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Deep Corruption at the Obama Justice Department

By Quin Hillyer on 9.15.11 @ 6:08AM

Americans should get furious, and fast, about the abuses.

Start rattling the chains. Start ratcheting up the hue and cry. Fire up the masses. It’s long past time to force mass resignations at, and possible prosecutions of members of, the Obama Justice Department — and, more broadly, of the West Wing itself.

Forgive all the links, but the scope of the corruption is so large as to defy adequate descriptions, in a single column, of each abomination. The reality is that these Obama/Holder minions at DoJ are dangerous to the very heart of constitutional, republican (small ‘r’) government. Last fall in the Spectator’s print edition I did a broad overview of the problems. In the September issue of The New Criterion, Andy McCarthy does a wonderful job outlining the problems with the Holder department and with other examples of Obamite executive overreach. Of course the Black Panther case, the dismissal of which I (on the Washington Times editorial page) and the Times’ ace reporter Jerry Seper on the news side were the first to report in print (I later discovered that the fabulous Michelle Malkin wrote on it online a day or two earlier), still hasn’t been adequately handled. And the outrageous DoJ blocking of non-partisan elections in Kinston, N.C., solely to benefit the Democratic Party , is now being examined in the courts, with the administration having lost, big, in the latest round.

More recently, the burgeoning scandal of the “Fast and Furious” gun-running blow-up, already a huge embarrassment for the Justice Department, keeps moving closer to the White House. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, for her part, denied direct knowledge of this dangerous idiocy but as Dexter Duggan reports at the Wanderer (sign-in required), the U.S. Attorney who ran the moronic program, Dennis Burke, has been sponsored throughout his entire career by Napolitano. First he worked for her when she was a prosecutor; then (quoting Duggan), “After Napolitano ascended to the governorship in 2003, her chief of staff was none other than Dennis Burke, who went on to be a senior adviser to Napolitano when Obama made her his secretary of Homeland Security in 2009. Obama, however, soon put Burke into Napolitano’s old U.S. attorney job in Phoenix. Like Napolitano, Burke got the post as a political plum. It was expected the plum would ripen into bigger fruit, as it had for Napolitano.”

This week, meanwhile, Christian Adams continued Pajamas Media’s mind-boggling series of stories on blatantly illegal hiring practices at DoJ. Please read that linked story, and all the previous stories linked therein. This is amazingly disturbing stuff. Of 106 supposedly apolitical hires by the Obama/Holder Civil Rights Division, all 106 are demonstrably, irrefutably leftist activists. Again, these are for “career” slots for which no political bias is supposed to be used to hire them. Simple random distribution would assure than in a center-right country, at least a couple of dozen of these hires would be either right of center or at least apolitical — but not a single one has been anything but a hard-left radical. Look in particular at the summary of the background of Nicole Ndumele, who in addition to a host of other left-wing causes managed “to find time to co-author a wacky ‘shadow report’ for the United Nations blasting the United States’ efforts to combat race discrimination. The report — titled ‘Unequal Opportunity: A Critical Assessment of the U.S. Commitment to the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’ — reads like exactly what it is: a product of the professional racial grievance culture.”

As I noted a few weeks ago when writing about this scandal, “These people were members of groups like ‘Queer Resistance Front,’ ‘Intersex Society of North America,’ and of course People for the American Way. Their published essays focused on issues such as ‘Genital Normalizing Surgery on Intersexed Infants’ and on arguing that providing material support for terrorism isn’t a war crime. They, or those promoted, have histories of extracurricular activities that include getting arrested at a World Bank protest, going on a hunger strike while chaining oneself to an oak tree and doing advocacy work for ‘the rights of incarcerated native Hawaiians to dance the hula and perform Hawaiian chants and rituals in privately owned prisons in Arizona.’ A large number of them have donated significant campaign funds to Barack Obama, and some to other liberal candidates.”

Buried in Christian Adams’ latest story on this scandal comes what should be an incredibly explosive allegation: “Worse, Loretta King, while serving as the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights at the outset of the Obama administration, ordered the resumes of highly qualified applicants to be rejected only because they didn’t have political or left-wing civil rights experience. Multiple DOJ sources with direct knowledge of hiring committee practices have confirmed this to me.”

Where, oh where are the New York Times and the Washington Post? This is a direct violation of the law that these “news” organizations are deliberately ignoring.

Then there is the continuing failure of systems that are supposed to ensure that military personnel abroad can get ballots cast and counted, which is part of a seemingly deliberate pattern of obstruction by the Obama/Holder Justice Department.

