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Shades of Obamacare. DHS Admits It’s Not Ready to Secure the Border.

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Sen. Rubio, you’re starring in some new ads promoting the “comprehensive immigration reform” that Sen. Schumer is trying to sucker you into getting passed. The voiceover in the ad in which you are featured says that the proposed bill is “bold” “very conservative” and “Border Security On Steroids.” Have you seen this latest from the Department of Homeland Security?

From The Washington Times:

The Homeland Security Department’s auditor will paint a picture Tuesday of agencies not yet ready to administer a massive new immigration bill that would require it to boost border security and weed through petitions from millions of illegal immigrants.
In prepared testimony obtained by The Washington Times, Anne L. Richards, assistant inspector general for audits, will tell the Senate Homeland Security committee that the department has made major progress in the 10 years since it was formed, but there are still many outstanding problems with measuring data and planning for the future.

Gee, problems, you mean problems like the ones mentioned in this story cited in last week’s Show Notes? 

No worries. If this disaster becomes law, we can just rely on Big SIs, or her successors, to exercise the extremely wide discretion she is given to do the right thing. 

Also from the WT article:

The auditor said Homeland Security officials have plans to address many of the shortcomings, but she said “it takes time” to write and implement those plans.

To Sen. Rubio, Sen. Graham, and the other proponents of this mess who say “full speed ahead”, I say “Seriously?”

 

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What’s Really Behind Obama’s Phony “Charm” Offensive, The Left’s Wacky View of the U.S. Constitution: Show Notes, 3-10-13 Program

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  • Bo, White House DogWhat Exactly Does Chief of Staff for White House Dog Do? Whatever it is, it’s worth over $100,00 a year
  • Rand Paul’s Filibuster Challenges Executive Power by Asking a Simple Question; John McCain, and Lindsay “John McCain Jr.” Ridicule Suggestion That Federal Government Might Kill American Citizens. We Could Ask David Koresh …Oh wait
  • We still don’t know the answer to the critical question, “Who exactly is ‘engaged in combat,’ and therefore eligible to be taken out with a drone?
  • McCain calls Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, et. al “wacko birds.” Has he ever used that word to describe Dick “Eddie Haskell” Durbin?
  • One of the most destructive uses of state-controlled media, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” declares that the economy is really really awesomely peachy. I wonder if they’ve seen the labor participation rate?
  • Crazy Karzai Spoils Mr. Kruger’s Visit by Saying Taliban is Working with U.S. To Kill CiviliansMr. Kruger Chuck Hagel
  • Chris “the Screamer” Matthews Continues to Be Obsessed with Former Vice President Cheney
  • Clinton’s “Growth,” and discovery that the Defense of Marriage Act, which he signed, is now “unconstitutional” v. Jeb Bush’s Pandering “Flip Flop” on immigration-Double-standard much?
  • How Liberals Interpret the Constitution-Queer Eye, Matthew Sheppard Fairy Tale, and, in the case of Dick Durbin, Arriving in Washington, D.C., and Learning that Pro-Lifers are Mean People Who Suck
  • The Truth About Matthew Sheppard
  • Some Women Upset with Sheryl Sandberg for Claim in New Book that Women Have an Ambition Deficit
  • Will you miss Joy Behar? I know. You Never Miss “The View,” as in you never watch it, and you never miss it. No worries. I watch, so you don’t have to. Will bleach blonde, blowup doll/faux “conservative” Elisabeth Hasselbeck also exit stage left? Does anyone care?

White House Dog Bo’s Chief of Staff Makes Six Figures, But They Have to Suspend White House Tours for You, Peasants | Teri O’Brien – America’s Original Conservative Warrior Princess

White House suspends public tours, but first family trips in full swing | Fox News

McCain calls Paul, Cruz, Amash ‘wacko birds’

McCain, Graham blast Rand Paul’s filibuster – CBS News

‘I Don’t Know What’s Happened to John McCain, But I Find This Very Sad’ — Find Out Who Said This and Why | Video | TheBlaze.com

Afghan president lashes out at U.S., straining Hagel visit – latimes.com

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law captured, turned over to U.S. – Washington Post

Lynne Stewart Gets 28 Months for Aiding Terrorists – Andrew C. McCarthy – National Review Online

Bill Clinton: It’s time to overturn DOMA – The Washington Post

New Details Emerge in Matthew Shepard Murder – ABC News (What you’ve been told for the last 15 years about this case is a politically-motivated lie)

Exploiting Matthew Shepard (The myth v. the reality about this murder. Matthew Sheppard wasn’t killed because he was a homosexual. He was killed in a drug-fueled robbery gone bad.)

