Posted on 06/04/2013 12:30:12 PM PDT by Liz
THE TARGETING PAPER TRAIL BEGINS: Soon as they occupied the WH, Obama and the Chicago con artists (a) took control of the US Census; (b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (the IRS).
THE DOTS CONNECT Obama told voters "Tea Parties were a threat to democracy." His mouthpiece, Valerie Jarrett, said the O Team "would not forget" which Americans did not worship Obama.
BACKSTORY WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.
When he got to Treasury, COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury (and the White House) that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09
More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html
Rahm Emanuel’s obsession with tax returns
By Josh Feldman | July 15th, 2012
Rahm Emanuel told ABC’s George Stephanopolous that then-candidate McCain Looked At Romney’s Tax Returns And Decided Palin Would Be A Better VP.
Chicago mayor, Obama campaign surrogate, (onetime Obama COS), Rahm Emanuel continued the attack on Mitt Romney over a lack of transparency on his tax returns, encouraging the Republican campaign to release more. Emanuel noted that Romney handed over two decades of tax returns to the John McCain campaign in 2008 when he was being vetted for the VP slot, and after seeing the returns, the McCain campaign decided that Sarah Palin would be a better running mate.
George Stephanopoulos asked Emanuel if he agrees with the notion put forth last week by Obama staffer Stephanie Cutter that either Romney has been lying about his tenure at Bain or he lied on SEC filings, which would constitute a felony.
Emanuel defended the comments by saying Cutter was just following the law in her remarks, but more importantly, he told the Romney campaign to stop whining about what Cutter said because, as he argued, how would Romney deal with foreign leaders if this is his reaction to an opposition campaign staffer?
On the subject of Romney’s tax returns, Stephanopoulos asked what new information could be gleamed from releasing more returns. Emanuel pointed out that Romney’s own father advocated for disclosure, and made an interesting point about the returns when they were handed over to McCain campaign in 2008.
“He has only released one year, to the McCain campaign he released 23 years. And he’s telling the people, ‘I’m not going to give you what I gave John McCain’s people in 2008.’ And when he gave them 23 years, John McCain’s campaign looked at it and went, ‘Let’s go with Sarah Palin.’ So whatever’s in there is far worse than just the first year.”
THE DOTS CONNECT Obama told voters “Tea Parties were a threat to democracy.”
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Liz: I just posted this in the other thread where you broke the RAHM connection:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3027018/posts?page=58#58
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3027018/posts?page=92#92
WSJ article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html
This date may become more significant:
“President Obama announced Friday [Oct 1, 2010] that his brash and hard-charging chief of staff Rahm Emanuel would resign effective immediately, marking the most significant departure to date from the president’s inner circle.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/01/rahm-expected-leave-white-house-chicago-mayor-run/
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Other dates for my own recollection but of possible interest to others:
As Liz documented with WSJ article above, Rahm was in control of Treasury by late Jan 2009.
Feb 19, 2009 -— CNBC’s Rick Santelli rant heard round the world
Called for a “Chicago Tea Party” Thursday, leading the charge for calls to revolt against the Obama Administration’s mortgage bailout plan....even the White House mentioned him directly in response to questions about the bailout — not once, not twice, but NINE times
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701
Feb 27, 2009 -— Tea Party organizers claim that the first nationwide Tea Party protest took place on February 27, 2009, with coordinated events occurring in more than 40 cities.
April 15, 2009 -— These protests were merely dress rehearsal for the Tea Party events planned for April 15, 2009: tax day. Few can agree on the number of events held throughout the country; the number ranges from 200 to 750, with total attendance ranging from about 250,000 to more than a half-million
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html
Spring/summer 2009 -— Town-hall meetings
Protests against the stimulus package, the bank bailouts, and health-care legislation continued throughout 2009.... During the summer, Tea Party protesters were criticized for their disruptive outbursts during meetings held by members of Congress in their home districts to discuss health-care reform.
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/908cxoqy.asp
June 2009 -— James Rosen NK article
Fall 2009 -— WH attacks on Fox News escalates
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/12/white-house-escalates-war-words-fox-news/
Jan 19, 2010 -—The movement’s first major victory of the year occurred in January in Massachusetts—perhaps the bluest of the blue states—when Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in the Senate race to fill the seat vacated after the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy.
The ranks of Tea Party members grew in Congress throughout 2010.
