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After decades of terror, does literally allowing the enemy to kill U.S. citizens on American soil rise to the level of impeachable offense?

As faithful readers recall, I have long said that “I don’t like democrats and liberals because they’ll get me killed.”

Now, everyone should be saying it, for they have good reason. And unlike anything Obama says, we can prove it.

First, a few bullet points:

• The One refuses to act on the Gen. McChrystal request to send as many as 80,000 “surge” troops to Afghanistan.
• Mac gets 20,000 troops 90 days later… the vast majority of whom are not full-time trigger-pullers.
• Surfer Boy is on vaca in his tropical paradise when at some point he was informed of the Dec. 25 Flight 253 attack… he made no statement and continued to snorkel, golf and hide from The Predator.
• His Homeland Security Designated Lesbian JJ Napolitano Incompetent declares “the system worked”; two days later she said “my earlier comments were taken out of context—the system failed miserably.” 
• Finally, four days days later, Obama announced he has ordered a “review” of the “watch” system. 

“The system has failed in a potentially disastrous way,” the president in his clichéd “the buck

stops here” speech said,  “It is my responsibility to find out why and to correct that failure.”

And where was Michael Leiter, Obama’s Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (since 2007)—the official most responsible for analyzing terror threats?

Skiing.

He did not return to the NCTC HQ until his holiday ended several days later.

• On Dec. 30 seven top CIA agents were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan

So where were Leon Panetta—the least qualified director of the Central Intelligence Agency in memory—and Deputy Director Stephen Kappes? They remained on vacation until the first of the year.  Panetta was also falling down the bunny slopes somewhere.

And, above, all, as they collectively ignored the bombing and did nothing, how could they be assured that there was only one bomber, only one airplane?

Rush had a good point: “Obama says ‘the buck stops here’, but nobody’s here.

Moreover, if he doesn’t fire anyone, blame anyone, quit shilling for Obama care and act like a war-time president, but he is taking no responsibility whatsoever. If he doesn’t blame anyone, then he is not to blame. 

What Obama has succeed in was blaming the entire national security disaster and the worst day in the history of the CIA on… wait for it…. President George W. Bush.

Since the first string was AWOL, what about the bench?

“The White House's top counterterrorism official on Thursday said he, too, was partly responsible for the intelligence lapses preceding the Flight 253 terror plot.

"’I told the president today, I let him down,’ Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan said during this afternoon's White House press briefing. ‘I told him I will do better; we will do better as a team’."

It gets deeper; the back story on Brennan from The Jawa Report:

“…. one of the (CIA) officers who got killed (10 days ago) had arranged an operation in 1998 that would have killed or captured Osama bin Laden.

Mr. Brennan was instrumental in preventing that operation from occurring. Instead he said the Americans should trust the Saudis to take care of bin Laden.

So it's a painful-- it's a painful death, but more importantly it's a death that didn't need to occur had Mr. Clinton -- Mr. Brennan, George Tenet, and Mr. Berger had the courage to try to defend Americans".”

And now Brennan is Obama's chief advisor on terrorism.

And what, pray tell, were the shocking surprises in Obama’s lame, tardy and utterly lacking national security speech?

He said today he was directing U.S. intelligence agencies to begin to do something many had assumed they were already doing: "[A]ssigning specific responsibility for investigating all leads on high priority threats so that these leads are pursued and acted upon aggressively."

And finally…..

Brennan again (in classical bureaucratese):  “Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is an extension of al Qaeda core coming out of Pakistan. And, in my view, it is one of the most lethal and one of the most concerning of it. The fact that they had moved forward to try to execute this attack against the homeland I think demonstrated to us — and this is what the review sort of uncovered — that we had a strategic sense of sort of where they were going, but we didn’t know they had progressed to the point of actually launching individuals here. And we have taken that lesson, and so now we’re full on top of it.”

Translation to Real American: We just realized that there are ragheads terrorists in the Arabian Peninsula. We were stunned to now realize that raghead terrorists can smuggle a bomb board a airplane and blow it up. And we had no idea that a lone raghead terrorist was able to do that with a plane over US soil.  

HS SECRETARY NAPOLITANO (once more): I think, following up on that, not just the determination of al Qaeda and al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula, but the tactic of using an individual to foment an attack, as opposed to a large conspiracy or a multi-person conspiracy such as we saw in 9/11, that is something that affects intelligence. It really emphasizes now the renewed importance on how different intelligence is integrated and analyzed, and threat streams are followed through. And, again, it will impact how we continue to review the need to improve airport security around the world.