Excerpt from NBC News’ Meet the Press (in which Dick Durbin gives a ridiculous explanation to the late Tim Russert for doing a 180 on the issue of abortion)

The Durbin Abortion Papers

Matt Damon and Chris Matthews Discuss Waterboarding Dick Cheney | NewsBusters

Jeb Bush Defends Immigration Flip-Flop, Stays Mum On 2016 Run

Bill Clinton: It’s time to overturn DOMA – The Washington Post

When a Flip Flopper is a Statesman: Today on The Teri O’Brien Show

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Cue the “Dynasty” theme. Here comes another Bush, this time Jeb, heart throb of the RINO wing of the GOP, testing the waters for a presidential run in 2016 with–what else?–a book about–what else?–immigration. This week Jeb is being busted by democrats as a shameless panderer on that issue based on comments in his book on the “path to citizenship.” He was for it, before he was against it, they say. I hold no brief for former Florida governor Bush, but I can’t help but notice that the critique of his alleged “flip flop” sounds a lot like the position taken by one William Jefferson Clinton on the issue of so-called “same sex” marriage. Mr. Clinton, as you know, signed the Defense of Marriage Act, an enactment despised by the Left almost as much as they despise Dick Cheney. Last week, Mr. Clinton penned a piece for the Washington Post in which he declared that DOMA is-wait for it-”unconstitutional.” Shazam! That only took 17 years for him to discover that. Could he be pandering to the radical left-wing of the democrat party? Not to hear the slobbering stenographers in the Lame Stream Media. We’ll unpack Clinton’s lame explanation for this stunning flip-flop, and recall an even more lame excuse for a 180 on constitutionality, from Illinois’ gift to unintentional comedy, Dick “Eddie Haskell Durbin.” We’ll also re-examine another media myth, the story of Matthew Sheppard, an alleged hate crime victim whose story fueled legislation and is being credited with helping advance the cause of two men or two women playing house as “husband” and “husband,” or “wife” and “wife.” Is the tragic story of the murder of Matthew Sheppard really about a hate crime, or once again, have you been played AGAIN?

Rand Paul shines a lot on the issue of executive power. The usual suspects rush to the microphones to condemn him, proving that some people have a really hard time learning from their mistakes. Eric Holder sends a snarky response to Rand Paul’s simple question. Yet, what about the drone question that remains unanswered?

“The 1970’s Called and They Want Their Issues Back” file: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has a new book, a new feminist manifesto, inspiring endless, boring blathering on talking head shows about that ancient question “What do women want?”

This news could relieve Chris Matthews of his last shred of sanity: a new documentary about the afore-mentioned former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Tune in today for the rest of the story.

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Senators Compete for Title “Useful Idiot”

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As regular listeners to The Teri O’Brien Show know, like many of you, I have a special fondness for calling out useful idiots. Not only is it a really fun activity, it’s one that also helps restore our country. If there’s any downside to this hobby it’s that it’s not exactly like doing a Rubik’s Cube. Well, it’s like a Rubik’s Cube for this guy. For me, it’s more like taking a nap on the couch with the dogs. I just relax, and suddenly they arrive, on my various screens. Today’s entries are U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey “John McCain Jr” Graham (R-SC), and Robert Corker (R-TN), who emerged from last night’s dinner with the One gushing over how “sincere” B. Hussein is. For a second, I thought i was watching Dennis Rodman talking about Kim Jong Un, but McCain’s missing at least one nose ring.

“Sincere” isn’t exactly the adjective that springs to mind when I think of the current occupant of the Oval Office, but then he never bought me dinner, which is funny because usually I’m the kind of girl who would insist that a guy whose doing to me and the rest of the country AT LEAST buy me a really nice meal.

It never ends with this RINO bunch. I cheer when Sen. Graham demands answers on Benghazi, and he is absolutely right about this latest botch in the war against radical islam, involving bin Laden’s son-in-law, which is what makes it doubly disappointing when he appears to not realize that he and the other senators are being played, pawns in Barack Obama’s “bipartisan” charade, who will be used in the never-ending campaign when he resumes jetting around the country to various elementary schools and community colleges to scream self-righteously about the evil Republicans and their obstruction, keeping the American public from having the worker’s paradise that he is desperately trying to create for us.

While these Establishment guys were being played, Sen. Rand Paul continued his amazing filibuster. The optics were stunning, and the script wrote itself. No, actually Mia Love wrote it when she appeared on ABC’s “This Week” last Sunday. During that appearance, she referred to the sequester, and said “This is a showdown between Washington and the American people.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Unintentional Comedy, or Is He Just a Dullard? Hagel’s Disastrous Hearing.

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I didn’t watch all of Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearing today, but the part I did see was a disaster for the nominee. Apparently, I’m not the only one who thought that this performance made Barack Obama’s turn on the stage during that first presidential debate last year seem like a triumph. Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post reports “[a} long-time Capitol Hill Democrat astounded by the hearing tells me, “It is very clear from the testimony that Sen. Hagel will not be bringing the potato salad to the next Mensa picnic.” Gee, I wonder why he said that … Perhaps this story from CNS News could shed some light on that.

