“Assad must go”<\/p>\n
Worst economic growth since Herbert Hoover<\/p>\n
Benghazi<\/p>\n
The National Debt<\/p>\n
Calling Terrorism \u00a0“Workplace Violence”<\/p>\n
Obamacare<\/p>\n
The IRS<\/p>\n
Solyndra<\/p>\n
Iran deal<\/p>\n
Executive Orders<\/p>\n<\/a> Here\u2019s a short list of the many scandals Team Obama thinks it can make America forget:<\/p>\n The great \u201cstimulus\u201d heist: <\/b>Obama seems to think nobody will remember he grabbed almost a trillion dollars for \u201cstimulus\u201d spending, created virtually zero private-sector jobs with it, allowed a great deal of the money to vanish<\/a> into thin air, and spent the rest of his presidency complaining<\/a> that he needed hundreds of billions more to repair roads and bridges.<\/p>\n Vast sums of taxpayer money were wasted on foolish projects<\/a> that came close to the Keynesian economic satire of hiring some people to dig holes, and others to fill them in. Obama added insult to injury by appointing Vice President Joe Biden as the \u201csheriff<\/a>\u201d who would supposedly find all that missing stimulus loot.<\/p>\n Americans mostly ended up footing the bill for was an army of government <\/i>jobs, and a lavish network of slush funds<\/a> for the Democratic Party and its union allies. We\u2019re supposed to forget about all that because years later, Obama\u2019s weak economy finally dragged itself to something like normal \u201cofficial\u201d employment levels\u2026 with the U.S. national debt doubled, <\/i>and our workforce rate\u00a0reduced<\/a> to Carter-era lows. Sorry, Democrats, but that\u2019s more than just failed policy. It\u2019s one of the worst government-spending scandals in our history. Democrats will howl to the moon over far, far smaller abuses of taxpayer money during the Trump administration, should any occur.<\/p>\n Operation Fast and Furious: <\/b>Obama partisans seem to think any given example of abuse or ineptitude by their man stopped being a \u201cscandal\u201d the moment it seemed clear he wouldn\u2019t be impeached over it. Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration\u2019s insane program to use American gun dealers and straw purchasers to arm Mexican drug lords<\/a>, is a scandal with a huge body count, prominently including Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry<\/a> and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jamie Zapata<\/a>, plus hundreds of Mexican citizens. Agent Terry\u2019s family certainly thinks<\/a> it qualifies as a scandal.<\/p>\n It is difficult to imagine any Republican administration surviving anything remotely close to Fast and Furious. The media would have dogged a Republican president without respite, especially when it became clear his Attorney General was putting political spin ahead of accountability and the safety of the American people. Remember, AG Eric Holder escaped perjury charges by claiming he didn\u2019t know what his own subordinates were doing \u2013 a pioneering, but sadly not unique, example of an Obama official using his or her incompetence as a defense<\/a>. For years afterward, we would hear some version of \u201cI\u2019m not a crook, I\u2019m just completely inept\u201d everywhere from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n But this was Barack Obama, so the media downplayed Fast and Furious news\u2026 to the point where viewers of NBC News learned about the scandal<\/a> for the first time when Holder was on the verge of being held in contempt by Congress for it.<\/p>\n The relatively benign <\/i>explanation for the astounding Fast and Furious scandal is that Obama\u2019s Justice Department wanted to release guns into the Mexican wild, like so many radio-tagged antelope on a nature show, and follow them to arrest the big fish of organized crime. (In case you were wondering, no, the guns didn\u2019t actually <\/i>have radio tags in them \u2013 that was tried in the much smaller, and utterly disastrous, Bush-era program<\/a> Obama\u2019s team used as a model for their vastly larger and more careless <\/i>program.) This explanation becomes more difficult to believe, the more you know<\/a> about how careless the program was, and how abruptly it was shut down after Agent Terry\u2019s death.<\/p>\n The more sinister take on Fast and Furious is that the Obama administration wanted to create gun crimes in Mexico so they could complain about lax regulations on American gun sales \u2013 \u201cfor the purposes of creating a narrative that they could use in America to try and thwart our Second Amendment constitutional rights,\u201d as Andrew Breitbart put it<\/a> during a 2012 interview.