The Obamites at Justice (and elsewhere in the administration) stonewall and prevaricate repeatedly (with spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler also known for one of the most unprofessional and witchy tempers, along with ongoing lack of truthfulness, that some of us have ever seen in decades of dealing with government public relations officials), and they (again illegally) don’t even comply with legitimate Freedom of Information requests.

And, of course, their ranks have been filled with an unusually high number of lawyers who considered it pro bono (literally, for the public good!) to represent terrorist detainees held in Guantanamo. When a lawyer or two take up a constitutional issue, it’s one thing; but when a whole department is lousy with such lawyers, one starts to see an ideological identification with detainees as supposed “victims” of the very system of justice and ordered liberty that the terrorists have dedicated their lives to destroying.

In the weeks before Eric Holder was confirmed as Attorney General, Jennifer Rubin kept up a steady drumbeat of blog posts warning us all what a dishonest, radically leftist problem he would turn out to be. Rubin was absolutely right. Somehow, though, Holder’s dastardliness has outstripped even the stern warnings Rubin issued. Under Richard Nixon, John Mitchell was as corrupt as they come. But that was all for protecting political power. The Holder Justice Department is equally as corrupt, but in worse ways even than Mitchell. Holder’s team is out for raw political power unmoored from the law, of course — but also for hard-leftist ideological ends that undermine the entire tradition of American jurisprudence and legal practice. They are a menace, and they must be stopped.

About the Author

Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (181) | Leave a comment Leave a comment

wodiej| 9.15.11 @ 6:25AM

keep digging. There's more scandal where this came from.

Jack in Wi.| 9.15.11 @ 8:37AM

The FBI just sent more then a dozen agents to the home a former aide of Governor Scott Walker. The whole issue is whether the aide used his computer to type at his goverrnment job in compaign matters. This minor issue took the efforts of a dozen FBI agents. It is splashed all over the newspapers of the state. This is just a blatant attempt by Obama's justice department to punish someone who has opposed Obama and his union bosses. The more this is questioned and attacked the bettter. The unions are desperate to drive Governor Walker from office. They will use any tactic possible to accomplish these ends. They harassed Sarah Palin so much that she eventually quit. They are trying to do the same with Scott.

Dan Hirsch| 9.15.11 @ 8:45AM

Looks like the FBI're kinda late in Wisconsin...

Hee Haw

DTOM

Vladimir Denisovitch| 9.15.11 @ 5:32PM

I regret to inform you, comrade, but you must now report yourself to Attack Watch for anti-Obama propaganda. Hooligans such as yourself must prepare their self criticism prior to reeducation camp.

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 4:34PM

Even if you are correct about Justice, about Obama, it doesn't mean you will do any better when you get your people in the saddle-- which you of course eventually will.
Do what you want: I will not vote for your kind unless they are Reagan-Ike-Washington quality. The jig is up.
If we need incompetence we can turn to the Jimmuhs of America, we don't need your people.

Trinacria| 9.15.11 @ 5:13PM

Yeah, you're right, AB. It's pointless, so F--- it; why try? Let's just shrug our collective shoulders and accept it.

America: the New France! Ain't it beautiful?

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 5:33PM

"It's pointless, so F--- it; why try?"

That is exactly it-- you are not trying! your candidates are no longer good enough. Why do you think Reagan won 49 states in his last election? because he WAS good enough; Dole lost because the American people would never elect someone like him for president, NEVER.
You can do better, however you don't want to; will all the great cons in America you make only the effort to elect the ones who have celebrity status. Romney, Perry, Huntsman all look really handsome but their quality is more in their JFK- sex appeal than in their substance.
As cons, it isn't your fault politics has become celebritized, celebrity is from Hollywood;
yet you wont at least try to with all your might to nominate better candidates? you throw in the towel and say:
'okay, we can't avoid celebrity politics, so we will acquiesce in the game by running our own celebrities'?
Again, you didn't turn politics into fluff, but are complicit in it, you have given up, not me.

Trinacria| 9.15.11 @ 6:20PM

Pardon me, AB, but it's rather presumptious of you to make pronouncements about what I want. You haven't the slightest idea of where I stand on any given issue or the degree to which I'm complicit in the complacency that has led to what you regard as a sorry state of affairs. Indeed, your ignorance in this matter is exceeded only by your pomposity which, I hasten to note, causes me to shudder in embarrassment for you.

Another God damn blog philospher genius. Yeah, you've got all the answers, my friend, and your prodigious intellect is a wonder to us all...

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 6:29PM

"You haven't the slightest idea of where I stand on any given issue"

Because you don't reveal anything; emblematic of the times, you are too closedmouthed to communicate with. The rightwing in America has become opaque-- but without the positives it had up until '89.

