Here’s Barack Hussein Obama reacting to the three scandals that are poised to engulf the balance of his second term:
1. Benghazi is a “sideshow.”
2. Political repression of Conservatives by the IRS was committed by “low-level staffers.”
3. Regarding government wiretaps on the AP: “I’m shocked.”
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Seraphic Secret is shocked, shocked, that Obama didn’t blame President Bush for the lawlessness that characterizes the Obama administration.
The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial today, remembers that “President Obama famously joked in a college commencement address in 2000 that he could use the IRS to target political enemies but of course he never would.”
Pathological liars frequently reveal their lies—in short, they tell the truth about their lies—through off-handed remarks.
As Seraphic Secret has said of Obama: “Half of what he says is lies, and the other half isn’t true.”
But here’s the thing: Obama is telling us that he has no idea what’s going on in his administration. He’s not in control. It’s the other guys who are at fault.
Except for Navy SEALs.
Remember when SEAL snipers brilliantly took out the Somali pirates with two head-shots fired simultaneously from the deck of a ship?
Well, Obama was on the phone with those guys every single minute. Why, if it wasn’t for Barack, the SEALs would not have known what to do.
And of course, the killing of Osama bin Laden. You bet your boots that Barack directed that entire operation from beginning to end. Without the wisdom of the Dear Leader the whole operation would have gone to hell.
Yes, indeed, Barack is always on the job—except when he’s not.
Meanwhile, this cheery news on Obamacare from the Washington Examiner:
Internal cost estimates from 17 of the nation’s largest insurance companies indicate that health insurance premiums will grow an average of 100 percent under Obamacare, and that some will soar more than 400 percent, crushing the administration’s goal of affordability.
New regulations, policies, taxes, fees and mandates are the reason for the unexpected “rate shock,” according to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which released a report Monday based on internal documents provided by the insurance companies. The 17 companies include Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Kaiser Foundation.
The report found that individuals will face “premium increases of nearly 100 percent on average, with potential highs eclipsing 400 percent. Meanwhile, small businesses can expect average premium increases in the small group market of up to 50 percent, with potential highs over 100 percent.”
Obviously, the fault of the Republicans.
Like a five-year old child who, after spilling milk on the new rug, says: “The milk spilled“, instead of, “I spilled the milk,” Obama reveals the moral black hole that is his core.
Seraphic Secret remembers Richard Nixon’s presidency. We remember Watergate, the denials, the lies, the cover-ups. We remember the press pursuing the threads of the story relentlessly. We remember one of the articles of impeachment was that Nixon wanted to use—it’s not clear if he ever did—the IRS to target his political enemies.
We also vividly remember—we lived in Israel in 1973—how Nixon, G-d bless him, rescued the state of Israel during the Yom Kippur War via Operation Nickel Grass.
We wait to see if the mainstream press will react to this out-of-control administration with even a fraction of the outrage they would summon if this were a Republican administration.
But we will not hold our breath.
Seraphic Secret will be off-line until Friday morning in order to celebrate the holiday of Shavuot.
You shall count for yourselves — from the day after the Shabbat, from the day when you bring the Omer of the waving — seven Shabbats, they shall be complete. Until the day after the seventh sabbath you shall count, fifty days… You shall convoke on this very day — there shall be a holy convocation for yourselves — you shall do no laborious work; it is an eternal decree in your dwelling places for your generations.
—Leviticus 21:15-16, 21
We wish all our friends and relatives a chag sameach, a happy holiday.
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Wait, the government just can’t pass a law and make things cheaper? Knock me over with a feather!
Actually, anyone that has paid attention the last 40 years would understand how easyily the government can screw things up. But those are the same dinosaurs in Congress (Reid, Shumer, Durbin, Pelosi) that have passed laws giving government subsidies and proclaiming that makes things (tuition, electric cars, health insurance) cheaper instead of just shifting costs onto the backs of taxpayers.
Watergate was a minor detail and the cover-up was pretty mild by government standards. What it did was uncover the underbelly of government thinking and actions on a whole palate of dirty tricks that were standard operating procedures (and probably still are).
Obama was asleep on 9-11 last year and four Americans died. Israel will not be asleep on Yom Kippur because they know no help will be coming from the U.S.
Obama wishes he could deal with scandals like his birth certificate. The IRS and Benghazi are real problems.
“the administration’s goal of affordability”
As anyone with half a brain and one eye knows, affordability was never the goal of Obamacare. The takeover of healthcare was the goal, because then anything can be linked to “healthcare” and brought under government management.
Barack Obama is an odious man who heads a government of lies. I no longer believe anything the government tells me except when it tells me it is going to infringe on my liberties.
There’s a line in a song down here for Obama
He’s a walking contradiction,
partly truth,
and partly fiction.
ProphetJoe; I would say he’s more of a “leading behind” than anything.
Well the left really thought Obama was their Caesar who’d take them across the Rubicon.
Now he may end up being their Cataline.
“Seraphic Secret is shocked, shocked, that Obama didn’t blame President Bush for the lawlessness that characterizes the Obama administration.”
Underlings have already announced that the guilty IRS executives were “holdovers from the last administration.”
Am I being to cynical to think that with all this breaking 100 days after the start of the 2nd term, and with the news “out there” long prior, that some just wanted to wait until he got in for the 2nd term first?
But then, it took a Carter to get a Reagan – but – other than Ted Cruz, I see no Reagan on the horizon.
This administration reminds me more & more of Nixon’s – minus the papers like the WP and NYT wanting to get to the truth.
Oh my word, Bill – the ‘cynicism’ you’re exhibiting;) Ya think? As for Ted Cruz – the more the Libs hate him – the more I believe they see him as a danger, and therefore, a strength for us. The Watergate analogy for certain – except people died in Benghazi. Also, this is a ‘Liberal-centric’ perfidy, rather than Conservative – and therefore a non-issue for the MSM.
Robert, please remember that the President is not “out of control” — he’s merely leading from behind!
How can you say that he’s leading from behind with that crowd of news whores, academics, think-nothings, & know-nothings marching in lockstep behind him?
It gets worse on Obamacare: it turns out that, SURPRISE, some new govt. law isn’t going to make irresponsible people get health insurance. So the hospitals, the AMA and other dopey bureaucrat doctors, (no pvt. practice doc I know supported Obamacare), are getting screwed. They will now get just about NO federal money for treating the uninsured. Get ready for a big spike in death rates at urban hospitals, btw. As usual, govt. welfare results in the death of charity, good deeds and decency. Look at Europe, not a charity giver on the whole continent.
Regarding the IRS, it’s as predictable as night and day. If they wanted an understandable tax code, they could draft one. It wouldn’t be hard. But you make it so complicated that nobody can comply with it and anyone can honestly be suspected of breaking some rule or another, and it gives you arbitrary power to go after whomever you like whenever you please.
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.” – Ayn Rand
Brianna, my grad-student son who has Libertarian-leanings and I quoted Ayn Rand to similar purpose just this past weekend:)