NEW YORK – Did Chuck Schumer try to use the IRS to sidestep the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling — and stick a dagger in the heart of conservative groups?

That’s the gist of a complaint filed this week with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics.

In Citizens United, the court held that bans on independent political expenditures by corporations, associations and labor unions are bans on speech.

The Center for Competitive Politics is asking that Schumer and nine other Democratic senators be investigated for trying to use the IRS to suppress the free speech of political opponents. (more…)

“Similarly with Benghazi, as has been recounted on many occasions, I provided the best information that the U.S. government had at the time,” she said. “Parts of it turned out to be wrong. I regret that the information I was provided was wrong and that I delivered to the American people. That doesn’t make me a liar. That makes me a public servant trying to say what we knew at the time and when I gave that information I caveated it and noted that it was what we knew then and there, but it could well change.”   (link)

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A rather interesting dynamic is finally being exposed on a large scale.   Here is my humble attempt to explain what’s going on.

Following the modus operandi of the Obama administration the Bergdahl issues are in full alignment with a consistent White House pattern.

It is sometimes easier to use analogies to help understand the facts behind what is taking place.  So, here goes….

Think about this administration as a travelling show projecting an appearance outward to an audience.   The stage they construct is filled with visual aides for their performance.  The audience is two-fold and hence the strange appearances, and hypocrisies.

Screenplay discussions:  (L to R) Denis McDonough, POTUS, Tony Blinkin, Ben Rhodes

The primary audience is the American electorate.  Think of us as the larger audience seated in front of the stage and watching the presentation, the show.

Behind the stage is a smaller audience, who cannot actually see the show taking place, but they are given a play-by-play explanation of what’s taking place on the other side of the curtain.   That smaller audience is Congress.

Here’s where it gets interesting. (more…)

Poland’s Lech Walesa is broadcasting a highly visible lesson, to the world stage, on what it means tell people the “Great and Powerful Oz” is nothing but a ruse.

Serendipitous as it is on D-Day, Lech Walesa provides some details as to what he shared during his meeting with President Obama:

“I said that I wished the United States would lead,” Walesa told Polish television about the encounter, which he said was not so much an upbraiding of the U.S. president as an “interesting” encounter. (link)

Many will remember this is not the first time Walesa has pointed out the naked weakness of Dear Leader Obama.

Alas, against the backdrop of current world events…. (ie. Obama is an inept dolt when it comes to issues of significance – see Syria, Iran, North Korea, Egypt, Libya, Ukraine, Russia, and that whole swapping Gitmo terrorists thing, et al) …quickly the protectors of the regime spring into action:

Denis McDonough, Ben Rhodes and Tony Blinkin clear the hall.  Susan Rice slams the door, stands atop the marble steps and yells to the somewhat stunned Munchkins.  “He didn’t say that, what he really said was”:

Lech Walesa on POTUS: While I was rather his opponent before, now I am a supporter. He has a great mind, and he is really a great politician

— Susan Rice -Archived (@AmbRice44) June 6, 2014

Lech Walesa on President Obama: Previously, I had a different opinion about him. I regret that, because I should have supported him more

— Susan Rice -Archived (@AmbRice44) June 6, 2014

As the crowd disburses the Blinkin shouts back into a now empty cavern:  “OK Dude, it’s safe to come out now“… (more…)

Let it never be said the New York Times is not filled to the brim with rabid leftist ideologues and defenders of all things liberal.…

New York Times. . .  Cowering politicians now even seem to regret their initial burst of joy that a prisoner was coming home. “A grateful nation welcomes him home,” said Representative Lee Terry, Republican of Nebraska, in a Twitter message on Sunday. The statement on his website was deleted a short time later. “Warmest regards to his family with gratitude for his/their service and sacrifice,” wrote Representative Stephen Lynch, Democrat of Massachusetts, in another quickly deleted tweet.

This duck-and-cover response is the result of the outrageous demonization of Sergeant Bergdahl in the absence of actual facts. Republican operatives have arranged for soldiers in his unit to tell reporters that he was a deserter who cost the lives of several soldiers searching for him. In fact, a review of casualty reports by Charlie Savage and Andrew Lehren of The Times showed there is no clear link between any military deaths and the search. (more…)

Fitting Day To listen to this Band of Brothers…

Must watch video:

One other key aspect not getting as much attention as deserved stems from the avoidance of the legally required notification.

Telling congress about the potential move of Gitmo detainees in a POW swap is one part of the notification. However, the more important part of the law is the part which requires the President to state specifically why the action is being taken, what is the benefit, and what are the risks.  In addition the notification law requires the President to outline the details, the exact terms, inside the negotiated agreement that he’s made.

So, given the President has apologized for not informing congress, will the congressional leadership now demand the President produce the statutorily required information, albeit post facto?

If they don’t….. ask yourself “why not” ?

Eric and Diana Cantor

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Let’s quickly nip this one in the bud……

The White House political and communication team know they are in a world of political hurt for not notifying congress of the pending Bergdahl deal to swap Taliban officers for the missing army soldier. Now they attempt to spin their way out with another ridiculous justification.

BREAKING: Officials: Congress not told of swap because Taliban threatened to kill Bergdahl if it leaked .

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 5, 2014

There are many factual issues with this latest justification construct from the Denis McDonough/Ben Rhodes crew, which now extends into the military via Chuck Hagel. FULL AP story HERE

One of the more brutally obvious flaws in the “make-believe” is one of facts and history.

FACT – Before the Osama Bin Laden ‘Kill/Capture mission’ both Senate Intelligence Committee head Dem Senator Diane Feinstein, and Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss, were briefed during discussion of the mission.

A full week prior to the actual raid on OBL compound both Feinstein and Chambliss were told of the mission.

They were also briefed when the mission launched. (more…)