Obama Contributor, Who Helped Enact Assault-Weapons Ban, Ran ‘Fast and Furious’

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By Fred Lucas

June 29, 2012

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Former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) – Dennis K. Burke, who as a lawyer for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1990s was a key player behind the enactment of the 1994 assault-weapons ban, and who then went on to become Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s chief of staff, and a contributor to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential primary campaign, and then a member of Obama’s transition team focusing on border-enforcement issues, ended up in the Obama administration as the U.S. attorney in Arizona responsible for overseeing Operation Fast and Furious.

When Obama nominated Burke to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Burke told the Arizona Capitol Times he believed he understood what the president and his attorney general wanted him to do.

“There’s clearly been direction provided already by President Obama and Attorney General Holder as to what they want to be doing, and this is an office that is at the center of the issues of border enforcement,” said Burke.

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White House claims ObamaCare fine a ‘penalty,’ despite court calling it a ‘tax’

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Barack Obama, buying health insurance, Chief Justice John Roberts, congress authority, controversial law, controversial provision, despite court calling it a tax, federal health care, flip-flop, government, individual mandate, Jay Carney, Mitt Romney, Mitt will REPEAL OBAMACARE, Obamacare, penalty vs. tax, politics, White House claims

[FoxNews.com]

Published June 29, 2012

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

First it was a penalty. Then it was a tax. Now it’s a penalty again.  [Flippidy-Floppidy]

The war of words over what to call the fine attached to the federal health care overhaul’s most controversial provision continued Friday, as the White House took issue with the Supreme Court’s argument — even though that argument alone spared President Obama’s law.

The five-justice majority argued that, while the fine imposed by the law for not buying health insurance would otherwise be unconstitutional, the fine is actually legal under Congress’ authority to tax.

Ergo, the fine is officially a “tax” in the eyes of the court. The law stands.

But in a case of biting the hand that feeds, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Friday the fine is still just a “penalty.”

Cocky, Condescending Journalists Declared ObamaCare Would Be Upheld, Maybe by a 8-1 Vote

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brain dead journalism, CNN, cocky-condescending, current-events, jeffrey toobin, journalist, not a chance, politics, Socialists, soledad o brien, thinks 8-1 vote, to uphold o-care

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By Scott Whitlock | June 27, 2012 | 22:48

Although no one knows how the Supreme Court will rule, Thursday, on ObamaCare, journalists over the past few months have dismissed and derided the concept that the President’s signature legislation could be declared unconstitutional. CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin predicted an eight-to-one vote upholding the law. Former New York Times Court reporter Linda Greenhouse said that Americans who think the law is unconstitutional are “wrong.”

Appearing on the March 23 Situation Room, Toobin hyped, “I actually think that Chief Justice Roberts and perhaps even Justice Scalia and Justice Alito might join Justice Kennedy in upholding the law.” He added, “In striking this law down, it would really be a big change in constitutional law, and I’m not sure this court is ready to do it.”

On March 19, Toobin appeared on Starting Point and rejected the anti-ObamaCare argument as  “weak”:

ANCHOR SOLEDAD O’BRIEN: So the bottom line is, is making people buy health insurance a legitimate use of the power of Congress?

JEFFREY TOOBIN: Correct, and the challengers in these laws have said, ‘No, this is not something Congress can do.’ What I wrote in The New Yorker this week, what I think is that basically that is a really weak argument, in that the United States Congress has been regulating health care for years, has been involved in this market for years, and this is a perfectly ordinary use of Congress’s power.

(Once he heard oral arguments, Toobin reversed himself. The journalist declared the Obama position a “train wreck” and suggested it would be shot down.)

Will Stockton, CA Become Largest U.S. City In Bankruptcy?

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June 26, 2012 by Tony Lee

Officials in Stockton, California had until 11:59 p.m. on Monday to reach a deal to restructure the city’s debt to avoid bankruptcy under a new California mediation law. That deadline has passed and, according to the Associated Press, a Stockton spokesperson said what happened in those negotiations was confidential and would not be announced until Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, where members will meet to potentially discuss and vote on a plan to restructure their debt, according to The Fresno Bee.