<\/p>\n No matter which interpretation you subscribe to, or how much you think Barack Obama knew about the program when he made scurrilous claims of executive privilege<\/a> to shut down investigations, it\u2019s an insult to a large number of murder victims to claim it wasn\u2019t a scandal. Unfortunately, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives hasn\u2019t learned as much<\/a> from the OFF debacle as we might have hoped.<\/p>\n Incidentally, the Border Patrol named a station in southern Arizona in Agent Brian Terry\u2019s honor. On New Year\u2019s Eve, persons unknown fired rifle shots<\/a> at a Border Patrol vehicle near the station.<\/p>\n Eric Holder held in contempt of Congress: <\/b>This was a result of Operation Fast and Furious, but it merits distinction as a separate scandal in its own right. Holder was the first sitting member of a president\u2019s cabinet in the history of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of course, Democrats closed ranks behind Holder, the White House protected him, and the media allowed Holder to spin the contempt vote as mere \u201cpolitical theater.\u201d In reality, it was a difficult step that responsible members of Congress didn\u2019t want to take, and it was fully justified by Holder\u2019s disgraceful conduct in the Fast and Furious investigation. No reasonable person could possibly review the way OFF was handled and conclude it was an example of transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n ObamaCare: <\/b>Everything <\/i>about ObamaCare is a scandal, from the President\u2019s incessant lies about keeping your old plan if you liked it<\/a>, to Rep. Nancy Pelosi\u2019s \u201cwe need to pass it to find out what\u2019s in it\u201d dereliction of Congressional duty.<\/p>\n ObamaCare is a scam, pure and simple \u2013 sold on false pretenses by people who knew <\/i>it wasn\u2019t going to work the way they promised. It doesn\u2019t feel right to dismiss it as a \u201cfailed\u201d scheme when so much of the failure<\/a> was intentional.<\/i> The bill was so sloppily crafted that Democrats were basically signing blank sheets of paper when they rushed it through Congress in a foul-smelling cloud of back-room deals. ObamaCare\u2019s designers precipitated a constitutional crisis by forgetting they left in a provision<\/a> to cut subsidies for states that didn\u2019t set up health-care exchanges \u2013 a provision that would have killed the entire program stone-dead two years ago, if it had been enforced as written.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court rewrote ObamaCare on the fly twice <\/i>to keep it alive, which is a scandal in and of itself. President Obama delayed and rewrote the law<\/a> so often it was impossible to keep track of the changes, cutting Congress out of the loop completely. (Actually, someone did <\/i>keep careful track of them<\/a>, and the tally was up to 70 distinct changes by January 2016.)<\/p>\n That made some of Obama\u2019s rewritten mandates and deadlines blatantly illegal<\/a> \u2013 but then, the Affordable Care Act isn\u2019t really a \u201claw\u201d in the sense American government understood the term. In practice it became something entirely new, an enabling act that gave the executive unlimited power to do whatever it thought necessary to keep the system running. If subverting the American system of government isn\u2019t a scandal, what is?<\/p>\n And let\u2019s not forget the scandal of ObamaCare\u2019s disastrous launch, foisted on the American people even though its designers knew <\/i>it had severe flaws<\/a> \u2013 the billion-dollar website that cost another billion dollars to fix<\/a> after it crashed, accompanied by a constellation of state exchanges that blew up like Roman candles of bureaucratic incompetence. Let us not forget the absolute zero accountability for this disaster, mismanaged by everyone from President Obama to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who treated the biggest new government program in several generations as though it were a minor side project that could be handled by subordinates with minimal supervision.<\/p>\n Spying on journalists: <\/b>Establishment media came about as close to falling out of love with Barack Obama as ever when his administration was caught spying on journalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why, if the reporter subjected to the most egregious surveillance, James Rosen<\/a>, didn\u2019t work for Fox News, the mainstream media might have started treating Obama like a (shudder) Republican.