Keystone Kops Government

[Sandokan]

Keystone Kops Government
Keystone Kops Government - Victor Davis Hanson - Page 1

Victor Davis Hanson | Mar 19, 2015



What has gone wrong with the U.S. government in the past month? Just about everything, from the fundamental to the ridiculous.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States to warn Congress about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. He spoke without the invitation of an irritated President Obama, who claimed that he did not even watch the address on television.

Obama declined to even meet with the Israeli prime minister, announcing that it would have been improper for him to have such a meeting so close to Netanyahu's re-election bid.

But if Obama was so concerned about not influencing the Israeli elections, why, according to some news , is a Senate panel launching an investigation into whether Obama's State Department gave grant money to a nonprofit organization, the OneVoice Movement, that sought to unseat Netanyahu with the help of several former Obama campaign operatives?

Then, 47 Republican senators signed an unusual letter to the Iranian theocracy, reminding it that any agreement on Iran's nuclear negotiated with the Obama administration would have to first clear Congress.

Obama shot back that the senators' letter was undue interference that aided the Iranians. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed that the senators were either empowering Iranian hardliners or sabotaging the diplomatic efforts of their own president. Secretary of State John Kerry concurred.

Nonetheless, the Senate may well pass new sanctions against Iran, if it feels Obama has been too lax in its negotiations or usurped senatorial oversight of treaties.

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., bucked the Obama administration and expressed doubt about administration concessions to the Iranians. Other Democrats could join him.
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Hopefully voters have learned that elections have consequences. Obama administration with its socialistic approach of handouts to rich and poor, political correctness, and playing the race card, have led to divisiveness and strife.

 

[Mycroft]

While I agree that Obama is pretty much doing everything wrong that he possibly can...and making himself and our country look like fools in the process...I really don't hold out much hope that our voters have learned anything. If they had, Obama would never have had a second term.

 

[Sandokan]

The corruption charges again Senator Bob Menendez are considered suspicious because of the Senator position with regard to the Iranian talks and the Cuba embargo. About a year and a half ago, around the time the Obama administration started secret talks with the Castroit regime, and Menendez was the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relation Committee, false allegation that Melgen had procured under-age prostitution in Dominican Republic for Menendez were leveled. But after the alleged prostitutes testified that the story was false and they have been paid to smear Menendez, the allegation collapsed.

Menendez was also accused of helping the Isaias brothers, Ecuadorian bankers, to obtain permanent U.S. residency. This allegation also collapse after the FBI investigation didn’t find any evidence of wrong doing. Both allegations were a smear campaign to try to remove Menendez of his Chairmanship. Obviously this is a smear campaign too.

 

[Sandokan]

The Obama administration has created so many regulations that it is almost impossible to work in the government without violating some rule or other. Obama wanted to fundamentally change America, and he is doing it. He has deliberately led the U.S. on this path because he wants the country, still the most powerful economically and militarily, not to be able to be the world leader.

 

[3step]

While I agree that Obama is pretty much doing everything wrong that he possibly can...and making himself and our country look like fools in the process...I really don't hold out much hope that our voters have learned anything. If they had, Obama would never have had a second term.

You're right, but how do you think a really big crowd of voters (let's say about a half of adult population) can learn anything? :lol:

 

[Mycroft]

You're right, but how do you think a really big crowd of voters (let's say about a half of adult population) can learn anything? :lol:

Ummm...

I WAS talking about a really big crowd...specifically, about the roughly half of the voters who made Obama the President.