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Romanoff Cracks: Secret White House Jobsgate E-Mail Revealed

By on 6.3.10 @ 6:09AM

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Messina discussed three jobs with Colorado Senate candidate.

And…bang!

Can you say James McCord?

In a revelation that will send shock waves through the American political landscape, the Denver Post last night revealed that Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff has now reluctantly admitted he discussed “three possible jobs with the deputy chief of staff of the Obama administration — all contingent upon a decision by Romanoff not to challenge U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet.”

The White House Deputy Chief of Staff is Jim Messina, a Denver-born Obama aide who served as the chief of staff of the Obama presidential campaign. Messina serves under Rahm Emanuel, the former Illinois Congressman and current White House Chief of Staff.

The Post also published an e-mail from Messina to Romanoff dated September 11, 2009 at 3:24 pm. The e-mail discusses the jobs of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and Caribbean, and Director, Office of Democracy and Governance. Both of those positions are under the United States Agency for International Development. The third position mentioned was Director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

The Romanoff admission — which comes after months of silence, denials and evasions by the White House beginning in February — comes on the heels of a letter to the White House from Congressman Darrell Issa and two congressional colleagues demanding access to e-mails and phone logs relevant to the Sestak Jobsgate affair — the allegation first made by Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak that the White House offered him a job if he would abandon his own Senate challenge to incumbent Democrat Arlen Specter.

On Friday, the White House issued a report by White House Counsel Robert Bauer, saying that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had approached former President Bill Clinton to contact Sestak. The report, which contradicts Sestak, says that “efforts” in the plural were “made in June and July of 2009 to determine whether Congressman Sestak would be interested in service on a Presidential or other Senior Executive Branch Advisory Board, which would avoid a divisive Senate primary, allow him to retain his seat in the House, and provide him with an opportunity for additional service to the public in a high-level advisory capacity for which he was highly qualified. The advisory positions discussed with Congressman Sestak, while important to the work of the Administration, would have been uncompensated.”

The positions discussed in the Messina-Romanoff e-mail are all compensated positions.

Sestak says something else — that former President Clinton made one phone call to him, the offer was only briefly discussed and he, Sestak, rejected the offer.

The report was sufficiently self-contradictory that Issa and colleagues Lamar Smith of Texas and James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin felt compelled to send their letter to White House Counsel Bauer requesting — by June 9 — the following:

1. All records and documents created by or produced to the Office of the White House Counsel in the course of the investigation.

2. All records and documents created or produced to the Office of the White House Press Secretary in the course of the investigation of the Sestak matter.

3. All notes or transcripts of interviews conducted by lawyers in the Office of the White House Counsel with witnesses in the Sestak matter, including but not limited to the White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, President Bill Clinton, Rep. Joe Sestak and Richard Sestak.

4. All notes or transcripts of interviews conducted by staff in the Office of the White House Press Secretary with witnesses in the Sestak matter, including but not limited to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, President Bill Clinton, Rep. Joe Sestak and Richard Sestak.

5. All records, documents, interview notes or transcripts referred to either explicitly or implicitly or otherwise relied on to draft the May 28, 2010 Sestak Memorandum.

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About the Author

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (152) |

logmank| 6.3.10 @ 6:49AM

Conservatives can scream, cry and moan about this Sestak all they want. Nothing, repeat, absolutely nothing, is going to come from it. Why? Because, unlike Watergate, there is no one to investigate it. It is going to be totally ignored by all the mainstream media and this administration until it fades into oblivion and goes away.
If this had happened during the Bush administration, it would be the lede in every newspaper and on every telecast for weeks and months. Since this felony was committed by the Obowmao administration, it is a non event. Sorry.

drudge ette obama| 6.3.10 @ 7:01AM

Next step, Mr. Lord, is to find every other Democrat who has run in a primary since Obama-land came into being, including the 2008 election, that bowed out of the race. Then let's see what they are doing now. Then ask them, point-blank, were you contacted by the White House, offered a job - this job - to bow out. There would be no madness in that method.

RON hERT| 6.3.10 @ 6:09PM

Great idea, and at the same time go after other, perhaps, broader actions of broken oaths and obstruction to justice charges in Muslim Terrorist
investigations. Don't just Impeach on these charges, but also Fraud-Identity, and campaign
contributions by and for Obama. Hit the Courts-all federal and state by all of the Conservative legal groups at the same time, and be ready for legal battles concerning the attempt to steal the elections before the November Election. Let us carry on a multi-front battle, because it will all end up in the Courts anyway.

ggoblue| 6.3.10 @ 7:17AM

not so fast my friend....taking over the house of representatives would mean republican control of congressional hearings....right into 2012...

we need hearings on the fate of the TARP money too....

Ret. Marine| 6.3.10 @ 7:45AM

Hey , logmank, never give up, never give in. If We the People choose to ignor this it will indeed slink away to the foggy bottoms of where it has cometh, if not, and enough pressure is consistently applied to our CONgress critters, it will take a life of it's own on in no time flat. Here's hoping and praying for the latter. Never say never. Always point your tool in the right direction.

Brian| 6.4.10 @ 8:18AM

This is growing and will not go away. The Chicago way is gonna be obozo's downfall!

Nelson H.| 6.3.10 @ 11:13AM

In victory, revenge; in defeat, malice! If we seize Congress in 2010 perhaps we will be in a position to run the Bamster out of town in 2011, resulting in a Biden caretaker administration, and setting up the dream election we've all been waiting for against HRC in 2012! We'd all be so energized we'd need medication.

ZerObama| 6.3.10 @ 5:58PM

What did Oilbama know and how long did Oilbama know it?

Lloyd Dobbs| 6.7.10 @ 7:32AM

Do you REALLY believe one can get TRUTH
from LIARS?

dlb| 6.3.10 @ 6:50AM

Was this this part of the price for a "Yes" vote for ObamaCare? Did Obama promise Specter and Bennet that he would make sure they would be unopposed in their respective primaries? How many more were bribed?

Brian Mc| 6.3.10 @ 6:54AM

If you are correct, then this would mean that the government is completely run, from top to bottom, by liberal bureaucrats. If this supposition be correct, might be high time for a shake-up of our federal system beyond anything any of us can quite comprehend.

Brian Mc| 6.3.10 @ 6:57AM

Above post was in response to logmank's remarks and I tapped the wrong response key. Sorry for the confusion this may have caused...

Carol| 6.3.10 @ 6:57AM

Jeffrey Lord:

Big fan. I live in Denver and heard you on Peter Boyles' show when the both of you called and left Romanoff a message simultaneously.

One thing we now know is Romanoff was feeling tremendous pressure - especially when a left-wing hack like Mike Litwin from the Denver Post asks the same question everyone else is asking.

I think he cracked because he knew he couldn't carry on his campaign against Bennett with the questions dogging him about what the White House offered him. Is he in the clear? We shall see.

But the difference I see between now and Watergate is that there are so many dishonest judges who don't like the Constitution and don't feel a need to follow it.

The White House is the same way as we all know. I'm sure there are shredders all over the place and Issa is just whistling in the wind.

saleboter| 6.3.10 @ 7:17AM

Pass the popcorn - this is getting good.

coal carrier| 6.3.10 @ 7:26AM

Can’t wait to see what CNN, MSNBC have to say about this. They will parade out all of the lefty talking heads for the next week or so. The first thing they will start off with is “We don’t see anything illegal here!” or “It depends on what the definition of is, is.”

J. Kelley| 6.3.10 @ 7:53AM

The Left and the Dems will use the play book from Slick Willie days. Everybody does it. And they will work harder for the American people. Remember how they said everybody had sex with 21 year old interns in the Oval Office. We have to change BIG TIME in November. Can we see November from our House?

GB| 6.3.10 @ 9:44AM

No J. Kelley, they did it for the children.

JF| 6.5.10 @ 2:00PM

And it was probably George Bush's fault that it was done!

dean| 6.6.10 @ 10:18AM

They used to say they (the Dems/liberals) were doing it for the children. Now, they are doing it to our children by leaving this MASSIVE debt for them to pay. When will their political pedophilia stop?! Hopefully in November 2010 and 2012!

FTM| 6.3.10 @ 8:14AM

Just another case of/for the American Just-Us system. You pull a stunt like these alleged and you'll never see the light of day again. Let a conservitive politician pull a stunt like the alleged and the person will be hounded out of public service. This case, nothing will happen.

Liberal Democrats are well above the law. Case in point, former President Clinton would have been sentenced by a federal judge for up to five years for committing perjury in his courtroom plus whatever contempt of court citations that he/she cared to add for the "I did not have sex with that woman" diatribe. Remember that finger wagging episode?