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html
Jan. 21, 2010: Citizens United -— The Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot limit corporation or union spending for or against political candidates in this Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
February 6, 2010: Some say that Sarah Palin assumed the role as #1 Tea Partier when she delivered the keynote address at the first Tea Party Convention in February 2010 in Nashville. Some 600 people attended the full convention, and another 500 sat in on Palin’s speech only.
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html
In fact, Gallup poll in late March 2010 revealed that 28% of Americans have a positive perception of the Tea Party movement.
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html
March 1, 2010: An IRS manager in Cincinnati, Ohio asks employees to begin searching for 501(c) tax exemption applications using the terms Tea Party, Patriots and 9/12 as their criteria.
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/irs-targeting-scandal-timeline
May 2010 -— DOJ-—affidavit detailed the effort to get e-mails from the account of Fox News reporter James Rosen. He was not charged in the leak investigation although the document referred to him as a possible co-conspirator.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/03/doj-defends-holders-statement-on-leak-investigation/
Oct 1, 2010 -—”President Obama announced Friday that his brash and hard-charging chief of staff Rahm Emanuel would resign effective immediately, marking the most significant departure to date from the president’s inner circle.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/01/rahm-expected-leave-white-house-chicago-mayor-run/
October 26, 2010: Determinations Unit personnel emailed concerns about the additional review process for tea party applications to the Technical Unit. This individual follows up in November when response to concern about consistency yields no change.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584497/the-irs-targeting-controversy-a-timeline/
Hope you both and sending this information to those who can/will use it to its fullest!
'DIE! DIE! DIE!' - Rahm Emmanuel
Be my guest-—the info should flood Congress.
We have connected the dots for 4 years. The man is untouchable.
Without the Press there is little we can do.
Except be ready when enough of us finally get enough.
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama appoints White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary. Lew will replace Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who has been anxious to step down. Lew was Obama's third chief of staff, following Rahm Emanuel and Chicago scion Bill Daley. Emanuel, who has worked closely with Lew told the Sun-Times, "Jack Lew is the right choice for Treasury Secretary. Whether negotiating a bipartisan solution to reform Social Security as liaison to House Speaker Tip O'Neill, producing a budget with a surplus for three consecutive years in the Clinton Administration, or helping President Obama reach agreements to reduce our deficit and extend middle class tax cuts, Jack has the experience and judgment to lead the Treasury during this critical time for our nation's economy."
In anticipation of the appointment a White House official said in a statement: "Jack Lew will bring an impressive record of service in both the public and private sectors for over three decades and economic expertise to this important role, and his deep knowledge of domestic and international economic issues will enable him to take on the challenges facing our economy at home and abroad on day one. Throughout his career, Jack Lew has proven a successful and effective advocate for middle class families who can build bipartisan consensus to implement proven economic policies.
"As White House Chief of Staff, Jack Lew led the President's team in tackling some of the toughest domestic and international economic challenges facing our nation in decades. That included strengthening our nation's recovery from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression to dealing with serious fiscal matters and challenges in the global economy. He also led the Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton and President Obama, negotiating a historic agreement with Congress during the Clinton administration to balance the federal budget and leading the negotiations of the bipartisan Budget Control Act in 2011, which brought discretionary spending to historically low levels."
"As Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, in addition to managing the day-to-day operations of the Department, Jack Lew managed the State Department's international economic policy portfolio and traveled the world to advance our nation's interest. He also has a distinguished record leading private and public sector institutions and will bring strong relationships in the business community to his new role. At Citi, he was part of the senior internal management team of this global financial institution, serving as Managing Director and COO of Citi Global Wealth Management and then as Managing Director and COO of Citi Alternative Investments. As Chief Operating Officer at New York University, he was responsible for budget, finance, and operations, and was a professor of public administration."
SOURCE http://blogs.suntimes.com/politics/2013/01/rahm_emanuel_calls_jack_lew_right_choice_for_treasury.html
Thanks-—excellent timeline.
Excellent timeline.
Here’s the next step: coordinate these dates with the 157 time IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House.
I need to find a copy of the WH visitor access logs. The Daily Caller published a summary of the number of visits, but I’m hoping the logs also show the dates the he visited.
They contain date. Who was visited What was topic of meeting and who else was involved.
Kristinn might be able to tell you how to get access to the information
White House Counsel Robert Bauer: Architect of IRS Abuse? (Gov. Palin especially singled out) [J. Christian Adams]
"Any criminal investigation identifies for further scrutiny those with motive, opportunity, and means, and Bauer deserves no quarter from FBI investigators on those three counts."
