Kindling Mayhem
Knot-hole:
With all the torrid run amuck Republican
escapades to comment about these past few years, it’s been rather rare to find
true fault with Obama, but with a couple of recent factors coming to light
under Obama’s discretion, it’s time to give him a blistering, for he’s
certainly put himself into a knot creating some reluctant contortion.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom…just like
that Obama has had five headaches pop up due primarily to partisan Republican
politics…Benghazi, the IRS, AP, military sexual assaults and the NSA.
To lay out the ground works for all
these committee and commission hearings, one has to first give a background on
Representative Darrell Issa (R-Ca.) as acting chair of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee. To say the least he’s had a checkered past, but
then again, people can pull out of and above bad habits or...continue clinging to
them. The verdict on which direction Issa is now on, is not quite in yet, but most
definitely appears leaning heavily more towards the devious.
After dropping out of high school, Issa
spent his early adult years dodging the police having been charged three times
for grand theft auto and carrying a concealed weapon. To avoid jail time, he joined the Army and
was attached to an explosive disposal unit. He claims he swept the 1971 World
Series stadium for bombs while providing security for Richard Nixon’s
appearance at the games, even though documents clearly show Nixon never
attended any of the games during the ’71 World Series.
After leaving the military, Issa, along
with his second wife moved to the greater Cleveland area. There, after taking
$50,000.00 from his parents he invested in an electronics company known as ‘Quantum
Enterprises’ ran by a friend of his. One of the company’s customers, the car
alarm manufacturer ‘Steal Stopper’ was struggling financially. Issa took
control of the company by foreclosing on a $60,000.00 loan he had issued to
its founder, Joey Adkins who was late on one monthly payment owed. This is
where Issa made his millions in turning the company around selling car alarms
to Ford.
Later, in September of 1982 the offices
and factory of the alarm company mysteriously caught fire quickly burning to
the ground destroying all company documents and inventory. The investigation
proved it was arson intentionally set by a flammable liquid in two places. Issa
had three weeks earlier increased the company’s fire insurance policy by 462%
and removed computer equipment holding accounting and customer information.
Issa was implicated as the arsonist, but the insurance company could not
validly prove without doubt that it was him who set the fire, so the court case
was eventually dismissed. The insurance company though, was allowed to only pay
out one-tenth of the insured amount.
Now back to the present. After receiving
the oversight chair, back in 2011 Issa, out from the great beyond proclaimed
that the Obama administration is “the most corrupt administration” this
country’s ever had. To back that claim up Issa first starts accusing the Obama
administration of malfeasance, then begins endless hearings to attempt at
backing it up.
From the auto industry bailout through
hearings on whether Obamacare infringes upon religious rights to low interest
rate loans for fledgling renewable energy companies, Witch-hunt Issa has been
trying in vain to find anything in countless hearings to discredit Obama.
Unfortunately for him, his efforts to back up his 2011 claim has either dead
panned, backfired or ran into a dead-end due to no factual substance or actually
led to Republican culprits. This backward procedure of first filing
accusations, then attempting to hunt down substantive facts to back it up is how
Issa has been operating under all these endless hearings. It is truly a
partisan ploy more than trying to reach the facts.
Obama, though of course as president has
involvement in the five concerns. However, he is not directly responsible for
two of them, partially responsible for one of them, has nothing to do with one,
while the one remaining is the one I lay blame almost solely on him. This one,
in my opinion, appears Obama transparency promises were thrown out the door,
even though it is one of the least intensive ones Republicans are pursuing
since it falls more in line with their political platform.
In most of these so-called scandals,
Obama needs to go back more to his core values rather than playing the political
card. So let’s pay a visit and review these crises one at a time and see if ya
agree or not with any of my conclusions.
Rapacious
Inquisition:
Benghazi is no scandal as Republicans
have propped it up to be. Perhaps some negligence, but it is certainly no invective
obloquy. Promising unlimited summer hearings on the matter will only rehash
what is already known and should make the public grow tired of the endless
melodrama.
Republicans accuse the Obama
administration of a terrorist cover-up and the withholding of extra security
when it was requested. First-off, Benghazi is not the American embassy in
Libya, it is a consulate. A consulate is more like a satellite office dispersed
throughout a country to take work load and distance off the embassy where the
ambassador is stationed.