Anyone care to speculate what would have happened to former President Bush in a situation such as the one in which former President Clionton was in? Anyone? Anyone?

Nothing will happen to President Obama, America's first illegal alien Commander in Chief. Long live the Republic.

Stephanie| 6.3.10 @ 8:56AM

You know what I remember about the Clinton episode? It is that his lies concerning the Paula Jones , he denied her, her day in court. I couldn't have cared less that he was getting serviced by monica. He denied Paula Jones her rights as an American citizen. He hasn't change one iota, still Slick Willy, though I doubt that willy isn't workin' much any more.

Grzmlyk| 6.3.10 @ 10:02AM

I love you, Stephanie, but I must say, I don't know why people are so proud of themselves for not caring whether Bill Clinton was serviced in the Oval Office by a 24-year old intern. As if what ostensibly consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedrooms (or Oval Offices) isn't informed by larger forces at work within their psyches.

By all means, let's have conservatives preen about people's sexual pathologies so that they can compete with liberals for the vacuous descriptor of NON-JUDGMENTAL.

The fact that a president of the US would choose to take advantage of a young, star-struck fool for his momentary pleasure and soil (literally) the very seat of Western Civilization - a place owned by the people and the dignity of which he was entrusted by those people to preserve, speaks to his character in general.

Or haven't you noticed that Clinton's sexual peccadillos were simply manifestations of a larger, narcissistic, utterly selfish and self-indulgent ethos in which the normal rules didn't apply to Him?

The wellspring of Clinton's penchant for BJ's atop the presidential seal is the same wellspring of his political profligacy; the lack of concern for an impressionable, pathetic intern is the same lack of concern that reared its ugly head with Paula Jones and that prompted him to violate Juanita Broderick.

For the life of me I do not understand why people not only compartmentalize people's sexualities - as if they exist in a vacuum apart from the rest of their moral character - but even compartmentalize different behaviors within a person's sexuality.

Clinton is above all a narcissistic sociopath (as is OBama, although the manifestations are slightly different; whereas Clinton is ultimately about sybaritic pleasure, Obama is ultimately about a self-anointed ascetic messianism).

It is Clinton's pathology that informs every aspect of his character, from his ease with lying to the ignoring of his marital vows to his treatment of women to his geopolitical world view.

RAMIII| 6.3.10 @ 10:36AM

Thank you for a well reasoned definition of how much our character is revealed by what we do. It really does matter what we do when "no one is looking", because that is when we are probably our truest selves. Keep posting -- we appreciate your insights.

Margie| 6.3.10 @ 10:52AM

Superb, Mr. Grzmlyk, absolutely superb!

Grzmlyk| 6.3.10 @ 12:13PM

Thanks Margie & RAMIII.

Falls under the heading of stuff I've had to learn the hard way. But I did learn, eventually.

As for the topic at hand, we can only hope that the various threads that are pulling at the Obama administration may result in its unraveling while there's something left to save.

Then again, that over-the-top party our brat in chief threw last night with Paul McCartney and other stars in the music firmament - along with their cumulative asinine comments - makes me realize how long the road is ahead of us.

And despite its foundations being rocked, it's still the mainstream media that holds the key. We MUST recapture a large swath of that. I'd love to somehow wrest control of The New York Times from the useful idiot Pinch Schulzberger as well as NBC, along with their on-line reincarnations.

We have to influence the popular culture, which is currently held up almost entirely by moral vanity and selfishness disguised as caring.

RAMIII| 6.3.10 @ 12:32PM

Again, hear, hear!

I find the irony of being JUDGED for not being "non-judgemental" enough very frustrating.

These people claim to take the higher ground, but in fact are cowards -- because they refuse to call something wrong when it is clearly so.

Grzmlyk| 6.3.10 @ 4:25PM

Except, of course, if somebody is defending traditional values or - horrors - suggesting that Federal law should be enforced when it comes to illegal aliens.

Then, the very people who make an ostentatious, sanctimonious show of not being judgmental when they find their teenage son doing unspeakable things with an aardvark and two cafeteria workers of indeterminate sex will suddenly fly into self-righteous, cluck-clucking indignation at the "mean spiritedness" of those of us have the temerity to believe that people should enter this country legally.

It's enough to make you think the world has finally turned completely inside out.

Margie| 6.3.10 @ 12:47PM

Grz,

You are most welcome! I see you are back so soon, and I'm hoping your computer "gliches" got taken care of.

You know, learning things the hard way is how God works sometimes.. same thing for me, and I'm still learning. One of my favorite verses is this: "The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, He saved me." Ps. 116:6. Hey, I'd rather be called simple by God and saved by Him, than be a super intellectual pompous megalomaniac with a messianic complex any day! So call me simple!

As for influencing the popular culture~ I think the only way it can be done is the way it's always been done, and that is to be living examples ourselves as individuals, the best we can, by the Grace of God, (everything good is done by His Grace!) You've just done that with your outstanding post. Keep up the good work~ computer glitches notwithstanding!

p.s. Perhaps Rupert Murdoch could consider making a purchase.. of the Old Gray Lady.. now there's a thought!

Grzmlyk| 6.3.10 @ 2:38PM

Hey, Margie:

Yes, I'm on a completely different computer today - a rare day at home. Thanks for the very nice words.

Yes, I think setting an example is essential. But I think we need more. We really need to check the tide of influence on young minds, which is, on the one hand, presenting narcissism as the ultimate form of personal expression, and on the other, selling these newly-minted narcissists on a cheap and completely phony sense of morality (see Steve's comment below) whereby the dominant culture in this country is the font of all evil, and all you need to do to purchase absolution from your narcissism is to loudly whine that "Group A" really must give its money (or political power) to "Group B."

I'd like to see a larger base of conservative representation, and it'd be great if it were home grown. Murdoch is, of course, Australian, and he already owns the WSJ and the New York Post here in America.

I really think we can no longer be satisfied with being the occasional roadblock that temporarily slows the juggernaut of leftist pop culture; we need to get into the vehicle and fight for control of the steering wheel.

We need to make character fashionable.

Margie| 6.3.10 @ 5:48PM

Grz,

Don't we already have the largest base of conservative representation~ the internet? And radio? Isn't that why they are struggling to try and put that burning flame (us), out so badly? Now if you're talking about getting hold of the newspaper industry or t.v. I guess that'd be nice, maybe when they are finished with the throes of death they're going through we can pick up the ball.. but really, who needs them? I truly believe that America is at its base conservative. We've just been too sleepy in our good lives here and rather fat, dumb, and happy to pay too much attention to the inner workings of government game playing and horrible policies.

Well, Obama said recently that we should be thanking him for something.. I say yes, thank you Obama for causing the most humongous wake up call we've experienced 9/11. We're waking up to reality that is YOU!

Most Americans I think, are already living conservatively but don't even know they are, in reality, conservative. Now they are realizing the reality of the Democrat party and do not like it. One thing Americans know that we love, and that's our freedom. Threaten that and you have a fight on your hands.

I don't think character can be be made fashionable.. it'll always be against the grain! Gotta come from the parents, be passed down to the children, one example at a time.. can't change the world or convert popular culture. It is what it is and isn't going to go away, nor do I think we can control it but we can be the contrasting and shining examples of where to turn when you get tired of Liberalism and all its self indulgent brain dead disease. Indeed, we already are that, aren't we?

Onward!

ZerObama| 6.3.10 @ 8:50PM

Pinch would kill himself first--hmmm, now there's a thought!

steve| 6.3.10 @ 1:43PM

By your own rationale, half the Founders lacked character.

Grzmlyk| 6.3.10 @ 2:22PM

Enumerate each founder you are talking about and what each specific transgression was.

Generalities are worthless. And Bill Clinton's character is seedy - in and out of the bedroom.

And it's possible for people of bad character to do the occasionally right thing (Clinton signed Welfare reform, albeit because he was backed into a corner).

Let me guess: If your 18-year old daughter introduced you to her fiance for the first time and he told you flat-out that he was a proponent of serial womanizing regardless of whether he was about to marry your daughter, it wouldn't influence your opinion of his character one iota; hey, maybe he's a talented engineer and would be a good provider for your daughter. Maybe - oh joy of joys - he CARES about saving the fragile planet. I'm sure your daughter would understand that a transgression here or there, or the occasional tawdry affair with a neighbor or perhaps his trolling of the high school parking lot, is nothing compared to a husband who could keep her in trendy hybrids.

