Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave...

As Shakespeare so eloquently put it, "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive."

I am talking about the recent scandals now rocking DC to its very rotten, corrupt core. Proving he is even more crooked than the Democrats favorite whipping dog (Nixon), President Obama has just revealed to the American people just how dangerous he really is. Using the favorite tactics of Chicago politicians for decades, he turned the apparatus on the government to assault those who opposed his Marxist-Leninist mantra for driving These United States into the ground. Even the press can no longer ignore Obama's thuggish tactics since they have just found themselves on the receiving end of his criminality. Even the gutless John Boehner has now located his missing backbone and is now calling for jail time for those involved. The swamp of political graft and corruption called Washington DC has just been uncovered by the actions of one of their own.

Using the IRS to attack political enemies is nothing new. There are instances that go back as far as the FDR administration using the jackbooted tax-men to uncover dirt on rivals during political campaigns. Democrats love to go after J. Edgar Hoover as a thug who enjoyed holding scandals over his enemies' heads but it appears they have their own version Hoover in the IRS. My late Grandfather was a victim of IRS thug tactics before I was born for running afoul of an IRS agent and the harassment lasted for years. The IRS was protected by laws that denied them being held accountable so they became the favored tool of corrupt politicians and parties.

Ever since Bill Clinton left office and barely escaped impeachment, the Democrats have become ever more vicious and determined in their attacks on anyone who disagrees with them. They attempted to steal the 2000 election, claiming "hanging chads" and Florida's Republican government stole an election, using this to drive a wedge in America the likes of which hasn't been seen since the 1850s. Time and again, Republicans were called fascists, racists, liars, thugs, and worse by increasingly shrill liberals operating in collusion with their adoring media. The press threw away its rather thin veil of respectability to support these attacks, printing innuendo and lies while hiding the truth. The Liberal Left used the press, schools, entertainment, the internet and any other tool that came to hand to demonize the Right in an effort to not only win elections but to personally destroy their opponents. Liberals have sought revenge on the Right for the disgrace Bill Clinton brought on their party.

When Barack Obama was elected, the Left called it a "new age of post-partisanship" and that he would unite the country. This was a bald-faced lie for anyone who studied Obama's record in Chicago and the US Senate where he gained office by gaining access to sealed court records on two rivals, silencing opposition through barely-disguised threats, and carefully hiding his own records from review. Anyone who has questioned Obama's missing college records, social security numbers (there are two now tied to his name), and his ties to Saul Alinsky and radical 1960s terrorists have been viciously assaulted by the press and the administration in an attempt to silence them. The Obama administration managed to wriggle its way free of the Fast and Furious crimes and seemed impervious until last week as time and again the press assisted the administration in suppressing any scandals that might threaten them. This new age turned out to be the jazz-age gangster-style corruption that made Chicago infamous. Since taking office, Obama has done little to unite the country and, in fact, seems ever more determined to turn the nation upon itself in a civil war.

Now, Barack Obama and his minions have been caught in the kind of criminality that many suspected him of but few had evidence to prove it. This ended last week when the Benghazi cover-up, the IRS digging for dirt, and the Justice Department illegally listening in on the AP all blew up in the Administration's face, revealing the stinking heart of corruption that drives the current President and his administration. President Nixon never even came close to what Obama has had happen on his watch. This list of cover-ups and crimes are the very definition of high crimes and misdemeanors the Founders warned us of. These crimes are typical of a man raised by Communists (his mother and grandparents were members of CP-USA) who was taught the ends justify the means and that America must be destroyed. Obama and his thugs have committed the very crimes that Nixon was accused of attempting.

The problem with lying and thievery is eventually the guilty party will be caught in their own web of lies. Obama's narcissism, lies, and criminal upbringing have finally been revealed for all to see.

When in the Course of Human events

The news this week has been interesting to say the least and has been indicative of the problems we, as a country, face. First came the revelation that the president and his staff not only changed the Benghazi narrative into a massive lie but they had to edit it a dozen times to get it just right. Then came the news the IRS has been harassing conservative non-profits like the schoolyard bully. These two events are perfect examples of high crimes and misdemeanors that far surpass Watergate, Katrina, and Iran-Contra combined and  I will discuss why further detail below.

First comes the abandonment of Americans in Benghazi. Four Americans lost their lives when they were cornered in a terrorist attack by Islamic militants, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. For the first time in our history have Americans been abandoned without an effort at rescuing them. Indications showed an attack was imminent for days and even weeks before the attack yet the State Department and White House did nothing to improve security or even shut down the consulate to protect the Americans serving them. When the attack did come, the administration refused to send support TWICE, ensuring these men would be left alone to die after hours of resistance. In fact, the President went to bed early without activating the situation room and then left the next day for a campaign event while the Secretary of State did nothing. Relief forces were ready to go and had a good chance of rescuing the besieged Americans but were denied the chance to do so. Then the airwaves were flooded with a false narrative designed to minimize the attack to improve Barack Obama's chances at reelection, denying the truth in favor of political expediency. This lie continued to be told until 10 May 2013 when the White House admitted the truth and was finally pinned down by journalists whose complicity in the lie had finally been pointed out. The outrage of these needless deaths is just beginning to sink as it is indicative of an administration so cynical it would leave men to be murdered rather for political expediency.

Next come the IRS harassment of conservative groups. The same day the Benghazi lie was admitted to, the IRS made a halfhearted apology over its heavy-handed tactics when dealing with conservative 503.c tax-exempt organizations, requiring intrusive details and vast amounts of information before granting tax-exempt status for the administration's political rivals. This delayed groups with the words "Tea Party" and "Patriot" in their titles from receiving this status while the information required was pure intelligence-gathering. The IRS was suppressing Americans right to organize for an election because they opposed the administration. This is far worse than Nixon's Watergate scandal where the administration tried to sneak into DNC headquarters on a fact-finding burglary. Rumors of Nixon using the IRS to harass enemies was enough to cause a scandal. Obama's IRS has been caught doing what Nixon was accused of. Yet another high crime and misdemeanor to add to Fast and Furious, Benghazi, voter fraud, identity fraud, corruption, and perjury. This reeks of an arrogance so blinding that it eclipses the tyrannies of King George and parliament.

The good news is that the press may finally be awakening to the fact that their chosen man is a danger to all Americans. The 11 May Press conference was rancorous and Press Secretary Jay Carney looked like a deer in the headlights as he was pinned under a barrage of angry questions. For the first time since the 2008 election, major networks and newspapers were furious with the lies of the administration as it tried to place blame on everyone but themselves (Carney even tried to blame the press). The mainstream media is facing ever dwindling view/readership and struck back in the knowledge that ignoring this scandal would be their death-knell. Though implicit in hiding the truth of Obama's plans for the nation, the press refused to throw themselves upon their own swords for the sake of the President's agenda and have now started asking the tough questions that should have been asked five years ago.

True Americans have watched with ever-growing frustration for the last five years as time and again the current administration has trampled on the rights of common Americans without so much as a peep from the media. The one-two punch of Benghazi and the IRS may be the black eyes needed to awaken the everyday citizen to the threat of the man they elected. Scandals of this size are what the Founders spoke of when they described "high crimes and misdemeanors" as grounds for impeachment. The President is responsible for the actions of those who serve under him and these two events should be laid upon his doorstep without an opportunity to evade. The President is a corrupt and villainous man and it is obvious he has appointed men and women just as corrupt and villainous. The blinders have been removed and true Patriots should be relieved to see that what we knew all along is now obvious to all.