Yesterday, May 8th, 2013 summary of Benghazi Hearings

Comment by Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist, Oath Keeper and Patriot.

Well, well, it looks as though the first day of testimony on Benghazi was fruitful.

So much for Republicans playing “politics”  People dies, but remember that was a long time ago and virtually any good democrat would want to forget about it rather than learn the truth about the coverup.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, I’m J..C. and I approve this message.

The Morning Jolt with Jim Geraghty.

Daveed Gartenstein Ross of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:  “I defended the administration during the election from some attacks I saw as unfair. Well, today’s testimony deeply disturbed me. It is impossible at this point to argue that only the Republicans are ‘playing politics’ with Benghazi. 1) Claims the witnesses’ cooperation in investigation was impeded. 2) Claims the Rice talking points hurt relations with Libya.  3) Explanation of why the Rice talking point[s] were obviously implausible to those on the scene.”

Benghazi Hearings

Bryan Preston’s assessment of the House Benghazi hearings is worth reading in its entirety, but he summarizes the big headlines quite well:

1. There were multiple stand-down orders, not just one. Special Operations forces were told, twice, by their chain of command not to board aircraft to Benghazi to rescue the Americans then under attack. The U.S. deputy diplomat, Greg Hicks, testified that the military commander, Lt. Col. Gibson, had his team ready to go twice. They were on the runway about to board a flight to Benghazi in the middle of the attack. They were ordered to stand down and remain in Tripoli to receive wounded who would be coming out of Benghazi. One of the orders came in the middle of the attack, the other came toward the end after Hicks’ team had traveled from Tripoli to Benghazi. The fact that Hicks’ team was able get to Benghazi before the end of the assault strongly suggests that the Special Operations team could have made a real difference.

At the same time, the State Department’s commander on the scene, Hicks, ordered his personnel into Benghazi and went there himself. Hicks testified that Gibson never told him who issued the stand-down orders. He commented that Gibson told him that the military stand-down was a shock: “This is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more balls than someone in the military.”

Hicks also testified that the US government never even requested military overflight to support the Americans in Benghazi. The US had an unarmed drone overhead and could have gotten permission to fly fighters over the scene, at least, but never asked.

2. Ambassador Stevens’ reason for going to Benghazi has been cleared up. Hicks testified that Ambassador Stevens traveled to Benghazi to fulfill one of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s wishes. Despite the fact that security was worsening in Benghazi for months leading up to the 9-11 attack, Clinton wanted to make the post there permanent. Her State Department had denied repeated requests from the US team in Libya to upgrade security there, but she wanted to use the permanent post as a symbol of goodwill. (Entire article below)

A Federal Takeover of Elections?

Comment by Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist, Oath Keeper and Patriot. 

An attempt to have a federal take over of the voting process using an Executive order by Barack Obama?  What could possibly go wrong. 

Remember Joseph Stalin:

“You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.”

In view of Obama’s record of honesty and not rigging virtually everything he favors toward a favorable outcome, what could possibly be the problem?

He blew it on more anti-gun legislation but then again those votes were actually counted and recorded.

By Arnold Ahlert Comments

Front Page Magazine

On March 28, President Obama issued Executive Order 13639, establishing a Presidential Commission on Election Administration “in order to promote the efficient administration of Federal elections and to improve the experience of all voters.” The ostensible premise behind this effort is the idea that some voters were forced to wait too long in line to cast their ballots. Yet a growing number of critics see something entirely different: they see this as an attempt to initiate a federal takeover of elections.

Former Justice Department official J. Christian Adams characterizes the president’s effort as a ”federal solution in search of a problem,” which as foreshadowed in Obama’s State of the Union address. He spoke of a woman named Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old Florida resident forced to show up twice on October 28, the first day of early voting, due to the long lines she encountered. “When she arrived at her polling place, she was told the wait to vote might be six hours,” Obama said, “And as time ticked by, her concern was not with her tired body or aching feet, but whether folks like her would get to have their say.”

Like many of Obama’s efforts to tug at the emotional heartstrings of Americans, the devil is in the details. In general, the lines on the first day of early voting are usually much longer than those encountered on Election Day. This was confirmed by an MIT study that revealed the average wait for voting on Election Day was seven minutes shorter than the wait on other days. Moreover, Florida is somewhat notorious for loading up ballots with lengthy referendums that voters ought to review before they show up to the polls, but don’t in many cases. Adams also points out that lengthy waits to vote “occur frequently in large cities where elections are administered by Democrats.” Entire article below.

ABC Poll: Americans Believe Guns Make Homes Safer

Comment by Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist, Oath Keeper and Patriot.

