Political Class Insanity - January, 2012 Edition, Part 1

Early in every month we review the actions, antics, and stupidity that our political class continuously springs on the American public. One would have hoped after doing this every month for two years that we would have finally documented all of the insanity.

Unfortunately, that is not the case as the American political class at every level of government continues to come forth with behavior that is wasteful, embarrassing, and non-effective in addressing and resolving the major issues facing American today. In fact, the past month has been so bad that we are splitting this month's insanity across two days, today and tomorrow, in order to adequately cover all of the antics and embarrassing actions of the political class.

Thus, without further delay, the political class insanity we have come across just in the past month or so:

- The following insanity comes from articles summarized in the December 16, 2011 issue of The Week magazine:

• Michele Bachman, who just dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for President, apparently boasted that she would close down the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran if elected President. Unfortunately, our embassy in Iran has been shut down since the 1980 Iranian hostage crisis, 31 years ago.
• The Drug Enforcement Agency, that U.S. government agency that brought you the failed Fast and Furious program, a program that provided military grade weapons to Mexican drug cartels, weaponry that was used to kill a U.S. agent and more than a dozen Mexican civilians while simultaneously breaking U.S. laws and international treaties, has been forced to defend the fact that it has consciously been breaking U.S. money laundering laws in a vain attempt to learn how the drug cartels move their money. According to the New York Times article that broke the story, DEA agents have regularly transported illegal cash illegally across the border and illegally deposited the cash into drug traffickers' bank accounts. How this is a good idea completely eludes me.
• According to MotherJones.com, President Obama has attended 69 fund raisers in 2011 alone.That's an average of one fund raiser every five days, a rate that is far more than either Bush or Clinton incurred in their third years as President. When you add in Obama's many golf outings and his many vacations (including his recent 17 day Hawaiian vacation), it makes you wonder if he ever does any work. Given the lousy economy, the skyrocketing debt, our high unemployment and underemployment, the divisiveness within the country, etc., the answer to that question is quite likely very little work.
• The Democratic controlled Senate recently passed a piece of legislation that allowed anyone, regardless of whether they are a U.S. citizen or not, suspected, not convicted, of being a plotter of terrorism attacks on the U.S. to be detained indefinitely, without trial by our military. Forget the Constitution, forget the Bill of Rights, forget freedom and due process, just lock the suspects up forever, if needed, without any trial or justice. The Republican controlled House has already passed a similar piece of disgraceful legislation. Obama claims he will veto it but if he does not, welcome to the incarnation of the Soviet gulag system, American style.
• In mid-December, the U.S. State Department ordered an "extensive and thorough review" of whether or not one of its main student visa programs was actually being used to support the sex slave industry in this country. Although the so-called J-1 Summer Work Travel program was supposed to allow foreign students to work summer jobs in this country, a Federal indictment charges that criminals have used it to staff New York City strip clubs and other sex jobs. Your tax dollars at work.

- The December 2, 2011 issue of The Week magazine contained the following insanity:

• Antoin Rezko was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison in early December for his conviction on bribery and extortion charges. He has already served three and a half years for a 2008 conviction on 16 counts of fraud, money laundering, extortion, and kickbacks from companies that wanted to do business with the state government of Illinois when convicted politician Rod Blagojevich was governor. He also raised tens of thousands of dollars for Obama's Presidential run in 2008. Do we think that the Obama political machine will do the right thing and return that money that was raised by a now convicted fund raiser? I doubt it.
• Mayor Dave Bing of Detroit announced in early December that the city of Detroit could run out of cash for city operations by April, 2012. Bing has laid out a plan to lay off 1,000 city employees (9% of the work force), raise corporate taxes (assuming there are still corporations in the city limits), and outsource city services such as public lighting and city buses. If you check the history of Detroit city political leaders, you will find that many of them were less than savory when it came to corruption and now the city is unlikely to survive as a viable government entity. Coincidence? I think not. I believe that Detroit will be the first major city to default on its financial obligations in 2012 or 2013 and the ramifications of that default will be felt nationwide.
• Many times we have covered the instances when Obama's Democratic Party members have disparaged ordinary Americans for simply having an honest difference of opinion with this administration. Words like racists, un-American, gerbils, Ku Klux Klan members, a__h___s, terrorists, knuckle dragging Neanderthals, etc. while the President was remained silent and allowed the slurs to continue to divide the country. However, late last year the President finally stepped up and started calling Americans names for no reason. He stated that Americans had gotten "a little soft" and followed up that slur with another statement at a fundraiser where he said "we (namely everyone but Obama) have lost our ambition." Just another way for this President to avoid taking responsibility for the sad state of the country. It is not his fault, it is the fault of the Republicans, the Japanese tsunami, the European crisis, his political "enemies" (including people who simply disagree with his policies), and those "bitter" Americans "who cling to guns and religion." Obama's words, not mine. Never his fault, it is amazing and insane. High unemployment, a divided country, anemic economic growth, trillion dollar debt every year, etc. Never his fault.

Corrupt political fund raisers, corrupt politicians, bankrupt cities, divisive language against ordinary Americans, stunted politicians, diplomatically deficient politicians, politicians that act like leisure princes, the Federal government illegally laundering money across national borders, and so much more. I cannot wait what we find out tomorrow that will continue to makes us so unproud of our political class.





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