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		<title>McCain Wants Lindsey Graham to Run for President</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What? Why?]]></description>
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<p>Some questions arise.</p>
<p>1. Huh</p>
<p>2. What? Why?</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/11/24/blips-nowhere-mccain-encourages-graham-run-reason/">No seriously? Why?</a></p>
<p>Sure we&#8217;ve got a Republican field led by Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Rand Paul so conservatism clearly isn&#8217;t a desirable value, but you would think that one Muslim Brotherhood/amnesty for illegal aliens administration would be enough.</p>
<blockquote><p>South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is getting encouragement from a close colleague and friend, Sen. John McCain, to run for President.</p>
<p>“I think he is looking at it, and I am strongly encouraging him to take a look at it,” McCain, an Arizona Republican, told ABC News in a story published Monday. “I know of no one who is better versed and more important on national security policy and defense than Lindsey Graham, and I don’t think these challenges to our security are going away.”</p>
<p>Graham floated the possibility of a run in an interview with the Weekly Standard last month, telling the magazine he’d be interested in running to guide the conversation on national security.</p>
<p>“If I get through my general election, if nobody steps up in the presidential mix, if nobody’s out there talking — me and McCain have been talking — I may just jump in to get to make these arguments,” Graham said.</p></blockquote>
<p>While Graham and McCain are not bad on national security in some areas, they went completely off the road during the Arab Spring. Not to mention we&#8217;ve got Graham bemoaning that Congress didn&#8217;t pass amnesty.</p>
<p>If we&#8217;re going to have a novelty candidate to push national security themes, John Bolton is still around and he looks roughly 250 percent more presidential than Graham does on his best day.</p>
<p>I would guess that Graham would make a very good debater given a confrontational forum, but his ideas on national security can currently be boiled down to supporting some terrorists and fighting other terrorists.</p>
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		<title>Soros PAC Funnels $$$ to GOP Pro-Amnesty PAC to Run Ads for Lindsey Graham</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We came up with the money," said Frank Sharry, founder and executive director of America's Voice, a Washington-based group with close ties to the Obama White House. ]]></description>
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<p>Amnesty has become the ultimate metaphor for the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigration-money-20130811,0,1938597,full.story">complete corruption of both parties</a>, their complete contempt for Americans and their insatiable greed for the money and power that insider deals can bring them.</p>
<blockquote><p>When television ads aired in South Carolina this spring attacking Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham for supporting immigration reform, a GOP group came to his aid. So did the other team.</p>
<p>&#8220;We came up with the money,&#8221; said Frank Sharry, founder and executive director of America&#8217;s Voice, a Washington-based group with close ties to the Obama White House. &#8220;We were just frustrated that nobody was doing anything, and Graham was under attack. We said, &#8216;Fine, we will put money in.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Sharry&#8217;s group, knowing an ad sponsored by a left-leaning advocacy group could hurt Graham, donated $60,000 to Republicans for Immigration Reform, a super PAC started by President George W. Bush&#8217;s former Commerce secretary, Carlos Gutierrez, and GOP fundraiser Charlie Spies.</p></blockquote>
<p>And apparently Republicans for Immigration Reform had no problem taking cash, that was presumably earmarked, from a PAC close to Obama<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7604"> and funded by George Soros</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>During the first half of the year, reform backers outspent opponents in advertising by more than 3 to 1: $2.4 million to $700,000, according to Kantar Media&#8217;s Campaign Media Analysis Group. They also hired a battalion of lobbyists. In the second quarter, 527 businesses, advocacy groups and others reported lobbying on immigration, up from 389 in the first three months of the year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.</p></blockquote>
<p>And suddenly the media couldn&#8217;t care less about the influence of big money on politics.</p>
<blockquote><p>One congressman who has felt the squeeze is Rep. Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican elected in 2008 in the district once represented by the vociferously anti-immigration Tom Tancredo. In 2012, the district was redrawn to include Aurora, one of the most immigrant-dense cities in the state.</p>
<p>Coffman endorsed comprehensive reform last month.</p>
<p>That decision brought him $275,000 worth of positive TV commercials from Americans for a Conservative Direction — also funded by FWD.us. &#8220;On immigration, too many members of Congress argue with each other, but our congressman, Mike Coffman, listened to us,&#8221; the ad said.</p></blockquote>
<p>And this is how a nation is destroyed.</p>
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		<title>McCain and Lindsay Graham Went to Egypt and All They Got Was This Op-Ed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Democracy is the only viable path to lasting stability, national reconciliation, sustainable economic growth and the return of investment and tourism in Egypt," the duo write, ignoring the fact that democracy seems to have destroyed all these things.]]></description>
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<p>Senator McCain and Senator Graham&#8217;s visit to Egypt went badly&#8230; to put it in the nicest terms possible. How badly? This badly.</p>
<p>The Egyptian cabinet declared them persona non-grata and &#8220;President Mansour and his prime minister, Hazem Biblawi, described two senior American senators, sent as emissaries of<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obamamccain-love-for-muslim-brotherhood-destroying-relationship-with-egypt/"> President Barak Obama, as “delusional” and “liars.</a>”</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Following a press conference in which Mr. McCain threatened sanctions, the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current party, Hamdeen Sabahi, who is a co-leader of the ruling National Salvation Front, described Mr. McCain as “a senile old man.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So really, really badly. A visit to North Korea would have gone better. But McCain and Graham, acknowledging none of this, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccain-and-lindsey-graham-egypts-path-to-a-better-future/2013/08/09/24310634-007c-11e3-96a8-d3b921c0924a_story.html">decided to pen an op-ed</a> for Jeff Bezos&#8217; Washington Post.</p>
<p>&#8220;But as we said again this week in Cairo, we find it difficult to describe the circumstances of Morsi’s removal from office as anything other than a coup. Unsuccessful leaders in a democracy should leave office by losing elections,&#8221; McCain and Graham write.</p>
<p>They have a point. Unless the unsuccessful leader attempted to seize absolute power and had political opponents tortured and beaten. In that case there&#8217;s plenty of precedent to go Ceausescu on the president.</p>
<p>&#8220;Democracy is the only viable path to lasting stability, national reconciliation, sustainable economic growth and the return of investment and tourism in Egypt,&#8221; the duo write, ignoring the fact that democracy seems to have destroyed all these things.</p>
<p>&#8220;Indeed, it is worth remembering — especially when the American mind has refocused on the real and persistent threat posed by al-Qaeda — that its leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is a former member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who was radicalized during the violent crackdowns and detentions of Brotherhood leaders by previous Egyptian regimes,&#8221; McCain and Graham write.</p>
<p>In fact all Al Qaeda&#8217;s leaders were Muslim Brotherhood members. Was Bin Laden radicalized? Or was this a difference in method, rather than goal?</p>
<p>And if so, then isn&#8217;t calling for a Muslim Brotherhood democracy collaboration with the end goals of Al Qaeda?</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Richardson and Schmidt arrive in North Korea today &#8211; Lenin used to call them &#8220;useful idiots&#8221;</p>
<p>— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/statuses/288324942188126208">January 7, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Egyptians Enraged by U.S. Brotherhood Outreach</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sens. McCain and Graham's shameless visit to Cairo -- and what our media failed to report. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2013-08-06T235142Z_1_CBRE9751UAE00_RTROPTP_3_EGYPT-PROTESTS.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-200159" alt="2013-08-06T235142Z_1_CBRE9751UAE00_RTROPTP_3_EGYPT-PROTESTS" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2013-08-06T235142Z_1_CBRE9751UAE00_RTROPTP_3_EGYPT-PROTESTS.jpg" width="263" height="203" /></a>Originally published by <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/msm-blackout-egyptians-enraged-by-u-s-outreach-to-muslim-brotherhood/">PJ Media</a>.</strong></p>
<p>In the eyes of tens of millions of Egyptians, Senators John McCain’s and Lindsey Graham’s recent words and deeds in Egypt — which have the “<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/06/exclusive-john-mccain-on-his-meeting-with-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-cairo.html">blessing</a>” of President Obama — have unequivocally proven that U.S. leadership is aligning with the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Egyptian media is awash with stories of the growing anger regarding this policy.</p>
<p>A top advisor to Egypt’s Interim President Adly Mansour formally <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/06/mccain-graham-egypt_n_3716270.html">accused</a> McCain of distorting facts to the benefit of the Brotherhood. He dismissed McCain’s recent remarks as “irrational” and “moronic.” <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4jVnejnxNM">Ahmed al-Zind</a>, head of the Egyptian Judge Club, has called <del cite="mailto:Feymorgoth9" datetime="2013-08-08T16:10"></del>for the arrest and trial of McCain for “trying to destroy Egypt.” The leader of the youth movement <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhqmx2-ZSGg">Tamarod</a> (meaning “Rebellion,” against the Brotherhood), which played a major role in mobilizing the June 30 revolution, said: “We reject John McCain and call on the international community to let the [Egyptian] people decide their own fate.”</p>
<p>Secular political commentator <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiswhQwlxHs">Ahmed Musa</a> asserted:</p>
<blockquote><p>These two men have made more shameless demands than the Brotherhood themselves would dare.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>[McCain] is not a man elected by the American people to speak on their behalf; today, he speaks on behalf of an armed terrorist organization — the Muslim Brotherhood. …  We had expected [better] from these two men who came to speak with the tongue of the Brotherhood’s leadership, as if they had been recruited as two new leaders of the Brotherhood, which killed, destroyed, and burned in al-Muqattam, and now in Rab‘a al-Adawiya [the main Brotherhood militant camp]. The only thing missing is to see them in Rab‘a, surrounded by armed groups, and in their midst Muhammad Badie [supreme leader of the Brotherhood] and [U.S. Ambassador] Anne Patterson. That’s all that’s missing! Here comes Brother McCain today saying that we must “release the [Brotherhood] prisoners”.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>Are you not aware that these people are accused of murder? Are you not aware that hundreds of Egyptians have been killed at the hands of the Brotherhood, Morsi, Shatter, Qatatni, Badie, Baltagi — have you forgotten? Did you not read the report on what happened? Or did you just blindly accept your ambassador’s words that it was a coup, that 33 million people did not go out?</p></blockquote>
<p>What did McCain do and say in Egypt to earn the ire of millions of Egyptians?</p>
