Wednesday, May 14, 2014
What a Difference a Year Makes
Think of how much things have changed since the second Wednesday in May, 2013. It was our Special “Nixonian Comparisons” E-dition, and The Blower said, Maybe we should just call it Obamagate.” Curiously, it looked a lot like this year, because the first item in the previous day’s Blower predicted Republicans in Congress would be very busy that week scheduling all those IRS and Benghazi hearings. About a third of all House committees were investigating the Obama administration those days. Five separate committee were currently investigating Obama’s Benghazi cover-up, along with a probe into Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ illegally raising millions of dollars to promote ObamaCare, just because House Republicans refused to approve giving her any more over-taxed payers’ funds.
Two separate House committees (Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means) were already probing whether Obama’s IRS was targeting our TEA Party Patriots. The IRS acting director was scheduled to get his balls kicked at a hearing on Friday. Did anybody ever call for his resignation?
Then Monday evening, some of Obama’s most ardent supporters at the Dissociated Press let slip that Obama’s Justice Department had secretly obtained reporters’ and editors’ phone records on more than 200 phone lines for two months straight. Maybe that subject would come up the next day if Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder dared to show up for his fortuitously scheduled lambasting at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.
That Monday night, Jay Leno said, “I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke, but I don’t want to get audited by the IRS, so forget that.”
Newt Gingrich got off a great zinger: “The Obama Administration won’t profile terrorists, but they will profile patriots.”
And did Obama’s White House Spokes Dweeb Jay Cardboard really say, “The IRS admitting they attacked Anti-Obama Groups is not concrete evidence of an IRS scandal?”
- Hurley the Historian says 41 years ago this week the Senate Watergate hearings began exploring the nature of Richard Nixon’s administration. Last year this week, as the Obama administration was being investigated, people needed to be reminded that nobody died at Watergate.
Also last year this week, 60% of House Republicans had joined the call for a special committee to probe the Benghazi attack, defying House Speaker John Boehner, who had insisted that five standing committees should be enough to screw up the investigation, kinda like when Boehner got two other guys to run against him in last week’s primary. - It’s now a year later and Boehner’s just getting around to scheduling the 2014 Benghazi hearings, while Dishonest DemocRATS have been busy building a stone wall to protect Hillary, and even though Boehner’s Republican-controlled House actually summoned up the courage to find Lois Lerner in contempt, Obama’s Squeaker in the House told the world and Lying Low Lois that he won’t have Obama’s Paid Liar arrested and thrown in the slammer, so just continue on stonewalling, because nothing bad is going to happen to you.
- Last year Boehner was glad nobody was demanding an investigation of last Friday’s marriage of Boehner’s daughter Lindsay to Jamaican-born construction worker Dominic Lakhan. Hey, Mon…be happy!
Lindsay looked lovely in her flowing white strapless gown that showed off a huge tattoo etched across her arm and the groom looked debonair in a rented grey suit with his waist-length dreadlocks on display. [Sara Nathan at Mail Online had the whole story.]
- This year looks a lot like last year (and come to think of it, the year before, too), and today we’re still be continuing to count down the 982 Days of Dishonesty remaining during the Dark Ages of Obama’s Second Term, unless the First Black President in History is impeached.
Same Time Last Year in Kentucky
Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo is trying to think about how much things have changed since last year at this time in Northern Kentucky. Today, there are only six more days until the Bluegrass Primary Elections on May 20, and our Feckless Fishwrappers have already declared winners in races for Judge Executive in all three Northern Kentucky Counties a week before the polls opened (Kris Knochelmann in Kenton County, Steve Spendery in Campbell County, and Gary Moore in Boondoggle County).
Of Course, even with all of the TEA Party’s Bluegrass Bluster, when voters actually go to the polls next week, the battle for the Republican Senate nomination has long been over, even though Matt Bevin is now pulling out all the stops by bringing in Loony Libertarian Jim Berns to wave at cars, while Ditzy DemocRAT Candidate Alison Wondergams Grimes can’t stop whining about how Karl Rove’s affiliated Super PAC “Kentuckians” for Strong Leadership continues to by-pass attacking Matt Bevin to go on the air with yet another huge ad buy (this time $550,000) of false attacks to tell the truth about Alison’s record, even before the primary’s over.
And since those are the only Bluegrass endorsements we’ve seen so far, the CamBoozler wonders if those are the only races The Fishwrap considers worth reporting on this year. What about the State Legislature? Isn’t anybody running for the Covington City Commission? Is that Border Collie named “Lucy Lou” still the Mayor of Rabbit Hash?- But wait—tomorrow’s Opening Day in Northern Kentucky when the Florence Freedom launch their 2014 season in style. Maybe there’ll be some local politicians to cover.
Remember: We never print all the bad stuff we know and certain people ought to be damn glad we don’t, especially Political Consultants Jay Fossett and Patsy Crowley.
BLUEGRASS 2014 PRIMARY HOT LINE
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WHISTLEBLOWER LINK OF THE DAY
Matt Bevin Apologizes for Attending Cockfighting Rally
(Sent in by Bitch McConnell’s Campaign Manager Jesse Benton, who served as Rand Paul’s campaign manager when Paul was elected Senator of Kentucky.)
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