...and the media says (asks) nothing...AGAIN

Another LIAR in the Obama administration – Dame Janet Napolitano

 

2-28-13 – Knew NOTHING about it, had NOTHING to do with it…

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claimed Thursday that she had no part in her department's decision to release low-risk illegal immigrant detainees as a way to deal with looming cuts to the department's budget.

In an interview with ABC News, Napolitano claimed even she was surprised to learn about the release of the prisoners, which drew criticism from many Republican lawmakers. 

"Detainee populations and how that is managed back and forth is really handled by career officials in the field," she said.

Napolitano also conceded that the decision was poorly timed, saying she wishes people, herself included, weren't caught by surprise by the announcement. 

3-4-13 - Promises to CONTINUE the practice, she knows nothing about…

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised to release more illegal immigrants into the United States, saying the budget sequester has left her no choice.

Several hundred detainees have already released because of the sequester, she insisted. They were released on bail, or because their legal status had changed, she said.

“We’re going to continue to do that … for the foreseeable future,” Napolitano said at a March 4 breakfast meeting hosted by Politico. “We are going to manage our way through this by identifying the lowest risk detainees, and putting them into some kind of alternative to release.”

…and the accomplice media doesn’t even confront her on her previous lie…sock puppets that they are.  This is another example of how this president and the liberal democrat administration plans to rule America by FEAR, rather than by competence.

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States....yeah right Mr. Obama.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about ascertaining whether the Benghazi terror attack was the result of a protest by Senator Ron Johnson. "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Clinton shouted, seemingly losing her cool.

Below you will find (spot on) commentary from Rush Limbaugh on the absolute farce that was yesterday's (1-23-13) U.S. Senate hearing featuring the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton questioning her about the CAUSE of the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans.  

BUT FIRST:

Remember the Obama "Administration" peddled the "fact" that the Benghazi attack was due to a spontaneous uprising that spawned out of a stupid video - for weeks!  Obama (and CNN's Candy Crowley) state that he (Obama) immediately called the incident an "act of terror."  Fine...so it was an act of terror, but what Obama DIDN'T say (the next day in the Rose garden - and it was a distinction Romney totally swung and missed on) was it actually was an act of "TERRORISTS."  That's the important distinction that exists to this day, and is the sole reason conservatives won't let this bone go.  Words MEAN things.  A lie is a lie, dishonesty is dishonesty, and a fabrication is a fabrication.  Consider that while on his endless campaign trail (with the help of his useful idiot Joe Biden) Obama's battle cry included endless references to Al Qaeda being "on the run."  So, ask yourself; How could Benghazi have been caused by "terrorISTS" if they were already "running" due to Obama's stellar and magical job performance?  That image (for the American voting public) was what he and his minions (including those in the media) were so desperate to protect.  Because it never got the traction it deserved (the LIES and SUBTERFUGE) - Obama was not harmed in any way and ERGO - he won re-election.

I think this blog post should be circulated to as many individuals as possible, because it is so common sense, correct about the whole question Mrs. Clinton (shouted) asked of, "What difference, at this point, does it make?"  I want liberals (particularly ones that voted Obama into a second term and who LOVE Ms. Hillary regardless) to answer the question she posed...honestly.

RUSH: What difference does it make? The administration lied to the American people. What difference does it make the president lied to the American people? What difference does it make that Jay Carney lied to the American people? What difference does it make that Susan Rice lied to the American people on six different shows or five? What difference does it make that Hillary Clinton lied to the American people? What difference does any of it make? Don't you understand what we're doing here? What difference does it make? I had to stand next to flag-draped coffins. I had to hug family members of the dead. What difference does it make?

What difference does it make? You're the ones spreading the story. What difference does it make? You're the ones that told us why this supposedly happened. We're talking about four dead Americans. What difference does it make? You tell us that you're gonna make sure doesn't happen again and you can't even be honest with people about why it happened? Back in October, Hillary told Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, who was one of the four dead Americans, Hillary told that guy's father that the US would make sure that the person who made that video is arrested and prosecuted. What difference does it make?

