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Journ-O-List's Comeback Kids??

Instapundit:

JOURN-O-LIST CAVALRY TO THE RESCUE! Spotted: @joshtpm @CapehartJ @ezraklein & other lefty columnists headed into the West Wing as a group. POTUS coffee? Carney meeting? Anyone?

Watch for even-more-unified weaponized Administration-excusing talking points, coming soon to a publication near you!

 

The tweet came from Ari Shapiro, a reporter for NPR, and mentions Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and MSNBC, Josh Marshall of TPM - Talking Points Memo and Ezra Klein, Washington Post, Bloomberg and MSNBC. Of the three, only Ezra Klein was a member of the original Journ--List.

About an hour ago, Shapiro clarified (at twitter), writing: "For the record, Obama often does OTR [off the record] sit-down sessions with columnists & reporters left, right & center. Nothing nefarious about it per se."

As for the original Journ--List, I believe it was the Daily Caller that broke the story; see This, This and This.

 

You know why we're called 'Jews'?

52 pct Disapprove, 40 pct Strongly so

 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove.

Today’s figures include 26% who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 (see trends).

 

Who dunnit? Who do ya think?!

Wynton Hall at Breitbart:

The week after Republicans’ historic 2010 midterm election landslide, President Barack Obama appointed the union president that represents “tens of thousands in the IRS,” Colleen Kelley, to a key Administration post... on the Federal Salary Council, an advisory group charged with recommending federal employee raises.

 

 

3/31/2010: President Obama met with the president of the NTEU (the IRS employees' union), this same Colleen Kelley, at the White House.

The Very Next Day (4/1/2010): The new Acting manager of the IRS Technical Unit suggested the need for a "Sensitve Case Report" on the Tea Party cases and the program manager of the Determinations Unit.... agreed.

Read all about it at Conservative Byte. 

 

And we learn from the Daily Caller that (no surprise):

In 2012, 94 percent of the NTEU’s campaign contributions went to Democratic candidates, PACs and party committees, while Republicans received only 4 percent.

In 2010, 97 percent of the union’s campaign contributions went to Democrats and 2 percent went to Republicans.

Nor is it a surprise that "labor belonged to Obama in his re-election" (CNBC).

Union members voted for him in 2012 at a rate of 65 percent to 33 percent, according to the AFL-CIO.

 

Now are you understanding that this "Yes We Can" / "Greater Together" crap was much more than just a bumper snicker?

Fundamental Transformation

Defending the government official previously in charge of IRS harassment and intimidation of conservatives (and slated to head up IRS enforcement of Obamacare), 37-year-old White House "senior advisor" Dan Pfeiffer told FOX News Sunday:

“ Before everyone in this town convicts this person in the court of public opinion with no evidence, let’s actually get the facts and make decisions after that. There’s nothing that suggests she did anything wrong,” he said.

Of course it was only a few months ago that Obama's "brain trust" was working hard to convict Mitt Romney - "in the court of public opinion with no evidence" - by promoting the obscene claim that Romney had caused a woman's cancer death. Pfeiffer was at that time White House Director of Agitprop Communications.

Obama's "news" networks naturally ignored the ad.  It remains to be seen whether they will ignore the partisan corruption of the Internal Revenue Service.

 

Liars or Idiots ... or both ... Oh my!

In these tumultuous times, you have to take simple pleasure where you can find it, such as in the great and clever heading on today's John Podhoretz piece at the New York Post:

 

"Pin the fail on the donkey"

.... CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson released a highly revealing story on Friday in which administration officials said they regretted not sending a terrorism-response team to Benghazi and regretted not having convened their panel of high-level terrorism advisers afterward. One official told Attkisson, “We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots. It’s actually closer to us being idiots.”

 

Wow, Ms. Attkisson is a real professional and as such, much appreciated. As one would expect, Team Obama has "quit talking" to her "altogether."

 

Also clever is Andrew Macolm's "Cloudy with 100% chance of scandals."

 

Surprise! GEORGE SOROS Funded a Massive Effort Pressuring IRS to TARGET CONSERVATIVES

 

We’re getting a surreal glimpse of an entangled network in which a White House campaign is just another arm of a left-wing matrix of organizations funded by corrupt billionaires.

--Daniel Greenfield, Jan. 2013

 

Image lifted from "Oh, Doug -- that's so controversial" -Ross.

CNS News is reporting that Soros funded a vast left-wing conspiracy to pressure the IRS into investigating conservative nonprofits. Shocking, isn't it?

.... While the first reported instances of extra IRS scrutiny for conservative groups began in Cincinnati in March of 2010, the attacks began to pick up steam on a national level soon after Soros-funded groups began firing off letters to the IRS in October of that year - following the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

The talking points of these groups then bounced around a carefully created progressive "echo chamber," until they eventually made their way into established media outlets. Key IRS policy changes about how it investigated conservative groups took place soon after it received three separate letters sent by Soros-funded liberal organizations.

Several Soros-funded groups including the Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21, the Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones and Alternet have worked to pressure the IRS to target conservative nonprofit groups. The subsequent IRS investigation flagged more than 100 tea party-related applications for higher scrutiny, including applications that included the words "Tea Party" and "patriot."

The IRS scandal can be traced back to a series of letters that the liberal groups Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Democracy 21 sent to the IRS back in 2010 and 2011. Both groups were funded by George's Soros's Open Society Foundations. The CLC received $677,000 and Democracy 21 got $365,000 from the Soros-backed foundation, according to the Foundation's 990 tax forms.

The letters specifically targeted conservative Super PACs like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, asking the IRS to scrutinize them more thoroughly to determine whether or not they should retain their tax-exempt status....

 

Let me just interject this quote from the mission statement of Democracy 21:

Democracy 21 is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to making democracy work for all Americans.

 Democracy 21, and its education arm, Democracy 21 Education Fund, work to eliminate the undue influence of big money in American politics, prevent government corruption, empower citizens in the political process ...

 

See their letters to the IRS HERE. ARGH & GRRR.

 

We all know convicted felon George Soros will not be subpoenaed to testify before Congress but take a look at this link anyway. It's a real eye-opener:

 

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977

Yes We Can??

I came out of Shabbes and saw this on facebook. It was like getting hit by a truck. Brace yourself.

 

[T]he  EPA  has been conducting human experiments on people by piping diesel fumes from a running truck mixed with air into their lungs at a North Carolina university.

 

You can read more HERE and HERE.

 

Shavua tov

"Call in the Marines!"

 

Something Fish-y About This

In "exclusive online commentary," Stanley Fish writes at the New York Times:

The more militant members of the N.R.A. and most of its leaders may be un-American.

By “militant” .... I mean those who read the Second Amendment as proclaiming the right of citizens to resist the tyranny of their own government, that is, of the government that issued and ratified the Constitution in the first place.

 

Surely he doesn't think the Constitution was "issued and ratified" by the Obama administration... Or does he?

 

 

Perhaps Fish is not familiar with the Declaration of Independence, which specifically states:

.... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

 

You can find Fish's column if you search by title: "Is the N.R.A. Un-American?"