No doubt if you came home and caught your wife in bed with the front line of the New England Patriots, you would have the supremely evolved sensibility to view that as her private business, her personal form of exprression; it would be positively - what's the word - conservative - of you to view her character any differently after that, eh?

Or maybe a coworker confides in you that he has a thing for quadrupeds. Hey, his business; you're OPEN MINDED. You're NON-JUDGMENTAL. You are GOOD. I'm sure the next time you saw him in the lunch room, your enlightened nature would NEVER permit you to look askance at the freak.

Please. Spare me the phony liberal platitudes.

FTM| 6.3.10 @ 10:33PM

All of your points are well taken and intelligently stated. My point is that in the course of a civil lawsuit filed in a federal court against a sitting president of the United Sates of America a federal judge asked the defendant a simple yes or no question. The defendant answered the question in the negative and later it was proven that the actual answer was in the affirmitive. That constitutes perjury which is a felony crime punishable by up to five years in prison.

My point is that YOU pull this stunt and YOU get a new mailing address that contains the line "Department of Federal Corrections." Another individual with a better poilitical or financial connection pulls the same stunt and the outcome is totally different, "oh, he made a mistake in judgement" or some such other innane tripe.

There is no justice in America, only "Just-Us." If you are tried in ccourt you will be tried by twelve people that are too stupid to figure out how to get out of jury duty. As for me, if the day ever comes that I have to defend myself in a court of "law" I will be in Cana-duh or Mexico just as soon as to local variety of thug with the gun and badge isn't looking.

Ken Roberts| 6.6.10 @ 9:21AM

A different time and different men were the founders; that's what made them stand out , if they had not had character we would still be under the thumb of the English queen. I don't understand what part of Grzmlyk's post referenced the character of our founders I read some and found what he spoke of was today not during that time period. if you are indicating half of them did not have any character then I place you in the group that has re-written our history to advance the communist movement .

Simon Templar| 6.3.10 @ 3:12PM

Mr. G, once again you hit the nail on the head. I love reading your comments. It refreshing to see someone who can actually use the grey matter. It really is not so much that he had an affair but the manner in which he conducted his "sexual relations" that seems to be completely missed by liberals and many others that makes all the difference and speaks volumes about his character.

Grzmlyk| 6.3.10 @ 4:13PM

Thanks, Simon:

Yes, people do make mistakes (through the Christian prism, we are all sinners), and marriage is a complicated and portean endeavor. Sometimes people find themselves cheating for a variety of reasons.

But as far as I know, serial infidelity has never been a proof point for making that case that one has a sterling character.

And with Clinton we're not talking about an affair of the heart that caused a lapse; we're talking about an utterly self-absorbed man who indulges every itch on a whim. A man who uses women like tissues; a man who cares about nobody but himself.

Even my sister - as upright and serious as people get - cheated once on her husband in her youth. It almost destroyed her marriage.

She refers to it as a lapse of character; not a character-building exercise. But then again, she's not a liberal.

Rmm| 6.3.10 @ 5:48PM

Mr. Grzmlyk;
Thanks for dredging up memories of the past. During this period I recall some of my co-workers that were teed off with BC solely because he got caught and was revealed for the cad that he is. I was dumbstruck, but then again not so surprised, they were Left coast liberals.

Missy| 6.3.10 @ 6:05PM

"People get the government they deserve." Thomas Jefferson.

There's a reason Clinton and Obama were elected and that reason is the moral corruption of the American people. I hope and PRAY there are still enough good people in our country to re-route our path.

Obama's not the problem, we are. :(

FTM| 6.3.10 @ 10:35PM

Missy is wise.

Stephanie| 6.3.10 @ 8:30PM

Darlin, I do and did care, but I cared MORE about his lies to the court that denied Paula Jones her day in court. I cared a great deal, but Monica was an adult woman and a slutting one at that and she was able to make her own decisions.
Paula Jones was screwed in a more serious way.
Hey, Love you too.

Grzmlyk| 6.3.10 @ 10:32PM

Agreed - what he did to Paula Jones was worse. And what he did to Juanita Brodderick - he should be in prison for that.

isthismessfixable| 6.4.10 @ 10:19PM

Just want to say, Geat Stuff!!!!

donna mills| 6.5.10 @ 11:47PM

Insightful and very well expressed. But sometimes sexual behavior is a thing apart from character generally. For instance, there are documented cases of Germans and other Europeans (Schindler, for one) who were very flawed human beings in this respect helping Jews escape the clutches of the Nazis--and other morally upright types who fail spectacularly when faced with different sorts of challenges. Maybe examples of exceptions proving the rule...

donna mills| 6.5.10 @ 11:47PM

Insightful and very well expressed. But sometimes sexual behavior is a thing apart from character generally. For instance, there are documented cases of Germans and other Europeans (Schindler, for one) who were very flawed human beings in this respect helping Jews escape the clutches of the Nazis--and other morally upright types who fail spectacularly when faced with different sorts of challenges. Maybe examples of exceptions proving the rule...

FTM| 6.4.10 @ 5:25AM

President Clinton did not deny Paula Jones her day in court, an out of control and unaccountable Just-Us system denied Paula Jones her day in court.

I think that the judicial branch is the branch of government that is the most poorly defined by the constitution. For example, the president can appoint a supreme court nominee subject to ccongressional approval. All well and good. Federal prosecutors "serve at the pleasure of the president" or language to that effect.

You might recall that President Bush fired several federal prosecutors and everybody got all choked up. President fired all of the federal prosecutors, over a hundred and replaced them all and nobody said a word.

So, in this case with the president controlling all of the federal prosecutors, how do you get a case into the federal court system in the first place if the case has a political polarity? If you were say the state of Arizona and wanted to sue the federal government for not enforcing immigration laws and the president controls the federal prosecutors and disagrees with your position then what is your recourse?

The Just-Us system is the federal government's Achillies heel.

Nick| 6.4.10 @ 8:55PM

FTM,

Bubba the pervert fought Paula Jones' legal right to ask about his other workplace sexual discrimination acts. He signed the law that gave her the right to bring these prior bad acts up in court.

He also lied under oath about a material fact. In other words he perjured himself. Paula Jones had the right to truthful testimony.

This was a civil case brought by an individual, by the way. Federal prosecuters were not involved.

FTM| 6.4.10 @ 10:27PM

Yeah, this was a civil suit. The comment had to do with the executive branch controlling federal prosecutors. I had a typo, former President Clinton was the one that fired all the federal prosecutors and replaced them. Former President Bush fired eight as I recall.

Let me select the federal prosecutors and I guarantee you that certian cases will make it to a grand jury and others won't. Wanna bet?

In the Clinton vs. Jones case, it was incumbernt upon then President Clinton to seek to evade a court encounter with Jones, it would have been the court that decided not to hear the case. My gripe is that the court gets to decide wether or not to hear a case, not a grand jury. Clinton presented arguments as to why the case shouldn't be heard but the final decision was the courts decision.

I know that grand juries don't sit on civil cases. In a civil case the judge gets to decide your outcome and if you don't like it then tough unless you can afford to appeal.

I still say that the judicial branch is the least well defined and the most easily corruptable of the three branches. Consider the gyrations that erupt in so simple a process as seating a jury. In colonial times the first twelve men through the door of the courthouse were the jury providing that they met qualifications. Today we have lawyers that specialize in selecting jurors. That's just a single aspect of the perversion of the Just-Us system. Consider judicial activism and the fact that juries aren't informed of their options any more and basically the entire judicial system has been handed over to the person that has the most money.

Expert witnesses. How many expert witnesses can the state afford to hire in an effort to convict you versus the number that you can hire to defend? In some cases the stste provides your expert witnesses. In the expert witness business how many gigs do you get if you make a habit of biting the hand that feeds you?

I can go on and perhaps I will. Later.

I made a horrible set of decisions years ago and got to know too many cops. Six out of ten cops that I know personally I wouldn't turn loose with a sharp stick let alone a handgun. From my experience the cops, the prosecutors and the judges and everyone else that is involved in the Just-Us system are way more interested in convictions than they are in seeking justice.

FTM| 6.5.10 @ 6:42AM

OK, it's later.

Another method by which the American justice system has been morphed into the Just-Us system has to do with the former custom of a judge properly informing a jury of their options before a case begins.

Formerly a judge would inform a jury of their option to find the defendant innocent in the case that the jury finds that the law to be misapplied, tyrannical or contrary to common sense.

