The government would not say why it sought the records.
May 13, 2013
"The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press..."
"... in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the news."
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Will this irritate the water carriers in the media, you suppose?
San Clemente, here we come!
Long walks on the beach wearing wingtips.
Phlebitis.
Ah, the memories come pouring back.
So, think the media will respond by finally giving Obama some well-deserved negative coverage, or with its normal method of saying "thank you sir, may I have another?"
I wonder if the press will care more about this than the IRS distraction
There is our side, their side, and Obama's side.
Ha Ha!
AP knows the score. BOHICA. They'll whimper a little bit, but that will be about it.
Unexpectedly!
Oh boy - a triple scandal hitting!
And perhaps from the latest, riled up reporters will abandon their Black Messiah - and uncover new scandals.
This is all before the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) begins crushing business owners, self employed, and private individuals that have private health insurance. Rate premiums could go up 40%. And the only people that are protected are the most organized pressure groups in the Democrat Party, and that still leaves half the working Dems out of the affordable "exchanges".
It looks like a colossal mess that will sledgehammer the Dems.
No kidding? The AP reported this?
The honeymoon must be over. And boy did those 53 months just FLY BY! Good thing this didn't happen to...oh, I don't know...a Tea Party group. Or we'd never have heard of it.
Looking forward to reading "Obama Agonistes."
Wow, dumb thug Eric goes after willing water carrier AP. Why?
From President Obama's viewpoint, now's a good time for a major Mideast war, ala October 1973.
Nothing like an ol' fashioned Defcon Three to distract folks.
Why eavesdrop like that though? Hell, if the tin pot wannabe had just asked nicely AP would've given anything he asked I bet.
There is no upper limit on penis size!!
garage will be along shortly with a link to a "reputable" source which will conclusively demonstrate that GWBush's administration tapped reporters phones because shut up racists!
Gay will be getting married in Minnesota.
Sad.
Tits.
Titus: "Gay will be getting married in Minnesota."
So, straight get married in Minnesota for many moons.
Tonto
They were after someone, wonder who it was? A leaker probably, not that there has been much of anything interesting leaked.
It's going to explode in Congressional hearings:
-IRS released non-public tax information to ProPublica
-Austen Goolsbee (former WH economic advisor) mentioned the tax and income information of Koch Industries.
-A former Romney support received both an IRS audit AND a Labor Dept audit for his ranch.
If only were were in a real investigation with prosecutors that could offer immunity, then we'd start to see some people sing!
I'm trying to decide if this is the perfect storm of incompetence, or if they are that desperate to push Benghazi to page two.
Wow. It just has not been a good week to live at 1600 Penn Ave.
CEO-MMP said...:"Why eavesdrop like that though? Hell, if the tin pot wannabe had just asked nicely AP would've given anything he asked I bet."
The Obama admin was looking for the gov't employee who was leaking info damaging to our commissar obambi.
In metaphorical terms, the leaker was attempting to escape over the Obama wall and the AP, Obama's loving water carriers lo these many years, were ensnared in the Obama subterfuge.
I'll bet the Obama-ites are simply stunned that the AP'ers are upset about this!!
LOL
Somewhere.....Richard Nixon is smiling.
I'm suspicious. This is three scandals in three days. What is going on? Why the overload? Is it because the dam has broken after gun control snd everybody is jostling for 2016? isn't it way too soon to to be a lame duck?
Or is it in support of Obama. Get everything out nowand hope this quiet down intime for immigration and 2014 push?
What do you say to this level of utter incompetence? This country has a broken rudder and the captain is golfing on the mezzanine deck.
...and Obama's approval ratings don't even twitch.
Looks like by the end of the week we'll get to see that footage of Obama screaming Allah Akbar while clubbing baby seals with puppies soaked in heavy crude.
Titus said...
Gay will be getting married in Minnesota.
Recall, that was a key litmus test issue for many Obama voters or at least a reason not to vote for Romney.
Enjoy the decline!
madAsHell said...
Somewhere.....Richard Nixon is smiling.
And Jimmy Carter just realized that he is no longer the worst president to ever be elected.
