The Enablers of Obama’s Wiretapping Scandal

The American thinker ^ | 03/06/17 | Steve McCann

[pgkdan]

As the news of the potential wiretapping of the Trump campaign has finally found its way into the headlines and the never-ending leaks emanating from the Obama Administration holdovers continue to be exploited, whatever national chaos and retribution that may ensue rests not only on the shoulders of the perpetrators but on enablers in a sycophantic mainstream media and a feckless Republican Party.

Since 1989 and the election of George H.W. Bush, the vast majority of Republicans elected to national office have chosen to worship the twin gods of civility and compromise rather than vigorously defend and promote liberty, free enterprise and limited government. Meanwhile, their political adversaries, the Democratic Party and the Left (now one and the same) had no such compunctions as they were determined to achieve their ends regardless of the means. Among the means were endless intimidation, extortion and ridicule of the Republicans in Congress or either of the two George Bushes. All this without fear of retaliation or even the slightest hint of a vigorous defense or response.

In conjunction with their accomplices in the mainstream media, Democrats quickly ascertained that any outrageous accusation on their part, such as that Republicans are determined to starve children, would eventuate in the near complete surrender of any opposition to their proposed policies -- all of which are now embedded in American society. Further, rather than support their colleagues in the Party who were oftentimes the victims of specious and malicious accusations, the spineless elites in the Republican Party sacrificed their members on the altar of civility and faux integrity.

[pgkdan]

from the article:

The wiretapping and the deliberate strategy to undermine one’s successor are perhaps the most egregious political actions by any president in American history, far surpassing Watergate or the Teapot Dome scandals. In fact, they are tactics that would have been applauded by some of the despots of the past century.

This is a big damned deal and the GOP better get off their asses and get with the program. This is war and they need to decide which side they're on.

[Travis McGee]

[Travis McGee]

[Jeff Chandler]

I predict requests for the FISA request documents will be stonewalled by Democrat judges and perhaps disappear.

[marktwain]

Since 1989 and the election of George H.W. Bush, the vast majority of Republicans elected to national office have chosen to worship the twin gods of civility and compromise rather than vigorously defend and promote liberty, free enterprise and limited government.

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That timeline is off by over two decades. I would say it started about 1960-65.

[yoe]

(Obama, Organizing for Action, and the Death Throes of the Democratic Party)....send this and the American Thinker article to your lists especially to your Elected regardless of party. Obama is seditious, he is treasonous...both are crimes...there should be consequences even for this Black man regardless of his anti-American base.

[StockJockey]

So far I haven’t observed any mention of the potential roles of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. As members of the Gang of Eight they may have had advance knowledge of the FISA request and/or supported its application.

This is in part Democrat vs Republican but more broadly Establishment Washington vs Populist Insurgency. Many establishment Republicans have as much to lose as the Dems.

Expect a (political) fight to the death.

[left that other site]

“the twin gods of civility and compromise”

Wow! A allusion to “Pilgrim’s Progress”. I wonder if anyone else caught this.

In the 1678 Allegory, a pilgrim named Christian is described in a dream sequence as encountering the personified hindrances to his journey to the Celestial City. The bad guys have names like “Civility”, “Legality”, and “Ignorance”. It’s been a while, but “Compromise” is probably somewhere along the road too!

And, yes, this IS worse than Watergate or the Teapot Dome Scandal. MUCH worse.

[UCANSEE2]

Obama made wiretapping/surveillance of POLITICAL OPPONENTS completely legal. This way he no longer had to 'order it', it was simply done by DHS.

Obama Just Federalized U.S. Elections By Authorizing Homeland Security Control

[Leep]

DHS seems to be the one’s who did obama’s dirty work. They keep popping back up again and again?

[samtheman]

Since 1989 and the election of George H.W. Bush, the vast majority of Republicans elected to national office have chosen to worship the twin gods of civility and compromise...

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Many Republicans have become victims of a kind of Stockholm Syndrome, in which their “worship of civility” in the face of leftist attacks has morphed into a worship of the leftist attackers themselves.

[cicero2k]

We are witnessing the end of a 28 year reign of a political party now called the “uniparty”. Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama.

End of an era, where good intentions were more important than logic.

Major transitions should be painful.

CNN and other uniparty partners are aghast. Not a surprise.

[MileHi]

Nice work, TM