Trinacria| 9.15.11 @ 6:42PM

Shazam! Does your extraordinary insight know no bounds?

You have acquitted yourself with characteristic brilliance, Grasshopper. Having summitted this challenging philosophical summit, you have proven yourself competent to address the most perplexing philosophical dilemna of our time:

Tastes great or less filling?

We await your sage wisdom with breathless anticipation...

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 6:56PM

I'm waiting for you to reveal something about yourself, Trinacria; what you think, anything at all of what you think- it isn't about national secrets is it? the world wont end.
If you play your cards so close to your chest there is no point in playing cards with you.

Trinacria| 9.15.11 @ 7:10PM

Like any respectable card game, one must have the juice to earn a seat at the table. Regrettably, AB, you haven't the requisite intellectual juice to sit at my table.

Terribly sorry, chap, but one mustn't make a habit of slumming.

All the best with your blog philosophizing; it's delightfully charming in a, well, pitiful kind of way.

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 8:59PM

If it is 'charming' then why wont you give a little by being a bit candid?

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 9:00PM

..You have to tip your hand sometimes.

Trinacria| 9.15.11 @ 10:56PM

There you go, trying to elbow your way in at the card table. You don't have the bank roll, amigo.

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 11:23PM

And you wont open up, so the card players don't trust you.

Trinacria| 9.16.11 @ 12:28AM

ZZZZZZZZZ

cindy Alumbaugh| 9.18.11 @ 3:18PM

hehehe! You are cracking me up!

Rowdy Boots| 10.1.11 @ 7:35PM

It's lazy people like you who have permitted this corruption.

Vigilance is required of all Free people's--those who "shrug [their] shoulders" are as guilty as the corrupt ones.

Pathetic'

Vladimir Denisovitch| 9.15.11 @ 5:33PM

You also must report yourself to Attack Watch for demoralizing antisocial comments.

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 6:30PM

You Russkies ought to know.

cindy Alumbaugh| 9.18.11 @ 3:16PM

'You're' People'? What are you a freaking alien?? We are all in trouble here, alan, the only difference is that 'our people' don't eat each other like 'you're people' do. If you think, Alan, for one minute that 'you're people' won't throw you under the bus to save their own ass you are sadly in even more trouble than the rest of us.

PCC| 9.15.11 @ 9:37PM

Dear Mr. Hillyer,

That was quite a gratuitous swipe you took at John Mitchell!

Negro X| 9.15.11 @ 6:34AM

Cry racism and let slip the dogs of political correctness.

Don L| 9.15.11 @ 6:50AM

Please, if you want to do this thing right - leave him be until he is rejected by the same thoughtless folks that elected him. My advice -never impeach a radically incompetent liberal president.

Mike D.| 9.15.11 @ 7:43AM

Yep, you make him a martyr.

Buck Ofama| 9.15.11 @ 12:51PM

Same reason to protect the pile of camel shit. Would end up with too many roads and libraries named after the worthless c0cksucker.

Dick Nome| 9.15.11 @ 7:51AM

At this point in Junior's term, impeachment is a useless effort. A Democrat controlled Senate would never convict and it would obfuscate issues. Focus needs to be on winning back the Senate and electing a President. Then go after the corrupt Chicagoland gangsters. Junior will be disgraced at any rate.

SpiralArchitect| 9.15.11 @ 12:32PM

Sure.

Zero thinks his failed economic policies are top notch. Does any reader here, sorryBrooks, actually believe he would understand being disgraced? Consider the degree of humanity Zero continually exhibits.

SpiralArchitect| 9.15.11 @ 12:47PM

Disgrace?

We have a POTUS that has released 2 versions of (a) BC that are both fake. The recent with a proven flagged SSN ( from Connecticut none the less!) no investigation, no follow up & anyone mentioning such is thought of as a nut.

Brief info link:
http://us2.campaign-archive1.c.....8b6f594bd3

Time to gear up for criminal prosecution after election. This will be interesting to see how he 'wins' another term, I am anxious to watch it unfold. >:(

da monk| 9.15.11 @ 7:31PM

Impeach him for what?

BenfromMO| 9.16.11 @ 5:38AM

Impeach him for not being a natural born citizen which is a requirement under the constitution. Everyone knows his father was a UK citizen, which under the constitution makes him not able to hold the office of president.

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 4:38PM

"never impeach a radically incompetent liberal president."

Hey, chumpo:
Bush was the best radically incompetent liberal president ever because he had a full eight years.
You dumb sucker you.

You fell for it-- he did a number on you!

carnot| 9.15.11 @ 10:45PM

and we all know the Democrat alternative would have been infinitely better.

cindy Alumbaugh| 9.18.11 @ 3:22PM

Oh, the ever so intelligent comments from the left...yeah intelligent and left together = oxymoron.

