Sen. Ted Cruz: 'I don’t trust Republicans' - Neither do I!

Sen. Ted Cruz: 'I don’t trust Republicans' - The Hill's Video
By Ramsey Cox - 05/22/13 
.... Isn’t it a little bizarre, this whole exercise?” McCain said after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) objected to going to conference. “What we’re saying is that we don’t trust our colleagues on the other side of the Capitol.”

Cruz responded that he doesn't trust Republicans. 

“The senior senator of Arizona urged senators to trust House Republicans ... and frankly, I don’t trust Republicans,” Cruz said. “It’s the leaders of both parties that got us in this mess. ... A lot of Republicans were complicit in this spending spree.”

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Isn't Anyone in the West Listening? Muslims are not Kidding. They want to Kill Us All!

Now that it has gotten gruesome, will we pay attention? m/r

Woolwich attack: Two men 'hack soldier wearing Help for Heroes T-shirt to death with machetes in suspected terror attack' | Mail Online

The Senate is filled will dullards too! After getting reelected, an old fool senator might figure out that lower tax rates keep the revenue in the US!

Levin, the worm in the Apple.

Naw!!  They're Senator's (especially fools like Carl Levin who has played a big part in Detroit for his legacy) who can't be bothered with reason.
Good for Apple!
But there is a big bruise on the Apple's side, Jobs, his widow and much of the Apple Company still support the idiocy and phony policies of the left, while avoiding the taxes the left demands... go figure? m/r

Apple CEO: ‘We pay all the taxes we owe’

Betsi Fores 5-21-13

Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, defended his company’s corporate tax practices Tuesday morning at a Senate subcommittee hearing.

“We pay all the taxes we owe — every single dollar,” Cool said Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

The hearing of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was called by Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan over what he described as the company’s “creative tax gimmickry.”

$9 billion in taxes due three Apple subsidiary companies in Ireland that are required to pay no taxes to any country, despite paying $6 billion in taxes during 2012.

“They’ve created corporations that don’t exist anywhere for tax purposes,” Levin, chairman of the subcommittee, said. “That is right at the epitome of creative tax gimmickry.”

Cook pushed back on Levin’s assessment.

“We not only comply with the laws, but we comply with the spirit of the laws,” he said. “We don’t depend on tax gimmicks.”

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We are hold him to a lower standard, the Affirmative Action President - Obama’s ‘Idiot’ Defense

Now it is getting insulting. The NY Times, Washington Post, etc. avoid the facts of the sandals and lament the "opportunity" for Republicans to expose the President and his Administration as mendacious, malevolent and maladroit. m/r

Obama’s ‘Idiot’ Defense | National Review Online

By Jonah Goldberg - May 22, 2013
Scandal forces the president to drop the pose of omnicompetent know-it-all. 

Although there’s still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the surf, the nature of President Obama’s bind is becoming clear. The best defenses of his administration require undermining the rationale for his presidency.

“We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots. It’s actually closer to us being idiots.” So far, this is the administration’s best defense.

It was offered to CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson by an anonymous aide involved in the White House’s disastrous response to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Well-intentioned human error rarely gets the credit it deserves. People want to connect the dots, but that’s only possible when you assume that all events were deliberately orchestrated by human will. This is the delusion at the heart of all conspiracy theorists, from Kennedy assassination crackpots to 9/11 “truthers.”

Behind all such delusions is the assumption that government officials we don’t like are omnicompetent and entirely malevolent. The truth is closer to the opposite. ...

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Inside Every Liberal Is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out

The title about says it all and the recent and past Obama White House Scandals bears it out. m/r

Inside Every Liberal Is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out | FrontPage Magazine
By Frontpagemag.com On May 22, 2013 

Inside the Progressive Mind
By N. A. Halkides

The Progressive believes in precisely two things:  his own magnificence and the constructive power of brute force.  In combination, they lead him naturally from the role of pestiferous busybody to brutal dictator.  Where the productive man dreams of the things he might create if only left alone by his fellows, the Progressive dreams of the world he could create if only the lives and property of his fellows were at his disposal.  The roots of his pathology lie in that oldest and most destructive of all human vices, the desire for the power to rule over other men.

As naked power-lust is a rather ugly motive, the Progressive rationalizes his desire to rule as a concern for human welfare, seeing himself as a great humanitarian, far superior morally to the lesser beings who pursue merely “materialist” ends such as their own prosperity and who frequently object to his program for achieving Utopia.  This assumed moral superiority spills over into fields of practical accomplishment, and the Progressive imagines himself capable of allocating resources and even directing entire industries far more efficiently than a free market, often despite not even having any business or scientific experience.  But despite what the Progressive believes about himself, the desire to compel others to obey his orders is what drives him forward.  To satisfy this desire, there is ultimately no limit to what actions he will take, for he respects none of the restrictions on government officials intended to guarantee individual freedom that have been developed and set forth in written or unwritten constitutions.

It is easy to make the mistake of judging Progressivism by its earlier and less-severe manifestations and to conclude that its petty and paternalistic restrictions, for example New York Mayor Michael “The Nanny” Bloomberg’s recent crusade against large-size soda drinks, are simply bothersome annoyances.  In fact the transformation from irritating but superficially benevolent nanny to ruthless dictator not only occurs rather quickly, it is a logical consequence of the Progressive’s zeal to usher in Utopia and of the means he must use to achieve the smallest of his goals – brute force.  We should recognize the following principle:  Once the Progressive is permitted to intrude however slightly into matters that are properly beyond the sphere of government, then all aspects of the individual’s life may be subjected to control.  Once any degree of coercion is permitted, then no level of force is out of bounds.

