Obama's Scandalous Trifecta
Gotta love -- once again -- the hypocrisy.
The Tea Party wants to dismantle government. Wants to cut spending to zero
and balance the federal budget (because I balance my household budgets, dontcha know). Transfer power to the states.
So here are these vociferously anti-government groups applying for a bigtime
federal GOVERNMENT benefit.
Then screaming "foul" when their obvious agenda is called into question...
…and 65.8 million people voted for Barrack Obama. {1} I’d say that’s quite a few people more who wanted to see President Obama remain in the Oval Office.
{1} http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 … truesize=mHi EA. Did I do something wrong? If so, I apologize.
When you “state the obvious” in the form of an irrelevant statistic, it is okay according to your way of thinking. However, when someone else “states the obvious” pointing out just how meaningless your statistic is, then you label it being “contrary.”
The claim that “many of those people who voted for the POTUS voted against Romney and not really because they support Obama” is pure rubbish spread by the ill informed. It is a desperate post election ploy that tries to portray Mr. Romney as the greater of two evils. In the real world, EA, if I may be allowed to “state the obvious,” every vote cast for Barack Obama was without exception a vote in support of the president as being the better choice.
Everyone who favors making excuses for Mitt Romney’s defeat in 2012 should research the election exit polls and learn the real facts. For example, the CBS News exit poll revealed…
- “Sixty percent of voters who cast ballots on Election Day or earlier said the economy was the most important issue in their vote.” {1}
- Eighty-eight percent of Obama voters saw the economy was getting better.
- 27% of all voters said their family finances were better on Election Day than four years earlier.
- 42% of voters said Mr. Obama's response to Superstorm Sandy was a factor in their vote.
- 74% of Obama voters said the U.S. economic system favors the wealthy.
- 44% of all voters wanted to expand the Affordable Care Act or keep it as is.
- 52% of all voters said Romney's policies favor the rich while 9% said Obama favors the rich.
The Pew Research Center adds even more knowledge…
- Since 1980, more than 56% of the Hispanic vote had been cast for the Democratic candidate. In 2012, the advantage was 71%, four points higher than in 2008, and almost matching President Clinton’s 72% in 1996.
- Among all voters, 65-percent said illegal immigrants should be offered a chance to apply for legal status.
- About 60-percent of all young voters supported President Obama. {2}
There is a wealth of information available to those who want a clear picture of why voters elected President Obama.
A new Census Bureau report shows African-Americans turned out at a greater rate than whites for the first time since 1968. More than 66-percent of eligible blacks voted in the presidential contest compared to only 64.1-percent of eligible whites. {3}
In the final analysis, EA, claiming many voted for President Obama because Mitt Romney was a greater evil may make Obama bashers feel better but it turns out your view is not supported by any data I could find.
{1} http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-575 … top-issue/
{2} http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/11/07/l … -election/
{3} http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 … =allsearch
G’day Villarasa. How have you been lately?
The term “trifecta” is perfect: A longshot wager in which the bettor faces great odds and only a slight chance of winning!
If you want the truth, here it is. The older Obama “scandals” have become so frail that they can no longer stand on their own individual merits. Each has lost so much impact that the president’s opponents have had to bundle them together as a “trifecta” to disguise them as a serious threat to his administration.
Villarasa wrote:
“Truth is we still don't know the whole truth about Benghazi.”
It should be obvious by now that we probably already know the whole truth about Benghazi! After eight months of GOP driven investigations, nothing was learned to suggest criminality on the part of anyone involved in this unfortunate affair. Rep. Issa lied to the public when he promised his Benghazi "whistleblowers" would produce revelations that would be "damaging" to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Following the lengthy testimony, he admitted that the only new revelation was “this was a terrorist attack”, something the public already knew.
The events in Benghazi on 9/11/12 are a mute political issue and cracks in the GOP resolve are already spreading. On May 13, 2013, the House Republican Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, sounded the first discordant note when he told reporters, “The time for wasting day after day investigating Benghazi is over.” {1}
It is MHO that Chairman Issa and his committee are performing an extremely important role albeit unfruitful these days. This is the ideal time for this committee to fulfill its responsibility. The constitutional system of checks and balances works best when the president’s is a member of the House’s minority party. I fully support the job he is doing.
