Clinton: The Public Trust??

Within a democratic society, or a republic the power is in the hands of the people. That power is LENT to elected officials to handle the affairs of the people through a governmental system. In the United States of America, the founding fathers fought for and rid us of tyranny and a monarchy and put in place a republic. We elect our local leaders to handle the business of our communities. We elect state leaders to handle the the business of our particular state and we elect leaders to handle the affairs of the entire nation as a whole.

While we elect a Senator from our own state to represent our state, they join with other senators from other states to represent the entire country together with each keeping in mind the well being of their own state as well as the nation as a whole.

Don’t misunderstand what’s meant by putting those two paragraphs up there. It is not intended to reinvent the meaning of “public trust” to something that it’s never been before. Sometimes we need to see it in black and white to remind ourselves that it’s easy for leaders to get off track by looking out for themselves rather than those they are elected to look out for.

Harry Reid (D), Senate Minority Leader, was recently asked about his comments during the 2012 election where he said that Candidate Mitt Romney (R) had not paid his taxes for ten years and said he had a confidential source that informed him of this. His answer to the question about that comment was ‘Romney didn’t win did he?” Harry Reid lied in the well of the senate for his own personal reasons and those of his party. He purposely told a lie and did so in the well of the senate to avoid prosecution. That’s not an example of the public trust! That’s an example of corruption.

During the 90’s when Bill Clinton was president, the American people learned of White Water, the Rose Law Firm and shredding and the constant women that Clinton had on the side. There were lies that weren’t even necessary to be told. Clinton claimed to be a Rhodes Scholar but wasn’t. Naturally he lied about the women and was caught in his lies. Travelgate, and all of the people directly or indirectly surrounding Clinton that died usually by suicide or plane crash and even some murders of people where there was a slight connection to Clintons. These things and more were already known to the people of Arkansas.

Now his wife has decided to run for president. She has been one of the most polarizing figures in this country since her husband first decided to run for President. Hillary Clinton ran for the Senate and won following her husband leaving the White House. Since Bill Clinton left office he has set up an entity called the Clinton Foundation. It’s supposedly used for philanthropic purposes. Feeding the hungry, building schools, and so on. Sounds like good work and when they do help those in need, it is a good thing. But do they really do these things? Maybe. But keep this foundation in the back of your mind for a bit.

Hillary ran for President in 2008. It was assumed that she’d win ,but there was a man that was a first term Senator from Illinois and he was black. Now there is a challenge. She lost to Obama. Somehow the Clintons needed the access to the White House. So Bill lobbied hard to get Hillary in as Secretary of State. They were successful. During her four years as Secretary of State she had access to many people around the world as did Bill Clinton.

Earlier this spring, we heard of foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation. But within hours we started hearing about E-mails being used by Hillary on her private mail rather than using the State Department E-mail. With the Clintons, when something comes out, something else comes out that seems less significant to distract from something more significant.

Now this week, we’re hearing about the foreign contributions again, but this time there is more than even that. Hillary, as Secretary of State, was in a country with connections to Moscow, Russia. Bill Clinton is then given $500,000 for speaking in Moscow within a month. Now, it’s coming out that there is a connection from that to a company getting a mine or mines in this country where we get half of our Uranium from. A company called UraniumOne now owns it and is controlled by none other than Russia. Russia gives Iran nuclear materials and we are in negotiations for a nuclear deal with Iran that nearly everyone around the world seems to be against.

Money has flowed into the Clinton Foundation and it looks very much like much, if not all of it, is due to connections that Hillary Clinton made as Secretary of State.

So again, I’m going to pause and take you back in history a bit. Remember I told you that the Clinton Foundation was doing philanthropic work around the world? Back in Arkansas during the 80’s, Bill Clinton was governor. The “Clinton Machine”, that which raises cash for Cinton’s political career through various means, was run from a business called the Arkansas Financial Development Authority (AFDA). It was a philanthropic organization as well. They were to build schools, churches, etc to help those that were in need. Sound familiar? However, there were accusations, rumors, stories about it being a place to launder drug money in Arkansas. Loans were given and never repaid and not expected to be repaid. Rose Law Firm had ties and it was apparently involved in Whitewater, among other things. This was Clinton’s machine. Is Cilnton’s machine now the Clinton Foundation?

But why would they put America at risk by arranging for Russia to own half of our uranium and give it to Iran? When Bill Clinton was younger he participated in and even organized Ant-American rallies. Not Anti-War, but Anti-America! That too sounds familiar to me. Organized rallies and we now have as President a community organizer, and he’s in negotiations with Iran, the largest sponsor of terrorism in the world.

With all of these similarities and coincidences, why isn’t the mainstream press even reporting much on it? Why does the press spend very little time even mentioning that Hillary uses E-mail, or has received money at the foundation from countries that are guilty of human rights abuses and of suppression of women? The press also has a responsibility to the “public trust”. 

Part of it is believed to be because when the Clintons get favors from people, they reward them with jobs. Jobs in government as he did with some of his girlfriends to have them keep their mouth shut, or jobs with friends, which includes the press. A couple of his girlfriends received jobs in the media. This apparently keeps the press quiet because they’d have to acknowledge that they are hiring people as a favor to Clinton who they are supposed to have an arms length relationship with so they can do their jobs and report the news regardless of the news being good or bad.

When these accusations come out, whether it’s Bill’s girlfriends where Betsy Wright used to run interference with her Bimbo eruption crew, or Whitewater, or shredding documents at a law firm, or any of the myriad of other scandals during the Clinton presidency, they attack the messenger. They call them the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Or the messenger a Republican operative. They try to destroy the accusers credibility even going so far as trumping up charges against the whistleblower to distract and the whistleblower is exonerated weeks later but the damage has been done and the whole thing is now old news. If someone else brings up something new on old  topics, the Clinton’s claim it’s old news.

My favorite is when they say there isn’t a shred of evidence. Of course there’s not a shred of evidence! They shredded the documents or gave the hand picked E-mails over to the State Department from her private server then said the private server has been wiped.