“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.” ― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
Keystone: "...and Obama's approval ratings don't even twitch."
Well, they'll twitch a little. But you're correct. They won't change much.
Such is the case with cult-leaders and their flocks.
And all the left needs now is about 30 million or more uneducated 3rd world immigrants to be "citizen-ized" and it's game over for the country, but "game clinched" for the dems.
What's funny is that this is politics as normal for Chicago pols.
It has always been thus.
And now we have had the Chicago machine running Washington DC for 5 years.
Could there be anything more predictable?
Keystone said...
...and Obama's approval ratings don't even twitch.
I predict many will feel compassion for the crocodile tears he shed today.
The government would not say why it sought the records.
Why should they?
See, the government is good, and being against the government is not good.
Isn't America in the age of Obama grand?
"So, think the media will respond by finally giving Obama some well-deserved negative coverage, or with its normal method of saying 'thank you sir, may I have another?'"
My opinion of the media has sunk so low that I no longer assume they can't go lower still. Abdicating in this case would be an example of that.
But part of me is still hoping they'll check the front door, find that it's unlocked, and screw up their courage to kick out the screen door and escape their mental confinement. It would be a good day for all of us and it's time for the missing posters to come down.
Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-denounces-reported-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups/2013/05/13/a0185644-bbdf-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html
See, the government is good, and being against the government is not good.
FOUR LEGS GOOD TWO LEGS BETTER!
The lefty talking points are out and they are: Oh, so now you wingnuts oppose spying!?!
Uh, these people are really, really dumb.
PS:
At 3rd Democratic fundraiser of the evening in NYC, Pres Obama says he's "never been more optimistic about America."
Isn't that nice?
bpm4532 said..."It's going to explode in Congressional hearings:"
Jose Jimenez: "oh, I hope not. Ann will get very upset with the "ugliness" of the Republicans."
It looks like a colossal mess that will sledgehammer the Dems.
Assume it becomes as big a mess as you believe. (I believe it will be worse.) This isn't going to hurt the Dems - they will blame it all on Republican intransigence, and they'll be golden.
I don't see a lot of lefties posting here today.
"Why might that be?" one wonders.
The honeymoon must be over. And boy did those 53 months just FLY BY!
Ha. That's good.
By the way, just to be clear, the Obama Justice Department tapped the home phones of AP journalists.
Home phones.
Isn't that reassuring?
This could be a true watershed moment. While this be the bridge too far for the MSM? Obama has betrayed the Left repeatedly and they have stood firmly behind him. Is this the limit? Will they finally grow a spine and stand up for the First Amendment?
Or is there simply no act he could commit which would cause them to question their religious adoration? I don't think the answer that is certain.
This has turned into a very interesting week...
Strelnikov: "While this be the bridge too far for the MSM?"
No.
They are far, far too invested in halo-ed Obama.
They will let him down gently as they set the stage for Hillary.
ahem:
Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
IRS officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other aspects of their operations, while officials in the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California sent similar questionnaires to tea party-affiliated groups.
But, but, but Greenpeace once got audited!!!!!
Strelnikov said...
This has turned into a very interesting week...
And it is only Monday!
What kind of crap is Obama going to try and dump late Friday afternoon???
BTW, "Olympus Has Fallen" and now "White House Down"?
What up G?
You can't say Hollywood is derivative.
You just can't.
Is this administration just paranoid, or incompetent? Maybe both. One thing for sure, they don't seem to trust anyone, and are doing whatever they think they need to do, to stop any leaks.
Oh wait, now I remember that government tyranny speech that Urkel gave a couple of weeks ago asking people to reject those that say government is in a state of tyranny. Of spying on members of the media for months isn't tyranny then what is it? Oh wait, you mean they are on his side, so um, it isn't tyranny you say? Gosh, this leftism stuff sure gets confusing.
Oh, cool, looks like the Reichstag may be about to catch fire.
Keystone said...
...and Obama's approval ratings don't even twitch.
No, that we know of. what the pollsters say and what's happening may well be 2 different things.
Remember how Axelrod had to lean on Gallup last year.
Obama is a disaster even without any corruption.
