What Obama Told High School Graduates About Republicans

By Fred Lucas
Speaking at a high school graduation, President Barack Obama went political, telling the students to vote, and blasting Senate Republicans for failing to pass a bill to lower the rates on student loans.
“Today that idea was defeated by Republicans in Congress, which was frustrating,” Obama said giving the commencement address for Worcester Technical High School in Worcester, Massachusetts, prompting some students in the audience to boo the GOP vote.
“Well, don’t boo, just remember to vote,” Obama said. “This is frustrating to parents. Its frustrating to students who are working hard and doing everything right. There are too many politicians in Washington who don’t have the right priorities. We need to straighten them out.”
The Senate voted 58-38 Wednesday to bring the student loan bill to a vote, but that was short of the 60 votes needed for close debate.
“Maybe they forgot where they came from and who invested in them along the way,” Obama said. “When a bill to help you pay off your college doesn’t pass, it’s a disservice not only to your generation but to our history as a nation that strives to put quality education within the reach of every American. So we’re going to have to keep on putting pressure on Congress. But in the meantime, when Congress won’t act, I’m going to do whatever I can on my own.”
Republicans criticized the bill saying that it was an election year stunt that would do nothing to curb college costs.

Military Bases: Obama's New Illegal Alien Dumping Grounds

By Michelle Malkin
A source tipped me off last week to a curious occurrence: It seems that two planeloads of illegal aliens were recently shipped to Massachusetts. The first reportedly landed at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford. According to my tipster, approximately 160 illegal immigrants arrived on that flight and stayed nearly a week before being transferred to a Department of Homeland Security site and then released.
The second flight reportedly was diverted from Hanscom to Boston's Logan Airport this past weekend. I am told that both Massachusetts and New Hampshire officials were on hand. I reached out to Hanscom AFB for confirmation, but did not receive a call back by my deadline.
Question: How many other military bases are stealthily being used to redistribute, house, process and release illegal border crossers?
What we do know for sure is that the Obama administration already has converted several other military bases across the country into outposts for tens of thousands of illegal aliens from Central and South America.
San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base opened its doors as an illegal immigrant camp last month. Port Hueneme Naval Base in Ventura County, Calif., will shelter nearly 600 illegal border-crossing children and teens. The Fort Sill Army post in Lawton, Okla., was ordered on Friday to take in 1,200 illegal aliens despite the objections of GOP Gov. Mary Fallin, who blasted the White House, saying, "The Obama administration continues to fail in its duty to protect our borders and continues to promote policies that encourage, rather than discourage, illegal immigration."
...The latest "crisis" is a wholly manufactured byproduct of White House administrative amnesties, which are supported by a toxic alliance of ethnic-vote-seeking Democrats and cheap-labor-hungry Big Business Republicans. The flood comes just as Obama's DHS announced a two-year extension for beneficiaries of the "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" (DACA) program. A whopping 560,000 illegal aliens have been granted amnesty under DACA and also have received employment authorization.
As I've said for two decades, illegal alien amnesties guarantee two things: more illegal immigration and more Democratic voters. Now we have a White House forcing U.S. military bases to provide interminable benefits and services to illegal aliens for political gain, while said White House evades responsibility for allowing military veterans to die waiting for the most basic of medical services.
And where's the GOP "leadership" in this country? Doing the bidding of the amnesty-loving U.S. Chamber of Commerce and demonizing Republican candidates at every level who are sick and tired of giving away the store and the country.
God save us from bipartisanship.

Media Banned From Nogales Border Patrol Processing Center, But Al Sharpton Immigration Ally Got All-Access Tour