At one point, Hillary said about the E-mails that she turned over the 30,000 E-mails or so that she had that were to and from the State Department. Then later she said there should be no problem because the State Department captures all of the E-mails that come and go anyway. So my question is, if the State Department captures them all anyway, why did she make a big production of having turned over her E-mails to the State Department? If they had them already, why did she find it necessary to do that?

Now that the information is coming out about donor money to the foundation and where it went, they’ve gone on the attack against the accusers and tried to hide it that way. But, yesterday, several donations from foreign countries were found to have come through Canada and were not listed on their forms. Within hours, they said there was an “oversight” and they are now filing amended tax returns for the past five years! Five years! That’s the time that Hillary was the Secretary of State.

Hillary Clinton is running for President. She’s claiming to want to be the Champion of the middle class. The amazing thing is that people actually believe that line! A woman who in the past six months has said that they were broke when they left the White House, and who has raised billions of dollars and gets $250,000 for a speaking fee, and made $99,000 on $1,000 investment wants to be a Champion for the middle class? What about the lower class? What about the upper class? Isn’t the President supposed to represent ALL Americans?

Will she spread her wealth to others that don’t make as much as she does as part of her income equality initiative?

This woman is a two faced liar and while she may not be as good at it as her husband, the scary part is that she may be better at it then he is.

This country, my country, OUR country does not need another eight years of scandals, sexual escapades, corruption, and lies. To vote for her because she’s a woman would be foolish to the extreme. She’s not looking out for the public trust and the public should not trust her.

If we do vote for her, what we can expect is more parodies like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQureIC1QM 

And don’t think for a minute that while she’s testifying with her “I don’t recall”, that her husband isn’t out doing what he’s always done creating other parodies like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxUs0WnE6aQ 

One more thing. Remember Benghazi? Remember the election of 2008? Hillary asked the question: Who do you want answering the phone at 3:00 in the morning. The people chose Barack Obama for some reason. But on September 11, 2012, that call came in at 3:00 in the morning. Unfortunately, both Obama and Hillary were there to answer the phone. And four men died! What did Hillary have to say about that? “What does it matter now?”  What did they both say about it at the time? It was caused by a video mocking the Muslim prophet.

The Clintons had the AFDA as their machine in the 80's and 90's. It was in Arkansas and continued through his presidency. Now for Hillary's presidential run they have apparently  taken that small AFDA operation idea and created one that operates on a Worldwide scale and called it the Clinton Foundation. 

Tonight at 10:00 on the Fox News Channel, Bret Baier is doing a special report on the Clintons and the foreign money. I urge you to watch it. It will likely be replayed over the weekend. Watch it. Maybe watch it a couple of times to let it all sink in.

Hillary Clinton is not the one to elect to be President of the United States. She can't be trusted to walk a dog, she should never be in a position of the public trust. She can't be trusted!

I apologize for the length of this and I apologize for not including all that I could have, should have and wanted to include.

You are welcome to comment.

Brett

Hillary Clinton: And the hits just keep on coming

It appears as though we’re about to do some time traveling. Each time Bill and Hillary Clinton are involved in something to do with the Government, the word “scandal” is attached.

I was originally going to write something a week or so ago when I heard some liberal guest on a talk show say that the country was tired of the Bush vs Clinton campaigns as a reason for Jeb Bush not to run against Hillary Clinton. It was inconceivable to the liberal that maybe Hillary shouldn’t run to avoid a Bush or a Clinton as President. But then, as often happens with the Clintons, another activity of theirs hits the news.

So let’s look back to 1992 and beyond. Bill Clinton announced he was a candidate for President. Not long after his announcement the country was introduced to a woman named Gennifer Flowers. Betsey Wright, then an assistant campaign director for Clinton coined the term “bimbo eruptions” as more allegations of Clintons affairs started jumping out of the woodwork. Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and even rumors of an affair with Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of Walter Mondale.

Once elected, there were numerous rumors, scandals and of course, more females. Vince Foster committed suicide, rumored to have been having an affair with Hillary Clinton, involved in Whitewater and even the circumstances around his death were questioned. Of course, there was Whitewater and the McDougalls, the travel office scandal that Hillary was directly involved in, the FBI files that went missing and were later discovered on Hillary’s coffee table two years later. There was also the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky which made Clinton the second President in history to be impeached.

There was also the campaign finance scandals. Charlie Trie, John Huang, James Riady, and others. Money coming in illegally that had to be returned and left all of the above indicted and convicted and in prison.

For twenty years our President was named either Bush or Clinton. Only once did they actually face each other in an election. That was in 1992 when Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush. Clinton ran against Bob Dole for his second term. In 2000 it was Bush v Gore. In 2004 it was Bush v Kerry, and in 2008 it was Obama that beat out Hillary to run against McCain.

In 2016 we may have the second election where it’s actually a Bush v Clinton race. We hear much about Bush’s problems with the Conservatives over Common Core and Immigration reform Policy problems. Not scandals.

Let’s look at Hillary Clinton. Today, it’s Hillary Clinton, just as it was when she ran for the Senate in New York. But once elected she became Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Now, as we move to the primary season, she’s Hillary Clinton again. Like the Clinton of the 90’s, regardless of her name preference, we’re seeing scandals emerge.

As Secretary of State, when she wasn’t being shot at getting off of a plane in Bosnia (she wasn’t, she just misremembered ala Brian Williams), she was hiding from what happened in Benghazi. To her credit, at least she didn’t go before committees and say “I don’t recall” as she did in the 90’s. Instead she said “what difference at this point does it make.”

We also shouldn't forget that she lies about insignificant things as well. Such as being named for Sir Edmund Hillary who climbed Mt. Everest in 1953. The problem is that in 1947, when Hillary was born, he hadn't climbed that mountain yet. Maybe her mom was clairvoyant and named him the guy that would "someday" climb Mt Everest. 

Now there are two more. Back to foreign money coming in and using personal E-mail to circumvent the transparency rules that haven’t really been followed by anyone anyway.

