Univision Unloads on Obama and Fast and Furious

No main stream media element in the US will cover it so leave it to a Spanish-language station to do the definitive documentary on Operation Fast and Furious.

2,000+ weapons were allowed to "walk" into Mexico without the authority or knowledge of the Mexican government. Those guns resulted in hundreds if not thousands of Mexican deaths and at least the deaths of two Americans, one being Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

This is a scandal worse than we've seen in decades. Watergate was peanuts in comparison and Iran-Contra and the Clinton-Lewinsky scandals were mere side stories when juxtaposed.

I don't really have to offer up the "what if Bush had done it" meme since we all know that it would have been on every news magazine for months and a movie would have already been released starring Selma Hayak as an aggrieved mother whose child was killed by Bush.

There's been a great many cases this election where the media have not just ignored a story but actively protected a sitting president by not even acknowledging the very existence of it. If I were Mitt Romney, I would spell it out and ask the president about it during the debates, During the domestic policy debate I would somehow add into one of the questions something akin to "and to add to our misery, President Obama's Justice Department authorized heavy weapons--as part of Operation Fast and Furious--to be smuggled into Mexico and the result was a dead agent, Brian Terry". In the foreign policy debate, I would insert something like: "Our closest southern neighbor can't even trust us when this president allowed heavy weapons to be 'walked' under Operation Fast and Furious, into their country without the knowledge of their government resulting in the death of hundreds of their citizens and one of our border agents; Brian Terry. That's not treating our neighbors and allies with any type of respect and it just goes to show how disastrous the Obama foreign policy has been".

If the media won't report it to the people, Romney will have to inform them himself. Sure, there will be editorial written about how mean it was of Mitt to bring it up but I guarantee you'll see a massive spike in Google searches for 'Operation Fast and Furious' and 'Brian Terry'.

See below a snippet of the special report and let's make this viral. Let's give the MSM the finger and show them that their time as the sole purveyors of information is past. If they cannot do their job--playing it straight with the American people--we will do it for them.

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Obama Claims Executive Privilege For Something He Supposedly Didn't Know About

Fast and Furious is no longer just being reported on right-wing blogs and Fox News. Obama ensured that a great many more folks will learn about the incident in which ATF, with the knowledge of DOJ allowed guns to be purchased in the US and "walked" across the border in order to track them to drug cartels. At least that's the official story but a more likely scenario is that the Obama administration wanted to use the story of guns getting into the hands of Mexican drug lords to curtail our gun rights at home--but I digress.

So the guns--2000 of them--are transported across the border and FBI, DEA, DOJ and ATF was supposed to track them...they didn't. One of them turns up in a shooting death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and another in the death of Agent Jaime Zapata. Many more were used to murder at least 500 Mexicans. In short, the US government was complicit in mass murder in an operation that was flawed in theory and execution. More background here.

Just as an aside, it's not going to look real good that two men who served their country with bravery and honor are killed by guns allowed to be given to drug gangs while their families grief is scorned and they are essentially pissed on by the president.

Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) asked AG Holder for emails and other correspondence pertaining to the case that is known as Fast and Furious. Holder turned over very little and what he did was heavily redacted. Issa pressed and Holder denied knowledge and kept refusing to turn over the documents that Issa is entitled to under the Constitution. Holder may also have perjured himself but we'll wait and see on that.

Yesterday--under threat of a committee vote to hold Holder in contempt--Holder tried to make a lame deal. Issa didn't bite and today the house Committee on Government Oversight voted to hold Holder in contempt along party lines. The next step is a full House vote next week according to Speaker Boehner and then it will be referred to a US prosecutor to get an indictment--a man or woman yet to be determined who works for...wait for it...Holder.

But before today's vote, President Obama claimed executive privilege--an executive order generally used to protect information regarding national security, diplomatic security or other sensitive information from being released. This is ironic since the Obama administration has been leaking information such as details of the Osama raid, drone strikes and other info that supposedly makes him look manly and tough.

So now we have a constitutional crisis unlike any before. I heard several liberals today say this is not remotely as bad as Watergate but as I recall, no one died when Liddy and the boys broke into a campaign office while two federal agents and hundreds of Mexicans have been killed in this case.

Obama has said from the beginning that he knew nothing about this, as did Holder. Holder does not work directly for the president but was appointed by him and approved by congress. in my limited law experience, I can't fathom how Obama can claim executive privilege when he claims to have no knowledge and Holder isn't covered under the law. Unless of course he did in fact know and is covering up.

It's further irony that Obamas stonewalling and the media complicity in not reporting the botched operation and subsequent death of agent Terry will now play into the hands of Issa and the GOP. If the media had done their jobs and reported the story in an unbiased fashion and when it occurred it would be nearly the story it's about to become. Giving guns to Mexican drug gangs and then allowing those guns to get lost only to turn up at the scene of a fatal shooting of an American citizen will not look good for this administration and the media will look worse then anyone for not reporting it straight. It's an enormous story now and the MSM are playing catchup.

You'll hear the left scream "Bush did it too" but just laugh at them. No, he didn't.

