Press
Secretary Parries Questions on “Fast & Furious” Scandal
Press
Secretary Jay Carney denied that President Obama's grant of
“Executive Privilege” status to the Department of Justice
correspondence on the scheme to get guns into the hands of Mexican
gangsters is an effort to cover up wrong doing. Despite the
widespread laughter from members of the media that greeted his
assertion that “it's a matter of principle,” Carney attempted to
expound upon the concept.
“The
principle is that under our Constitution, the President is the
country's supreme ruler,” Carney maintained. “That status cannot
be infringed by Congressional interference in how he chooses to run
the country. The sole purpose of the GOP demand to see the DOJ memos
is to obtain information they can use to denigrate the policies and
decisions made by the Administration.”
“The
Constitution says nothing about Congress having the right to read the
Executive's mail,” Carney continued. “In fact, first on the list
of Congress' responsibilities is the power to enact taxes. Yet, it is
the GOP contingent that steadfastly refuses to take up this
responsibility. So, I'd say that instead of trying to poke their
noses into what is none of their business maybe Congress ought to
stop neglecting its own duties.”
Carney
also rejected comparison's to former President Nixon's invocation of
Executive Privilege in his attempt to block scrutiny of his
Administration's efforts to cover up the Watergate scandal. “First
of all, the two issues are not even in the same ballpark,” Carney
argued. “The Watergate break-in was a GOP operation aimed at
influencing the outcome of the 1972 presidential election. It was a
dagger to the heart of our democracy.”
“Fast
and Furious was a minor affair carried out far from the centers of
power,” Carney said. “Ninety-nine percent of the impact occurred
in another country. None of the victims were essential players in the
governance of the country. The fact that we can't remember any of
their names is a testament to the relative unimportance of this
whole issue compared to the machinations that cheated Senator
McGovern out of the presidency.”
In related
news, NBC News' Thomas Roberts ruled that the Congressional Committee
on Oversight and Government Reform was not entitled to the DOJ
documents that Attorney General Eric Holder refused to supply.
“You're not the government,” Roberts told Committee member
Representative John Mica (R-Fla). “President Obama is the
government. If he says you can't have something, you can't have it.”
Congresswoman
Says State a Better Mate for Women
In a
speech at a conference organized by the National Council for Research
and Women Representative Gwen Moore (D-Wis) urged women to “shake
off the shackles of male hegemony” and use their superior numbers
to effect a “social-sexual realignment of power.”
“Women
are the major beneficiaries of the government's social welfare
programs,” Moore pointed out. “Women receive the majority of the
payments made for food, clothing, and shelter. Women use health care
benefits to a much greater extent. Considering that women live longer
they take down two-thirds to 85% of the benefits distributed via
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.”
In light
of these statistics, Moore argued that “Republican resistance to
expanded government is a sexist ploy to deny women the full fruits of
our electoral superiority. We have the votes to take what we want.
There is no longer any need for us to put up with a repugnant spouse
in order to survive. The government can take care of us and we won't
have to cook for them, pick up after them, or sleep with them.”
“The key
will be to get women to vote as a block,” Moore said. “If we can
do that we can't be stopped.”
Obama
Biographer Says Book Is Being Misused by the Right
Barack
Obama biographer David Maraniss says right-wing political
opportunists are misusing his book. The book in question is Barack
Obama: The Story. In this book, Maraniss cited dozens of
instances in which Obama's autobiography"Dreams from My
Father"presented a false picture of the President's early life.
“First
of all, the idea that these people would bother to read my book is a
bit of a stunner for me,” Maraniss admitted. “I mean, I'm for
Obama all the way. I can't fathom why anybody on the right would read
me.”
“Second,
they're being completely unfair to the President,” Maraniss
complained. “He wrote Dreams from My Father long before he
decided to run for president. He had no way of knowing that he would
become so famous that people might want to look more closely at his
life story. He was just trying to spice up an otherwise dull
narrative by adding a few tall tales"all of which would've been
forgotten if he hadn't been elected president.”
