commercial mail drop in Arlington, Va., has solicited tax-deductible contributions on the Internet since 2008.

The Foundation’s guiding principle:

The common denominator in all that the Foundation undertakes is the inherent belief that no man can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers.

 

Obama tells students ‘Ethics was not my favorite subject’

Two posts today. Jim, over at Asylum Watch has a must read. It is worth the full rant, but here is a piece of it. Our thief-in-chief President gives out the sound guidance on the topic of “Ethics”.

(CNSNews.com) — President Barack Obama told an audience of high school  in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday that he was “not always the very best student” and that ethics “would not have made it on the list” of his favorite subjects.

“I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school,” Obama said, speaking at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School.

“I did not love every class I took. I wasn’t always paying attention the way I should have,” Obama said. “I remember when I was in 8th grade I had to take a class called ethics. Now, ethics is about right and wrong, but if you’d ask me what my favorite subject was back in 8th grade, it was basketball. I don’t think ethics would have made it on the list.”

Oops! You are a slow learner, aren’t you, Mr. President? You should know by now that every time you go off script, you reveal your true colors. That you didn’t like “ethics” when you were in the eighth grade doesn’t surprise any of us on the political right. Your opinion on ethics has never changed, has it Mr. President?

While a Community Organizer and working with Acorn, ethics wasn’t important to you then, was it, Mr. President?

Your books about your life and that of your father are full of lies and distortions. That’s not ethical, Mr. President. By the way, Mr. President, who did write those books you took credit for writing? Taking credit for other people’s work is not ethical, Mr. President.

To win your first election in Chicago politics, your staff managed to unseal the divorce papers of your opponent. That wasn’t ethical, Mr. President. Read more here!

Judge Jeanine “Fact Blasts” Hillary & Obama Administration on Benghazi

The Judge rips it out of the park with a moving rendition of the failure of Obama and Benghazi. It is one of the best takes down, and I promise you will not be disappointed.

A comment left: “This is clearly the best synopsis of what has happened in the Benghazi fiasco that I’ve seen. Amazing job Judge Jeanine”!

 

Obama gets rid of more Generals

Perhaps the story that more Generals are biting the dust will turn out to be as good a story as Benghazi and the IRS that broke this week. More importantly, the latest Generals to fall were involved in Africa, closer to the charade that is going on. Keep your eye on Carter Ham, if he decides to sing it is all over. Particularly of interest is to find out if Patraeus was being blackmailed to go along with the program under threat of dismissal. Perhaps he refused in the end to be a team player. Recall The Disappearing Generals post?

UPDATE: ADD They also reported on October 27, 2012 that Adm. Gaouette is being replaced by Rear Adm. Troy M. Shoemaker. The Navy stated that it was “replacing the admiral in command of an aircraft carrier strike group in the Middle East, pending the outcome of an internal investigation into undisclosed allegations of inappropriate judgment.”

What were the “inappropriate judgments” of these two decorated Military leaders? Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy’s chief spokesman, declined to discuss the investigation.

Back to the story:

Marine Gen. John Allen is planning to retire rather than be re-nominated for the powerful post of NATO supreme allied commander-Europe, after White House officials forced him to step aside, a source familiar with the discussions told Fox News on Wednesday:.

“He’s out,” the source said. “I know he is retiring. He was pushed out of the door.”  Read more: Fox News

And there is word that Gen. Mad Dog Mattis is stepping down from CENTCOM command due to questioning Obama’s handlers on Iran. Washington Free Beacon:

“Word on the national security street is that General James Mattis is being given the bum’s rush out of his job as commander of Central Command, and is being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned.”

Beside them, It is stunning to me that over the course of the past four years, our military generals are being eliminated for one reason or another. This ongoing list includes from what I could find:

Gen. David Patraeus

Gen. David Mc Kiernan

Gen. Stanley Mc Crystal

Gen. Carter F. Ham

Now on to the latest:

Maj. Gen. Ralph Baker, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, was fired March 28, according to a Washington Defense official.

The command is headquartered in Djibouti and runs U.S. military operations in East Africa, including some counter-terrorism operations.

Baker, a two-star general, is appealing the firing, which was ordered by his boss, Gen. Carter Ham, the commanding general of all U.S. military operations across Africa. (Ham bites the dust the next month)

He was relieved of his duty for loss of confidence, three Defense officials told CNN.

It was second (third with Ham) embarrassing dismissal of a high ranking officer involved in the U.S. military hierarchy in Africa in five months.

Gen. William “Kip” Ward, the first four-star general to command U.S. military operations in Africa, was demoted for excessive spending from duty at U.S. Africa Command (Africom).

He lost one star and retired a lieutenant general. H/T: Red Flag News

Earlier post Top Military leaders new requirement- Williing to shoot Americans?

Anyone familiar with Obama’s radical background will find this Facebook post by author Jim Garrow as believable as it is terrifying. Garrow is a respected activist who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work rescuing baby girls from one-child China. His source is “one of America’s foremost military heroes.”

I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new “litmus test” in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks. “The new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not”. Those who will not are being removed.

Larry Grathwohl  interview: