Senator Roberts: Benghazi Failures Cause Many to Question Service in Harm’s Way
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator
Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today sent a letter to President Obama urging him
to set the record straight about his Administration’s failure to help
Americans murdered in the terrorist attack in Benghazi on September 11,
because it has caused Americans serving in harm’s way, especially
members of the armed forces, to question the sacred bond of never
leaving a comrade in distress or danger.
Senator Roberts is the most senior Marine in the congress, is
a former member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and is a
former chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The following is the text of the letter sent today:
Dear Mr. President:
During these final days of this coming election, I have been conducting town hall meetings in Kansas.
The Obama Administration was warned that radical Islamists were
“gathering weapons and gathering steam” three hours before attack.
They did nothing. Jennifer Griffin at FOX News reported:
Ed Morrissey added this at HotAir:
If this is the case, then why wasn’t the FEST team ready to intervene? Actually, the military and CIA did have their teams ready. Now it appears that
the State Department, at least, had three hours’ notice of radical
Islamist activity in the city “gathering weapons and gathering steam,”
plus a very big warning about consulate security being compromised. Yet
while the attack took place, no one gave the order for a military
intervention. Even hours into the attack, the White House didn’t go any
farther than order an evacuation effort at the Benghazi airport.
This “spontaneous demonstration” story is falling apart. And it’s
interesting to see how it’s falling apart, too. Earlier, the White
House tried to lay off the failure on the intel community, which sparked
a flurry of leaks showing that the intel community had warned of this
issue and wanted to respond during the attack. This week, the White
House has started to shift blame to State, and now we’re seeing these
leaks showing that State knew exactly what was going on.
This buck stops at the Oval Office, and it’s only going to be a matter of time before we get the leaks to show it.
Barack Obama was notified of the attack on the Benghazi consulate at 5 PM EST.
When you are active duty you HAVE to endorse the Commander-In-Chief
Look what happens when you’re retired.
Endorsements:
OBAMA
General Colin Powell
General Wesley Clark
Admiral John Nathan, co-chair of Obama campaign
Major General Paul Eaton
Rear Admiral Don Gutter
ROMNEY
Admiral James B. Busey, USN, (Ret.)
General James T. Conway, USMC, (Ret.)
General Terrence R. Dake, USMC, (Ret)
Admiral James O. Ellis, USN, (Ret.)
Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, USM, (Ret.)
General Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF, (Ret)
General Tommy Franks, USA, (Ret)
President Obama settled on a new closing catchphrase today. “Revenge!” Against whom and for what, exactly???
As is often the case when he goes
off-teleprompter, at a campaign stop in Ohio today, Obama revealed a
side of himself we haven’t seen since Hurricane Sandy gave him the
opportunity to play The American President for a few days. The old
Divider-In-Chief returned with a vengeance when in the middle of an
attack on Mitt Romney he told a crowd at a campaign rally to stop booing
and, " Vote! Votingis the best revenge!"
What he obviously meant was that voting is the best revenge against Mitt Romney.
What kind of divisive, ugly rhetoric is
this coming from a sitting president? It's easy to sympathize with the
fact that Obama's record gives few reasons for anyone to vote for
him; and that for that reason, he's been forced to attempt to destroy
his opponent with a half-billion dollars in negative ads -- but now the
President of the United States is publicly telling a crowd of Americans
to vote for revenge. And not just revenge, but revenge against another
American.
But what else are we to expect from
apresident who spent weeks on binders, Big Bird, birth control, and bull
shit -- the president whose surrogates have used the word "felon" to
describe Romney and accused him of murder?
This behavior isn't just unpresdiential, it's un-American.
Thankfully at least one Staten Island Hotel owner has a sense of
priorities in the right place. Smite upon any hotels that are
actually doing this, and double smite for Mayor Dumbass McBloomberg for
allowing a marathon right now….
With Prog judgement like this, it’s no wonder Mayor Snobsucker endorsed Obama…
Wisconsin Jobs Now, a front group for the SEIU protested Paul Ryan’s
campaign stop on Wednesday in Racine, WI. The protest of about 12
people was lead by SEIU organizer Todd Stoner.
Stoner, as usual, interrupted and disrupted interviews I was
conducting with his faithful crew, in an attempt to hide their complete
lack of knowledge as to why they are really there. He warned them I was
Breitbart News and I was a “big conservative.” Still, some of the
protesters were willing to talk but failed to give coherent answers.