This comes the day before the Supreme Court hears another case regarding Obamacare that could end up dismantling Obamacare, along with the revelation of taxes and the Democrats running away from the taxes they put into Obamacare.

Does Obamacare remind you at all of HillaryCare? That too was a big tax laden plan to take over the health care industry and it failed.

As always with the Clinton’s, sex comes into play whether they are in or out of office. Reports of Bill Clniton having a mistress, and lately of him going to orgy island and now even his portrait that hangs in Washington DC. The artist said that he had a maniken and it cast a shadow and he left it as a representation of the famous blue dress of Monica Lewinsky.

We have terrorist organizations that are wanting to kill Americans just because they are Americans. They are beheading people that they kidnap and burning others alive in cages. Do we really want to go back to the days of Bill Clinton’s infidelity and Hillary’s enabling of it? Do we really want to spend another four or eight years with scandal after scandal? Is the country really tired of a Bush or Clinton presidency or are they just tired of the teenage games played by Bill Clinton and the coverups and excuse making by Hillary?

And to think my original worry was this nation would do what it did in the past by choosing Barack Obama as President, not for what he’d accomplished nor his ideas, but because he was the first black President and that we’d do the same thing by saying we’ll elect Hillary to have our first female President.

We were warned that electing Obama would create more taxes, more debt, larger deficits and more regulations. But we still elected him. To elect Hillary, we’ll get still more taxes, more debt, larger deficits, more regulations and more scandals.

We need to concentrate on eliminating ISIS. Fighting terrorism and winning. Not negotiating how to make a name for ourselves by allowing Iran to get nuclear weapons, or how to apologize to Cuba and pay them off to be our friends.

To have Hillary Clinton elected to be Hillary Rodham Clinton is to continue with our borders being imaginary lines. To continue to punish our ambassadors and blame it on videos that nobody sees. To return to 4-8 years of scandals and possibly another impeachment.

Remember when the Clinton’s left the White House last time? They removed the W’s from the computer keyboards and they trashed the people’s house and stole many items from it. Teenage pranks.

For us being the greatest country in the world, it appears that we don’t want to act like it if we allow Hillary Clinton to get her foot in the door at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. If Hillary Clinton even runs as expected, it will be just like the old rock and roll radio announcers of the 60’s. “and the hits just keep on coming.”

You’re welcome to comment.

Brett

Despicable

Today, it’s reported that the Jordanian pilot that was held captive by the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) has been killed. Just last week, the Jordanians offered to release the prisoner that ISIS wanted released in exchange for their captured pilot. Allow me to repeat that using other words. ISIS demanded the release of a female suicide bomber being held by Jordan and they gave a deadline for this to be agreed to or they would kill their captive, the Jordanian pilot. Jordan agreed and only asked for proof of life of their pilot before turning over the prisoner. ISIS was silent. The deadline passed and ISIS remained silent.

Now we know why. The pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, was killed on January 3. A month earlier. ISIS was demanding ransom as if the pilot was still alive. Don’t think that this was the most despicable of the show being played out by ISIS because it gets much much worse.

In the past year, ISIS has demanded ransom for other prisoners they’ve held. The United States does not negotiate with terrorists (remember this) so ISIS cut their heads off and sent the video of the beheadings for the US government to see. Jordan did negotiate, and still the pilot was killed. In fact, he was killed before ISIS made their ransom demands as though he were alive.

This murder was different than their previous murders. Their other captives were beheaded. This pilot was burned alive in a 20 minute video and then buried under sand and steel dropped on his cage after he’d been burned alive. This was more than an execution. This was torture culminating in his slow death.

For the past few weeks the question has been why won’t President Obama call ISIS for what they are? Radical Islamic Terrorists. This is not calling all muslims terrorists. It’s calling ISIS “radical” islamic terrorists. There is a difference that Obama can’t seem to bring himself to understand.

Obama thinks that he can settle these conflicts with diplomatic solutions. He’s currently negotiating with Iran over nuclear weapons. He’s recently negotiated the US policy towards Cuba away. It’s said he’s even negotiating with N. Korea. Well, he got his deal with the Castro’s in Cuba. And once he had that deal, Raoul Castro then said he wanted the be repaid for 55 years of pain and suffering by the embargo and the want gitmo back.Obama apparently is not good at negotiations unless he intended to give all of this up. 

ISIS was created because Obama pulled out of Iraq. We’d won the war, and were working with Iraq so they could learn to manage their own country. We were warned that if we left Iraq too soon Iran would move in or Al Queda would move in to fill the void left by our departure. Obama was elected and pulled out of Iraq and Al Queda in the form of ISIS moved in just as predicted. ISIS is what Obama called the JV team. If this is the JV team, how scary will the Varsity be?

ISIS has stated their intention to come to the United States to attack us at home. Obama has responded to ISIS movement across Syria and Iraq with bombs from airplanes and refuses to consider boots on the ground, despite the military leaders saying that we can’t defeat them with just bombing runs.

There is now a very stark contrast that can be made. On September 11, 2001, al queda attacked us. President Bush hadn’t been in office a full seven months yet. Four planes were hijacked. The world trade center was brought down. The Pentagon had a gaping hole in it and the fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania because American Citizens took the plane back from terrorists. That act saved politicians lives.

On October 7, less than one month after the attack on us, President Bush began bombing Afghanistan and we were at war against Al queda terrorists. The continental United States was not attacked again the rest of Bush’s presidency. Obama took over as President in 2009. We have been attacked several times in this country since.

France was attacked a few weeks ago. Obama didn’t even send an official to stand with the French while the rest of the world did. Following the beheadings, Obama did nothing other than start dropping a few bombs from airplanes on ISIS. Where is the leadership? 

Now, today, since the burning of the pilot has been seen, Obama is talking about a coalition going after ISIS while the United States follows. Not leads. FOLLOWS!!

Americans are beheaded by ISIS and Obama releases prisoners from Guantanamo. A Jordanian pilot is burned alive by ISIS and Jordan says they will execute the female prisoner that ISIS wanted released. That prisoner has now been hanged along with another criminal. Likely more to follow.