RA translation: Let me be incredibly and egregiously redundant. Once again we didn’t realize that there could be one suicide bomber instead of the platoons and battalions of organized suicide bombers we’re repeatedly dealt with. Naturally, this new information is what we call “intelligence”, so we will blah blah, blah-blah, blah; Blah blah bla-blah. Blah.”

“It’s inexplicable that our nation's top counterterrorism officials would be surprised by a method of attack we've repeatedly seen before.”--Liz Cheney

A communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin; an anti-Communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

The only difference between now and the movie “Grand Hog Day” is that now is the worst of both worlds. While Real Americans feel trapped in a recurring socialist nightmare, each day is not the same… it gets successively worse and worse.

Yes, I knew it would, but I under estimated the Draconian depths the far-left would reach once a fifth-column figurehead was in the White House.

It is quite clear that Obama does nothing but seek the destruction of this country by his promise to "fundamentally change” America. Everything he does is to increase the executive branch’s power through his non-vetted czar appointments and pulling the strings on a cadre of Congressional puppets who will be personally enriched for their treachery.

Why is all this happening. No one can insist with any credibility that this is “politics as usual.”

No, this is happening because the forces behind Obama direct it; politicians are widgets to their masters like George Soros, Saul Alinksy, the late father of “community organizing”, and education agitator Howard Zinn, interchangeable… just one or two step above the Lenin’s “useful idiots” like your left-wing sister-in-law.

This is what everyone should know about Soros: as a teenager, Soros—a Jew—posed as a Christian and, according to the 60 Minutes transcript below:

KROFT: (You) went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.

KROFT: I mean, that's–that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

Mr. SOROS: Not–not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't–you don't see the connection. But it was–it created no–no problem at all.

KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.

Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made.

KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

Mr. SOROS: No.

And never forget that the No. 1 visitor to the Obama White House in 2009 was Soros with 22 visits—every other week. What do you suppose was discussed? Guaranteed it only went one way… Soros told his boy exactly what he wanted him to do, and Obama did it.

Click here to see a map of the left wing tentacles which connect Soros and the vast network of socialist/communist groups, people and organizations which threaten to enslave you.

Many of these you may not have heard of, such as traitors like Soros friends Herbert and Marion Sandler – who were named by Time Magazine  in its list of "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis." 

And with good reason, the Sandlers sold their Golden West Financial S&L, along with $122 billion of adjustable rate mortgages, to Wachovia in 2006, which would crash and burn as the couple raked it in. Major Obama supporters from the start, They were part of the give ARMs to people who couldn’t buy a home with cash fiasco, which helped crush our economy.

Don’t let the fact that they look like they’re waiting for the ride on Comet Hale-Bopp fool you. They have used their billions to fund numerous far left organizations and projects, including $10 million to Propublica a non-profit  “news” group which claims hard-hitting investigative journalism. Read: propaganda.

Example from WorldNetDaily.com:

“Rather than investigating ACORN, when accusation of voter fraud were being widely revealed, Pro Publica began probing the background of the public affairs group that blew the whistle on ACORN. It also invested resources in investigating Sarah Palin's "pork history" and her connection to the "road to nowhere." There was no similar interest in Barack Obama's ties to Bill Ayers or Rev. Jeremiah Wright or any other similar controversies during the presidential campaign, notes the center.” 

The Sandlers are far from alone in funding this socialist take-over of our country.  They have given hundreds of millions of dollars to MoveOn.org, Soros' Democracy Alliance, David Brock's (left) Media Matters, John Podesta's Center for American Progress, the William J. Clinton Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Institute for Public Policy, the Natural Resources Defense Council and two affiliates of the voter-fraud tainted ACORN—and many other groups and causes with portside tilt.

And you’ll recall this about MoveOn.org:

“Indeed, Eli Pariser, who heads MoveOn.org, boasted of his group's role in the Democratic Party: "Now it's our party: We bought it, we own it, we are going to take it back."

All this is why 68 million sheeple bought into the cult of personality created around Obama despite his having virtually no work history, let alone qualifications for much of anything. Because billions of dollars in propaganda—the elixir of soft tyranny—have been poured down their throats for more than 30 years by those behind this administration.

Nothing the far-left does happens by accident, and nothing happens overnight.

The end game of everything the federal government is now doing is simple really, by destroying our economy and institutions, by taking away your private health insurance and substituting a gigantic government bureaucracy which will immediately ration medical care and threaten your life, the populace will begin to accept its dire situation as the government offers crumbs through dependency.