Things I Meant to Write About But Didn't

Blogging has definitely taken a back seat to work and family. My company recently bought a firm down south and we're trying to get them up speed with our culture and procedures. A northern company and southern company generally change at different speeds it seems.

Here's some things I meant to bring up but didn't.

The Gun Walker/Fast and Furious scandal:
Federal agents with what appears approval all the way up to Attorney General Eric Holder and members of the Obama administration allowed guns to be bought through straw purchases in the US and then were to be tracked into Mexico and the drug cartels. It was a backdoor operation designed to give Obama an edge in the eternal battle over gun control. That is until one of the guns was used to kill a US ICE agent and several other people. If this was under Bush, the widow would be all over 60 Minutes and the Today show but since it's Obama, the man's family gets slapped in the face and the MSM is mum.

I expect Holder to fall because of this if Rep. Issa and Sen. Grassley keep digging like they've been.

Human Events and PJ Media have both been covering this extensively.

The Continued Beclowning of Paul Krugman:

Former Enron advisor and current NY Times blowhard Paul Krugman--he of the Nobel Prize in Economics--continues to prove what a loon he is by constantly driveling on about the stimulus not being big enough and closing his eyes to the fact that Keynesian theories are a failure in practice. He really showed just how much of a laughingstock he has become when he wrote that an alien invasion would be a good stimulus.

Rick Perry

This looks to be the only hope we have short of Chris Christie or Marco Rubio joining the race. I'm not a big of his social conservatism and his mixing of religion into his platform but the guy is a strong candidate on fiscal issues. Any guy that signs strong tort reform legislation is a guy I can agree with. Add to that his proven record on jobs and his realistic views on energy policy and he could be the winner. Again, this is not a social issues election but a fiscal one. In 2010, we made it all about fiscal issues and the economy and kicked ass. No one cares whether or not Jim and John get married when they have spent a year and a half looking for a job to feed their families. Leave the social issues at home.

Note to Obama: Local Teachers Death Caused by Illegal Aliens

The Obama administration is going to give illegal immigrants amnesty and it's high on his agenda judging by this NY Times piece. These people are breaking the law by entering our country and Obama wants to reward them for illegal behavior. Perhaps Mr. Obama can explain why this is such a good idea to the family of teacher Amy Voorhees:

Authorities charged two men yesterday in connection with a car crash that killed a Burlington County middle school teacher on her way to work Wednesday morning.

Brothers Jose Luis Galindo-Sanchez, 26, and Lucio Galindo-Sanchez, 19, illegal immigrants from Mexico, were on their way to work at a sprinkler company in Medford when the accident occurred.

Amy Voorhees, 27, of Evesham, died at the scene. She taught seventh-grade language arts and coached softball at Frances S. DeMasi Middle School in Evesham.

They don't name the company so I won't but it's a company who has been accused of hiring illegals in the past. The company is just as guilty as these guys are and Obama wants to allow people like this to stay in the country because it's politically expedient for him to do so.

This accident happened less than a mile from my house and on a road that I and my wife drive on a daily basis. It could have been us or my neighbors who suffered this fate but instead it was a young woman who was doing nothing more than going to work to teach local kids.

I want the police, the immigration people at ICE and the local political establishment to look into this and find out how many more illegal aliens (yes Andrea Mitchell, "aliens", now shut the hell up) are working for the company. Go through every single employee record and if they have anymore, shut them down. We're in the midst of a recession, I'm sure they could find legal workers to cut grass and put in sprinkler systems.

So I say to our new President: Do you think it is in the best interest of our country to allow illegal aliens to live and work here when they take jobs, drive without licenses and kill our best and brightest? Are a million votes worth the life of a beautiful young woman who hadn't yet even begun to enjoy life, had children in her future and who would have taught countless boys and girls about school topics and life? My guess is the answer is yes. Perhaps Obama can come to my town and sit in a town hall meeting and explain why that is the case. He can tell the Voorhees family that his immigration plans are for the good of the country and hey, sorry about your wife and daughter. Perhaps he can tell her students as well, Mr. Obama. They've learned about death far before they should have thanks to a couple of illegal aliens.

It's time to deport those who are here illegally, seal the border and institute a structured immigration policy where only those who earn the privilege (and no no whiny libs, it's not a right) to live and work here are allowed to do so.

How many more have to die before that happens?

Thursday Night News and Notes

Here's what's a happenin' in this crazy-ass world:

-France returns to the fold. Welcome back.

-Gov. Perry joins Gov. Sanford in rejecting stim $ for unemployment. The conservative movement is stirring. Sanford is more creative, though.

-Rep. Maxine Waters joins the growing list of Democrats who are entangled in money scandals. This may be a record-breaking year of scandals and they're mostly Dem. They should be about as proud as NJ was to have Camden named the most violent city in the US.

-Liberal hack Margaret Carlson says that Geithner is really smart when no one is around to notice it. Get off your knees, Maggie.

-Obama considering moving National Guard troops to the border to deal with the nasty drug war spilling across our southern border. Perhaps if Bush and McCain had pushed to build a border fence...

