Friends Of Liberty's Weekend Edition:10/14/17-WORSE than we thought -Republican civil war-SABOTAGE

 Friends Of Liberty's Weekend Edition:10/14/17-WORSE than we thought -Republican civil war-SABOTAGE

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YES, there was a cover-up, and it’s WORSE than we thought…

Former President Barack Obama is getting ripped to shreds by a congressional committee after a public hearing on Wednesday revealed he and his attorney general covered up an investigation into the death of the Border Patrol agent murdered during Operation Fast and Furious.

Not that it’s a complete surprise to many of us, but…

If you remember correctly, this was a gun-running scheme concocted by the government that went totally south in a very big way and is one of the biggest blotches on Obama’s legacy.

According to Fox News, Members of a congressional committee at a public hearing Wednesday blasted former President Barack Obama and his attorney general for allegedly covering up an investigation into the death of a Border Patrol agent killed as a result of a botched government gun-running project known as Operation Fast and Furious.

The House Oversight Committee also Wednesday released a scathing, nearly 300-page report that found Holder’s Justice Department tried to hide the facts from the loved ones of slain Border Patrol Brian Terry – seeing his family as more of a “nuisance” than one deserving straight answers – and slamming Obama’s assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Fast and Furious.

“[Terry’s death] happened on Dec. 14, 2010, and we still don’t have all the answers,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, committee chairman, said of Terry’s death. “Brian Terry’s family should not have to wait six years for answers.”

Terry died in a gunfight between Border Patrol agents and members of a six-man cartel “rip crew,” which regularly patrolled the desert along the U.S.-Mexico border looking for drug dealers to rob. The cartel member suspected of slaying the Border Patrol agent, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, was apprehended in April of this year by a joint U.S.-Mexico law enforcement task force.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, testified Wednesday in front of the committee, accusing DOJ and ATF officials of obstructing the investigation and working to silence ATF agents who informed the Senate of Fast and Furious.

“The Department of Justice and ATF had no intention of looking for honest answers and being transparent,” said Grassley, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a staunch supporter of whistleblowers.

“In fact, from the onset, bureaucrats employed shameless delay tactics to obstruct the investigation.”

One of those silenced ATF agents, John Dodson, testified Wednesday that he remains “in a state of purgatory” since objecting to Fast and Furious and has been the subject of reprisals and ridicule at the agency.

“That decision, the single act of standing up and saying, ‘What we are doing is wrong’… instantly took my standing from being that of an agent of the government – to an enemy of the state,” Dodson said. “ATF and DOJ officials implemented an all-out campaign to silence and discredit me… Suffice to say, the last six to seven years at ATF have not been the best for me or my career.”

Most of us pretty much could guess at the extreme level of corruption in the Obama administration, particularly when it came to this operation, but still, what a shameful event to have on your record.

It’s not enough to have these cover-ups exposed. Someone needs to answer for them, to be held accountable for their actions, to demonstrate to others that no one, not even the president, is above the law.

Wouldn’t THAT be awesome!

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The Republican civil war is spreading

Parties don't descend into vicious civil wars when things are going well for them. So the fact that it's happening now to the GOP tells you a lot about what Republicans are facing, even though they control the White House, Congress, and a majority of state houses and governorships. They are beginning to tear themselves apart over the question of who is to blame for their current difficulties, with one side saying it's the fault of a feckless establishment that is insufficiently loyal to President Trump, and the other side saying — mostly sotto voce, but occasionally out loud — that the responsibility lies with Trump himself.

If the president was right in his repeated insistence that his administration has been a smashing success, there wouldn't be anything to fight about. But in truth, things could hardly be worse: No major legislation has been passed, the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act was a spectacular failure, Trump's approval ratings are abysmal and a majority of Americans say he's not fit to be president, one Republican officeholder after another is choosing not to run for re-election, polls show Democrats headed for a dramatic win in 2018, and even the one goal Republicans were all supposed to agree on — a big tax cut for the wealthy and corporations — looks like it might be in trouble.

