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White House Mocks Issa Fast & Furious Investigation as "Political Theater"
CBS News via Twitter ^ | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 | Mark Knoller

Posted on 06/20/2012 10:03:23 AM PDT by kristinn

WH Comms Dir @pfeiffer44 slams Oversight Cmte for pursuing "a politically-motivated, taxpayer-funded election-year fishing expedition."

In written statement, @pfeiffer44 says House GOP should work with Presd Obama "to create more jobs, not more political theater.”


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To: kristinn

A taxpayer funded political theater in an election year?

No...that was the Roger Clemens witchhunt.


101 posted on 06/20/2012 1:09:16 PM PDT by bigoil (Study Thy Nixon)
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To: TigersEye; Fred Nerks; LucyT; little jeremiah

The White House and DOJ are shiverin’ and shakin’ like dogs $hittin’ razor blades.

Duh? Did they not know it would come to this? No compromise, no deals? When the documents are finally seized, they will reveal treason and usurpation
by disloyal appointed and elected officials who have not observed their oaths to uphold the constitution.

Next Obama and Holder will try to offer up a scapegoat for destruction. I hope ISSA pushes through to the very top to successfully destroy these liberal fascists who put their own sordid political correctness ideology OVER the rule of law, even unto causing death of our own people and many Mexican citizens.........Thats truly fascism.

Good Read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


102 posted on 06/20/2012 1:14:07 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info....http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: kristinn
The only people that care are already conservative voters.

The blacks and welfare voters don't care about the constitution or laws as long as they can suck on the gov tit.

103 posted on 06/20/2012 1:15:47 PM PDT by MrPiper
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To: kristinn

Hey, @phiffer44 - I fart in your general direction!


104 posted on 06/20/2012 1:16:54 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: kristinn
I posted somewhere around here this morning that CNN (in my office coffee room) seemed to be taking the situation seriously, and didn't appear to be taking sides.

When I went for more coffee at 4:00, they were unanimously trumpeting the Administration line that this was merely political theater, designed to embarrass Obama for the upcoming election.

In addition to revealing the CNN on-air staff as political sock puppets, it also revealed much of their overall cluelessness. They didn't even know this situation was coming to a boil.

People on the right have been following these developments and machinations for many months, but for the CNN experts, this came out of left field, and caught them without their talking points for a few hours.

Thank Gaia for fax machines, they're back on point!!

105 posted on 06/20/2012 1:23:21 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: listenhillary

The economy will be released the day that man loses power, just like the hostages were released when a real president took over.


106 posted on 06/20/2012 1:27:35 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Could all be a ruse to replace Obama with Hillary to go against Romney

She is in this up to her wattled neck. It is her cause.

107 posted on 06/20/2012 1:27:40 PM PDT by xone
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To: Truth29

‘If the DOJ will not go into court for the House, then Boehner and Issa would have to hire their own counsel to file suit.’

I think Rusty Hardin is available...


108 posted on 06/20/2012 1:27:46 PM PDT by bigoil (Study Thy Nixon)
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To: kristinn

Thou doth protest too much.


109 posted on 06/20/2012 1:33:56 PM PDT by TheZMan (Obama is without a doubt the worst President ever elected to these United States)
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To: kristinn

Whipped dog yelps the loudest.


110 posted on 06/20/2012 2:11:37 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: Candor7

I suspect some of these documents would reveal 0bama and Holder openly speaking of using Project Gunrunner to create the narrative they needed to push more gun control.


111 posted on 06/20/2012 2:20:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Well, there’s one way to prove it Mr. Obama. Withdraw your Executive Privilege claim, release the documents and we’ll see. Put up or shut up Dumbo.

My thoughts exactly! If it really is all just political theater, then releasing the requested documents will only prove that, right? Hiding them by Executive Privilege only causes everyone to start questioning what they are hiding.

112 posted on 06/20/2012 2:32:56 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: mandaladon
“Supreme Court case United States v. Richard Nixon…” the president cannot use executive privilege as an excuse to withhold evidence that is ‘demonstrably relevant to an investigation.’The question is, will Obama get away with this?”

In all likelihood yes, at least as far as the SCOTUS is concerned. It's highly unlikely they will see this case before them until after the election.

If Bambi wins reelection, the Supremes rule against him and the Repubs take the Senate, can you say impeachment BABY!

113 posted on 06/20/2012 2:45:45 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: kristinn

So at least two hundred dead Mexicans (probably more) are a “fishing expedition” to you Mr. Pfeiffer? Not to mention the dead BP agents.

Careful there Dan...your racism is showing.


114 posted on 06/20/2012 3:17:19 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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POLITICAL THEATER??? Oh, just like Watergate, right? BORDER PATROL AGENTS ARE DEAD, we have violated the sovereign territory of a neighbor, and DOJ has been stonewalling this exercise of Constitutional oversight for years.

Then again, Fast and Furious was ALL ABOUT THEATER, wasn't it? Theater to stage a wag-the-dog fiction about gunrunning in order to achieve a political agenda.

Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you need them?

115 posted on 06/20/2012 3:19:16 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Steyn: "One can argue about whose fault it is, but not ... whose responsibility it is: it's his")
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To: BlatherNaut

I don’t understand how the WH was going to exploit the murder statistics of people that they’re partly responsible for murdering.


116 posted on 06/20/2012 3:50:41 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: Crucial
I don’t understand how the WH was going to exploit the murder statistics of people that they’re partly responsible for murdering.

Their responsibility wasn't supposed to become public. From what I understand, an associate of the murdered border patrol agent blew the whistle on the source of the guns.

117 posted on 06/20/2012 3:55:11 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut

Oh, and the murders were supposed to be an argument against gun ownership? I guess I’m not seeing the bigger picture or the strategy of the WH. I understand what they did wrong but not the reason why. I just assumed that they were letting the gangs run wild to further entrench themselves into American neighborhoods thru the drug trade, further compromising American sovereignty. I suppose it could further both objectives.


118 posted on 06/20/2012 4:25:42 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: kristinn
Will Sen. Howard Baker be a guest on the Sunday morning talk shows? If we had a free and independent press, producers would have his phone ringing off the hook.

Meanwhile, anyone with a memory of the Watergate saga is having an extreme case of deja vu.

119 posted on 06/20/2012 4:33:41 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Steyn: "One can argue about whose fault it is, but not ... whose responsibility it is: it's his")
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To: Resettozero
By ‘anyone’ I'm referring to the clueless in the general population.. Next time I'll try to be clearer... Freepers definitely get it.
120 posted on 06/20/2012 4:48:00 PM PDT by GOPJ (The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM fail to notice...)
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