Everything he knows is wrong.
Maybe this is all just to disguise that.
At a commencement address on Sunday at Ohio State University, President Barack Obama counseled students not to be “cynical” about government and politics.
Gee Barack, why would they be so cynical?
Oh and note he's moved it up a notch:
“What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008,” Obama said today, according to the pool report. “My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet. But I am persistent. And I am staying at it. And I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them…
What a clown this guy is.
^ He said that at a fundraiser, which is also how he spent the evening following the attack in Benghazi.
rhhardin said...
Obama is a disaster even without any corruption.
Everything he knows is wrong.
Maybe this is all just to disguise that.
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his political director, at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New Yorker. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
Homeboy knows it all man. He's the ultimate sperglord. Yee-fucking-haw!!!
Where are the defenders?
Lie about a terrorist attack.
I don't think Pigford has really sunk in yet - when it does - it will look like theft of taxpayers to reward a pack of con artists the Democrats wanted to redistribute some wealth to.
Then suddenly the public knows that the IRS, the one thing average Americans fear more than terrorists...is back in the business of targeting individuals and groups for their political beliefs.
Cap it off with secretly tapping in to phone records of journalists and editors at the major newswire...and the numbers and addresses of whomever they would be in contact with.
It is the 40th anniversary of the summer hearings on Watergate, when that scandal really took off. Of course the liberals and progressive jews that ran most US media (more so then, since it was just the MSM) were baying all the way for their great enemy Nixon's head. They will still circle the wagons for Obama and the Presumptive President - The Smartest Female on the Planet, even if they are having their phones tapped..
But "they" also have a sense of the media already having gone too far out on a limb in blatant bias of the Democrats and face blowback if they cover one too many times for the Messiah...besides, he was reelected, so in some sense
Mission Accomplished!
Jay said...
^ He said that at a fundraiser, which is also how he spent the evening following the attack in Benghazi.
Obama needs a Welch moment:
You've raised enough and campaigned enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? Can you not lead?
AllenS said...
Is this administration just paranoid, or incompetent?
Yes.
And no maybe about it.
PS This is so much fun.
You gotta Love Jay Carney's response.
From Wikipedia:
USEFUL IDIOT
In political jargon, useful idiot is a pejorative term for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they do not understand, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause...
That was my first reaction, the AP are and have been useful idiots at Obama's beck and call. They've been bent over at the waist with their pants down around their ankles for five years, if Lord Zero chooses to fuck them they have only to wonder about the timing.
My second reaction was:
There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
So when will Fast & Furious reemerge as a story?
Makes you wander what was the Pentagon doing while the IRS was making an enemies list and the Justice Department was rummaging thru journalist phone records.
Oh yea... they were too far away to help our people in Benghazi.
Sure, this all looks bad, but this administration has done some good stuff too.................hasn't it? Stuff that would make up for all this right?
I'll remind you that, just as promised, the oceans still have not risen. That's not easy.
He didn't promise they wouldn't rise, he promised sea levels would drop. IIRC anyway.
So...there's that.
If anyone wants to know what the the straight skinny is on the Pentagon/SECDEF/CinC actions on that night they should do themselves a favor and visit todays post over at the blog of "CDR Salamander" a retired Navy O-5. Be sure to read all the comments as well--almost all are from current or retired officers who have been around the racetrack more than once in these situations...would be very enlightening for you civilians..
If only somebody had warned Americans what dangerous person they were voting for in 2008.
Not a peep!
Plus, all the cool kids voted for him, even Noonan and Buckley and McCardle.
Fer chrissake.
This is like the average schlocky horror film where anyone can see what's gonna happen, but the idjit movie characters walk right into the dark room anyway.
""... in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the news."
Why did the news exec think it was an intrusion into how they gathered news?
Whatever made him think that the information sought in any way regarded 'news gathering'?
Fer chrissake.
This is like the average schlocky horror film where anyone can see what's gonna happen, but the idjit movie characters walk right into the dark room anyway."
It's more than that. It's like one of those movies where the 'heroine' has seen everyone get killed, has managed to get away from certain death herself, and yet, instead of running or shooting the villain or whatever, she sits and cries while he sneaks up behind her.
