BloggeRhythms 5/14/2013

Spending as much time as I do perusing political news and events, I certainly understand that the first -and often the only- thought of partisans is to politicize every happening regarding their favorite sons and daughters. 

 

Nonetheless, I’d also think that even the most ardent among them would be interested in learning the truths underlying questionable behavior. Especially when the security of the nation’s at stake. 

 

However, despite the inherent risks of ardently protecting inferior or unqualified office-holder’s, loyalists continually defy logic by circling their wagons, attempting to shield even those most obviously unworthy of their responsibilities.

 

Another example of the perils of partisanship appeared today in an article on FoxNews.com, as follows: “The Libya controversy could undermine Clinton’s case as a future presidential candidate – something her supporters say is the real reason behind the push to get her back in the Benghazi spotlight. President Obama also pushed back against the revived controversy on Monday, calling it a political "sideshow."

 

So, here we have supporters of the boss’ wife preferring to ignore potential weaknesses in the nation’s security system rather than questioning the then Secretary of State’s capabilities.

 

That premise to me is so irrationally immature, I can’t imagine anyone being that naïve or ignorant. Because if an unbiased properly conducted investigation determines that critical mistakes were made at the top. Or that saving political face was deemed more important by them than the safety of the nation’s foreign representatives. Then, those holding any leadership posts, including the Secretary herself, are clearly unfit for any government office.

 

Yet, without even trying to take the simplest of steps to determine what actually happened in Benghazi, partisan zealots will continue to try to prevent further questioning of the matter. However, the problem I have with that is, although I could simply sit back and laugh at their narrow-minded stupidity, since I happen to live here too, they’re putting me at risk right alongside them which they have absolutely no right whatsoever to do.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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BloggeRhythms 5/13/2013

After the Sunday talk shows, a consensus seems to be building that lug nuts on the wheels of the administration's bus are coming loose. And perhaps, one, two, three or all four might very well fall off completely.

 

There are also some rumors that White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, might get tossed off the vehicle while its still rolling, to try to prolong the eventual wreck of the incumbent’s second term.

 

However, regardless of the timetable or individual pieces of the overall puzzle, evidence mounts daily establishing that the White House crew is panicking as their game-plan comes apart at the seams.

 

As for me, although I certainly had no idea of the specific issues that would cause the implosion we’re seeing, I’ve been predicting for over four years now that something like this would happen. Because  while really having nothing to do specifically with politics, governance, or any particular legislative positions, simple logic suggested that the people involved haven’t the knowledge, credentials, experience or acumen required for the responsibilities they undeservedly took on.

 

I’ve mentioned before that in competitive business situations when vying with unqualified or incompetent contenders, that although it’s usually extremely hard to do, the best tactic is most often to simply wait because basic ineptitude can’t be overcome with BS.

 

Therefore, although it may take more time than you’d like, sooner or later charlatans that can’t deliver as promised always self-destruct due to incompetence. And the best thing about that is,  that once competitors prove themselves as phonies, they don’t ordinarily ever get a chance to come back.

 

So, once again I suggest that as the self-caused, embarrassing, unraveling of the administration continues, that Republicans in Congress patiently gather the massing evidence of abuses of power and political ploying to support their case without fanfare. Because its becoming glaringly obvious that those heading their opposing party were unfit for office from the very beginning.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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BloggeRhythms 5/12/2013

Busy day, getting an early start.

 

As mentioned yesterday, it seems the major media may now be willing to actually open their eyes to facts, beginning to seriously question acts of their favorite politician. Presently, several headline-worthy stories are gaining wider attention, including the Benghazi raid,  the Boston bombing and now, the administration's use of the IRS against potentially threatening conservatives and Tea Party members prior to the last presidential election.

 

The details of the issues involved disclosed an emerging pattern, with similarities that should have been glaringly obvious to me all along. Because what we’re seeing here is nothing more than good old “Chicago Politics,” taken to the national level. And that’s the problem now facing the administration from top to bottom.