The masses will do then whatever the government says.

Great Rush line today… re: Detroit, “If you import people from the Third World, you get the Third World.

Rhinoceros Rex.

Obama’s Oval Office… and a tale of woe

He didn’t have time to get back to the nation on the Flight 253 terror attack… he was busy masterfully taking charge of an owwie suffered by a friend’s child in Hawaii; and he didn’t have time to deal immediately with the assassination of eight key CIA agents in Afghanistan because…   

… he has been redecorating the Oval Office. An Associated Press reporter breathlessly reported that “Perhaps no room in the White House is more closely associated with the presidency.”

“Perhaps” the Oval office is synonymous with the President??? Don’t you love the state-run news media? 

The “post-racial”, “post-political” healer of the nation can have anything he wants in the Oval Office from the vast stores of more than 230 years of our history… so naturally, he went heavy on Indian Native American pottery and MLK.

There's now a bust of King in the Oval Office, in addition to a pamphlet heralding the the 1963 March on Washington which previously hung in the his Senate office.

Wow. A pamphlet.

There are also some very interesting patent models which White House curator William Allman said fit Obama's personality — his "interest in American history….”

BTW… the King bust replaces the bust of Winston Churchill loaned to President Bush after 9/11, which Obama abruptly returned and thus highly offend Prime Minister Brown and the Brits (see my story here.)

But now the spin is: "It was already scheduled to go back," Allman said. Uh-huh, it’s Bush’s fault.

And here’s the kicker: 

Like most presidents in the last 100 years Obama is using the Resolute  desk which was built from the timbers of the British barque-rigged, Arctic explorer ship  “Resolute”; during an expedition she became trapped in the ice and was abandoned. Recovered by an American whaler, she was returned to Queen Victoria in 1856.

In 1880 Queen Victoria presented the desk to President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Reported AP: “During the redecorating a TV crew accidentally knocked over a glass of water on the desk during a June photo session, Obama didn't get the name quite right when he deadpanned, ‘It's the Resolution Desk. It's only like 100 years old’."

Like, totally, dude. His “love of history” serves him well, no? He sits at the desk whenever he finds time to enter the Oval Office and he can’t even get the name right.

Perhaps he was tired from visiting the 57th state or something.

And BTW Mr. President… it’s more, like, uh, 130 years old.

News Item: 

“Married couples in France could end up with criminal records for insulting each other during arguments.

“Under a new law, France is to become the first country in the world to ban ' psychological violence' within marriage. The law would apply to cohabiting couples and to both men and women.”

Yell at your wife, you go to jail? Gosh, it’s good that doesn’t happen here.

Wrong, amigo; dead wrong.

In 2002 I yelled at my adulterous wife after discovering her repeated infidelity… I let her have it with every vile descriptor I could muster and stormed out of her office and into mine. There was no violence, except her aiming an ineffective slap at my head.

She yelled she was going to “call the cops”. “Go ahead”, I said. I couldn’t wait to embarrass her in front of the authorities.

What happened in the next few minutes landed me in jail, trapped me in the “legal” system for several years, bankrupted me, I lost my home, my 10-year psychotherapy private practice, my profession…… and my Second Amendment rights as (I thought were) guaranteed by the Constitution.

She called the cops and said I’d yelled at her… even she didn’t allege violence; she did say I was armed with not one, but two handguns; we were in our office suite at the time and I was waiting on a client. I didn’t find the need to be strapped when I counseled people.

Within 2-3 minutes I was looking out my office rear window when a deputy sheriff sneaked by not two feet away, gun in hand. Calmly I walked to the lobby and stood with my arms held out, shoulder level, palms forward. Within 30 seconds six deputies momentarily wedged themselves in the doorframe; had I been deranged and armed, most of them would have died as they had to hustle past the picture window to the door.

I was looking down the barrels of six auto-loaders, and yes, the muzzles look like manhole covers. It was attempted assassination-by-cop by spousal proxy.

Some of the deputies were screaming “where’s the guns?” which was confusing to me—I didn’t know she’d lied to 911 about weapons.

Others were yelling “get down”; I didn’t move a muscle, figuring that in this amped up moment, freezing was best.

Someone hooked me up and a sergeant went into the adulterer’s office. A few minutes later he came out and put me under arrest for “harassment.” 

He was followed by “her” whose acting chops suck, but they were more than enough for some lowbrow, avenging, big strong cop coming to the aid of a damsel in distress.