In the House of Representatives, Issa
joined his majority Republicans in cutting almost half a billion dollars from
the State Department’s two security divisions. One of those division cuts
affected security personnel and security technologies, in which impacted
adequate security measures within already under budgeted American consulates
around the world. In order to salvage diplomatic budgets, in ensuring proper
security for the embassy complexes left little for consulates. Further, Issa in
2009 supported a House amendment to cut 300 diplomatic security positions. Although it didn’t transpire, as it was voted down in the senate, Rep. Paul Ryan’s
budget called for cutting foreign affairs spending by an extra 10%.
Now, with a GOP voting record to whittle
away foreign diplomatic security budgets, Republicans want to lay all blame squarely
on the Obama administration for not adequately securing all our diplomatic
posts. Kind of a contrast in terms wouldn’t one think?
Even if security was beefed up from a
request to do so at the Benghazi consulate, it may not have thwarted the
attack. Former security chief of the embassy in Tripoli, Gregory Hicks, who has
complained of inadequate security measures, confesses that a higher wall and a
half dozen more security guards still would not have been enough to deter the
attack.
Happening on the eve of 9/11s 11th
anniversary, there was a lot of confusion on what exactly went on there. Many
embassies, in particular the one in Cairo, Egypt were enmeshed with protesters
embroiled over from a personally U.S. made anti-Muhammad video. We may never know what
exactly transpired, but many false and baseless GOP accusations flew. To
bolster the terrorist attack angle, Republicans said there was early video
evidence of the Islamist militia leader, Ahmed Abu Khatalla, founder of the Abu
Obaida bin Jarrah militia as being present during the attack. Yes, he was
there, but Ahmed was actually there rescuing and aiding the Americans trapped
inside the consulate, not attacking them.
I must admit, I cringed when Susan Rice
insisted on all the Sunday political shows that the attack was the result of
protests over the video getting out of control. She said this in complete
contrast to interim Libyan president, Mohammed Magarief’s earlier statement
that the act was carried out by terrorists who had infiltrated the country.
I could see her point, for almost
everyone there at the scene said they were indeed there protesting the U.S.
made video…and I could see Magareif’s point also, for he didn’t want to think
it was national Libyans protesting to have spontaneously carried out the attack
on a country that was instrumental in aiding Libyans to rid themselves of
the brutal dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. It was simply too early for any of them
to be registering responsible culprits. Let the facts first reveal themselves.
In contrast to Issa’s star witness,
Gregory Hicks who claimed any extra security to be sent to Benghazi was stood
down, in testimony just today this Wednesday June 12, 2013, the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey unequivocally testified that Army
forces were never told to stand down. He also stated that Special Forces could
not get to Benghazi on time and instead were instructed to enforce the Tripoli
airport.
To say the Obama administration
intentionally acted slowly to bring in reinforcements is wholly asinine. For
Obama and Hillary, this was not only a policy issue it was personal, for
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was a close friend to both of them.
The forged e-mails by an unknown
Republican concerning Benghazi handed over to ABCs Jonathan Karl that were
proven wrong once the entire White House e-mails were revealed, did not help
the Republican’s case much either in pinning sole responsibility onto Obama’s
administration; in fact it showed the highlighted partisanship level to promote bogus
data in their void of facts ideologue quest.
The point is, Benghazi should not be a
political ‘gotcha’ moment. A blame game for this incident is useless for
understanding the results and bettering foreign security policies.
After the 1983 bombings of the American
embassy in Beirut, Lebanon where 69 Americans were killed plus the killing of 299 American and French servicemen in the Lebanon
marine barracks bombing, Americans
did not begin grabbing pitchforks, they came together. The Democrat majority
congress did not put Reagan on trial to gain political points. Reagan actually
cut and ran from the incidents instead of fortifying or investigating the cause
and effect.
The 1998 simultaneous Kenya and Tanzania
embassy attack bombings killing hundreds of people did not bring the then
majority Republican congress to condemn President Clinton. No, Republicans
weren’t as radical and extreme back then; they actually backed Clinton to aid
in what and why it happened and to go after the perpetrators.