An interesting finding from the About Bama Channel.

For the most part polls are a joke.

Results are largely dependent upon how the questions are phrased as well as, pointed out below what point in time the questions were asked.  

 

Does she feel safer?

Location would be an important factor as well.  We know how the victims of Sandy Hook, for the most part would vote, but what about those living near the tragedy at the Boston Marathon?

AWR Hawkins

Breitbartbart’s Big Government

By a margin of 51 to 29, Americans believe having a gun in the house makes the house safer.When the question was asked to those with guns in their houses, the affirmative response jumped to 75.

The percentage of Republicans who believe a gun makes the house safer was 71, while among Democrats the percentage was 34.

Moreover, the poll found that those who believe a gun in the house makes the house safer “prioritize gun rights over new gun control laws by [a] 2 to 1 [margin].”

These responses represent a complete reversal from the same poll taken in 2000, in which people responded 35 to 51–giving the edge to the position that a gun in the house made the house less safe.

Easter in Obama’s America from Wild Bill for America

 

 By Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist, Oath Keeper and Patriot.

Once again Wild Bill hits it out of the park with his Easter message about Obama and his progressives.

 

Note the young lad crawling with his little cane is blind to the fact that “Mr. Tax and Spend,” is doing all in his power to make his future and the economic future of America not viable. 

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, I’m J.C. and I approve this message.

Cuomo’s Gun-Control Blunder

 Comment by Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist, Oath Keeper and Patriot.

When the term progressive is used were you aware that the party of Woodrow Wilson got his roots from socialism and the teachings of Karl Marx?

Is the picture becoming a bit more clear as to why their actions and legislation are designed to bring the United States and the Constitution down?

The National Review:

Shameful Well, Governor Andrew Cuomo, in his grandstanding rush to exploit the Newtown killings, created a bad and unworkable law. Charles Cooke’s excellent analysis of Cuomo’s screw-up is a great read, and I encourage you to read it and share it with others.

Fool seriously in need of an ass kicking

You know, it’s usually wrong to kick a man when he is down, but when that man is New York’s politicize-a-tragedy Governor, exceptions are permitted!

Also on the Second Amendment today on NRO . . .

Mayor Nanny and Gun Control My colleague Rich Lowry went on Fox News this morning to assess how the NRA “would love, love, love, love Mayor Bloomberg to be the public face of gun control.” The video clips are worth a couple of minutes of your time.

It’s Anti-Semitism And there’s more on guns and Bloomberg. The folks at MSNBC claim the opposition to Bloomberg’s gun-control push is due in part to his being Jewish. Liberals never tire of blindly playing a race or bias card. Watch the clip.Cuomo’s Gun-Control Blunder

Congressional Black Caucus Urges Barack Obama to Discriminate Against Whites

Comment bu Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist, Oath Keeper and Patriot.

Are black people genetically inferior when it comes to intellect and brains?

Of course not.  Evidence how frequently have you seen a black Republican say something so completely egregious?

The Political Outcast

by Chris Graham

Congressional Black Caucus to President Barack Obama – “The people you have chosen to appoint in this new term have hardly been reflective of this country’s diversity.”

So said Marcia L. Fudge, oblivious to the irony that such a statement would be coming from her; she’s the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, a group the diversity of whose members ranges from light-skinned black to dark-skinned black. That is the extent of the level of diversity within the CBC.

Hammering Hank Johnson was obviously a geography major.

 

What an embarrassment. Hank Johnson U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district, serving since 2007.

“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize” Johnson later came out and said that he was joking that the island would capsize.

Maxine Waters is so ignorant were it not for talking points provided she could not muster a complete thought. 

Quantitative Easing? She would likely be able to spell it let alone explain it.

Yet she has the complete audacity to talk about families and children which her socialist agenda destroys.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, I’m J.C. and I approve this message.

Even the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has more diversity. Visit the CHC’s Wikipedia page and click on each of the pages for the 21 current members (all of whom are Democrats, by the way, as only a Democrat would be so segregationist). You will find that at least half of them look white. The only thing Hispanic about them is that their names sound like Taco Bell meals. (I can say that because I’m part Cuban.)

And if you look at the Congressional White Caucus, you’ll find–oh, wait, never mind  I forgot that a Congressional White Caucus doesn’t exist. (That would be racist)

For one, white people don’t have such privilege, and two, white people–or at least the Republican ones–don’t wish to segregate themselves off from other races.

Marcia Fudge, who does engage in such segregation, feels offended that President Obama hasn’t nominated anyone to any cabinet positions who can “speak to the unique needs of African Americans.” She wrote a letter to Obama to express her racist desire for Obama to start discriminating against whites.