The practice of a judge informing a jury was based on judicial custom rather than an established legal requirement. Informing juries went out of style in the South during the Civil Rights movement when white racist rednecks were being aquitted of throwing dynamite into churches and killing little black girls. In the state court system it was near to impossible to find a jury that would convict these people. In the absence of an informed jury when the jury was honestly ignornat of their options they were told by the judge that they had to convict the accused based on the arguements presented and nothing more. The upside was that murderous white rednecks were getting sent to prison for killing people. That's a good thing.

The downside is that now we have multi-million dollar court cases being decided by people that don't know that they have the option of telling the lady that if she doesn't know that coffee is hot and that putting a hot cup of coffee between your legs is a stupid thing to do that she doesn't need to have coffee in the first place.

God Almighty forbid that you should shoot and wound some jackass for breaking into your house. You're going to be convicted of attempting to kill some poor unfortunate that just wanted a drink of water or to use the telephone.

Word to the wise, use magsafe.

An informed jury has the legal option to tell the guy that was breaking into your house that if they want a drink of water or to use the phone that they should use the door bell like all the other civilized people.

Once again, if you are accused of a crime you're going to be tried by a jury of twenlve people that are too stupid to figure out how to get out of jury duty. In such a case I don't know what you plan to do: me, I'm going to cut and run at the first opportunity.

FTM| 6.5.10 @ 7:59AM

Later still...

Last comment on the subject, an anecdote.

Here locally there's a Jethro Bodine type that I work around at the factory. Big and not too bright. Recently Jethro goes out and gets all sauced up and wrecks his pick-up truck, totaled the car that he hit, thank God nobody in the car, leads the cops on a twenty minute chase through the boonies till the badly damaged pick-up finally givs up and Jethro gets arrested, booked, finger-printed and first thing Monday morning, arraigned.

Now, Jethro is looking at Driving Under the Influence, Hit and Run, Wanton Endangerment, and Fleeing and Evading a Peace Ossifer just for starters. Looks pretty grim for Jethro right? Not at all, Jethro's aunt is the local circuit judge. Jethro's family is large and very well heeled, big time local landowners and also very populous. What that translates into is that nobody wants to earn the wrath of Jethro's family because of the amount of material wealth ergo employment opportunities that the family directly and indirectly controls. The local authorities don't want to contradict the aunt curcuit judge because the family and allied families are large enough to sway local elections. The result is that Jethro walked. Add insult to injury and in private conversation Jethro can be rather insolent about what he can get away with.

Pretty much just a matter of time before somebody decides to commit a public service in regards to Jethro. Jethro's wife is the only person involved in the entire sorry affair that seems to be even the least embarrased over this knuckle-head's behavior.

Now, suppose that the same set of circumstances had occurred but the Jethro was somebody from outside of the county. What do you think that the outcome would have been? Perhaps ten or twelve uears in the state prison? Watcha think? Any takers?

The local court system is compromised, corrupted. The state court system is compromised and corrupted. Last and not least the federal court system is compromised and corrupted.

Justice is supposed to be blind, says so right here on the label. As it stands the system is the enemy.

FTM| 6.5.10 @ 8:25AM

Suppose that little 'ol me were to file a civil suit against , oh let's say our current sitting illegal alien in chief over his exact citizenship status. What do you think that my chances would be? Using nothing more than my little 'ol knuckle-dragging engineer's salary, anyone want to lay a bet on wether ot nor I'd be able even to hire a lawyer let alone get a federal judge to hear the case.

I claim to be materially damaged because the illegal alien in chief is spending this country into oblivion. This directly effects me.

Justice deferred is justice denied.

The justice system is no more, all that is left is the Just-Us system.

bekcon| 6.3.10 @ 8:24AM

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."-- Author Unknown

Enough said. Until we deal with those who elected the child president our Commander in Chief, the problem will not be resolved.

crookedwren| 6.3.10 @ 10:07AM

Great quote -- says in a clear way much of what I've been concerned about --

The Truth has to be spoken, written, asserted by all, as often as possible, as publicly as possible.

Keep our teachers on task. As a former secondary teacher in public school, I will tell you I heard teachers in the lunch room, students all around, calling President George W. Bush "Hitler." It was considered by many to be "Perceived Truth" and a statement of great insight and deep wisdom.

The Texas Battle of the Schoolbooks was an important victory, but we've got to hold teachers' to their promise to teach.

Believe me, I've read graduate textbooks in "Education" that asserted (in the dulcet tones of professorial and academic "edu-speak") that the PRIMARY objective for the teacher was NOT teaching the subject matter, NO. The PRIMARY task for the classroom teacher was -- and I quote -- "SOCIAL ENGINEERING."

I'm not kidding. I threw the book across the room and threw it away. Wish I'd kept it now so I could prove what I'm saying.

Read Whittaker Chambers' book "Witness." You'll see how vast and horrid the enemy we're up against.

Whit| 6.3.10 @ 1:44PM

An enducation is a kit of tools that allows us to make full use of our gifts and talents but it neither modifies nor replaces those gifts and talents. Education did not produce Einstein but without it we would have no nuclear capability.

Willy| 6.3.10 @ 12:56PM

Amen! Our problem is the people who voted to wreck our country. From what I now hear, no one voted for him, but millions did, including my grand-children. And those millions still believe they did the right thing. Until those millions learn the hard way of what they voted for, our country is doomed!

whit| 6.3.10 @ 1:36PM

Well put. Obama may have opened the door for America to sin but he did not make us sin. We did that of our own volition

TennesseeVolunteer| 6.3.10 @ 8:50AM

Jeffrey Lord.....Patriot

Missy| 6.3.10 @ 6:07PM

Hear hear!!

Good, God-fearing American men and women must lead the way.

michigander_sandusky| 6.3.10 @ 9:00AM

bekcon

Well said!! Getting rid of Obama is important, but it is treating the symptom and not the root cause of the disease.

John| 6.3.10 @ 9:24AM

Nobody cares. Obama has his way with everything. Obama and his comrads believe the American people are stupid, and they know for sure the MSM is stupid. The American people have to ride out this storm, and pray minimal damage is done. Where is Duncan Hunter when you need him?!!!!

crookedwren| 6.3.10 @ 10:11AM

Where is our Whittaker Chambers?

John - TMF| 6.3.10 @ 9:35AM

The reaction from the Democrat Propaganda Machine (aka Mainstream media)...


The reaction from the Democrat Controlled Congress...


The reaction from the inJustice Department as run by The One's least effective Consigliere...


The response from the GOP controlled House and Senate of 2011-2012...


All of the "hopeful" predictions are wrong. The One will no more resign than Rosie O'Donnell will look good and like men.

A Republican Congress is not going to touch him with a 39 and a half foot pole. The 2010 lame duck session of Congress is likely to be the most dangerous to American liberty in history, and keeping The One contained between 2011 and 2013 is going to be the only strategery that the GOP will pursue.

The professional pols want The One around to run against in 2012. No one is going to distract attention from his self-immolation.

Keeping up the Skeer from the likes of Mr. Lord, Mr. Hillyer, and in particular Mr. Tyrrell will sure keep things moving in the right direction.

R/The Mighty Fahvaag

Doctor Right| 6.3.10 @ 9:36AM

"Oh, Boy! This is gonna' be GREAT!"

- Flounder, "Animal House"

William Wallace| 6.3.10 @ 1:00PM

To quote Joe Biden, "this is a big F#!*ing deal."

Louis Jenkins| 6.3.10 @ 9:49AM

The chances of catching the Pretender n Chief in a trist is slim to none. He's much too smart for that. But maybe, just maybe, he can be made uncomfortable by catching some of the lesser known values running around the District of Criminals.

Clinton nee Publius| 6.3.10 @ 10:07AM

If this is the price we have to pay to rid ourselves of the worldwide liberal-progressive movement, then I am willing to pay it.

Just don't ask me to pay it twice, lest I start shooting the people who told me I would only pay once.

Tim| 6.3.10 @ 10:25AM

This is only a huge deal because it happens to be against established Federal Law for the WH to offer Jobs and goods as bribes for favors.

You must put all of this in proper context.

In the "Organized Labor" world, this stuff happens every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Every time a person wants to challenge a sitting Union Boss of a particular Local or Chapter or of an International Union the DC Headquarters swoops in to buy off the person and offer them nice jobs with nice perks and sometimes Stocks and homes depending on how big the sought after office is.
Therefore, since the Chicago "Union" mentality is running the White House this is simply a carry over of business as usual.

It never really occured to most of these guys that there were rules on the books that made this a crime .