If Stockton city officials failed to gain concessions, mainly from public sector employees and their representatives, the city manager will file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on Wednesday, making Stockton the largest U.S. city to be in bankruptcy.

According to the Bee, the city already made drastic cuts to the public sector but previous “multi-year labor contracts for city workers with escalating costs and generous retirement plans” prevented the city from digging out of its fiscal hole.

Another city in California, Vallejo, filed for bankruptcy and is getting back its fiscal solvency by, as Walter Russell Mead has written, ditching the “blue model” of expensive labor contracts and unsustainable pensions.

It is something Stockton should be aware of. But, as Mead has also noted, the time to ditch the “blue model” before the city is a step away from falling off the fiscal cliff.

Photo credit: Otto Vondrak

Obama, Why Don’t You Just Resign?

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american border patrol, Barack Obama, Brian Terry, equal protection, Eric Holder, failure to enforce Fed immigration law, fast and furious, government, high crimes and misdemeanors, just resign?, politics, punishing Arizona, uber-corrupt administration, unconstitutional, WORST PRESIDENT IN US HISTORY

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June 26, 2012 By Michael J Nellett

Barack Hussein Obama has decided that in order to punish Arizona for having dared enforce American immigration laws, he has ordered his federal agencies to basically stop working with Arizona’s law enforcement agencies concerning illegal immigrants. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr has also made it known as the nations chief law enforcement officer that he too is only going to selectively enforce immigration laws that he personally likes. More to the point, Holder will only enforce what is beneficial to his boss’s re-election campaign. If I’m not mistaken, this attitude by both men is blatantly UNCONSTITUTIONAL and falls under the heading of “high crimes and misdemeanors’, an IMPEACHABLE offense!

Mr. Obama, how in the world can you look at the people of Arizona and tell them that YOU are not willing to give them EQUAL PROTECTION under the laws of the United States? Brian Terry, an American Border Patrol Agent, was shot in the back 18 miles INSIDE the border of the United States! Jaime Zapata, an ICE agent, was also killed because of an illegally run and botched program known as Fast & Furious. Being an accomplice to murder, Mr. Obama, is a crime punishable by prison time. Maybe you and Mr Holder could share a cell? Anyway, I digress…..again!

My feelings are, Mr. Obama, that you should be impeached before any more American and Mexican bodies pile up because of your insanity. Mr. Holder should be found guilty of contempt of Congress and charged with negligent homicide in the cases of the two dead federal agents. You and Holder should also have to face justice in the death of the Arizona rancher and others who were killed by your illegal compadres coming across our borders and onto American’s rightfully-owned land. I have an idea for a reverse gun walking program that I would like to run called “Slow & Deliberate”! It’s a program whereby I legally get to use federal funds to LEGALLY buy guns from LEGAL gun shop owners and arm American citizens to help guard the American border from the intrusion of illegals from everywhere. No problems, no paperwork, no questions! All neat, tidy, and LEGAL!

Increasingly Shrill Liberal Journalists Attack ‘Legitimacy’ of Supreme Court Ahead of ObamaCare Ruling

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[Newsbusters.org]

By: John Bates| June 25, 2012 | 16:50

As the ObamaCare decision looms large on the horizon, the Left is doing their best to defame the Supreme Court in anticipation of a defeat of the president signature legislative accomplishment.In the past two days, liberal journalists Michael Tomasky and James Fallows have published histrionic tirades at their respective publications, the Daily Beast/Newsweek and The Atlantic.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz1yqDRpvLR

Obama Campaign E-Mail: ‘We’re Falling Behind’

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Americans don't want Socialism, Americans reject Obamacare, Breitbart, campaign e-mail, campaign frightened, current-events, Obama, obama panic, politics, PPACA is a gigantic power-grab, we don't want it, william bigelow

[Breitbart.com]

June 24, 2012 – by William Bigelow

Obama’s latest e-mail shows the panic

The Obama campaign is so frightened at this point that they have taken an unprecedented step.