Let’s not even begin to comment about
9/11. With 2,996 innocent causalities under his watch, Bush was oafish not listening to intelligence concerns about possible al-Qaeda U.S. attacks, because at
the time his administration was too busy coming up with schemes on why the U.S.
needed to invade Iraq. Nonetheless, even with a commission formed to get at the
details of the 9/11 attack, Americans did not blame Bush, in fact they gave him
his finest loudspeaker moment throughout his presidency.
Now in this isolated but unfortunate Benghazi incident, an American facility was attacked with four Americans
killed. One thing most of us don’t have is the statistics handy in showing that
54 terrorist attacks on American diplomatic facilities occurred under Bush’s
watch where 13 folks were killed. Now why are we mostly ignorant of
that…because Democrats didn’t turn it into a one ring political sideshow. No, they did what should be expected...coming together in bipartisan fashion and attempt to alleviate trying concerns while beefing up proper security for our foreign
diplomats and servicemen. So much for Republican claims of Obama projecting
weakness, huh.
Tax
Messaging:
The IRS, perhaps the one governmental
department disliked most by Americans was too great a bait for Republicans not
to seize upon and attempt to tie the Obama administration into the tax exempt
status fiasco of conservative organizations.
Let’s put all this into some kind of
context.
Supposedly, the IRS is accused of
withholdining only conservative groups requesting 501(c)4 tax exempt status to register themselves as a social welfare charitable organization and as being
apolitical. This occurred at the height of political conservative movements in
2010. In addition, with the Republican push to defund government, congress cut
the IRS budget, which in turn cut personnel creating manpower shortages within
the bureau. It made sense to collect and categorize group requests into
familiar files.
Republicans are attempting to portray
the IRS as strictly picking on conservative groups. Read any news coming from
the media and it will make it appear as only conservative groups were being
targeted. In fact only one-third of all groups targeted by the IRS had the ‘Tea
Party’ moniker in their name, the rest of the two-thirds out of the 298 groups
seeking 501(c) status were various other affiliated groups, even progressive
groups that no one mentions.
It took the liberal group, ‘Progress
Texas’ 479 days before the IRS signed off on their request for tax exempt
status. Heck for that matter, some progressive groups weren’t just held up for
review, but were denied tax exempt status during the same time frame. ‘Emerge
America,’ a San Francisco based organization promoting and training women to
become elected candidates and the abortion rights activist group, ‘Coalition
for Life’ were outright denied their requests after prolonged reviews.
Ah, now there…are Republicans feeling
like it is merely them being picked on. Now, how does that old saying go…trying
to make mountains out of mole hills?
Let’s face it…groups with title names
including ‘Tea Party,’ if one was to go out in the streets and ask folks is
this a social welfare or political group…in reply, the answer one would receive would resoundingly be “political.” Even ‘True the Vote,’ (TV) a Tea Party
off-branch were held up for review, but were finally granted their tax exempt
status while their actions are clearly incriminatingly political in nature. TV is
the one who harassed and intimidated minority voters in polling lines and
donated to Republican candidates.
It is of my opinion (since Republicans
have brought it up with their whining) that 501(c)3&4 status should all be
terminated. Why should the taxpayer be fronting Karl Rove’s ‘American
Crossroads’ as tax exempt when its intent is clearly a political agenda in
donating huge amounts to Republican candidates and placing negative ads against
Democrat candidates. When it comes to Rove and his political organization’s motives…charitable
social welfare causes my aspirin bottle…
These modern day conservative extremist
groups were linked in with others by the IRS claiming tax exempt status for ‘charitable’
purposes, while in fact when you have names affiliated with ‘Tea Party’ name
tags, you know end purposes are ‘political’...not ‘charitable.’ The IRS hasn’t
denied them...just held them for thorough review and for good reason. With the
Republican push to defund budgets, congress cut the IRS budget, while in turn the
IRS had to cut personnel.
Now let’s review… Laid out in all
its glorious perspective, the time all these hordes of Tea Party groups began requesting
501(c) tax exempt status was just after the SCOTUS citizens united decision and Republicans cutting the IRS budget, thusly cutting personnel…I think that myself
as anyone else, would’ve categorized them all neatly into a file as well for
thorough review.
Imagine that...All the anonymous
donations going into the Tea Party groups’ till to pay for lie-filled ads in
attempts to throw a national election...then insisting on social welfare status
instead of political...then when finding how the IRS handled their requests now
scream, “Is this country a democracy anymore?”
