Op-ed:
Obama's Retaliatory Tentacles
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on CPR Worldwide Media / cprworldwidemedia.net
"I'm not going anywhere...I'm angry and ready to fight because today
contradicts my public service career and my entire life."
- New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez's words after being indicted on public corruption charges
Two Democrats...one appointed and one elected...both facing criminal charges...but only one dared to speak out against Obama's economic and foreign policies...dared to defend Israel...thus making the outcome for that one quite different than the outcome of the other one.
In the first case, in yet another of the Obama regime's attempts to
sweep the IRS targeting scandal under the rug, early last week Ronald C.
Machen, the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, informed
House Speaker John Boehner that he will NOT...I repeat NOT...bring
criminal contempt charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner. NO
big surprise folks as Lerner did exactly what she was told
to do knowing full-well that Obama and his cronies would protect her.
Lerner...the main figure in the targeting of Conservative and TEA
Party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for 501(c)(3)
tax-exempt status...extra scrutiny simply because they opposed Obama during both his 2008
and 2012 presidential election bids... was rewarded for a job well done in
that she got to use one of her many Obama and Holder supplied 'get out
of jail free' cards...all while questions continue to be raised and continue to go
unanswered about Obama's in-our-face ability to ignore a congressional directive.
It's now been almost a year since the House approved a contempt resolution against Lerner arising from her decision NOT to answer questions during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing where she invoked her Fifth Amendment right NOT to testify. This led then committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) to rightfully say that Lerner had waived that right by asserting her innocence during an opening statement and then refusing to be cross-examined by committee members. But U.S. Attorney Machen...a Democrat and obviously an Obama supporter...insisted that Lerner only made “general claims of innocence” and that the Constitution would provide her, in his legal opinion, with “an absolute defense should she be prosecuted.”
In his letter to Boehner, Machen claimed his decision NOT to bring
said charges against Lerner was NOT a rejection per se of the House’s constitutional
powers to call witnesses and hold them in contempt when and if they
violate the rules, but that the facts in Lerner's case “undercut” the
House decision...translating into Machen's opinion that Lerner did NOT
waive her Constitutional protection. But know this case is surely NOT going to
simply fade away as it continues to raise questions about the powers of
Congress and whether the president and the rest of the executive branch
have 'discretion'...as in an obligation...to follow orders of Congress.
I believe they do as the executive branch must answer to Congress and
Congress must in turn answer to 'We the People.'
In the second case involving Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez the outcome was quite different as a federal grand jury turned a longtime friendship into a corruption case. Indicting Menendez on 14 public corruption charges ranging from bribery to making false statements to conspiracy and more relating to “dealings and interventions” he 'supposedly' made on behalf of his friend and senatorial campaign contributor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, a West Palm Beach, Florida, ophthalmologist, who now is also facing criminal charges.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Leslie Caldwell in announcing the
indictments said that Menendez never disclosed any of the 'reportable
gifts' he received from Melgen on the required financial disclosure
forms. And so unreported gifts turned into indictments claiming that
Menendez intervened on Melgen’s behalf in a dispute with federal
regulators over Medicare billing charges and irregularities, and in a
bid by Melgen to secure a port security contract in the Dominican
Republic. Menendez, as expected, denied any wrongdoing and said that any
of the close to one million dollars in gifts he received from Melgen...which included almost
$600,000 in campaign contributions...were given
to him solely because of their close personal friendship of over 20+
years.
And Menendez must be presumed innocent until proven guilty because charges contained in an indictment are only an accusation NOT a verdict. In the meantime, Mendendez, one of our leading voices on foreign affairs, has stepped-down as the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee but will remain a committee member. And the Foreign Relations Committee where Menendez dared to call Obama to task over his anything but a strategy in combating ISIS; where he opposed Obama's efforts to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba; and where he loudly voiced that he wants increased sanctions placed against Iran (“Iran is clearly taking steps that can only be interpreted as provocative...yet the administration appears willing to excuse away any connection between these developments and signs of Iran's bad faith in negotiations.”); is at the crux of Menedez being called to task. And why...because Menendez had the fortitude and audacity to publicly and on the record oppose Obama...and if you oppose Obama you must pay the price for that opposition even if you are a fellow Democrat.