She looked a lot like this.

I was charged with “harassment” but because she was my wife (but this also applies to anyone with whom you have or had an “intimate” relationship) it was considered under the state’s “domestic violence” statute.

I was perp-walked down my sidewalk in full view of all the offices in my complex and then sat in the backseat of the unit while the lunch crowed gawked.

I was informed I was now under a restraining order and was not allowed to go home, or to my office or anywhere she might be. I was rendered homeless, jobless, without clothes, personal items and the like.

Wrists cuffed to a thick leather belt, legs shackled and dressed in prison orange, I complained to the judge that I would have no income if I couldn’t at least schedule my clients in the weekends or when what’s her name wasn’t there.

“Get another office”, said the man in the dress behind the big desk. Hell, I couldn’t get a night in a fancy hotel.

After 23 1/2 hours in jail and was released on O.R. Had it been on a Friday, I’d have been in a cell until Monday afternoon. 

She blocked my office phone, I couldn't’ retrieve clients’ calls, some of which were urgent.

And here’s how after eight years, I continue to pay for my non-crime (I was never convicted of anything)… because of the infamous (Sen. Frank) Lautenberg Amendment,  which among other things, bans ownership, possession, transport or use of guns or ammunition by individuals under a permanent restraining (protection) order for domestic abuse. The act also makes it unlawful to knowingly sell or give a firearm or ammunition to such person.

The “Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban” is permanent…. meaning until your last breath even though as a first time “offender” (sic) I received deferred judgment after two years’ probation and mandatory “domestic violence” counseling; this scam is a license to print money for therapists and shrinks, and above all, doesn’t do a damned thing…. cost me $40/weekly session for the better part of a year.  

The restraining order process also denies you of “due process”… the first you learn of the specific allegations is when you hear the bitch complainant make her case in court. Quick off the top of your head… where were you last September 14? Can you prove it in the 15 minutes?

Bang!

The judge (always) finds her “evidence” compelling… and you’ve just had your right to keep and bear arms ripped away from you in an American court.

There is no appeal, no recourse even if you are later found not guilty of the domestic violence offense.

Since my arrest in 2002 my gun collection has been cared for by a friend, and should I violate the gun/ammo ban… I’d be looking at 5 years’ hard federal time.

By comparison… had I punched someone in the face in a bar instead of yelling at my wife, none of this would have applied. I would have gotten deferred judgment, probation and no restraining order. And I’d still have my guns and a concealed carry permit and I’d still be living in my beloved Colorado.

• Due to Lautenberg, the law effectively mandated the discharge of military service members who had been convicted of domestic violence, and mandates the discharge of all service members who are convicted of domestic violence in the future. This is not explicitly written in the law, but a side effect of servicemembers' access to firearms in the course of their duties. A servicemember discharged this way is said to be Lautenberg.
• The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) sent a notice to every law enforcement agency when this law went into effect. Police officers with prior misdemeanor convictions of domestic violence from years earlier were no longer permitted to possess firearms under the new federal law. Several officers were fired for such past misdemeanor offenses. Several of the gun magazines printed a copy of this new ATF order at the time.

“…. 700 miles, 1,000’s better.”

The day my probation was over, I found a sheriff’s deputy’s card in my door, “call me” it said.

She had called and told the cops I’d violated the restraining order the previous “April or May” and I had three days to run myself in…. the penalties for violating a restraining order are greater than the “harassment” charge in the first place.

The nightmare which had just ended hours before, started all over.

Another $4-G retainer for the attorney, and combined with my attorney fees for my divorce and the attorney for the law suit she filed against me ($300,000 for “emotional” damages for being yelled at)….. without friends, Tripoli and I would have been living in my truck.  

I called my attorney and a former jarhead who runs a “men’s rights” website and advocacy group…. “how do I get out of this… how can I protect myself?”

The website guy seconded what my attorney recommended… adding:

“We have a saying around her for guys in your situation: ‘Move. Seven hundred miles, a thousand’s better’.” 

I then lost my home of more than 40 years and moved to Texas.

This ain’t yer father’s country, especially now

Mine is a cautionary tale, my male friends; do not disregard this, it is all true and varies but slightly from state to state. You are one phone call away from my life which in many ways will never recover.

If I’d had but an inkling of what was to come, I’d have slapped her with divorce papers out of the blue and tried to get as much of my assets out as possible, as quickly as possible. 