Issa’s whole slant on this IRS escapade
is that Obama knew about it this past April, but never revealed it to congress
or the public as if the president had masterminded some plan in cahoots with
the IRS in thwarting conservative groups’ tax exempt status. Unfortunately for
Issa, Treasury Inspector General, J. Russell George, a card carrying Republican himself appointed by George W. Bush, gave light in testimony
that he indeed had informed Issa way back in August of 2012, where Issa since
then had refrained from having any knowledge of the IRS reviews.
It is Issa himself, who misled the
public by claiming the GOP was never informed of the ongoing IRS investigations by
the inspector general, not Obama.
Adding to this, Issa released partial committee
IRS interview transcripts that out of context seemed to imply Obama had known
earlier about the IRS Cincinnati office scrutiny of conservative groups’ tax
exempt requests. Representative Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on Issa’s
House Inquisition Committee pressed Issa to release the transcripts in their
entirety. Issa promised he would, but never did for they are in full very
revealing with quotes that the Obama administration were unaware of the
activity. In fact Obama by law is not allowed to directly communicate with the
IRS chairman or its officials.
With Issa breaking his promise, Cummings
himself arranged the release of the full transcripts and in it, the acting IRS manager of the Cincinnati office, who happens by the way to be a devout conservative Republican,
emphatically states, “Washington had nothing to do with the inquiry. I do not
believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do other than
consistency and identifying issues that needed to have further development.”
This made Issa furious ya know, getting
caught in being deceitful and all, so in turn, in a nasty and disrespectful way
scolded Cummings through a released letter. In the letter, Issa berets Cummings
while accusing him of being an obstacle to seeking the truth. Now ain’t that just
something. Issa contorts the truth with his partial cherry-picked transcript
exposure, but accuses Cummings for obstructing the truth by releasing the full
transcripts. Acting as if he was Cumming’s overlord instead of what he truly is…a
fellow congressman; it is scandalous in itself for Issa to cover-up his singling
out of pertinent data with his scathing letter.
In Issa’s total disdain for Obama, it
pushes him to lie and distort the truth. He and his Republican cohorts are
utilizing vile partisan politics trying anything to discredit this president.
The sad state to all this malice and
malaise uproar is that it has all been frivolous. The simple fact is that it
isn’t even necessary for social welfare nonprofits to apply to the IRS for tax
exempt status in the first place. No 501(c)4 is necessary to exist as a social welfare
nonprofit. These type groups legally can bypass tax exempt status recognition
by the IRS and immediately incorporate to start raising and spending money. The
main reason they do apply is that an IRS recognition letter is an advantage for
raising money from certain donors and corporations.
Ulcer
Anxiety:
As far as the thousands of sexual
assaults that go on in the military, no matter how many Republicans want to tie
Obama into this in their efforts to discredit him, he for sure is not
accountable for these actions. In fact over his watch, it is finally being
seriously addressed. This has been a military problem that has knowingly
existed for decades. It’s been a plague for a long time coming and appears to
rise exponentially every year.
A note on this though, Democrat Senator Karl
Levin’s panel rejected Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s measure to have
military sexual assault cases taken away from the military chain of command and
placed in the responsibility of special military prosecutors who have gained
expertise in these matters.
Regardless of Levin’s inept decision, the
changes adopted this week though in the senate, will add extra layers of review
by superior military officers and will make retaliation against the victims,
whether it be the perpetrator or any officer up the chain of command a criminal
offense. The military may not have to tippy-toe now, but at least be on their
toes.
Who knows what was in his head when
cutting out the specialist military prosecutors and leaving responsibilities with
the chain of command, for the chain has been the most vexing obstacle in
prosecutions. Levin, in my opinion has been briefed by military brass
stating the implications of debasing highly decorated soldiers and high ranking
officers would wear on military pride and command. So be it I say, for they
already corrupted those qualities in committing the crime or its covering up.
Gillibrand promises she will take up the
fight on the senate floor later this year. Perhaps then Levin will have a
change of mind, but for the time being, it appears Levin prefers to remain a
member of the ‘good ol’ boys club.’