By Katie Pavlich
Earlier this week I reported about Border Patrol agents in Nogales being threatened with firings after photos of overwhelmed conditions were leaked to the media. Since that time, all personal electronic devices belonging to agents have been banned from the Nogales processing center, where thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America are sleeping in chain-linked cells. Media has been banned from the area and tours for press are not being granted or approved.
However, while the media is being kept away, others are being allowed into the facility. Rev. Jarrett Maupin, who is running for a seat in Arizona's 7th Congressional District, was granted a tour earlier this week. Maupin has close ties to Rev. Al Sharpton. According to OurCampaigns.com, he currently serves as a national board member for Sharpton's National Action Network [NAN] and as the President and CEO of the Arizona Chapter of the NAN. Maupin is also part of the Border Action Network, a far-left offshoot of Sharpton's NAN. Maupin has been quoted saying, "Some call me his [Sharpton's] 'mini-me.'" In 2009, Maupin plead guilty to a felony after lying to a federal agent.
...According to sources, although formal requests for tours must be submitted and received through the Customs and Border Protection Public Information Office in Nogales, they're being approved by an outside official in Washington D.C. It is suspected those who see eye-to-eye with the administration on immigration, in Maupin's case open border civil rights activists, are being favored with granted requests.

Gains by al Qaeda group in Iraq spark fears of a decade’s progress lost

By Guy Taylor
Sunni militants swept rapidly Wednesday toward Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, facing almost no resistance as they wrested control of Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit from Iraqi forces — part of a fast-moving advance prompting fresh concern in Washington that hard-fought gains during nearly a decade of U.S. occupation of the Mideast country are slipping away.
The surge by extremists loyal to the al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also has triggered fears of a return of the sectarian civil war between Sunni and Shiite Muslims that tore through Iraq during the middle years of the U.S. occupation.

...One U.S. counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday, said that inside Iraq the group has about 2,500 fighters.However, the official said that the ISIL is now “at its strongest point since 2006,” controlling territory that has allowed its fighters to “plan attacks against Iraqi government targets in Baghdad and Shiite communities in central and southern Iraq.”
....The Obama administration, facing criticism from Republicans, who argue that the White House moved too quickly in pulling all U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011, acknowledged Wednesday that the violence may now be spinning out of control.

First Benghazi whistleblower emerges

By Thomas Lifson
....The Obama administration knew that the Benghazi attack was carried out by terrorists right away, because they listened in on cell phone conversations between the raiders and their leaders, according to testimony given by the first whistleblower to break through the wall of silence. Bret Baier and James Rosen of Fox News (the most trusted TV news source in America) have broken the story and put the lie to Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and all the president’s men and women.

The terrorists who attacked the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 used cell phones, seized from State Department personnel during the attacks, and U.S. spy agencies overheard them contacting more senior terrorist leaders to report on the success of the operation, multiple sources confirmed to Fox News.
The disclosure is important because it adds to the body of evidence establishing that senior U.S. officials in the Obama administration knew early on that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and not a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video that had gone awry, as the administration claimed for several weeks after the attacks.
Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air Force, served as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft that was used to transport the corpses of the four casualties from the Benghazi attacks – then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – as well as the assault’s survivors from Tripoli to the safety of an American military base in Ramstein, Germany.
In an exclusive interview on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Stahl said members of a CIA-trained Global Response Staff who raced to the scene of the attacks were “confused” by the administration’s repeated implication of the video as a trigger for the attacks, because “they knew during the attack…who was doing the attacking.” Asked how, Stahl told anchor Bret Baier: “Right after they left the consulate in Benghazi and went to the [CIA] safehouse, they were getting reports that cell phones, consulate cell phones, were being used to make calls to the attackers' higher ups.”
A separate U.S. official, one with intimate details of the bloody events of that night, confirmed the major’s assertion. The second source, who requested anonymity to discuss classified data, told Fox News he had personally read the intelligence reports at the time that contained references to calls by terrorists – using State Department cell phones captred at the consulate during the battle – to their terrorist leaders. The second source also confirmed that the security teams on the ground received this intelligence in real time.

The report of the so-called Accountability Review Board – which is the screen behind which Hillary Clinton is attempting to hide – did not include any testimony from people with knowledge of these cell phone conversations. The fact the cell phones were stolen and listened in on does not appear in that report.