All of which leads to dissension from within, as White House staff rush to tell reporters that the president is an infantile rage-monster whom they have to trick into not burning down the world. When Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) expressed his concerns about Trump's erratic behavior, none of his colleagues came out to contradict him and say that in fact Trump is a wise and careful leader who is performing his duties successfully, no doubt because Corker was only saying publicly what the rest of them say privately.

But to some on the right, this all smacks of a slow-motion coup by quisling Republicans who lack the courage to stand behind Trump and testify to his greatness. Which is one of the reasons that this week, the hardline conservative group FreedomWorks wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanding that he and his leadership team resign for their failure to produce a sufficient quantity of conservative legislation. While the signatories were a little on the has-been side (few are dying to hear what Brent Bozell and Ken Cuccinelli have to say these days), it was evidence of a disgruntlement in conservative circles.

Or consider Stephen Bannon, who left the White House and declared that he'd be supporting the Trump agenda (whatever that is) from the outside — which he has decided means condemning Republicans. "We are declaring war on the Republican establishment that does not back the agenda that Donald Trump ran on," Bannon recently told Sean Hannity, adding that "there's a coalition coming together that's gonna challenge every Republican [Senate] incumbent except for Ted Cruz."

Both parts of that plan raise questions about what kind of crusade this is. First, among the Republicans up for re-election are many who have been completely loyal to Trump, and second, why exempt Ted Cruz from the target list? The only logical explanation is that Cruz is a favorite of hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, who are Bannon's patrons and the ones likely to fund this effort.

Bannon's obvious goal is to burn the Republican Party to the ground in the hope that something glorious rises from the ashes. It's hard to know how successful he'll be, although the candidate he backed in the Alabama special election, religious extremist Roy Moore, beat Luther Strange, the candidate Trump himself endorsed (Bannon managed to argue that Moore would be a more faithful vehicle for Trumpism, but I wouldn't bet on it). One of the things the election showed was that conservative Republican voters won't always take their cues from Trump himself, even if they still support him.

Now imagine if Republicans were to fail in what is always their central policy goal: cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations. It could happen, particularly if Trump barrels clumsily through the process the way he did with health care. Bloomberg News reported this week that while the White House had been saying for some time they wanted to eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes, Trump "grew angry when he learned that the change would hurt some middle-income taxpayers." In other words — and this should surprise no one — he has little idea what's in his own tax plan.

There's no reason to think that as things move along Trump will be any more up on the details, which means he'll be a force of chaos and uncertainty. And the fact that the White House has come up with a plan that would increase taxes for many people could wind up giving some members of Congress pause.

Add in the feuds Trump has cultivated with members of his own party in the Senate — where Republicans can only afford to lose two votes — and tax reform going down in flames is a genuine possibility. Should that happen, the conflicts within the GOP will get even uglier.

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SPEAKING OF SABOTAGE

During his two terms in office President Obama conduct an assault on the Constitution and on limited government in the name of the higher good as he saw it. Obama’s lawlessness was little noted it the mainstream media other than in disbarring accounts of the Republican and conservative reaction to Obama.

President Trump appears to be a bull in the White House china shop. He is portrayed as a kind of Strangelovian madman. Yet in many respects he seeks to restore the rule of where it was abrogated by Obama. As a reaction to Obama’s lawlessness, Trump stands in relation to the Obama era as Jimmy Carter did to the Nixon era.

Trump’s cessation of subsidy payments to Obamacare insurers represents a perfect example. David Harsanyi notes the (overdue) restoration of legality effected by Trump’s action in this Federalist column as does Andrew McCarthy in this NRO column. John Hinderaker did the honors for us last night here.

When it comes to President Trump, hysteria is the only note the Democrats can strike. According to Nancy Pelosi, in terminating the subsidy payments Trump is guilty of “sabotage.” What else is new?