<p>Most offensive to Egyptians — and helpful to the Brotherhood’s cause — is McCain’s insistence on calling the June 30 revolution a “military coup.” In reality, the revolution consisted of perhaps thirty million Egyptians taking to the streets to oust the Brotherhood. McCain is either deliberately misconstruing the event, or believes the story as told by Al Jazeera and Ambassador Anne Patterson. In this narrative, at least an equal amount of Egyptians did support Morsi, and the military simply overthrew him against popular will. Al Jazeera has actually broadcast images of the millions of anti-Morsi protesters and identified them as <i>pro</i>-Morsi protesters, disinformation which was quickly adopted by Western media.</p>
<p>Several Al Jazeera correspondents have resigned due to Al Jazeera acting as the Brotherhood’s international mouthpiece.</p>
<p>Fortunately, some American officials have formally rejected the narrative. A <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/images/pdf/HR329.pdf">new congressional resolution</a> states:</p>
<blockquote><p>Whereas in recent weeks, an estimated 30,000,000 Egyptians in a majority of Egypt’s 27 provinces gathered to protest the widespread failures of former President Mohamed Morsi and the Government of Egypt and its violations of the most basic rights of all Egyptian citizens, including Egyptian women, minorities, and those publicly dissenting from its views and policies; Whereas the participants in the June 30, 2013, popular protests far outnumbered those involved in the protests and demonstrations of January and February 2011 …<del cite="mailto:Feymorgoth9" datetime="2013-08-08T16:14"><br />
</del></p></blockquote>
<p>Even the Obama administration has been sensible enough not to call the June 30 revolution a “military coup.” Nevertheless, McCain rejected <del cite="mailto:Feymorgoth9" datetime="2013-08-08T16:15"></del>John Kerry’s statement that “<a href="http://swampland.time.com/2013/08/02/oops-john-kerry-gaffes-washington-backpedals/">the [Egyptian] military did not take over</a>.”</p>
<p>McCain’s designation raises other questions as well. If he considers the ouster of the Brotherhood government to be a military coup, why didn’t he extend that distinction at the fall of Mubarak’s more moderate government, which was also removed by the military in response to popular protests? If McCain’s argument is that Morsi was democratically elected and Mubarak was not, then why was the U.S. giving Egypt billions in aid for decades? Did not this aid legitimize Mubarak’s government no less than Morsi’s?</p>
<p>Further angering Egyptians is McCain’s insistence that all arrested Brotherhood members and other Islamists be released from prison. As Musa said, McCain’s stance does not address that Brotherhood leadership is awaiting trial on serious charges: inciting terrorism, causing the murder of Egyptians, and grand treason by conspiring with foreign powers against Egypt’s interests.</p>
<p>McCain claims he is simply interested in the human rights of the incarcerated Brotherhood members, a statement that is additionally curious. If human rights are at issue, why has McCain and the U.S. administration been ambivalent regarding the fate of Hosni Mubarak? Morsi faces perhaps more serious charges than Mubarak does, yet McCain calls for his release.</p>
<p>McCain’s call to release Brotherhood leadership <del cite="mailto:Feymorgoth9" datetime="2013-08-08T16:17"></del>validates the widespread belief in Egypt that America is a fellow conspirator with the Brotherhood. Egyptians believe the U.S. fears that Morsi and others, if tried, would reveal the nature of their cozy relationship with the U.S. government. This is believed to mean any number of ugly revelations — treasonous ties and conspiracies, the exchange of billions of dollars, and Sinai issues. Hence, McCain wants them freed. This belief seems all the more reasonable to Egyptians considering that in 2011, McCain <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/john-mccain-on-the-dangers-of-the-muslim-brotherhood-they-should-be-excluded-from-any-transition-government-a-743819.html">said of the Muslim Brotherhood</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I think they are a radical group that first of all supports Sharia law; that in itself is anti-democratic — at least as far as women are concerned. They have been involved with other terrorist organizations and I believe that they should be specifically excluded from any transition government.</p></blockquote>
<p>Recently, McCain personally <a href="http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=1193467">visited</a> Khairat al-Shater, the multi-millionaire deputy chief of the Brotherhood who is currently incarcerated on charges of treason and terrorism. Interestingly, Shatter was not even a member of Morsi’s government. Why is McCain visiting a civilian? Shater’s status as a major figure in the largest Islamist organization in the world is leading Egyptians to connect the dots. Even Shater himself, perhaps understanding <a href="http://beta.masrawy.com/News/details/2013/8/5/39630/%D8%AD%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%B1-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7">the awful visuals</a>, asked to visit “the legitimate president” Morsi as well.</p>
<p>U.S. media has said little aboutthe administration’s ties to al-Shater, <del cite="mailto:Feymorgoth9" datetime="2013-08-08T16:20"></del>however these ties are well-known among Egyptians: ambassador Anne Patterson was frequently seen <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egyptian-politician-calls-u-s-ambassador-patterson-member-of-muslim-brotherhood-sleeper-cell/">going to</a> Shater’s residence.</p>
<p>Egyptian media has also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3bTBPDdb5c">pointed out</a> that McCain repeatedly dodged critical questions by Egyptian journalists at a press conference. When asked about the fact that the Brotherhood in Rab‘a was armed to the teeth, and — with the aid of al-Qaeda — was killing and terrorizing innocent Egyptians, McCain ignored the question. (Similarly, McCain has not answered as to why he is supports the jihadist rebellion in Syria, which has seen the slaughter and displacement of thousands of Christians, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">beheadings</a>, and “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">legitimized rapes</a>” by foreign jihadis. <a href="http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/2013/06/03/rand-paul-slams-mccains-support-of-al-qaeda-in-syria/">McCain is in favor of arming</a> them.)</p>
