Now they want to know?
Maybe these Washington reporters should have found out who Obama was before they foisted him upon us. Instead anyone digging around trying to find out about his past were called racist. Yet now four and a half years into his term suddenly they want to know who the guy is? Thanks for asking, folks.
Some of us had him figured out in 2008.
Frank J. explains:
You have to remember that the bureaucrats in government are a fiercely tribal people who base all their beliefs on an extreme ideology of government power. How did we think they’d react when we threatened to tear down all they know over some concept they’ve never even heard of — math? Did we think they’d really welcome us as liberators when we tossed them all out into the private sector — a scary world that demands things they can’t even understand, like productivity? No, of course not. Instead they did what seems logical to them: Fight against the invaders threatening them while rallying behind their supreme religious figure, President Obama.
Clearly they had it coming.
Why it’s worse than the others.
And the others are pretty bad.
…and win a year in jail.
For a fourteen year old. Words fail. As Glenn says, tar and feathers.
It’s in a death spiral.
Let’s hope.
I think that the two big issues in the election next year will be ObamaCare repeal (and it will be much more sharply defined without Romney muddying the issue), and government corruption.
Things would have been quite different.
I’m not sure about this one, though:
Palin’s IRS would not ask groups seeking 501(c)4 status about their prayer life.
These are all careerists, and have been with the agency through Republican and Democrat governments. I can easily imagine that they’d try to do it. But in a Palin presidency, when she heard complaints, she wouldn’t ignore them, and would at least try to rein in the bureaucracy, instead of encouraging it, as Obama has. And of course, in a Palin presidency, there would have have been a need for the Tea Party to arise.
Regardless of what one thinks about the legality of the NSA surveillance, it has gotten peoples’ attention in a way that none of the other abuses of power have.
When students have little hope of completing an academic program, subsidies are not just a waste of taxpayers’ money, but a waste of these young people’s time and effort at a crucial age. Too often, they drop out with a sense of failure, poor work habits, and perhaps a sizeable debt.
In an era of scarce resources, ending pure need scholarships may cause low-income students to make wiser choices about their futures. It would be far better if, instead of floundering in an academic institution, they learned a trade, entered the military, or gained work experience. If they really wish to pursue a bachelors’ degree, they can prove themselves worthy of scholarship money by taking classes at low-cost community colleges first.
Like most well-intentioned government programs, this is a disaster.
Thoughts from Ace:
This is obviously a politically-motivated crime, not a personally- or economically-motivated one. That doesn’t mean the government had anything to do with it, but it certainly seems that someone favorably inclined towards the government did.
Perhaps one of those legions encouraged to “get in their faces,” like the staff of the IRS.
Hacking is a federal crime, is it not? Can we expect Robert Mueller to get his Top Men (whoever they are, he doesn’t know) on this like he did with the IRS scandal?
As he says — means, motive, opportunity. I’d bet on someone at DOJ.
I think that when we find out about everything, it’s going to make Watergate look like a parking ticket.
More thoughts from Peter Kirsanow:
The burden of proof remains with government officials to explain why, on any proposition, large or small, they deserve our trust. But recent events show they should be required to convince us even beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s unlikely they’ll be able to do so any time in the foreseeable future.
I hope that the Republic is saved by this overreach, if it’s not too late.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Looking at her Twitter feed. This was done by a professional.
[Update a couple more minutes later]
Did they spy on Romney’s campaign computers, too?
At this point, what reason do we have to think not?
If you had the misfortune to be blown up by the Tsarnaev brothers, and are now facing a future with one leg and suddenly circumscribed goals, like those brave Americans featured on the cover of the current People magazine under the headline “Boston Tough,” you might wish Boston had been a little tougher on Tamerlan and spent less time chasing the phantoms of “Free America Citizens.” But, in fact, it would have been extremely difficult to track the Tsarnaevs at, say, the mosque they attended. Your Granny’s phone calls, your teenager’s Flickr stream, and your Telecharge tickets for two on the aisle at Mamma Mia! for your wife’s birthday, and the MasterCard bill for dinner with your mistress three days later are all fair game, but since October 2011 mosques have been off-limits to the security state. If the FBI guy who got the tip-off from Moscow about young Tamerlan had been sufficiently intrigued to want to visit the Boston mosque where he is said to have made pro-terrorism statements during worship, the agent would have been unable to do so without seeking approval from something called the Sensitive Operations Review Committee high up in Eric Holder’s Department of Justice. The Sensitive Operations Review Committee is so sensitive nobody knows who’s on it. You might get approved, or you might get sentenced to extra sensitivity training for the next three months. Even after the bombing, the cops forbore to set foot in the lads’ mosque for four days. Three hundred million Americans are standing naked in the NSA digital scanner, but the all-seeing security state has agreed that not just their womenfolk but Islam itself can be fully veiled from head to toe.
We have a government that’s doing all sorts of things that it shouldn’t be doing, and is utterly incompetent at both them, and the things it should be doing.