Note: Bill Maher is a Scumbag, He is lower than snakesh*t! I would like to see this scumbag get dropped off in Iran with no ID or money. If he did not show up again (I have never watched the dirtbag) or just never come back this Country would be a better place and Obama would have one less ass kisser!
On the New Rule segment of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher said to conservatives, “If a 14-year-old can deliver your message, it’s not because he’s gifted. It’s because intellectually, you’re a child.”
Thats his quote above. There are some good comments on this story.
When President Barack Obama announced his administration would not deport illegal immigrants under 30 years of age who came to the country as children, he “bigfooted” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who had been working behind the scenes in Congress on immigration and was ready to introduce his DREAM Act-lite bill.
In more ways than one, Obama’s action was a political ploy, designed to cater to Hispanic voters while blunting the influence of Rubio. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Thursday, Rubio said if Obama were serious about immigration reform, he or his advisers would have consulted with him instead of essentially undercutting his bill that was in the works.
“If you’re really serious about finding a solution to this problem, don’t you work with the people who are interested in this?” Rubio said, in comments picked up byThe Hill.
Rubio, according to reports, said he thought Obama “injected election year politics into an issue that privately I thought we were making progress on” and Obama’s executive action “shows that they’re not really serious about finding a bipartisan solution” and only “interested in a talking point.”
Anticipating a close election because his policies have been responsible for a horrendous economy, Obama is trying to slice and dice every piece of the electorate to maximize political gain. But these short term political maneuvers do the presidency -- and the country -- no good.
Note: What can I say about the guy without loosing my civility??
At a press conference with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Thursday, President Barack Obama, again playing election year politics as he has done with immigration, accused Republicans of “playing chicken” with student loans and said, “It's mind-boggling that we've had this stalemate in Washington,” according to The Hill.
Except, again, what Obama said was not true. Democrats want to use student loans to pit young people against Republicans, and they are even planning to raise money off the issue. Interest rates for student loans are set to double on July 1 if Obama continues to play politics with this issue.
As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) noted on the Senate floor, Republicans have passed a stand-alone bill in the House dealing with student loan interest rates (funded by monies that were marked for Obamacare programs) and have reached to the president and proposed “multiple good-faith solutions.” Obama and Democrats, though, have not even responded to Republicans looking to work out a solution on the issue.
“The President doesn’t have a positive message to send any of these folks, so he’s cooking up false controversies to distract them from his own failure to turn the economy around,” McConnell said. “ “The only reason this issue isn’t already resolved — the only reason — is that the President wants to keep it alive. He thinks it benefits him politically for college students to believe we’re the problem.”
McConnell is right. Obama could ease the anxiety of young people worrying if their interest rates are going to double by putting this issue to rest. But doing the sensible thing would deprive Obama of potential villains (Republicans) he can make up in an election year in an blatant attempt to get more young voters to the polls for him – in an election many think will be won by a razor-thin margin.
While appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," NBC News' Rachel Maddow took the opportunity to randomly slam Breitbart in a vain attempt to suggest that the Fast and Furious scandal, which resulted in the death of hundreds including a US Border Patrol agent, was not an important story. (By the way Ms. Maddow, the "guy in a pimp suit" exposed ACORN, not Planned Parenthood.)
Jay Carney (baghdad Bob type spokesperson) says that Bush was still responsible for Fast and Furious! He is a LIAR! Operation Wide Receiver had a totally different meaning and was stopped bofore Oboma took office!
Eric Holder has now tried to retract a statement he made that his predecessor Michael Mukasey, the Attorney General under George W. Bush, knew about gunwalking in the Fast and Furious scandal and did nothing to stop it. Holder claims that his statement about Mukasey was “inadvertent.”
Holder’s response came after Senator Charles Grassley confronted him in a letter on June 14. Grassley noted that Holder’s claim on June 12 regarding Mukasey came after Senator John Cornyn called for Holder’s resignation:
“Dear Attorney General Holder:
Tuesday, in response to Senator Cornyn’s call for your resignation, you responded, in part, with the following statement:
If you want to talk about Fast and Furious, I’m the Attorney General that put an end to the misguided tactics that were used in Fast and Furious. An Attorney General who I suppose you would hold in higher regard was briefed on these kinds of tactics in an operation called Wide Receiver and did nothing to stop them – nothing. Three hundred guns, at least, walked in that instance.
This is a serious charge. However, as far as I’m aware, the Justice Department has produced nothing to date that indicates any former Attorney General was briefed on Operation Wide Receiver.
I am aware that the Justice Department produced a memorandum to Attorney General Mukasey in preparation for a November 16, 2007, meeting with Mexican Attorney General Medina Mora. At no point does this memo mention Operation Wide Receiver, in which over 300 guns were allowed to walk to Mexico. Instead, the memo appears to refer to a case called Hernandez, which involved a planned controlled delivery – not intentional gunwalking.
If the Justice Department has documentation about Operation Wide Receiver which it has not yet produced and which indicate a higher level of awareness of gunwalking than has previously been indicated, such evidence should be produced immediately. Given the gravity of these allegations, I would appreciate a response by Monday, June 18, 2012.