Trinacria| 9.15.11 @ 5:15PM

Can you believe I actually started typing some quip about giving him enough rope? Express ticket to a file on Attack Watch...

Darin| 9.15.11 @ 6:58AM

Anyone paying attention knows that if the administration had an "R" after it, several people would already be in jail or impeached. Those paying attention also know this doesn't matter because media lackeys can and will give them a pass and continue to fly topcover. Likewise, the blatantly criminal activities matter not one bit to the mindless voters who elected this incompetent and will support him even if he personally publicly executed a handicapped 3 year old (Trig Palin might want to be be careful).

CESC| 9.15.11 @ 8:48AM

Darin, it is well known that "R"s are held to a different standard. It is historically evidenced that "D"s are above any serious investigation of their clear and present corruption and illegal activities. We can never expect the so-called mainstram media to do their job. It is up to us and our allied truth-seeking sources such as this to out the facts and expose them for all to see.
But, as you said, the mindless proles that voted for him and will vote for him again (mulitple times when possible) have no problem with the corruption. Remember, to a radical leftist, the end justifies the means.

TrueBlue| 9.15.11 @ 12:47PM

It doesn't matter what happens so long as the worms get their welfare checks. Of course, when the checks stop and they riot the Dems and MSM will point the blame at the Republicans.

Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 11:21PM

"Anyone paying attention knows that if the administration had an 'R' after it"

Henry Cisneros was not prosecuted?
Clinton was not impeached?

Timothy L. Pennell| 9.15.11 @ 7:09AM

Ed Koch, used to be the Mayor of New York. He appointed the First Black Police Commissioner that New York City ever had.
He was a DISASTER. The City's Crime Rates went off the charts. What did Mayor Koch do? Did he replace him? No. He did nothing.
Later on, Koch would say: "I was not prepared to FIRE the First Black Police Commissioner."
The PEOPLE, be damned.
Leaving aside the Cesspool, that is this Administration: Solyndra. The Black Panther Case, the ILLEGAL Drilling Moratoriums and the Picking up of the phone, and dispatching UNION THUGS, to people's homes, let's talk Fast and Furious.
Fast and Furious has it's origins in the White House. There's no way that the little RACIST Weasel and THIEF - Eric "My People" Holder - could come up with anything like this. He's not just a Weasel. He's an EFFEMINATE Weasel, and he hasn't got the balls, for something like that.
This came from a man who sees himself as GOD, as apposed to just being "Sent by God" like HAMAS does. This came from a Single Minded Far LEFT Radical Ideologue.
You know anyone who might fit that description?
Who remembers Herr Obama telling us, in discussions on the Violence in Mexico, that "A lot of these guns are being bought here, and turning up in Mexico"?
He was right. They were being bought by HIM, and HE was bringing them down to Mexico.
The object of this Program was NEVER to Track these Weapons. The goal was to have these weapons KILL as many people as possible. As many Men, Women, and CHILDREN, as they could. The more the better. That's a lot of Dead Mexicans. And, if a few Americans got killed along the way? Well, that's Gravy.
The idea was to create such CHAOS, that the American People would BEG their Emperor to do Whatever it takes, to keep them safe, and the 2nd Amendment be Damned.
Think: The Burning of the Reichstag.
This was all about GUN CONTROL. Obama was gonna get Guns banned. And he was gonna do it the way the Far Left gets everything they want.
By ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
Taking away our means to defend ourselves from our Government? That's the Holy Grail, to them. That's at the top of the Totalitarian's Wish List. Right above Government Health Care.
What's a few hundred dead Mexicans, and a coupla dead Americans, compared to THAT?
Everything else this Puss oozing Scab, of an administration, has done, or, is doing, is a distraction.
Solyndra, and all of the other PAYOFFS to Herr Hussain, are small potatoes. I'm sure that if we "Followed The Money" on every place he Spread OUR Wealth, we would find Corruption on a scale with any other Latin American Despot. But, like I said: It's all small potatoes.
Fast and Furious is much more than an Impeachable Offense. It's Cold Blooded MURDER. It's the act of a MONSTER who puts what HE WANTS, above everything else, including the LIVES of innocent Men, Women, and Children.
He has entered the Realm of Lenin, and Stalin, and Mao, and Pol Pot, and Che, and Castro.
The total Dead, may be less, but, the INTENT is the same.
Obama has used MURDER to try and achieve his goal. He needs to go.
We need to TAKE OUT this Son of a Bitch, and bring back an America where WE THE PEOPLE can belong.
Barack Hussein Obama does not belong HERE. He may have been born in Hawaii, but, he's NOT one of us.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS!