Villarasa wrote:
“Truth is we still don't know the whole truth about ‘Fast and Furious’”
Inspector General Michael Horowitz reported to congress that neither the president nor Attorney General Eric Holder was involved with the highly flawed Fast and Furious operation. The IG placed responsibility squarely on the ATF and the Arizona Attorney General's office. {2}
The IG was praised by the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee for his report and his contributions to the investigation. It is repugnant to me to think anyone would suggest that the Inspector General of the DOJ failed in the performance of his sworn duty without offering a single fact to support such a slanderous notion. {3}
There have been four years of investigation and a mountain of evidence screened by the IG and others. I can see where some have pre-defined “the whole truth” as proof of Eric Holder’s complicity and, as a result, they will never accept any evidence as “the whole truth” unless it meets that singular criterion.
Villarasa wrote:
“Truth is, we still don't know the whole truth about the IRS.”
Here are some known truths. The IRS used inappropriate criteria that identified for review Tea Party and other organizations applying for tax-exempt status based upon their names or policy positions instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention. Not one fact has yet surfaced to suggest, let alone prove, that anyone outside of the IRS was responsible. Even without evidence, people are saying with absolute certainty that “we still don't know the whole truth about the IRS.” As of now, the “whole truth” can be found in the report issued by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. {4} It is recommended reading for anyone who is truly interested in learning about this issue.
Finally, as the pack enters the home stretch, two of the trifecta picks are fading in the backfield and the third is just barely leaving the gate. It is unbelievable that this thread, offering neither facts nor reasoning, hopes to convince a thinking audience that these three nags “have for their common thread, Obama's lackluster desire to present to the American people, the whole TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH.” In the final analysis, it is the absence of meaningful facts that is “stupendously obvious.”
{1} http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/b … acare.html
{2} http://www.talkradionews.com/news/2012/ … ledge.html
{3} http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/ig-r … d-furious/
{4} http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/05/ … index.htmlMy friend, those who make the accusations and float the claims of criminal activity have the responsibility to provide their own answers. If you have unanswered questions then do some research. Search for answers until you are convinced that satisfactory answers do not exist. If you choose to believe there is a criminal conspiracy concealed behind every unanswered questions then so be it. Bring us facts, Villarasa, that will convince critical thinking, intellegent adults. In other words, answer your many questions and then bring us the proof. It should be obvious to you that you will not find the missing answers here in this forum.
Sleep peacefully, my friend. You deserve as much.Hey there, Villarasa.
My question is this. It has become clear to whom?
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland called for an end to the IRS probe after learning that “a self-described conservative Republican manager at the Internal Revenue Service in Cincinnati — where the targeting occurred — told committee investigators that he played a key role in the decision to give conservative groups greater scrutiny. The manager also said he was unaware of and rather doubted any direction came from the White House.
“The Cincinnati manager's information would appear to put a serious dent in GOP allegations that the targeting was an attempt by White House and other administration officials to hurt President Obama's political enemies.” {1}
Alas, we have finally learned the “whole truth” so many in this forum have been asking for. However, I seriously doubt that this portion of "the whole truth" will be confirmed in public by Rep. Issa's committee.
{1} http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics … estigation
This is not a First Amendment issue.
No one is being stopped from speaking or spreading whatever information they
want to.
But nowhere does it guarantee in the First Amendment that the taxpayers
have to pick up the tab for your views.
There is a grand irony here: the group that wantso to dismantle the federal government
is appealing the same federal government for special tax treatment.
Maybe you will do better than I was able to do in finding an actual list of organizations
that sought 501(c)4 status and received it vs. did not receive it.
Can you prove that comparable politically motiviated groups on the other side of the
spectrum were given preferential treatment???
How many? What the names and mission statements of their organizations were???
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