The office of the Assistant Attorney General responded on June 18, barely under Grassley’s deadline:
Attorney General Holder’s testimony referred to briefing paper prepared for Attorney General Mukasey in advance of a November 16, 2007 meeting with the Mexican attorney general … As we explained in a letter to Chairman Issa on March 16, 2012, and as you note, this briefing paper concerned the case of Fidel Hernandez, not Wide Receiver as the Attorney General inadvertently stated at the hearing.”
Hmm. Holder claims that his blame of Mukasey was inadvertent?
Then how does he explain this: on June 7, Holder even more clearly stated that Mukasey knew about gunwalking. Speaking to Rep. Louie Gohmert in a House Judiciary oversight hearing on the Department of Justice, Holder had this exchange with Gohmert:
MR. GOHMERT: “Did you ever go back to your office and say when you found out about Fast and Furious –I demand to know who authorized this? Are things so fast and loose in your office that somebody can authorize the sale to international criminals of American guns that are bringing about the death of even American agents, and no one has to do that in writing?”
ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER: “What I did do, I asked the inspector general to conduct an investigation. I put an end to the policy that led to the Fast and Furious debacle. I made personnel changes at ATF and in the U.S. Attorney’s Office. We made changes in the procedures there. And that is in stark contrast to what happened to my predecessor Attorney General Mukasey when he was briefed about the transmission of guns to Mexico and, as far as I can tell, did far less than what I did.”
Holder is backtracking furiously, knowing he has no evidence with which to blame Mukasey. And for him to claim that he made these charges inadvertently is palpably false; he made them twice, on June 7 and June 12.
Holder has been caught with his pants down. His brazen attempt to deflect responsibility has backfired. And his boss, by refusing to release documents, is covering for him.
Watch the video below. It's a hoot, like something out of an "SNL" skit mocking CNN's embarrassingly low-rated Soledad O'Brien as exactly what she is: a bubbled White House shill fooling no one but herself.
Wayne LaPierre is the Executive Vice President of the wildly popular National Rifle Association. Obviously, O'Brien asked him on to discuss Fast and Furious, Obama's assertion of executive privilege, and the possibility of a Congressional contempt order against Attorney General Eric Holder.
As you can see in the clip, unlike O'Brien, LaPierre is educated on this story, in command of the facts, and expresses his opinion of all that is happening at length, respectfully and with specifics.
So after LaPierre is done with a couple of extensive and detailed statements, this is O'Brien's hilariously biased and clueless summation of what she just heard:
So because the Attorney general does not support gun rights in the way you support gun rights, you believe he should be held in contempt…
What!!??
I'm surprised she didn’t end it by robotically stating…
Reprinted with permission of the Obama for America campaign 2012.
…and then short circuit.
LaPierre was talking about a gun-running operation gone tragically wrong; that resulted in the death of Border Agent Brian Terry and countless innocent Mexican citizens (that the media cares nothing about). LaPierre was talking about a cover-up and lies and incompetence and a deeply cynical plan to intentionally use this operation to demonize honest gun-dealers in order to scare America into accepting gun control.
But once again, here is Soledad's utterly inane summation of all that:
So because the Attorney general does not support gun rights in the way you support gun rights, you believe he should be held in contempt…
CNN is swirling the drain thanks to moments exactly like this; where left and right come together to laugh out loud at the clown car that unloads daily day on this network.
Note: I still smell Sh*t when she opens her mouth!
A Republican-run House committee's vote to hold the attorney general in contempt of Congress is part of GOP efforts to suppress votes in the upcoming elections, the top House Democrat said Thursday.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder was "a shameful display of an abuse of power" by House Republicans. She said it was not a coincidence that Holder is the government official in charge of preventing voter suppression and enforcing civil liberties.
"These very same people who are holding him in contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote" that also involves big donors who are anonymously contributing large sums of money to GOP candidates and causes, she said.
Democrats have complained about states that have enacted more stringent identification requirements for voters, asserting they will discourage minorities from voting.
The GOP-run House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday to hold the attorney general in contempt for failing to supply additional documents related to the mishandled "Fast and Furious" gun-running investigation.
Asked about Pelosi's remarks, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said, "The American people deserve the truth on what happened in Fast and Furious."
A spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the oversight committee, criticized Pelosi for her comments.
"For minority leader Pelosi to dismiss this tragedy and say the investigation is really about voter suppression is offensive and wrong," said the spokesman, Frederick R. Hill.
The Justice Department has already turned over thousands of documents about the operation itself. Now lawmakers are focused on how the Justice Department responded to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation.
In Operation Fast and Furious, federal agents in Arizona lost track of illegally-purchased weapons they were tracking. Two of those guns were found at the scene of the slaying of U.S. border agent Brian Terry. Officials first told lawmakers there was no "gun-walking," or the letting U.S-purchased guns reach Mexico. But officials later acknowledged there was, prompting the committee to seek more documents.
