Mark Levin joined Neil Cavuto today to discuss the Woodward incident, as well as all the sequesteria this administration has attempted to incite...
theRightScoop: Mark Levin was on with Cavuto today to discuss the Bob Woodward story and in the last part of the interview he basically pointed the finger right at Obama and said that he is not a nice guy, pointing out that there is no disconnect between his perceived detachment from the White House thuggery and his words calling out the likes of Fox News and anything else he doesn’t like. He adds, in reference to this sequester, that Obama has this public trust with the American people and he’s abusing it to push his agenda because he’s not a nice guy.
Pay close attention to the FACTS Levin is giving in this piece, particularly the numbers...you're not hearing this from the lamestream media...
Over 80% of the federal budget is exempt from the sequester;
Not $85 billion being cut this year, it's $44 billion this year, according the the CBO;
$22 billion when it comes to domestic spending, not even $44 billion;
GAO tells us there's in excess of $125 billion in waste and fraud in the federal gov't (with another hundred of billions in savings in streamlining).
Mark says he doesn't trust President Obama and neither should the Republicans. They need to stand firm on sequestration and make it known to the public that the country will continue on regardless of the extra spending. There must be a line drawn and the Republicans need to establish it. Obama would rather present a plan full of more taxes than spending cuts - this is the type of addictive spender that we are dealing with. A constant and consistent tax and spend liberal following a socialist redistributive ideology.
Never mind that there are only 134-143 million jobs in the entirety of America's workforce! But don't let facts stand in the way of stupid...I mean genius.
Her spokesman tried to come back and say she obviously misspoke; she meant 170 thousand. Obviously...I tend to think she was actually gonna say 170 billion, but even she realized that would be a bit of a whopper!
What these folks won't say to churn up some last minute sequesteria...
Well, singing a different tune once faced with the opportunity to take some responsibility, huh, Mr. President?
TheHill: The White House on Thursday threatened to veto the Senate Republican sequester bill in the unlikely event it passes Congress.
“If the President were presented with S. 16, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill,” the White House said.
The Senate GOP bill, sponsored by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), would give the administration added power to determine how to implement the $85 billion in spending cuts, known as the sequester, set to take effect Friday.
He'd rather stick with the "it's all the Republicans' fault" line.
ADDENDUM: To note, prior to Obama's wafting away of the above responsibility, the President confessed Wednesday night that Americans 'might not be felt right away.'Uh huh. Just confirms that the sky is not falling...the world will not end...and Obama's every bit of the lying alarmist we knew he was. The immediate 'hit' that will be affected, though, is Obama's ability to continue growing government at his current breakneck pace. That's a good thing.
And the truth will out. This had nothing to do with sequestration when the order was given not a few days ago, but last week!
FreeBeacon: The Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement division was ordered last week to reduce their illegal immigrant detainee populations to 26 percent below the legally required level, according to a research organization that monitors immigration issues.
That reduction is significantly greater than those required by the impending budget cuts the department has cited for the release of the detainees.
The announcement of detainee releases on Tuesday set off a firestorm on Capitol Hill. The White House has tried to distance itself from the decision, which was closely followed by the public announcement of the departure of DHS’s top immigration enforcement and deportation official.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division cited impending “sequestration” budget cuts in its decision to release illegal immigrant detainees across the country.
“As fiscal uncertainty remains over the continuing resolution and possible sequestration, ICE has reviewed its detained population to ensure detention levels stay within ICE’s current budget,” ICE spokesperson Gillian Christensen said in a news release.
The law requires ICE to maintain an average of 34,000 illegal immigrant detainees in its detention facilities. However, Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Wednesday that DHS reported fewer than 31,000 detainees as of last week, “in clear violation of the statute.”
According to Jessica Vaughan, policy director for the Center for Immigration Studies, ICE was recently ordered to reduce its detainee populations even further.
Yeah, that 'departure of DHS’s top immigration enforcement and deportation official'...that's got scapegoat written all over it. And an 'order' to impede existing law? But the White House had nothing to do with this? Riiight. This action has illegal written all over it...
The AP’s story turns out to have been premature. No one has been fired or resigned in the wake of the release scandal.
The senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants announced his retirement the same day the agency said that hundreds of people facing deportation had been released from immigration jails due to looming budget cuts, according to a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. The government said he had told his bosses weeks ago that he planned to retire.
Gary Mead, executive associate director over enforcement and removal operations at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, disclosed his departure in an email to his staff Tuesday afternoon. The announcement of the release of the illegal immigrants had come earlier in the day.