<\/i> Rosen was treated so badly that even Attorney General Eric Holder eventually admitted<\/a> feeling a bit of \u201cremorse\u201d about it. Apparently he felt so much anguish that he suffered temporary amnesia<\/a> and forgot to tell Congress that he signed off on the request to wiretap Rosen while he was testifying under oath.<\/p>\n The IRS scandal: <\/b>The selective targeting<\/a> of conservative groups by a politicized Internal Revenue Service was a scandal grenade Democrats and their media pals somehow managed to smother, even though the story began with the IRS admitting wrongdoing.<\/i><\/p>\n Democrats suffocated the scandal by acting like circus clowns<\/a> during congressional hearings, but at no point were the actual facts of the case truly obscured: yes, pro-life and Tea Party groups were deliberately targeted for extra scrutiny, their tax exemption applications outrageously delayed until after the 2012 election without actually being refused.<\/i> If anything remotely comparable had been done to, say, environmentalist and minority activist groups by the IRS under a Republican administration, the results would have been apocalyptic.<\/p>\n There\u2019s also no question about the facts of the follow-up scandal, in which IRS officials brazenly lied<\/a> about having backups of relevant computer data. The American people were expected to believe that multiple state-of-the-art hard drives failed<\/a>, and were instantly shredded instead of being subjected to data recovery procedures.<\/p>\n Luckily for the politicized IRS, the Justice Department was hyper-politicized under Obama too, so no charges were filed<\/a>, and scandal kingpin Lois Lerner got to enjoy her taxpayer-funded retirement after taking the Fifth<\/a> to thwart lawful congressional investigation.<\/p>\n Benghazi: <\/b>This is the clearest example of Obama and his supporters thinking all of his pre-2012 scandals ceased to exist the moment he won re-election. Benghazi has been investigated extensively<\/a>, and argued about passionately, since the night of September 11, 2012. Nothing can change the absolute fact that the Obama administration\u2019s story for the first few weeks after the attack was false, and they knew it was false.<\/i> They spun a phony story to buy themselves a little time during a presidential election campaign, and it worked.<\/p>\n Nothing can change the fact that Libya was a disaster after Obama\u2019s unlawful military operation. Nothing can obscure the truth that Ambassador Christopher Stevens was sent into a known terrorist hot zone without a backup plan to ensure his safety. Everything else from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and their defenders is pure political spin. They dragged the story out for years, until they thought it couldn\u2019t hurt them any more. That doesn\u2019t erase its status as a scandal. (And they were evidently incorrect in their belief that it couldn\u2019t hurt them any more!)<\/p>\n Hillary Clinton\u2019s secret server: <\/b>While we\u2019re on the subject of Hillary Clinton, her secret email server is an Obama scandal, too. She perpetrated her email offenses while working as his Secretary of State, and contrary to Obama\u2019s false assertions, he knew about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n Plenty of Obama officials other than Clinton played email games, most infamously EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, who created a false identity for herself<\/a> named \u201cRichard Windsor\u201d to get around government transparency rules.<\/p>\n The Pigford scandal: <\/b>Named after a landmark lawsuit from the Bill Clinton era, the abuse of a program meant to compensate minority farmers for racial discrimination exploded under Obama. After years of left-wing attacks<\/a> on Andrew Breitbart for daring to speak up about the scandal, the mainstream media \u2013 no less than the New York Times<\/i> \u2013 finally admitted<\/a> his critique of the program was accurate in 2013.<\/p>\n Once again: if careless mishandling (or deliberate politicized misuse) of huge sums of taxpayer money isn\u2019t a scandal, what is?<\/p>\n NSA spying scandal: <\/b>Opinions about the nature and intensity of this scandal vary wildly across the political spectrum, but there\u2019s no doubt that Edward Snowden\u2019s pilfering of sensitive National Security Agency data was a debacle that damaged national security<\/a>. We had the ghastly spectacle of Attorney General Holder thanking Snowden for performing a public service<\/a> by exposing surveillance programs Holder\u2019s own administration didn\u2019t want to talk about.