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I work in the facility maintenance & engineering field, have a degree in economics w/ minor in environmental planning. I enjoy what I do for a living - I'm able to work with both my hands and head. I like the variety of systems and equipment I work with. Married w/ four kids & a fine wife in a nice marrage. I really like my town and where I live - right on the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan. Son of a legal immigrant from Poland (My Father was a staunch anti-communist, and devout Catholic) and American Mother (stay at home "Homemaker"). Lifelong political conservative with a Libertarian bent.


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WI Con
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Whitefish Bay, WI
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WI Con

As infuriating as that family's story is, the fact that the agencies in question are so varied (OSHA, ATF, FBI) clearly indicates Obama Administration fingerprints and direction.

Like in any organized crime investigation, I hope the House Oversight Committee begins subpoena's the local, Texas field office employees of these agencies working those leads to where this has been cooked up.

WI Con
Ross C: I don't know why we have not heard more about TP-gate in Venezuela, but I think it has to do with socialism works poorly even when it doesn't outright kill its citizens.   This is not exactly the narrative the left wants out.  I have been to Venezuela many times and it has been sad to see its downhill slide.  Imagine if oil prices were not historically high, (more) blood would run in the streets. · 1 hour ago

They have been forced to use Hugo's collection of Sean Penn films in place of the real thing.

WI Con

Frozen Chosen

Fake John Galt: I have been saying something similar for many years.  The bureaucrats run the country, the political class just thinks it does and the bureaucrat let them so they can use them as cover.  That is why anything like term limits will not work unless you expand it to all in government service and I mean all levels of government service.  Personally I believe that government service needs to be considered a duty and be limited to 10 years total government service for all government employees no matter what level.  · 0 minutes ago

Not a bad idea but I think that simplification and elimination would be the best way to reform things.

Simplify the necessary federal agencies by pruning the massive federal code and eliminate the unnecessary agencies.

Of course neither of our ideas has a snowball's chance in... · 1 hour ago

Frozen Chosen,

I contacted the Department of a Snowball's Chance in Hell and after 20 minutes on hold, found out that you are correct.

WI Con

I'd classify promoting that lady that was in charge of the IRS Tea Party Operation to head up the IRS' Obamacare provisions as promoting that type of 'environment'.

WI Con

Yeah...ok.: I hope you're correct.

Western Chauvinist: I'm not optimistic. I just think it's now or never to make the case. People have a sense of fair-play.  We have examples, which are way more potent than lengthy dissertations on conservative philosophy. 

If the corruption of the political process by the IRS isn't persuasive, well, it really is the end. · 10 hours ago

Sorry, I'm still depressed by the results of November. Between Obamacare, you didn't build that, the economy, GSA, fast & furious et al how could Obama get re-elected?

Half the people of voted for Obama don't day income tax anyway, many think the rich don't pay enough anyway. I think we've already passed the point of no return. · 2 hours ago

Can Mitt Romney or the Koch Brothers offer 'financial rewards' for whistleblowers in order to entice them to come forward? Imagine the wailing & gnashing of teeth on the Left!

WI Con

DrewInWisconsin

Doug Kimball

What happened to the Tea Party?

You know, until I read this sentence it hadn't occurred to me to make the connection. In 2012, we wondered what happened to the citizen movement that effected such positive change in 2010. It seemed to disappear. Its power seemed to have dwindled.

And, as you say, now we know. The Obama administration, via the IRS, threw such a burden at Tea Party organizations, that they actually slowed and stopped conservatives from making headway. 

Doug, I'm with Drew - you really connected the dots here. The Leftists are just as sinister as we imagined. I'll say it again, we're experiencing a slow motion coup.

Hopefully, their momentum just hit the quicksand.

WI Con

I'd never seen that episode. Thanks, that made my day.

WI Con

Wow, that stack of subpoenas is getting high. Speaking of getting high...

WI Con

For him, the personal journey from BS to Bullworth really isn't that far. Come on man, challenge yourself!

WI Con
Denise McAllister: Western Chauvinist---are Latino Catholics somehow less Catholic than white Catholics? I don't really understand why you're making this distinction. · 2 hours ago

That seems a low blow. Yes, they are Catholic but it illustrates the fiction peddled that Hispanics are conservatives in waiting. As a group (as Catholics, as students, as wards of the state, as prisoners) they alter the bell curve, for worse - towards the Left.

Edited on May 15, 2013 at 4:23am
WI Con

Also note that in his intitial round of softball interviews (David Letterman, The View, Telemundo) that he stated that he (I paraphrase) 'ordered that we protect our embasies so that this doesn't happen again and that we arrest & bring to justice those that perpetrated this act'

Notice that he never stated that he ordered the military to do a thing - parsed, this statement meant that after leaving these people in the lurch, let's make sure it doesn't happen again. I have to believe that in authorizing Panetta to do anything that a President has to set broad outlines of what can be done and what can't.

The administration keeps stating that there were no military assets in the area - how & to whom was this information relayed. The original response team that was ordered to stand down in Tripoli was at some point ordered to activate (who did this?). Clinton and/or Obama were never updated on the progress or setbacks in the response?

My children have woven more convincing lies about not being able to eat what's on their plates.

WI Con

9) Fellow 'Choomer' like a certain President he'd look like if he had a son.

 

Absolutely relevant information.

WI Con

Love where you're going with this. It's the epitome of a union shop - ever-increasing costs with diminishing quality & output.

WI Con

Definitions matter. Does cheating mean taking advantage of any conceivable tax deduction and write-off? A Leftist would define a private sector 'one percenter' doing this a tax cheat. A public servant making $400K per year bundling contributions to Planned Parenthood, taking a rebate for a Prius - well, they are just being wise and cautious with their public 'investments'.

With this immoral system we have - there is no 'cheating'. Flat Tax. It's well past time.

WI Con

The more I see the press, the more they seem like high schoolers. They want to be part of the 'cool kids' (in this case the administration or capital hill Democrats) but aren't. They won't do anything to jepardize being invited into that group. You don't believe in Climate change? You're out! SSM? Out! The list goes on and on.

The MSM really are quite pathetic (and quite descructive and dangerous).

WI Con

Larry Koler

Western Chauvinist: I think there's a fourth aspect of Obama you missed: he's perfected Alinskyite tactics. This is what makes the Left toxic. They're able, with the help of the Democrat propagandists in the media, to project their own malicious intents and features onto the Right...

Every Obama presentation includes some reference to his radical, out-of-bounds opponents. And it works. · 51 minutes ago

Agreed about the tactics but this only works when no one is there to refute this stuff. Having control of the MSM is their trump card that can always carry the day. Going after the media is the sine qua non of the future for this country. Bad journalists must face some headwinds or we will never be able to save this country. · May 12, 2013 at 11:37pm

I'd advocate that GOP politicians and Right leaning pundits go after the cozy relationships between this administration, The Bureaucracy in general (see that posted story about reporters and their family members that are in gov't). Really, Jay Carney is married to Claire Shipman and we're supposed to believe she doesn't get anything on 'deep background'? Pulleeze.

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