Jeannie DeAngelis - Shielding Barack Obama From IRS Disgrace

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On behalf of the progressive "FORWARD" movement, with a near-religious zeal that far exceeds the bellicose fervor liberals accuse conservatives of displaying, Obama supporters in the IRS went about the business of discriminating against social welfare groups as well as targeting those with opposing religious and political views.

It was during the 2012 presidential debates, when referring to the tragic events that took place in Benghazi, that Barack Obama said the following: "Ultimately, as commander-in-chief, I'm responsible, and I don't shy away from that responsibility."

Yet, for some reason, when it comes to the IRS scandal, the president seems hesitant to pretend to shoulder the blame for what took place at the largest U.S. government agency under his jurisdiction. Then again, in all fairness, Obama being expected to take the hit for both Benghazi and the IRS is certainly more bogus culpability than one irresponsible president should be asked to handle.

Which raises the question: is it possible that in an effort to make Obama appear unimpeachable, two prominent big-government liberals are purposely contradicting the partisan vindictiveness in which the agency enthusiastically indulged on the president's behalf?

Consider this: on May 11th, just as the IRS story was gaining momentum, at an Eastern Kentucky University commencement ceremony while speaking to 600 education, business, and technology graduates, the first lady unexpectedly encouraged her audience to converse with the very people the Internal Revenue has tried for four years to shut up.

In 2009, with the president's tacit approval, the DHS publicly portrayed the right wing as a bunch of hateful, anti-government racists. So why would the first lady suddenly suggest that college graduates interconnect with the president's political nemeses?

Checking herself, Mrs. Obama did add, "And if you're a Republican, have a chat with a Democrat. Maybe you'll find some common ground, maybe you won't." Trust me, they won't!

Now, either Michelle was attempting to find innovative ways to gather names to submit to the IRS for future audits, or she was hoping to quell a controversy whose impetus was clearly the work of dedicated sycophants helping to advance her husband's hyperpartisan agenda.

Mrs. Obama may have also thought that promoting bipartisan interaction would corroborate the phony contention that Obama was about to make that he was absolutely shocked -- shocked! -- that the IRS would single out the very same people he enthusiastically singles out on a regular basis.

As if that's not out of character enough, despite the IRS targeting Catholic professors, a Jewish group, and a world-renowned evangelist, not to mention asking for outlandish things such as the content of pro-life prayers, Michelle segued from repartee to religion. The first lady, 'for the first time in her adult life,' suggested that when not in the throes of tearing through free contraceptives, college grads should drop in on religious congregations.

Mrs. Obama's spiritual advice seemed to imply that even if a right-wing bitter clinger were delivering the sermon, Obama-approved religiosity could be realized by reaching out "with an open mind and an open heart" to other faiths.

Notwithstanding the Internal Revenue Service forcibly limiting conservative Americans' ability to reach out to anyone, Mrs. Obama then pointed out "When we only talk to people who think like we do, we just get stuck in our ways." Lest we forget, the woman offering advice on how to be more flexible is the same person so determined to control what Americans eat that she's even burrowed her way into zoos and museums in a relentless effort to redesign kiddie menus to comply with her specifications.

Zoo or no zoo, Michelle is not alone. In what may well be yet another stunning effort to shield the president from criticism, happily stuck-in-his-ways former Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod similarly inserted his opinion into the IRS mêlée. Axelrod made the surprising admission that the very government his hero is in the process of growing is too vast to handle for the guy doing the growing.

Rather than expound upon the merits of a bloated bureaucracy, notorious big-government proponent David Axelrod argued on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the immense régime Obama has spent years cultivating, due to its immensity, could not be managed by anyone, let alone Barack Obama.

To understand the absurdity of such a statement coming from Mr. Axelrod, of all people, one should think of it this way: it's David Axelrod who helped political neophyte Obama steal the keys to the big-government 18-wheeler. Then, unable to steer the oversized vehicle, the president proceeded to mow down half the country. Now Axelrod, Barack Obama's principal enabler, has the gall to claim the president was way too young to drive?
One thing's for sure, despite his bravura, since winning reelection the president has not only proven that he can't drive, but also that he's figured out nothing, fixed nothing, and done nothing constructive, let alone been held accountable for the chaos he's created.

That's why there has to be an ulterior motive for the Axelrod/Obama combined effort. Were it not to put distance between the president and the Internal Revenue Service, Mrs. Obama would never suggest that college graduates reject the kind of partisanship the ideological tax collection agency embraced. Moreover, David Axelrod would be the last person on the planet to stress the impossibility of supervising the very agency to which Barack Obama just handed the oversight of healthcare for 300 million people.

With that in mind, it's clear that based on the uncharacteristic rhetoric coming from the president's closest allies, Barack Obama has plans to deflect all the blame for the IRS scandal onto the overzealous "civil servants" David Axelrod claims reside "deep within the bowels of the IRS."