CNN Slashes School Shooting Stats Claim By 80 Percent

By Chuck RossCNN has drastically revised a claim it made, which was based on a graphical map from a pro-gun control group, which purportedly showed that 74 school shootings have occurred in the U.S. since the Sandy Hook massacre in Dec. 2012.
The news outlet circulated the graphical map, which came from the group Everytown for Gun Safety, after a shooting that occurred Tuesday at a high school in Oregon which left two dead, including the 15 year-old gunman.
Everytown for Gun Safety, which is backed by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, headlined their graphic “School Shootings in America Since Sandy Hook,” suggesting that the shootings it listed had a link of some kind to Sandy Hook — in which Adam Lanza killed 26 people at an elementary school.
CNN and various other media outlets used the graphic in news segments.
“So on Wednesday, CNN took a closer look at the list, delving into the circumstances of each incident Everytown included,” reads CNN’s report.
It acknowledged that many of the shootings listed by Everytown did not fit the profile of a Sandy Hook-type shooting, in which the attacks are seemingly random.
Instead, CNN said, “some of the other incidents on Everytown’s list included personal arguments, accidents and alleged gang activities and drug deals.” (RELATED: School Shooting Claims Debunked)
“CNN determined that 15 of the incidents Everytown included were situations similar to the violence in Oregon – a minor or adult actively shooting inside or near a school,” said CNN.
Charles Johnson, a freelance journalist, first began looking into the shooting incidents cited by Everytown for Gun Safety. After cross-referencing all of the incidents listed by Everytown with local news reports, he claimed that only seven of the 74 shootings were what he would consider classical cases of school shootings similar to the one at Sandy Hook or Tuesday’s incident in Oregon.

Charges Filed In ‘One Of The Largest’ Food Stamp Frauds EVER

By Chuck Ross
Federal charges have been filed against dozens of people in Georgia who allegedly set up a scheme that funneled $18 million worth of food stamps through grocery stores in what a Department of Justice official is calling “one of the largest federal food program frauds ever.”
Fifty-four people were indicted for their roles in the massive fraud which involved the illegal purchase of WIC and food stamp benefits.
The fraud “allegedly involved the purchase of more than $18 million in WIC vouchers and Food Stamp benefits for cash through a number of purported grocery stores set up throughout Georgia.”
Another 34 defendants were indicted for selling their benefits. Through the WIC program, participants receive 3-month supplies of vouchers which can be exchanged for food at authorized stores. The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food stamp benefits to low-income families.
It is illegal to sell WIC and SNAP benefits for cash, though that did not stop the 88 people involved in the scam.
“Many of the defendants allegedly canvassed low-income neighborhoods and solicited WIC and Food Stamp participants to illegally exchange their benefits not for food but for cash,” the DOJ’s charge reads.
After setting up grocery store operations throughout Georgia, the defendants bought the benefits for a fraction of their face value.
The defendants then allegedly laundered the $18 million they received from the scheme
Another 34 defendants who were charged separately allegedly sold over $1,000 worth of WIC and food stamps for cash.
“This prosecution is one of the largest federal food program frauds ever brought,” said U.S. Attorney Edward J. Tarver in a statement.
The 54 defendants were charged with one count each of mail and wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. The charges carry a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
The government seeks the forfeiture of $20 million in bank accounts and assets, including two luxury vehicles, a 2008 Mercedes Benz and a 2008 Land Rover. Defendants began appearing in federal court on Tuesday and will continue to appear on Wednesday.

$3 million waste? Patrol boats intended for Afghan forces sit in Virginia base

By Edmund DeMarche
Patrol boats U.S. taxpayers sunk $3 million on in 2010 that were supposed to beef up the Afghan National Police presence along its border are collecting dust inside a Virginia Navy base.
The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, released the report Friday and said these eight rigid-hulled inflatable boats were at one time considered a priority for the Afghan forces. Afghanistan already utilizes four similar boats, and these eight were intended to deter smuggling on its north and west border.
The total cost of the eight boats -- including transportation and training -- was slightly more than $3 million. The Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, or CSTC-A, which includes multinational military counterparts, canceled the requirements for the boats, but the boats were nearly completed and shipped to the Cheatham Annex in Yorktown, Va., where they have remained since 2011, the report said.
"There are no current plans for utilizing the patrol boats in Afghanistan," CSTC-A said, in response to an inquiry from SIGAR. The responsibility of these boats now rests with the Navy, it said. An April review board, that included the CSTC-A, determined that these boats "do not fill a valid requirement in Afghanistan."

