by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
Corruption inside the Obama administration runs rampant. The list of scandals grows longer by the moment, with a new one popping up at an ever-increasing rate. However, the Republican leadership empowers the corruption by refusing to fight. They fear Obama and are resigned to waiting for the buzzer instead of stopping the madness.
This week we learned of three more corpses resulting from Obama’s Operation Fast and Furious. This is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ program that encouraged the smuggling of illegal guns to the drug lords and gangs of Mexico. The resulting bloodshed has been ghoulish.
Next we saw e-mails from the White House in the Solyndra scandal, and the extemporaneous record shows corruption. Rep Cliff Stearns of Florida declared at a hearing this week, “The review process took a back seat to the need to set up a photo-op for the vice president and other administration officials.”
Solyndra is a politically connected solar energy firm that received more than half-a-billion dollars in federal loan guarantees. Now the firm is bankrupt. It is one of a string of firms that Obama touted as an engine of “green jobs.”
The White House e-mails show that the Obama administration rushed to get money to the firm based on politics, not job creation. No wonder the stimulus plan didn’t stimulate job growth; the money was diverted to the pockets of Obama’s political cronies.
Now he’s at it again with his new stimulus plan he’s trying to push down Congress’ throat. This new scheme takes more money from working citizens who could help get the economy moving again with the freedom to create jobs or spend it, thus spurring job creation. But no, Obama is only looking out for those who solidly vote for him and will then have more money to pour into his re-election coffers.
Now, The Daily Beast is reporting, “The four-star Air Force general who oversees Air Force Space Command walked into a highly secured room on Capitol Hill a week ago to give a classified briefing to lawmakers and staff, and dropped a surprise. Pressed by members, Gen. William Shelton said the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to make it more favorable to a company tied to a large Democratic donor.”
The donor is Philip Falcone, and the company is his new wireless satellite broadband company, LightSquared. The Democratic donor was sure to profit from the altered testimony to Congress.
Any of these scandals would have taken down Republican administrations. But Obama shoulders on without being touched by investigations. This is the direct result of a strategy poorly concocted by the leadership of the Republicans in Congress, because they fear Obama. It results in bad policy that is prolonging the weak economy as the Republicans compromise on policy and fail to provide adequate Congressional oversight of the federal government.
The strategy, which is only voiced behind closed doors, goes something like this: “Our polling shows that the American people want us working with the president. If we are too aggressive in our investigations of the administration, then people might get the idea we aren’t team players.”
Their strategy is akin to the four corners strategy in basketball. Before the days of shot clocks, teams were known to just keep passing the ball from corner to corner in the hopes that they wouldn’t make a mistake and time would run out.
The Republicans see that Obama is wounded, and they fear that if they do anything, then they might make a mistake and give his administration a shot at re-election. Why? The Republicans lack confidence in their ideas and are afraid to engage.
But the strategy has the potential to backfire. Voters, who are frustrated by what they see in Washington, could declare a pox on both their houses. Today, Americans feel our leaders are fiddling like Emperor Nero while the country literally burns.
Photos of the Republican leader John Boehner enjoying a game of golf with the president while the average citizens fears losing his job and his house leaves middle class voters with resentful attitudes.
Another year of Boehner hugging Biden on TV and then empowering the president to raise the debt ceiling at his whim could see the Tea Party lead a full scale revolt against not just the Democrats, but all the so called leaders in Washington.
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Let your Congressman, Senator and the entire House Leadership , especially Speaker Boehner, know you are sick and tired of their vacillation, to finally move forward with removing Obama for n0t only not being constitutionally qualified, but for his many crimes he has committed.
Let them know daily, that hiding in the closet is not a sure re-election strategy.
Whether it is done now or after he is defeated in the 2012 elections, we need people in office with the power to conduct serious investigations & get those responsible for legal violations prosecuted. Right now, its hands off cause he is black & no other reason. If Obama was a Republican, Democrats would be destroying him each day & their media allies would be helping with exhausted breath.