What difference does it make that everybody was lying through their teeth about this because the truth might have imperiled Obama's reelection. What difference does it make? Now, I mentioned that I have never seen the amount of fawning, butt kissing that I saw at this hearing this morning from senators from both parties, and we have a montage. Now, this is not gonna be easy for you to hear, but this happened. My stream-of-consciousness monologue the first hour of this program was based on this.

BOB CORKER: I want to thank you for coming. I know you've had some health issues, are still undergoing, and yet you're here and I think we all do respect the tremendous amount of hard work that you've put forth over the last four years.

JAMES RISCH: Thank you for your service, and thank you for the kindness you've shown this committee.

MARCO RUBIO: We're glad to see you here and wish you all the best.

RON JOHNSON: I'd like to join my colleagues in thanking you for your service sincerely, and also appreciate the fact that you're here testifying and glad that you're looking in good health.

JEFF FLAKE: Thank you for your testimony and also thank you, as others have said, for yours service. Traveling over a million miles and more than a hundred countries.

JOHN BARRASSO: As a doctor, I have seen you work yourself to exhaustion, not for your own benefit but for the benefit of the people in this country, and the country is grateful for that.

JOHN MCCAIN: Thank you, Madam Secretary. We thank you. We thank you for your outstanding and dedicated service to this nation and we are proud of you.

RUSH: What difference does it make? This is the ruling class circling the wagons. What is this about? How did four Americans lose their lives? We have somebody in a job totally unsuited for it, not qualified, wasn't around, lied to the American people about why it happened, and we get this kind of fawning butt kissing. "Oh, you're wonderful. Oh, the miles. Oh, the service. Oh, the concern, the American people are forever thankful for you, oh, my God."

In their dreams the American people are thankful. But that's what they want. They want every citizen getting up every day and having that exact attitude about everybody in government. "Oh, you're wonderful. Oh, you're doing everything for us. Oh, you're working so hard. Oh, you care so deeply. Oh, you've got the best wardrobe. Oh, I'm sorry that you had a concussion. Oh, you've really done well to overcome your health. Oh, you're just the best. Oh, you're so beautiful. Oh, you care so much. Your compassion is unparalleled, oh, my God, we're so lucky to have you," blah, blah, blah. Puke fest.

RUSH: Let's not forget here, folks, it was Hillary Clinton and Obama who got us into Libya, decided to get rid of Moammar Khadafy, put Chris Stevens in harm's way. Hillary and Obama helped to unleash the Arab Spring, overthrow an alley in the War on Terror. They gave the arms to the Libyan rebels and money.

What difference does it make? Imagine Romney saying that in a debate? What difference does it make where my money is? What difference does it make where I put my dog when I went on vacation? What difference does it make? Imagine going to the families of the flag draped caskets, "What difference does it make how they died? What difference does it make what caused it?"

RUSH: Rand Paul put it best this morning in the Senate version, the hearings on Mrs. Clinton. He said, "Not to know of these requests for security cost these people their lives.... I don't suspect your motives, but it was a failure of leadership; there is culpability to the worst tragedy since 9/11." She's out there saying, "We didn't know of these requests for security." Of course not. She's just the secretary of state. What difference does it make anyway that people requested more security? What difference does that make? In fact, that, I think, is the Obama administration. What difference does it make?

The "Difference" Mrs. Clinton could be no more clear and chilling: there are four DEAD Americans and our country now has four more years of Obama (and is heading the same way)...

2012 - Post-Election Musings for Conservatives

The people have spoken.

 

They have re-elected their president for another four years. While I admit to being no expert on the subject of running campaigns; I do have thoughts and opinions as anyone else may who had invested a great deal of time and energy trying to assist their candidate(s) to victory.

 

Will anyone ever read what I have written?  Is there anyone else out there who reasons as I do?  Does anyone really give the slightest darn what I think?  In the great scheme of things I suppose the answers to my ponderings don’t matter.  What does matter is that it is cathartic to write them down; to get them out of my head, and onto virtual paper.