Obama should take a lesson from the King of Jordan. Jordan didn’t release their prisoners. They executed their convicted criminals following the pilot being burned alive.

It’s sad to see that leader of the free world do nothing but open our borders and release terrorists so they can fight again while the King of Jordan takes action and stands up to ISIS. Unfortunately, our President is despicable.

You’re welcome to comment.

Brett

The War on Police

There have been three incidents in recent months that has triggered a war with police in this country. But other factors have figured into it than just those three incidents.

Michael Brown was the first well known incident. He’s the 18 year old that was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown doesn’t seem to have had a criminal record. However, on that day, he was caught on video stealing cigarellos and pushing a clerk into a display rack. Then he was shot dead after fighting for an officers gun while the officer was in his car and then fled. He turned and charged back at the officer who then opened fire and killed Brown in the street.

A grand jury was convened and heard the case and concluded no charges should be brought against Officer Wilson. The people of Ferguson then started burning down their own town and opportunists took advantage of the melee and looted businesses.

In New York, Eric Garner resisted arrest. He was being arrested for selling individual cigarettes without a tax stamp. Garner, unlike Brown, had an arrest record dating back to 1980 for various crimes such as assault, grand larceny and selling cigarettes. Again, a grand jury was convened and again concluded no charges should be brought.

In Cleveland, Ohio, a twelve year old boy was brandishing a gun, pointing it at people walking by in a park. The police were called and when they pulled up the boy reached for the gun. It did not have the red cap on it to indicate that It was a toy and it looked real enough to the officer who then fired. They boy died later.

In the past two days, there have been three policeman killed. Two in New York and one in Florida. In California, a billboard honoring four policeman who were killed four years ago was vandalized.

Several things have gone into and not created the problem but fueled the flames of the problem

The Media:

Do they ever get anything right? They spend all of their time giving their opinions of the news but never seem to get around to reporting it. On CNN’s Anderson Cooper, the night the Grand Jury evidence was released in Missouri, they learned that Michael Brown had grabbed for the officers gun and was shot in the car. Cooper said “I didn’t know that’. Other news outlets had been reporting it from leaks they’d received but somehow CNN just seemed to miss out on it and were giving opinions mostly leaning towards Hands up don’t shoot . The New York Times had already published the officers address putting the officer and his family at risk.

Al Sharpton:

He inserts himself into every situation where there is a white and a black, but I can’t remember an event where he has been on the right side yet. From Tawana Brawley to these latest incidents. He fuels the fire towards riots rather than away. After the two officers were killed the other day in New York, he wrote a piece for the New York Daily News. He talks about the two officers being killed and says that he spoke to the Brown family and the Garner Family and they said they didn’t want this. They wanted non violent protests. He mentions in writing the Garners and the Brown families but never once in his writing does he name the two officers. Well Mr. Sharpton. I’m going to help you out. The two officers names are Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. They were ambushed. They didn’t have even a fighting chance. Brown and Garner at least got the chance to fight back even though they seem to be guilty of committing crimes. Ramos and Liu were just sitting in their car.

Another officer was killed in Florida. If early reports are correct, he was shot and then run over. His name is Charles Kondeck. In California a billboard honoring four officers slain 4 years ago was vandalized. The four honored officers were Mark Dunakin, Daniel Sakai, Ervin Romans, and John Hege. Mr. Sharpton, before you start talking about these men maybe you should learn their names.

It’s disappointing that there has to be a separation between blacks and whites, but one of the first things that could be done to try to ease conflict is to stop listening to Al Sharpton.

The St. Louis Rams and others sports figures

Four or five of the players on the Rams came out of the tunnel with their hands up as a symbol for Michael Brown. A symbol based on something that was apparently not true. According to witnesses, Brown did not put his hands up and did not say "don't shoot". 

Perhaps the Rams ought to concentrate on football when they are on the field. 

President Obama:

Obama seems to be wrong each time he opens his mouth. Presidents should not insert themselves into local situations. He should know better than to even offer any thoughts on it until after the system has run its’ course. He was supposedly a law professor at one time. I would think he would know this.

Obama inserted himself into a situation at Cambridge within the first months of his presidency, saying the Cambridge police acted “stupidly”. A black professor was breaking into his own home and the police stopped him asking for ID. The professor wasn’t cooperative.

Obama inserted himself into the Trayvon Martin case saying if he had a son, he’d look just like Trayvon. This was before the facts were out showing that Martin was actually the attacker.

Now he doesn’t like the grand jury results in Missouri and inserts himself into that. It wasn’t surprising that as he begins commenting on it, on a split screen they show the rioters starting up their activities by trying to turn over a police car.

A good president….even a bad president, would say something like, “we  have to trust in our judicial system” before the results are out, and when they come out, even if he disagrees with the result, he should be saying “our system has spoken and if one side feels it was wrong, there is an appeals process for people to follow.”

But for a President to undermine the system that he’s supposedly the head of shows at the very least unprofessionalism and much closer to incompetence and bias.

New York Mayor DeBlasio

Like President Obama, the mayors job was to back his police force and back the justice system. He’s just made enemies of the very people that he’s got in charge to serve and protect the citizenry.

New York Gun Laws:

Just one comment here. Guns are outlawed in the city of New York. So how did the shooter get close to the two officers to shoot them? Could it possibly be that criminals don’t respect the laws? Apparently, they don’t have any respect for the laws nor for human life.

There are many more things than just those listed above that fed into this. Parents that don’t take care of the children that they bear. Schools that fail these kids way too often. Human life is not given any worth by some. Those that think the world owes them everything and they have no responsibility for their actions. This is not just a black problem. This is a problem in the human race.

Not all police are innocent and not all of them are guilty. Not all blacks are innocent and not all of them are guilty. But once they break out in a physical confrontation where lives are at stake, who’s right and wrong won’t matter until the bodies are figured out. At that point, it’s too late to say “sorry” because one or more are dead.