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[Highlights from article]:
Motive
Robert Bauer had the motive to direct IRS policy against Tea Party groups. He is a longtime opponent of First Amendment freedoms and an advocate of government-speech regulation. He also can’t stand the work the Tea Party is conducting to monitor and eradicate voter fraud,....
During the 2008 election, while representing the Obama campaign, Bauer sent a threatening letter to the Justice Department demanding criminal investigations of people who had the audacity to speak about voter fraud.... Read the letter; it reveals a nasty, thuggish, and lawless attitude toward political opposition.
Means
President Obama’s campaign counsel certainly had the motive to target the Tea Party, but did Bauer have the means as campaign counsel? Remember, Bauer served as White House counsel from November 2009 to June 2011, right during the time this IRS shakedown was hatched.
Anybody who has worked in the White House will tell you that the White House counsel enjoys a position of power like few others. They can make things happen with a phone call. One former West Wing staffer told me that “any department’s staff who received directions from Bauer would think they were getting directions from the president. The White House counsel has the power to make policy with a phone call.”
Opportunity
Something important happened two months after Bauer became White House counsel — the Supreme Court decided Citizens United vs. FEC, a decision that cause the left to go batty.
The FBI agents might ask Bauer why a parade of Citizens United-obsessed speech-regulation zealots visited the West Wing just before the Tea Party shakedown went into effect.
The arrogant, self-entitled Obamatons surely went ballistic. Does not take much imagination to know the WH con artists were thinking up demonic ways to stop the Tea Partiers who stood in their path.
SIGNIFICANT Reember that the Obamatons also took over the census. When Rahm Emanuel landed at Treasury, he had all the tools at his disposal to target individuals, tea parties, patriot groups, and so on.
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NOW HEAR THIS---CONTACT YOUR CONGRSSMAN AND THE LOCAL MEDIA WITH THIS MESSAGE: All of the Treasury factotums doing Rahm's bidding need to be identified and brought before Congress to testify under oath. We need to know the specifics WRT Emanuel's activities at Treasury including dates and times when Emanuel consorted w/ the IRS.
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REFERENCE--WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.
When he got to Treasury, White House COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09
More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html
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MOMENTS TO REMEMBER Obama was fond of saying "Tea Parties are a threat to democracy."
Valerie Jarrett ominously warned, they "would not forget" which Americans did not worship Obama.
August 1, 2012---Mitt Romney presents one enormous problem for Barack Obama's campaign: No divorce records. That's why the media are so hot to get their hands on Romney's tax records for the past 25 years. They need something to "pick through, distort and lie about" -- as the Republican candidate says. Obama's usual campaign method, used in 100 percent of his races, has been to pry into the private records of his opponents.
Democrats aren't going to find any personal dirt on the clean-cut Mormon, so they need complicated tax filings going back decades in order to create the illusion of scandal out of boring financial records.
Romney has already released his 2010 tax return and is about to release his 2011 return. After all the huffing and puffing by the media demanding those returns, the follow-up story vanished remarkably quickly when the only thing the return showed was that Romney pays millions of dollars in taxes and gives a lot of money to charity.
Let's take a romp down memory lane and review the typical Obama campaign strategy. Obama became a U.S. senator only by virtue of David Axelrod's former employer, the Chicago Tribune, ripping open the sealed divorce records of Obama's two principal opponents.
One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader. But then the Chicago Tribune leaked the claim that Hull's second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.
Those records were under seal, but as The New York Times noted: "The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had 'worked aggressively behind the scenes' to push the story." Many people said Axelrod had "an even more significant role -- that he leaked the initial story."
Both Hull and his ex-wife opposed releasing their sealed divorce records, but they finally relented in response to the media's hysteria -- 18 days before the primary. Hull was forced to spend four minutes of a debate detailing the abuse allegation in his divorce papers, explaining that his ex-wife "kicked me in the leg and I hit her shin to try to get her to not continue to kick me." After having held a substantial lead just a month before the primary, Hull's campaign collapsed with the chatter about his divorce. Obama sailed to the front of the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the vote.
As luck would have it, Obama's opponent in the general election had also been divorced! Jack Ryan was tall, handsome, Catholic -- and shared a name with one of Harrison Ford's most popular onscreen characters! He went to Dartmouth, Harvard Law and Harvard Business School, made hundreds of millions of dollars as a partner at Goldman Sachs, and then, in his early 40s, left investment banking to teach at an inner city school on the South Side of Chicago. Ryan would have walloped Obama in the Senate race. But at the request of -- again -- the Chicago Tribune, California Judge Robert Schnider unsealed the custody papers in Ryan's divorce five years earlier from Hollywood starlet Jeri Lynn Ryan, the bombshell Borg on "Star Trek: Voyager."