Let us see how this principle applies to the Bloomberg soda ban.  First, if the government has an interest in regulating the individual’s behavior in the name of assuring his health, no private decision the individual makes which could affect his health is beyond its power to control. 

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Ann Coulter Talks White House Scandals and the News' Double Standard

Ann Coulter Talks White House Scandals with Sean Hannity - Fox News - 5-21-13 - YouTube
 May 21, 2013

Retard Democrat blames tornado on global warming - so did dullard Chris Matthews who iced the fools "warming" cake

Democrat blames tornado on global warming
Jeff Poor 5-20-13

(DAILYCALLER) — While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters.

“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/democrat-blames-tornado-on-global-warming/#SLAz062z3JPFW33Y.99 

Nobody Knows Nutin' - Does the IRS Scandal go to the White House?

This will save the mendacious Obama: m/r

"... one of O’Reilly’s producers asked people on the street in Manhattan about Benghazi.  Many didn’t know what it was.  He then asked a young man to name the vice president of the United States.  He couldn’t do it.  The young man, it should be noted, is a college student – and not a student at any old college.  He’s a student at Cal-Berkeley, one of the top schools in the country.This is what Barack Obama has going for him:  detached Americans who don’t know much about what’s going on in the country."

Does the IRS Scandal go to the White House?
May 19, 2013 By Bernard Goldberg

Not long ago on his radio show Mike Huckabee said Benghazi would bring down President Obama.

“When a president lies to the American people and is part of a cover-up, he cannot continue to govern,” Huckabee said. “As the facts come out, I think we’re going to see something startling. And before it’s over, I don’t think this president will finish his term….”

A few days later I went on the Factor and told Bill O’Reilly that, “This is wishful thinking masquerading as political analysis.”

Conservative pundits do this a lot.  And frankly it’s getting tiresome. Remember all those “take it to the bank” predictions by conservatives on Fox on how President Obama couldn’t win re-election?  Wishful thinking.  Not serious analysis.

In the United States of Clueless, the Benghazi cover-up isn’t going to bring Mr. Obama down.  We’re a deeply polarized nation, so while Republicans think Benghazi matters, Democrats continue to play the story down and remain loyal to the president. The so-called mainstream media remain loyal also, and a good portion of the population is so uninformed that it thinks Benghazi is the new hot club on South Beach.

What about the AP scandal where the Department of Justice secretly got hold of journalists phone logs to try to find out who was leaking sensitive national security information to the Associated Press?  Journalists care about this one because it’s about them.  The public couldn’t care less.

Which brings us to the IRS scandal, where agents targeted conservative groups for special tax-exempt scrutiny.  It wasn’t just groups that had the name “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in their name.  The IRS went after groups that said they wanted “to make America a better place.”  They asked certain groups what books they read.  They told the Coalition for Life of Iowa: “Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers.”

Yes, it all sounds outrageous, even un-American.  And this story may have legs, especially for those Americans who hate the IRS, which put another way, is all Americans except those working at the IRS. 

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What Did Obama Say About Tyranny?

What Did President Obama Say About Tyranny?

by BURT Folsom  on MAY 20, 2013

President Obama used his graduation address at Ohio State this month to make the case for bigger government. Let’s look at an important section of that speech, and then analyze it—especially in light of the scandals that broke out last week.

“We know,” President Obama told the graduates, “this country cannot accomplish great things if we pursue nothing greater than our own individual ambition. Still, you’ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that tyranny always lurks just around the corner. You should reject these voices.” Let’s analyze this statement.

“We know this country cannot accomplish great things if we pursue nothing greater than our own individual ambition.”

Oddly, Americans pursuing their own individual ambition is not something to deplore, but something to celebrate. It’s what has made this country prosper. ...  Even President Obama, when he makes cabinet appointments, doesn’t do so on merit, but because those appointees advance President Obama’s “own individual ambition.” ...

Conservatives and libertarians believe in limited government, not no government at all. They ... want to make government smaller and more constitutional. Bigger government is inefficient and unwieldy as we see from both the Benghazi and IRS scandals.

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Scandal-A-Day Government: Why? Arrogance of Power

"Lord Acton reminded us that “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Let’s cut the IRS in half (or more), and cut HHS and the Department of Justice as well. Many people are watching scandal-a-day government with horror, and public sentiment may be ready to slash the size and power of government, and thereby increase the amount of freedom in all of our lives."

Scandal-A-Day Government: Why?
by Burt Folsom  on MAY 15, 2013

The U.S. federal bureaucracy is simply too large. That broad point is easy to lose in the particulars over the Benghazi deaths, the IRS targeting of conservatives, the Justice Department’s secret investigation of the AP, and the Department of Health and Human Services subtly forcing insurance companies to cough up cash to publicize the wonders of Obamacare.

These scandals need to be fully investigated and justice needs to be served if laws were broken. But the larger point must always be at hand: government is too big, and when big government occurs, big scandals inevitably emerge. The Founders knew that, and that’s why they limited government to national defense, delivering the mail, and setting up federal election rules. The Founders believed that government was a source of danger, not a source of action and reform. ...

... Congress abolished the Civil War income tax in 1872.

By 1913, we had the income tax back (the 16th Amendment), but only a few people had to pay it. The IRS was still small. Then came Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal in 1933. FDR promoted government programs as the solution to the problem of the Great Depression. After almost eight years of lavish New Deal spending, unemployment neared 20% in 1939. The spending stimulus, then as now, did not work. But FDR raised tax rates on almost everyone during his presidency. The IRS grew and became FDR’s political tool. In fact, Elliott Roosevelt, the president’s son, said, “My father may have been the originator of the concept of employing the IRS as a weapon of political retribution.”

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