Col. Wm Davis, Retired Army| 9.15.11 @ 11:28AM

Woah there boy! Slow down some Mr. Timothy L. Pennell! Your criticisms are fine but your solutions are a little over the top! Too much coffee this morning? Or are you a leftist seeking to make this site look bad? Go get some sleep! We don't need to do anythng crazy or over the top. Barry will be voted out of office and we'll begin to clean house. No need to make a martyr out of anyone to do that.
Sempe rFi

loulou| 9.15.11 @ 11:37AM

I tend to look askance at those who worry about "making a martyr" out of a perp.
It shows timidity and mealy mouthedness.

Timothy L. Pennell is correct: one shouldn't mark time while evil is being done. The martyr needs to be removed from power.

Col. Wm Davis, Retired Army| 9.15.11 @ 12:00PM

LouLou: I completely agree with the criticisms Mr. Pennell said but I stop short of his implying the use of violence to remove Obama from office. And the use of "SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS!" only reinforces his desire to do so. That is what John Wilkes Booth shouted after he shot Lincoln.

I'm almost 90 years old. I have bullet wounds from serving my country in three wars. I am hardly timid, or meal mouthed. I would put myself in harms way again if I were young enough to serve again to defend our freedoms But I would not defend doing what Mr. Pennell implies. That kind of thing is not a solution. It is the kind of thing that starts civil wars. This country would go through a much harder time than it is going through already if something like that happened, and I pray to God that it doesn't.

I say lets keep doing what we are doing with the grass roots efforts begun by the tea party and build it stronger and clean up the mess the traitorous progressive liberals have done to this country.

In all my life , I have never seen anyone more evil than leftist, progressive, liberals who seek to destroy the greatest nation on earth for the most inane reasons. They are filled with greed and hatred and are most definitely enemies within. But doing what Mr. Pennell suggests is not the way to get rid of them. Those who underestimate the power of a martyr with people like that do not know history very well.

2012 can't get here soon enough. I hope I live to see that day!

Dan Hirsch| 9.15.11 @ 12:37PM

Thank you for your service, sir.

DTOM

Drunken Sailor| 9.15.11 @ 1:19PM

Ditto. And your words of wisdom

Timothy L. Pennell| 9.15.11 @ 5:01PM

Let me ask you Colonel. If you could have ELIMINATED Hitler, in 1940? Would you have done so?
The Praetorian Guard, like our own secret Service, were given the job of Protecting the Emperor. On more than one occasion, they TOOK HIM OUT.
Why?
Because, their OATH was to the EMPIRE, not the Emperor.
the Secret Service' OATH is to the Constitution. To Protect and Defend it, from ALL ENEMIES, both Foreign and DOMESTIC.
I, too, am a Veteran, and I understand that OATH.
Do YOU?

Dan Hirsch| 9.15.11 @ 5:15PM

Timothy;

Maybe you don't recall the amazing turnaround that occurred during RWR's first term. When Reagan was inaugurated, the media were all saying that the US was over, that the Presidency was too big for one man, that the economy was done, that all hope for the future was done and gone. The Soviet Union was still vigorously expanding their influence, especially in the Middle East; the Chinese were just coming out of their very dark age.

It looked pretty darn bleak.

Well...they were wrong.

Yes, it's bad out there, but a peaceful revolution ala November 1994 and November 2010 will remedy our problems far more quickly and efficiently (in lives and treasure.) That's why we have the Constitution after all. The Founders wanted to make it so we wouldn't have to revolt again.

We have the tools, let's trust the Founders' wisdom and use their process - it's worked incredibly well for 230 some years.

The other problem with violent revolution, is that the winners are rarely the people. Look around the world. Do we really want the Iran, Libya, Egypt, most of Africa experiences? Remember what happened in Russia in 1917? China, Viet Nam. No, let's use our system - It'll work, if we work at it.

DTOM

da monk| 9.15.11 @ 8:38PM

Pennell, you are one scarey dude. Your ranting is the reason some people demmand gun control. You remind me of Timothy McVeigh. I also am a veteran

carnot| 9.15.11 @ 10:49PM

who cares?

Beer f.m.h.| 9.15.11 @ 5:32PM

Thanks for your thoughtful insights, Colonel.

It is easy to be driven to apoplexy just having to observe what's happening sometimes. Still, we all occasionally need to be reminded that we can get angry without getting violent.

Yes, we will "take out" the corrupt Obama in due course. It will be done with ballots just as it should be.

Here's hoping you get to cast that ballot in 2012. Thank you for your many contribtions to our great country.