Jack Ryan had released his tax records. He had released his divorce records. But both he and his ex-wife sought to keep the custody records under seal to protect their son. Amid the 400 pages of filings from the custody case, Jack Ryan claimed that his wife had had an affair, and she counterclaimed with the allegation that he had taken her to "sex clubs" in Paris, New York and New Orleans, which drove her to fall in love with another man. (Republicans: If you plan a career in public office, please avoid marrying a wacko.)
Ryan had vehemently denied her allegations at the time, but it didn't matter. The sex club allegations aired on "Entertainment Tonight," "NBC Nightly News," ABC's "Good Morning America," "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," and NBC's "Today" show. CNN covered the story like it was the first moon landing. (Interestingly, international papers also were ablaze with the story -- the same newspapers that were supposed to be so bored with American sexual mores during Bill Clinton's sex scandal.)
Four days after Judge Schnider unsealed the custody records, Ryan dropped out of the race for the horror of (allegedly) propositioning his own wife and then taking "no" for an answer. Alan Keyes stepped in as a last-minute Republican candidate.
And that's how Obama became a U.S. senator. He destroyed both his Democratic primary opponent and his Republican general election opponent with salacious allegations about their personal lives taken from "sealed" court records.
Obama's team delved into Sarah Palin's marriage and spread rumors of John McCain's alleged affair in 2008 and they smeared Herman Cain in 2011 with hazy sexual harassment allegations all emanating from David Axelrod's pals in Chicago. It's almost like a serial killer's signature. Unsealed personal records have been released to the press. Obama must be running for office! So you can see what a pickle the Obama campaign is in having to run against a Dudley Do-Right, non-drinking, non-smoking, God-fearing, happily married Mormon. They've got to get their hands on thousands of pages of Romney's tax filings so that the media can -- as Romney says -- lie about them.
It will be interesting to see if Obama can pick the lock of the famously guarded IRS.
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-——The man is untouchable-——
I would argue that there has been no serious attempt to touch him personally.
There is fear and panic now because the vision of actually being touched can be plainly seen even though there are clouds of smoke and obfuscation.
Checks And Balances—The Constitutional Structure For Limited And Balanced Government-—to guard the people’s liberty against government power.
The Constitution was devised with an ingenious and intricate built-in system of checks and balances to guard the people’s liberty against combinations of government power. It structured the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary separate and wholly independent as to function, but coordinated for proper operation, with safeguards to prevent usurpations of power. Only by balancing each against the other two could freedom be preserved, said John Adams.
Another writer of the day summarized clearly the reasons for such checks and balances:
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“If the LEGISLATIVE and JUDICIAL powers are united, the MAKER of the law will also INTERPRET it (constitutionality).
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Should the EXECUTIVE and LEGISLATIVE powers be united... the EXECUTIVE power would make itself absolu te, and the government end in tyranny.
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Should the EXECUTIVE and JUDICIAL powers be united, the subject (citizen) would then have no permanent security of his person or property.
“INDEED, the dependence of any of these powers upon either of the others ... has so often been productive of such calamities... that the page of history seems to be one continued tale of human wretchedness.” (Theophilus Parsons, ESSEX RESULTS)
What were some of these checks and balances believed so important to individual liberty? Several are listed below:
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HOUSE (peoples representatives) is a check on SENATE - no statute becomes law without its approval.
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SENATE is a check on HOUSE - no statute becomes law without its approval. (Prior to 17th Amendment, SENATE was appointed by State legislatures as a protection for states’ rights - another check the Founders provided.)
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EXECUTIVE (President) can restrain both HOUSE and SENATE by using Veto Power.
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LEGISLATIVE (Congress - Senate & House) has a check on EXECUTIVE by being able to pass, with 2/3 majority, a bill over President’s veto.
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LEGISLATIVE has further check on EXECUTIVE through power of discrimination in appropriation of funds for operation of EXECUTIVE.
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EXECUTIVE (President) must have approval of SENATE in filling important posts in EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
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EXECUTIVE (President) must have approval of SENATE before treaties with foreign nations can be effective.
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LEGISLATIVE (Congress) can conduct investigations of EXECUTIVE to see if funds are properly expended and laws enforced.
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EXECUTIVE has further check on members of LEGISLATIVE (Congress) in using discretionary powers in decisions regarding establishment of military bases, building & improvement of navigable rivers, dams, interstate highways, etc., in districts of those members.