And you must pay a big price if you dare to oppose Obama's stabbing
Israel in the back, as Menendez did recently at the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee's national convention, where he pledged that
Iran would "never threaten Israel or its neighbors, and it will never be
in a position to start a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Not on
my watch."
Fighting words our traitor-in-chief will NOT let go unpunished. And we know the Obama regime is notorious for punishing those who disagree with them, oppose them, or speak ill of them...and party affiliation matters not. One case in point is Mary Landrieu and her bid to win a fourth term as one of Louisiana's senators. Remember, Obama himself, his people, their money, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee...who pulled their TV advertising in support of her...cast her aside come runoff time simply because she spoke out in support of the Keystone Pipeline...which Obama and the liberal environmentalists are vehemently against.
Also, remember when New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer
second-guessed both Obama and his signature piece of legislation... ObamaCare...by saying, "We took their mandate and put all focus on the
wrong problem - health care reform," and even went so far as to say that
since only about 5% of registered voters in the United States lacked
health insurance before the implementation of the law, that to focus on a
problem affecting such "a small percentage of the electoral made no
political sense." In other words, Schumer publicly voiced his opinion
that Democrats should NOT have passed ObamaCare when they did because
the country was still in the throws of a recession even after the passing of the 2009
stimulus bill, and that a logical follow-up to said bill should have been legislation to help the middle class. In fact, Schumer
even stated that only later on in the Obama presidency should the issue of health
care have been addressed.
And the fallout from the regime for his words...first, then House
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi publicly stated that there are "14
million reasons why" Schumer is wrong...referencing the number of
Americans 'newly insured' under ObamaCare but of course leaving out the
millions of folks who lost their insurance because of ObamaCare...and
second, Menendez was chastised in the media for daring to speak out
against the 'anointed one.' And the media payback went so far as to accuse Menendez of grandstanding for
his own self-interest, personal gain, and political ambitions, to the effect that some
in his own party publicly came out to accuse him of saying what he said simply because
he wanting to be Hillary's VP choice when she ran.
And then there's Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii, a twice-deployed Iraq War veteran, who criticized Obama for downplaying the ISIS threat. Saying, “Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don’t know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him...our leaders must clearly identify the enemy as Islamist extremists, understand the ideology that is motivating them and attracting new recruits, and focus on defeating that enemy both militarily and ideologically,” the retaliation was swift in coming.
Almost immediately after Gabbard spoke these words the Obama 'attack machine'
led by Bob Jones of the Oahu-based Midweek newspaper ran his editorial stating,
“I take serious issue when somebody who’s done a little non-fighting in
Iraq, and is not a Middle East or Islamic scholar, claims to know better
than our President and Secretary of State how to fathom the motivations
of terrorists, or how to refer to them beyond the term that best
describes them — terrorists.” And Democrat Michael Perry of Hawaii’s
KSSK radio said he's worried about the political payback for what he
called Gabbard's "mortal sin" for her daring to speak out against Obama. “While Gabbard is correct in her ‘emperor has no clothes’ moment, she
may have lost her future seat on Hawaii’s political bench,” he said...words that sound like a threat of sorts to me.
And let's NOT forget that some Democrats are speaking out against Obama's executive order on immigration...on amnesty...including Clair McCaskill (MO), Joe Donnelly (IN), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), and Independent but caucuses with the Democrats Angus King (MA) amongst them. And the retaliation against them will surely come for NO one dares to cross Obama or his cronies and gets away with it.
So the bottom line in all this is that even Democrats are NOT safe from the retaliatory tentacles of a man and his cronies who think of themselves as gods...never to be questioned...never to be crossed...and above all never to be second-guessed.
Obama's Retaliatory Tentacles
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on CPR Worldwide Media / cprworldwidemedia.net
"I'm not going anywhere...I'm angry and ready to fight because today
contradicts my public service career and my entire life." - New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez's words after being indicted on public corruption charges
Two Democrats...one appointed and one elected...both facing criminal charges...but only one dared to speak out against Obama's economic and foreign policies...dared to defend Israel...thus making the outcome for that one quite different than the outcome of the other one.