In the following last two items, as a
redneck liberal Independent, I can find fault in Obama and his administration’s
decisions and actions, but glaringly these are the two areas Republicans have
almost been completely silent on. Why, because spying and pursuing
whistleblower prosecutions are two big mandates in the GOP platform. What we
are discussing here are the revelations of spying on reporters and the extent
of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) reach into public citizens’ private lives.
Funny though, Republicans contend gun control encroaches on individual rights,
but spying and gathering information on the public as a whole is no breach of
individual privacy rights.
Who spoke the following?
“I will provide our intelligence and law
enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track terrorists without
undermining our Constitution and our freedoms. No more national security
letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking
citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. That is not who we
are and it is not necessary to defeat the terrorists.”
The quote above is from then Senator and
candidate for the presidency Barack Obama in 2007. My, my how things must
change from being candidate Obama to being President Obama.
Shame on Obama for not only taking up
the Bush/Cheney US Patriot Act secretive spying by Big Bubba, but defending
them as necessary in battling terrorism. The problem here though, it is not
illegal, it is the law. Through the NSA, as long as the government receives blessings
on their justifications from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
courts, government surveillance can demand from court orders that communication
companies turn over calling records (data mining) of their customers. Even
though they have no recorded phone conversations/e-mail correspondence, they
can set up a network of who talked or wrote to whom. Special elected members of
congress have also been routinely apprised and informed of who is being spied on
and why.
As long as the U.S. Patriot Act is congressionally
renewed to NSA functions, who by the way have been around since the late 1940s,
all this spying is perfectly legal whether it be foreign or domestic.
A few Libertarian Republicans such as
Senator Rand Paul have objected to the secretive privacy invasions. Even
Democrats like Senator Ron Wyden have been pressing intelligence officials to testify
and publicly explain their use of cell phone tracking since Wyden feels the
secretiveness has gotten out of hand. But in testimonial this week, General
Michael Hayden, former NSA director under Bush emphatically stated spying acts
are now more transparent than they ever were under the Bush administration.
Security climate is far different today
than when the founding fathers first wrote the Constitution and perhaps some
individual rights might be necessary to be trampled on while hopefully not fully
expunged, but we’ll sum it up with a Ben Franklin quote.
He said, “Any society to give up a
little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither.”
Spying on Associated Press (AP) reporters
and the Fox News correspondent James Rosen for reporting on classified leaks,
truly implicates Obama, for he was kept abreast by Attorney General Eric Holder.
This revolves around sensitive government
material that was leaked in 2010 and 2011 that the government claimed could
threaten the lives of covert operations agents. Once the government caught on,
the justice department demanded the reporters to expose the leaker and not
report the information for public review. The reporters refused, so the
government decided to set up a spying operation by gathering the reporters’
phone records. Although they never charged him, federal prosecutors went so far as to claim Rosen was a
criminal co-conspirator thereby seizing his personal e-mails.
There is a very fine line between
freedom of press and keeping sensitive leaks out of the public eye, but I feel
Obama may have jumped across that line a little too far.
At least Obama has setup a review of
this incident and it is expected to be finalized this July 12th. In
a speech Obama also confessed, “Journalists should not be at legal risk for
doing their jobs. Our focus must be on those who break the law. As
Commander-in-Chief, I believe we must keep information secret that protects our
operations and our people in the field. To do so, we must enforce consequences
for those who break the law and breach their commitment to protect classified
information. But a free press is also essential for our democracy. That’s who
we are, and I’m troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill
the investigative journalism that holds government accountable.”
Again, it’s time for Obama to go back to
and lean more on his core values than continue shuffling political cards and he should draw that
line a little more distinct.
Cruz
Un-Control:
On a totally different topic, how about we
end with Mr. Smarty Pants.
Rafael Cruz, otherwise choosing instead
to be known as Ted in its appeal to tea baggers as an Anglicized name, is the
most obstructionist senator sitting in congress. In the very beginning I said
that this inept quack was going to realize he’s not back home on a Texas range
with all the conservative comforts. No, he’s now in the U.S. senate where he
needs to tone down his rhetorical ideologue and become a little more diplomatic
in bipartisanship. If he doesn’t, well he’s gonna get some spankings and indeed
he has…even some paddlings from his own party members.