I know it sounds ridiculous but if you spend a year or so around Union Officials you will know that their attitdude is that they are God and could do what ever they want because there is no oversite. The US Labor Department is a Joke and is in Bed with these guys so there you have it.

I am actually not Anti Union in that I believe folks have a right to collective bargaining but the truth is the truth. A spade is a spade and a crook is a crook end of story.

Willy| 6.3.10 @ 1:01PM

Quote: It never really occured to most of these guys that there were rules on the books that made this a crime ."

What is even worse, is that they do not care. The rules were not made for them.

Len| 6.3.10 @ 1:49PM

So you believe that a business owner can be forced to negotiate collectively, rather than on a individual basis determined by merit?

Whit| 6.3.10 @ 2:02PM

Thanks, Tim, for the testimon.
We don't see this often enough. Having and organization to speak to an organization, collective bargaining(?) has its place. That organized labor does not fill that place is usually overlooked and their tyranny discounted. Our nation needs to consider our ways in this respect.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.3.10 @ 10:53AM

Mr. Lord,
Thank you for keeping on this subject. As silly as it may seem...this may be the "for want of a horseshoe nail.....the battle was lost" sort of thing.

This deal may be the lost "nail".

RG Harris| 6.3.10 @ 12:10PM

Well put!

AMENBRO| 6.3.10 @ 11:18AM

WELL, WEll Well WELLLLLL to quote John Lennon.

This is just too good. BOVINE behavior eligible for 4H Club BLUE RIBBON County Fair competition.

Nixon , I was 17. Clinton & Marion Barry , I was an actual resident of our nation's capital..

Now probable the most irritant administration, PALING all others, has its chickens in the ROTISSERIE. Course they also have the African American equivalent of Janet Reno without the shakes. Same obstinacy and clueless world view. Need we revisit Elian Gonzalez. American people are way past the RACIST cast racial dispersions now. Remember we are in a POST Racial period where the only cowards are US, the American citizens.

Can we predict, as per Anita Bauer Baby's hubbie,, no legal controlling authority. just like Clinton these people have to defeat the Republicans at all cost despite any INCONVENIENT laws that get in the way such as campaign cash raised from Executive Branch offices or sequential American Express Travelers checks in grocery bags, filmed female groping, DNA spoooge on blue dresses, ISs, and defendants smokin crack on video..

Remember, " Shakey Jan" said there was no compelling evidence to warrant a special prosecutor. That in spite of around 200 people taking the FIFTH and around 40 of Oriental/Chinese extraction fleeeeing the country rather than testify or appear as subpoenaed by congress.

Yup CAPS, COMMA & Cursing aside this will be interesting Yawl.

SMELLING THE COFFEEEEEE YET AL & PURPLE???????????????????

RG Harris| 6.3.10 @ 12:17PM

I couldn't follow a lot of your rant but the theme was delightful but tragically true. Don't stop posting.

b d

Margie| 6.3.10 @ 12:55PM

I second that. Kinda reminds me of Olde Farte. Love it.

terry| 6.3.10 @ 11:21AM

Thank you for the links to Denver Post. I read the e-mail (which was only 3 job descriptions), and more importantly, from the Post's page, the White House response. Apparently the White House feels that 'no official job offer' was made, so approaching the candidate was not improper. What?? Does it only become improper if the guy looks at the jobs and says "I'll take #2"? The fact that this administration is trying to buy people out of running is not only illegal, its disgraceful. Please keep after this story.

I apologize that I can't remember the legislator, but didn't someones brother become a Federal Judge after his sibling agreed to vote in favor of ObamaCare?

AmenBro| 6.3.10 @ 12:04PM

OH HAIL TO THE CHIEF YEAAAAH

Obama Now Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes?
Obama names brother of undecided House Dem to Appeals Court.
BY John McCormack
March 3, 2010 7:15 PM

XTRA XTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT not to be confused with the word IS.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/.....are-votes.

Same splaiinin yawl. EVERYBODY does it.

hail yes I'm YELLIN.

Where's that smart ass TODDDIE TODDARD????

Darla| 6.3.10 @ 11:56AM

Terry - That was Bennet in UT, a dem who voted "no" to ObamaCare. Of course, this doesn't remove the appearance of a bribe. Any ethics course will tell you appearances matter. This WH has no ethics.

Stan Redmond| 6.3.10 @ 11:59AM

I am feeling a little better about the downfall of this president. The professional trolls are not out on any of the blogs I frequent. None. Freerepublic, American Thinker, Hotair, no liberals are out in force defending the Obama (pbuh). If you search around the lefty blogs like Kos they are eerily silent deflecting all attention to BP and Kagan's confirmation. Of course it could be the talking points haven't been created yet but it's different this time. They can still blame Bush for everything else in the world but they can't blame Bush on Sestak and now this 'Romanoff' situation. There aren't even Republicans involved with the scandals.

AMENBRO| 6.3.10 @ 12:06PM

YUP

I can hear the echo of my raning in here.

HELLOOOOOOOOOOO

RG Harris| 6.3.10 @ 12:07PM

The significance in the Marxist progressive movements *domination* in (what used to be) US public News Media is that they will spread their *nationwide* blanket over these corruption stories as they pop up, and suffocate them.

America [also] needs to take-back PUBLIC broadcast News media in this country. Hello!

PsychoDad| 6.3.10 @ 12:12PM

I know just what the cover is gonna be too -- it's nothing but racist fearmongering and slander, and even responding to the accusations is beneath presidential dignity.

grumpygresh| 6.3.10 @ 12:16PM

This scandal does have legs. It follows a trend. Blago, Romanov, Sestak. It also dovetails nicely with the Senate shenanigans over health care. Everyone remembers the Cornhusker kickback ands the Louisiana purchase.
The rats are due for a visit with Terminix this November.

Gr0w1er| 6.3.10 @ 12:19PM

Romanoff is another one of those flatlander out-of-state carpet-bagging nimrods come to Colorado to wreak their left-leaning liberal garbage upon the natives. Useless as tits on a boar.

Kenny Loggins| 6.3.10 @ 12:19PM

Jimmy, come back. We can still make records together!

TruthBeTold| 6.3.10 @ 12:37PM

HA! I can see impeachment from my house.

RCV| 6.3.10 @ 1:00PM

So tell us what laws you believe were violated here. According to the Bush administration ethics counsel this morning -- none.

ZerObama| 6.3.10 @ 6:37PM

Drip, drip, drip: Corruption and incompetence are the death knell of Oilbama's presidency.

Obama lied, the Gulf Coast died.

Drew | 6.3.10 @ 1:14PM

Another orgy of rightwing stupidity and misinformation. Just to set you knuckleheads straight, read the following from WH Press Secy. Gibbs:

"Andrew Romanoff applied for a position at USAID during the Presidential transition. He filed this application through the Transition on-line process. After the new administration took office, he followed up by phone with White House personnel.

Jim Messina called and emailed Romanoff last September to see if he was still interested in a position at USAID, or if, as had been reported, he was running for the US Senate. Months earlier, the President had endorsed Senator Michael Bennet for the Colorado seat, and Messina wanted to determine if it was possible to avoid a costly battle between two supporters.

But Romanoff said that he was committed to the Senate race and no longer interested in working for the Administration, and that ended the discussion. As Mr. Romanoff has stated, there was no offer of a job.

Whip yourselves into an frenzy of stupidity. Waste what few precious brain cells remain in your drink and syphilis-rotted crainia on this. Cause it ain't going anywhere.

Americans understand breaking into a rival's office, mysterious envelopes stuffed with cash, and secret wiretaps are "high crimes and misdemeanors" - they are also smart enough to know that asking someone if they are still interested in a job they applied for isn't.

BREDNG10| 6.3.10 @ 2:09PM

More lies from propaganda minister Baghdad Bob aka White House Press Secretary.

Charles Stevens| 6.3.10 @ 2:58PM

Drew: "That's my progressive meta-narrative, and I'm sticking to it!"

Drew| 6.3.10 @ 6:26PM

This faux outrage is absurd. And the more you argue your points the sillier (to say nothing of hypocritical) you look.

For instance, take a look at this CNN story from 2004:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOL.....secretary/

Quote:Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska has been approached about becoming agriculture secretary in the Bush administration, according to two sources.

His appointment could add a second Democrat to Bush's Cabinet, as well as possibly increasing the GOP's Senate majority.
....

However, one of the officials confirmed that Rove spoke with Nelson in recent days, characterizing the call as an effort to reach out to discuss second-term priorities."