So Ahnold or Rambo can save her and then screw her little brains out.
Corruption is like icebergs, so just imagine.
Light-worker.
A quote from a HotAir piece, The IRS has been specifically targeting conservative groups; HHS Secretary Sebelius has been extorting money from health industry executives; and now it looks like the DOJ has been seriously meddling into the freedom of the press?
If, as some have theorized, all these revelations are to distract from something bigger, what could it be?
You try to think of something that big, and you can't.
Or am I wrong?
If AP had done this, it would be called "news gathering" and they would refuse to disclose their sources.
ed...I don't think it's any one thing bigger.
These are all just pieces of the corrupt whole.
It's like peeling an onion, you take off layer after layer, having to be careful you don't blind yourself and cut off a finger.
And the whole is Barry trying to totally re-make the United States in his father's twisted image (a la 2016).
They were looking for a leaker about an uncovered and stopped terrorist attack last May?
Wonder why that leak was of this much concern to them? There have been lots of other stuff...
This might make the AP and its reporters, um, less trusting of the POTUS & Co?
CEO-MMP said...
ed...I don't think it's any one thing bigger.
These are all just pieces of the corrupt whole.
As I said, several others here have theorized all these revelations (as opposed to the deeds themselves) are a distraction.
All I'm asking is, if true, from what are they intended to distract?
PS My original theory was like yours.
Just the rot showing.
AP's Washington bureau chief was quoted as saying: "Thank you sir may we have another?"
Once a Palace Eunuch, well you know the rest.
President Zero Wing to the Associated Press: "All your communication are belong to us."
Yes ed!
I don't know what it could be, honestly. Each of these things are so separate (other than being symptoms of rot), that's why I think they're all part of a the giant whole.
But I was wrong once before.
Loved this tweet:
"Smart move by O Admin to spy on AP. When caught in 2 rising scandals, start a 3rd one by angering those covering the first two." -Ari Fleischer
I'm shocked, shocked, that a Chicago pol with absolutely no executive experience (who acts more like a figurehead and leaves the details to his people in the trenches) now has an Administration involved in corruption and malfeasance every way you turn. Why, it's inconceivable that this could happen.
The justice department got a subpoena.
Predictable that the usual suspects would need a fainting couch but hardly an act of tyranny.
How many more scandals will it take before the low-info voters would like to take their vote back?
This assumes they cast them in the first place.
Oh, and you can forget that story the IRS probes were all done in Meade's old home town.
Things are just falling apart. I mean, poor Barry cried at the presser today.
Does AQ have a nuke inside this country and our guys don't know where? I mean, what else can go wrong?
Tune in tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel.
Wake up and smell the Chicago, people!
Pogo said...
If only somebody had warned Americans what dangerous person they were voting for in 2008.
Not a peep!
Plus, all the cool kids voted for him, even Noonan and Buckley and McCardle.
=================
Well, part of it is John McCain opposed withdrawal from Iraq and had 5 "pending" nations on his
war target list. (He opposed withdrawal of any troops until our "Dear Iraqi Friends" were at peace and had a flourishing Democracy.
His 5 pending ones were Iran, Georgia (send advisors to bloody Russia's nose), Lebanon, Yemen, and Libya.
After Obama was elected he added the possibility we would be "forced" to attack Syria and destroy all their missiles, tanks, artillery.
Plus McCains "urgent military humanitarian interventions" to save lives and spread "Freedom!" in the Congo, Liberia, Venezuela, and Burma.
N Korea was recently added to the "we may have to attack before it is too late" list of McCains.
Add besides the warmongering - his 500 bilion giveout to wealthy real estate speculators, illegal aliens, house flippers that was going to give them money until they had enough equity that their speculative investments had just enough left in mortgage - the speculators, investors, flippers, illegals could manage. Then experts said it could be over 3 trillion...and McCain was then saying..its just an option!
Add Amnesty. Add his long history of backstabbing treachery against Republicans.
