What’s interesting in the news today?
1. The White House is dragging out Obama’s favorite excuse.
Scandal? What scandal? Oh, you mean the one Obama read about in the news?
Yet another lie. They’ve known since August of last year at least.
From Politico “The White House, State Department and Hillary Clinton’s personal office knew in August that House Republicans had received information showing that the former secretary of state conducted official government business through her private email account — and Clinton’s staff made the decision to keep quiet.”
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You mean these Clinton staffers?
From FoxNews “Emails obtained through a federal lawsuit show that two top aides to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were running interference internally during the 2012 Benghazi terror attack.
The aides were Philippe Reines, widely described as Clinton’s principal gate-keeper, and Cheryl Mills, who has been at Clinton’s side for decades.
The emails show that while receiving updates about the assault as it happened, Mills told then-State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland to stop answering reporter questions about the status of Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was missing and later found dead.
Also littered throughout the State Department emails, obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, are references to a so-called Benghazi Group. A diplomatic source told Fox News that was code inside the department for the so-called Cheryl Mills task force, whose job was damage control.”
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FOIA requests? Never heard of ’em….
From TheFreeBeacon “The State Department may have ignored or rejected a request made in 2012 under the Freedom of Information Act by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) seeking Hillary Clinton’s email addresses, according to a Daily Caller report on Thursday.
The New York Times reported on Monday that Clinton exclusively used a private email account and server for her email during her four years as secretary of state, skirting federal records laws, as well as State Department and Obama administration transparency guidelines, and raising suspicions that numerous public records requests for her emails were improperly blocked.
Anne Weismann, CREW’s general counsel, submitted a FOIA request to the State Department on Dec. 6, 2012, seeking “records sufficient to show the number of email accounts of or associated with Secretary Hilary Rodham Clinton, and the extent to which those email accounts are identifiable as those of or associated with Secretary Clinton.”
CREW’s request came on the heels of news that former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson had used an alias email account to conduct government business, and the organization was seeking to see if other senior officials used similar pseudonymous email accounts.”
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2. And Clinton and Jackson aren’t the only ones….
From TheDailySignal “IRS manager Lois Lerner allegedly used an msn.com email account labeled ‘Lois Home’ for government-related communications. Lerner was a key player in what the IG found was the tax agency’s unfair targeting of conservative groups.
Former Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used private email accounts, as well as a secret EPA email address under the pseudonym “Richard Windsor,” to conduct official business. That included communicating with a climate lobbyist.”
“The EPA inspector general recently found the agency’s Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso and two top officials used personal email accounts to conduct official business. The IG said the officials did not preserve the emails, in violation of federal regulations.”
“Attorney General Eric Holder’s criminal division head, Lanny Breuer, was caught forwarding controversial Fast and Furious-related emails to his personal account.”
“Obama Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, Holder’s former assistant attorney general for civil rights, allegedly used his private email account to leak non-public information about official business.
As to whether Holder himself ever used personal email for government business, the Justice Department isn’t saying. A spokesman did not respond to requests for information about Holder’s email practices.”
This is common practice in the self-proclaimed “most transparent administration ever.”
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3. And since I brought up Holder….
From InvestorsBusinessDaily “Unable to pin racism charges on Ferguson policeman Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, Attorney General Eric Holder is using half-baked data to manufacture a case of racism against his entire police force.
Holder’s race-baiting civil rights crew combed through several years of Ferguson Police Department data on traffic stops, searches and arrests and “found a pattern of racial disparities in Ferguson’s police activities.”
“African Americans are overrepresented in FPD’s vehicular stops” and victims of “racial bias,” Holder concludes in his report.
He notes that blacks accounted for 85% of vehicle stops, “despite comprising only 67% of Ferguson’s population,” while whites made up 15% of stops, despite representing 29% of the population.
So there you have it, a slam-dunk case of racism, right? Hardly.
Outrageously, the nation’s top prosecutor failed to control for factors that explain the racial “disparity” in traffic stops, such as speeding, DUI, expired license plates, headlight, seat-belt and child-restraint violations and other reasons for being pulled over.
Holder’s own department statistics show that African Americans, on average, violate speeding and other traffic laws at much greater rates than whites.”
You mean Holder’s race-baiting dishonestly and fudging the numbers? Say it ain’t so….. 🙄
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4. This is just one more reason Boehner has to go. Like I said, he’s a Democrat’s best friend.
From TheHill “A number of right-wing Republicans, long wary of Boehner’s commitment to GOP efforts attacking President Obama’s policy priorities, have openly considered a coup in an attempt to transfer the gavel into more conservative hands.
But Democrats from across an ideological spectrum say they’d rather see Boehner remain atop the House than replace him with a more conservative Speaker who would almost certainly be less willing to reach across the aisle in search of compromise. Replacing him with a Tea Party Speaker, they say, would only bring the legislative process — already limping along — to a screeching halt.”
““I’d probably vote for Boehner [because] who the @#$% is going to replace him? [Ted] Yoho?” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) said Wednesday, referencing the Florida Tea Party Republican who’s fought Boehner on a host of bipartisan compromise bills.
“In terms of the institution, I would rather have John Boehner as the Speaker than some of these characters who came here thinking that they’re going to change the world,” Pascrell added.”
Yeah, nobody wants to change the world. Just the horribly broken and corrupt Washington DC.
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Wandering Views 
Obama is the most uninformed president we’ve ever had.
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And he doesn’t seem to know that, which is the truly scary part!
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What? Wait? You two believe that he didn’t know??
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It will be interesting to see what happens if the Hillary campaign continues to implode.
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Linda, what’s your take on O’Malley?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/08/omalley-in-new-hampshire-soft-sells-potentially-clinton-challenge-like-hillary/
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Oh, Donna, don’t get me started. Suffice it to say 1) we don’t call them the “O” twins for nothing and 2) he, and his ilk, are the reason we moved to Pa.
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Yeah I love how leftists like Warren and O’Malley are supposed to suddenly be fresh, moderate, and electable populists, just like Hillary… 🙄
And sorry Linda, the idiots here rewarded you by electing Tom Wolf. 😦
What do you think of his new tax raising scam of a budget? Sounds like the same nonsense Rendell sold voters, which we’ve yet to see benefit from. It’s funny too how a tax dodging leftist wants to raise our taxes after having moved his business to tax free Delaware due to PA’s high tax rates. Democrat voters have no problem with hypocrites I guess. Again, sorry. 😦
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Linda @ 12:14
I believe that everything Obama says is a lie.
And every law that he pushes does exactly the opposite of what the law says.
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She’s feeling the heat:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/hillary-clinton-address-email-controversy-115903.html
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Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon address the controversy over her use of a private email account at the State Department, and is likely to hold a press conference in New York in the next several days to answer reporters’ questions, according to three people close to the potential Democratic front runner.
The decision to address the issue, made in the last several days, comes amid a cascade of criticism following New York Times and Associated Press stories in the past week, reporting that Clinton had possibly violated State Department policy by channeling her emails through a private server housed in her suburban New York mansion. The pressure on Clinton has ratcheted up as critics, including some congressional Democrats, have called on her to publicly address the reports. ….
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AJ, we were disappointed in the election of Wolf, too. He really snowed ’em, didn’t he?
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