 

Looking for a concise description of the subject, I found one on the web from the combined Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society and The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library, as follows: “Chicago politics is a national cliché, evoking images of a one-party system, dominated by a boss-controlled Democratic political machine whose crafty politicians dangle patronage before competing ethnic and racial groups in return for votes. “

 

Now, while the system’s obviously worked extremely well in Chicago for many years, perhaps as far back as 1871, it seems that it’s much harder, if not impossible to sustain at the national level. And the reason, I believe, is pretty simple to understand.

 

Although the Census Bureau confirmed that, in July 2011, there were 2,707,120 people living in the city of Chicago, all those folks were in a contained area, making it relatively easy for powerful politicians to identify problematic situations and fix or remove them fairly quickly.

 

What’s more, in that kind of environment governing skills or knowledge aren’t really needed at all. The only thing that counts is making sure that enough votes are amassed on election day, regardless of how they were derived or from whom.

 

And although that’s the flaw that’s been there all along for the current administration, it hasn’t mattered till now because the massive amounts of errors made over the past four plus years haven’t been reported  by the major media at all.

 

But now, at last, that scenario may finally be changing. whereas the administration’s level of incompetence is simply too large to go unnoticed, even by the media flaks ordinarily biased in their reporting, trying to keep their political favorites in office.

 

So, as earlier suggested, the administration now has problems which can’t be fixed by strong arm tactics, threats, bribes or intimidation. Because the solutions require real governance experience, capabilities and skills it's never obtained and its far too late to try to learn them now.

 

And what’s even worse, is that the cover always relied on, compatriots in the press ignoring all the errors and incompetence, may no longer remain in place. All of which is extremely hard to deal with for the incumbent president and his former Secretary of State, both lacking the skills for their positions from the very beginning, and neither growing an iota job-wise ever since.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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BloggeRhythms 5/11/2013

Today’s one when specifics don’t matter that much. What’s more important is the overall trend in the news, which isn’t looking too good for the White House.

 

I think that because I’m finally beginning to sense that even the liberal press is now realizing that their two favorite politico’s may be so grossly inept that they simply can’t protect them much longer. So many huge amateurish mistakes have been made that can’t be blamed on Bush anymore, that to continue the farce that “W’s” still the cause of the country’s deterioration will reduce their quickly dwindling audience even further. 

 

Key factors include the Benghazi cover-up’s imploding, with more “whistleblowers” readying for appearance, while errors made at the federal level may have aided the terrorist’s in bombing Boston.

 

Beyond that, looming damage to the economy from additional health care taxes starting shortly, worsen the picture. Because simple logic indicated a long time ago that instituting this ill-devised, unaffordable, financial hurdle not only made no economic sense, but incented businesses to downsize personnel while the overall economy grew at the slowest pace since Jimmy Carter’s tenure.

 

So, while each of these matters continue to bubble and sputter along, there’s really nothing to do but wait while they fester and grow worse. Which, I assume, should please Republicans greatly. Because since all the Dem’s problems were predominately  self-inflicted, all that need be done is to sit back and watch since it’s so obvious that the Dem’s worst enemies are their issues, objectives and themselves.

 

And, what that means is: The best course of action is to simply leave them alone while they continue to deconstruct on their own.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms 5/10/2013

With the current interest in the Benghazi testimony and the FBI's decision not to warn Boston police about potential danger from the pair that bombed them, I wanted to mention the following small item which otherwise might go unnoticed.

 

According to the Associated Press via Fox News on-line today, “A Michigan company that received a $50 million federal loan to make vans for the disabled has stopped production and laid off its 100 workers.”

 

Vehicle Production Group (VPG), Allen Park, Michigan, “received the loan in 2011 under the same clean-energy program that provided a $529 million loan to electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. Fisker had received $192 million before a series of problems led U.S. officials to freeze the loan in 2011.”

 

But here are the two parts of this story that really intrigued me.

