Politics as Usual

Fast and Furious Update. The Justice Department (what an ineptly named organization by the way) is at it again. Eric Holder continues to deny involvement and knowledge of Fast and Furious, despite e-mails and documents to the contrary. The Justice Department and not so coincidentally a report from Democrats came out exonerating the Justice Department and blaming the Phoenix office of the ATF. Holder continues to hold out on some 80,000 e-mails that Congress is requesting.

There is still hope that justice will be found. The family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry sued the Federal Government over Brian's death from one of thousands of guns that the Justice Department facilitated to be exported to the Mexican Cartels. Additionally, besides the Representative Issa (R-CA), Congress also has a young Congressman from South Carolina named Trey Gowdy, a former prosecutor now hot on the trail to get to the truth about one of the biggest blunders, and now cover ups, in Federal history.


Obama's Religious Hypocrisy. President Obama spoke at the 60th annual National Prayer Breakfast. Obama spoke about his Christian beliefs for both politics and his personal life (but to be sure, some people still think he is not a Christian). Obama turned this morning of religious unity into a stump speech trying to make the point that his design to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, ram down health mandates usurping individual freedoms and other anti-business economic decisions were, in fact, grounded in his faith.

“I think to myself, if I’m willing to give something up as somebody who’s been extraordinarily blessed, and give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy, I actually think that’s going to make economic sense,” Obama told the audience. “But for me, as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required."

Well if you want to pay more fine - pay more. But don;t be using our money to fund your radical agenda and failed economic agenda. This is a matter of freedom and the very existence of our government. For Obama to use religion to try and justify his freedom killing beliefs is just pathetic.

Things That Just Piss You Off

Welfare Fraud. The reports of a Seattle welfare recipient living in a million-dollar home on Lake Washington both highlights the two worst things of our entitlement systems where not only can people get away for this, but they come to expect the government owing them something. These scumbag's, a man and a woman, received $1,200 a month in public housing vouchers, plus state and government disability checks and food stamps. These checks had been coming since 2003.

More US sponsorship of Drug Cartels. Yet another report that US agents help launder drug Cartel money and smuggle that money back to Mexico. While I understand better than most that Law Enforcement agencies need much latitude to conduct investigations and some of those investigation necessitate documenting crimes, this latest report detailed how DEA Agents laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds to see how the system works and use the information against Mexican drug cartels,...and this operations covered shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders. I don't know,....maybe I'm just thinking since almost 50,000 people have been killed in the last five years in Mexico, related to the drugs, the cartels and all manner of fighting, one would think the U.S. could take some more active measures to target these cartels. Maybe some Hell Fire missiles fired from drones in these cartel safe houses.

Obama Spin Against Wall Street. Fueling the Occupy Wall Street is the Obama and Joe Biden driven class warfare rhetoric. Why are all these "want somethings" or entitlement seekers (Democrats in training) banging on Wall Street when Wall Street firms are Obama biggest contributors and, in fact, give to Obama at a 4:1 ratio to conservatives?

Justice Department Warns Alabama Cops. Our Illustrious Depart of Justice sent warning letters to all Alabama Law Enforcements agencies not to violate immigrants civil rights when enforcing the state's new tough illegal immigration law. Say What?!?!? This is the same Department of Justice that gave guns to Mexico Cartels which killed a US Border Patrol agent; elected not to prosecute Black militants intimidating voters in Philadelphia; and, have not brought charges against Obama crony John Corzine for $1.2 billion in lost investments at MF Global. This is the height of hypocrisy. (P.S. We know what MF Global stands for).

Lanny Breuer's Incredibly Stupid Comments

Those of us keeping track of the infamous “Fast and Furious” debacle, where the U.S. Justice Department not only armed Mexican Drug Cartels, but the action directly lead to the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, are well aware of the name Lanny Breuer, the Assistant Attorney General who heads the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Breuer is a major Butt Clown, who recently said words to the effect that “if Agent Terry was not killed by a firearm from Fast and Furious, he would have been killed by another gun sold illegally by a U.S. gun dealer.”

Make no mistake about it, this Justice Department and this Administration has an anti-second amendment agenda. It is very telling that Mexico President Calderon is silent,......completely silent about the U.S. Government arming Mexican Drug Cartels,.....whereas in previous speaking engagements he has towed the Obama Administration line about the U.S. gun dealers arming cartels.

For one of the more recent article on Breuer’s go to Townhall here.

Congressman Issa's Letter to Eric Holder

As Eric Holder, the Justice Department, and the Obama Administration continued to stone wall Congress and the American people on the Fast and Furious atrocity, where the U.S. Government became the de facto provider of weapons to Mexican Cartels, some individual Congressmen continue to find the truth.

After receiving a scathing letter from Attorney General Eric Holder addressed to the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, Chairman House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, cited this new low in the efforts of Holder, etc., to keep the truth from coming out about this incredibly stupid endeavor. Their actions certainly relate to their incompetence and possibly their criminality. Hundreds, if not thousands, of Federal Agents hold Holder and the Administration responsible for the deaths of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and Immigration Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata, whose murders were done using weapons from Fast and Furious.

Darrell Isa, R-CA, Chairman House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to Attorney General Holder dated October 9, 2011.

Apparently there was a lot more back and forth than just reported in the newspapers from Issa's committee and the Attorney General's Office on just how far up the chain of command did knowledge of Operations Fast and Furious, aka Operation Arming the Cartels, go before being blown up with Holder's lies (for you liberal's it was "mistruths") concerning when he knew.

Issa tells Holder that all he and his department has done was to "obfuscate, shift blame, berate and attempt to change the topic" concerning the Department's part in Fast and Furious....and that's putting it lightly.

You must read this damning letter. At the very least Holder needs to be fired for incredible incompetence. At worst he is guilty of perjury.

Again, you must read this letter, available from Fox News here.

Minor Shakeup at ATF Over "Fast and Furious"

"Fast and Furious" the incredibly stupid BATF&E operation that put thousands of military style civilian weapons in the hands of the Mexican Cartels has become too great a burden for the Obama Administration, but not big enough to actually hold some responsible and accountable.

What the press is reporting as a major shakeup, is actually a serious of minor moves by Eric Holder's Justice Department to deflect blame and to hope that the public (and Republican legislators) move on.

Kenneth Melson, acting director of the BATF&E since since 2009, was reassigned after admitting mistakes in the sting operation meant to try to crack down on weapons reaching violent drug gangs from U.S. gun stores. Re-assigned?......Huh?

Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney for Arizona, resigned after admitting mistakes in the operation.

Emory Hurley, the lead government prosecutor was also reassigned. I fear being redundant, but re-assigned? You have got to be kidding me!!!)

Another administration official said the shake-up at ATF was a chance for a "fresh start given everything they've gone through lately." Fresh start? How about a fresh start for the ATF agents whose careers were ruined because they had the ethics and character to question their bosses who allowed and abetted arming the cartels? How about some justice for Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry who was gunned down by one of these weapons the BATF&E allowed to go south?

The BATF&E has yet to answer if the guns used to shoot two and kill one ICE agent in February of this year were part of the Fast and Furious weapons import idiocy.

These supposedly sting operation, called "Fast and Furious," has birthed congressional probes which have been stymied by the Obama Administration.

I have received several dozen e-mails from people who believe this was an intentional arming of the cartels from U.S. sources to give proof to the other baseless accusations of Felipe Calderon, the Ass Clown of a Mexican President, that the U.S. was to blame for the Mexican violence and butchery which has killed over 40,000 at last count. It would also, as the theory goes, give Obama new fodder to call for elimination of guns rights in this country.