John Navratil| 9.15.11 @ 6:57PM

Col. Wm Davis, Retired Army,

Many thanks for your service to this country. I agree that a civil war is the worst way to achieve the changes we need. History does not guarantee a perpetual republic and by any measure ours is long in the tooth. At some point, it will fall, and its fall will be painful. That point does not have to be now, but time is short to prevent a disaster.

I pray that November 7, 2012 finds you well and happy. Actually, I pray that for everyone although I hope some are a bit more happy than others ;)

Deborah D | 9.15.11 @ 2:51PM

Col., I understand where you're coming from, but when Timothy says this: "We need to TAKE OUT this Son of a Bitch, and bring back an America where WE THE PEOPLE can belong." -- He's quoting exactly what Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. said last week before he introduced Barack Obama. Hoffa was referring to the Tea Party. I'm not saying it's wise to use those words, but his post from last week basically said if they can say that, then we can too since Obama didn't give Hoffa any guff for saying things like that.

Just so you know.

DRed| 9.15.11 @ 8:12PM

“Everybody here has a vote, If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to America where we belong.”

I think Tim FORGOT the part about the VOTE. I WONDER why.

Oldefarte| 9.17.11 @ 11:35AM

Nah Col., TLP tells it like it is, and beautifully so. Oh, and THANK YOU FOR YOUR MILITARY SERVICE as always!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 9.17.11 @ 11:38AM

PS: I have no doubt TLP was referring to the electorial process only!!!!!

cindy Alumbaugh| 9.18.11 @ 3:30PM

Don't be condescending, Col. He is pissed, just like the rest of us. I found most of his info educational, rational and somewhat amusing. I find it unflattering when our fellow patriots patronize another, just because he is doing what you did yesterday under the guise of a different mood. Perhaps you need to think a little too before you speak, sir.

cindy Alumbaugh| 9.18.11 @ 3:36PM

As do I and you and you and you over there at some times.... Thank you, col. for your service, and thank you all for standing for something as wonderful as our country, instead of being yet another falling for just about anything. God Bless you all, and most definitely, God Bless America.

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irish19| 9.15.11 @ 1:52PM

Thank you. I'm going to go write that down somewhere.

Clinton| 9.15.11 @ 7:13AM

The Obama administration is not only incompetent, but it is blatantly corrupt.

Mike D.| 9.15.11 @ 7:44AM

Thats the worst part about it. Corrupt is bad enough, but when Incompentent is added to it its scary.

Maddox| 9.15.11 @ 8:36AM

Yes but incompetence will be their undoing if Republicans choose to do the right things for the country. As stated above, impeachment will not happen, we must throw them out in the coming elections. Then, go after them with true justice. Their incompetence will make it easy to prove treason and theft.

PaulyD| 9.15.11 @ 12:26PM

Yep. Right now, incompetence is the only thing protecting us from their corruption. Just think how much more dangerous they would be if they knew how to run things.

PaulyD| 9.15.11 @ 12:37PM

As a follow-on to my comment, this incompetence is the silver lining to this mess.

My friends in the Legal profession tell me the lack of professionalism (referred to by Mr. Hillyer's comments about Tracy Schmaler), at the Justice Department has become legendary. For example, many of these 106 attorneys fail to submit court briefs on time, or meet other judicial deadlines. The briefs they DO submit have become notorious for grammatical errors, typos, improper citation, etc. As a result, these attorneys don't have a lot of credibility with many Federal judges.

And that is a good thing.

RWinks| 9.16.11 @ 4:56PM

On January 20, 2013, everyone hired by DOJ over the previous 50 months should be fired and locked out of their offices effective midnight, 1/20/13. Indictments to be forthcoming.

Dan Hirsch| 9.15.11 @ 9:07AM

We should give up the theory that you don't go after the prior administration's political appointees after a change of administration. Historically, the concern has been using the courts to criminalize politics. But these czars and other blatantly criminal appointees have gone way too far beyond 'political' acts.

We should be screaming that the blatantly illegal stuff will be tracked down and the individual perps prosecuted fully, with no government representation. Whether we win or lose the election, if we are loud enough, it might make these czars and other leftwing hacks think twice, no matter what BHO tells them.

This non-prosecution policy has been followed in the past to avoid tit-for-tat prosecution of appointees and civil servants. But after Scooter Libby's innocence failed to save him from a clearly political witch hunt seeking a criminal in a crime-free crime, raising the specter of prosecution might get these appointees to think twice. Besides, what else can we do right now?