Funny, but I don't hear too many calls for Karl Rove to be indicted, nor do I remember a whole lot of faux Democratic bullshit at the time either. Because the simple fact of the matter is, it ain't "bribery" to talk to someone, even an active politician, about the possibility of taking a job with an Administration.

Anyone who believes differently is delusional.

ZerObama| 6.3.10 @ 6:38PM

SPILL BABY SPILL!! Incompetent Liberal Corruptocrats strike again!

Nick| 6.3.10 @ 7:05PM

Then why are they trying to cover it up, Drew?

Why did they bring in the the mortal Prince of Lies, Bubba the pervert?

Brian B| 6.3.10 @ 1:56PM

--Just to set you knuckleheads straight, read the following from WH Press Secy. Gibbs:--

Just to set you knuckleheads straight, read the following from WH press Secretary Ron Ziegler:
Watergate was just "a third rate burglary".

Press Secretary statements are notoriously non dipositive, Drew, for obvious reasons.
Your gutter level ad homs indicate you are fully aware of this, of course.

RCV| 6.3.10 @ 4:26PM

But burglary is a crime. I'm still waiting for you to cite the statute that was violated here. There is none.

Jeffrey Lord| 6.3.10 @ 4:38PM

RCV...

211 and 600 is the answer. And one lawyer after another cites them specifically.

RCV| 6.3.10 @ 6:57PM

Jeffrey - As a lawyer, I genuinely don't think there's a case there, and neither do any of the public integrity lawyers or former prosecutors I've talked to. Their views are consistent with the reports of prosecutors who've spoken out:
"I looked through it," Steve Bunnell of the firm O'Melveny & Myers, said of the job-offering related document released by the White House on Friday. "I don't see anything criminal about what happened. Basically you are talking about political horse-trading, which strikes me as an inherent part of democracy. There is nothing inherently bad about it unless you think politics and democracy are bad."

Formerly the Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Bunnell has no shortage of exposure with public corruption cases. The Sestak scandal not only passes the smell test, it doesn't really smell, he said. Bunnell isn't alone in his reading of the issue's legal underpinnings.

"I have seen the White House description of what occurred," said James Cooper, formerly Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division at the Justice Department and now with the firm Arnold & Porter. "Certainly, as described, it does not sound to me as the sort of thing that any reasonable prosecutor would view as criminal. It seems to me that this is the political process at work... I don't understand as a legal matter how a prosecutor could sustain a case charging either party in this matter. I don't know of any precedent off the top of my head for anybody being prosecuted in this context."

Jeremiah| 6.3.10 @ 8:47PM

Deceit, corruption and incompetence are fast becoming the narrative of Oilbama's presidency.

Can one-term wonder Jimmuh Carter's "MALAISE" be far behind?

RCV| 6.4.10 @ 12:23AM

Can you do anything but recite senseless slogans? No wonder the American people don't take you guys seriously. The level of discourse is junior high.

Jeremiah| 6.4.10 @ 4:30AM

Oilbama's approvals are falling like a stone--obviously, SOMEONE is taking us seriously.

Truth hurts!

Unabashed| 6.3.10 @ 2:12PM

How many "Truth Be Told" dreamers do we have out there? I have in my magazine collection the entire Bill Clinton years of American Spectator.. Every seamy political deal he ever made. The flipping of real estate by Hillary in Whitewater, the Savings and Loan Scam, Cattle Futures fortune made, Paula Jones being sent up to BIll Clinton in Excelsior Hotel, Bill Clinton's assault of Juanita Broadrick, Jim McDougall's sudden death in prison, TrooperGate - went to a "public speaking" at SFO airport where Troopers spoke about their main duty - getting women for Bill. Gennifer Flowers, Mena Airport (cocaine drop-off) Roger Clinton - went to jail, the "suicide "of Vince Foster, the rifling of his office and scrubbing the files. Bill' Clinton's blatant lying before a Grand Jury - the infamous blue dress, even to Bob Tyrrell's book entitled , THE IMPEACHMENT OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON -- -

And "TRUTH BE TOLD" thinks this time around we will be willing to impeach "our first (not quite) black president" and carry the impeachment to conviction? I remind you we could not eve stop the Health Care vote.

The collected - and collective cojones in the Republican Party would not fill a one dozen egg carton . As a test, next time you buy eggs, call them "cojones" and start naming them after those you think have 'em and have an "R" after their names in DC. You are going to come up short buy about 8.

I wish it were different. But, dream on.

Al| 6.3.10 @ 2:27PM

Keep up the heat and pressure. Yeah, the Congress is controlled by all these corrupt democrats and any "investigation" will be quashed. But the American people will hopefully sicken of this democrat fraud and abuse and clean out the House literally come November.

Whit| 6.3.10 @ 2:33PM

For those poster who believe nothing will come of this

Mt 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

This, our movement, is not going to dry up and blow away. Too many are waking up to ask after the truth.

For hogs, cats and certain politicians everything is legal..... if you can get by with it. The do not believe....
Ga 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Lu 16:1 ¶ And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
We are now asking for that accounting.

FakeEagle| 6.3.10 @ 3:00PM

I want to believe this "movement" will really make a difference, Whit. I really do! I'm afraid, however, that Unabashed is sizing the situation correctly by noting the spinelessness exhibited by many of the existing Republicans in power. In truth, God does set everything right in the end, but that didn't stop Him from giving Judah 70 years to think things over in Babylon.

1000yardsquint| 6.3.10 @ 3:20PM

Folks, the operatives in the alien-nation known as Obama-world are all-in for the crash of our Republic. The United States of America has existed as a Republic for approx 221 years: 79 years short of how long the Roman Republic lasted. The Obama brains are certain that We The People won't rise up against their arrogant corruption. They expect us to keep paying our taxes and steering clear of their bureaucratic oppression. However, We The People should know by now that doing nothing is not an option. Obama and his cronies are bullies and they need a good ol' barnyard azz-kickin'. Let's wipe the floor with these mutts.

CJohnson| 6.3.10 @ 5:14PM

I thought Nixon was a Republican.

ZerObama| 6.3.10 @ 6:39PM

I KNOW Oilbama is a MARXIST!

NJK| 6.3.10 @ 6:54PM

This will not go away. If we have to wait until January of next year, we will impeach Obama. They have now admitted to high crimes and misdemeanors. We won't let up Barry, you can bet on it.

RCV| 6.3.10 @ 7:14PM

I truly hope you devote all your time and energies to this, and to the birth certificate issue, for the next year. It will keep you guys occupied and avoid doing any real damage.

Jeremiah| 6.3.10 @ 8:26PM

You're the one who is clueless, troll. Many of your fellow Leftists are already turning on Oilbama.

Even the liberal biased Gallup has Oilbama at 46% approval; which means his approvals are probably about 40%.

Ugly tar balls defiling the beautiful beaches of Florida are another reminder of Oilbama's total incompetence and deceit.

Oilbama lied, Florida's beautiful beaches died.
It's only going to get worse, better buckle your seatbelt, troll.

Nate| 6.3.10 @ 8:12PM

Jeffrey Lord's articles are usually among the best published around here.

I can't understand his thing for this "jobs" story.

It seems like run-of-the-mill politics to me. A man's offered a job not to run for office? That just doesn't seem like one of the great questions of modern politics.

Nate| 6.3.10 @ 8:15PM

Increasingly, of course, the Great Political Questions are being evaded by public debate, and our political institutions seem unable to address any of the most pressing concerns facing this country: debt, energy, unemployment, education, infrastructure.

I think that's the attraction of pseudo scandals like the one Lord's obsessed with these days. This season's version of the ACORN hysterias and so on.

Jeremiah| 6.3.10 @ 8:29PM

Drip, drip, drip.

More lies and deceit from the incompetent corruptocrats on the Left. We must clean the rot out of Washington DC--get rid of all the Democrats in office.

Unabashed| 6.3.10 @ 8:52PM

Fake Eagle, thank you. In addition to Dreamers, we have now heard from Whit, who thinks The Almighty is going to save us from Obama - and it is written in Scripture. I hate to remind him of this fact, but God gave Adam and Eve free will and look what they chose over a perfect life in the Garden of Eden. My God, if Adam forfeited that for a bite of an apple, just think what he would have done for a Big Mac and fries!

Free will is exercised at the polls every four years. God is not terribly concerned about the outcome of our elections. Ask any Independent why he voted for Obama and you will get, "I just thought we needed change. . ." Ask any Democrat why they voted for Obama, they will tell you "We wanted to get back in power." Ask the Republican Party why they put John McCain up as a candidate. "It was his turn." Which is the most motivating reason?