So, as of yet, no one's accountable. Sounds about right...
Levin sounded the alarm on another threat last night. No, not by Obama this time, but by the so-called Republican House 'Leader', Eric Cantor. And once again, as we've seen before with Boehner, we have a member of the Republican leadership threatening conservatives if they vote against what they're pushing...and boy, is what they're pushing a total piece o' crap!
RedState: If we’ve come to the point where Republicans believe that dealing with domestic violence is within the purview of the federal government, we should just stick a fork in the party. Yet, not only do Republicans in the House plan to reauthorize the wasteful and politically-motivated Violence Against Women Act, they plan to pass the Senate version (S.47), which contains egregious anomalies.
The Senate bill expands “coverage” to men, homosexuals, transgendered individuals and prisoners. It expands the definition of domestic violence to include causing “emotional distress” or using “unpleasant speech.” It ostensibly nullifies the legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty. The bill also expands the law’s reach to give tribal Indian authorities jurisdiction over non-Indians accused of abusing Indian women. Finally, what good is a social engineering bill without tossing in bones to the most sacrosanct constituency, illegal immigrants? It would grant more visas to illegal immigrants who are victims of domestic abuse.
Last year, the House passed a version that was, more or less, a clean reauthorization. That was the best we could expect from them. But now, in the hopes of not being outbid in gender warfare, they plan to bring the bill to the floor in a way that will ensure the Senate bill passes.
And Cantor's backing this crud? Yeah, folks, this fool is no conservative alternative to Boehner, that's for damn sure.
And it's one thing to fall for this and support it, but it's another to start using crisis tactics to threaten your members...
NRO: House majority leader Eric Cantor is increasingly frustrated with a group of House Republicans who are working against the leadership, and he’s not afraid of voicing his dismay.
In a closed-door conference meeting on Wednesday, Cantor told one GOP member that if they blocked the Senate-passed Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) from coming to the floor, they’d cause “civil war” in the ranks.
Cantor’s comment irked some Republican aides, who told National Review Online that such strong language is inappropriate. In recent days, some conservatives have been upset about the Senate’s version of VAWA, saying that parts of the bill are unconstitutional.
Nevertheless, Cantor’s warning may have had an effect. When the bill came to the floor on Wednesday, only nine Republicans voted against the rule to take up the bill.
Tensions between backbenchers and the leadership, however, are evident. Behind the scenes, House Republicans raised concerns about VAWA throughout the day. Eventually, though, the rule passed, 414–9, and the House plans a final vote on the Senate’s version of VAWA on Thursday.
The nine who voted against the rule include Georgia Senate candidate Paul Broun and potential Iowa Senate candidate Steve King.
So, as Levin points out, Rove, Cantor, Boehner and McConnell are all working together on this "piece of crap law." Thus, Mark called for a Levin Surge!, flooding Cantor's office with calls (202-225-2815), telling him we oppose the VAWA and that "it's time for him to step down."
UPDATE:FOOLS! Passed 286-138. Follow this link to the roll call. Notice Cantor voted 'No', after strong-arming Republicans to vote for it...WTF?! McCarthy voted for it, and I can't find Boehner's vote even recorded...? Next, this piece o' crap goes to Obama's desk to sign.
It's certainly one of the first elements considered throughout history's laundry list of tyrannical takeovers. One Canadian reporter uses his country's current-world status to warn Americans of this gradual slide...
GovtSlaves: A Canadian news anchor gives a stern warning to Americans: registration of firearms will lead to the confiscation of firearms.
Brian Lilley the host of ByLine blast the Obama administration for their attack on the Second Amendment.
Lilley also outlines the draconian gun laws that Canadians face every day. Maybe we should replace Piers Morgan with this guy!
Eye opening? Even a mainstream mediaite can see through Obama's sequesteria...
Politico:The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward attacked President Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying the commander-in-chief’s decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier because of budget cuts is “a kind of madness.”
“Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying ‘Oh, by the way, I can’t do this because of some budget document?’” Woodward said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“Or George W. Bush saying, ‘You know, I’m not going to invade Iraq because I can’t get the aircraft carriers I need’ or even Bill Clinton saying, ‘You know, I’m not going to attack Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters,’ as he did when Clinton was president because of some budget document?” Woodward added. “Under the Constitution, the president is commander-in-chief and employs the force. And so we now have the president going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement, I can’t do what I need to do to protect the country. That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time.”
The Pentagon announced earlier this month the U.S.S. Harry Truman, which was supposed to leave for the Persian Gulf, will remain stateside due to budget concerns. The sequester, which will cut billions in defense spending, is scheduled to hit on Friday.