Consider this, you could never deport 20,000,000 illegal immigrants, but if you deported 10,000 with a lot of coverage of illegal immigrants in orange jumpsuits and manacles, won't 5 or 10 or 20% deport themselves? So you pay for 10,000 and get another 500,000 to 4,000,000 deportations for free! With no televised tears!

So SCREAM it out people. You lawbreaking appointees, we will find you and we will put YOU in orange with bars on all sides!

Oh, and work, work, work for your favorite truly- conservative candidate. And when he or she loses (or not) close ranks and work, work, work for the Republican nominees and don't stop till they're elected to the White House and the Senate.

Only, then can we begin the Herculean task of cleaning up some very messy stables, with dirt piling up from the early 1900's....

This is better than doing nothing...except whining!

Don't tread on me!

John Navratil| 9.15.11 @ 10:48AM

Dan Hirsch,

Clinton fired all sitting U.S. attorneys when he took office. When Bush took a much less overt tactic, it was seen a being for political reasons.

For political gamemanship, Clinton had it right. I personally would like the heads of these departments working as if they would loose their jobs with the new administration. It would discourage cronyism, make them keep their contacts with the private sector and urge them towards a set of accomplishments they would actually like to crow about.

Dan Hirsch| 9.15.11 @ 10:54AM

Wouldn't the same tactic work on Congressional Representatives and Senators. It sure works on Presidents...

DTOM

SpiralArchitect| 9.15.11 @ 1:41PM

This is the same Clinton that used State Troopers to oversee cocain smuggeling into Arkansas via the Mena airstrip, right?

Never forget Vince Foster

Melvin| 9.15.11 @ 7:21AM

Then what the hell are we supposed to do? Ever since the New Black Panther fiasco, it has been common knowledge that the Justice Department has been used by the Obama Administration not as an independent instrument of justice, but rather a instrument of suppression and intimidation.
All three branches are no longer independent of each other with the systems of checks and balances that is supposed to stop or at the very least launch investigations.
With all three branches basically taking marching orders from the White House, minus Congress to a degree, albeit a very small degree, we have one branch of government who uses Executive edicts as to circumvent the checks and balances that the Constitution has built into it.
So again what recourse do we have to even begin? Americans have died in the performance of their duties in the field, because of a scheme that was developed in tandem with the White House, and the Justice Department. There is rock solid proof of this, this isn't just some paranoid delusion hatched by those extremists in the Tea Party, as some would lead us to believe.
I just find it hard to accept that those who are responsible for our checks and balances are running around with their thumbs up their butts with a stomped on bullfrog look on their face, and they're telling us there is nothing that can be done until Obama leaves office. !!BullShit!! I'm not going to accept that for one stinking moment.
There has to be some recourse in the very least the Justice Department itself. There has to be at least one honest lawyer with an ounce of integrity that still believes in our system.
I'm quite sure when this Country gained it's independence from England, there were those naysayers that said, "There's no way you guys can defeat the British, they're too strong and too big." But a few who believed did what was thought as the impossible.
This is what we need right now a few who believe, within the Justice Department to plant the seeds of discontent, and make Eric Holders life a living hell.
We as citizens in good conscience cannot just let Eric Holder walk out the doors of the Justice Department scott free after Obama's term is up. Eric Holder has blood on his hands as if he pulled the trigger himself on the poor Border Patrol Agent.

Mike D.| 9.15.11 @ 8:05AM

Look at it this way. Imagine where we would be if he had control of the house until 2012. It would be game , set, match. We have elected some very good people, not RINOS, who get it. Its just going to take more in 2012. It took us decades to get here, its going to be a long process getting out of it.
Can't win if you don't fight.

Dan Hirsch| 9.15.11 @ 9:51AM

Melvin;

What are we supposed to do? I offer a suggestion in my post above...

DTOM

Melvin| 9.15.11 @ 11:43AM

I see your point Dan, but the gene pool from the political pond is less than desirable.
The main issue is oversight, there is none. Those that we entrust to keep the wolves out of the hen-house are instead throwing steaks in it.

Dan Hirsch| 9.15.11 @ 12:43PM

Melvin;

You, me, all of us are "oversight!" That is our undelegatable responsibility. Government of the people, for the people, BY the people.

Eternal vigilance. We have to become much quick tempered "Throwing the bums out!"

That's all we got, unless we want to start shooting and breaking things, which we don't.

Besides a good, hearty "You're fired!!" can have salutary effects on both sides of the conversation. Much more so than shots, fired...

Meanwhile,

Eternal vigilance is the price...

DTOM

SpiralArchitect| 9.15.11 @ 1:45PM

An increase of the adherence to the laws on the books (re: illegals) is more than enough to push the illegals out of this nation.

