Pushing an Agenda

How do you gain and maintain power when your agenda conflicts with the majority of the population and you cannot win the debate on its merits? You lie, cheat, intimidate, and bribe.

Lies: Benghazi cover-up. Obamacare is not a tax, your premiums will go down, and it will lower the deficit. Global warming. Claim your opponents are racists, bigots, and homophobic. Fast and Furious. Consequences of sequester cuts. 

Cheating: IRS scandal. Voter intimidation. Illegal voter registrations. Recess appointments. Chrysler bondholders during the GM bailout. 

Intimidation: Gibson Guitar raid. NLRB and Boeing. Occupy Wall Street. Union thuggery. EPA regulations. Fox News reporter James Rosen. Releasing the names of Romney donors on Obama reelection website (some were also audited by the IRS).

Bribery: Record numbers of people on disability and food stamps. Millions receive perpetual welfare payments, housing subsidies, and cell phones. Corporate welfare and bailouts. Crony capitalism.

The Most Transparent Administration in History

“This is the most transparent administration in history” ~ Obama in February.

Let's count the ways:

1. Obamacare – No debate on C-SPAN as promised, the bill was not put online for five days as promised, no one read the bill, it passed the House using budget reconciliation, and bribed senators.
2. Benghazi
3. IRS scandal
4. His college records
5. Fast and Furious
6. Drone attacks

On the other hand, he has been very transparent in regards to his ideological motivations:

1. "I want to spread the wealth around"
2. "Punish your enemies"
3. "I don’t want them punished with a baby" speaking about one of his daughters getting pregnant. 
4. "God bless you” addressing Planned Parenthood
5. "I believe in American Exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."
6. “You didn’t build that!”
7. “It's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion . . ."
8. “Under my plan of cap and trade, electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket”
9. "We can't -- drive our SUVs and you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on you know, 72 degrees at all times . . .”
10. "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller."
11. “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money”

Remember when

Remember when during the Bush administration one of our Ambassadors was assassinated?

Then we found out that the Bush administration sent multiple stand-down orders to Special Forces forbidding them from launching a rescue attempt. 

Then we found out that, despite the fact that Bush’s State Department knew the assassination was carried out by terrorists, they told the world that the attack was caused by an obscure YouTube video.  

Then we found out that people who were actually at the scene of the attack were told by the Bush administration NOT to cooperate with congressional investigators? 

Then we found out that the official investigation conducted by the Bush State Department failed to interview one of the key players from the night of the attack. 

Then we found out that whistle blowers were demoted by the Bush administration. 

Then, during the congressional hearings, we watched party hacks from the Republican Party blame budget cuts and say stupid things like, “death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death .”

Of course none of that happened during the Bush administration nor did the congressional Republicans do any such thing but the Obama administration and his State Department did every single one of these things in regards to the attack on the Benghazi, Libya consulate. 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/08/here-are-the-5-key-things-to-take-away-from-wednesdays-benghazi-hearing/

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/05/08/dem_congressman_at_benghazi_hearing_death_is_a_part_of_life.html

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/primary-player-benghazi-was-not-interviewed-state-dept-review-board