Posted on 01/15/2017 11:32:19 AM PST by Syncro
In the midst of lavishing praise on his boss and the administration, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said he is so proud that the Obama administration has been “historically free of scandal.”
.@Denis44 McDonough says the thing he's most proud of is that Obama is ‘historically free of scandal’ #CNNsotu https://t.co/Mj6Tc5xJiF— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 15, 2017
Wednesday, July 03, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes
Here is a list of 20 of the most prominent among them, as documented by veteran White House reporter Keith Koffler):
1. IRS targets Obama’s enemies: The IRS targeted conservative and pro-Israel groups prior to the 2012 election. Questions are being raised about why this occurred, who ordered it, whether there was any White House involvement and whether there was an initial effort to hide who knew about the targeting and when.
2. Benghazi: This is actually three scandals in one: The failure of administration to protect the Benghazi mission; the changes made to the talking points in order to suggest the attack was motivated by an anti-Muslim video; and the refusal of the White House to say what President Obama did the night of the attack.
3. Keeping an eye on The Associated Press: The Justice Department performed a massive cull of Associated Press reporters’ phone records as part of a leak investigation.
4. Rosengate: The Justice Department suggested that Fox News reporter James Rosen is a criminal for reporting about classified information and subsequently monitored his phones and emails.
5. Potential Holder perjury I: Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress he had never been associated with “potential prosecution” of a journalist for perjury when in fact he signed the affidavit that termed Rosen a potential criminal.
6. The ATF “Fast and Furious” scheme: Federal agencies allowed weapons from U.S. gun dealers to “walk” across the border into the hands of Mexican drug dealers. The ATF summarily lost track of scores of those weapons, many of which were used in crimes, including the December 2010 killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
7. Potential Holder perjury II: Holder told Congress in May 2011 that he had just recently heard about the Fast and Furious gun walking scheme when there is evidence he may have known much earlier.
8. Sebelius demands payment: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius solicited donations from companies HHS might regulate. The money would be used to help her sign up uninsured Americans for Obamacare.
9. The Pigford scandal: An Agriculture Department effort that started as an attempt to compensate black farmers who had been discriminated against by the agency but evolved into a gravy train delivering several billion dollars in cash to thousands of additional minority and female farmers who probably didn’t face discrimination.
10. GSA gone wild: The General Services Administration in 2010 held an $823,000 training conference in Las Vegas, featuring a clown and a mind readers. Resulted in the resignation of the GSA administrator.
11. Veterans Affairs in Disney World: The agency wasted more than $6 million on two conferences in Orlando. An assistant secretary was fired.
12. Sebelius violates the Hatch Act: A U.S. special counsel determined that Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made “extemporaneous partisan remarks” during a speech in her official capacity last year. During the remarks, Sebelius called for the election of the Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina.
13. Solyndra: Republicans charged the Obama Administration funded and promoted its poster boy for green energy despite warning signs the company was headed for bankruptcy. The administration also allegedly pressed Solyndra to delay layoff announcements until after the 2010 midterm elections.
14. AKA Lisa Jackson: Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used the name “Richard Windsor” when corresponding by email with other government officials, drawing charges she was trying to evade scrutiny.
15. The New Black Panthers: The Justice Department was accused of using a racial double standard in failing to pursue a voter intimidation case against Black Panthers who appeared to be menacing voters at a polling place in 2008 in Philadelphia.
16. Waging war all by myself: Obama may have violated the Constitution and both the letter and the spirit of the War Powers Resolution by attacking Libya without Congressional approval.
17. Biden bullies the press: Vice President Biden’s office has repeatedly interfered with coverage, including forcing a reporter to wait in a closet, making a reporter delete photos, and editing pool reports.
18. AKPD not A-OK: The administration paid millions to the former firm of then-White House adviser David Axelrod, AKPD Message and Media, to promote passage of Obamacare. Some questioned whether the firm was hired to help pay Axelrod $2 million AKPD owed him.
19. Sestak, we’ll take care of you: Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel used Bill Clinton as an intermediary to probe whether former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) would accept a prominent, unpaid White House advisory position in exchange for dropping out of the 2010 primary against former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.).
20. I’ll pass my own laws: Obama has repeatedly been accused of making end runs around Congress by deciding which laws to enforce, including the decision not to deport illegal immigrants who may have been allowed to stay in the United States had Congress passed the “Dream Act.”
http://www.naturalnews.com/041056_Obama_scandals_Benghazi_Fast_and_Furious.html
As someone said, the world is being separated into tares and wheat. The last 8 years are a witness to this.
Luke 8:12 King James Version (KJV)
12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the Devil, and taketh away the Word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be Saved.
Matthew 13:25-28 King James Version (KJV)
25 But while men slept, >>>his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat<<<, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, >>>An enemy hath done this<<<. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Had he been more white he would have been impeached.
Sudden unemployment and social irrelevance seems to loosen the tongues of post-administration employees. I look forward to watching 0bama’s “legacy” unravel like a cheap sweater faster than that of any previous presidency.
Bring on the Schadenfreude!
An Alinsky tactic I believe.
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Alinsky ripped off his ‘tactics’ from Hitler...fact. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Adolf Hitler”
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/adolf_hitler.html
People should take the time to read Hitler’s quotes at the above link. The democrats are using almost all of them!
Also used the tactics of the commiescum.
Lie. Persecute anyone speaking against the lie. change the lie often until there’s no one remaining that is capable of telling the truth.
And with the media being a branch of the DNC it was not that hard to pull off.
Now with twitter/facebook et al being places for instant posting of facts the left is pretty much snookered.
More: “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” Adolf Hitler
“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. Adolf Hitler”
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/adolf_hitler_2.html
Excellent BenLurkin, great find!
It was, but didn’t involve personal financial gain, like a Whitewater type scandal. It was crony capitalism that was technically legal, unless you can prove a quid pro quo for their donations to Obama, which you probably could not.
The questions at the ‘press conferecnes’ were submitted ahead of time, approved/rewritten by the WH, and then loaded into the teleprompter. That’s how it worked.
Trump is right to end the monopoly on the press room to the dead and dying media. Breitbart, Jim from here. Open the people’s house open to the people.
Very good info, thanks Ms Mable
I had forgotten the attribution for that quote
So says the biggest barefaced liar on FreeRepublic.
(Yeah - YOU, hondact200.)
Not according to the WH press liar, Josh Earnest, who had this to say just the other day:
“Sometimes we have been frustrated by the number of questions that are asked in one exchange,” Earnest said. “Sometimes we’ve been frustrated that questions include either questionable or inaccurate premises. In some cases we’ve been frustrated that the line of questioning from a number of journalists has been focused on the same thing.”It's unclear which alternative universe this occurred in because it certainly wasn't here.“There are other occasions where I’ve expressed to journalists some frustration with their decision to interrupt the president as he’s giving his answer to try to press him more forcefully, and there have even been occasions where the president himself has betrayed a little frustration about that,” Earnest added.
There was one Daily Caller guy who dared ask a real question during an Obama lecture on helping illegal aliens. He was chased off the White House lawn by irate Obama bot presstitutes.
Obama has been treated as the affirmative action president. All standards lowered for the Kenyan usurper.
These people wouldn’t even try this crap if we had a press with any integrity.
He should change his name to Penis McD. More appropriate to his intellect and what he says.
Well, the lapdog media certainly didn’t report on any of those scandals, so they can claim ‘no reports’ of any scandals.
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