 

First,  Aoife McCarthy, a DOE spokeswoman, said the loan program "was always intended to involve taking some risks by supporting innovative and cutting edge technologies that hadn't been tried on a commercial scale before." 

 

So, from her statement, It sounds to me like the Department of Energy perceives itself as to being in the venture capital business. Which is fine with their own bucks I suppose, but not if you’re doing it with taxpayer’s money. And especially more despicable when those at the top of the administration have proven time and again they know less than zero about handling funds of any kind whatsoever.

 

Which leads me to the next natural question, which is: If these various businesses lent to ever make a profit, which I realize is almost impossible, what happens to it? For example, as a taxpayer and thereby an investor, do I get interest payments or a dividend check from borrowers using my money?  

 

Regarding the loan, VPG's former chief executive, John Walsh, said “the DOE loan was a small piece of the $400 million VPG raised, mostly through private investors like Washington-based Perseus LLC." Which brings me to the next  item of interest because, “Perseus Vice Chairman James Johnson is a major fundraiser for President Barack Obama, and he briefly headed Obama's vice presidential selection committee in 2008. A DOE spokesman said in 2011 that Johnson, a former CEO of housing mortgage giant Fannie Mae, played no role in persuading the Energy Department to award the loan to VPG.”

 

So, this guy Walsh who headed a business that went bust after blowing $50 million taxpayer bucks, wants folks to believe that it’s just a coincidence that the major investor is tight with the incumbent. And also that the money was just a drop in the bucket, having little to do with his company at all. Which makes me quite sure that If I buy that one, this guy will try to sell me shares in a toll-bridge he owns that connects Manhattan to Brooklyn.

 

In other news, I found a couple of items suggesting that some in the major media may be beginning to worry that Benghazi story might not simply be swept under the carpet. Consequently they seemingly don’t want to to get branded as the Hillary panderers they are, so they’re starting to cover their tails.

 

According to, Jonathan Karl ABC News on-line via Drudge, “When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story.

 

ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.”

 

And also, Lisa Meyers, NBC News Senior Investigative Correspondent wrote the following: “First of all, in her Congressional testimony, which is (Hilary's) only sustained questioning on this subject -- in her Congressional testimony she basically tried to slam the door on any further questions by saying, remember the dramatic statement, 'what difference does it make?”

 

So, perhaps, this story will continue to grow and more news sources will come to their senses, finally admitting what a total incompetent the bosses wife was. And if they do that, maybe there’s a chance that all the other miserable failures of the current administration will start getting fair coverage, giving us all a chance to begin recovering from the disastrous lack of skill and leadership of the past five years.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

 Adios

BloggeRhythms 5/9/2013

Yesterday’s I focused on the Benghazi hearing and the impression I got that the Dem’s made complete and utter fools of themselves, acting like children closing their eyes and thumbing their noses when facing issues they wish to avoid.

However, aside from totally immature behavior, what really doesn’t make a whit of sense to me is why individuals supposedly representing their constituents and responsible for many aspects of their well-being, would purposefully not only waste, but also denigrate a chance to learn from three of the nation’s top foreign diplomatic personnel. 

 

Because, regardless of political persuasion, there aren’t many opportunities to discuss with seasoned hands-on experts the serious international threats facing our nation. Yet the Dem’s not only ignored that perspective, they demonstrated complete and thorough incompetence regarding the positions they hold.

Paralleling the childish, close-minded Dem's  the major networks did precisely the same thing by ignoring the hearings altogether, which I confirmed by flipping from Fox occasionally to see what other channels were airing. 

 

One of the most glaring examples to me of the damage wrought by political bias in broadcasting regarded a teary-eyed Greg Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya. He choked-up while describing how distraught he was when Susan Rice fabricated her tales about the terrorist raid on five different talk shows. 