But I was an American, a veteran, a true believer and a patriot; mine was a nation of laws! I would ultimately get my fair hearing, my day in court.

Bull-shit… excuse my French.

If you’re looking for justice in the American court system—especially if you are male—you are an idiot. If you seek a fair shake In divorce court or in DV matters, you’re an idiot to infinity.

Some additional pitfalls for the unwary.

“Demonstrated violence” is no different from smacking her. You see, if it makes her “frightened” and “upset”, she’ll take your kids and have the state and the county thugs at her disposal for the rest of her days if she wants.

• All-star Patrick Roy of the Colorado Avalanche was arrested for domestic violence on Sunday, October 22, 2000. Roy and his wife were in an argument, and his wife made a hang-up call to 911. Police found physical damage to the house and Roy was hooked up and taken downtown.

Malicious mischief charges were eventually dropped, but was a millionaire and a sports hero and perhaps the judge was a groupie.

You pull the phone out of the wall or hang it up when she’s calling 911?

Welcome to federal charges my friends… “interfering with a federally-license communication device AND DV, because, of course, she was frightened.

In jail I met a young guy who was in a similar situation but with three kids. He found out, kicked the slut out of the house and when she demanded to see the children he told her to get an attorney and hung up.

She called cops and told them he had the kids and he was threatening to blow up the house and all of them in it.

Next thing the guy knew he was in the 6 o’clock news… the SWAT team telling him to come out before someone got hurt.

Three felonies…. including child endangerment, terrorist threats and DV.

It was months before he even talked to his kids on the phone; meanwhile she was living in his house he was making payments, and with her boyfriend.

I could go on…. and on… but suffice to say, you do not live in the America of your beliefs, you live in a country where cops, investigators, districts attorney, judges and probation officers are cowards. Given the choice of looking for truth and justice, and being targeted by dried-up feminist, butch lesbian therapists, “advocates” and craven state legislators… not to mention ignorant voters who will see you are “soft on domestic violence”, public servants will, my friend, thrown you immediately under the bus.

If your are interested, especially if you are or were in an unstable relationship, past or present, here are some helpful sites:

• Fathers’ / Men’s Rights
• The Equal Justice Foundation
• Fathers Unite

As you can see, the bar is set so low when it comes to women and DV “victims” —I intend to continue to forego involvement with the “fairer” sex. 

“We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.”

Update: Mass murdering Muslim Nidal Malik Hasan

Faithful Reader Tony wrote to complain of the seeming dearth of news coverage regarding Army’s affirmative action shrink at Fort Hood, Nidal Malik Hasan, who was vetted so well that even talking and writing about jihad and killing U.S. soldiers didn’t result in…… anything.      

A review of usual websites and sources indicates that one, the wheels of justice grand exceeding slow, and two, since the USPCA—United States Politically Correct Army—the motto of which is “Loss of life is bad but if our diversity becomes a casualty, that's worse," the impending trial could go on forever.

But what with Hasan being paralyzed from mid-chest down, his “medical/ rehabilitation” leads me to think a mass-murder trial wouldn't begin until next fall.

And it may not even occur…. the Army is currently assembling a “sanity board” that will ascertain the level of Hasan’s mental stability at the time of the shootings. "I've been telling everyone all along that mental responsibility is the major issue in this case," said Hasan’s lawyer, John Galligan, in a statement to the Associated Press.

Hasan will likely remain at Brooke for the next several months.

Hasan, shown right in his Muslim garb in a 7-Eleven, is scheduled to be charged with 13 counts of murder and approximately 30 counts of attempted murder. There is reportedly a 14th murder charge in regards to the death of a victim’s unborn child, one Francheska Valez, though that charge is yet to have been filed.

Under the UCMJ a jury composed of 12 of Hasan's fellow officers will have to answer a narrower question: Did Major Nidal Malik Hasan murder 13 people and, if found guilty, how should he pay for his crimes?

Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice there is no provision for bail and the prosecution is required to bring its case to trial in 120 days. Once a military suspect has been informed that he is under investigation, the 120-day clock starts ticking toward the trial, by the deadline may be extended any time the defense is granted a delay.

However….. as we have seen Barack Hussein Obama as commander-in-chief (damn, I hate writing that) can and will do anything he chooses when it comes to terrorists… drop charges, release them back to al-Qaeda to kill our troops.

And let us remember that Richard Nixon intervened in the case against Lt. William Calley who murdered scores of Vietnamese civilians over the objections of his DoD Sec. Melvin Laird. Calley was freed by an appeals court after only 3½ years of military house arrest, Calley was sentenced to a life term at hard labor for the murder of only 22 villagers.

