For Obama, it's no more Mr. Nice Media

For Obama, it's no more Mr. Nice Media: Howard Kurtz says with scandals over IRS, Benghazi and, especially, the administration's scrutiny of AP phone records, the press has turned on the president.

Chris Matthews: No Longer “Glad” for Hurricane Sandy and the Reelection of Obama?

Chris Matthews: No Longer “Glad” for Hurricane Sandy and the Reelection of Obama?:
By John W. Lillpop



Chris Matthews is one of the major reasons that the US media is regarded with such contempt and disrespect by enlightened voters.

The redoubtable Matthews hit at all time low in stupidity, partisan groveling and fawning over Barack Obama last November 7 when, despite the loss of human life and billions of dollars of property damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy, the addled Matthews actually expressed how “glad” he was that the storm helped reelect Barack Obama.

As reported at the reference, Matthews spit and sputtered his descent into hell with the following idiotic statement:

“I'm so glad we had that storm last week…”

Six months and several major scandals later, Matthews appears to have had second thoughts about both Hurricane Sandy and her primary benefactor, the clueless Barack Obama.

As reported at reference 2:

Five years ago, MSNBC host Chris Matthews famously declared that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama gave him a "thrill up my leg." Now, amid two ongoing scandalous situations at the White House, Matthews said that the Obama presidency no longer has any "thrust."

For the last two days, Matthews has delivered blistering critiques of Obama. Matthews has combined his own frustration at Obama's inability to pass any of his agenda with the flap over the IRS and AP phone scandals that have developed over the past week.

"There's a reason the President's an easy target tonight," Matthews said on Tuesday, opening his show "Hardball."

"He's a ship with the engine off. He can go play golf, take Marine One up to Manhattan, but none of that matters. None of it. What matters is that he commands no big cause. There's no thrust to his presidency right now."

Actually, there IS a thrust to the Obama presidency, Chris. Unfortunately, Obama’s thrust would, if allowed to continue, transform America into third-world, failed state stuck in a quagmire of tyranny and failed Marxist principles, administered by anti-American liberal bureaucrats!

And THAT would be a tragedy of such huge proportions that even a Category 5 hurricane during an election would be unable to right the American ship!

The bottom line: Be careful what you give thanks for!

Ref 1

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/11/07/chris_matthews_im_so_glad_we_had_that_storm_last_week.html


Ref 2:

http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-matthews-obama-irs-scandal-ap-phone-benghazi-2013-5#ixzz2TTBenO00

Boston bomb suspect's nasty note

Boston bomb suspect's nasty note:
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a message for America in the boat where he hid.

We Just Have to Take Holder’s Word That He Recused Himself From AP Case

We Just Have to Take Holder’s Word That He Recused Himself From AP Case:

One of the biggest developments from Attorney General Eric Holder’s grilling yesterday is that he apparently only orally recused himself from the controversial case involving the AP phone records. While Holder claims he believes he recused himself around June, during examination he admitted he never did so in writing with an explanation for his action. He doesn’t even remember the exact day.
I will leave it to others with more expertise to determine if he may have technically broken any laws or allowed his subordinates to break the las by assuming the powers of the AG without documentation officially giving that authority. What I do know is that this is a shocking violation of the principles of both good governance and basic management.
The point of a bureaucratic hierarchy is to have clear lines of responsibility. It is to know where the buck stops. It is to know who should and should not be held accountable if something goes wrong.
If the head of a government agency is going to remove themselves from this chain of responsibility on what is supposedly a “very serious” matter; it should in writing, dated, with a clear explanation of why, and explicit instruction about who responsibility has been handed off to. Otherwise proper accountability becomes impossible.
For the sake of argument, what if the DOJ violated the law in late June. There is no way to prove if it was before or after Holder recused himself. Memories are hazy and it would just be Holder’s word against someone else.
Without recusals being in writing there is nothing to stop someone from claiming, after the fact, that they had earlier “orally” recused themselves to avoid responsibility. Similarly, what is stopping subordinates who are caught assuming the powers of a superior from claiming they had the authority thanks to an undocumented “oral” recusal.
Holder is the head of America’s law enforcement,  not the assistant manager at a ice cream shop. Transfers of important responsibility need to be in writing, you don’t just shout “I’m recused” three times as the waning moon sets over the horizon.
It is absurd that I apparently did more paperwork to transfer legal authority over my broken 1997 Nissan than Holder did to transfer control of what he called one of the most important leak investigations of his tenure.
 

Obama: 'I Certainly Did Not Know' What The IRS Was Doing

Obama: 'I Certainly Did Not Know' What The IRS Was Doing:
The targeting of some conservative groups for extra scrutiny from the IRS has ignited a political firestorm in Washington.
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Obama Administration Under Siege From 3 Huge Scandals: Here’s Why It Could All Come Crashing Down - Yahoo! News

Obama Administration Under Siege From 3 Huge Scandals: Here’s Why It Could All Come Crashing Down - Yahoo! News:

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North Korea Releases Another Wild Statement As US Carrier Hits Korean Waters

North Korea Releases Another Wild Statement As US Carrier Hits Korean Waters:

So the American U.S.S. Nimitz carrier started annual training in the waters off the Korean Peninsula. Concurrently, South Korean president Park Geun-hye toured the U.S.
Wasting no time, North Korea released another apocalyptic statement via state-run news agency KCNA: 

What matters is that as soon as the chief executive of South Korea visited her American master and flew home after confirming "closer alliance", she invited huge U.S. aggression forces to south Korea for provocative saber-rattling.

And their statement about the U.S. carrier read like something out of Homer's Odyssey:

The heroic revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will never pardon the provocateurs but throw into the bottom of the sea the U.S. carrier and other aggressor forces if they dare come in attack on the DPRK.

While the DPRK calls the exercises "a grave military provocation to unleash a nuclear war,” the U.S. forces carefully note that they will only last two days and take place in non-territorial waters.
Despite looking ready to launch, the DPRK recently packed its Musudan missiles back into warehouses in what many analysts saw as a stepping back from the military brinksmanship that dominated prior months.
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