Bucramanal
Ron’s first post on the new site.
How convenient to be able to summon up a temporary case of early-onset Alzheimer’s when asked a question by a D.C. Press Corps reporter or a member of a Congressional investigating committee.
Now, Charles Krauthammer is unafraid to share an opinion about current events, and he will readily toss names into the center ring of what Hillary calls the Cirque de So-What! when evidence points to ‘em.
I’ve heard Krauthammer say at least 3 times in the past coupla weeks that the fish stinks from the head down. Last night he used the word “fatal” in reference to the perfect storm of scandals hitting the Obama faux façade.
Huckabee, too, has been fairly direct in saying that a governor or a president should know what’s going on in his subordinates’ offices and if he doesn’t then he’s leading from behind, not in front.
That’s Obungler’s specialty. That was his Libya policy. By the way, he never did get authorization under the War Powers Act. But then the War Powers Act was designed to hobble Republican presidents and not Dimocrat ones. Oh, and the eee-vil Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler got congressional approval for both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Of course there’s Hannity, and Beck, and Limbaugh, and Palin, and Coulter, and Malkin, and all the rest who keep throwing back the rug after Biden and Carney and most of the 4th Estate sweeps the dirt under it.
Two old adages come to mind about hiding the truth: If you’re gonna tell a lie, tell a whopper and don’t back off from it, and if you tell a lie often enough, eventually the people will believe it. I think the first one came from Hitler and the other from Stalin.
That has been a specialty of BJ and Thunder Rodent Thighs throughout their entire careers in politics. Rose Law Firm billing records? Never saw ’em. Don’t know how they wound up in the White House with my fingerprints on ’em.
Amidst the thuggery, the muggery, and the skullduggery of Zero Bomber’s administration is a pervasive habit of shruggery. We get beat over the head with laws we don’t want, then our revenues are stolen and given to failing companies, and finally the laws protecting citizens’ rights are completely ignored so that those on the “non-existent” enemies list can have their petitions lost, their requests misplaced, and their phone records revealed.
Can you imagine the outrage from the LSM if this stuff had occurred during the Bush administration?
Then when they’re caught at it and called to account by bipartisan committees, they merely shrug their shoulders and say, “I forgot,” or “Nobody told me,” or “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
Like during the Clinton administration we had the two smartest people in the world (BJ was reputed to have a photographic memory) who couldn’t remember a damned thing.
In addition to his early immersion in Indonesian culture, it appears Pak Soetoro also spent some time learning some Amnesian habits, which he then taught to members of his cabinet and staff. He and Holder and Clinton could resurrect that old Intelligence team the Stooges were so fond of: Duck, Dodge, and Hide.
The pandemic of memory loss in and around D.C. has progressed way past CRS and into full-blown CRAFT. How many times have we heard someone lately, in reflexive answer to a direct question from a member of the White House Press Corps or a Congressional committee, say, “I don’t know,” or “I don’t remember.”
Of course many variations of the basic “Beats the hell outta me!” response come up, too. Uh-Bamugabe’s “Uh, nobody told me. I had to read it in the newspaper just like the rest of you,” not only smells like that stuff you scrape off your shoe before coming into the house after cleaning out the stables, but it’s insulting.
But according to Pfeiffer, a key White House advisor/strategist, all the interest in Benghazi, IRS “mistakes,” and the tunneling under the 1st Amendment to get a subpoena to investigate reporters who had the temerity to question The One’s integrity is even more insulting
Speaking of which, Larry Conners, the St. Louis news reader who had the temerity to ask Oboner some tough questions in an interview, was audited by the IRS shortly after, and posted about it on Facebook, was just fired by KMOV in the interests of “impartiality”. From the LSM? It would be funny if it weren’t so frightening. This is the kind of stuff that’s done in banana republics
.. . . nothing more than a Republican strategy to blow something out of proportion for political gain at the expense of El Precedente.
Hell, that’s like saying Kennedy ordered Hollywood to gin up a special effects scenario showing US astronauts on the moon for the sole purpose of embarrassing the GOP.
So what we have is a PotUS who dismisses Benghazi and other scandals with a definitive “There’s no there there” and on to the next question.
We have an Attorney General whose answer to ticklish questions about the IRS abuse of power is “I was recused, so I can’t speak to that.”
We have a Secretary of State whose answer to questions about who’s responsible for the fiasco in Benghazi is “Who gives a shit!”
We have a presidential Press Secretary whose attitude toward any negative question about his boss is “Look, he’s a really nice guy and I love him.”
And this morning we have the woman who was in charge when the IRS overstepped its authority for two years by either denying, delaying, or dismissing tax-exempt status requests by anyone suspected of being on the “I Won” enemies list hiding behind the 5th Amendment and daring Issa’s committee to assume that means she’s guilty of something.
And SHE’s in charge of the IRS section involved in oversight for the ACA?????
Pretty clear to me what’s happened here. The CRAFT epidemic is merely a symptom of a greater disorder that is seeping, crawling, inveigling through the upper echelons of central government – a deadly combination of Anorexia and Bulimia.
Gotta be. Nothin else quite fits. The EPA, the DoE, the TSA, the DoJ, the State Department, hell . . the entire cabinet has deliberately refused to ingest sufficient law, sufficient tradition, sufficient custom to act in the vital and best interests of the people of the United States.
Instead of a steady, nutritious, healthful diet of the rules and regulations and leadership principles which made the place great to begin with, this administration has become addicted to the empty calories of ambrosia, the intoxicating aftertaste of victory, the sweet, heady nectar of supreme power. “Oh, what about Ovarmint?” you say . . . “He was a Constitutional scholar, even taught courses in it at universities, right?”
Ah, yes . . . and that’s where the Bulimia comes in. He took a few bites of it, but regurgitated it all out before it could be digested and become part of his system. That’s what the Recusosian did as well . . . and Pelosi, and Reid, and Schumer, and Cuomo, and dozens of others.
Biden didn’t need to vomit up anything he ingested from law school since he prefers to simply blow everything out his ass anyway. And Carney is just a wind-up doll that gets a new sound disk every morning to recite the mantra when a reporter pulls his string.
It’s Bucramanal, folks, an entirely new syndrome which is resistant to all known forms of medication and treatment. It originated in Marxism, combined with Nazism, matured in Caponeism, and emerged as BuCrAmAnAl, which features all the worst elements of Bulimia, CRAFT, Amnesia, Anorexia, and Alzheimer’s.
Bucramanal . . . available over the counter at government offices everywhere.