<\/p>\n President Obama and his administration made many false statements<\/a> as they tried to contain the political damage. The fallout included significant losses<\/a> for U.S. companies, and diplomatic problems<\/a> for the United States. Just about everything Obama did before, during, and after the Snowden saga damaged the relationship between American citizens and their government.<\/p>\n Bowe Bergdahl:<\/b> Bergdahl\u2019s ultimate fate rests in the hands of a military court<\/a> (unless Obama pardons him<\/a>) but no verdict can erase the scandalous way<\/a> this administration conducted the prisoner swap that freed him from the Taliban and its allies. Many lies were told<\/a>, the law was flouted<\/a>, a deal of questionable wisdom<\/a> was struck with his captors, and outraged Americans demanded recognition for the soldiers who died searching for Bergdahl<\/a> after he abandoned his post.<\/p>\n Iran nuclear deal and ransom payment: <\/b>Everything about Obama\u2019s dealings with Iran has been scandalous, beginning with his silence while the Green Revolution was brutally put down<\/a> by the mullahs in 2009. The Iran nuclear deal was pushed with lies<\/a> and media manipulation<\/a>. The infamous pallet of cash that wasn\u2019t a ransom<\/a> has become symbolic of Obama\u2019s mendacity and penchant for breaking the rules, when he thinks following them is too much trouble.<\/p>\n Polluting the Colorado river: <\/b>The Environmental Protection Agency managed to turn the Colorado River orange<\/a> under this greenest of green Presidents. Of course <\/i>there was a cover-up<\/a>. Would you expect anything less from this \u201ctransparent\u201d administration?<\/p>\n The GSA scandal: <\/b>The General Services Administration was caught wasting ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money on lavish parties<\/a> and silly projects. Heroic efforts to resist accountability<\/a> were made, leaving puzzled observers to ask what it took to get fired from government employment under Barack Obama. (Alas, it was hardly the last time that question would be asked.) Oh, and of course <\/i>there was a cover-up<\/a> from the Most Scandal-Free Administration Ever.<\/p>\n The VA death-list scandal: <\/b>The Department of Veterans Affairs has long been troubled, but the big scandals broke on Obama\u2019s watch, most infamously the secret death lists<\/a> veterans were put on while executives handed in phony status reports and signed themselves up for big bonuses. Obama was more interested in spinning the news and minimizing his political exposure than addressing problems; in few areas outside ObamaCare has his rhetoric been more hollow, his promises more meaningless<\/a>.<\/p>\n Solyndra: <\/b>The marquee green energy scandal wrote \u201ccrony capitalism<\/a>\u201d into the American political lexicon, as corners were cut and protocols ignored to shovel billions of taxpayer dollars at companies with absurdly unrealistic business models. President Obama\u2019s ability to pick bad investments was remarkable. Luckily for him, American taxpayers covered his losses.<\/p>\n Secret Service gone wild: <\/b>The Obama years saw one scandal after another hit the Secret Service, from agents going wild with hookers<\/a> in Columbia, to a fence jumper<\/a> penetrating the White House, and tipsy Secret Service officials driving their car into a security barrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shutdown theater: <\/b>Obama hit the American people hard<\/a> during the great government shutdown crisis of 2013, doing everything he could to make American citizens feel maximum pain \u2013 from using \u201cBarry-cades\u201d to keep war veterans away from their memorials<\/a>, to releasing illegal alien criminals<\/a> from detention centers. It was an infuriating lesson for voters in how every dollar they get from government is a dollar that can be used against them, when they are impudent enough to demand spending restraint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Assad must go” Worst economic growth since Herbert Hoover Benghazi The National Debt Calling Terrorism \u00a0“Workplace Violence” Obamacare The IRS Solyndra Iran deal Executive Orders President Obama and his mouthpieces have embarked on a bizarre scheme to hypnotize America into forgetting the many scandals of his presidency. They seem to think that intoning \u201cthis administration … Continue reading POTUS OBAMAS NON SCANDALS<\/span> President Obama and his mouthpieces have embarked on a bizarre scheme to hypnotize America into forgetting the many scandals of his presidency. They seem to think that intoning \u201cthis administration hasn\u2019t had a scandal\u201d over<\/a> and over again<\/a> will make history disappear. It\u2019s the lamest Jedi Mind Trick ever, and is being pushed on people who know Star Wars is just a movie.<\/h2>\n