State Dept Confirms: Iran Now Shipping Oil to Syria

Oil shipments may violate interim nuclear accord

By Adam Kredo

The State Department confirmed on Wednesday that Iran has been shipping crude oil to Syria for the past several months, behavior that some experts say is in direct violation of the interim nuclear accord signed last year with the Obama administration. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Diplomacy Amos Hochstein, during remarks before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, confirmed rumors that Iran is now delivering oil to the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been helped financially and militarily by the regime in Tehran.
“It is true that over the last few months Iran has begun to direct shipments of crude oil to Syria for the first time,” Hochstein told lawmakers. “They were done every once in a while before that. That is because Syria’s ability to get crude oil on the market and from traders has vanished. And as a result Iran has had to step in.”
Lawmakers remain concerned that Iran’s growing oil exports are offsetting economic sanctions by providing the regime a huge cash influx, and could constitute a violation of the interim nuclear accord.
However, the State Department says it is not overly concerned about these shipments because Iran is not being paid by Syria for the oil, Hochstein said.
The comments stoked concern from regional experts who said that the oil shipments to Syria constitute a violation of U.S. sanctions and previous agreements.

Russian Bombers Fly Within 50 Miles of California Coast

U.S. F-22, F-15 jets intercept four Bear H bombers near Alaska, Northern California

By Bill Gertz

Four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday.
“The last time we saw anything similar was two years ago on the Fourth of July,” Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Norad spokesman, told the Free Beacon.
....The bomber incursion is the latest Russian nuclear saber-rattling amid stepped up tensions over Moscow’s military annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea.
Rep. Mike Conaway (R., Texas), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, called the Russian flights “intentional provocations.”
“Putin is doing this specifically to try to taunt the U.S. and exercise, at least in the reported world, some sort of saber-rattling, muscle-flexing kind of nonsense,” Conaway said in an interview. “Truth of the matter is we would have squashed either one of those [bombers] like baby seals.”
“It’s a provocation and it’s unnecessary. But it fits in with [Putin’s] macho kind of saber-rattling,” he said, adding that he expects Russia will carry out more of these kinds of incidents in the future.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former Alaska commander for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said he does not remember a case of Russian strategic bombers coming that close to the U.S. coast.
“Again we see the Obama administration through their covert—but overt to Mr. Putin—unilateral disarmament, inviting adventurism by the Russians,” McInerney said in an email.
“At the height of the Cold War I do not remember them getting this close. Mr. Putin had to approve this mission and he is just showing his personal contempt for President Obama right after meeting him in Normandy less than a week ago,” McInerney said.
McInerney said no American president has been treated with such disrespect in U.S. history.
“A sad day indeed and at the same time Mosul and Tikrit [Iraq] fall to radical Islamists after the Obama administration’s failed Iraq policy,” he added. “He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory yet again.”

