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Posted on 05/18/2013 9:44:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
You know the people I’m talking about. The Know-Nothings.
You know the folks who pushed that one law regarding almost 20 percent of the entire economy before they even read the bill? The ones who rushed it into law just to see what was in it? The ones who managed to write a bill, while still not being familiar with what the bill actually did?
Yeah, those guys? The Know-Nothings.
Well, they know nothing about a lot of other stuff too.
Obama’s one of those guys. So is Eric Holder. So, apparently, is the entire staff at the IRS from the executive offices upward.
They are kind of an “Axis of See No Evil, Hear No Evil”.
Below is a laundry list from the Huffington Post about Attorney General Eric Holder’s gripping testimony to congress regarding his department’s latest suppression of the First Amendment while seizing phone records from a news organization.
You know, just in case you didn’t know about it, this will clear everything up for you. And just in case you miss the subtlety below, Holder, by the way, knows nothing:
· "I was not the person involved in that decision,"
· "I am not familiar with the reasons why the subpoena was constructed in the way that it was because I'm simply not a part of the case."
· "I do not know, however, with regard to this particular case, why that was or was not done."
· "I simply do not have a factual basis for answering that question."
· "Again, Mr. Chairman, I don't know."
· "I assume he was, but I don't know."
· "I don't know what has happened in this matter."
· “This is both an ongoing matter and an ongoing matter about which I know nothing.”
· Holder also said he did not know "precisely" when he had recused himself from the investigation.
Liberal publications, including the Washington Post, carry similar lists.
However, Holder’s Know-Nothing affiliation shouldn’t surprise us because his boss is a Know-Nothing too.
In fact, he’s the chief Know-Nothing.
When asked about the recent Inspector General’s report on the IRS’s practice of targeting conservative groups, the president said: Hey! I just read about that!
“I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this,” Obama said in a statement that says nothing, but still reveals much. “I think it was on Friday.”
As a follow-up I wish someone had thought to ask Obama what he had for lunch on Friday. It’d be nice to know if our president knows nothing about that as well.
Obama apparently knew nothing about Boston, about the illegal seizure of Associated Press phone records, the strong-arming of State Department employees, the constitution, the economy, job creation....
In fact, as I wrote at the beginning of the month, Obama, the know-it-all, suddenly seemed to know nothing, even before the IRS-AP fracas:
Still, it’s surprising that the administration that knows more about banking than bankers, more about healthcare than doctors, more about firearms than people who legally possess arms, more about budgets than citizens who have to balance their checkbooks and more about practically everything than anyone else, would admit that on a few things, they really know nothing.
“On most days it's hard to tell him he's wrong about anything,” recently confessed one top Democrat about the Commander in Brief.
It’s seems equally hard to TELL him about anything too.
But here it is:
Obama knows nothing about Benghazi.
He knows nothing about Boston’s Tsarnaev brothers.
He knows nothing about Fast and Furious; he knows nothing about green energy loans, either.
Yes, the man who recently proclaimed: I AM IN CHARGE NOW, FINALLY! knows nothing.
This seems strange coming from the administration that leaked every damn detail about how Barack Obama personally hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden, while simultaneously saving Detroit from bankruptcy… saved Detroit at least until after the election in 2012, that is.
But the Know-Nothing party isn’t just a celebration of individual ignorance, it’s institutional too:
“Republicans seem to be losing patience with [ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service Steven] Miller because his answers don’t change,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “of course, neither have their questions. Miller, in response to rough questioning from [Republican] Dave Reichert, says he doesn’t know who is primarily responsible for initiating these searches of tea-party groups.”
“I don’t have that name, Sir,” Miller said.
Nor does anyone else at the IRS.
But of course the only people who seem surprise by this outbreak of ignorance are those other Know-Nothings, the press.
The rest of us?
We knew that this administration knew nothing a long time ago.
We need some whistleblowers.
Is everyone in the Obama administration afflicted with dementia ?
They are either showing their contempt for the legislature by refusing to answer or they are hiding criminal activity and are giving legalistic answers in case they are discovered.
Axis no questions. We’ll still tell you lies.
It seems to be
what does it matter! He has to spend his time out campaigning raising millions of dollars to fight us
Sadly, this is not the first era of “Know-Nothings” in American history.
The original “Know-Nothings” were largely anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant, and were active between the years 1845 to about the outbreak of the Civil War. When asked about the activities of the party, members were supposed to say, “I know nothing”, and it was also their password to enter the semi-secret meetings.
The current crop of “Know-Nothings” also use some variant of that phrase, and form a semi-secret club within the “liberal-progressive” school of political activity in this country. They are not only anti-Catholic, but anti-Christian as a whole, and while they will not overtly say so, also anti-Jewish as well. But immigrants, they like, particularly Islamic immigrants, it would seem.
Very good.
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- “Maybe a little blow...”
- Barack Hussein Obama II
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We’ll soon hear that an “unexpected” Crackerjackistan hacker virus destroyed all IRS / State Dept data needed by Congress...
We knew that this administration knew nothing a long time ago.
AMEN
There’s one thing Dear Leader knows: If he populates the regime with people of his ilk, they will always intuitively act in concert with his wishes. No orders must be given, and no fingerprints or paper trail will ever lead to him. There’s always a temp or retiree who can take the fall to protect the rotten leadership.
The Washington Week pundits on PBS were abuzz last night that last week at the White House was spent huddling with Clintonista political strategists. In itself, that’s a clear reminder to any potentially honest people of the life and fate of Ron Brown.
He doesn’t have to directly orchestrate Chicago racketeering, just has to send Dog Whistles - like “bitter clingers.”
Right, Matthews?
They sound like they’re having a contest to see who can do the best impression of Sergeant Schultz.
Liar, liar pants on fire.
I’d actually prefer calling them bald-faced liars to the alternative which is incompetence on the level of Dumb and Dumber.
That scary scenario bodes disaster in the world affairs.
Some of the faces may change, but it will always be the MOB.
I wonder if they remember Valerie Jarret promising “revenge” on Obama’s political enemies?
http://www.sentryjournal.com/2012/11/05/obama-ally-valerie-jarret-promises-vengeance-against-all-opposition-hope-and-change/
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