Topic: AND, it is not just the IRS carrying the Obama Administration’s water …

[Pandora]

Another alphabet agency gets in on the “Conservatives are the enemy” marching orders; this time it’s the EPA

Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

    CEI reviewed Freedom of Information Act requests sent between January 2012 and this spring from several environmental groups friendly to the EPA’s mission, and several conservative groups, to see how equally the agency applies its fee waiver policy for media and watchdog groups. Government agencies are supposed to waive fees for groups disseminating information for public benefit. [...]

    For 92 percent of requests from green groups, the EPA cooperated by waiving fees for the information. Those requests came from the National Resources Defense Council, EarthJustice, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, The Waterkeeper Alliance, Greenpeace, Southern Environmental Law Center and the Center for Biological Diversity. [...]

    [CEI fellow Chris Horner] said, “The left hand of big government reaches out to give a boost to its far-left hand at every turn. Argue against more of the same, however, and prepare to be treated as if you have fewer rights.”

Nothing, no one, is allowed to stand in the way of PROGRESS! CHANGE! FUNDAMENTAL TRANFORMATION! Especially a bunch of teabagging, Constitution-fetishizing, #waronwomen, gun-worshipping, religion-clinging Hobbits.

Good Day, sir!

[trapeze]

Add it to the list but even if it is worthy of mention it will get drowned out by the others.

Still waiting for a major Democrat sex scandal.

[ToddF]

Because the favorite in 2016 pressuring Juanita Broaddrick to shut up, certainly wouldn't qualify as a sex scandal.

[Dan]

My pessimism knows no bounds these days. All this stuff won't be but a blip on the radar. A speed bump.
The admin, I think, correctly sized up the ignorance, indifference, gullability and apathy of the electorate. A too large part of it anyway.
They also correctly pegged the "opposition" as being spineless.
I hate to say it (hope I'm wrong, in fact) but i don't see this going the way it should.

[Libertas]

Not buying the gathering feeding frenzy either.  I expect to have all this amount to nothing but highlighting the fact of how useless so many Americans have become, how disasterously poor we are led and how pointless politics is.  Why would I go out of my way to expect anything else?

As for the EPA, ignore their edicts, good advice for the rest of the tyrants too.  Screw 'em all.

[Weisshaupt]

My pessimism knows no bounds these days. All this stuff won't be but a blip on the radar. A speed bump.
The admin, I think, correctly sized up the ignorance, indifference, gullability and apathy of the electorate. A too large part of it anyway.
They also correctly pegged the "opposition" as being spineless.
I hate to say it (hope I'm wrong, in fact) but i don't see this going the way it should.

the AP wiretapping may very well motivate enough of the press to "teach this punk a lesson" - The electorate care about what they are told to care about by the press (Its on the MSM or it didn't happen)  - will that result in what "should" happen? I don't know. Probably not.  At this point anything that causes the Administration headaches gives me joy.  I don't have any illusions about justice being served, or anything being fixed. I just enjoy the thought that the nigger punk is finally being shown some trouble - some sleepless nights, and anger. And frustration.   Life isn't going to present much to be happy about in the years ahead. Make sure you enjoy the good stuff when it happens. I am philosophically a pessimist,  but I am not going to let knowledge that I won't get everything I want to spoil what little I do get. What matters is that Borat and his cronies suffer in some way , and that their suffering begin early and last as long as possible. Enjoy the theater.

The whole Country  is unrecoverable at this point, so it really doesn't matter if what "should happen" does. Say Obama is impeached.  Oh Goody Biden is in charge. Say we get Biden out on being complicit? Then we get the spineless squishy orange Man.  And that is the best we get..


#   Office   Current officer
1   Vice President of the United States   Joe Biden (D)
2   Speaker of the House   John Boehner (R)
3   President pro tempore of the Senate   Patrick Leahy (D)
4   Secretary of State   John Kerry (D)
5   Secretary of the Treasury   Jacob Lew (D)
6   Secretary of Defense   Chuck Hagel (R)
7   Attorney General   Eric Holder (D)
--   Secretary of the Interior   Sally Jewell (D)[3]
8   Secretary of Agriculture   Tom Vilsack (D)
--   Acting Secretary of Commerce   Rebecca Blank (D)[4]
--   Acting Secretary of Labor   Seth Harris (D)[4]
9   Secretary of Health and Human Services   Kathleen Sebelius (D)
10   Secretary of Housing and Urban Development   Shaun Donovan (D)
11   Secretary of Transportation   Ray LaHood (R)
--   Acting Secretary of Energy   Daniel Poneman (D)[4]
12   Secretary of Education   Arne Duncan (D)
13   Secretary of Veterans Affairs   Eric Shinseki (I)
14   Secretary of Homeland Security   Janet Napolitano (D)

What I think "should" happen might yet happen, and it has nothing to do with these events. 