“I do not know enough” about Defense Department programs and technology, Chuck Hagel admitted in today’s hearing. “If confirmed (as Defense secretary), I intend to know a lot more,” Hagel promised.

Hagel told the hearing that, in addition to these Defense Dept. details, “There are a lot of things I don’t know about.”

All Rightey then! Nothing like on the job training. Look how well it worked out for Barack?

And please check out this terrific post from The Power Line, describing Sen. Ted Cruz’ devastating questioning of Hagel.

Cruz played excerpts from a tape of Hagel’s 2009 appearance on al Jazeera, in which a caller suggested that Israel had committed war crimes. In responding to the question, Hagel did not dispute the caller’’s statement. Cruz also pointed to statement by Hagel that Israel had engaged in “the sickening slaughter” of Hezbollah, which sounds a bit like war crimes.

Taken together, these pieces of information show that Hagel regards Israel as a criminal state, or at least is comfortable with that characterization. Hagel tried, with the same lameness he displayed most of the day, to talk away around this conclusion. He stated that both sides — Israelis and Hezbollah — had slaughtered each other. Perhaps Hagel will produce a tape in which he accused the Palestinians of engaging in a “sickening slaughter” of Israelis. Perhaps he will produce a tape (from the period before he was in the running for a cabinet job under President Obama) in which he took exception to the claim that Israel has committed war crimes. Perhaps, but don’t hold your breath.

So, does Chuck Hagel simply not give a rat’s rear end if he gets this gig or is he just not very bright? Another question that occurs to me, one that I’ve asked before. How can any thinking Jewish voter have pulled the lever from the One?

Nixon Should Have Tried This Trick: Hillary Says “Move on!”

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In response to Sen. John McCain’s listing the litany of pre-election lies from the Obama administration about the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton shouted “”Whether it was attack preplanned by terrorists or it because of a guy out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill Americans … What difference does it make?!”

Right. Imagine if a cop allowed a drunk driver to continue driving, after which he killed four innocent people. Then, when his supervisors questioned that decision, the officer said “What difference does it make? I don’t want to fix the blame. I want to fix the problem. Let’s spend our time on what we all agree on, specifically, how to prevent future deaths from drunk driving.”

Making this whole spectacle even more ridiculous was the fact that three of the Democrats on the committee brought up the Iraq war, and tried to equate that foreign policy decision, which Hillary herself voted for, with the very foreseeable incident in Benghazi.

Carney Decries GOP “Obsession” with Four Dead Americans; Susan Rice Still Lying

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As nearly everyone with a pulse now knows, on September 16, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice infamously appeared on five Sunday morning news shows to present a false and deceptive narrative to the American public. Her ostensible purpose was to explain the murder of four Americans in Libya on the eleventh anniversary of the original 9/11 attacks. We know that she told us that these deaths were the result of “spontaneous” demonstration, caused by a “reprehensible” (Hillary Clinton’s word) “offensive” YouTube video. Give Ms. Rice credit. She was able to recite this risible story with a straight face. As of today, she’s still lying. After meeting with the three Republican senators who, unlike Barack Obama, don’t consider the murder of 4 Americans “a bump in the road,” and want to get to the bottom of what happened, she issued a statement describing the meeting, which included the following statement:

“We stressed that neither I nor anyone else in the Administration intended to mislead the American people at any stage in this process.”

Please stop insulting our intelligence, Ambassador Rice. This story is not believable, and it’s outrageous that after these four brave Americans were killed, you, at a minimum, enabled the Obama Administration’s deception and continue to try to deceive us with ridiculous lies. The reason that you went before the cameras to read grossly inaccurate talking points is contained in one statement that you made on “Meet the Press;” specifically, “ We have decimated al Qaeda.” The truth about Benghazi renders that statement a pathetic, and tragic, joke, and you know it. Have you no decency, Madam? Of course, that is a rhetorical question. Like the jug-eared leftist jackass she so willingly serves, Susan Rice doesn’t give a rat’s rear end about those murdered Americans. They are collateral damage, “a bump in the road,” and those of us who know that we have a moral obligation to seek justice for them, have what Obama’s mouthpiece Jay Carney calls “an obsession,” Damn right, Skippy. Any time four American are murdered by head chopping Islamic maniacs, we are going to be obsessed with finding out what happened, and also with making certain that those who sacrificed them on the altar of political expediency are called out for the contemptible lying vermin that they are.

Let me repeat: this is no time for another affirmative action appointee.