Few now regret their vote for Obama over McCain. But many women, whose plurality basically elected Obama - are now in morning after regret about this last time when Obama screwed them, and having pumped them is set and doesn't need them anymore and is walking away. At least the Dork Mitt would still care....
The justice department got a subpoena.
Predictable that the usual suspects would need a fainting couch but hardly an act of tyranny.
LOL
Dennis Miller tweeted:
re AP phone records story. Perfect symbiosis between Prez and mainstream media. They're ass kissers and Obama's telling them to kiss his ass
"Smart move by O Admin to spy on AP. When caught in 2 rising scandals, start a 3rd one by angering those covering the first two."
Ha-ha, "covering", good one.
San Clemente, here we come!
At least Nixon didn't eat Checkers.
Of course Obama knew all about these "transgressions". Why do you think he went 2-22 from the free throw line at Easter? He had other things on his mind.
Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity...that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.
--BHO, THE Ohio St. University 2013 Commencement
bpm4532 said...
Of course Obama knew all about these "transgressions". Why do you think he went 2-22 from the free throw line at Easter? He had other things on his mind.
Good one!
furious_a said...
Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity...that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.
--BHO, THE Ohio St. University 2013 Commencement
Somebody tell Zero it's why we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights.
And him, a law professor.
If Barack Obama didn't have lousy timing he'd have no timing at all!
Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity...that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.
--BHO, THE Ohio St. University 2013 Commencement
C4, Your anti-hero vote was just as emotion-based as those girls voting for Obama the boyfriend. You voted for someone you knew nothing about, except he had an unblemished record of failure and corruption in the little experience he had. I didn't like McCain either, but you have to have fever dreams of a warmonger that never existed to justify what was a poorly thought out decision that ignored where the country was. We were not going to go into any new wars. The clear and obvious danger was the infatuation of the press with Obama. The danger that what we didn't know was very bad, and that it would run unchecked. McCain would have been ridden like a mule, by the press making him the far safer bet.
Everything happening was totally predictable, and in fact a best case scenario. It could have been infinitely worse with an unknown quantity like Obama unimpeded by a fawning press, but it's quite bad enough as it is, and the damage is just starting.
I'll withhold judgement for awhile. Remember how pervasive those child sex scandals were at Penn State and the BBC. The behavior of many AP reporters is typical of presidentarists. They were grooming Obama for God knows what hideous sex practice later on. Thank God the Justice Dept. was on this. Holder really has Obama's back.
Apparently, Axelrod and Plouffe were trying to get dirt on everybody, Jack Ryan style, as the Republican nominee was finally chosen.
We know they leaned on Gallup. Looks like Solly and da boyz got around even more than that.
Clearly, they were running scared last year.
Is George Soros commenting...I just now thought I saw, "This communist has been removed by the author."
i live it ! , Just because your beach bag is filled with magazines, your iPod, and your towel, doesnt mean you can leave the sunscreen behind. Friv 250 | Friv4
On the other hand... would a pimp really be committing a breach of protocol should he be caught checking her phone records?
I can't wait to see Drone Master Obama arrest an AP reporter for treason for disclosing secrets to the Al Qaeda in Yemen.
If he will do that, then we might have a real President...but Obama is no Harry Truman.
bagoh20 said...
C4, Your anti-hero vote was just as emotion-based as those girls voting for Obama the boyfriend.
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I agree.
Part was emotionally based, part pragmatic.
The emotional part was that as a Gulf War Vet with a nephew that had it 100 times worse than me in Ramadi ..I was sick of endless neocon war and I sensed the public had no intent of backing what could have become a string of Vietnams with family relatives stuck in wars the public hated. The guy seemed clueless warhawk that only had the brains to parlay his "Victim-Hero" status into a brewer's daughter meal ticket, then a Senate seat.
The pragmatic part was I lost all confidence in McCains judgment on military and foreign policy matters by agaitating we needed to be killing Russians in Georgia, his warmongering for 4 other new wars. Plus the US being an even more amped up free 911 Service.
Plus his abysmal judgment on Amnesty, welfare for millionaire homeowners, his long history of backstabbing Republicans. His abysmal judgment in chucking his "experience edge" over Obama in picking a ditzy, charismatic, but sorely inexperience Alaskan he claimed was "ready to be President tomorrow".