If you want to see your children stay out of jail, teach them to not break the law. If you want to stay out of jail, don’t break the law. There is a place for grievances to be heard, but it’s not on a street corner.

If you don’t trust the police, why on earth would you give them reason to distrust you by bringing attention to yourself with your actions or your attitude? Trust is not freely given. It’s earned and once earned can be lost. If you want to keep the trust you’ve earned don’t give reason for it to be removed.

There was somebody, I don’t remember who it was now, that said in Eric Garners case, he was driven to this because of the high taxes on cigarettes in New York. Maybe he was, but he still broke the law. I understand an underground market being created by the ridiculous taxes put on various items, but if you’re actively doing something about it by selling them when it’s illegal, accept your punishment. It’s odd too that the Mayor of New York would have his police on the lookout for someone selling a cigarette. That would seem to me to be more of an incidental discovery rather than a smoke cop being assigned. But it’s still breaking the law.

In each case there was an apparent breaking of the law. Cigarettes being sold illegally, cigarellos being stolen from a store along with an assault and a kid pointing what looked like a real gun at an armed policeman.

Now we are left with a war on the police. That will only make it more difficult to weed out the bad ones and let the good ones continue to do the fine job that most do.

You’re welcome to comment.

Brett

Anti- Government Democrats?

In recent weeks, we’ve seen the Democrats attack the Police, and even the judicial system, and now our intelligence agencies and Military. With Democrats undermining government agencies, one can only wonder how long before they become the new anti government group. If Janet Napolitano was still the secretary of Homeland Security, would she open investigations into Democrats as domestic terrorists?

This started with the Michael Brown death when he was shot and killed by a police officer. The prosecutor sent the investigation to the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury found no reason to indict the officer. Without rehashing the entire episode again, what it boils down to is that Democrats from President Obama, to Eric Holder the Attorney General, along with Obama’s latest advisor, Al Sharpton chose to side with Michael Brown despite not having seen all of the evidence.

Grand Juries don’t operate under the same rules as a court room. First, the accused is not permitted to have an attorney in the grand jury room with him. Second, there is no legal wrangling about technicalities as there is in a civil or district court. Grand Juries look at evidence presented and decide if there is a probable cause a crime was committed. It’s easier to get an indictment than it is to get guilty conviction in a trial court. So there must have been very strong evidence in the officers favor for them to not indict.

Yesterday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) California and Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, released their CIA report on torture. The investigation was 500 pages and cost nearly $50 million dollars and they didn’t interview one person from the CIA.

The activities that the investigation was looking into was waterboarding and other techniques to get prisoners to talk. By all accounts, except for the report, information was gathered and did save lives and prevent attacks.

The program was stopped nearly ten years ago, although President Obama claims it was discontinued when he became President. But then he takes credit for anything that happens that’s good until it turns bad, then claims he knew nothing about it.

So this report served no purpose save one. It puts our CIA operatives as well as our military at risk. Days before the report was released, our embassies and marines were put on high alert for possible attacks due to this report coming out. The President, the Congress and even Senator Dianne Feinstein knew that this biased partisan report was going to put our men and women serving in the field to protect Americans at home as well as abroad and released it anyway.

The reason for Senator Feinsteins vigor in getting this report out appears to be because the CIA was caught spying on her office a few years ago. To punish them for their activity, she is putting our heroes lives at risk. If she’s going to play a tit for tat game, my question is how many of her staff members or anyone else that entered her offices at the time of the alleged spying on her offices, died? The answer is NONE. So her little vengeance game will be won by her at the expense of a marine, or a CIA operative. A marine who may have killed or captured the next terrorist to fly a plane into a building here. A CIA operative who may discover that the terrorists have a biological weapon that will now not be prevented because that operative died in the name of the Feinsteins revenge.

This begs the question. Just what did Senator Feinstein have going on in her office that would justify the killing of a marine or a CIA agent spying for the United States of America?

Thankfully, we have the finest marines in the world and the best spies in the world. They at least have a chance because they are the best. Unfortunately, their margin of error just shrunk because a United States Senator got a hornet up her skirt and is bent on revenge against her own country.

We can only hope that she never gets the chance to be faced by the parent or the spouse of a dead US Soldier because of her actions. Maybe the cost of losing an election this badly is that the Democrats are turning anti-government. More likely they'll become more pro socialist. 

You’re welcome to comment.

Brett

Consequences of Lies?

The man in the picture above is a Democrat. He died a few weeks ago in October. I would love to tell you the story behind this, and many of you may have already heard it, but I would rather that you heard his story from his wife. It's a little better than six minutes long. Please take the time to watch it before reading on. Following is the url. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0da4PjaS90A&feature=player_detailpage

If you watched the video, you now know that the man in the picture above is Alvin Wiederspahn. He is a former state legislator in Wyoming. His wife is Cynthia Lummis, a Republican Representative in the House of Representatives. I didn't know of either of them until today. She questioned Jonathan Gruber and Marilyn Tavenner in the committee hearing today. 

Gruber and Tavenner spent most of the time dodging, hemming and hawing to the Republican questions and dealing with softball questions from the Democrats in the committee. Some of the Democrats took their shots at Gruber as well, but were still fairly mild with him. 

The Democrats first commenter was Representative Elijah Cummings (D) Maryland, ranking member of the committee. He did tell Gruber he was disrespectful of the American people but his most pointed comments were how Grubers comments gave the Republicans a gift wrapped up with a bow on it to try to tear apart the Affordable Care Act. 

The Affordable Care Act or Obamacare was supposed to HELP the American people be insured. At least ostensibly. The true reason for Obamacare is control of the American people. Make everyone equal and stick it to the insurance companies and the rich. Not to mention create a legacy for some Democrats (By the way, when the new congress takes over in January, half the Senators that voted for Obamacare will not be Senators any longer).

As we all know Obamacare is not a bi-partisan piece of legislation. It was rammed through and passed the House using the reconciliation process. If they didn't do that, the bill would die when returned to the Senate. Not one Republican voted for it and according to polls 65% of the American people were against the take over of health care by the government. 