In the first case, in yet another of the Obama regime's attempts to
sweep the IRS targeting scandal under the rug, early last week Ronald C.
Machen, the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, informed
House Speaker John Boehner that he will NOT...I repeat NOT...bring
criminal contempt charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner. NO
big surprise folks as Lerner did exactly what she was told
to do knowing full-well that Obama and his cronies would protect her.
Lerner...the main figure in the targeting of Conservative and TEA
Party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for 501(c)(3)
tax-exempt status...extra scrutiny simply because they opposed Obama during both his 2008
and 2012 presidential election bids... was rewarded for a job well done in
that she got to use one of her many Obama and Holder supplied 'get out
of jail free' cards...all while questions continue to be raised and continue to go
unanswered about Obama's in-our-face ability to ignore a congressional directive.It's now been almost a year since the House approved a contempt resolution against Lerner arising from her decision NOT to answer questions during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing where she invoked her Fifth Amendment right NOT to testify. This led then committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) to rightfully say that Lerner had waived that right by asserting her innocence during an opening statement and then refusing to be cross-examined by committee members. But U.S. Attorney Machen...a Democrat and obviously an Obama supporter...insisted that Lerner only made “general claims of innocence” and that the Constitution would provide her, in his legal opinion, with “an absolute defense should she be prosecuted.”
In his letter to Boehner, Machen claimed his decision NOT to bring
said charges against Lerner was NOT a rejection per se of the House’s constitutional
powers to call witnesses and hold them in contempt when and if they
violate the rules, but that the facts in Lerner's case “undercut” the
House decision...translating into Machen's opinion that Lerner did NOT
waive her Constitutional protection. But know this case is surely NOT going to
simply fade away as it continues to raise questions about the powers of
Congress and whether the president and the rest of the executive branch
have 'discretion'...as in an obligation...to follow orders of Congress.
I believe they do as the executive branch must answer to Congress and
Congress must in turn answer to 'We the People.'In the second case involving Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez the outcome was quite different as a federal grand jury turned a longtime friendship into a corruption case. Indicting Menendez on 14 public corruption charges ranging from bribery to making false statements to conspiracy and more relating to “dealings and interventions” he 'supposedly' made on behalf of his friend and senatorial campaign contributor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, a West Palm Beach, Florida, ophthalmologist, who now is also facing criminal charges.
And Menendez must be presumed innocent until proven guilty because charges contained in an indictment are only an accusation NOT a verdict. In the meantime, Mendendez, one of our leading voices on foreign affairs, has stepped-down as the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee but will remain a committee member. And the Foreign Relations Committee where Menendez dared to call Obama to task over his anything but a strategy in combating ISIS; where he opposed Obama's efforts to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba; and where he loudly voiced that he wants increased sanctions placed against Iran (“Iran is clearly taking steps that can only be interpreted as provocative...yet the administration appears willing to excuse away any connection between these developments and signs of Iran's bad faith in negotiations.”); is at the crux of Menedez being called to task. And why...because Menendez had the fortitude and audacity to publicly and on the record oppose Obama...and if you oppose Obama you must pay the price for that opposition even if you are a fellow Democrat.
Fighting words our traitor-in-chief will NOT let go unpunished. And we know the Obama regime is notorious for punishing those who disagree with them, oppose them, or speak ill of them...and party affiliation matters not. One case in point is Mary Landrieu and her bid to win a fourth term as one of Louisiana's senators. Remember, Obama himself, his people, their money, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee...who pulled their TV advertising in support of her...cast her aside come runoff time simply because she spoke out in support of the Keystone Pipeline...which Obama and the liberal environmentalists are vehemently against.
And then there's Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii, a twice-deployed Iraq War veteran, who criticized Obama for downplaying the ISIS threat. Saying, “Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don’t know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him...our leaders must clearly identify the enemy as Islamist extremists, understand the ideology that is motivating them and attracting new recruits, and focus on defeating that enemy both militarily and ideologically,” the retaliation was swift in coming.