Robert Pear covers the story along with several other reporters in the New York Times account “Trump to scrap critical health care subsidies, hitting Obamacare again.” The headline is almost funny. It sounds like a variation of the old joke. President Trump, when did you stop hitting Obamacare?

In the fourth paragraph of their story, Pear et al. get around to quoting the White House statement on Trump’s action: “The government cannot lawfully make the cost-sharing reduction payments.” Say what?

Sometimes you have to read the Times like the citizens of the Soviet Union read Pravda, to infer the real news buried in the propaganda. Pear is a good reporter and his story isn’t that bad, but the reader still has to struggle to understand what’s happening. Congress can and must authorize the payments that are in issue if they are to be made at all.

Don’t tell Mrs. Pelosi, but that’s the way it’s supposed to work. In her case, I guess, we really did have to pass the bill in order to find out.

The issue of legality, it should be noted, goes back to the lawsuit brought by the House of Representatives under Speaker John Boehner. There seems to be no love lost by anyone for Boehner, but we owe him a debt of gratitude for raising the issue.

Carl Hulse is the New York Times reporter who covered the House lawsuit against brought against the HHS Secretary. Let’s take a look back. Hulse’s stories on the lawsuit are all worth reading in one way or another.

Earlier this year, for example, Hulse observed: “Obama unwittingly handed Trump a weapon to cripple the health law.” Hulse held out hope that Obama’s lawlessness would find shelter in the doctrine of standing, but consider this:


“The administration should not have found an appropriation where none existed,” said Nicholas Bagley, a University of Michigan law professor who has studied and written about the issue. “The Obama administration argument that the Affordable Care Act included an appropriation for the cost-sharing payments never held water.”

Judge Rosemary M. Collyer agreed with that assertion last year. She ruled that the Obama administration had no explicit authority to pay as much as $130 billion over 10 years to insurance companies to cover out-of-pocket health costs for millions of lower-income Americans obtaining insurance on the new health exchanges. At the same time, she found that the Republican-led House had the standing to sue the administration — a potentially far-reaching decision that many constitutional law experts predicted would be overturned on appeal, causing the suit to be dismissed.

I love this Hulse story too: “In a secret meeting, revelations on the battle over health care.”Forgive the length of the excerpt. In a rightly ordered world, this would have been big news:

On Jan. 13, 2014, a team of Internal Revenue Service financial managers piled into government vans and headed to the Old Executive Office Building for what would turn out to be a very unusual meeting.

Upon arrival, the I.R.S. officials, some of whom had expressed doubts that the Obama administration had the proper authority to spend billions of dollars on a crucial element of its health care law, were ushered into a conference room.

There, they were presented with an Office of Management and Budget memo laying out the administration’s justification for spending $3.9 billion on consumer health insurance subsidies. They were told they could read it but could not take notes or make copies. The O.M.B. officials left the room to allow their visitors a moment to absorb the document, and then returned to answer a few questions and note that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. had been briefed and signed off on the legal rationale.

“It was not a common practice in my 10 years in government at the three agencies where I worked,” said David Fisher, a former I.R.S. financial risk officer, recounting the odd meeting during a deposition on May 11 conducted by investigators for the House Ways and Means Committee.

The clandestine nature of the session underscores the intense conflict over the spending, which is the subject of a federal lawsuit in which House Republicans have so far prevailed, as well as a continuing investigation by the Ways and Means and the Energy and Commerce Committees. It also shows that more than six years after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, Republican opposition has not waned.

After failing to win congressional approval for the funds, the Obama administration spent the money anyway and has now distributed about $7 billion to insurance companies to offset out-of-pocket costs for eligible consumers. The administration asserts that the health care legislation provided permanent, continuing authority to do so, and that no further appropriation was necessary.

Mr. Fisher, for one, did not agree, and his testimony is the first to reveal that some within the administration challenged the spending. Beginning in late 2013, he and his supervisor began having qualms about how the White House was planning to proceed. In combing through documents to make sure his agency could defend the spending in future audits, Mr. Fisher said he came up empty.

