What is a Phony Scandal?

Since the President started his new “Phony Scandal” line of speechifying last week I have been thinking hard about the scandals that have been the hallmark of his Presidency and just what makes them Phony.  At first I wondered which scandals he was talking about. Today, White House Spokesman and resident tool, Jay Carney, identified the two that he thought the most important – Benghazi and the IRS.

So after having the two pointed out I finally figured it out – so let’s take a look!

Benghazi – What do we know as a fact? We know that four Americans died at the hands of a terrorist led attack on our consulate and base of operations in Benghazi. We know that at the outset of this attack that the diplomats, military leaders, and the administration knew it was an organized terrorist attack. So where’s the Phony part of this?

It’s that the administration and the officials appointed by the President (Sec. of State, Sec. of Defense, CIA, NSA, etc.) came up with a phony set of reasons for the attack based on the phony notion that the Phony Attack originated due to the reaction of the mob to an internet video.  

We also know that these phony talking points flew directly in the face of the Libyan President when he immediately said it was terrorism. That led to the Libyan President restricting the FBI’s access in country and allowed the press to go over the consulate weeks before the FBI and also led to leaders in places like Tunisia to restrict FBI access to the suspects they had in custody.

In the end I’m afraid the President might have something right. I mean even though we lost four dedicated Americans, not to mention the President’s direct representative to Libya, he was right in labeling this a “Phony Scandal!”

The IRS – What do we know about this scandal? We know that throughout history the IRS has, at times, been used for political purposes and the delays over the last few years in granting tax-exempt status to Conservative groups has been another in a long line of Political targeting by an administration. We know this happened and that it was more than just a few rouge field agents in the Cleveland office.

So where is the Phony Scandal here? I guess that goes to the President saying he would get to the bottom of this and then allowing the claims that it was only a few agents in Cleveland to be permeated throughout the press in an attempt to minimize the conspiracy throughout the IRS and his administration.

Then to have one of the prime players take the 5^th after she had already made a statement was ridiculous. But then you have liberal congressmen attack the IG who showed no partisanship as he also identified liberal groups with the same issue; albeit conservative petitions were blocked at a more than 20 to 1 ratio.

Those are merely the only two “phony scandals” they want to discuss. I wonder about the rest. There are others but I think it’s a good starting point to discuss these alone.

But move along folks, the scandal clearly falls on the shoulders of those doing the investigating and the accusing, not those doing the cover up. I mean we have more important things to look forward to. Like ObamaCare coming online in 2014….what’s that….oh he moved it…..coming online in 2015.

Things like a new jobs stimulus plan to tackle shovel ready jobs like bridge building and such….wait….didn’t we spend like a trillion dollars on shovel-ready stimulus stuff already…..MOVE ALONG!

Or things like job stimulus….lower education cost….Quantitative Easing (aka – money printing)….Keystone pipeline obstruction (what the hell, let the Chinese have it)….Solyndra (wait, that is sooooo 2012)!

Man….the list just keeps on coming!!!

I need a Tylenol!

Bill

Eric Holder is One Tough Dude!

Today, our abysmal failure of an Attorney General, known as Eric Holder, gave a very brave speech detailing how the Obama Justice Department would challenge the Texas Voter ID law in federal court in San Antonio. Of course he bravely gave the speech 1400 miles away in Philadelphia to a friendly audience at the Urban League Convention.

He cited last year’s law suit regarding redistricting and that same court’s ruling that the maps were drawn in a manner that was overly discriminatory against Latinos. Were they? I don’t believe they were, but I am not a Latino. But then again, in Texas how many of our families are interracial and just how do you accurately determine who is Latino and who isn’t. I mean I have relations in my family and my wife’s family that are of all different colors and cultures.

As a matter of fact, I have a lifelong friend who married a young lady of Hispanic culture and they have three sons who all have German sir names. Are they Hispanic? This same friend’s sister married a Hispanic man and they have two boys and a girl all with Hispanic sir names. Which kids are Hispanic and which aren’t? This is the future of Texas and the United States. All you have to do to see the integration of america clearer is travel to a college or high school campus.

When my parents were in high school they were all segregated. By the time I was in high school integration had been the law of the land for nearly twenty years and while we were fully integrated I am afraid there was still some self segregation in the schools. Today things have changed greatly since the time my parents were in high school. Take a look and see that the kids of today are pretty well integrated when allowed to be so. When I visit my children at college or in high school I am so happy to see this taking place. It reveals a little window into martin Luther King’s dream.

Unfortunately there are far too many older folks including many in my generation who knowingly and unknowingly work to maintain the rifts between cultures and the races they need to survive financially or politically. Regardless of their party affiliation, I look at representatives in government who are of mixed racial and cultural backgrounds and I see people who should be the perfect candidates to help unite Texans and Americans.

Yet far too many of them are worried about winning the next election rather than working for the betterment of society. They can’t see past their own future to take the time to help create a brighter future for all of our children and grandchildren. As a result, I have to say that should we as a country not learn to quit bickering, to address our own flaws as a people, become proactive in our handling of the issues rather than reactionary, to unite, and to work to come together; then our current outlook is bleak.

But then you have race hustlers (who I will leave nameless); people who through their own actions make a mockery of those who came before them. People who make a mockery of addressing civil rights and racial harmony while claiming to carry the legacy of Civil rights trailblazers like Martin Luther King, James Peck, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, James Zwerg, or Octavio Ambrosio Larrazolo.

So to go on the plaque of race hustlers who shall remain nameless, you can etch in the name of Eric Holder because regardless of what else he says, the only way for him to keep the fires from flaming out of the liberal agenda is to keep all the racial fires stoked to an overheated frenzy.

Sadly though, this will be a costly endeavor for both the federal government and the State of Texas; and in the end it will go to the Supreme Court of the United State where they will rule as they have in similar cases in other states and the law will stand. After all, Texas’ law is less severe than the decade-old voter ID laws in either Indiana or Georgia; and amazingly enough in both of those cases minority voting increased after those laws were passed.

But Oh Well, why not waste all those federal dollars….it’s not like they’re borrowed or anything!

Bring your ID with you to the polls in November!!

Bill