<p>Many Egyptians are also wondering why McCain — as well as the Obama administration — is pushing for elections as soon as possible.  Such a rush contributed to the empowerment of the Brotherhood in the first place: once the long-entrenched Mubarak was removed from power, the only party that was organized and ready to campaign was the Brotherhood. Secular Egyptian parties wanted to postpone the 2012 elections in order to mobilize their campaigns, but the U.S. was adamant that Egypt hold elections immediately. When the military wished to perform a recount, citing irregularities in the elections — including widespread allegations of voter fraud by the Brotherhood — Hillary Clinton chastised them and called for a winner to be declared as soon as possible. This turned out to be Morsi, by a tiny margin — <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/did-the-muslim-brotherhood-really-win-egypts-presidency/">if that</a>.</p>
<p>McCain’s remarks and actions in Egypt have further confirmed the popular narrative — as memorably displayed by countless anti-Brotherhood and anti-Obama placards raised during the June 30 revolution — that U.S. leadership is aligned with the Brotherhood, and thus ultimately <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obama-supports-terrorism-large-banner-in-tahrir-square/">a supporter of terrorism</a>. Americans can no longer afford to ignore this serious accusation with broad implications.</p>
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		<title>Senator Graham: &#8220;The Only Way We Can Get Back in Good Graces with the Hispanic Community is Amnesty&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graham said “it doesn’t matter who you run in 2016″ if House and Senate Republicans don’t pass immigration reform. ]]></description>
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<p>The GOP is dying. The only way to save it is to make it completely unelectable. Apparently <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/351182/graham-gop-demographic-death-spiral-needs-pass-immigration-andrew-johnson">that&#8217;s the plan that a top 8 Ganger has</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>​Senator Lindsey Graham is more optimistic than many of his Senate colleagues over comprehensive immigration reform.</p>
<p>When asked about the next presidential election, Graham said “it doesn’t matter who you run in 2016″ if House and Senate Republicans don’t pass immigration reform. “We’re in a demographic death spiral as a party, and the only way we can get back in good graces with the Hispanic community, in my view, is pass comprehensive immigration reform,” he explained.</p></blockquote>
<p>How did that work out for Bush Sr? For that matter how is passing amnesty, whose public face will be Obama, going to help Republicans win in 2016 with the sort of low information Latino voters that Dems have gotten better at organizing?</p>
<p>Rick Santorum pointed out that Republicans needed to be more competitive with below 50K voters. Instead Republicans are alienating many of those voters in the hopes of scoring points with voters who aren&#8217;t going to vote for them anyway.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2012/06/04/partisan-polarization-surges-in-bush-obama-years/">for the demographic death spiral</a>, &#8220;while the average age of self-described Democrats has risen since 2008 – from 46.9 to 47.7 – Democrats continue to be younger than Republicans on average (47.7 vs. 49.7).&#8221;</p>
<p>Any gap is not good, but 47.7 vs. 49.7 is not a demographic death spiral except on network television. Add on amnesty though and it might be.</p>
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		<title>Facebook Pro-Amnesty Lobby Runs Pro-Graham Ads as &#8220;Americans for a Conservative Direction&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is even weirder is that Mark Zuckerberg, as part of an amnesty push coalition with Obama, is funding ads attacking ObamaCare]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Because when you think of Facebook&#8217;s bratty millionaire overlords and illegal alien amnesty, the first <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mark-zuckerbergs-immigration-group-campaign-ads-lindsey-graham-152255051.html;_ylt=Ao0qtOI8ddloPoRGdSOXvQ3Nt.d_;_ylu=X3oDMTVxNjZmcjl0BGNjb2RlA2dtcHRvcDEwMDBwb29sd2lraXVwcmVzdARtaXQDQXJ0aWNsZSBNaXhlZCBMaXN0IE5ld3MgZm9yIFlvdSB3aXRoIE1vcmUgTGluawRwa2cDNTdkMGM2NTAtMDg0ZC0zM2IwLTlkNDQtN2M1ZjU0YjQ1NDgzBHBvcwM3BHNlYwNuZXdzX2Zvcl95b3UEdmVyAzBhODQ3NzIwLWFjZjMtMTFlMi05ZmZmLWU1MjVlZDY0OGY3Nw--;_ylg=X3oDMTM0amJrM3JiBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDYTcxNGU2NmItMGY5YS0zZDg3LTllMWYtNjc3MzBiZmZhYzkzBHBzdGNhdANidXNpbmVzc3xlYXJuaW5ncwRwdANzdG9yeXBhZ2U-;_ylv=3">thing that comes to mind is conservatism</a>.</p>
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<p>What is even weirder is that Mark Zuckerberg, as part of an amnesty push coalition with Obama, is funding ads attacking ObamaCare in praise of Senator Lindsey Graham.</p>
<p>Essentially Obama Inc. is helping set up anti-Obama ads to make Senator Graham look good. A billion dollar liberal dotcom operating out of Menlo Park, California, is creating ads touting Graham as a voice for South Carolina&#8217;s conservative values.</p>
<p>We are in very <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/mark-zuckerberg-immigration-group-launches-tv-blitz-90511.html?hp=f3">strange and dishonest territory here</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p> The Mark Zuckerberg-backed organization pressing for immigration reform will launch its first wave of television ads Tuesday, in a move aimed at shoring up support for a large-scale immigration deal on the right, strategists for the group told POLITICO.</p>
<p>FWD.us, the organization formed to push Silicon Valley’s priorities in Washington, will advocate for a new immigration law through a subsidiary group created specifically to court conservatives. Americans for a Conservative Direction will spend seven figures to run ads in more than half a dozen states, according to strategists who sketched out the organization’s plans.</p></blockquote>
<p>Despite being the subsidiary of one of the biggest internet companies around, Americans for a Conservative Direction has one of the crudest placeholder websites you can imagine and its Facebook campaign is not going well.</p>
<p>And its Facebook campaign isn&#8217;t going well either. Its fan page<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Americans-for-a-Conservative-Direction/540389702671346"> only has 17 like</a>s and there are only comments from 4 people there, 3 out of 4 comments are negative.</p>