Well, when you don't want to make real budget cuts, in say things like entitlements or otherwise, what's the first thing that a Democrat's mind falls to? The military.
UPDATES: It appears that the White House is none too pleased with the Nixonian comparison...and resorting to threats!
On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show: Mark breaks news regarding Bob Woodward’s appearance on CNN saying that he was threatened by a senior White House official regarding his comments slamming President Obama on the sequester. Mark says that this is getting out of hand when an Administration is now threatening the media - and the rest of the media is just letting it happen and haven’t responded in any way yet. Mark says that the typical tactics by this Administration aren't going to be able to continue to happen because the American people are starting to wake up and realize what is going on.
BusinessInsider: Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.
"It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, 'You're going to regret doing something that you believe in,'" Woodward said.
"I think they're confused," Woodward said of the White House's pushback on his reporting.
No confusion...perhaps you're just among the few in the media finally waking up to the way this administration works...and it goes all the way to the top, Bob. Don't allow him to plead the 'political 5th'...
As the White House naturally denies that a senior official threatened Woodward, it appears that the Watergate journalist is not the only name on the list...
WMAL: Bob Woodward isn't the only person who's received threats for airing the Obama administration's dirty laundry. It seems anyone is a potential target of the White House these days - even former senior members of the Clinton administration.
A day after Woodward's claim that a senior White House official had told him he would "regret" writing a column criticizing President Obama's stance on the sequester, Lanny Davis, a longtime close advisor to President Bill Clinton, told WMAL's Mornings on the Mall Thursday he had received similar threats for newspaper columns he had written about Obama in the Washington Times.
Davis told WMAL that his editor, John Solomon, "received a phone call from a senior Obama White House official who didn't like some of my columns, even though I'm a supporter of Obama. I couldn't imagine why this call was made." Davis says the Obama aide told Solomon, "that if he continued to run my columns, he would lose, or his reporters would lose their White House credentials."
Keep it up, White House...sooner or later, the sheep are forced to wise up to the wolf they're following. Or perhaps not...
I mentioned this in a previous post...but because Obama isn't getting his way fast enough, he starts making these kind of cuts ahead of schedule? And of course, they'd be in the totally wrong areas. PJMedia points out how our President is pulling another of his patented crisis moves, this one they demonstrate is worthy of another past dictator...
Shortly before U.S. troops stormed Iraq to oust its dictator, Saddam Hussein released thousands of prisoners from Iraqi jails. Some were petty criminals, some were hardcore, some were terrorists. Hussein unleashed them to build his own popularity and to sow chaos.
Today, Barack H. Obama’s Department of Homeland Security is doing this:
The sequester is officially still three days away, but the Obama administration already is making the first cuts, with officials confirming that the Homeland Security Department has begun to release what it deems low-priority illegal immigrants from detention.
The move is proving controversial. Immigrant-rights groups say it shows the administration was detaining folks it never should have gone after in the first place, while Republicans questioned the decision-making.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that runs the detention facilities, said in a statement that the “current fiscal climate” has forced it to do a review of spending, and part of that is taking a look at who is being detained.
“As a result of this review, a number of detained aliens have been released around the country and placed on an appropriate, more cost-effective form of supervised release,” ICE said in a statement.
The cynicism of the move is breathtaking, even for this cynical administration. The “current fiscal climate” is one in which we are spending more than a trillion dollars per year than we take in. The 2009 stimulus spending is locked in. The sequestration threatens just $22 billion this year — and the president gets to choose where to cut. If the sky falls, it’s being brought down on our heads by this unethical rogue president.
So these releases are his choice. And he’s choosing them for pure racial politics and demagoguery. He’ll blame it all on Republicans, while shoring himself up with the amnesty chorus.
That last paragraph, that's Obama's playbook...that's how he approaches every issue, socially, economically, morally. And he does it to further another opportunistic crisis.
UPDATES: And the blame game begins barely a day later...not Obama's fault!
GatewayPundit: The Obama Administration blamed Secretary of Homeland Security for the decision to release hundreds of illegal immigrants in Texas, Louisiana and Florida.
They’re blaming Big Sis Janet Napolitano. Politico reported:
The White House was unaware of Immigration Customs and Enforcement’s decision to release detainees until the agency announced it, press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday.
“This was a decision made by a career officials at ICE without any input from the White House, as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing resolution, as well as possible sequestration,” Carney said.