...Tony Ward is the President’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Division. He was John Walker-Lindh's (aka: Johnny Taliban) defense lawyer. So we all have this straight; you defend a guy who converted to Islam and then fought against his own country--what sane people call treason--and you get a nice gig with the next prez. About what I expected from the new president.

Europeans Learning That Whole EU Thing Not So Great

As with any major agreement between many nations, the European Union has fine print that's written by ideologues who may not have all nations best interests at heart:

The peoples of Europe have finally discovered what they signed up to. I do mean "peoples" (plural) because however much political elites may deceive themselves, the populations of the member states of the EU are culturally, historically and economically separate and distinct. And a significant proportion of them are getting very, very angry.

What the strikers at the Lindsey oil refinery (and their brother supporters in Nottinghamshire and Kent) have discovered is the real meaning of the fine print in those treaties, and the significance of those European court judgments whose interpretation they left to EU obsessives: it is now illegal – illegal – for the government of an EU country to put the needs and concerns of its own population first. It would, for example, be against European law to do what Frank Field has sensibly suggested and reintroduce a system of "work permits" for EU nationals who wished to apply for jobs here.

Meanwhile, demonstrators in Paris and the recalcitrant electorate in Germany are waking up to the consequences of what two generations of European ideologues have thrust upon them: the burden not just of their own economic problems but also the obligation to accept the consequences of their neighbours' debts and failures. Each country is true to its own history in the way it expresses its rage: in France, they take to the streets and throw things at the police, in Germany they threaten the stability of the coalition government, and here, we revive the tradition of wildcat strikes.

Europeans and American liberals are all for open borders throughout the world--for instance US leftists would love to see the border between the US and Mexico erased. The problem as described above is that people are at heart nationalistic. They may join together in happy harmony while things are good but when it comes to feeding ones family, all bets are off. We're seeing that in Europe as we speak.

Just as all the nations who signed on to the Kyoto Protocols learned: an idea may sound great in theory but once people actually get involved, the happiness wanes and reality sets in, usually at great cost.

I see some coalitions splintering and some European leaders getting voted out in the near future.

Bush's Shameful Pardons and Non-Pardons

President Bush today pardoned several people who committed real crimes. Here's some examples:

_William Alvis III, of Flushing, Ohio. Possession of an unregistered firearm and cocaine distribution.

_John Allen Aregood of Riviera, Texas. Conspiracy to harbor and transport illegal aliens.

_Eric Charles Blanke of Parker, Colo. Counterfeiting.

_Steve Doyle Cavender of The Villages, Fla. Conspiring to import, possess, distribute and dispense marijuana.

_Donald Edward Roessler of Harrison, Ohio. Embezzlement of mail matter.

_Issac Robert Toussie of Brooklyn, N.Y. False statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and mail fraud.

The horrible decision, however, is who is not on the list:

... Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, former U.S. Border Patrol agents who were convicted of shooting a drug smuggler in 2005 and trying to cover it up...

These two men shot an illegal alien who was smuggling drugs across the border. They were doing their jobs and protecting the people of the US from a vile criminal and for their service were throw in prison. Here's their story for background. Please take a moment to read it.

Convicted drug dealers, embezzlers, hucksters, con artists, counterfeiters and other assorted felons get off while Compean and Ramos rot in jail for doing their job. Yes, they didn't follow all the rules but to let them be put away for years? I think not and Bush still has the ability to see that doesn't happen.

While I'll always respect the President for his actions in the War on Terror, I will always believe he stained his legacy by his shameful treatment of these two men.

Bordering on a Quagmire

A Border Patrol agent was killed by suspected drug dealers in southern California near the Arizona border:

IMPERIAL SAND DUNES -- The off-road enthusiasts were revving their dune buggies and all-terrain vehicles Saturday morning when a brown Hummer suddenly cut into the campground.

The man at the wheel, a suspected drug smuggler, was heading to Mexico, fast. U.S. Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar, the only person in the way, threw a spike strip in front of the car. The Hummer sped up. "It looked like the man swerved and hit the agent intentionally," said one witness.

...Nationwide, assaults against Border Patrol agents rose from 752 in 2006 to 987 in 2007. Authorities say clashes are likely to continue as smugglers respond to beefed-up border security with more aggressive measures.

"I think it was just a matter of time. Agents are getting assaulted every day," said Jeremy Schappell, a Border Patrol spokesman.

That's BS and the LA Times knows it. The Times is shilling for the open borders types and using to the typical liberal reflex paradigm of blame America first. It is our fault you see, we secure the border ergo, drug dealers run over agents. It doesn't have to make sense when you can twist something to blame America and not the actual people who are killing Americans.

If we had the political and moral guts to truly secure the border, Hummers wouldn't be traversing it. We have the ability to erect massive skyscrapers, probes that reach the edge of the Solar System and subs that can go to unbelievable depths in the ocean yet we can't build a secure fence?

This is an issue that has to be dealt with immediately but because of the feel-good policies on both sides, we have agents dying and lawlessness in a fast-growing area of the nation.

It's a quagmire.

Dunes pictured below to give perspective. More here. Map here. Update: More.