<p>Facebook could drive a lot more traffic to the page if it wanted to. Clearly it doesn&#8217;t care. It spent X amount of money on the ads to reassure amnesty politicians that it will provide them with some support, but it hasn&#8217;t even bothered to do the basics online. It&#8217;s ironic that a Republican online presence, even when overseen by Facebook, is so inept, but it&#8217;s not truly surprising. A sham is a sham and no one really wastes much time or effort investing in it.</p>
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		<title>Obama Inc. Intimidating Benghazi Survivors into Keeping Quiet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The bottom line is they feel that they can't come forth, they've been told to be quiet," he said.]]></description>
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<p>The next step in the Benghazigate investigation is interviewing some of the survivors of the attack. But that is proving more difficult than anticipated.</p>
<p>Senator Graham had said that  he’s “had contact” with Benghazi survivors and described their story  as “chilling.” &#8220;The bottom line is t<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/15/sen-graham-claims-benghazi-survivors-told-to-be-quiet-by-administration/#ixzz2Nv5CiI7B">hey feel that they can&#8217;t come forth,</a> they&#8217;ve been told to be quiet,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Is the White House intimidating them? As Ace points out, <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/338520.php">Jay Carney says yes and no</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the first part of the sentence, he (James Carney) claims the White House is not blocking these people from talking. In the second part, he adds in that they are, of course, precluded from discussing sensitive topics due to their positions&#8230;</p>
<p>The second part of the sentence blows up the first part. This is the game the White House is playing: They are putting these people on notice they might be prosecuted for revealing state secrets if they say something Obama doesn&#8217;t like.</p></blockquote>
<p>The wheels of Congress grind slowly, but there are some developments.</p>
<blockquote><p>“We’ll get our chance to talk to Benghazi survivors and get the reports from the FBI. That will happen. I’m confident of that,” Chairman Rogers told Breitbart News. “We want to make sure people have a chance to heal first and we’ll have an opportunity to talk these people before this is over. I’m fairly comfortable this will happen,” he said.</p>
<p>Any Benghazi survivor who talks to his committee would be protected from prosecution or job termination from the Obama administration, Rogers said. “We’ll make sure of that. That is whistle bower standard protection. If they’re fired for talking to us, there’ll be some hell to pay.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The trouble with that is that Obama Inc. has become notorious for its ruthless crackdown on whistleblowers. But Senator Graham is signaling <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/benghazi/2013/03/21/gop-senator-calls-subpoena-benghazi-survivors-urges-colleagues-gods-sake-step-your-game">that a more aggressive push may be coming</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>GRAHAM: I believe the attitude of the house leadership is changing when it comes to Benghazi, they&#8217;re going to be more aggressive. But you make a good point. I&#8217;ve written CIA Director Brennan, Secretary of State John Kerry, provide the names of the survivors to the Congress in an appropriate way so we can interview them about what actually happened. The story told by the White House after the attack has not held water.</p>
<p>VAN SUSTEREN: Everyone writes letter in this town. Letters never get answered unless you&#8217;re in the majority party.</p>
<p>GRAHAM: There you go. And my Democratic colleagues in the Senate have shown no interest in getting to the bottom of Benghazi. If this were Bush they&#8217;d be all over it. The one thing Republicans can do is use the leverage they have in the House to subpoena these survivors so we&#8217;ll find out what happened that night. I guarantee you there are people wanting to talk, but are afraid to talk, and a subpoena would make a difference.</p>
<p>VAN SUSTEREN: Are you going to do anything, encourage the House to do that?</p>
<p>GRAHAM: I&#8217;m going to meet with the House leadership tomorrow, hoping they will take up the Benghazi cause. Look how far we&#8217;ve come from what the story was told by Susan Rice. Look what we found out by pushing on this show and other shows, CBS and mainly FOX. The whole scenario told by the president and Susan Rice has absolutely collapsed.</p>
<p>VAN SUSTEREN: Why hasn&#8217;t the House leadership &#8211;</p>
<p>GRAHAM: I have no idea.</p>
<p>VAN SUSTEREN: Why the Republican House leadership hasn&#8217;t been &#8211;</p>
<p>GRAHAM: To my House colleagues, please, for god&#8217;s sake step up your game when it comes to Benghazi. You have tools I don&#8217;t because I&#8217;m in the minority party in the Senate. Unfortunately Harry Reid hasn&#8217;t looked to push the administration. Look what we did on Iraq and interrogation techniques gone bad under t the Bush administration. The Democratic senators have given the president a pass when it comes to Benghazi. The House cannot give him a pass.</p>
<p>VAN SUSTEREN: Are you going to tell Speaker Boehner to push for subpoenas?</p>
<p>GRAHAM: I think that Speaker Boehner is very much in the mindset of trying to get to the bottom of Benghazi. But yes, I will urge Speaker Boehner to use the powers of the House not to chase rabbits, but to get to the bottom line. We have not heard from the people who went through this debacle who were there on the ground. I guarantee if this had been a good news story we would have heard from them the next day. The fact we haven&#8217;t heard from them for six months should make every American worried about what this administration is covering up.</p></blockquote>
<p>While the media would like to just MoveOn.org from Benghazigate, it&#8217;s encouraging that an investigation is still continuing.</p>