God is not going to save us fom Obama and if a Special Election were held tomorrow, I would not put money on the outcome. It is self-delusional to believe, as we conservatives - writing to a conservative magazine online that there are more of us than there are of them.

If our numbers contain many "Whits", relying on searching the Bible for proof that God is on our side, we are really in for it. God doesn't take sides. He made the side. It is up to us to be on His side and make it work. We pretty well demeonstated in the last election, we don't know beans about selecting a candidate. And if we had an election tomorrow we would put Palin up, because we are outraged at Joe McGinnis. Or Or because she was Mayor of Wasilla and Mayor of Alaska. Look up the population of Alaska. Now, look up the population of Los Angeles. She was the Governor of Dogpatch, by comparison. Oh, here's a good one - because she is a Christian. Or because she chants, "Drill.. Baby, Drill." It's not enough. And not because of who she is, Because of who the Democrats are and where their votes come from. Do you get it, Whit? WHERE THE VOTES COME FROM.

George Bernard Shaw summed it up perfectly - "Kings are not born; they are made by universal hallucination." Voters - hallucinating in unison last election, made themselves a King. Now we are learning what it is to be ruled.

Unabashed| 6.3.10 @ 9:03PM

CORRECTION: Make that Governor of Alaska - not much difference. If I were former Governor of Alaska and a sleaze merchant moved in next door to me, I would call a glazier and put in one-way windows and put the fence around my pool. And I'd quit whinng, "Just leave my kids alone." She could have told that to Levi when Bristol was dating him.

There! I have solved a problem, Sarah couldn't. I think I will run for President.

DatsunMark| 6.3.10 @ 9:22PM

Mr. Lord,
I wonder who *Deep Throat* is going to be?

Hostile Knowledge| 6.3.10 @ 9:42PM

Hussein frolics while a holocaust rails its darkness against nature.

It’s the Great Hussein Democidal attack on Mother Earth’s innocent creatures

Pity the defenseless wildlife – the hapless victims of Hussein’s Marxist democide.

Mother Gaia is weeping uncontrollably as her innocent children are dying.

The Evil Hussein this way comes...

Nate| 6.3.10 @ 9:59PM

This is as stupid as many of the posts on this thread, but at least there's a kind of entertaining derangement at work.

"The Evil Hussein this way comes..."

Aside from the fact that it's pretty clear that if you're not a prankster, you're a total idiot with a mental age of an eleven year old, you still have at least put some effort into writing creatively.

Good show, Hostile.

Nick| 6.4.10 @ 12:34AM

It's entertaining because it's true, Nate.

Jeremiah| 6.4.10 @ 4:32AM

Liberals abhor the truth like vampires abhor the light!

RCV| 6.7.10 @ 5:30PM

What's clearly true is that the oil industry, assisted by the drill-baby-drill cheerleaders, have sold us a bill of goods on their abilities to safely drill offshore. We won't make that mistake again. After those at BP, Haliburton, et al. who are responsible for this disaster are brought to justice, we will insist on very strict controls on any future drilling. Guaranteed.

Nick| 6.8.10 @ 12:10AM

Why don't you hold your breath waiting on that, RCV?

Margie| 6.3.10 @ 9:53PM

Actually I will correct you, Unabashed. Conservatives did NOT want John McCain to get the nomination. The reason he got it is because:
1. Fred Thompson dropped out of the race. He was the choice of conservatives.
2. Democrats got to vote in some of our open primaries.

So your phony statement about we conservatives don't know beans about selecting a candidate is baloney.

And your underhanded mocking of Whit's Christianity also reveals your true nature. As well as that of Sarah Palin.

Conservatives aren't stupid unless they don't vote at all and thus hand the election to the Left. McCain or not. Having a Republican administration would have been far better than what we have right now. Perhaps you don't agree. That would place you with the losing third partiers who insist on some kind of perfection.

If we want conservatives to win, it means voting in the primaries for the conservative candidates by overwhelming numbers, and in every election, beginning locally. Not sitting home and figuring everybody else will do it for us.
We did it here, finally, in NJ and Chris Christie, the much decried "RINO" by same got elected. Any RINO is better than any Democrat. This isn't church, it's politics. There is no purity in politics, and speaking of God, well I think He wants us to vote and to pick the BEST of what we have. That's what I do. And yes, I say there is more of us than there are of them, and that IS a hopeful thing. We just need to get out there and vote for the good guys.

Nick| 6.4.10 @ 12:32AM

Great points, Margie!

Keep 'em coming!

Margie| 6.4.10 @ 10:42AM

Thanks, Nick. Much appreciated. :^)

Jeremiah| 6.4.10 @ 4:46AM

I agree with Glenn Beck that John McCain would have been more dangerous than Obama because McCain's progressivism was harder to detect.

McCain is a big government RINO who supports Amnesty and Cap and Trade--and I don't trust him.

Progressives are our true enemies and they reside in both parties. RINOs are Republican Progressives who must be driven fom our party.

Margie| 6.4.10 @ 10:47AM

McCain more dangerous than Obama? I doubt it. And besides, with Obama came an entire administration of Marxists!

I voted for McCain when he became the nominee for the simple fact that a Marxist administration would destroy the country.. and now we are seeing that, aren't we?

The proud Eagle of the United States of America is mourning each loss of freedom under this devilish party and its leaders.

There is simply no doubt in my mind that voting Republican.. always, is the best thing to do.

Jeremiah| 6.4.10 @ 3:52PM

The enemy within is always more dangerous than the enemy without.

McCain's a Progressive and part of the problem.
Listen to Glenn Beck--he's never wrong.

Margie| 6.4.10 @ 4:15PM

Baloney. What Beck is doing is dividing the conservative voting base. He is basically the Ross Perot of our day, IMHO.

a.b. normal| 6.3.10 @ 9:57PM

where is the criminal investigation of the most open, honest, transparent, moral, sanctimonius, sacred, perfect, beyond reproach, coke snorting administration ever?

ask the a.g.

adios,
ab
lancaster, mexifornia

got comprehensive illegal alien drug gang sanctuary and democrat voter reform bill?

viva home depot

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Why Obama's Presidency Failed | 6.4.10 @ 4:37AM

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ojo grande| 6.3.10 @ 10:35PM

Unfortunately, nothing will come of this investigation. You have to have an honest, ethical Attorney General to take this on...and Obama's chinless AG Holder is not that man.

When the media should be in a frenzy over this political bribery and the breaking of Congressional law, they sit by quietly, in collusion with Obama and his corrupt thugish behavior.

I find it interesting that Obama snubs the very media that continues to protect him...you've got to give it to the guy, he is having his cake and eating it too when it comes to the media..Thank goodness the American people are brighter than the media types...they are on the way out along with Obama...the Internet is doing both of them in.

Unabashed| 6.4.10 @ 2:26PM

I have heard of mourning doves but never mourning Eagles. I attended the Honor Court of my second Eagle Scout Sunday. Eight others stood proudly with mine. Each having accomplished something pretty significant to achieve the rank. The last part of the ceremony includes the passing of a feather to a younger Scout, charging him with the responsibility of upholding the honor of Scouting and working to achieve his Eagle rank.

My first grandson became an Eagle Scout in 2003. My second last Sunday, in this year of the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouts of America. He handed his feather to my 8 year old Cub Scout grandson.

Eagles soar, Margie. It takes more than Obama for clip their wings.

I am sorry you mistook my earlier remarks as "liberal". I am a dyed-in-the-wool conservative with a broad streak of realism. On occasion, when I have signed on with some other off-the--wall blog-name, you have agreed with me!

I did not denigrate Whit's Christianity. I said looking for Bible quotes to bolster our cause is not an immediate solution.

And I would have liked Fred Thompson as a candidate, too. Apparently Fred did not want it enough.

My fervent prayer, although I try not to rely on it too much in politics, is that Carly Fiorina replaces Barbara Boxer, our little senatorette in CA.. I am not that impressed with Meg Whitman (as she once supported Boxer) but voted for her anyway. And I cast a nose-holding vote for McCain. We are more alike than you think. I would vote for Dick Cheney, bad ticker and all, for president tomorrow.

Look, if prayer worked in politics - how did we get Obama in the first place? It is pretty well a given, that Democrats don't pray! Or so we like to think.
.

Jeremiah| 6.4.10 @ 3:56PM

Job well done, Unabashed! Sounds like you have a great family.

God gave us free will--WE are responsible for the election of BozObama. Sadly enough.