To get the bill through and to get the American people behind the bill, a series of lies needed to be told. "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Lie. "If you like your existing plan, you can keep your existing plan." Lie. 

In recent weeks, we've learned that Gruber was one of the architects of the bill and there are seven videos out there where he talks about fooling the people, the stupidity of the American voter and tax the insurance companies so the American people can feel like they aren't paying when in effect the cost is passed on to the people. Even admitting in some that lies had to be told about whether it was a tax or not. 

He had been to the White House and met with Obama. He'd met with Speaker Pelosi. Health and Human Services Secretary has not admitted meeting him directly, and nothing has turned up yet saying they had met, but both Obama and Pelosi were caught in lies about knowing him. 

These Democrats, and remember, not even one Republican voted for this, felt they had to lie to get this passed. They didn't care about insuring the uninsured. There were supposedly 48 million Americans without health care.  

Remember the problems they had with the websites last year. When all was said and done they were proud that they had 7 million people sign up. What's 41 million Americans without health insurance. We got 7 million. 

Now the lies are coming home to roost. It is possible that in June the Supreme Court will dismantle Obamacare. But what about Congresswoman Lummis' husband? He's already lost his life after the back and forth of whether or not Obamacare covered him. 

Ms. Lummis said she isn't saying that Obamacare was responsible for her husbands death, but is she right? He died of a massive heart attack in his sleep. He'd been having chest pains. But didn't have a test his doctor recommended because he was told he didn't have Obamacare. 

Stress can cause strains on the heart. Could the strain be enough to cause a heart attack? We'll never know in Wiederspahn's case. But his is not the only story to come out with problems of coverage since Obamacare was implemented last year. 

Thankfully, it doesn't appear it reached the panel, also known as the "death panel". If it did, could he have been punished for daring to be a Democrat married to a Republican? 

How many others signed up for Obamacare as Wiederspahn and his wife, a representative in the House did, but don't have the platform to talk about it as Cynthia Lummis does by virtue of her position as a politician? 

When lies have the possibilities of creating problems in others lives, and possibly even ending them, you have to wonder why the government is hiring and paying millions of dollars out to a man that advises others and is advised by politicians to lie. Is their ego to make a name for themselves more important than the lives of those they are supposed to represent? 

If this was the only story that reflects badly on the government running health care, it could be seen as an aberration and given the benefit of the doubt. But just a few months ago, we heard how the Veterans Administration was allowing American Veterans that fought for this country, to die for lack of getting to the doctor to have treatment for ailments that they have due to their service to this nation. 

This President and his minions have lied about the health care plan. They've lied about the immigration executive order, they've lied about Benghazi, about the IRS, about fast and furious. These are just the lies we know about at this point. What will we find out next? 

This reminds me of what former President Ronald Reagan said were the most dangerous words in the English language. "Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." 

You're welcome to comment. 

Brett

Gruber Correct: American Health Care Voter is Stupid

Now there’s a headline that if in a major publication could create a stir. It is true, however. In 2009 when President Barack Obama took office he immediately created conflict in politics by signing the stimulus package. That event led to the formation of the Tea Party. That was February 2009. Obama had been in office barely a month and already the Republicans were making progress for the next election. Not because of them but because of Obama, the House and the Senate, all controlled by Democrats.

Following the election, the Democrats held the majority of both Houses of Congress. With the Independents, like Bernie Sanders from Vermont,  and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut they were just one seat away from having the 60 votes needed to block filibusters.

Along came Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania. He saw that he was going to lose the primary in his home state so he changed parties and became a Democrat. He became the 60^th vote that would get Obama’s health care legislation through.

Then, Senator Ted Kennedy, Democrat from Massachusetts who had been suffering from brain cancer, died dropping the Democrats down to 59. This made them one short of the cloture vote.

 A temporary replacement (Paul Kirk) was appointed The Democrats now had their 60 votes again. They voted and the law passed 60-39. A special election was to be held for the seat vacated by the death of Senator Kennedy. Scott Brown ran as the Republican in a heavily liberal state. He ran as the 41^st vote against the affordable care act, also known as Obamacare. The amazing thing is that he won the race. Obamacare was dead….almost.

There was one way it could still go through. The House, who had been working on their own bill need only pass the Senate bill that had passed after abandoning their own version. If it went to a markup, the Senate would have to have a vote on it and with Scott Brown elected in Massachusetts, they wouldn’t have the filibuster proof majority and the health care plan would be dead. The House, which only needs a simple majority, which they had, voted on the bill and it passed. 220-215. Again, not one Republican voted for the bill.  

Here is where Gruber is correct. The American people did not vote on Obamacare. The people don’t get to vote on individual pieces of legislation. They only vote for the Representatives in each house to represent them. It is the members of the House and Senate that vote on legislation.

Not one Republican voted for Obamacare to become law. Each and every vote for the law was cast by a Democrat. Each and every Republican voted No on the bill. So you see, Jonathan Gruber is correct. They only needed to fool the voters for the bill, which were all Democrats.  

Do you need an example of the stupidity? How about the then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D) from California who said, “We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It".

Now there are two very liberal Democrat who are showing buyers remorse on the Obamacare plan. Senator Chuck Schumer (D) of New York and outgoing Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. If only they hadn’t been stupid when they voted for it.

The American voters are the smart ones. Since Obamacare, liberal Democrats have been losing seats in both Houses. The stupid voters that Gruber ended up describing was every Democrat representative and Senator that voted for the bill. 280 of them. They are after all the only ones that did. Although, there was one more, but he didn't vote on it, he signed it. 

The hearings should be extremely interesting over the next couple of days. It would be fun to see the Republicans jumping all over the Mr. Gruber for calling Democrat elected officials stupid.

You’re welcome to comment.

Brett

Common Sense: Ferguson Burns

In August a police officer shot and killed an 18 year old man. What made this national news is that the police officer is white and the 18 year old man is black and a witness, a friend and companion of the 18 year old man, claimed that his friend raised his hands and said don’t shoot after being shot in the back.