 In reflecting upon the results of the 2012 election, I have been grappling with the same age-old questions posed by the losing side of any election campaign; How can “these people” (the majority of voters who elected “candidate X”) think the way they do…what is wrong with them…how can they not see what I see, etc?  Getting to the bottom of these nebulous musings is like trying to catch fog in a mason jar.  For conservatives like me, the paradigm in which we live is so black and white in contrast - so “clear” to our entire being that it is nearly impossible to venture outside it, to even catch a glimpse of the converse universe.

 

The first place I “went” with my post-election attempts at trying to understand what went wrong was to explore the ticklish area of electorate intelligence.  I say ticklish, because it’s too easy and condescending to suggest that you are merely “smarter” than your average liberal voting counterpart. However that would be mean-spirited, and called out as ad hominem criticism.  While there may be large nuggets of truth to the claim that the majority of voters don’t understand the complexities of enormous national budgets, crippling deficits and looming “fiscal cliffs”; it is this meme that conservatives all too readily rally towards; attempting to “explain” their way to victory.  It’s like serving up a steaming plate of Brussels sprouts trying to pass them off as French fries…uh, uh…no way Jose’.

Both conservatives and liberals each have a time-tested way of energizing their bases.  These voters are basically a “given” and I’m not suggesting an abandonment of this effort; I merely suggesting a fresh look by conservatives specifically at the table-turning voting electorate that shuns and ignores things that are uninteresting to them or their (in-the-moment) lives.

Let’s take the rough percentages and margin of victory from the just completed presidential election.  As of this thesis the popular vote went, 50% of Americans voted Obama, and 49% voted Romney.  If you are reading this as a conservative you know why the 49% voted for Governor Romney. If you are reading this as a liberal; you wouldn’t have a clue, and the point of this blog entry would have bored you by now anyway.  While I admit to not knowing the exact percentage breakdown on the following categories, allow me to guess at a few magnet issues that appeal to that 50% and influence their voting trends:

• Woman’s reproduction and choice
• Health care
• Screw the rich derangement
• Immigration
• Environmental and “green” initiatives
• Labor unions
• Free stuff

I may have missed a few, but that’s not the point. Let’s imagine that the above list constitutes the lion’s share of that 50% amount - people who vote democrat for one or more of their core issues.  The REAL question -the one that needs to be answered is:  What about the “rest” of the “independent” left-leaning electorate…the percentage that has put democrats over the top in the two (head-shaking) terms of Bill Clinton and now has Barack Hussein Obama back in the POTUS saddle for another bumpy four-year ride?

 After this election I truly believe that I have the beginnings of a theory that is so simple that conservatives (republicans) completely miss (or dismiss) it.  I’ll call it (AIS) or the “American Idol Syndrome.”  For those conservatives still reading this, you are now either chuckling or your jaw is starting to drop.  Think about it…democrats have long understood this concept without actually naming it.  Republicans focus on elimination of supposed “cheating” and voter ID legislation to save the process of casting legitimate votes as their salvation and path to the Whitehouse.  I say, forget those efforts and EMBRACE the AIS voter, and the concept of wooing them!

 

Democrats understand that there is a certain percentage of American voters that will forever be swayed by “popular” opinion and just how “cool” and “with it” their candidate “appears.”  Face it, that particular voting bloc has been asked to root for specific human beings and to cast their “votes” accordingly since before the TV show “Survivor” hit the airwaves.  The individuals “chosen” by these AIS voters need to be cool, good looking, talented, approachable, funny, vulnerable, and to forever come off as the underdog.  Obama’s re-election bid handlers successfully spun this sitting president (with his  woeful economic and abysmal fiscal record) as the challenger…the challenger!  American AIS voters bought it as they sat lapping up the late-nite host interviewer’s softball questions for Obama designed to make them “feel” that the guy was one of them, and was getting the shaft.  If these voters would have had a call-in number flash on the bottom of the screen during Letterman or Jimmy Fallon’s show; believe me they would have “voted” then and there for the president to stay on the island, or to advance to the final round.