Illegas get most everything they need to live. Compared to their previous existance what they get supplied with here is a exponential increase in the quality of living.

Lest we not even consider living a tax free sans employment existance.

Why would the unfortunates of other countries ever even begin to consider not comming to America... Would you think twice aobut it being in their shoes?

Laws are not written as a means to display literary prowess.

donserge| 9.15.11 @ 7:52AM

Aside from a few people and sites like the Spectator where is the outrage among the citizenry and especially our elected officials? I have believed for a long time that we, as a country, are past the point of no return. I see very little evidence to shake my belief.

Dan Hirsch| 9.15.11 @ 9:11AM

Dude!!!

Go make some evidence of resistance yourself!

Call your Congressman, go to a Tea Party rally, make signs, post them wherever. Whining and bitching will not overcome these people. Only action will. So do something! Call, write, post, scream, march something! Be a lone kook, but if you are making sense, you will not be alone for long!!!

DTOM!

donserge| 9.15.11 @ 11:04AM

Sorry. Short of removing the vast majority of congressmen and many hundred of thousands of beauracrats from government bodily all we will do is put fingers in the dike and we are running out of fingers. We can temporarily survive an Obama presidency but we can not survive an electorate (including many 'conservatives') that will place someone like him in office. We also can not survive a people that will readily give up their freedoms. e.g. One of the main reasons we had a revolution in 1776 was property rights. There is no area in this country where we can exercise these rights.

Dan Hirsch| 9.15.11 @ 12:56PM

donserge;

I don't want to start a civil war, you don't either. We have a way of fixing this, but you gotta take the steps to do the job.

One of the real benefits of the Tea Party is that it showed a lot of people who think like you that you are nowhere near alone. More people want to fix this than don't. Have faith!

Didn't Geo. Washington and his boys go up against the premier power on the planet to get us this freedom? Haven't we beaten the best of the worst the planet could throw at us?

Don't quit - nowadays, it's actually much easier now than it has ever been in history. (Thanks, algore...betcha didn't see that coming!)

Call, write, hound, scold, cajole, scream quietly at your elected representatives - let them know that their job is not safe anymore. You, their boss, something they hate to hear, are doing a performance evaluation, and you're thinking they better straighten up and fly right! They are history. Do Twitter, Do Facebook, network, whatever, get after them. They're human, they can be frightened into good behavior - fear is the best motivator.

Use your common sense - it is incredibly powerful. Remember Tom Paine's Common Sense. The statists are counting on us to shut up and take it. Don't give in to them.

Another thing: I keep hearing that fifty percent of Americans are getting $ from the government. Do you really think that every last one of them is happy about it? This thing is not over, unless we all quit! They are actually on the run, let's not surrender fifteen minutes before a big victory.

Now get out there and kick some butt! - if you are busy kicking theirs, they can't be kicking yours!

DTOM!!!

Hey AS, why is the word "Statist" not in your dictionary, hunh? That ain't right! DH

SpiralArchitect| 9.15.11 @ 1:52PM

Speaking with unemployeed people in a professional capacity daily I have determined that the people that most want jobs are the ones that were making a decent income, minimal at or above the poverty level (around $22k family of 4).

The people that make a few thousand a year rarely mention how they would like a job or are concerned / excited to find work.

The (monetarily) low end mostly are complicit in their cusp of poverty lifestyle (read: existance).

Sloth,remains one of the Seven Deadly Sins for a reason.

da monk| 9.15.11 @ 8:47PM

Donserge: So what type of government do you suggest? Who are the people that you want to be our represenatives? Give us some suggestions

Ret. Marine| 9.15.11 @ 8:07AM

I've said it before and it is worth the repeat, "this was a ganster made to order government before any of these traitors ever assigned to their current posts, and they still are" in this case, it's not like it is unknown, its just the so called media cannot help themselves because they are part of the problem and unllike all Patriots of these United States, they are not. They are in it for the revolution they anticipate at the expense of all of the unwilling and wanted. I do pity the teet suckers, they are in for one hell of a surprise, soon. When the rule of law is surcomvented by those in power, by what other means is there available for We the Patriots other than the dreaded, civilwar 2.0. Something is going to have to give, and I can assure you it won't be another step to rob me of my liberties. P.S. Melvin, you, me and a few other million Patriots know full well what needs to be done, the question remains, who is going to be the first one to shoot straight with the American Patriots and call them on it? Who?, The current so called leaders are not only cowards, but, evil to boot and all around us more concerned for their re-election than the safety and welfare of it citizenery or the Country. Pray my friend, pray We the Patriots can make a difference come next election cycle, or we will all pay the price of this evilness wether or not we are involved in on it. Best wishes and God's speed.