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		<title>Sen Graham: Benghazi Survivors Remaining Silent Out of Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South Carolina senator said he’s “had contact” with some of the survivors, calling their story “chilling.” He told Fox News that "the bottom line is they feel that they can't come forth, they've been told to be quiet."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Benghazigate news trickles out at a very slow rate and we&#8217;re only now learning about some of the people who were there&#8230; <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/15/sen-graham-claims-benghazi-survivors-told-to-be-quiet-by-administration/?intcmp=trending">and why they have stayed quiet</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, in an extensive interview with Fox News, alleged that the injured survivors of the Benghazi terror attack have been &#8220;told to be quiet&#8221; and feel they can&#8217;t come forward to tell their stories &#8212; as he urged the House to subpoena the administration for details if necessary.</p>
<p>The South Carolina senator said he’s “had contact” with some of the survivors, calling their story “chilling.” He told Fox News that &#8220;the bottom line is they feel that they can&#8217;t come forth, they&#8217;ve been told to be quiet.&#8221;</p>
<p>The White House is denying any attempt to exert pressure on the surviving victims.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure that the White House is not preventing anyone from speaking,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, when asked about the survivors.</p>
<p>But Graham said he thinks the administration is “trying to cover it up,” citing the valuable information the survivors hold.</p>
<p>“The best evidence of what happened in Benghazi is not a bunch of politicians in Washington trying to cover their political ass,” Graham said. “This is the people who lived through the debacle, and I’m going to do all I can to get them before the Congress and American people.”</p>
<p>He continued: &#8220;We cannot let this administration or any other administration get away with hiding from the American people and Congress, people who were there in real time to tell the story.”</p>
<p>But he had pointed words for the House Republican leadership, as he urged them to issue subpoenas if the administration does not release the names of the survivors.</p>
<p>“To our leadership in the House, you’re gonna have to up your game on Benghazi,” he said.</p>
<p>For his part, Graham vowed to “make life difficult in the Senate” in order to get the information he wants, suggesting that would involve holding up nominations.</p>
<p>“(The public needs) to hear from people who were on the ground, their desperate situation. They need to understand from people who were there for months how bad it was getting and how frustrated they were that nobody would listen to them and provide aid when they were requested,” Graham said. “This is a story of an administration deaf and blind to the reality of what people were living with every day in Libya.”</p>
<p>He said they should be able to “tell their story without fear,” accusing the administration of “hiding from the American people and Congress the primary source of truth in Benghazi – people who lived through it.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Senator Graham Blasts Obama for Not Sending &#8220;Spokesman for 9/11&#8243; to Gitmo</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abu Ghaith appeared alongside Osama bin Laden in a 2001 video in which they took responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and warned of more.]]></description>
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<p>Senator Lindsey Graham doesn&#8217;t have a great track record, but when he&#8217;s right, he&#8217;s right, <a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/07/17227858-bad-precedent-republicans-oppose-decision-to-bring-bin-laden-son-in-law-to-us">and in this case, he&#8217;s clearly right</a>. Obama is subverting national security in every area that he can and trying to de-militarize the War on Terror by treating it like a civilian criminal matter is something that he has been trying to do for a while.</p>
<blockquote><p>Even as government officials applauded the arrest of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s son-in-law and an al-Qaida spokesman, his transport to the United States stirred a debate among lawmakers who appeared caught by surprise by the news.</p>
<p>Abu Ghaith was apprehended, transported to New York and charged with conspiracy to kill Americans, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. Abu Ghaith appeared alongside his father-in-law in a 2001 video in which they took responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and warned of more.</p>
<p>Abu Ghaith&#8217;s trial will be one of the first prosecutions of senior al-Qaida leaders in the United States. Upon taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama said more foreign terror suspects should be charged in American federal courts, as part of his goal to close Guantanamo Bay.</p>
<p>Republicans in Congress would like to keep Guantanamo open and have strongly opposed bringing terror suspects on U.S. soil.</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe the administration&#8217;s decision here to bring this person to New York City, if that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happened, without letting Congress know is a very bad precedent to set,&#8221; said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who held a press conference with Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H, Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;And when we find somebody like this, this close to bin Laden and the senior al-Qaida leadership, the last thing in the world we want to do, in my opinion, is put them in civilian court. This man should be in Guantanamo Bay,&#8221; Ayotte said.</p>
<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;re putting the administration on notice,&#8221; said Graham. &#8220;We think that sneaking this guy into the country, clearly going around the intent of Congress when it comes to enemy combatants, will be challenged.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Republicans have been fumbling the foreign policy debate for a while by embracing the Arab Spring and refusing to take a position on Afghanistan.</p>
<p>This is a clear and simple area where Republicans can set themselves apart from the Democrats. Terrorism is not a crime problem. It is a war being carried out against America. And those who engage in it should not be given an ACLU limo, but a trip over near Cuba and all the water they can drink.</p>