Margie| 6.4.10 @ 4:13PM

Count me out of that one, Jeremiah. I voted Republican. I made my vote count. Those who didn't do their civic duty and vote, those who sat home and sulked over McCain's not being pure enough~ are the ones who gave us Obama, and they are just as responsible as if they pulled the lever for Obama.

The sad thing is, many are getting ready to do it again.

Jack Kinch(1uncle)| 6.4.10 @ 5:18PM

The demo rats are like the muslims, they are given more 'forgiveness' for their wrongs by the left-wing media. 'Sick' Willie wasn't punished for lying to a grand jury, raping a lady and being a draft dodger. Nomobama, The Kenyan', wont be punished for all his lies.

Unabashed| 6.4.10 @ 5:19PM

I VOTED FOR MC CAIN, MARGIE, I voted for the geezer who idiotically suspended his campaign to go grand-standing back to DC and cast a dramatic vote. I voted for him in a lost cause. We all did. Except, of course half our damned "moderates' and all of the Independents.

Jeremiah, thank you for the compliment. I was proud to swell in income of the U.S. Post Office mailing out boastful programs of the Honor Court, to all my friends - listing my son as Assistant Scoutmaster, my 16 year old grandson as Patrol Leader and his picture, with sash practically down to his knees with merit badges. And he is 6 ' tall.

I was proud to leaf through his Eagle Scout album, seeing all of the congratulatory letters from George H. W. Bush, 41st President, George W. Bush, 43rd. I am sorry it was marred by a syrupy congratulatory letter signed by Barack and Michelle Obama.

When my husband passed away last year, part of the "package" I received from the National Cemetery was a letter saying I was "entitled" to a letter of thanks for his service signed by President Obama. I wrote back and declined, stating my husband flew convoy (blimps) off the East Coast spotting German U-boats in WWII, long before Obama was thought of and I did not need his recognition of my husband's service.

I credit my son and his wife for being active in Scouting for the past sixteen plus years. Foregoing vacations to deal with mosquitoes and meals cooked over a campfire.I credit myself only for seeing to it that none of my grandsons were ever left to the tender mercies of Day Care.

If you are familiar with Order of the Arrow, both of my Eagles have accomplished that, too.

We all do the best we can in what we sometimes feel is a decaying society. But Pandora's Box, in addition to containing all the evils of the world, also contained hope - and not the counterfeit kind Obama peddled to Democrats.

Note to DatsunMark - hoping for a Deep Throat. In order to have a Deep Throat you need a Woodward and Bernstein and in order to have a Woodward and Bernstein, you need a Richard Nixon. Where do you see a couple of young reporters willing to pursue the Sestak/Romanoff story?

Add my skepticism of divine intervention to any so-called journalist wishing to make a name for himself by exposing Obama as a petty criminal.

Margie| 6.4.10 @ 11:51PM

Dear Unabashed,
"I have heard of mourning doves but never mourning Eagles." I like that one. But I believe even the Eagle can mourn for what's happening to our beloved country. Under Obama our freedoms are being destroyed and he's turning into a Communist country. I so despise him and his entire ilk.

Even God weeps in secret.. for our pride, when we choose not to listen to Him. Jer. 13:17 actually says that.

So, you voted for the geezer.. well you did the right thing. I'm actually pretty encouraged lately because I know that so many Americans are waking up and realizing where we're heading and I am praying that they will get out and vote in droves this November. We must elect a Republican President. I know what all the nay sayers say about voting Republican and that the GOP is a lost cause but it's the only one we've got right now.

I know what you're saying about not expecting God to do all the work because it's given to us to do, and that's true but it's also true that we desperately need Him in our lives to give us the strength to keep fighting the good fight. Whit's post was genuine and truthful and I don't think he was meaning to sit back and do nothing. I fully agree with what he had to say. We need more like him on our side, not less!

Prayer is a request. It doesn't mean that things will go our way but just by relying on God, He gives us peace. He wants us to have an actual relationship with Him.

"Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Phil. 4:7&8.

He loves you, dearly. "Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you." Jams. 4:8.

God bless you and yours!
p.s. Do tell just one of the names you've posted under? You've got me curious.

Unabashed| 6.5.10 @ 3:07AM

Well, when we used to write civilized READERS COMMENTS, I used Diane S. Smith, South San Francisco, which is my name and where I live. There, how's that for bravery!

That was back in a time of Mike Showalter in Austin TX - he liked my fruitcake recipe! Dan Martin in Pittsburgh, PA, Ken Shreve and others. It was a kinder, gentler hitchin' post, then. Maybe that accounts for all the aliases. You can say pretty much anything, as long as you don't say who you are.

As I said, I am in a nest of vipers - liberal ones. The few conservatives I run onto are too timid for my taste - the Party that dare not speak its name. It would take up all cyberspace to list the silly names I have used - most begin with UN

I dropped out of commenting fo a year after my husband of 63 years died. When I came back, there was this hit-and-run sniper fire taking up more space than Reader Comments and I looked at all the entertaining "noms de blog" and thought "Smith" might be a little too phony. Hence the Un - - Look in the dictionary, I have miles to go before I. . .lose interest again.

Thank you for your blessing. And consider this, Margie - when a black cat crosses your path the bad luck doesn't last a lifetime. Well, maybe mine, but not yours. Unless you are 82, too.

If you are not East Texas Rancher, you are her twin.

Margie| 6.5.10 @ 12:02PM

I like you loads, Diane. All the more because you're 82, a conservative, and living in San Fran Nancy Land!! Gotta admire you for that, alone! You hang in there sister, and don't go away again. ok? I for one want you around these parts.

I'm so sorry that you lost your beloved husband. May the God of comfort Himself, comfort your heart. Like I said, He loves you dearly.

I'd love to have your fruitcake recipe, too. Care to share again? Haven't baked a cake in eons.

Black cats? I love the little things. Just had my last little one die on me last July. She was 18 years old, had her since a few weeks old. Not black, but a gray Tabby. My other one 2 yrs. before, He was almost as old. Anyhow, I pity the poor creatures.. there's so many of them and not enough people to take them in. Superstitious I'm not, the Grace of God does that for you. I'm the type who'd walk under a ladder or break a mirror purposely. It's all silly stuff and has no power over us.

Well, I'm not East Texas Rancher, but I "reckon" I ought to take that as a compliment. I'm actually from the Northeast. But I love Texans! ;^)

And y'all come back real soon, ya hear?

Unremarkable| 6.5.10 @ 6:15PM

Perhaps I am a little too subtle for you, Margie. The " black cat" I had in mind formerly resided in alleys in Chicago - now using up one of his nine lives in The White House.

And before I get a lot of howls from the left - "Black" is what he calls himself. and cool cat is probably what he calls himself as he bounces down the stairs of AF One, wrists flopping Sammy Davis Jr, doing a soft shoe shuffle.

UN-presidential!

I am a Texan untainted by 58 years in Bay Area.

Margie| 6.5.10 @ 6:52PM

Oh, you are talking about the PINO Noir currently taking up residence in our White House! That's President In Name Only.
Yes, I know he was sworn in, but was it honestly? If he knows he is not an American citizen, then PINO would apply. God knows too. Too bad we don't. After all, we're just the little peons aka subjects!

Well, thanks to the Founding Fathers and their wisdom, he can't stay there forever. The people are ready to tell him "Scat cat!"

Unspeakable| 6.5.10 @ 10:07PM

Well, sometimes you gotta laugh. We educate others to know what we what we will tolerate . Obama's education is still ongoing. In November 2010 , he will get the results of a snap quiz. In 2012, his final exam.

As Tom Paine said , "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." Fatigue involves more than preaching to the choir of TAS online readers

To putit insimpler terms: "You don't plow a field by turning it over in your mind."

If Republicans, Conservatives, Independents and any generic disenchanted voters keep calling attantion to this malfeasance in office in a steady drumbea, it may work. Obama will keep up the malfeasance - it is up to us to increase our numbers, support our party, and for God's sake back a candidate capable of winning.

Meanwhile, we, the "educators", are still showing him what we will tolerate. Day by miserable day.

Incidentally, the title of this article we all seem to be ignoring here was pretty funny - "Romanoff Cracks!" At least his voice does, doesn't it? What a powerful stammering orator the Democrats have sent to Congress.

Mr. Romanoff, are you a man or a mouse? Squeak up!

yuwei| 6.6.10 @ 4:39PM

There will be no investigation or reporting in the MSM unless Repubicans takes back the control of Congress. There is absotulely no chance that Reid, Pelosi or Holder investigating Obama.

did| 7.1.10 @ 4:29AM

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