Republicans entirely dismiss the so-called “social” issues as meaningful election-fodder when staring at eminent fiscal collapse has them distracted.  Old guard campaigners on their team have only one playbook and unfortunately it does not include being “popular” as an option.  I suggest hiring a successful Hollywood director/producer next election cycle to craft an image that has America eating out of the republican candidate’s hand, instead of the same old offering of pan-scorched spinach.  Again, I’m not suggesting an abandonment of conservative principals - just a little maple sugar sauce on the carrots for those that need the extra enticement into consuming something that’s good for them; despite its reputation.

My thoughts…what are yours?

Over One Million Tiny Lines ~ One Great Purpose

Inconceivable Support

Imagine for a minute being personally affirmed by 1,334,450 people.  How would that feel?  Only those who have served in public office in positions elected by majority vote can possibly know (or could guess) the answer to that question.

Line up over one-million-three-hundred-thousand human beings in a long, long, looong line (505 miles long) ; shake hands with everyone in that line while they tell you, “good job, keep it up.”  At a mere three seconds each; it would take over 1,112 hours or 46.34 (24-hour) days to feel that kind of love. (and a whole lot of hand-sanitizer)

That’s an example of the heartfelt and passionate love recently given to Governor Scott Walker as the final Wisconsin resident votes (to again-elect him) were tallied on June 5^th, 2012.  We can’t even begin to understand the myriad emotions that must overwhelm Governor Walker when he stops to ponder that nearly unfathomable fact. 

Wisconsin was admitted to the Union on May 29, 1848.  Governor Scott Walker is Wisconsin’s 44th person to follow the first governor of the State, Nelson Dewey who was elected June 7^th 1848.   The longest-serving governor was TommyThompson, who took office on January 5, 1987 and resigned on February 1, 2001, a total of 14 years and 28 days. Arthur MacArthur, Sr. had the shortest term: he was governor for a total of just 5 days—from March 21, 1856 to March 25, 1856.

The angry Blue Fist was finally DEAD!

As voters, we each know the personal reasons that we drew a single horizontal pencil line on that historic day; a single 5/8" line of No.2 graphite that spoke volumes.  For some it was an exclamation point that repudiated all the incessant protesting, deafening hollering, and unhinged gnashing of teeth demonstrated by “their” side.  For others it was a solid affirmation of the direction that the State was heading; but in any case the message was heard loud and clearly across America...

 

Forward Wisconsin…Forward!

Milwaukee Streetcar idea is OFF TRACK

Milwaukee is bound and determined to ram a streetcar system down the throats of the taxpayers.

Unfortunately this streetcar "idea" has taken on a life of its own: fancy website pages, fabulous artist's renderings, nifty quotes from "green" groups and other lefty philanthropists, colorful brochures, hundreds of hours of meetings, political speeches, and political capital expenditures. The largest contributors to the fantasy are the vociferous and romanticizing train pundits themselves. 

This “snowball” concept of colorful tracked-metal conveyances started small and (with a well-intentioned, but ill-advised shove) is rolling downhill under its own weight; gobbling up all sanity as it seemingly cannot either be stopped nor reconsidered. It is a “one-track” solution to bringing some life and glitzy eye-candy to our downtown area. I agree (having spent time in other larger metropolitan areas) that Milwaukee lacks a certain “vibe” and “access” to its downtown that other cities have somehow achieved; however building a streetcar LINE is too costly (to taxpayers) and too disruptive (to businesses and the general public) to balance out any theoretical gains. 

If Milwaukee truly wants a mass transit system to service (and promote) its downtown; there are multiple ways to reach that goal without the planned infrastructure of train tracks embedded in its streets. Consider the Orlando, FL system of LYNX. (www.golynx.com) It is not “track-based” technology, but rather 4-wheeled and mobile. Routes can be tailored to ridership and don’t require the loss of hundreds of choice parking spots. Talk about environmentally friendly; by definition public transportation is logically environmentally friendly. Just one full LYNX bus operating on new Biodiesel fuel is equivalent to 43 less cars on the roadway. The units themselves are designed and uniquely colored in an edgy way to promote ridership. LYNX operates a fleet of 290 buses on 65 routes, called Links, and has service every day of the year. These buses are usually random solid colors including red, purple, blue, pink, etc. and the rest are wrapped in advertising. The successful system has been in existence since 2004. 