Maraniss
contended that those harping on Obama's propensity for lying were
“missing the bigger picture. What some are calling lies could just
as easily be seen as evidence of a fertile, creative mind. Take those
bits about his grandfather being tortured by the British. That was
pure dramatic genius. What other American politician could credibly
claim to have had a relative that was tortured? This and other
fictitious incidents added zest to a book that desperately needed it.
Who's to say that this kind of creativity isn't what this country
needs?”
Chicago
Mayor Undeterred by Court Ruling on Guns
Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says a federal court's overturning of a city
firearms ordinance “won't stop us from carrying out our over all
crime strategy.”
“The
problem from our perspective is that too many people have access to
guns,” Emanuel asserted. “We won't have law and order until
everyone except the police is disarmed. The City must have a monopoly
on the use of deadly force. Only then will the balance of terror be
sufficiently one-sided to ensure peace.”
As for the
court's ruling, Emanuel suggested that “the court may take whatever
position it likes in the courtroom. But we control the streets. We
will take guns away from those we don't want to have them.”
Pelosi
Urges President to Raise Debt Ceiling
House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) urged President Obama to
follow up his unilateral grant of amnesty to illegal aliens with a
unilateral increase in the nation's debt ceiling.
“Failing
to enact immigration reform isn't the only thing Congress has failed
at,” Pelosi observed. “The Senate has failed to pass a budget
since 2009. And while Congress was barely able to scrape together the
votes to increase the debt ceiling last year I wouldn't want to bet
we can do it again.”
“Enacting
legislation when Congress fails to do so is a power reserved to the
President under the 'necessary and proper' clause of the
Constitution,” Pelosi maintained. “If it is necessary and proper
to grant amnesty to those in this country through no fault of their
own, it is certainly necessary and proper for the debt ceiling to be
raised. We can't afford to put the nation's financial situation at
risk by waiting for Congress to move on this. It's an election year
and I just don't see how Congress can pull it off. The President must
take action.”
President
Demands Romney Stop Criticizing Him
President
Obama demanded that his presumptive Republican challenger, Governor
Mitt Romney, “put aside his criticisms of me until the issue of who
is to be the next president is decided by the voters.”
“I would
point out that we have one president at a time and one administration
at a time, and I think that for the sake of the country Mr. Romney
should forebear making any statements that might be construed in a
negative fashion by this country's enemies,” the President said.
“The implication that there might not be 100% support for the
Administration's policies gives those who wish us ill an opening they
could use to undermine the people's confidence in their government.”
President
Obama pointed out that “there are many secrets of which Mr. Romney
is unaware. Consequently, a lot of what he has to say can only be
ignorant twaddle. By persisting in his efforts to assail my record he
risks not only making himself look foolish, but endangers the
well-being of every man, woman, and child in America.”
“The
important thing is that voters should remember that I'm on the job 24
hours a day, everyday, working for their benefit,” Obama argued.
“It was my decision to kill Osama bin-Laden. I meet weekly with my
advisers to determine whether anyone else needs to be killed to
protect this country. Mr. Romney has never had to make such weighty
decisions. Whether he even could make them is something voters may
want to ponder.”
Woman's
Garden Destroyed by City
Tulsa,
Oklahoma City officials destroyed resident Denise Morrison's
“survival garden” because “this abnormal use of her property
was causing anxiety in the neighborhood.”
Morrison
started the garden after she lost her job. The garden consisted of
food and medicinal plants. Before embarking on her agricultural
venture, Morrison researched City ordinances to ensure she complied.
“Lack of
compliance was not the issue,” said City Zoning Director, Leroy
Fiat. “The fact that there are no official rules against what she
did doesn't matter. No one else in the city does this.”
As for her
nutritional and medical needs, Fiat advised that “there are
government programs"food stamps and Medicaid. No one needs to try
to make it all on their own.”
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