Beware a Beneficent Government

By Judge Andrew Napolitano
....President Obama, most congressional Democrats and many congressional Republicans are ardent progressives. They view Congress as a general legislature with no limits to its powers -- and they mean no limits. For example, in an area clearly beyond congressional reach, such as in-state highway speed limits, the progressives found a way to extend their reach. They offered money to the states to repave their highways, with the condition that the states adhere to federally prescribed speed limits (only South Dakota declined). Once the courts gave their imprimatur to this assault on the Constitution, the feds realized that by spending taxpayer dollars -- by bribing the states -- they could extend their regulatory tentacles to any extra-constitutional area they chose.
Progressivism's adherents finance the government by borrowing or by heavily taxing only the rich, both of which are sold as being painless to most voters. Yet, the former merely delays the due date of bills until tomorrow for goodies consumed today; the latter takes cash out of the free market today, where it could contribute to growth and jobs tomorrow, and puts it into the hands of the mindset that runs the Post Office and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Progressives hate the states because they can be laboratories of less government. They love central government and all of its creations, such as the cash-printing Federal Reserve, the wealth-stealing progressive income tax, and the concept of a federal safety net for all persons. None of this, except the income tax (which Wilson promised would not exceed 3 percent of adjusted gross income), is authorized by the Constitution.
Yet today, we are witnessing a government that is beyond ideologically progressive. Does Obama understand that progressive ideas have consequences and that governmental behavior often has unintended consequences? It would appear not, as his long train of incompetence and indifference, grounded in progressive thought, keeps picking up speed. It is crushing human freedom, destroying human wealth and even taking human lives.
Under his presidency, the government saddled us all with a three-sizes-fits-all version of compulsory health care (which caused more than five million persons to lose their coverage and their doctors); it has been spying on all Americans all the time (and we sleepily permit it to do so); it allowed our ambassador in Libya to be murdered (after it destroyed the lawful government there); it told illegal aliens they need not worry about deportation (and thus encouraged the immigration of hundreds of thousands more -- even unaccompanied children -- to our shores); it neglected veterans to the point of death in government hospitals (demonstrating conclusively that the feds cannot deliver health care); it released assets material to terrorist organizations into the theater of war in the Middle East (ostensibly in a prisoner swap to save a weird military bird who once embraced his captors); it has claimed the power to kill Americans it views as a threat to others and yet too troublesome to arrest and bring to trial (all the while claiming it has a secret reading of the Constitution and American law that somehow justifies this); and it has added $6 trillion to government debt (with no plans to repay it).
What's going on? The modern presidency is blinded by a conceit that says it can do no wrong. This is partially the result of the passage of power from the states to the feds and from Congress to the president and partially the fault of a president who relishes telling us all how to live. In Obama's hands, all this power produces the vast unhappiness and government recklessness we now see every day.
The same Madison whom Obama rejects warned 200 years ago against the Obama mindset: "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

Obama Thinks You're Stupid, that's Why

By Ed Lasky
....Joseph Curl in the Washington Times wrote in “Is Obama really that stupid” that Obama and his underlings must have known Bowe Berghdal was a deserter and the Taliban 5 were war criminals and murderers and concluded “The president may be incompetent, but he’s not stupid. He’s just counting on the American people to be.” That is correct and has been true for years.
Two years ago I wrote “What Obama Thinks of Americans” outlining the many instances where Obama has insulted our intelligence. It may have started with the “bitter clingers” slur in 2008 but his contempt has flowed for years. We don’t think clearly and “fear and frustration” drive voters; racism still corrupts our society; we have gotten “a little soft” and a “little bit lazy”; “have lost our ambition, our imagination”; we don’t appreciate him enough. No wonder he stayed in Pastor Jeremiah Wright Junior’s church; Wright was preaching to the choir.
He may be right to consider many Americans as being weak and not thinking clearly -- as being vulnerable marks and suckers -- after all, he won election to the presidency-twice!
By the way, his pejorative views of Americans are shared by Michelle Obama (who considers young people “knuckleheads”) and by former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who said about the Benghazi scandal, “people are tired of it, or don’t know anything about it” (especially risible for someone who pushed Obamacare on us without knowing what was in it). Liberals view Americans as dumb -- hence the need for nanny-ism. And control from above by superior elites and intellectuals -- liberal fascism, Jonah Goldberg has called this political philosophy – is Obama’s calling.
Another indicator of his views of Americans happened in 2012 when he spoke without a teleprompter and owned up to one fault: he had not been a good enough storyteller (in other words, Americans weren’t good enough listeners). So his policies and leadership were not the problems but the messaging (lying?) was the problem.
Obama has run the most insular of presidencies. Instead of listening to experts to formulate policy, instead of reading Daily Intelligence or Daily Economic Briefings or meeting with Cabinet members, he has preferred to meet with spinners and political hacks. Once in office, he placed campaign strategist David Axelrod in the office closest to the Oval Office (power is reflected by proximity) and made his campaign speechwriter (Hope and Change), Jon Favreau, the highest paid staffer in the White House. Those reveal Obama’s priorities.
Kimberly Strassel recently wrote in “Meet Obama’s Kissingers” about Obama’s National Security Council:

