Since work has me completely buried lately, I don't catch much of the news and commentary stuff I usually get. But I did catch part of Obama's press conference about the debt ceiling and gun control.
It strikes me how brazen he is on both subjects. Only he seems to be able to get away with outrageous and misleading rhetoric, but of course the press abandoned all pretense of fair reporting a long time ago.
Let's see if I can condense the basic message. Second Amendment activists are happy to see school children get killed by men with "Assault Rifles". They refuse to even discuss the "common sense" regulations that will save childrens' lives. Why, they just scare everybody by telling them Obama's going to take away their guns because it makes them a ton of money.
On the debt ceiling, it seems Obama had nothing to do with the spending levels bankrupting the nation. It was Congress and Bush, don't you know. So there's no need to negotiate raising the ceiling because Congress simply needs to pay the bills they've already piled up.
And by the way, he will not talk to Republicans about spending cuts that will starve seniors and children and deny healthcare to millions. There is no such thing as unnecessary spending. If only the rich were paying their fair share, we'd be OK (wait, didn't he just get a tax increase with no spending cuts through congress only a couple weeks ago?)
This stuff is so over-the-top in its blatant dishonesty. And the Republican leaders never even tried to hold a press conference to refute Emperor Obama's slanders. Business as usual I guess.
My feeling is that the Republicans in the House and Senate should reconfirm their principles, then stick by them regardless of how badly Obama and his lapdog press want to mischaracterize them. They will anyway, so why knuckle under to score points you'll never get from them?
Then I find this little tidbit about the FOIA request to see the illegal emails the former EPA chief, Lisa Jackson. The court ordered those emails be released to Chris Horner. Lisa was using "Richard Windsor" as her email alter ego. The EPA eventually gave Horner a CD with a bunch of emails. They chose to inundate him with a high volume of irrelevant emails, while still holding back the smoking guns that are almost certainly there.
It makes me wonder whether Lisa at the EPA is merely the tip of the iceberg of corrupt practices throughout the Obama span of control in government.
I'm sorry there is no evidence that anybody's going to succeed in toppling the totalitarians that have grasped control of Washington. Obama's our new King George, only he's doing a lot more harm than merely taxing our tea.
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