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• When Obama was told of the plan to pay GM CEO Rick Wagoner a $7.1 million severance package after Obama ordered that he be sacked, Rattner writes: “Suddenly I felt that I was indeed in the presence of a community organizer…”
•      Rattner describes presidential political adviser David Axelrod coming to car meetings armed with poll data to support the takeover and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel identify Congressmen in whose districts large Chrysler facilities were located.
•     ”[Obama's economic team] veered dangerously close to having the government take control of the two most troubled banks, Bank of America and Citigroup.”
•     ”If his team had linked arms with the outgoing administration, as President Bush’s advisers had proposed, billions of dollars could well have been saved.”
•      Rattner says Chief of Staff Rahm Emanual dictated Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s schedule, public appearances and staff selections.
•      He says Obama economic advisers Larry Summers and Austan Goolsbee and FDIC Chair Sheila Bair as enemies who slowed down decision making with infighting
•      Rattner said Obama was frustrated with the auto companies from the start: “Why can’t they make a Corolla?” he has Obama asking.

No doubt many more such exposes to come.

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Green asks: “Will the failed administration of George Bush ever end, and the time for hope and change ever arrive? Will President Obama ever accept responsibility for something …  — anything?”

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But as we know polls only go so far — if the Republicans are to pull off this electoral success they must actually get out the vote.  And in 2008, the Democrats did a much better job than Republicans getting their supporters out.  The question is without a charismatic President Obama on the top of the ballot will the same constituency still come out to vote?

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Darrell Issa (R-CA), ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Judiciary Committee, has issued a 37-page report  that accuses the White House of “an unprecedented number of public relations and propaganda efforts,” including efforts that the committee found to be inappropriate or illegal. Notably:

•  The White House used the reach of the executive branch to funnel citizens to a website owned and operated by the Democratic National Committee.
• The Administration relied on the reach and resources of federal agencies and their personnel to promote certain of the President’s favorite programs.
• The White House also leveraged ties to the arts and entertainment community to embed propaganda in the content of television programming and artwork. These propaganda efforts violated appropriations riders and federal law prohibiting the use of appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes.
• The White House used its resources to push visitors to websites that urge grassroots activism based on false and misleading information –  an abuse of office and a betrayal of the President’s pledge to create “an unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
• Shockingly, the Department of Justice’s hired a liberal blogger, apparently with the express intention of attacking conservative online bloggers or contents either anonymously or through a pseudonym.
• The administration sent partisan emails through the “messages.whitehouse.gov” mail handler to federal employees touting ObamaCare. This created the appearance that the White House expected career federal employees to push the president’s partisan agenda.
• And the administration skirted the Hatch Act and and federal anti-lobbying laws by using Mrs. Obama to support the presidents social and health care agendas with $240 million worth of free advertising.

And these, but the tip of the iceberg.

Most assuredly, an official investigation of inappropriate and sometimes unlawful use of propaganda by the administration is in order.

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Perez is playing a leading role in [the department's]  Department’s lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration law. He is promising a huge increase in prosecution of alleged hate crimes. He vows to use “disparate impact theory” to pursue discrimination cases where there is no intent to discriminate but a difference in results, such as in test scores or mortgage lending … He is even considering a crackdown on Web sites on the theory that the Internet is a “public accommodation” as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act …

in a recent lending discrimination case, he forced the defendant — who settled the case without admitting any wrongdoing — to pay not only the alleged victims but to funnel $1 million to unrelated “qualified organizations” to conduct social programs …

[Also], he threatened several universities because they took part in an experimental program to allow students to use the Amazon Kindle for textbooks.

Obama’s vanguard of ultras will leave our freedom in tatters.

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To my readers please send me your names if you will make the 911 pledge and refuse to participate in the building of the Ground Zero Mosque. Go to my message board and state your trade or job that you do and join us. Our leaders are failing us it’s up to us. I want my children to grow up in a nation of pride and freedom but as was once told to me freedom only comes at great cost. God bless you all and God Bless America!

Please go to Blue Collar Corner and take the pledge and distribute this to your friends and associates in the construction and manufacturing trades. Our deepest gratitude goes to all the patriotic Americans who have already signed on and pledged not to participate in the construction of the mosque, which is a symbol of the triumph of Islamic supremacism over freedom. We know that America will remain free and strong by the responses of the red-blooded patriots in the construction trades who have pledged not to work on the site even though they may be unemployed at the time. Freedom is not free and this is the time to stand up for freedom.  God bless you all.

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The Economist points out that:

America is far more decentralised than other rich countries. In Britain “there’s London, London and London,” says Mr Kotkin. In America there are scores of hubs. There is also a libertarian streak in America’s most sparsely-populated states. Only 10% of Idahoans trust the federal government, says Greg Hill, a professor at Boise State University. Butch Otter, the state’s governor, rebelled against both Obamacare and George Bush’s Patriot Act. “Don’t tread on me” was one of the first slogans of the American revolutionaries; and in the open spaces, no one needs to tread on anyone else.

And that’s where the Tea Party Revolution comes from — these decentralized communities that are off the radar of New York or Los Angeles, where the mainstream media and elites reside — are places like Boise and Wichita and Oklahoma City where because of the Internet and cable television people are as plugged-in to what’s happening in D.C. as the so-called elites (if not more so) who live inside the Beltway.  Utilizing the methods of modern communication, those seeking to preserve their space and the individual liberties that come with it, have taken to blogs, Facebook, MySpace, and other mediums to organize, fundraise, and speak-out against the current abuses coming out of Washington, whether it be socialized medicine or massive deficits.  The key though, is that it’s no longer necessary to live in Washington to be an activist, you can now do it from fly over country.  Just as it is no longer necessary to be America’s most popular radio host and live in New York, you can now do it from the more comfortable confines of West Palm Beach, Florida.

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The arrest of a young Fairfax County man on charges of supporting Somali terrorists spotlights an operational shift by al-Qaeda and its affiliates, which increasingly are relying on a new generation of American recruiters to radicalize other Americans … Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, of Oakton sought to follow the path of at least four other U.S. citizens with extensive knowledge of American culture who have risen to prominent roles in al-Qaeda’s network overseas … 

And those whom Chesser emulates?

Anwar al-Aulaqi, 39, a New Mexico-born Muslim cleric based in Yemen, with whom Chesser was in e-mail contact, and Omar Hammami, 26, an Alabama native who has become a senior commander in Somalia and who starred in a rap recruiting video that created an Internet stir as he led an armed group of fighters to a musical beat.

It would appear we need look, urgently, to our own house.

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