“Cost-sharing reduction payments are not linked to the Internal Revenue Code, as far as I could tell, directly anywhere,” Mr. Fisher, now in the private sector, said in his deposition, made public last week by House Democrats who feared Republicans would release selected excerpts. “There is no linkage to the permanent appropriation, nor is there any link to any other appropriation that was indicating what account these funds should be paid from.”

On May 12, 2016, Hulse reported Judge Collyer’s decision finding the subsidy payments illegal in “Judge backs House challenge to key part of health law.” Hulse quoted the aptly named Obama White House spokesman Josh Earnest doing his Baghdad Bob routine:

Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, dismissed the judge’s ruling as another instance when Republicans have sought to overturn the Affordable Care Act through the courts. He said the dispute should be settled by voters, not judges.

“This suit represents the first time in our nation’s history that Congress has been allowed to sue the executive branch over the interpretation of a statute,” Mr. Earnest said. “These are the kinds of political disputes that characterize our democracy.”

He added that the administration was confident in its legal arguments. “They’ve been losing this fight for six years,” Mr. Earnest said of congressional Republicans. “And they’ll lose it again.”

Hulse reported Judge Collyer’s initial decision recognizing the House’s standing to bring the lawsuit in Judge denies Obama administration quick appeal in House suit against health care law” and subsequently noted Judge Collyer’s refusal to allow an interlocutory appeal of the standing issue here. Judge Collyer’s standing decision elicited a Times editorial from the Times in which it assured readers that it was “a baseless lawsuit[.]”

President Trump is to be commended for pulling the plug on the defense of the House lawsuit and restoring the constitutional order to the extent it is in his power to do so.

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Poems-by-Pearl Sturgis

Who's a Monkey?

America Preys... She preys upon her public schools...today and everyday...By confiscating God's own Word! By taking it away!

She preys upon her residents with propaganda news! She murders future citizens and calls it "right to choose."

She preys on those she represents who question evil laws! She names them "anti-government...who dare to mend her flaws.

She takes her Constitution and rips it all to shreds...by writing resolutions brought forth from her own heads!

So far away her paths have strayed from narrow paths she trod...when once she PRAYED spelled with an A..."One Nation under God!



Who's a Monkey? A tiny blob rose up one day. The water was just there...but not created! Oh! No Way! It sprung up from nowhere!

The blob began to grow an eye, some arms, some legs, and tail. After many years went by to dry land it did sail.

The dry land eminated from water that was there...which time evaporated to form dry land and air.

The blob became a monkey! The monkey could be you. But don't feel like a donkey, fir really! IT'S NOT TRUE!

There is an explanation not near so weak and frail. But you must be some relation if you accept this tale.!

In our Lord's Image, I'm afraid a monkey will not do! IT'S EVOLUTIONISTS THAT MADE A MONKEY OUT OF YOU!

STARS AND STRIPES UPON MY HEART....

I will keep in mind, "My Country, Tis of Thee" when America, my country got its start.

I will walk the paths my fathers made for me...For those Stars and Stripes are stamped upon my heart.

I will stand up tall, a child of liberty, with a burning light to shine for freedom's cause....

I will wear my heart for all the world to see. For those Stars and Stripes mean Liberty for all.

Stars and Stripes my heart is holding in the Providence of God.

I will honor loyal soldiers...down those paths so bravely trod.

I will vow to stand for freedom. I will pledge to do my part.

There'll be Stars and Stripes forever. Stars and Stripes upon my heart.

The Definition of America: The dictionary won't define America this way, but if you ask this heart of mine, here's what my heart will say.

Freedom, justice, Liberty,,,An equal share to all. Punishment must always be for those who break God's law.

Men who fight so true and just ,...Down paths we'd fear to trod. Coins engraved "In God we trust" One Nation under God!

Her beauty is beyond compare and words can not relate. Majestic scenes are everywhere through each and every state.

america, I'd rather die than lose my Liberty. America, I know that's why...you mean so much to me.

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