Reflections From a Murky Pond

It is a simple truth that one can judge the tenor and climate of the People by their conversations in bars, saloons, and pubs. Much like the barbershops of bygone days, it is in these places where men speak frankly of matter of greater and lesser import.

2 guys, Jim and Dan, talking in a bar:

Jim: Hey Dan, did you hear about the Obama administration scandal?
Dan: You mean the Mexican gun running?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean SEAL Team 6?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Obama saying the average family would save $2,500 on their premiums?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Forcing businesses to violate their religious beliefs by paying for drugs that abort the unborn?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Violating the rights and sanctity of our Churches?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Spending $634 million on a website that doesn’t work?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Obama calling for an increase in our national debt when he lambasted Bush for the very same thing?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Obama having NSA spy on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One Month?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Saddling our kids with $17 trillion in debt of which they can never get out of and will not have as good a life as we have?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Bailing out Detroit after decades of corrupt Democratic management?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean voter fraud?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Intentionally trying to hurt Americans during the sequester?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Blocking veterans who secured our freedoms from their monuments but giving the green light for Illegals to use Monument Mall?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Denying school kids the ability to tour the White House but still spending lavishly on his parties?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean Obama saying we can keep our insurance and doctors if we wanted to?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean the military not getting their votes counted?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The NSA monitoring foreign diplomats?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean the use of drones in our own country without the benefit of the law?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million and right after it declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood?
Jim: No the other one.

Dan: The IRS targeting conservatives?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The DOJ spying on the press?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean Obama spending $3.7 Trillion on Welfare Over Last 5 Years?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Giving SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything else?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Millions of Americans losing their health care coverage?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Forcing Americans to include coverage in their insurance policies of items they do not want?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons, and falsely blaming the sequester?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Denying Arizona the right to protect its borders?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Providing weapons to Syrian rebels many of whom apparently are Al-Qaeda and other Jihadists?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The president’s repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The 2012 vote where 115% of all registered voters in some counties voted 100% for Obama?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The president’s unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate’s advise-and-consent role?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Clinton, the IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The President using nearly $1 trillion dollars of stimulus money to fund his cronies?
Jim: No, the other one

Dan: You mean Fast & Furious?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: I give up! …Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters who don’t pay taxes and get free stuff from taxpayers and stuck us again with the most pandering, corrupt administration in American history?
Jim: THAT’S THE ONE!

It’s an odd feeling to live in America at a time when the regime trying to rule it is so wrong-headed, corrupt, and criminal that any specific one of Obama’s many failings and bad acts are literally lost in the fog of scandal that surrounds him and his regime.

Tags: Humor | Jokes | Obama | Scandal

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 21st, 2014 at 2:01 pm and is filed under Humor, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

According to CNN’s John King the VA Scandal was the last straw for some Congressional Democrats. Supposedly, privately they’ve turned against Obama and are speaking harshly about him.

“More and more Democrats in key 2014 races are calling for the president to get a spine, they say, and fire his Veterans Affairs secretary. And what more and more Democrats are saying privately is scathing, calling the president and his team detached, flat footed, even incompetent.

“Maggie Haberman,” said King turning to a panelist, “that’s what strikes me, what democrats are saying privately in the wakes of the healthcare.gov problems, they see a president who doesn’t want to take command, doesn’t want to act fast. Raising the competence question. Some Democrats, who believe in government, [are saying] this White House doesn’t appear to have its hand on the lever.”

— John King
CNN, Inside Politics, May 25, 2014

My response is, “Yeah, yeah…Yawn.” The key phrasing in King’s report is, “Democrats in key 2014 races.” All this is is CNN dutifully “leaking” the campaign points of Democrat politicians facing tough re-election fights in the upcoming 2014 midterm elections. The Dems want to distant themselves from the failure of Obama Regime and CNN is doing what they can to aid and abet them in doing so.

Face it, the only way a Democrat would ever care about the Military and Veterans is if they unionized.

Tags: 2014 Elections | America | CNN | Democrats | John King | Lies | Media Bias | Obama | Politics | Propaganda | Scandal | Veterans | Veterans Affairs

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 at 12:10 pm and is filed under 2014 Election, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

You’d think, given that Obama and his handlers and overseers were told about the malfeasance of VA hospitals over five years ago, something would have been done about it before it turned into such a scandal. Yet, the boy did nothing. Beyond a bit of worthless and empty rhetoric the boy never even spoke of it.

The only people who seem to have tried to initiate some form of Veterans Affairs Reform were the members of the US House of Representatives and every one of their efforts was DOA upon reaching the US Senate. Over the past 18 months the House has passed at least 12 bills that would initiate various forms of reform within the VA but Harry Reid has refused to bring any of them to the Senate floor for consideration, debate, and vote.

In the past 18 months, since I’ve been a member of Congress, we’ve passed, on the House floor, at least 12 reform VA bills. Mandating the VA to fix different things, mandating the VA to report different things, mandating them to fix their website, bipartisan bills that went to the Senate, and they are DOA on the Senate side.

— Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN)

The House’s most recent attempt at reforming the VA system was a simple bill to allow the Secretary of Veterans Affairs – currently Eric Shinseki – to actually fire employees for poor performance or willful malfeasance such manipulating and falsifying data.  It had fairly broad bipartisan support – even Nancy Pelosi endorsed it.  Yet, this bill too was DOA in the Senate.

Think about this the next time – and there will be many next times – some domestic enemy claims that the GOP is obstructionist or a “Do Nothing” party. Think about the fact that Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats have been proven to be unwilling to even consider any and bills, no matter how needful, limited, and simple, that originate in the GOP-led House of Representatives.

Tags: America | Obama | Pelosi | Politics | Reid | Scandal | US Military | VA | Veterans | Veterans Affairs

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2014 at 6:34 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Watching the Benghazi scandal and its coetaneous cover-up unfold is interesting and more than a little amusing, albeit in a very darkly comedic way. Seeing and hearing the official Benghazi talking points change as they move closer and closer to the White House is a stereotypical example of redaction in action and the Obama Regime’s compulsive need to control the narrative.

Redaction In Action

In many ways, however, I’m forced to agree with Hillary Clinton. “What difference does it make?” Stevens, Smith, Woods, and Doherty all chose to lend material aid and comfort to Obama and worked to further his agenda. I can’t see why any American would or should mourn their deaths at his metaphorical hands.

It’s only the ensuing lies and cover-up by the Obama Regime that interests and outrages me. That and the boy’s concerted effort to blame America and Christianity for the Muslim terrorist attacks.

Tags: America | Benghazi | Glen Doherty | Hillary | John Stevens | Libya | Lies | Muslims | Obama | Scandal | Sean Smith | Terrorists | Tyrone Woods

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 at 6:56 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

It’s bound to happen that some people will draw comparisons and, in the case of Liberals, Progressives, and the minority sharecroppers beholden to them for hand-outs, false equivalencies. It should, however, be noted that Governor Cristie’s claims of ignorance over his singular “Bridgegate” scandal pales in comparison to Obama’s laundry list of scandals and should-be scandals.

Christie and Obama Sitting In A Tree…

Of course, my snarky reference to an old schoolyard chant is pretty inaccurate as well. Christie’s not built for really tree climbing and Obama has a natural fear of tree limbs since he’s rightfully afraid that he’ll end up hanging from one. 😉

Tags: Assassination | Christie | Humor | Lynching | New Jersey | Obama | Politics | Scandal

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 12th, 2014 at 1:04 pm and is filed under Humor, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.