The ultimate pragmatic step was looking at Obama too, once I was 100% convinced that McCain would have been a dismal war-happy Prez worse than Bush.
Obama I calculated had a 30% chance of being worse than McCain as Prez, 30 % as bad for the nation as McCain, 25% of being marginally better than Bush or McCain, and 15% chance of being a good President that would grow into the office.
So it made sense to take the risk and toss the dice. Alas...he was indeed in the risk chance of being worse than McCain or Bush.
I'm up early this morning and its quite amusing watching Morning Joe. They've spent the first 25 minutes discussing the AP scandal, with nary a mention of Benghazi or the IRS. They even dragged out Carl Bernstein the inveigh against the administration's investigation of the AP.
So now the government is not only a bad husband but a creepy stalker as well.
"And Jimmy Carter just realized that he is no longer the worst president to ever be elected."
He never was. Heck, we've had a worse President than Carter within the last decade, even before Obama!
Pogo said...
If only somebody had warned Americans what dangerous person they were voting for in 2008.
I tried to.
But the narrative among the cool people was; "Because he'll be the first black president.","It's about time we had a black president!"
But what do you know about him?
"What does that matter he's black!""Besides we live in a democracy. How much damage could he do?"
So you put up warning signs. You barricade the footpaths. Take out an ad in the paper.
Then you light up a DonThomas and put some ice in your whiskey and stand back as the multitudes hurtle full speed off the cliff.
You try and ignore the shame of your friends. They can't look you in the eye and mumble apologies while they kick at the dirt.
The others. The die hards. The true believers who have suspended morality-if they had any-Claim that the other guy did the same things. His water was much dirtier. Their contralto ravings. And you wonder they realize how dishonest their argument is. It's still dirty water. And if you have to go through those kinds of moral gymnastics to convince yourself it's really clean, well then , there's something wrong with you.
So. My friend. Light up a blunt. Pour yourself a couple of fingers of whiskey and enjoy the show. Firm in the knowledge the ensuing carnage is none of your doing.
"The justice department got a subpoena.
Predictable that the usual suspects would need a fainting couch but hardly an act of tyranny."
I'd like to agree with you; but if we've discovered anything, it's that the initial explanation is lies stacked upon lies (because they assume we are too stupid to catch them lying, since they're so ultrascary smart). I'd suggest we wait and see.
In the Age of Obama, if you are a conservative, you are an enemy of the state.
I was only half-serious when I said that about "most anti-First Amendment presidency in my life time." Though, this explains the tonal shift on Benghazi and the IRS story; It Is Personal.
@Matthew Sablan/
It was ALWAYS personal..
@Matthew Sablan/
It was ALWAYS personal..
No distraction strategy I think. (And I don't expect any "quick, let's start a war" action -- Barry doesn't have the balls.) This is just an incompetence cascade.
What's going to make Barry miserable is that even if his approval numbers don't change much Democratic politicians are realizing that standing with Barry means you get to pay for his sins. Hence Massachusetts Democrats today are throwing turds at the Administration because they don't want that Senate seat going back to the Republicans.
The story in 2014 is going to be all about how obstructionist the Republicans are, and how everybody loves Barry but the Democrats just can't support him because of, you know, stupid voters who listen to Rush Limbaugh.
In Soviet America, government reports on you!
Apparently, even the Daily Show is starting to take some hard shots at the president over the IRS thing. I wonder how they'll react to this.
Holder is to Obama as Mitchell was to Nixon.
Best of buddies.
You can't say Hollywood is derivative.
Often times projects are developed simultaneously ... it seems that significant investments in both of these made them inevitable. A lot of times, one of the competing projects are cancelled when this happens, and many times you'll never hear of it.
Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman were released in the same year, as were Deep Impact and Armageddon.
"And Jimmy Carter just realized that he is no longer the worst president to ever be elected."
Woodrow Wilson was a piece of work. Franklin Pierce was no gem, either.
What's the problem? No reporter was stopped from reporting...
/sarc
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