Protesters chanted and repeated the same old talking point, “Romney
only cares about the rich.” In an embarrassing moment, another protest
organizer on a bull horn duty apparently had problem with the synapses
in his brain firing fast enough to remember the words to the chant he
was leading just minutes before:
Lyin’ Ryan, he’s the worst, he puts corporate interests first.
How do you forget 10 words you chant over and over and over again?
Two days after President Obama flew into storm-ravaged New Jersey on
Wednesday for a 90 minute photo op with Governor Christie, parts of the
state have descended into what one local resident calls "an apocalyptic
vision." On Friday, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, this
New Jersey resident described the situation there:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie bristled at reports Friday that an
electricians’ union stood in the way of some utility workers who wanted
to help restore power to victims of Hurricane Sandy. He would use his
emergency-management powers, he said, to guarantee that nonunion crews
could help restore his state’s electricity grid without interference.
“I’ve been on the phone with PSE&G [Public Service Electric and
Gas Company], JCP&L [Jersey Central Power & Light] and the
union, and they’ve all absolutely promised me they would never turn away
a single worker whether they were union or nonunion, and I wouldn’t
allow it,” Christie told reporters shortly after 3:30 p.m. Friday
afternoon.
“I would invoke my powers under the Disaster Control Act to prevent
that from happening, but they’ve assured me we don’t have to.”
But a spokesman for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t
reply to emails asking whether his boss would take a similar hard line. A
spokeswoman for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo similarly didn’t return
phone calls asking the same question.
Christie said Friday that “there was one incident of this in Seaside Heights” since Superstorm Sandy hit.
“First of all, the workers never came to New Jersey, okay? They
weren’t turned away when they got here. They heard that New Jersey was a
union state, coming from Alabama. When they stopped in Virginia, they
called to see what they would do and they were given bad information.” Watch:
A New Jersey power company denied Friday that it is turning
away nonunion volunteer crews who want to travel great distances to help
reconnect power supplies severed by Hurricane Sandy. But an Alabama
utility is clarifying that it was the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers [IBEW] — not the company — that turned them away.
And a Central Florida utility worker told The Daily Caller that he
and his crewmates are still waiting for the union to back down before
they could go to Long Island.
Jersey Central Power & Light spokesman Ron Morano told
Cablevision’s News12 on Friday that his company has accepted help from
all crews. “We have not turned away any help,” he said. “Absolutely
not.”
And IBEW International President Ed Hill said in a statement to The
Daily Caller that “in times of crisis all help is welcome and we pull
together with everyone to meet the needs of the public. We have
communicated this to the office of New Jersey Governor Christie as
well.”
But Decatur Utilities in Decatur, Ala. told Huntsville’s WAFF-TV Thursday
evening that its crews were denied the opportunity to work in Seaside
Heights, N.J. because they’re not affiliated with a union. Some of those
workers, the company said, headed home. Others remained at a staging
area in Roanoke, Va.
And on Friday the company doubled down,
with general manager Ray Hardin telling Fox Business Network’s Stuart
Varney that “we were presented with documents from IBEW that required
our folks to affiliate with the union. And [that's] something that we
could not agree to. And it was our understanding, and still is, that
that was a requirement of working in that area.”
A Central Florida utility lineman who insisted on remaining anonymous
told TheDC in a phone interview Friday that his 12-person crew
waited ”all day yesterday” for their bosses to sort through the IBEW’s
demands.
“It was like, ‘What’s the hold up?’ he said. “It turns out there was a
300-page contract that the union controlling LIPA [the Long Island
Power Authority] wanted everybody to sign first. We don’t have time for
that. We’ve got guys ready to go. You need lawyers for this.”
“Get this,” he added: “Because we’re not union [members] — their pay
scale is about $47 per hour while ours is about $35 — the union’s
problem was that we didn’t make enough money and that my company
supposedly had to pay us union scale to participate.”
“We were like, ‘We’re not complaining about money. You can pay us
less. We don’t care. Just let us go up there. Two days later, we’re
still sitting here.”
“I don’t care if you pay me $5 an hour right now,” the utility worker
said. “Would you let us go up there and help? This is bull! We’re good
at what we do. Let us do it. This isn’t about money. It’s about helping
people who need help.”
