Keystone Kops Government

[Stephanie]

wake up people. no MORE progressive/Democrats running our country and lives
Mr. Hanson sums things up nicely

SNIP:
Victor Davis Hanson | Mar 19, 2015




What has gone wrong with the U.S. government in the past month? Just about everything, from the fundamental to the ridiculous.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States to warn Congress about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. He spoke without the invitation of an irritated President Obama, who claimed that he did not even watch the address on television.

Obama declined to even meet with the Israeli prime minister, announcing that it would have been improper for him to have such a meeting so close to Netanyahu's re-election bid.

But if Obama was so concerned about not influencing the Israeli elections, why, according to some news accounts, is a Senate panel launching an investigation into whether Obama's State Department gave grant money to a nonprofit organization, the OneVoice Movement, that sought to unseat Netanyahu with the help of several former Obama campaign operatives?

Then, 47 Republican senators signed an unusual letter to the Iranian theocracy, reminding it that any agreement on Iran's nuclear program negotiated with the Obama administration would have to first clear Congress.

Obama shot back that the senators' letter was undue interference that aided the Iranians. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed that the senators were either empowering Iranian hardliners or sabotaging the diplomatic efforts of their own president. Secretary of State John Kerry concurred.

Nonetheless, the Senate may well pass new sanctions against Iran, if it feels Obama has been too lax in its negotiations or usurped senatorial oversight of treaties.

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., bucked the Obama administration and expressed doubt about administration concessions to the Iranians. Other Democrats could join him.

But almost immediately after weighing in on Iran, Menendez found himself the target of a federal investigation into purported corruption. And as far as the claim of improper interference in foreign affairs goes, the Obama administration and British Prime Minister David Cameron jointly lobbied U.S. senators not to pass tougher sanctions on Iran.

Meanwhile, the aforementioned Hillary Clinton is bogged down in another trademark Clinton scandal. Clinton never used a standard government email account while secretary. And rather than submitting her actual emails to the State Department back in December, Clinton submitted 55,000 printed pages of emails -- making it much harder for those emails to be searched.

all of it here:
Keystone Kops Government - Victor Davis Hanson - Page 1

 

[Sonny Clark]

wake up people. no MORE progressive/Democrats running our country and lives
Mr. Hanson sums things up nicely

SNIP:
Victor Davis Hanson | Mar 19, 2015




What has gone wrong with the U.S. government in the past month? Just about everything, from the fundamental to the ridiculous.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States to warn Congress about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. He spoke without the invitation of an irritated President Obama, who claimed that he did not even watch the address on television.

Obama declined to even meet with the Israeli prime minister, announcing that it would have been improper for him to have such a meeting so close to Netanyahu's re-election bid.

But if Obama was so concerned about not influencing the Israeli elections, why, according to some news accounts, is a Senate panel launching an investigation into whether Obama's State Department gave grant money to a nonprofit organization, the OneVoice Movement, that sought to unseat Netanyahu with the help of several former Obama campaign operatives?

Then, 47 Republican senators signed an unusual letter to the Iranian theocracy, reminding it that any agreement on Iran's nuclear program negotiated with the Obama administration would have to first clear Congress.

Obama shot back that the senators' letter was undue interference that aided the Iranians. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed that the senators were either empowering Iranian hardliners or sabotaging the diplomatic efforts of their own president. Secretary of State John Kerry concurred.

Nonetheless, the Senate may well pass new sanctions against Iran, if it feels Obama has been too lax in its negotiations or usurped senatorial oversight of treaties.

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., bucked the Obama administration and expressed doubt about administration concessions to the Iranians. Other Democrats could join him.

But almost immediately after weighing in on Iran, Menendez found himself the target of a federal investigation into purported corruption. And as far as the claim of improper interference in foreign affairs goes, the Obama administration and British Prime Minister David Cameron jointly lobbied U.S. senators not to pass tougher sanctions on Iran.

Meanwhile, the aforementioned Hillary Clinton is bogged down in another trademark Clinton scandal. Clinton never used a standard government email account while secretary. And rather than submitting her actual emails to the State Department back in December, Clinton submitted 55,000 printed pages of emails -- making it much harder for those emails to be searched.

all of it here:
Keystone Kops Government - Victor Davis Hanson - Page 1

Politics as usual. Typical political activities. Professional politicians will do what professional politicians do, and have done. The system is corrupt from top to bottom. Politics and honesty mix like water and oil. Politics is all about greed, self-service, power, influence, egos, and one-upmanship. "The Washington Brotherhood" is an organization of favoritism, engaged in the selling of legislation and policies, and attempting to capture fame and notoriety in front of the cameras. Politics is an ego trip, an elite club of power brokers and puppets for those that can afford their services.

In almost all conversations concerning politics, party politics finds a way into the discussion. Many take the side of one political party or the other, failing to realize and understand that all politicians are the same, they just wear different jerseys once on the field at game time. Unethical conduct is politics, and the norm among those claiming to represent the voters that elected them to serve in government. Once elected to office, professional politicians exert their will, and not the will of the people. Given the above as a truism, does it surprise us when stories emerge concerning questionable actions and activities by those seated in Washington politics? By now, we should all know the game, the rules, and the likely outcome of "politics as usual".