A travesty, especially since Calley should have been executed.

But GA, President Obama said: "For what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice — in this world, and the next." 

You been in a coma? For the Liar-in-Chief, words have only transitory meaning.

And those who dropped the ball…. again?

On the civilian side of the case, the FBI’s former director, William H. Webster, will conduct an independent review of the bureau’s handling of information about Hasan.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has announced his own investigation of the terrorist attack.

(Nidal Malik Hasan, left, is seen in 2007 when he entered the program for his Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship and an Oct. 2008 photo shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.)

Prior to the November 5  murders, U.S. intelligence agencies including the FBI knew Hasan had communicated with Anwar Al-Awlaki an American-born jihadist imam who fled to Yemen in 2002. There are conflicting reports about him having been killed in a Yemeni air strike about two weeks ago although his death has not been confirmed.

Hasan shares the al-Awlaki common link with Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab at least two of the 9/11 hijackers and a senior Al Qaeda motivator and recruiter.

Smoking gun e-mails 

The Washington Post recently interviewed Awlaki through and intermediary about 20-some emails al-Awlaki received from Hasan were intercepted by American intelligence. A Defense Department analyst examined the messages but decided that they were consistent with “research” Major Hasan was conducting at Walter Reed Medical Center at the time and took no further action.

Federal Bureau of Investigation offices in Washington D.C. and San Diego, received the intercepted messages, but also deemed them innocent.

One of the questions Hasan clearly asked his mentor al-Awlaki clearly sought spiritual sanctions for exactly what he did at Fort Hood.

Q: "So he asked you that question (killing US soldiers) about a year before the operation was carried out?"

A: "Yes. And I wondered how the American security agencies, who claim to be able to read car license plate numbers from space, everywhere in the world, I wondered how [they did not reveal this]."

At the end of the interview al-Awlaki said, “I pray to Allah to receive him in the ranks of the martyrs, since when he did what he did he was expecting to be a martyr," Awlaki said. "If he is executed, good for him."

Awlaki, however, denies recruiting Hasan to commit violence. "Yes, I played a role in guiding his ideology, but nothing beyond that," says Awlaki.

Awlaki bemoans the fact he didn’t play a greater role in the mass-murder which he called an “heroic action."

"The operation had a military target inside America, and there's no dispute about that. “(The soldiers killed) were prepared and equipped to fight and kill oppressed Muslims."

Major Hasan also wrote that he “couldn't wait for join you in the afterlife.”

He added, "My strength is my financial capabilities."  Federal investigators have found that Hasan donated $20,000 to $30,000 a year from his $92,000 pay and allowances to overseas Islamic "charities" terrorist groups.

According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 65% of Americans polled believe that the Hasan should receive the death penalty if found guilty.

But Hasan will never be executed.

First, the military hasn't executed anyone since 1961 and secondly, the PC military is not about to inject a Muslim paraplegic for a much-needed dirt nap.

This may cheer you up

Obama has created himself another first.

He has appointed the first transgender presidential (a he-to-she) to position in the federal government.

But sadly for Janet Napolitano, right, the Lesbionic Homeland Security chief, she is still the ugliest woman in the administration.

Obama has named Amanda Simpson, below, to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department. Predictably, she said she hoped that her appointment would open the door for a more and more federal degenerates.  

“I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others."

What has happened to the Yong Women’s Christian Association?

The YWCA named Amanda A 2004 YWCA "Woman on the Move"  and had a decidedly butch job as Deputy Director in Advanced Technology Development at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson from which she retired.

Amanda is a former test pilot who had worked for the company for more than a generation -- transitioned from male to female and was instrumental in convincing the military contractor to add “gender identity and expression” to its equal employment opportunity policy.

Later she ran unsuccessfully for Congress and was a Hillary! delegate to the 2008 DNC.

Another plus…. she’s better looking than Chastity “Chas”, the tranny off-spring of famous singer Cher, and better looking than Janet Reno, Avenging Angel of the Waco Mass Murders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As serious as death

What follows is from and about Debbie Schlussel and her blog—http://www.debbieschlussel.com/.

In a recent post she once again hit on one of my favorite topics…. where are the so-called “moderate Muslims”?

In my book I don’t know what “moderate Muslim” is and when it gets right down to it, I don’t believe there are many.