There are three things that set off the riots in August in Ferguson Missouri. The officer was white. The man was black. The report was that the black man was shot by the white officer In the back. Of those three things, one of them was not true. The 18 year old man was not shot in the back! His companion, lied!

The day after the incident, the 18 year old man’s family came out. Michael Brown’s mother said he was a good boy and that he was to start college in the coming weeks. Pictures were shown on national television of a teenage boy. However, that teenage boy, an 18 year old man, was 6’5 and weighed just under 300 lbs.

Over the next three months, the officer said nothing publicly. Al Sharpton, who was not there, said plenty. Jesse Jackson, who was not there said plenty. Both charged for their time. Jackson took the opportunity to raise money from the protestors and the rioters. Sharpton wanted to charge the Michael Brown family for his services.

A rallying cry was created. “Hands up; Don’t shoot!”

A few days following the shooting a video emerged from a store. It showed Michael Brown stealing some cigarello’s from the store. It also showed that when the clerk tried to approach him at the door, that Brown said something to him and pushed him back into a rack of what looks like various types of potato chips and then walks out the door.

The evidence showed that the officer was telling the truth, the friend of Michael Brown, Dorian Johnson, was lying.

The lie is what became the narrative in most of the news programs. Riots erupted in Ferguson.

The prosecutor, rather than saying that there was no cause for charges against the officer, Darren Wilson, decided to turn it over to the Grand Jury. Witnesses were called and at least six of the witnesses told the same story as Officer Wilson. While the other witnesses didn’t tell the same story as each other and in some cases, such as with Dorian Johnson, the stories changed. One of those witnesses finally admitted he wasn't even there and was only repeating what he'd heard on the news.  Officer Wilson was not indicted. One of the things discovered in the grand jury was that Brown’s hands never went up and he didn’t say “Don’t shoot”.

Once the grand jury came out with their non-indictment, the riots started again. Police cars were set on fire. Businesses were burned to the ground.

The above is pretty much already known by everyone. So where is the racism?

Our justice system is not perfect. But it is the best in the world. Through police work, testimony and forensic evidence just about every detail about the incident is known. Nobody can tell us what Michael Brown was thinking when he decided to attack officer Wilson in his car. That may be the only thing we'll never know. 

But we know from the forensic evidence and from the video in the store that Michael Brown was not the innocent boy that was portrayed. He robbed the store. He was walking in the middle of the street. The officer did tell him and Johnson not to walk in the middle of the street.

Wilson was not found guilty of any wrongdoing because he’s white and Brown was black. He was not indicted because he did his job correctly. He was not indicted because Brown robbed the store. Because Brown fought for Wilsons gun. Because he charged at Wilson and not with his hands up.

So why were they rioting? Is it because a black man was killed? He died because of his own actions. So how is the officer guilty? How does that justify people burning their neighborhood? How does that justify people stealing from stores in their neighborhood after breaking in? How does that justify burning down businesses in their own neighborhood?

Do you need to buy some meat for the week? You’ll have to find a way to the next neighborhood to do your business because you burned out the meat market! Do you need to get your hair done? I guess you’ll have to find another place to set an appointment because you burned down your salon in your neighborhood.

If someone is breaking into your house and you call 911, will you complain when the dispatcher says, “we’ll have an officer out as soon as possible. It may take a few minutes longer because he has to ride his ten speed since four police cars were burned up in the riots.”

Will you complain that someone is shooting up  your neighborhood with a gun stolen from one of the police cars that burned up?

We’ve all heard the talk about black on black crime. We’ve all heard the talk about how there is a disproportionate number of blacks in prison.

It’s time for people to start taking responsibility for their own actions. If you want less people in jail, get them to quit committing the bulk of the crimes. If you want less people dead, tell your kids to quit shooting their friends and neighbors.

It is a lot more difficult for a black child to live beyond his twenties than it is for a white child. 90% of the black people that are dying prematurely are dying at the hands of other black people. Not at the hands of white people. Not at the hands of white police officers.

One of the first things you might want to consider is that we’re all Americans. Not African American. Not European American. We are AMERICANS! You divide yourself into other groups, black or white and it’s no wonder we have differences based on skin color.

Get your kids home and in bed at a reasonable hour. It worked for my parents. It worked for my children when they were with me. Get your kids in school every day and demand that the teachers teach and if the teachers don’t teach, get new teachers. If your kid refuses to learn, punish him or her, not society.

The civil war was over in 1865. Slavery lost, freedom won. After 149 years, blaming slavery isn’t going to work. Rosa Parks fought for a bus seat in 1955. Freedom won. The civil rights act was passed in 1964. It’s been 50 years. Freedom won. If you’re going to keep whining about how you’re not given anything after 50 years of having equal rights that ship has sailed. It’s time to start joining your rightful place in American society and quit whining that someone else is holding you back and then setting your town on fire.

You have never been a slave.  Your parents have never been a slave. There’s very few, if any, who’s grandparents were slaves.

If you want to stay out of jail, stop breaking the law. If you want your children to stay out of jail, teach them to obey the law. Start looking at other human beings as viable people and have respect for human life. Maybe less will die violent deaths. If your kid acts up, punish them and no that doesn’t mean abuse them. It means teach them right from wrong. Take away their I-pods, their cell phones, and maybe even ground them for a week. 

Stop following people blindly. When President Obama says something stupid, start realizing he’s the President, not a savior, nor a civil rights leader. When Al Sharpton starts ranting and raving in front of large crowds, he’s not a motivational speaker. He’s inciting a riot. Motivational speakers tell you that you can improve yourself by believing in yourself and working towards goals. Rioters advocate violence.

Michael Brown would be alive today if he would have raised his hands and said “don’t shoot”. The St. Louis Rams players have it wrong. The Congressional Black Caucus had it wrong. But then, had he just obeyed the law by not walking in the middle of the street, by not robbing a store, and by not charging a police officer with his 6’5 inch, 298 lb body.