Cruz doesn’t legislate, he obstructs
legislation. He feels his whole purpose is to appease the tea baggers back home
and what appeals to them most is anything that is against Obama. For that, Cruz
has been true, but in the process has severely interrupted conducting the
nation’s business.
As his obstinate process unfolds, he
likes to lecture seasoned politicians. This most definitely is the wrong way
for a junior senator to rub experience. He has been called out. They say he is
smart graduating from Harvard with a law degree and all, but his actions are
totally not just dumb, but dumbfounding for those that have to work with him.
He will willingly lie to promote his biased agendas and I don’t count that form
of conduct as being smart.
Cruz’ red baiting, contending that there
were more communists belonging to the Harvard law school than Republicans was
totally debunked by the Harvard law professor, Charles Fried, who taught at
Harvard during Cruz’ time there and is a Republican himself who worked under
the Reagan administration as solicitor general between the years of 1985 to
1989.
In 2010, Cruz stated that “There were
fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we [Obama included] were there
than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say
they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United
States government.” He further added that Obama “would have made a perfect
president of Harvard law school,” at attempting to portray Obama as a communist.
Fried rebuttals this outlandish
statement by insisting Cruz’ “willingness to label the faculty Communist lacks
nuance.” Fried goes on to say there were more than one Republican, but also
there were liberals, but being liberal did not make them communists. Fried also
states, “unlike Cruz or [Eugene] McCarthy,” he didn’t keep a poll or tabs on
who was who, but would be totally “surprised if there were any members of the
faculty who believed in the Communists overthrowing the U.S. government.”
On March 13, 2013 as a keynote speaker
at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) convention Cruz had this
to say, “Democrats are fighting a war on religion. Democrats are telling the
Catholic Church change your religious beliefs or we’re going to use our power
in the federal government to shut down your charities and your hospitals.”
With not one Democrat being found to
have even hinted at that false Cruz accusation, this statement is so bogus ‘Politi-Fact’ gave it their highest ‘Pants on Fire’ truth-o-meter reading of
over 100%.
So saith Cruz, “The biggest obstacle to
passing common sense immigration reform is President Barack Obama.” ABC News
06/10/2013
Believe it and take Cruz for his word,
but not for substance...merely for content only...for if anyone should
know about being an obstacle to legislation...it is none other than Cruz.
On the senate floor in May debating
whether the senate appoint conferees should work out a federal budget, so saith
Cruz, “Let me be clear. I don’t trust the Republicans.”
Senator John McCain had just said that
Cruz’ refusal to not appoint conferees was distrusting Republicans and
surprisingly in not only trusting Democrats, Cruz concurs he doesn’t trust
Republicans either. But of course he doesn’t, for he is one.
The true spankings Cruz has received
thus far has actually been administered by women. Senator Diane Feinstein
paddled him good after he gave her a lecture on the Constitution’s Bill of
Rights during a gun control hearing. The second whipping was by Senator Amy Klobuchar
during deliberations on the senate ATF nominee hearings this past Tuesday
June 11, 2013.
Below are links to video segments of the two
hearings. Please note the boyish arrogant face Cruz wears while being told
about what are nuts and what are bolts in the bucket throughout the segment by
Feinstein.
In the second video segment, Cruz has to make sure the hearing includes his single coauthored bill. He introduces it by chastising ATF chair nominee Jones for not being aware of the Grassley/Cruz gun control legislation and its funding for prosecuting criminals acquiring guns illegally. Conveniently though, he left out the amount of funding, for it is only $50 million spread out over five years. That would be gobbled up in one medium sized U.S. city within one year, much less the entire nation. Unfortunately for Cruz, once Klobuchar chimes in, he has no more speaking time so had to sit silently, listen and weep.
In the second video segment, Cruz has to make sure the hearing includes his single coauthored bill. He introduces it by chastising ATF chair nominee Jones for not being aware of the Grassley/Cruz gun control legislation and its funding for prosecuting criminals acquiring guns illegally. Conveniently though, he left out the amount of funding, for it is only $50 million spread out over five years. That would be gobbled up in one medium sized U.S. city within one year, much less the entire nation. Unfortunately for Cruz, once Klobuchar chimes in, he has no more speaking time so had to sit silently, listen and weep.
In Reporting From
Duty & Honor
BJA
06/14/2103
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