Here's her response to the ragheads in one of the worst fifth-columnist nests of in America":

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debbie’s point is that virtually no Muslims condemn the barbarity we face daily from “The Religion of Peace”, but they are trigger-quick to claim discrimination and profiling.

“In Detroit, Dawud Walid a/k/a Delano Anthony Willis, Jr. (a man with a significant criminal rap sheet), Executive Director of CAIR-Michigan, told the media that Muslims are “worried about backlash” and, “People in the community are just frustrated.”  Whatchoo Talkin’ ‘Bout Willis?!  That’s chutzpah, but we let him get away with this outrageous response.  So he continues with it.

“When will the day come when Muslims are “worried about Americans being murdered by their fellow co-religionist” and when “People in the community are just frustrated”–not to mention, embarrassed–by that?  NEVER.” 

Debbie, whom I quote and link to frequently, is the toughest broad in America… even better, she is the toughest Jew in America—probably the hemisphere—and is fighting an almost single-handed battle against Jihad in Detroit, Michighanistan.

Because of the sheer volume, he doesn't even respond to most attacks on her and her blog by our raghead American enemies, but she does seek prosecution for death threats against her (she is an attorney) and files civil suits.

She has also successfully defended those who have been unfairly charged by IslamoNazi sympathizers in the Detroit courts. Not only does Detroit look like Beirut or a scene from “Mad Max”, it represents what happens when real America refuses to fight back against terrorist and the democrat party—pardon the redundancy. 

This is outcome of just one of the death threats against her, her parents and grandparents family:

“As readers of this site know, among the vast piñata of hate-mail I get, I have received death threats from four diverse members of the “Religion of Peace,” threatening to murder me and my family members, after raping and torturing me. And I take them very seriously.
”Last week, one of them–Robert Mustaq John–pled guilty in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of New York, and the previous week, another–Wasil Burki–was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. I’ve posted the court documents associated with both, herein, as well as a reposting of their death threats.”  Read more here.

In cold, simple terms this means that Debbie Schulessel, a successful writer, attorney national columnist, walks daily in the shadow of death. She is one of the few U.S. civilians for whom this war is real.

Yet she gets up every morning and does it again.

She here’s to you, Deb, in the ongoing fight against our enemies.

Lies and the lying liar who tells them

I’ve toyed with the idea of a Top Ten list of Obama’s Lies the last few days and it simply cannot be limited to 10, much like you can’t limit to 10 the number of corrupt members of Congress… or the number of Communists in Barry’s administration.

A walk down memory lane, perhaps?

"When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it."

"I will not sign a [healthcare reform] plan that adds one dime to our deficits -- either now or in the future. I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period."

“The Recession is over.”

"Let me be clear: The United States government has no interest in running GM. We have no intention of running GM."

"Our [stimulus] plan will likely save or create three to four million jobs. 90 percent of these jobs will be created in the private sector."

“The (health care) reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."

"If you make under $250,000, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime – not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes. Nothing. Because the last thing we should do in this economy is raise taxes on the middle-class."

"The days of pork as policy are over."

“I have not said I am in favor of a single payer system.”

“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama,” he said, “because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So (my parents) got together (sic) and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama”

Obama was born in 1961; the march in Selma occurred in 1965. 

"(Editor’s shout-out: “got together” is a current euphemism for anonymous sex and/ or illegitimate births). 

"William Ayers [the unrepentant terrorist] was only a guy in the neighborhood."

“Iran is just a tiny country and not a real threat.”

“I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money...”

“The White House says the President is unaware of the Tea Parties and will hold his own event today.”

Obama recounts about a picture he ran across in Life magazine of a "black man who had tried to peel off his skin" in a failed effort to use chemicals to lighten it. Obama writes that "seeing that article was violent for me, an ambush attack."

The Tribune reported: "Yet no such Life issue exists, according to historians at the magazine. No such photos, no such article. When asked about the discrepancy, Obama said in a recent interview, 'It might have been an Ebony or it might have been ... who knows what it was?' (At the request of the Tribune, archivists at Ebony searched their catalogue of past articles, none of which matched what Obama recalled.)"

“I’ve always been a Christian; I have never practiced [Islam]”.

In his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama mentions studying the Quran. He was enrolled in two Jakarta schools as a Muslim. His teacher Tine Hahiyary said that she remembered that he had studied “mengaji” (recitation of the Quran).”

Classmate Rony Amiris--“Barry was previously quite religious in Islam.”

Obama’s campaign statement—“…. Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.” Later the Obama campaign corrected its previous statement: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim”.  

