A Rant for the Fourth Week of June!!

I felt like I needed to shoot out a new rant and get this blog up and running again……It’s been a while.

-          Hillary Clinton first claimed that her and Slick Willie were poor upon leaving the White House…of course they made $12 million the first year out of the white house and she was already a Senator getting paid as such……But honestly…...It was hell for them.

-          Now Hillary claims that her and SW are not as rich as other multi-millionaires (she made $5 million last year). If you just go by those two numbers then they have cleared over $1 million a year since leaving the White House and that does even include the other 11 years in between. Go ahead Hillary….keep using that line of logic….that should connect with common folk….or at least the DEM Lemmings!

-          The IRS requires seven years of records for their auditing purposes, yet they can’t even keep up with emails from two years ago that congress wants for their auditing purposes. I’m not sure why someone doesn’t subpoena the NSA for the IRS’s emails……they gotta be there somewhere.

-          This week the President spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and according to Josh Earnest, the new White House Propaganda Minister…errrrr….Spokesman, the President told Putin that if he didn’t back down from his current aggressive position that there would be “additional costs” to pay for their aggression. I’m sure old Vlad is shaking in his boots over that threat. Let’s see….the community organizer vs. the former KGB Colonel…….WHATEVER!!!!

-          Lastly, I am glad that the leaders of Texas have taken the next step to help secure the southern border of the state from the influx of illegal immigrants and criminals. Now if we could better control the influx of immigrants across the rest of our borders from the liberal havens like California before we are outnumbered.

Well there you go. I didn’t mention a few things, but I intend to write about them in the coming days.

Thank You For Your Support,

Bill

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

It’s Time for a Reset!

In the past I have used this page to be pretty fair but generally on a right side of the matter. To be fair, I am a right-of-center kind of guy, but I am also a concerned citizen and an American first and foremost. I will not go back and purge this blog nor will I surgically remove blogs that are overly partisan, they are the record of the past and will remain for posterity; however, in the future I will be presenting an approach that will be a lot less partisan and a lot more American.

Be warned, this may offend some and confuse others.  But if you move your tuner around the radio or TV dial you will get all the overly partisan rhetoric you need. It is time to make statements that speak to our future and not recall the tit-for-tat missteps of the past. It’s time to work together on the issues of the day while still holding our values and beliefs dear. We must be truthful to our beliefs but lay down the raw nerves and use our common sense to govern.  

With that said let’s look at the past few weeks. We have been inundated with a series of hearings on the IRS’s targeting of Conservative groups during the application process for tax exempt status. These are important hearings and there is an important investigations going on and we cannot allow these hearings and the investigation become a partisan assault by members of each party.

During today’s congressional hearing Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash) claimed these hearings are a Republican witch-hunt for the purpose of embarrassing the White House and he went on to claim that the groups being targeted shouldn’t have applied for tax-exempt status and this wouldn’t have happened to them. The old me would have wondered if Rep McDermott made the same claim to Progressive organizations applying for tax-exempt status during this time; however, what I really find upsetting is that he would accuse people applying for a perfectly legal status to be the problem instead of trying to come to the crux of the actual problem. That’s sort of like those folks who blame a scantily-clad woman for being the cause of a sexual assault against her – RIDICULOUS.

Truth is the IRS has been used to varying degrees in targeting certain groups at the whim of politicos of both parties; regardless of whether these politicos were members of congress or sitting in the White House (including Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Clinton and Bush-43 to name a few). This must end and we must reform our tax system. At 70,000 plus pages, the tax code is quite possibly the easiest way for a politician to go after organizations and individuals via the government hammer – FEEL SAFE YET?

There isn’t a single member of congress who would state that the tax code and IRS is good-to-go and does not need any reformation. Yet while this is an issue that everyone says needs to be addressed and taken care of, all anyone in Washington will ever do is spout talking points and discuss what needs to happen in the “future.”

I have news for us all; regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Greenie, Libertarian, Whig, or whatever; if we don’t get the tax system reformed in this country, address the solvency of Social Security and Medicare, reduce the national debt, eliminate yearly budget deficits, and control immigration then there very well not be much of a future to concern ourselves with.

Partisan issues will always be with us. It would be impossible to be a people of varying beliefs and values and not have some partisan issues. But regardless of party affiliation, until those in Washington and Austin become more interested in governing  and less concerned with “scoreboard” or winning elections; NOTHING WILL CHANGE!

More to Come!

Bill