What Planet Does This Administration Live On??

[bonnie]

Come clean, Mr. Holder

Whose side is the Justice Department on: America's -- or the terrorists'?<p> </p><br> It's just insane that a lawyer who defended Osama bin Laden's driver and bodyguard -- and who sought constitutional rights for terrorists -- could be one of the Obama administration's top legal officials.<p> </p><br> But there's Neal Katyal, occupying a top perch at the Justice Department as the principal deputy solicitor general.<p> </p><br> Then there's Jennifer Daskal -- who just months ago was an anti-Guantanamo activist. Now she's in Justice's National Security Division --<p> </p><br>working on detainee issues.<p> </p><br> Talk about conflicts of interest.<p> </p><br> All kinds of rules prohibit government employees from influencing policy to the benefit of their previous employers. If Katyal, Daskal and other conflicted Justice lawyers had worked for corporations, they'd almost certainly be subject to these regulations.<p> </p><br> Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are hopping mad about the situation -- and rightly so. Months ago, Senate Judiciary Committee member Charles Grassley asked Attorney General Eric Holder to disclose who in the administration had previously represented or agitated for alleged terrorists.<p> </p><br> The AG's reply?<p> </p><br> "I will consider that request."<p> </p><br> Holder must be thinking long and hard -- because committee members have yet to receive a response.<p> </p><br> Meanwhile, they've started asking other questions of Justice -- like who came up with the brilliant idea to Mirandize undie-bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, limiting the amount of intelligence he might provide about al Qaeda and future attacks.<p> </p><br> With high-profile terror cases coming up -- like Abdulmutallab's, and the outrageous Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial in New York -- Americans need to know: Is our government putting in a good-faith effort when it comes to punishing the men who want to blow up our people?<p> </p><br> The call to treat terrorists like civilians in court has been all Team Obama.<p> </p><br> Which means the president and his administration also owe the American people an answer: Is the government's prosecutorial deck stacked in favor of the terrorists?<p> </p><br> A Justice Department spokesman, Dean Boyd, tells The Post that the department will be responding to Sen. Grassley's request "very soon."<p> </p><br> Will it be soon enough?<p> </p><br> It's time for Holder and Justice to clean

Whose side is the Justice Department on: America's -- or the terrorists'?

It's just insane that a lawyer who defended Osama bin Laden's driver and bodyguard -- and who sought constitutional rights for terrorists -- could be one of the Obama administration's top legal officials.

But there's Neal Katyal, occupying a top perch at the Justice Department as the principal deputy solicitor general.

Then there's Jennifer Daskal -- who just months ago was an anti-Guantanamo activist. Now she's in Justice's National Security Division -- working on detainee issues.

Talk about conflicts of interest.

All kinds of rules prohibit government employees from influencing policy to the benefit of their previous employers. If Katyal, Daskal and other conflicted Justice lawyers had worked for corporations, they'd almost certainly be subject to these regulations.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are hopping mad about the situation -- and rightly so. Months ago, Senate Judiciary Committee member Charles Grassley asked Attorney General Eric Holder to disclose who in the administration had previously represented or agitated for alleged terrorists.

The AG's reply?

"I will consider that request."

Holder must be thinking long and hard -- because committee members have yet to receive a response.

Meanwhile, they've started asking other questions of Justice -- like who came up with the brilliant idea to Mirandize undie-bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, limiting the amount of intelligence he might provide about al Qaeda and future attacks.

With high-profile terror cases coming up -- like Abdulmutallab's, and the outrageous Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial in New York -- Americans need to know: Is our government putting in a good-faith effort when it comes to punishing the men who want to blow up our people?

The call to treat terrorists like civilians in court has been all Team Obama.

Which means the president and his administration also owe the American people an answer: Is the government's prosecutorial deck stacked in favor of the terrorists?

A Justice Department spokesman, Dean Boyd, tells The Post that the department will be responding to Sen. Grassley's request "very soon."

Will it be soon enough?

It's time for Holder and Justice to come clean.

Now.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/edi...I#ixzz0dqzU2pxN

[karl]

Whose side is the Justice Department on: America's -- or the terrorists'?

...they've started asking other questions of Justice -- like who came up with the brilliant idea to Mirandize undie-bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, limiting the amount of intelligence he might provide about al Qaeda and future attacks.

With high-profile terror cases coming up -- like Abdulmutallab's, and the outrageous Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial in New York -- Americans need to know: Is our government putting in a good-faith effort when it comes to punishing the men who want to blow up our people?

The call to treat terrorists like civilians in court has been all Team Obama.

Which means the president and his administration also owe the American people an answer: Is the government's prosecutorial deck stacked in favor of the terrorists?

A large percentage of the American people really wonder whether Obama is capable of putting America's interests first. The wonderful treatment terrorists are getting under this administration is only one aspect of this.

He appears to be conflicted between being liked by the world and doing what is best for the US. Those in this country who seem opposed to American productivity and strength (liberals) are becoming more critical of Obama as his waning popularity makes it increasingly difficult to push the far-left agenda of tax and spend and spend and spend.

Even a child knows you can't spend your way out of debt.