Worse is the example he is setting. So many politicians now think any president should be able to circumvent Congress, the Constitution, & law. So many of them think this is the way they too should be able to operate.
We need serious limits placed on each government branch & we need some sort of independent operation that is not responsible to the president so actual serious investigations can be conducted & these legal games can be dealt with honesty!
This is what Americans are sick of… politicians who keep getting away with murder!
We are angery, pissed off and mad as hell. You just watch and see how WE THE PEOPLE will change washington. I my self just cant wait. To allow a usurper in the white house and then shred our constitution, break the law and run on a social security number that is not obama’s. Sheriff Joe will put a stop to this. No one in the white house cant grow a pair of balls to get it done. SPINLESS!!! The worse part is they all know obama is illegal as hell.
Wow, their more worried about being team players???? Our economy is falling to pieces with many many lives involved and their worried about being a team player? They had better start worrying about their jobs and doing what is in the best interest of this country. So Obama has many brainwashed, big deal!!!! Just Do It because we are all waiting for this moment to be over with and done! THIS IS AN INJUST TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! WE DO NEED TO DEVELOP A THIRD PARTY AND GET THIS WEENIES OUT OF WASHINGTON!
Yahoo! Could not agree more with all the responses above! Thank you Obama, all the
congressional members and members of the various courts who have been and still are
guilty of severe dereliction of duty. More of “We the People” are awake and realizing that a vote for most long term career politicians, whether democrat or republican, means a vote for the one world global government, aka the new world order.
Can we really attribute their dereliction of duty to Obama’s black skin? Is it fear for their own reputations?
Anyone remember the scandalous report that the first thing Hilary Clinton did after arriving in the White House was to contact the FBI office and request their files on all
Washington, DC politicians be delivered to the White House? Was there something in those files so damaging that the threat of blackmail overpowered their patriotism, their love of this country, and make them betray “We the People”, their fellow American citizens?
Time to have a funeral for the the GOP and the Democrat Party and start over with new ones. The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Partysounds good and my suggestion for the 2nd one is FUWCP (Fed Up With Corrupt Politicians Party or the OWC (Out With Corruption), if you don’t like Grass Roots Party name. All of these names will serve to let all politicians know what we expect of them and remind us to stay awake and get rid of them when they don’t, to avoid finding ourselves in this corrupt situation ever again. Perhaps more and better names may be suggested by others.
Pick your candidates and names, New Parties and pass the word before Obama decides to close down the internet. May I suggest Congressman Ron Paul for President, Jesse Ventura for VP and using Sarah Palin and Herman Cain to replace senators in their states or in the cabinet. All 4 of these are republicans, but least likely to have new world order strings already controlling them. For those in his district, Van Irion, who definitely knows what is in our Constitution, should be an excellent replacement for one Tennessee senator coming up for reelection in 2012. One in my district, who happens to be one of those lawyers (who should all be voted out) certainly has lost my vote and hopefully more than enough to end his political career.
PS – Before someone starts playing the racist card, please note that the recommendation is to remove one light black skinned politician, a slew of white skinned ones along with a few other races probably mixed in and replacing them with 3 whites and l black American. If you have more shining examples, as you surely have, please present them to the TEA and Grass Roots Parties as soon as possible, so the word can get out quickly.
I don’t believe that it’s only the Republican Party that fears Obama. ANYONE that disagrees with this administration’s policies, anyone who dares to voice that dissension through print media or interviews on MSM or cable outlets is ‘open game’ and therefore constitutes a danger to themselves, their families and their livelihoods.
This IS Chicago-style politics, thuggery, intimidation, and law-ignoring groups that think they are ABOVE the laws of this land. Look at Obama’s aunt and uncle, for instance. Where did their SS#’s come from?
I maintain that ALL of our leaders ARE in the know about his unconstitutional occupation of “We the People’s” Oval Office. They are mute on this subject because they ALL fear losing their cushy jobs, paid vacations, paid holidays, sick leave and the health care of their choice. Funny how these congressional folks get ‘cost of living’ increases and retirees who collect their SS DON’T! And what exactly is fair about that?