Michael Brown’s step father was caught on video at the riots screaming “Burn this b**** down”. Someone should have stood up to him and said, “NO!” Had common sense been employed, Ferguson might not have burned and Michael Brown might still be alive, and the New York Times wouldn't have published Darren Wilson's home address. 

You’re welcome to comment.

Brett

The Power of the Veto

There is a power that is constitutional. Usually the power is in the Presidents hand. It can also be a power wielded by Congress. In the next Congress, that power could be used by either the President or the Congress to their advantage depending on the issue. That power is the veto.

Here’s how it works. Congress writes a bill, it passes both Houses and then moves to the Presidents desk for signature, or veto. Should the President veto it, the only thing that is left for Congress on that bill is to override the veto.

To override a veto, it takes a two-thirds majority of both Houses to pass it. It is not the 60 votes in the Senate that many think. Under the new Congress coming in, the Republicans hold 245 seats and may gain a few more as tight races are cleared up. In the Senate the Republicans hold 52 seats and will likely gain two more and possibly three. Let’s just go with the two right now.

Now that bill that the President vetoed comes back to the Congress. To pass the House they will need two-thirds or 290 votes to veto. So the Republicans would need to come up with an additional 45 votes over what they currently have. So they will need 45 of the 190 Democrats to vote with them on the veto.

In the Senate, 67 votes are needed to override a veto meaning the Republicans are 13 votes short. They need 13 of the 46 Democrats to side with them to override the veto.

As we all know, much of what is done in Washington is not just about passing a law, but it’s for show and/or for use in the next campaign for re-election. Passing a good law is secondary.

Let’s assume for a minute that the Republicans come up with a law, perhaps immigration reform that even the polls may say is acceptable. It passes the House, then it passes the Senate (which means that 6 Democrats would have to sign on as well). But when it arrives at the President’s desk, he vetoes it.

The bill then comes back to the Congress. The Republicans then schedule a vote to override the veto. They should then put on a massive media campaign that they have passed a law, the polls are with them. It’s now up to Democrats to join them to get this law passed.

There are some different perspectives to look at. First, the Republicans. If the override fails, they have an issue for the next election. They can then go on the campaign trail and say their opponents voted against immigration reform that the people approved of.

Second the Democrats. Before the vote, they must consider if they can defend voting against it, or should they vote for it even if they have some problems with it, but overall it’s an acceptable bill for them to be in favor of. If they join the Republicans, they now have a campaign issue to help them in the next election.

Should 45 Democrats in the House and an additional 7 Democrats in the Senate join the Republicans, they have in effect rendered the President irrelevant. Our Congress, both House and Senate, both Republicans and Democrats, have now come together to put the government back into the hands of the Constitution.

For the remainder of the Presidents two years in office he will have to seriously consider vetoing a bill and his reasons for it. If he’s just using the veto pen because it’s a Republican bill, more Americans will see he is just being partisan.

There is one other perspective. If the bill is not a great one, and the veto holds, Congress will then have to, If they are serious about any bill, will have to do a better job of writing that bill. They will actually have to do quality work rather than just doing anything to say they’ve done something.

You’re welcome to comment.

Brett

Repubs Win. Now They Need to be Winners

Republicans have taken control of the Senate and increased their majority in the House. As of this writing, the Republicans have taken seats in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, Arkansas, West Virginia, Iowa, and North Carolina. They have held on to Georgia (without the runoff that was predicted) and Kansas. They’ve also won in Louisiana but that will go to a run off in December before it’s completely decided.

They still have an outside chance at Virginia and Alaska’s polls haven’t closed yet.

The Republicans thus gained seven seats, and likely an eighth in Louisiana in December. If they manage to gain Alaska, that will make nine.

They also held on to Governors in Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida.

But how did they win? It wasn’t due to their message. It was more that they were the recipients of the voters choosing against President Obama rather than choosing the Republicans.

There will be 32 seats up for election in the Senate in 2016 along with the President. Only nine of those seats in the Senate are Democrat held seats. Of those, Mark Kirk in Illinois, John McCain of Arizona, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and David Vitter of Louisiana would seem to be the most vulnerable. McCain because he’ll be 80 in 2016, Kirk because Illinois is a Democrat state as Wisconsin may be left leaning.

Of all of those running, the only one with a complete message and plan was Ed Gillespie in Virginia, but not much attention was paid because everyone thought Mark Warner would win easily. Now it’s too close to call. Gillespie has an outside chance at winning.

If the Republicans take this election as a message that the American people have chosen their message, they’d better review what their message was. If they want to maintain control of the Senate in two years, they will need to come up with definitive plans on what their agenda will be.

They’d best have a position and ideas on immigration (which they will likely be tested with in weeks), the economy, eliminating Obamacare after 2016 and a solution to how to handle ISIS and to protect this country from terror attacks. If they don’t, or they choose to believe that they were chosen on their merits this time, they will find themselves back in the minority in the Senate in two years and possibly not get the White House.

The American voters seemed to have made a choice this time between holding Obama responsible for all of this nations ills or blaming the Congress with it being a toss up between Republican and Democrats and the Republicans just got lucky that Democrats were blamed more than the Republicans were.

The Republicans in the Senate better find a way to work together between the establishment Republicans and the Tea Party Republicans and then work with the Republican held House.

One thing that is likely to help them is Obama being what he is, the American people will likely find out that the so-called party of “no” isn’t the Republicans but that Obama is the one that can’t and won’t work with the Republicans.

The Republicans had better drive their ideas home and their differences with Obama, in the press often. They have to make the American people understand their positions and how they will benefit people. If they don’t, Obama will not only get the last word, he’ll be getting the only word. That word will be that the Republicans are at fault.

They will likely hold hearings now on the IRS, NSA, Benghazi and Hillary’s role, Fast and Furious and the other scandals, but that shouldn’t be the only thing they talk about. They’d best look to the future as well as holding those accountable for the past.

They won the election, now they need to win the future for the American people to be the winners. 

You’re welcome to comment.

Brett