ICE announced Tuesday that it has released several hundred undocumented immigrants in recent weeks as funding cuts loom. The detainees will instead be monitored in less expensive ways, the agency said.
And now apparently, it's neither Obama or Napolitano's fault...it's ICE's fault, according to spokeshole Jay Carney:
The White House said Wednesday it had nothing to do with the decision by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release immigrants awaiting deportation back into the country in order to save money ahead of the looming budget “sequesters.”
“This was a decision made by career officials at ICE without any input from the White House as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing resolution as well as possible sequestration,” spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.
Umm, this is for the low information voters...isn't ICE part of the Executive branch? Yes, it is. So if ICE 'did it' on their own, how does Obama's spokesman get away with blaming this part of the executive branch, but not that part? And how does he even know who to blame if the decision was made by these unnamed 'career officials'? More smoke and mirrors, folks.
Rush weighs in on this story, saying Obama's tactics replicate that of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro...
"Government is not reason, nor eloquence. It is force. And like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master." ~ George Washington
Initially addressing his disappointment in the Hagel confirmation, Levin expanded the topic, addressing his discouragement (as well as that of many) in this administration's societal onslaught...
"Folks, these are very, very dark times in this country... We have an enormously powerful government that's getting more and more powerful by the day, and your liberties are diminishing each and every day, whether it's guns, whether it's ammunition, whether it's the school lunch program, whether it's the environment used to shut down businesses and drive up electricity cost and food costs. The 'circle of liberty', I like to call it, is getting tighter and smaller, and smaller and tighter. And we're preached to about illegal aliens and same-sex marriage and...the individual in this country, I don't care what their sexual preference is, I don't care if they're legal or illegal; the fact of the matter is we are losing our liberty in this country, gradually, but steadily. And the people who pretend otherwise, are ignorant, absolutely ignorant. It has happened to other societies over time, but it's happening right now."
"These are dark times for this nation, and the Republicans do not have the will to fight this."
Turning more ire towards our so-called Republican leaders: "What is it gonna take to wake these fools up?!"
"When you have a chance to stand up and stop [Obama], by God, stand up and stop him! The Constitution gives you the power to do it! If you don't stop this man and his policies, if you don't stop the destruction he's doing to this nation, his hollowing out the United States military, his destroying our capitalist system, if you damn Republicans in Congress aren't gonna do it, then who the hell is gonna do it?! You wanna be a Senator? Then act like a Senator! You wanna be a Congressman? Then act like a damn Congressman! Otherwise, get the hell out of the way! These are not the times for timid souls! This isn't the time for cowards! And yet, we're surrounded by them."
And then there's these Republican governors, one buckling after another, pushing higher taxes, buying into Obamacare...on Monday, Mark addressed the statist slide of Bob McDonnell (VA) and Rick Scott (FL), and then in the above segment, the latest-yet-unsurprising casualty, Chris Christie.
"These Republican governors are buckling one after another... Meanwhile, the problem is we, the People. The problem's conservatism; the problem's the tea party; the problem's the constitutionalists out there. Just listen to Rove, you know, we're the problem. The people who pay for this crap, the people who this country was built to support, and who built this country, we're the problem. Not the illegal aliens, not the radical President, not these left-wing policies, no, We the People, we're the problem! If we'd just shut the hell up and get out of the way, everything would be perfectly fine. And when you don't, you're a 'radical', you're an 'extremist'. Not the people who are destroying the country, no, we are, who don't do anything to bother anybody, accept work, take care of our families, pay our bills and pay our taxes. We're the radicals! You know, we gotta give into these, eh, we need comprehensive immigration reform. People from other countries come into our country, we don't invite them in, they violate our laws, and if we don't capitulate to this and accept it, there's something wrong with us. If we don't reject our faith and our religious teachings when it comes to a whole host of issues, there's something wrong with us. And when we say 'that's enough, leave us alone', we're told 'that's not a political agenda, we have to stand, you know, for bigger government; we gotta give up our faith, we gotta give up these things'. This is the advice we get FROM REPUBLICANS!"
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Benjamin Franklin
Really? It's fascinating to watch the way this wannabe dictator's mind works. He wants us to believe that after four years he's become humble? That he's finally figured out that he has to work with Congress? No, he hasn't...otherwise, he wouldn't follow it up by explaining how he needs to coerce constituents into doing what he wants in order to strong-arm Congress.
I agree, that congressional members are beholden to their constituency (or are supposed to be), without doubt. But NOT at the behest of a malcontent ruler!
In another respect, this man certainly believes that you and I can't do things by ourselves...that's why we need more and more government...and less and less liberty.