 

While Mr. Hicks presented the details of his ordeal, I quickly flipped channels to see what the other TV coverage was, assuming they’d all broadcast the historic event, as well. However, what I found was, on one a woman dressed as a chicken or duck was trying to guess the price of a washing machine, dryer or stove while another station had a couch full of ladies heavily debating what kind and how much hair tint to use as you age. Suffice it to say, all the other channels, including public broadcasting, were airing pretty much similar gibberish.

But, being forever hopeful, I think they erred on this one whereas Benghazi just might be too big to keep on ignoring. And, if that turns out to be true, the public backlash could become horrendous for the networks.

In the meantime, the incumbent’s back on the taxpayer’s plane again, this time to visit Texas to talk about job growth. I mention it because, of all the places in the nation, I doubt he could find a better example of how big a success you can become economy-wise if you simply do the complete and absolute reverse of every word he ever utters.

Governor Rick Perry's spokeswoman, Lucy Nashed, put it better that I ever could by saying, “If the Obama administration wanted to follow Texas' lead, it would help the economy grow by cutting taxes and spending, rolling back regulations, passing tort reform and "getting out of the way and allowing employers to risk their capital and create jobs."

Now, I have no real expectation of the incumbent actually trying to do something helpful for the nation, that simply doesn’t fit the picture of someone totally unconcerned with the welfare of anyone but himself.

But nonetheless. if he truly cared about the economic well-being of his followers, Texas might be the perfect place to follow the footsteps of another ultra-leftist, Tony Blair.

When faced with an economy strangled financially by his own party, Blair stepped back, bit the bullet, fixed the welfare and healthcare systems, tossed out unwieldy, self-defeating overbearing nonsensical legislation. Even taking on the unions, he brought his nation back from the ruins, putting it on a solid, steadily increasing fiscal track.

However, unfortunately for us, the incumbent doesn’t give a whit about actually doing anything whatsoever. So it’s far more likely he’ll  just keep on sinking the country without lifting a finger. Except for the one he uses when he points at Republicans while blaming them for the dire straits he's put us in all by himself. 

That’s it for today folks.

Adios

BloggeRhythms 5/8/2013

Taking a break from Benghazi “whistleblower” testimony before a Congressional committee.

 

Information from the three individuals closest to the terrorist attack is fascinating by itself, furthering the supposition that the administration quickly attempted to cover-up how poorly it  handled the situation costing the lives of four U.S. citizens in Libya.

 

Rather than delve into all the details of the attack here and now, because the information's available in many other places, I’ll address instead what I find to be simply amazing every time one of these situation arises.

 

Right at the outset,  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, Republican from California, laid out the scenario, outlining the events as they occurred, establishing a time-line and setting a framework for the questioning to follow.

 

Representative. Elijah Cummings, Democrat from Delaware, also a ranking Oversight Committee member, spoke next, presenting selected items of information suggesting that all the information’s already been discussed and dealt with, and most important of all, his opinion that Chairman Issa’s a misguided liar.

 

So, right off the bat the Dem’s approach was to demean, vilify and disparage the person who put the hearings together while simultaneously belittling the three career diplomats by pretty much echoing in other words Hillary’s position that what actually happened in Benghazi really doesn't matter at all, because its over.

 

In very similar fashion, the questioning itself followed a very definitive pattern. Republicans used published comments, quotes and items of public record as guidance in inquiring what the three people directly involved experienced during the attack and its aftermath. They then built upon what they’d learned with increasingly focused queries that followed.

 

The Democrats, however, took a completely different tack making primarily politically motivated inquiries, and in several cases, not really asking anything substantial at all but using their five minutes to make self-serving speeches, basically ignoring the purpose of the hearing altogether.

 

So, concluding from what’s transpired so far, it seems to me that what the facts are proving here is that by approaching the Benghazi attack and its aftermath from a purely political position, and then compounding that mistake with  additional diversion from the truth, the administration’s looking significantly more incompetent with every sentence uttered by the whistleblowers.

 

But, what’s even worse for the Dem's is that while those in the White House are now being exposed as seemingly unfit for the jobs they hold, their compatriots in Congress are making themselves look even worse.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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