They’re telling the truth.

In the latest of the “personal” e-mails that the Obama campaign is sending out, they don’t sugarcoat their appeal for money with saccharine stories about Obama shoveling snow for his wife, or working hard late into the night. They panic:

For the first time in modern American history, the incumbent (that’s us) will get outspent in a re-election campaign — by some estimates as much as 3-to-1.

Over the last 10 days of this month alone, GOP outside groups will spend $20 million attacking President Obama on TV.

Think about that, then think about what they’ll spend over the last 10 days in October.

We have to take this seriously. Four months to go in this election, and we have a huge fundraising deadline coming up in less than a week — any day we’re not chipping away at that disadvantage, we’re falling behind.

The LEAST Interesting Man in the World

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Barack Obama, deceitful, he does not care, it's all about him, least interesting man in the world, liar, self-centered arrogant

[PJMedia.com]

June 24, 2012 – 10:38 pm – by Roger L Simon

Who is the LEAST interesting man in the world?

We all know “The MOST Interesting Man in the World.” Long greying beard, a lot of girlfriends. He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, etc., etc.

But the LEAST –  it’s a more difficult decision. So PJ Media and PJTV set out on a search a few weeks ago, just about the time the RightChange crew was working on “The Most ARROGANT Man in the World,” and, lo and behold, we both came up with the same person.

 Arrogant? Uninteresting? Somehow they go together.

Anyway, here’s “The LEAST Interesting Man in the World” — PJ Media/PJTV version. (Feel free to suggest new versions in the comments — the possibilities are endless. Who knows — PJTV may use your suggestions for a sequel. Or make it yourself and we’ll link.)

The Difference Between Wide Receiver; Fast and Furious [Marked difference!]

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Agent Brian Terry, ATF, ATF agents, Barack Obama, big government, drug smugglers, Eric Holder, ethics, fast and furious, Featured, George Bush, gunwalking, hundreds killed, marked different operations, Mexican cartels, Phoenix, politics, violence, Wide Receiver

[FrontPorchPolitics.com]

Written on June 23, 2012 at 8:15 am by FPP

While the White House, Eric Holder, and the liberal talking heads continue blaming Bush for the Obama administrations fumbles in the Fast and Furious gun walking operation gone bad, they cannot see the distinct difference between operation Wide Receiver and operation Fast and Furious. The differences are fairly profound and distinct.

The main differences are these: Wide Receiver involved Phoenix-based ATF agents, working with Mexican law enforcement in an attempt to build a case against violent Mexican drug smugglers. Fast and Furious on the other hand was an effort to make a case against American gun dealers and the Second Amendment of the United States. Both were orchestrated by their respective administrations with completely different goals. One was to go after criminals and the other was to go after the Constitution and law abiding citizens.

Romney to Latinos: Obama ‘Taking Your Vote for Granted’

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Barack Obama, governor romney, Hispanic vote, Latino Vote, legal immigration, long term solution, Mitt Romney, Obama taking for granted, political debates, politics, vote should be respected, Winning Elections

[Breitbart.com]

Posted CWN:  June 23, 2012

by Tony Lee

President Barack Obama has taken the Hispanic vote for granted, according to Mitt Romney in a much-anticipated speech to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) in Florida on Thursday. 

“He’s taking your vote for granted,” Romney said of Obama. “I’ve come here today with a simple message: You do have an alternative. Your vote should be respected.”

Romney was referring to Obama’s inaction on immigration even though Democrats were in the majority in the House and Senate when he became president.

Romney said Obama, because he cannot sell his economic policies that have left more Latinos (11% as opposed to 8%) unemployed than the general population, will simply tell Hispanics that “things could be worse” and “imply that you really don’t have an alternative.”