Jeannie DeAngelis

Jeannie DeAngelis writes almost exclusively for American Thinker and has been published on the conservative website Pajamas Media, as well as hosting a blog. See Jeannie's Blog

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Jeannie DeAngelis - The David Axelrod’s ‘Not Doing Fine’ Talk Show Appearance

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David Axelrod took to the Sunday morning (6/10/12)airwaves to clarify the ‘Hope and Ever Changing’ President’s assessment that the economy-is-fine and not-so-fine statements. Hearing Barack Obama’s top campaign strategist attempt to do damage control is always painful. Yet taking the time to listen to David Axelrod does explain why Obama is constantly “evolving” – it’s because neither he nor his closest advisers know what the hell they’re talking about.

Then again, there is the possibility that the Obama 2012 reelection campaign may have been floating a campaign “private sector is doing fine” stump speech trial balloon when Barack Obama said the following:

We’ve created 4.3 million jobs over the past 27 months. The private sector is doing fine. Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government, oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don’t have the same kind of flexibility of the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in.

After Barack Obama emphatically declared that we/he created 4.3 million jobs in the private sector and that tax-supported state and local governments suffer because tax breaks bring in “fewer revenues,” he was later forced to admit that it’s “absolutely clear” that the same economy that was “doing fine” just a few hours prior is really “not doing fine.”

While acquiescing to the obvious, Barack Obama again asserted that in the private sector there has been “good momentum.” However — and here is where the Axelrod stump speech trial balloon may have been floated — the President did intimate that if the Republican Congress would stop refusing to raise taxes, more revenue would be generated and the federal government could then help state and local government create union jobs, which they believe, in turn, would bolster the economy.

Backing Obama up and acting as an advocate/mouthpiece for a regular presidential gaffe machine, a rattled David Axelrod appeared on the Sunday morning show circuit and attempted to sound intelligent as he pushed the talking point that the “country needs to ‘accelerate’ job creation in the private sector — by hiring more teachers, police and firefighters.”

That’s right — according to David Axelrod, key campaign advisor to the Obama reelection campaign, the cure for a lagging economy is to try to make apples grow by planting orange trees.

Invited to appear on two Sunday morning shows to explain the president’s face-saving walk-back, Axelrod said on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley that “The private sector, we need to accelerate job creation in the private sector.” He then followed up that statement by referencing a “proposed small business tax credit and refinancing program as ways to help the private sector.”

For much of the CNN segment on the President’s fine-not-so-fine blooper, Obama’s chief campaign strategist continued to frenetically push the hire-public-to-help-the-private-sector line. Frustrated host Candy Crowley tried repeatedly to get Mr. Axelrod to answer her original question, but the effort failed miserably.

Clearly, David Axelrod’s idea of addressing the President’s verbal error was to first mildly concede that the evil private sector is still struggling a bit. But after he did, Axelrod also felt compelled to cite for a second time Obama’s claim that “we created” a private-sector number of 4.3 million jobs, stressing once again that while the private sector did grow, the sector the government mismanages lost a half-million teaching jobs.

Therefore, according to David Axelrod, that is why the private sector is “doing far better than the public sector,” and is also why the Obama mouthpiece, who was supposedly invited to be a guest on news/talk shows to clarify Barack Obama’s misstatement, explained the President’s error by continuing to insist that the private sector’s momentum would only continue to improve if more public sector employees were hired.

If the predictable philosophy of ‘fairness’ were to be applied to this public/private sector controversy, one would think the President was attempting to level the playing field by finding a way, regardless of budgetary restrictions, to justify adding 4.3 million teacher, firefighter and law enforcement jobs to the public sector.

So, in other words, the Obama administration’s answer to fixing the country’s fiscal woes is to pour gasoline on a raging fire of high-cost, unsustainable, poorly-managed public sector jobs in hopes that reigniting a public-sector forest fire will somehow miraculously put out a brush fire in the private sector. And Axelrod, who confused the embarrassing issue even more, had the audacity to accuse Romney’s “prescription for a stronger economy” of being proof that the presumptive Republican nominee is “living on a different planet?”

Immediately following Axelrod’s not-so-fine appearances on CNN and ABC, the Romney campaign responded by rightly observing that “When even your own chief strategist can’t defend your comments, it indicates that your assessment of the economy might be wrong.” This is especially true if that strategist is part of a team of advisors who counsel the president on how to best articulate economic policy.

In response, Republican strategists depicted Axelrod’s inability to answer pointed questions about Obama’s “economy is fine” statement as “awkward.”

Most would agree that “awkward” is a polite way to describe David Axelrod and Barack Obama’s nonsensical argument that the private sector, which is doing better than the public sector, needs the poorly-performing public sector to help a private sector that is supposedly already improving without their help.

Jeannie DeAngelis

Jeannie DeAngelis writes almost exclusively for American Thinker and has been published on the conservative website Pajamas Media, as well as hosting a blog. See Jeannie's Blog

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Steve Green - Hair of the Dog: Leak of the Week, Obama Killed Osama bin Laden with his Bare Hands

It's a leak a week in the Obama White House. Will we soon hear that Obama killed Osama Bin Laden with his bare hands? Hear more about the national security leak scandal, plus Obama's reelection chances, as Stephen Green summarizes the Sunday shows on this Hair of the Dog.