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		<title>The Rice Diversion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/the-rice-diversion/united-nations-security-council-meets-to-discuss-north-koreas-recent-rocket-launch-attempt/" rel="attachment wp-att-167189"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-167189" title="United Nations Security Council Meets To Discuss North Korea's Recent Rocket Launch Attempt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/susan-rice-465.jpg" alt="" width="252" height="204" /></a>After U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice lied her way through a tense meeting with Republican lawmakers yesterday about her role in the Benghazi scandal, the mainstream media escalated its attacks on those Republicans who continue daring to question the official account of that bloody day in September.</p>
<p>A short time after meeting with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Rice released a statement indicating that she had incorrectly described the attack at the U.S. consulate in Libya when she appeared on five Sunday TV talk shows days after. At the height of the election season in mid-September she peddled the Obama administration’s fairy tale in which a spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Islam video somehow led to the killing of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.</p>
<p>Rice said her comments were based on intelligence available at the time. “Neither I nor anyone else in the administration intended to mislead the American people at any stage in the process,” said Rice, who attended the meeting with acting CIA director Michael J. Morell.</p>
<p>Rice <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/petraeus-recants-obamas-benghazi-fiction/">contradicted</a> the testimony of former CIA Director David Petraeus who told lawmakers Nov. 16 he never believed the Obama administration’s claim that the attack was a mob action prompted by a video. Petraeus said that he believed all along that Islamic terrorists attacked the diplomatic mission on the 11th anniversary of 9/11.</p>
<p>The senators were not moved by Rice.</p>
<p>“It is clear that the information that she gave the American people was incorrect when she said that it was a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video,” said McCain. Echoed Graham, “Bottom line: I’m more disturbed now than I was before.”</p>
<p>Graham and Ayotte indicated they plan to block Rice’s nomination as secretary of state if President Obama names her to replace Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>But because the senators won’t cave in to pressure, media figures are smearing them at every opportunity.</p>
<p>McCain, Graham, and Ayotte are <a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49984602/">engaged</a> in a “Benghazi witch hunt,” according to Martin Bashir, one of MSNBC’s most ardent Obama worshipers.</p>
<p>The senators are grasping at straws, refusing to let go of their “ginned up controversy” even after meeting with Rice and other administration figures, said the tabloid journalist known for his interviews with Diana, Princess of Wales and singer Michael Jackson.</p>
<p>After White House press secretary Jay Carney said the senators were suffering from an “obsession” about Rice’s comments on the Sunday shows, the Huffington Post website helpfully <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/mccain-graham-rice_n_2200553.html?utm_hp_ref=politics">put together</a> a video painting McCain and Graham as obsessed.</p>
<p>Other journalists have leapt to the defense of Rice.</p>
<p>Working with the White House and congressional Democrats, journalists invented the false side story that McCain and a group of Republican lawmakers were targeting Rice not because she lied to the American people but because she is black.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-bizarre-attack-on-susan-rice/2012/11/22/22c54a10-340a-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html">Washington Post</a> editorial supports the left-wing Congressional Black Caucus’s wild contention that Republicans are out to get Rice “because she is an African American woman.” Perhaps the editorial writers forgot that President George W. Bush’s secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, an immensely popular figure in the GOP, was also a black woman.</p>
<p>The newspaper then implies that Republicans are secret members of the Ku Klux Klan, citing a recent letter signed by 97 House Republicans questioning Rice’s fitness for the post of top U.S. diplomat. The paper casually opines that “[M]ore than 80 of the signatories are white males, and nearly half are from states of the former Confederacy.”</p>
<p>Like defense lawyers for an obviously guilty client, these left-wing journalists are working overtime to confuse the public about what happened in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama administration’s role, and what it all means. Democrats and the mainstream media are trying to obstruct progress in the investigation by misdirection, grabbing at any shiny object within reach.</p>
<p>But despite the leftist spin, the ugly truth remains:  Four Americans were sacrificed to prevent President Obama’s pro-Islamist foreign policy from becoming a major issue in the closing weeks of the recently concluded election. President Obama let Americans die in order to secure reelection. On Sept. 11 President Obama rolled the dice, jetting off to Las Vegas for a fundraising event. He knew the media would cover for him.</p>
<p>The Obama administration concocted an anti-Islam video cover story that was plausible enough not to alarm voters. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo released a bizarre statement on Sept. 11 condemning “the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.” Expressing the views of many Americans, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said it was “disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”</p>
<p>Stateside, the Obama-worshipping media pilloried Romney for days for speaking truth to power and standing up for the First Amendment.</p>
<p>In the end, the media vanquished Romney but not the story of what happened in that northeastern Libyan city.</p>
<p>Now that they realize that the Benghazi scandal isn’t going away anytime soon, these left-wingers are scrambling to regain control over the narrative.</p>