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JUDICIARY is check on LEGISLATIVE through its authority to review all laws and determine their constitutionality.
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LEGISLATIVE (Congress) has restraining power over JUDICIARY, with constitutional authority to restrict extent of its jurisdiction.
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LEGISLATIVE has power to impeach members of JUDICIARY guilty of treason, high crimes, or misdemeanors.
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EXECUTIVE (President) is check on JUDICIARY by having power to nominate new judges.
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LEGISLATIVE (Senate) is check on EXECUTIVE and JUDICIARY having power to approve/disapprove nominations of judges.
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LEGISLATIVE is check on JUDICIARY - having control of appropriations for operation of federal court system.
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LEGISLATIVE (Peoples Representatives) is check on both EXECUTIVE and JUDICIARY through power to initiate amendments to Constitution subject to approval by 3/4 of the States.
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LEGISLATIVE (Senate) has power to impeach EXECUTIVE (President) with concurrence of 2/3, of members.
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The PEOPLE, through their State representatives, may restrain the power of the federal LEGISLATURE if 3/4 of the States do not ratify proposed Constitutional Amendments.
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LEGISLATIVE, by Joint Resolution, can terminate certain powers granted to EXECUTIVE (President) (such as war powers) without his consent.
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It is the PEOPLE who have final check on both LEGISLATIVE and EXECUTIVE when they vote on their Representatives every 2 years, their Senators every 6 years, and their President every 4 years. Through those selections, they also influence the potential makeup of the JUDICIARY.
It is up to each generation to see that the integrity of the Constitutional structure for a free society is maintained by carefully preserving the system of checks and balances essential to limited and balanced government. “To preserve them (is) as necessary as to institute them,” said George Washington.
Footnote: Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5
http://www.nccs.net/articles/ril31.html
To be sure, Democrats were terrified of the Tea Party. Many of them, even those in safe D districts went into hiding because they were confronted over their votes on porkulus, bank bailouts, and Obamacare at any and all public events.
Those that didn’t disappear revved up SEIU to intimidate Tea Party folks. That didn’t work because a good many Tea Partiers were crusty veterans who had faced off against much more fearful enemies than goons in purple shirts. And people started bringing cameras and capturing the fisticuffs (invariably initiated by the goons).
Many of the cowards just sponsored telephone town hall meetings - what kind of joke was that.
The 2010 election was a disaster for Democrats. They couldn’t take the chance that the Tea Party momentum would continue into 2012. The IRS was seeing huge numbers of Tea Party and conservative issue advocacy groups applying for 501(c) status. They had to be stopped at the gate before the ticket was purchased.
Ridiculing and demeaning the Tea Party was not enough. Stronger measures had to be taken to snuff out active participation leading to 2012.
Mmmmmmm.....nice contribution to the thread. Hope it gets lots of views.
Facts dont lie-—only politicans in fear of their seats lie. ROTFLOL.
EDITED EXCERPT .... an exciting time in the inbred world of Chicago Democratic politics.... Democratic don, Richard M. Daley ruled for 22 years, inheriting the mayoralty from his father, Mayor Richard J. Daley who held on for a generation. Now the ex-chief of staff of Chicagoan Barack Obama (once a state Senator, now president) was installed. US Treasury Secy Tim Geithner was there, and so was Chicagoan David Axelrod, an O team player.
BTW, Mayor Daley's former chief of staff, Valerie Jarrett, hired Obama's wife, Michelle, to work in City Hall. (Jarret is now ensconced in Washington---considered the adjutant president.)
Mayor Emanuel's innovative ways commenced early on---his organization was getting $50G's for the best seats at the inauguration (mmmm........that accounts for another couple million scammed from Treasury). THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD Candidate Rahm held a presser to say he had raised $10 million in contributions in just serveral weeks. ROTFLOL.
The mayoralty (and its--cough--"benefits") is a job Emanuel has coveted since he was a machine go-fer back in the 1980s.....before he became Bill Clinton's national campaign finance chairman and then a dual role as senior White House aide and Goldman Sachs lobbyist and then (gasp) becoming a multi-millionaire, thanks to a measly few months at a local investment firm...then a (gag) Congressman for four terms---then White House chief of staff for Obama that helped create the 2010 Republican House landslide.
...barring federal indictments--Chicago should have another new mayor say in 2033. You read it here first. -- By Andrew Malcolm
SOURCE http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/05/rahm-emanuel-new-chicago-mayor-tim-geithner.html
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