[Libertas]

1   Vice President of the United States   Joe Biden (D) Loser!
2   Speaker of the House   John Boehner (R) Loser!
3   President pro tempore of the Senate   Patrick Leahy (D) Loser!
4   Secretary of State   John Kerry (D) Loser!
5   Secretary of the Treasury   Jacob Lew (D) Loser!
6   Secretary of Defense   Chuck Hagel (R) Loser!
7   Attorney General   Eric Holder (D) Loser!
--   Secretary of the Interior   Sally Jewell (D)[3] Loser!
8   Secretary of Agriculture   Tom Vilsack (D) Loser!
--   Acting Secretary of Commerce   Rebecca Blank (D)[4] Loser!
--   Acting Secretary of Labor   Seth Harris (D)[4] Loser!
9   Secretary of Health and Human Services   Kathleen Sebelius (D) Loser!
10   Secretary of Housing and Urban Development   Shaun Donovan (D) Loser!
11   Secretary of Transportation   Ray LaHood (R) Loser!
--   Acting Secretary of Energy   Daniel Poneman (D)[4] Loser!
12   Secretary of Education   Arne Duncan (D) Loser!
13   Secretary of Veterans Affairs   Eric Shinseki (I) Loser!
14   Secretary of Homeland Security   Janet Napolitano (D) Loser!

I guess we now know why libiots are forcing reductions in magazine capcity for We the People but not They the Government!

[charlesoakwood]

"At this point anything that causes the Administration headaches gives me joy."

I'm thinking Boyking's bad habits are on the increase. 
That potentiometer is opening the flow.  Crank it up.

[Predator Don]

My pessimism knows no bounds these days. All this stuff won't be but a blip on the radar. A speed bump.
The admin, I think, correctly sized up the ignorance, indifference, gullability and apathy of the electorate. A too large part of it anyway.
They also correctly pegged the "opposition" as being spineless.
I hate to say it (hope I'm wrong, in fact) but i don't see this going the way it should.

Mine either. The media has licked and sniffed the crotch of obama for so long that I only see token objections. There will be no real justice. We'll get to hear a few state this will never happen again and apathy will rule the day.

[Glock32]

I'm waiting for this angle:

"This is the sort of thing that goes on in politics. It's the unsavory underbelly of every Administration. We should really be thankful that we have such a nuanced and intelligent President who is able to mitigate the worst passions and prejudices of staffers. Can you imagine how much worse things would have been with any other president?"

[AlanS]

I'm waiting for this angle:

"This is the sort of thing that goes on in politics. It's the unsavory underbelly of every Administration. We should really be thankful that we have such a nuanced and intelligent President who is able to mitigate the worst passions and prejudices of staffers. Can you imagine how much worse things would have been with any other president?"

It'll read JUST LIKE THAT in the media.

[Predator Don]

My pessimism knows no bounds these days. All this stuff won't be but a blip on the radar. A speed bump.
The admin, I think, correctly sized up the ignorance, indifference, gullability and apathy of the electorate. A too large part of it anyway.
They also correctly pegged the "opposition" as being spineless.
I hate to say it (hope I'm wrong, in fact) but i don't see this going the way it should.

the AP wiretapping may very well motivate enough of the press to "teach this punk a lesson" - The electorate care about what they are told to care about by the press (Its on the MSM or it didn't happen)  - will that result in what "should" happen? I don't know. Probably not.  At this point anything that causes the Administration headaches gives me joy.  I don't have any illusions about justice being served, or anything being fixed. I just enjoy the thought that the nigger punk is finally being shown some trouble - some sleepless nights, and anger. And frustration.   Life isn't going to present much to be happy about in the years ahead. Make sure you enjoy the good stuff when it happens. I am philosophically a pessimist,  but I am not going to let knowledge that I won't get everything I want to spoil what little I do get. What matters is that Borat and his cronies suffer in some way , and that their suffering begin early and last as long as possible. Enjoy the theater.