<p>As journalist Josh Marshall, a reliably partisan Democrat, <a href="https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/270676736130314241">huffed</a> in a recent tweet while watching television, “Weird. Everyone on this Fox panel agrees Benghazi scandal is becoming really big deal.”</p>
<p>No kidding.</p>
<p>Other left-wing journalists are spending a lot of time lying in order to protect the Obama administration. The media establishment has been busy characterizing anyone who doesn’t follow the official line as kooks and sore losers shell-shocked at Romney’s surprising defeat.</p>
<p>Salon.com’s senior fabulist Alex Pareene <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/11/15/john_mccain_cant_stop_going_on_tv_and_being_wrong_about_benghazi/">refers</a> to Benghazi as “an entirely made-up scandal” and accepts as Holy Writ whatever account the Obama administration offers at any given moment.</p>
<p>Because Sens. McCain and Graham had the impertinence to question the White House’s obvious lies about the Benghazi saga, Pareene calls them “buffoons.” McCain is a “petulant loser” and Graham is his “reviled sidekick,” writes the young man whose career high water mark was working as a gossip columnist at Wonkette.com.</p>
<p>Leftist academic Dominic Tierney <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/the-benghazi-test-how-and-why-obamas-foreign-policy-passed-it/265436/">claims</a> the Benghazi scandal is proof that Obama’s foreign policy “is fairly successful.” Benghazi “is what a ‘scandal’ looks like when there aren’t any real scandals to talk about.”</p>
<p>“Republicans are desperate to assail Obama for something, and they chose Benghazi as their best shot,” Tierney writes.</p>
<p>Smug leftist Paul Waldman at the <a href="http://../Downloads/prospect.org/article/what-benghazi-about-scandal-envy"><em>American Prospect</em></a>, belittles “harumphing” Republicans for seeking the truth about what happened.</p>
<p>Republicans have “scandal envy,” Waldman quips. “Republicans are indescribably frustrated by the fact that Barack Obama, whom they regard as both illegitimate and corrupt, went through an entire term without a major scandal.”</p>
<p>In fact Obama has had several potentially major scandals in his first term but so-called journalists like Waldman have refused to take them seriously. Benghazi is the Obama scandal with the largest American body count.</p>
<p>They include the <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/09/024559.php">NEA taxpayer-funded propaganda</a> scandal, the wrongful termination of AmeriCorps Inspector General <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/06/24/even-political-foes-cheer-on-fired-americorps-inspector-general-walpin">Gerald Walpin</a>, the appointment of self-described “communist” Van Jones as White House green jobs czar, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/louis-t-march/obama-carries-on-the-pigford-fraud/">Pigford</a>, Obama&#8217;s ties to the criminal group ACORN, the handling of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case, Obama&#8217;s unilaterally granted immigration amnesty, Obama&#8217;s intimidation of Supreme Court members during a State of the Union address, the Justice Department&#8217;s refusal to enforce electoral integrity laws and attempt to intimidate the Gallup polling company, Solyndra, the Reichstag fire-like Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, the administration&#8217;s failure to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA), and Obama&#8217;s ongoing appeasement of Islamofascists around the world. (This is not an exhaustive list.)</p>
<p>And although Republicans happen to have the facts on their side this time, they should never underestimate the power of the Left to transform a potential GOP triumph into a crushing political defeat.</p>
<p>The media have convinced a good-sized chunk of the population that Obama critics, and particularly, Tea Party supporters, are racist, mouth-breathing imbeciles and lunatics.</p>
<p>During the Bill Clinton impeachment process, impeachment advocates in Congress such as the late Congressman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) cited the Magna Carta and high-minded constitutional principles while Democrats regurgitated lies over and over and over again. The Left engaged in character assassination, taking the case of a president lying under oath, obstructing justice, and abusing his power to escape the civil consequences of sexual harassment, and transforming it into a case of sex-obsessed Republicans desperate to hunt down a Democratic president with an inspiring life story.</p>
<p>This was accomplished not by the force of their arguments but largely by repetition. They wore people down and got them to believe the lies. It wasn’t that hard to do given that the public liked Clinton.</p>
<p>In a 2004 case already largely forgotten outside Capitol Hill, Democrats were able not only to distract from their wrongdoing but also to claim the head of a top Republican congressional staffer in the process.</p>
<p>Manuel Miranda was counsel to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) until Republicans forced him out. During a battle over judicial confirmations, Miranda produced memos proving Democrats were taking orders from left-wing groups determined to defeat President Bush’s nominees. The groups included People for the American Way, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and NAACP Legal Defense Fund.</p>
<p>As Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote at the time, “[o]ne memo referred to Bush White House judicial candidates as ‘Nazis.’”</p>
<p>The memos were found on an open computer network but somehow Democrats were able to turn the media’s guns around and aim them at Republican staffers, accusing them of unethically accessing computer files to obtain internal documents.</p>
<p>Miranda said that “no unauthorized hacking was involved” in accessing the Democrats’ memos. He added, “I considered and studied the propriety of reading these documents. I knew that in legal ethics there is no absolute prohibition on reading opposition documents inadvertently disclosed.”</p>
<p>President Obama’s legal team, schooled in the ways of Chicago, consists of ruthless lawyers like <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2435">Robert Bauer</a>.</p>
<p>Like the administration’s many supplicants in the media, Obama’s team won’t make uncovering the truth about Benghazi easy.</p>
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