NSC staff are foreign-policy grownups, and its meetings are barred to political henchmen.
Or that was the case, until the Obama White House. By early March 2009, two months into this presidency, the New York Times had run a profile of David Axelrod, noting that Mr. Obama's top campaign guru and "political protector" was now "often" to be found "in the late afternoons" walking "to the Situation Room to attend some meetings of the National Security Council." President Obama's first national security adviser, former Marine General and NATO Commander Jim Jones, left after only two years following clashes with Mr. Obama's inner circle.
He was replaced by Democratic political operative and former Fannie Mae lobbyist Tom Donilon. Mr. Donilon joined Ben Rhodes, the Obama campaign speechwriter, who in 2009 had been elevated to deputy national security adviser for strategic communications. Also present was Tommy Vietor, whose entire career prior to NSC spokesman was as an Obama spinmeister—as a press aide in the 2004 Senate run, and campaign flack for the 2008 Iowa caucuses, and assistant White House press secretary. In fairness, his credentials also included getting caught on camera in 2010 pounding beers, shirtless, at a Georgetown bar. America's foreign-policy experts at work.
Not that Mr. Obama's first instinct is even to rely on his now overtly political NSC. This paper reported in September 2013 that as the White House struggled with the question of military intervention in Syria, it summoned all the old "Obama loyalists" for advice. They included his 2008 campaign manager ( David Plouffe ), his former press secretary ( Robert Gibbs ), a former speechwriter ( Jon Favreau ), and Mr. Vietor (who had by then left the NSC to form a political consulting group).
A serious-minded NSC, in the tumultuous aftermath of Benghazi, would have responded with a sober assessment for its president of the real and continued terror threat, and of the failings that resulted in four dead Americans. Instead we find the deputy NSA, Mr. Rhodes, crafting an internal email advising his colleagues to spin, and blame it all on an Internet video. Mr. Rhodes had no interest in advising the president on hard realities. His only interest was ensuring his boss got re-elected.

So our commander in chief gets advice from political hacks when it comes to defending America. To quote Glenn Americans are in the best of hands.
When Obamacare disasters were damaging his image in 2013, who did he call? Not Ghostbusters ; not experienced experts or professionals; not Republicans for their input but his campaign flacks, David Axelrod, David Plouffe and Jon Favreau. They were there to craft a message not fix a problem.
So Obama has stepped up his record-breaking hiring of journalists and their kin to staff his administration. For example, Ben Rhodes’s brother is head of CBS News, a network that was accused by one of its star journalists, Sharyl Attkisson, of having avoided criticism of the White House and stifling any investigation of Benghazi. At the same time, the White House has operated in an unprecedented manner to control the news flow -- whether by intimidating and investigating (the secret subpoena of Associated Press phone records) journalists, coopting them by special invitations to the White House, tapping local and more pliable journalists (or even disk jockeys such as the Pimp With The Limp) rather than national figures for interviews, and relying on narrowcasting via social networks to deliver their version of reality. Facts are whatever Obama and his fellow Democrats tell you they are. Hence the relentless denial of reality we see displayed by the “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” president – he thinks we are easily bamboozled. Fictions and lies are the new truth.
But the spinning can only go on for so long. Eventually a juggler drops his plates and the spinning stops. A liar has to resort to increasingly absurd and easily punctured lies to sustain a story. Not every scandal can be dismissed as partisan witch hunts, distractions, “phony scandals,” or controversies whipped up in Washington. How many times can we hear “Dude that was like two years ago” as the stonewalling persists? Those become tiresome clichés with diminishing returns as time passes and people wise up. Every time Susan Rice appears on a Sunday news show won’t Americans just start thinking: she is lying? We have seen all these acts before.
....And to add insult to injury to Obama and his allies, a poll also shows that Fox News-anathematized by liberals- is the most trusted TV news source in America. No wonder Obama and others on the left have hectored America not to watch the network.
Obama will pass from the scene in two years; the damage he and his allies have caused will last for many years to come. Indeed, the lies he and his proxies have routinely engaged in for years have subverted democracy in America.
They will continue to do so until Democrats are removed from power in Washington and elsewhere.
November 2016 cannot come soon enough.