Excerpts from a book soon to be released by former Obama Secretary of Defense and George W. Bush holdover Robert Gates details how, in his words, "the White House tightly controlled every aspect of national security policy and even operations." His instructions to the Pentagon were "Don't give the White House staff and [national security staff] too much information on the military options. They don't understand it and 'experts' like Samantha Power will decide when we should move militarily." He used the phrase "surprising as well as dismaying" upon hearing Barack Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admit in front of him that their opposition to the 2007 surge in Iraq was "political."
I thought from the beginning that Barack Obama's choice of Robert Gates to continue as Secretary of Defense was a political move but never quite understood why he would accept the invitation. He should have taken more seriously the warnings on Barack Obama as he would later comment to a friend "People have no idea how much I detest this job." The book is titled Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.
The Senate confirmed Janet Yellen as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a position sometimes referred to as the second most powerful person in the world. Our economy, inflated by "phony money" as David Stockman described it, will now be led by an academic and possibly an even greater stimulus and bailout advocate. Republicans voting for Ms. Yellen were Senators Alexander, Ayotte, Burr, Chambliss, Coats, Coburn, Collins, Corker, Flake, Kirk and Murkowski.
The following post is from February of last year and following that is a recent post on one tradition that we can do without!
Facebook President
The 44th President of the United States lives within a world of virtual reality...a SimCity that he plays at.... a Marxist in Wonderland. He has constructed an economy that is disastrous in the real world but he's not in the real world so it doesn't matter. He has armies that he can play with and Monopoly money to give away. He writes his own rules on a computer and shares his design with the news media that dutifully reports on what a wonderful country he is constructing. The template calls for enemies and a constitution but they're not real. Putin isn't real, nor is Ahmadinejad, nor is Kim Jong-Un, nor the Chinese juggernaut that almost owns us. And as for the Constitution...a Manifesto would be so much easier to build around! Budgets are no fun but taxes are because they keep the game going. You can customize your own Defense Department or Justice Department or the Supreme Court!
There's no such thing as truth in a game like this, not even appearances, but nobody's really listening anyway, they're only looking at the colorful graphics. I'm not trying to be cute here. Even Bob Woodward sees madness in this simulated Presidency. Nothing is real in Barack Obama's world, not his time as a constitutional law professor, not as a United States Senator, nor as a candidate for President. They were merely roles that he played and is playing. And the citizenry? Half have friended Barack Obama while the rest of us are aghast at the madness of it all. Our enemies are real and they know what is going on in our government more than many if not most Americans. One last thing that is real...the One who blessed this nation, who has been longsuffering towards us and who warns us. The One who has given us all the directions that we need, not in graphics but in written words that are to be read, to be preached and to be heeded.
Just Send Over The Report
The 2014 State Of The Union Address is scheduled for Tuesday January 28th. For the past few years I wrote a post in advance of that speech calling for Republicans to use that opportunity to protest by either refusing to applaud anything said from that throne or even better... to refuse to attend. I hope to bring this post back regularly, should the Lord will it, over the next month. Please think ahead on this! Barack Obama, the man who is systematically and deceptively tearing this nation apart, both within and without, will once again take advantage of the State Of The Union address and, with the media concealing everything about him and revealing none of his schemes, will take over all of the main networks to give him yet another opportunity to deceive those who do not really care what he is doing as long as he fulfills his bargain and gives them what they want for themselves. The Establishment brand of Republican will grumble for the cameras but have a good time afterwards. We should suspend this speech until such time that we have a president, either Democrat, Republican or another party, who we can at least trust his/her words. Even then the pomp and circumstance of this speech should be done away with forever.
Article II, Section 3 of our Constitution states of our President, He shall from time to time give to Congress Information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. The President is not required to appear in person and give a speech. In fact, President Thomas Jefferson refused to give this report as a speech for he considered it too close to the Speech from the Throne in the monarchical traditions.
We are ten months past the last State of the Union address where Barack Obama was feted with applause once again but we are now openly in the midst of a coup where every day, every hour, every minute, even every second, more Americans are becoming aware of it.
I'll give one very recent quote from a Democrat Senator on Harry Reid's new filibuster rule..."There's no reason that changing this to majority rule on appointments will create ill will.....people of good will find ways to work together here." In a way he is right. The filibuster change alone would not be enough to demand an open rebellion, but add to that a purge within the military, a consigliore in the Justice Department, disdain for allies and subservience to enemies, golfing and shooting hoops while America sinks in the muck and mire of a politicized everything, czars directing whole agencies in scripts out of Atlas Shrugged and enough lying and spying to choke uncle Joe Stalin himself.....yes, add to this filibuster cohorts in the media marching in lockstep, judges sent out to do what armies could never do, domestic military preparations to control an unwilling citizenry and bribes in the form of dispensations to the biggest lie of all....the Affordable Healthcare Act.....and it is more than enough and way past time that Republicans formally refuse to shake the hand that shreds our Constitution.
Note: Two days after this post John Boehner invited Barack Obama to give the State Of The Union Address on January 28th with these words: "....we welcome an opportunity to hear your ideas, particularly for putting Americans back to work. It's my honor to invite you to speak before a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 in the House Chamber of the U. S. Capitol Building."
I'll give one very recent quote from a Democrat Senator on Harry Reid's new filibuster rule..."There's no reason that changing this to majority rule on appointments will create ill will.....people of good will find ways to work together here." In a way he is right. The filibuster change alone would not be enough to demand an open rebellion, but add to that a purge within the military, a consigliore in the Justice Department, disdain for allies and subservience to enemies, golfing and shooting hoops while America sinks in the muck and mire of a politicized everything, czars directing whole agencies in scripts out of Atlas Shrugged and enough lying and spying to choke uncle Joe Stalin himself.....yes, add to this filibuster cohorts in the media marching in lockstep, judges sent out to do what armies could never do, domestic military preparations to control an unwilling citizenry and bribes in the form of dispensations to the biggest lie of all....the Affordable Healthcare Act.....and it is more than enough and way past time that Republicans formally refuse to shake the hand that shreds our Constitution.
Note: Two days after this post John Boehner invited Barack Obama to give the State Of The Union Address on January 28th with these words: "....we welcome an opportunity to hear your ideas, particularly for putting Americans back to work. It's my honor to invite you to speak before a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 in the House Chamber of the U. S. Capitol Building."
