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Skunks Believe Everybody Else Stinks
5/16/2013 10:26:12 AM
The Koch brothers need to answer for the outrageous
rise in gas prices. Are they deliberately stifling the economy?
Skunks Believe Everybody Else Stinks
Here we go again. Six months of Benghazi and now the poor Tea Party was flagged for investigation when they applied for non-profit status; then there’s the Justice System commandeering phone numbers of AP journalists.
I just don’t believe either side on the Benghazi mess. Was it a coincidence that militia members attacked the U.S. embassy in Libya when at the same time Moslems throughout the world were rioting over the movie (made in America) disrespecting Muhammad? The Libyan militias were certainly capable of taking on a small embassy with a token guard. They’d just finished fighting a far superior army during their war with Gaddifi. Could there have been some Al Qaeda members involved? Certainly, but do you really want to give them total credit for the attack? Ambassador Rice was probably right the first time. Anyway, how do you compare the loss of four embassy officials with four thousand plus troops, thousands wounded, others suffering from PTS, all because a conservative administration lied about WMDs. Dick Cheney also seems to have lost his memory or his mind, take your pick. He now claims the Bush administration was ready for the Al Qaeda attack on the Trade Center, when in reality Cheney and Bush, ignored warnings from their own terrorism expert and cut him out of the loop, most likely because he also served on Clinton‘s team. And no one has fully explained why the FBI denied Minneapolis agents a search warrant to comb Moussaoui’s apartment. Was politics at play? Perhaps a high alert could have stopped the attack.
And now the IRS is in trouble for flagging Tea Party requests for non profit status. Non profits are supposed to be “primarily” working for social welfare. Would you give an obvious propaganda institution non profit status? Would you give it to a progressive organization? I may be prejudice, but the ones I know of, like Planned Parenthood, try to help people. They don’t make up their own history books and threaten to secede from the country if they don’t get their way. According to an NAACP investigation, five out of six Tea Party organizations leaders were found to have ties to white supremacy. What I’d like to know is why the IRS didn’t revoke non profit status from the churches who openly campaigned against gay marriage and for the Romney ticket. Here’s another reason you might flag any conservative organization applying for non profit status. They fight dirty, and they don’t like it when the other side does. Don’t believe me? Does the name Shirley Shabazz ring a bell? What about Mary Landrieu, whose phones were bugged by a conservative activist, the same one who showed up at ACORN wearing his grandmother’s fur coat, pretending to be a pimp? ACORN lost their federal subsidy because of this blatant scam, and the accusations against it were later proven fraudulent. Poor black people now have one less advocate, and the tea party wants non profit status?
The third item mentioned above was the attorney general’s office attempt to find out who was leaking stories to the AP. Whoever was doing this was risking American lives in Yemen. Maybe the justice department did collect a few suspect telephone numbers, but what would the GOP have done? Nixon’s crew burglarized Daniel Ellsberg’s office, got away with it, then burglarized Watergate, and we know what that got them. The GOP also passed the Patriot Act, which is a much more egregious violation of American rights than anything the judicial department is alleged to have done. Obama doesn’t dare repeal it or he will be accused of allowing terrorists like the Boston Marathon bombers move around at will. But it is a violation of American citizens’ privacy.
And while we’re at it, what about the lame street press? They’re working overtime trying to show they’re fair and impartial to a party that doesn’t respect them and doesn’t have a problem with threatening secession if they don’t get their way. This idea came from the Texas governor, Rick Perry, who ran for president, and has been repeated several times since. And when the Tea Party was prominent, you would have thought their disrespectful and underhanded demonstrations were the newest fad. Let me give you just one illustration. James Oberstar, thirty year member of congress from the state of Minnesota debated his opponent on the Iron Range in 2010. His opponent, Chip Cravaack, stacked the audience with tea party rubes, and every time Oberstar tried to respond to a Cravaack position, he was shouted down. Oberstar was one of the best congressmen in the House of Representatives; he was the head of transportation committee. His name is all over Duluth. He certainly deserved better than that. Cravaack got what was coming to him. He lost the election in 2012.
Instead of beating a dead horse and dig up trivial accusations, the House oversight committee ought to be talking to the Koch brothers about the 70 cent increase in gas prices the last few days. It seems every time the economy starts to improve the refineries shut down for repairs. Forty of them shut down in the middle of February. Americans are driving less, there’s more oil than we’ve ever had, and gas prices continue to go up.
These two clowns donated over a hundred million dollars to the Romney and Republican congressional races; one of them originated the Cato Institute. They don’t believe in government, and they do all they can to make sure it doesn’t succeed. They should be on the hot seat, not the president.
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