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All The President's Body Men: The Secret Service Hooker Controversy. Plus, Taxes & the Buffett Rule

A miffed, stiffed, Colombian hooker is causing trouble for President Obama's Secret Service. Hear the details. Plus, Tim Geithner tried to sell the Buffett rule to the nation over the weekend, as the Democrats tried to convince the nation of the War on Women. Did David Axelrod tell the biggest lie ever about Mitt Romney? Find out on this week's Hair of the Dog.

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Bill Whittle - Merchants of Despair

Who is responsible for the current economic malaise? If you ask Bill Whittle, it's Obama's pals like David Axelrod, Harry Reid and Tim Geithner, some of the many Merchants of Despair. These merchants are costing taxpayers trillions and creating deep national divides based on class and race. Will the despair continue for another four years? Find out.

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Jeannie DeAngelis - Axelrod ‘Monkeys’ with Newt

David Axelrod, who slightly resembles a proboscis monkey himself, has reintroduced name-calling into the political arena – specifically animal name-calling. Although the animal kingdom provides apt descriptions for many politicians (think Chihuahuas, sloths and the Aye-aye), thanks to political correctness, analogies have been banned from the animal farm.

Nevertheless, in an attempt to get the Obama 2012 campaign moving in the right direction, David broke with politically correct protocol by tying monkeys on sticks to aquatic amphibians, saying about Newt Gingrich that “The higher a monkey climbs on the pole the more you can see his butt.”

Meanwhile, outside of Washington DC, senior citizens are notorious for sending blast emails featuring dancing bears, smiley faces and flickering gifs of stars, stripes and American flags. These types of annoying communiqués circulate around the retiree@yahoo.com set more than a few times a day.

There’s no denying that 74-year-old Marilyn Davenport, an Orange County, California Republican Party official described as “a ‘petite grandmother’ who taught Bible study and had a heart condition,” failed to use good judgment last spring when she sent an incendiary email featuring a photo of a Papa and Mama chimpanzee cradling a baby chimp that was Photoshopped to look like President Obama.

The photo was captioned: “Now you know why no birth certificate.” Marilyn’s colossal blunder was instantly viewed as being more proof that both Tea Party activists and Republicans, without exception, are all racists.

Davenport, who should have rethought her LOL material before monkeying around and pushing ‘Send,’ apologized, claiming she didn’t realize that her actions would be viewed as racist, and begged for forgiveness, saying “I would never do anything to intentionally harm or berate others regardless of ethnicity. Everyone who knows me knows that to be true.”

Marilyn’s profuse apology did not impress Orange County GOP chair Scott Baugh and former chairman of the California GOP Michael J. Schroeder, nor the always-racially-offended Al Sharpton and California’s NAACP, all of whom called for Nanny Davenport’s immediate resignation.

Scott Baugh agreed with Al that the email was “without question extremely racist. Depicting African-Americans as monkeys is a longtime, well-known and particularly offensive slur because it denies them their basic humanity.”

What about ‘cool cats’, ‘rare birds’ and ‘sly foxes’, when assigned to certain personality types, do those descriptions ‘deny basic humanity’ too? Because if things are that sensitive, let’s pray nobody ever introduces a companion edition to Curious George called “Inquisitive Barry.”

Marilyn Davenport’s obvious poor judgment aside, why, in some circles, does an image of a monkey instantly evoke racial overtones? During WWI, enlistment posters depicted Germans as ‘mad beasts’ that looked like King Kong, which makes one wonder if, at the time, the insult was directed toward Germans or gorillas.

How about Mr. Rogers? Fred hugged Koko the ape. Looking back from a more enlightened perspective, could the man in the tennis shoes who lived in an all-white neighborhood be the reason white cardigan-wearing people, based on their outerwear, look a lot like racists?

Now we have political consultant and senior advisor to the President, David Axelrod, calling Newt Gingrich, who looks more like an albino panda, a monkey.

Where are all the ‘M’ word crusaders, who should be calling Mr. Axelrod to task for bringing up monkeys and never mentioning pachyderms and jackasses? Despite the most recent ‘monkey’ kerfuffle, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, Marc Lamont Hill, and Janeane Garofalo, all renowned for voicing racial indignation, strangely, are nowhere to be found.

Even still, by lobbing a monkey insult at Newt Gingrich, Chicagoan and ‘Hailer of the Dawn’ David Axelrod may have provided an educational public service by pointing out that monkeys climbing poles expose their butts, an observation that most would agree is indisputable.

Moreover, by calling a doughy white guy from Georgia a monkey, David Axelrod may have unintentionally reclassified monkeys and placed them in the neutral category when it comes to racial overtones surrounding animal references, email imagery and political name calling.

Yet, one obvious point that David Axelrod conveniently forgot to mention is not mammal but reptilian in nature and concerns a certain snake who, the more he slithers around in the White House, the more he proves he’s an ass.

Jeannie DeAngelis

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Jeannie DeAngelis writes almost exclusively for American Thinker and has been published on the conservative website Pajamas Media, as well as hosting a blog. See Jeannie's Blog

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