In short: If the City of Milwaukee is hell-bent to take and spend Federal taxpayer funds for a mass-transit system – create one that makes sense and would likely be embraced by a majority of the surrounding community on BOTH sides of the political (and ideological) aisle.

ON WISCONSIN! - Keep it up Governor Walker

Thank you Governor Walker and the State Legislature for doing the job WE elected you to do!

If you'd like to see all the money Wisconsin municipalities are now saving themselves as a result of the Governor's budget (courtesy of the Wisconsin legislature, thank you VERY much) look HERE: 

Biennial budget bill – filling the 3-billion dollar Jim Doyle hole.

• Includes: Paying back Minnesota- a step in reinstating the popular, but recently terminated Minnesota-Wisconsin tax reciprocity program by paying back the roughly $60 million in overdue bills that was owed to Minnesota.
• Includes: 200 million dollar medical malpractice fund restored - The patients’ compensation fund was raided under a bipartisan deal reached in 2007 with then-Gov. Jim Doyle and the Legislature.

1. Extension of unemployment benefits for 13 more weeks.
2. Governor-Appointment:  Veterans Affairs Secretary.
3. Development Opportunity Zone created in Beloit, WI.
4. Earned Release - repeals sentencing modifications that allowed criminals out early.
5. Concealed Carry for Wisconsin – 49th state to do so.
6. Greater School Choice(s) – expansion.
7. Deer hunting expansion - DNR overreach curtailment of “earn a buck.”
8. Presidential Primary - would move the date of Wisconsin’s primary elections to the first Tuesday in April during years in which the president and vice-president are elected, was introduced on May 27.

IMPORTANT: If you are in one of the following RECALL districts, please vote to STAY THE COURSE by defeating any DEMOCRAT with your vote!

August 9 Recall Elections

Six incumbent Republican Senators will face recall elections on August 9:

• SD-2: Sen. Robert Cowles (R) v. Nancy Nusbaum (D)
• SD-8: Sen. Alberta Darling (R) v. Rep. Sandra Pasch (D)
• SD-10: Sen. Sheila Harsdorf (R) v. Shelly Moore (D)
• SD-14: Sen. Luther Olsen (R) v. Rep. Fred Clark (D)
• SD-18: Sen. Randy Hopper (R) v. Jessica King (D)
• SD-32: Sen. Dan Kapanke (R) v. Rep. Jennifer Shilling (D)

August 16 Recall Elections

Two incumbent Democratic Senators will face recall elections on August 16:

• SD-12: Sen. Jim Holperin (D) v. Kim Simac (R)
• SD-22: Sen. Robert Wirch (D) v. Jonathan Steitz (R)

Who's Zoomin' Who? - The Sandy Pasch Charade

Take your pick of articles below, however it's fairly clear from the allegations that Democratic challenger Sandy Pasch is no more her "own woman" than the woman on the moon.  It's just the same-old, same-old that gets conservative blood like mine boiling...fraud, corruption, and never-ending irregularities surrounding the Democrat party.

It's your choice voters: Stay the course with Alberta Darling and keep in place all of the Governor Walker backed changes for Wisconsin, or go backward, bend over and get ready for 3 billion dollars in debt once more.  Vote August 9th!

1. Sandy Pasch Busted Again for Deceiving Voters
2. Election officials probe voter 'block parties'
3. Sandy Pasch must come clean on coordination
4. Campaign Controversy: Complaint filed against group connecting food and voting
5. Claims of Election Fraud, Illegal Collusion Arise in Wisconsin Recall 
6. Rep. Sandy Pasch should step down as a board member of a third-party group that is campaigning against Sen. Alberta Darling, Pasch's opponent in next week's recall election.
7. Pasch/Darling race: Where's the money coming from?