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This Is No Time for Another Affirmative Action Appointee

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Apparently, America’s first affirmative-action president isn’t satisfied with having  affirmative-action Attorney General, Eric “I Hate Whitey” Holder, so he’s still considering an affirmative-action Secretary of State, U. N. Ambassador Susan “I was just reading talking points” Rice. With the Middle East exploding, some are questioning whether that’s the best course of action. That aside, some bitter clingers are unwilling to “move on” from the murder of four Americans on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya, including three Republican senators, John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Kelly Ayotte, are still demanding answers from Ambassador Rice to what seem to be very simple questions (with answers a smart six-year-old knows); specifically,

  1. Did you question why you were the one selected to read talking points about Benghazi, since it was acknowledged that you knew nothing about it?
  2. Did you know that the Obama administration had seen live, real-time video that proved that the Benghazi events were a terrorist attack, not a “spontaneous” demonstration incited by an “offensive” YouTube video?
  3. Do you know who came up with the false narrative about this video being the cause of the murder of four Americans? If so, who was it?
  4. Who personally gave you the talking points that you delivered on five Sunday shows?
  5. Did you speak to any of the following people about the Benghazi events before going on the Sunday shows: Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama, David Plouffe, David Axelrod or Barack Obama?
  6. Were you promised anything in exchange for being the spokesperson on Benghazi on the Sunday shows?

Answers (which most of you figured out on September 16, 2012, if not sooner)

  1. That’s the main reason that I was selected. I had plausible deniability from my posture of willful ignorance, like a defense attorney who tells his client “don’t tell me if you did it or not.” Also, I have been a reliable, loyal democrat operative for decades, and they knew I wouldn’t let them down.
  2. I had no first-hand knowledge. I had heard people whispering about it, but once again, I made it a point NOT to find out anything.
  3. My understanding is that it was put together by a committee consisting of Valerie, Plouffe and Axelrod, although I was deliberately kept out of the loop because of that plausible deniability thing.
  4. James Clapper.
  5. Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.
  6. The job of Secretary of State, along with the undying gratitude of Barack, Michelle, Valerie, Axelrod, Plouffe and the rest of the democrat party.

Let me repeat: it’s time to put Susan Rice under oath and ask her these questions. Then we need to put Valerie Jarrett, David Plouffe, and David Axelrod in the hot seat. And let’s not forget Hillary Clinton, who promised the families of the murdered Americans that we would make sure the maker of that heinous video paid the price for these tragic deaths. I’m under no illusions about whether any of them will tell the truth. Lying is natural as breathing to leftists. Hillary’s skill as an accomplished liar is legendary. We saw it on prominent display while her husband was president.

The lie about the YouTube video was created because it was an explanation, albeit a ridiculous and implausible on its face one, that wouldn’t step on the Obama administration’s silly narrative about his muscular foreign policy and its successful annihilation of al Qaeda. How would it have looked if people learned, less than two months before the election, that al Qaeda had its greatest success against the United States since the original 9/11 attacks? Yes, Osama bin Laden rots in hell, but he was the Ray Kroc of al Qaeda. Mr. Kroc is dead, and McDonald’s is still alive. That’s the reason it was so helpful when Candy Crowley rescued Barack Obama during that October 16 presidential debate

Ms. Rice should not given the job of Secretary State for two reasons: she should not be rewarded for being a reliable apparatchik for this lying passel of Marxist liars, and this is clearly no time for another affirmative-action appointee in a position of responsibility.

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Delusional Barack Obama’s Latest Pitch: “Trust Me”

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I am not making this up. As I always say, even I can’t make this stuff up. Here is Barack Obama campaigning yesterday in Cleveland, OH.

Clearly Barack Obama has completely lost touch with reality, saying that we should “trust” him. He still has not answered the very important question that he was asked during the second debate. Candy Crowley rescued him, and he’s still hiding under her ample skirt. The question is “Who gave the order that refused help to the Americans who were murdered in Benghazi on 9/11/12?” Inquiring minds want to know.

Now, even more details are emerging, ugly truths about the coverup of the murder of these 4 Americans. Breaking news from Fox News:

Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials — who also told the CIA operators twice to “stand down” rather than help the ambassador’s team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.

Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. Consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When he and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to “stand down,” according to sources familiar with the exchange. Soon after, they were again told to “stand down.”

Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the Consulate which at that point was on fire. Shots were exchanged. The quick reaction force from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the Consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.

This morning Fox News aired a bit of Bret Bair’s recent interview with Sen. John McCain, in which McCain says that Leon Panetta’s assertion that the military didn’t have enough information to render assistance during the 7-hour assault in Benghazi is false. McCain said that the real reason that these brave Americans were allowed to be killed and left defenseless was that our military was not in a state of readiness, despite the series of attacks in Benghazi leading up to the 9/11/12 murders.

This disaster is turning into Barack Obama’s “helicopters in the desert” moment. I have no doubt that one reason the Obama campaign is so hot for early voting is because they realize that, and they know that this issue is not going away.