And let's NOT forget that some Democrats are speaking out against Obama's executive order on immigration...on amnesty...including Clair McCaskill (MO), Joe Donnelly (IN), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), and Independent but caucuses with the Democrats Angus King (MA) amongst them. And the retaliation against them will surely come for NO one dares to cross Obama or his cronies and gets away with it.
So the bottom line in all this is that even Democrats are NOT safe from the retaliatory tentacles of a man and his cronies who think of themselves as gods...never to be questioned...never to be crossed...and above all never to be second-guessed.
By: Diane Sori
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp
Just as a federal judge orders the IRS to explain under oath how the 'infamous' missing emails were lost now comes this...according to IRS information-technology (IT) experts it seems back-up tapes...considered an option of last resort for recovering any missing emails...have suddenly and miraculously been found even though the IRS kept claiming all these many months that the physical hard drive was either recycled or destroyed.
Still claiming "there is an issue" as to whether all the backup tapes were destroyed, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen confirmed they do indeed exist and that they were only 'scratched' NOT irreparably damaged as previously claimed...while at the same time talking out of both sides of his mouth by saying he does NOT know "how they found them" or "whether there's anything on them or not."
Also, remember the IRS said that while NOT done on purpose, Lerner’s hard drive was wiped clean and sent to an 'outside' disposal company to be “shredded”...more likely to be taken apart and melted down so that all incriminating evidence would be destroyed. The IRS also claimed that it tried everything possible to recover Lerner’s emails, including sending her computer for examination to a forensic expert within the IRS's criminal division.
Within the IRS's criminal division...gee...why didn't the IRS let outside non-partisan experts examine said computer...I think the answer to that is quite obvious.
So now we have yet another case of IRS deception honed to a fine art if you will... and a deception billed like all the others...marked 'payment due' to 'We the People.'
Fact: to date the IRS has spent almost 10 million of our taxpayer dollars to collect and turn over the documents asked for by the congressional investigators, including the gathering up and again turning over of 67,000 emails to and from Lerner that still happen to exist. But ain't it odd that 67,000 emails just happen to exist but none of those are from the time period in question.
Hmmm...selective losing of specific incriminating emails I would say.
And par for the course of those appointed by this administration...they LIE...for when all the bloviations and rhetoric are stripped away, the fact is that these emails were 'selectively' destroyed for what they contained...or for who they would expose. And even as House Republicans and at least one and possibly more federal judges grasp at straws and want to know if Lerner’s hard drive could possibly be tracked using a serial number and then restored, IRS IT experts recently said under oath that Lerner’s hard drive had indeed been wiped clean by tech staff and recycled by an unnamed outside contractor.
But if this wiping clean and destruction of the hard drive did indeed take place, where is some sort of invoice or a 'certificate of destruction' proving this happened. And with Koskinen saying he isn’t sure anything of the sort exists...that means that if one does NOT exist how does anyone know any of this actually happened... simply we do NOT.
And heaven forbid one or more of those missing emails shows a conversation between Lerner and Obama himself concerning the fast-tracked status for a group tied directly to a terrorist organization...tied directly to the Muslim Brotherhood...a terrorist organization that Barack HUSSEIN Obama outwardly supports.
And too much to lose if it becomes wildly known that Obama's very own grandmother heads the 'Sarah Obama Benevolent Fund' another 'supposed' charity that hides the fact that it uses monies raised to give scholarships to male Kenyan students to attend the most radical of Wahhabist madrases in Saudi Arabia. Monies raised under false premises so these students can study the intricacies of sharia law, and then upon their completion of studies more 'charity' monies are used to send them to other countries to help aid in their setting-up of sharia compliant enclaves within those countries.
And again, none other than Lois Lerner herself gave this anything but a legitimate charity their 501(c)(3) status...on Obama's orders perhaps.
Blood brethren on both accounts you know.
So as the IRS lie-fest continues...as Lois Lerner and John Koskinen dig themselves into an ever-deepening hole...and as the cover-up of Obama's hand in all this continues to take shape...all I can say is this is the new reality of all that is the Obama administration's DC...sad isn't it.