The whole Country  is unrecoverable at this point, so it really doesn't matter if what "should happen" does. Say Obama is impeached.  Oh Goody Biden is in charge. Say we get Biden out on being complicit? Then we get the spineless squishy orange Man.  And that is the best we get..


#   Office   Current officer
1   Vice President of the United States   Joe Biden (D)
2   Speaker of the House   John Boehner (R)
3   President pro tempore of the Senate   Patrick Leahy (D)
4   Secretary of State   John Kerry (D)
5   Secretary of the Treasury   Jacob Lew (D)
6   Secretary of Defense   Chuck Hagel (R)
7   Attorney General   Eric Holder (D)
--   Secretary of the Interior   Sally Jewell (D)[3]
8   Secretary of Agriculture   Tom Vilsack (D)
--   Acting Secretary of Commerce   Rebecca Blank (D)[4]
--   Acting Secretary of Labor   Seth Harris (D)[4]
9   Secretary of Health and Human Services   Kathleen Sebelius (D)
10   Secretary of Housing and Urban Development   Shaun Donovan (D)
11   Secretary of Transportation   Ray LaHood (R)
--   Acting Secretary of Energy   Daniel Poneman (D)[4]
12   Secretary of Education   Arne Duncan (D)
13   Secretary of Veterans Affairs   Eric Shinseki (I)
14   Secretary of Homeland Security   Janet Napolitano (D)

What I think "should" happen might yet happen, and it has nothing to do with these events. 

I will say this.....an angry Obama is a vindictive Obama and one prone to make more mistakes. With his favorite weapons under investigation....

[Libertas]

I'm waiting for this angle:

"This is the sort of thing that goes on in politics. It's the unsavory underbelly of every Administration. We should really be thankful that we have such a nuanced and intelligent President who is able to mitigate the worst passions and prejudices of staffers. Can you imagine how much worse things would have been with any other president?"

This is rich - "Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast,"

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/348346/scarborough-goes-axelrod-spinning-ap-tapping-%E2%80%98save-somebody-else-buy-that%E2%80%99

Axelroded just gave the Pubbies a prime cause to slash the scale and scope of government...but the Rovians and other Ruling Class whores will render that to campaign rhetoric with zero follow up as usual...

[Predator Don]

I'm waiting for this angle:

"This is the sort of thing that goes on in politics. It's the unsavory underbelly of every Administration. We should really be thankful that we have such a nuanced and intelligent President who is able to mitigate the worst passions and prejudices of staffers. Can you imagine how much worse things would have been with any other president?"

This is rich - "Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast,"

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/348346/scarborough-goes-axelrod-spinning-ap-tapping-%E2%80%98save-somebody-else-buy-that%E2%80%99

Axelroded just gave the Pubbies a prime cause to slash the scale and scope of government...but the Rovians and other Ruling Class whores will render that to campaign rhetoric with zero follow up as usual...

How democrats can listen to Axelrod and not  is beyond me. In essence, Axelrod is addmitting libs are the problem because they are growing gov't at a record pace. Absolutly no shame.

[Glock32]

Well the solution, obviously, is a new agency tasked with monitoring the behavior of other agencies. The answer to problems caused by the government being so vast is to make it vaster. Duh!

[Weisshaupt]

Well the solution, obviously, is a new agency tasked with monitoring the behavior of other agencies. The answer to problems caused by the government being so vast is to make it vaster. Duh!

Don't even joke about it.  Every secret police needs a separate  group to spy on them.  Obama would think it a wonderful idea

[charlesoakwood]

Yes it is, and a nice firing of the "responsible" agency heads and officials will be good PR and pave the way for newer and better subordinates.

[Libertas]

Yes it is, and a nice firing of the "responsible" agency heads and officials will be good PR and pave the way for newer and better subordinates.

Oh, like Obama firing "acting" IRS head Steven Miller who was resigning in June anyway?  How bold!  How principled!  How not will this f**king matter one damn bit!

 

[Libertas]

New allegation - Congressman: Justice Dept. Wiretapped the House of Representative's Cloak Room

Sure, why not?  Who's gonna stop 'em, eh?