Peggy Noonan, linked to on this site, not known for employing hyperbole nor playing loose with information, articulates the gravity of recent disclosures that justify serious concerns about Obama's methods of gaining and maintaining power, concerns that were expressed by citizens even prior to his election as president.
Pro life groups and conservative groups rallying for the American Constitution—that is, any group that the Obama administration considered a threat to its agenda—were targeted by the IRS and had their applications delayed while Obama-friendly organizations were fast tracked to approval. Individuals critical of the Obama regime have been targeted and audited.
The US state department has been caught tapping the email accounts of Associated Press reporters.
The enemy at the gate would be wise to drop all terrorist activities and simply pull up a chair while western societies crumble before them. The liberal religionists and their atheistic-secularist allies are busy drilling into the bedrock of each society, turning Judeo-christian foundations into relativist sand.
Meanwhile, Obama fiddles.
The hard work done to protect the USA and its allies, established in the aftermath of 9/11, is being undone by an administration that thinks it can soothe the savage breast of a militant Islam with sweet talk. Benghazi, Boston—the parents, families and friends of the victims can expect little consolation from an administration that seems more interested in preserving its own image than preserving the security of a nation and its citizens.
Meanwhile, Obama fiddles.
From her vantage point at the WSJ, Noonan speaks the truth to an administration that, like so many socialist and/or liberal-progressive entities in power in the West, does not merit the trust of the people they claim to serve.
Meanwhile, Obama fiddles.
We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives, gone from sketchy to sinister, and, among liberals, from unsatisfying to dangerous. No one likes what they're seeing. The Justice Department assault on the Associated Press and the ugly politicization of the Internal Revenue Service have left the administration's credibility deeply, probably irretrievably damaged. They don't look jerky now, they look dirty. The patina of high-mindedness the president enjoyed is gone.
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The IRS scandal has two parts. The first is the obviously deliberate and
targeted abuse, harassment and attempted suppression of conservative
groups. The second is the auditing of the taxes of political activists.
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A conservative Catholic academic who has written for these pages faced questions about her meager freelance writing income.
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The White House is reported to be shellshocked at public reaction to
the scandal. But why? Were they so high-handed, so essentially ignorant,
that they didn't understand what it would mean to the American people
when their IRS—the revenue-collecting arm of the U.S. government—is
revealed as a low, ugly and bullying tool of the reigning powers? If
they didn't know how Americans would react to that, what did they know? I
mean beyond
Harvey Weinstein's cellphone number.
And why—in the matters of the Associated Press and Benghazi too—does
no one in this administration ever take responsibility? Attorney General
Eric Holder doesn't know what happened, exactly who did what. The
president speaks in the passive voice. He attempts to act out
indignation, but he always seems indignant at only one thing: that he's
being questioned at all. That he has to address this. That fate put it
on his plate.
Washington is burning... . Yep, Obama is still fiddling.
Perhaps these experiences will provide an occasion for the Canadian media, which typically sides with the socialist New Democrats and a politically correct, anti-religion agenda, to reevaluate their orientation and to reclaim their dignity as independent and nonpartisan entities helping to preserve freedom of expression and other fundamental freedoms stated in the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
In British Columbia, recent election results have confirmed media bias. While media polls predicted an NDP win, the actual results devastated the predictions. Media pundits were baffled and in complete denial when the Liberal Party of BC, a centre right fiscally conservative party, was returned to power with a large majority. Apparently, the NDP and its media bedfellows missed the fact that British Columbians have a long enough memory to avoid making the same mistake again. BC-ers recalled the NDP's previous turns at bat, first in the 1970s and again from 1991-2001, a decade long nightmare marked by
military suppression of protest, expansion of government,
scandal, horrendous mismanagement of the province's resources and catastrophic damage to the economy resulting in a drastic drop in the Province's credit rating and a huge increase in unemployment in the private sector.
Under the Liberals, BC returned to prosperity and has weathered international economic pressures. NDP election spin, negative campaigning and smear tactics and media selective polling did not convince the majority of British Columbians that socialism is the way to go. There is nothing "new" about either the federal or provincial New Democratic Party. It's the same-old-same-old socialism BC-ers rightly rejected the last time around. What began as a rural political movement on the Prairies is now an elitist urban enterprise routinely rejected by rural Canadians. The political entity given life by a Baptist minister concerned with social justice now routinely inverts justice and denies inalienable rights such as freedom of religion, freedom of association and freedom of speech as easily as Obama shrugs off responsibility for his administration's callous Nixonian actions.