“We’ve gone through this with hurricanes in Florida. We don’t turn
people away because they’re unionized or not. This is such crap. Let’s
get people connected again, and then you union guys can go back to
playing this silly game. And that’s what it is — a goddamned game.”
WAFF-TV has not retracted the Thursday story about Decatur Utilities,
which sparked the controversy. Two other utilities mentioned in its
report, however, said Friday that they had different experiences.
A Huntsville Utilities spokesman told the Mobile Press-Register that
some of his employees are on Long Island helping with recovery from
Hurricane Sandy.
“We are starting work this morning with Long Island Power Authority,”
he told the newspaper. “We were headed to a New Jersey utility but they
had all the crews they could handle.”
And a spokeswoman for the Joe Wheeler Electrical Membership Co-op said his crews are already unionized.
“We sent eight guys to Maryland, not New Jersey,” he said. “They have
been there since before the storm but they’ve finished work and are
headed home this morning.”
The International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers is a unit of the politically powerful AFL-CIO.
Many parts of coastal New Jersey are projected to be without electric power for at least seven to 10 more days.
Five days before the election,
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled out trying to work with
Mitt Romney should he win next week.
"Mitt Romney's fantasy that
Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely
conservative' agenda is laughable," Mr. Reid said in a statement on
Friday, trying to puncture Mr. Romney's closing election argument that
he'll be able to deliver on the bipartisanship President Obama
promised in 2008 but has struggled to live up to.
Mr. Reid, a
Nevada Democrat and a Mormon, like Mr. Romney, has become the
Republican presidential nominee's chief critic this campaign, at one
point accusing him of failing to pay taxes — a charge that Mr. Romney
has refuted.
With Democrats appearing poised to keep control of
the Senate, a President Romney would have to be prepared to work with
Mr. Reid, who would set the upper chamber's schedule and determine
what bills make it to the floor.
Whoever wins next week's presidential election may shape the Supreme
Court for the next generation of Americans, highlighting how important
Tuesday's election is to the high court's future constitutional
integrity.
Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy -- both of whom were
appointed by President Ronald Reagan -- and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-- a Clinton appointee -- will all turn 80 before 2016. Ginsberg is 79
while Scalia and Kennedy are 76.
Bubba at a rally for Obama today in Florida. The crowd started chanting
“Racist! Racist!” at the mention of Republican John Sununu. (Palm Beach Post)
The Obama crowd chanted, “Racist! Racist!” today at the mention of Mitt Romney spokesman John Sununu.
CBS reported, via Weasel Zippers:
Appearing in Lake Worth, Fla., the former president cited
ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s recent endorsement of Obama. That
endorsement led Sununu, a leading surrogate for Mitt Romney, to suggest
that the move was motivated by race.
“Colin Powell said, ‘I’m going to endorse the president because I
think he’s done a good job in a difficult, rapidly changing, not totally
controllable world and because Gov. Romney has the same neocon advisors
who gave President Bush the push to go into Iraq on bad intelligence,’”
Clinton said. “That’s what he said. What did they respond? They put
Gov. Sununu out to respond and he said, ‘What do you expect these two
guys — Colin Powell wants a black guy to be re-elected.’” After pausing while the crowd chanted “racist, racist,” Clinton added: “Obama has been a good commander-in-chief without regard to race.”
WOW!
2,800 supporters turned out to see Obama in Hilliard, Ohio this morning.
4,000 turned out to see Obama in Springfield, Ohio this afternoon.
3,800 supporters turned out to see Barack Obama at his final campaign stop today in Lima, Ohio. 20,000 to 30,000 supporters turned out to see Mitt Romney in Chester, Ohio tonight! ** Carl Cameron just announced on FOX News that 20 to 30 thousand are at the Romney rally tonight in Ohio.
There were long lines to get into the event today.
It was the Mitt Romney’s largest rally to date. (Free Republic)
More… Obama crowd counts yesterday: 2,600 in Green Bay; 4,500 in Las Vegas. Not impressive for the last week of a campaign.
HBO’s Bill Maher said during his show’s Friday broadcast that he
thinks the upcoming presidential election might be the last time
Republicans can rely heavily on support from white voters, whose
influence and importance he said is decreasing as the electorate becomes
more diverse.
Maher rattled off some statistics to back up a recent claim by South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham that the Republican Party’s traditional “angry white” voters are becoming a minority.