[karl]

Fox News was actually kind of easy on him after the State of the Union Address. There was plenty there to complain about. Now he's met with Republicans and chewed them out for not playing along with his powergrab. Basically he told them, "We threw you a couple of cookies in the Health Bill. How come you all voted against it, you evil obstructionists?

Would you eat a Democratic buffet of burro biscuits that had a couple of cookies hidden in it somewhere? I don't think my love for cookies extends that far.

[karl]

ABC News Exclusive: President Obama:

We Lost Touch with American People Last Year

By KAREN TRAVERS

Jan. 20, 2010

President Obama said today that he believes he lost a direct connection to the American people in his first year in office because he focused too heavily on policymaking.

One year into the president's term, George Stephanopoulos interviews Obama.

"If there's one thing that I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are...

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This presupposes that at one time he was in touch with our core values, but I don't see that his administration has ever veered off the path to total socialism.

Entire article here: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/president-obama-lost-touch-american-people-year/story?id=9613462

[phkrause]

This has already been posted! How about something new?

pk

[Woody]

This has already been posted! How about something new?

pk

Well pk ... there ain't much new with this admin.

It's the same o' same ' ... :)

[phkrause]

Well that's interesting considering that on FoxNews they have new things about the WH and the rest of the government each day!

pk

[Woody]

Yes pk ... but it all seems to be of the same nature.

NEGATIVE.

[karl]

I guess Holder is now being pushed by the WH to take the blame on this one.

"Holder Defends Decision to Try Christmas Day Terror Suspect in Civilian Court"

By Susan Crabtree - 02/03/10

The Hill

Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said he decided to charge the Christmas Day terror suspect in civilian rather than military court.

In a letter to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Holder said he informed other relevant departments of the government and received no objections from them.

He said the FBI informed its “relevant partners in the Intelligence Community” on the evening of the Dec. 25 and the following morning that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would be charged criminally and “no agency objected to this course of action.”

Entire article here: http://thehill.com/homenews/administrati...-terror-suspect

[Woody]

Holder needs to quit or be fired.

[phkrause]

Holder needs to quit or be fired.

This is not the first terrorist tried in a civilian court. Or have we forgotten the two others during the, I believe, the years 2004-2006?

pk

[karl]

I keep seeing Obama on the news trying to drum up the troops for his health care and cap and trade bills. He's losing it. How can he not know that he is dealing his party a death blow? Maybe he's a JESUIT (like Doug Yowell?) and is doing it on purpose to bring in the right-wing fundamentalist government foretold in Revelation. Jesuits are into prophecy, aren't they?

[doug yowell]

I keep seeing Obama on the news trying to drum up the troops for his health care and cap and trade bills. He's losing it. How can he not know that he is dealing his party a death blow? Maybe he's a JESUIT (like Doug Yowell?) and is doing it on purpose to bring in the right-wing fundamentalist government foretold in Revelation. Jesuits are into prophecy, aren't they?

It takes one to know one!!

[karl]

Originally Posted By: karl

I keep seeing Obama on the news trying to drum up the troops for his health care and cap and trade bills. He's losing it. How can he not know that he is dealing his party a death blow? Maybe he's a JESUIT (like Doug Yowell?) and is doing it on purpose to bring in the right-wing fundamentalist government foretold in Revelation. Jesuits are into prophecy, aren't they?

It takes one to know one!!

Busted again.

[karl]

What planet did Obama actually come from?

Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.

Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me.

I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding." Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me.

No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange?

It's very strange." Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.

[karl]

I have four extra tickets for the Robbie Knievel (son of Evil Knievel) Event at the Ford Center next weekend in Beaumont,Texas, if anybody wants them.

Robbie is going to try to jump over 1,000 Obama supporters with a Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer.

[Woody]

Hope it doesn't get snowed out with all this 'global warming'. I hear Texas is suppose to get a snow storm tomorrow.

[karl]

Obama has a self-narrative, much of it seemingly fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative of their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.

But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.

In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of - to find out anything about - this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."

[karl]

THEN-ILLINOIS STATE SENATOR Barack Hussein Obama, Constitutional scholar, with the "uhs" removed:

"I think we can say that the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day, and that the framers had that same blind spot. […The Constitution] reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day."

[Gerr]

While I don't approve of what this current administration is doing about the alleged terrorists prisoners, neither was it right for the previous administration to hold people indefinitely without charge or trial. That was plain morally wrong.

[karl]

While I don't approve of what this current administration is doing about the alleged terrorists prisoners, neither was it right for the previous administration to hold people indefinitely without charge or trial. That was plain morally wrong.

The problem was that they turned some of them loose and they ended up right back in the terrorist camps in the middle east.

That put a big damper on any attempt to release more.

It is one of the official tasks of the Department of Justice to protect the US from its enemies. Unfortunately, Eric Holder has appointed some notoriously pro-terrorist people to DOJ positions and so the public is rightfully suspicious that this administration is soft on terrorism.

Holder admits nine Obama Dept. of Justice officials worked for terrorist detainees, offers no details

By: BYRON YORK

Chief Political Correspondent Washington Examiner

02/19/10 3:52 PM EST

Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported.

Entire article here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinio...s-84799487.html