“Let me give you some more statistics here,” Maher said. “Born before
1945, 2-to-1 voting for Mitt Romney. If you’re born between ‘46 and
‘64, that’s the baby boomers — they’re for Mitt by two points. ’65 to
’78, they’re for Obama by a few, and ’79 to ’93, they’re for Obama, two
to one. So it’s almost exactly the mirror image by age. And you know,
the National Journal crunched the numbers and said Mitt Romney would
need to win 61 percent of the white vote to win, and they said this is
the last time anyone will try to do this. That’s how the article ended. I
remember Lindsey Graham said something, the quote was,
‘We’re not
generating enough angry white guys to stay in business.’”
Maher’s guest, president and co-founder of OurTime.org Matthew Segal,
explained that the Republican Party’s “owners” would remain the same,
even as the party’s members evolve.
“This is the last hurrah for the whites, is it not?” Maher said. “It’s like the Battle of the Bulge, really.”
Margaret Hoover, one of the Republicans on the “Real Time” panel and the author of “American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party,” agreed.
Hey everyone! See my jacket? I’m the president. I’M the president….
Pathetic.
Q: When in the last four years have you seen Obama wearing a bomber jacket before now? A: Never.
He also recently discovered that he’s a really bipartisan guy.
“I’ve said I will work with anybody of any party to move this country
forward,” President Obama told a crowd of 2,800 this morning in
Hilliard, Ohio. “If you want to break the gridlock in Congress, you’ll
vote for leaders who feel the same way whether they’re Democrat,
Republican or independent.”
Yeah, suuuurrrre you are.
Just vote for me. Just vote for me. JUST VOTE FOR MEEEEEEEE!!!
A newly compiled video exposes the chief “anti-bullying” activist
endorsed by the Obama administration spewing an obscenity-laced,
startling message to “gay” kids in America.
The White House website, under its “Civil Rights” section, includes links and videos recorded by Barack Obama, Joe Biden and others, supporting the mission of “gay” activist Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project, an effort to help homosexual teens survive bullying during their teenage years.
But a recent video produced by the Faith Family Freedom Fund reveals Savage has touted the White House’s support as proof the president is backing his shocking message:
“That meant,” Savage says of Obama’s participation in his It Gets
Better Project, “the president of the United States was telling queer
kids, ‘There’s something wrong with your parents, there’s something
wrong with your preachers, there’s something wrong with your teachers,
and f— those people!’”
The video reveals Savage further blasting those who believe in Jesus
as “spiritually abused,” wishing Republicans would die and referring to
politically conservative Christians as “pieces of s—.”
The Faith Family Freedom Fund, which is a super PAC associated with the Family Research Council, or FRC, seeks to hold Obama accountable for its endorsement of Savage’s project.
“President Obama and his administration have opened the door for Dan
Savage to students across America under the guise of ‘anti-bullying,’”
J.P. Duffy, the FRC’s vice president for communications, told WND. “In
reality, President Obama has created a bully czar through his support of
Dan Savage.”
Savage’s history as an X-rated sex advice columnist and controversial public school assembly speaker has been well documented, including an incident from earlier this year,
when Savage told a group of high school journalism students, “We can
learn to ignore the bulls— in the Bible about gay people,” then taunted
the teens who stood and walked out of his rant, calling them “pansy
a–es” as they left.
But the Faith Family Freedom Fund video also reveals that Savage’s
venom toward the Bible, Christians, Republicans and even liberals who
don’t vote Democrat runs far deeper. Savage sound bites from the video
include the following:
“Right-wing, bast—, fundamentalist, conservative, evangelical Christian pieces of s—”
“They have the Bibble [sic.]; they don’t have logic.”
“I wish [Republicans] we all f—ing dead”
“Any progressive who votes for a Green [Party candidate], anymore … is a f—ing idiot and should be beaten with sticks.”
"It's time to go back to your irrelevant world" MC
Apparently Sandra Fluke’s momentary celebrity has dwindled
from a moment to a nanosecond. You would think that her appeal would be
most strongly reflected on college campuses, but even college students
are disinterested in her.
Speaking on the University of Florida campus yesterday to encourage
students to vote early for Barack Obama, Fluke – who became famous for
whining that Georgetown University, a Catholic university, should pay
for her birth control – drew just 40 people. That’s out of 35,000
students enrolled.
Fluke, who complained because Rush Limbaugh called her a s*ut, calls
her Youth Early Vote Campus Outreach tour, “It’s On You” and stood by
the potato statue to speak.