Later in the campaign-- "Let's not play games," Obama stated. "What I was suggesting – you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."

“Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you. First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan.  Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.” 

And mmmm, mmmm, mmmm, Barack Hussein Obama’s Number One Lie (so far) is: 

"I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president of the United States faithfully, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States."

Our military is at war … America is returning Christmas presents…. or vacationing

Reuters reports that the American victory-hating CnC vowed Monday said “We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable” in the attempt to bring down Christmas Flight 253.

Then prematurely resting, he climbed in his SUV, headed for the beach and went snorkeling

Apparently he hasn't check with J. J. Napolitano, Lesbionic Sec. of Homeland Security, who has insisted that there was no connection to anything or anyone in the latest raghead to threaten our national security.

I wonder what the color of the threat level is today?

A sprint through the ‘net reveals that the FBI actually arrested a second terror suspect on Flight 253 and are denying it.

But U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have admitted that a second man possibly carrying explosives was detained after last week’s aborted plane bombing attack, contradicting initial statements by the FBI that Abdulmutallab was the only person arrested or charged in relation to the Dec. 25 attack.

According to Alex Jones’ Prison Planet, passenger Kurt Haskell said that an Indian man around 30 years of age was arrested after bomb-sniffing dogs detected a possible second explosive device in his luggage on the Detroit airport tarmac. He was arrested and led away to an interrogation room.

The probability that there was a bomb in the man’s luggage was all but confirmed when the FBI moved the passengers to another location.

Haskell said that the FBI told them, “You’re being moved, it is not safe here. I’m sure you all saw what happened and can read between the lines and why you’re being moved.”

Yet, initially passengers were told to remain seated in the aircraft for 20 minutes after landing despite the fact security did not know at that point if there was an explosive on the plane or if the fire had been completely suppressed.

Then the passengers were detained by customs with their carry-on luggage for six hours while they waited to be interrogated by the FBI.

Early on, Kurt Haskell, an attorney, said that he saw a well-dressed man help Abdulmutallab board the flight without a passport under the guise he was a Sudanese refugee; Dutch military police are investigating. The military police have already admitted that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab did not go through passport control at in Amsterdam when he arrived from Lagos.

The more one reads about this sophisticated attack, the more one has to strongly entertain the idea that Abudulmutallab had the assistance of others inside the security system of several foreign countries. 

Where is The Pantsuit?

According to American Spectator, a source inside the State Department whose career spans the transition of the Bush to the Obama Administration, reports that under Obama

"… we are encouraged to not create the appearance that we are profiling or targeting Muslims. I think career employees were uncomfortable with the Bush procedures and policies and were relieved to not have to live under them any longer."

"I'm not saying that this kind of screw up might not have happened in the Bush Administration," the State source says, referring to the Christmas Day bombing. "I'm just saying that a number of us were encouraged to have a different mindset about such intel and such individuals, and today, we are encouraged not to have that same mindset."

As I’ve said before, we have domestic enemies throughout our government, up to and including the White House.

The State Department system designed to keep track of active U.S. visas twice failed to reveal Abdulmutallab, known to the CIA as “The Nigerian”, had been issued an active visa allowing him multiple entries into the U.S.

Despite the fact the CIA was aware of Abdulmutallab for two years and had taken the extraordinary measure of placing him on a “watch list”, our best intelligence agents failed to connect him with his father—Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a highly prominent Nigerian (left)—until the man reported to the CIA his son’s radical behavior and Yemen terrorist connections.

Even more incredibly, apparently the senior Mutallab described as a retired "Nigerian banker" actually ran Nigeria’s defense industry in close cooperation with Israeli Intelligence (Mossad).

His concerns should have been red-flagged all the way up to Langley, but obviously were not.

Who stopped them and why?

Other lowlights about the Christmas bomber:

• Although flying from Nigeria, he entered the Netherlands without passing thru customs, something impossible to do without assistance from an intelligence agency. – and I can’t visit Vancouver B.C. without my passport.
• Last month a man tried to board a commercial airliner last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe with explosive potential was almost identical to the attack on Flight 283 except security in MOGADISHU was able to nab him immediately.

We’ve end the decade almost where it began:

Sadly, ironically, Yemeni terrorism has claimed another life.

The October 2000 terrorist assault on the USS Cole killed 17 sailors and injured 39, among them Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Johann Gokool of Homestead, an electronic warfare technician who lost his left leg and suffered from PTSD.

According to his family, a week ago, just after his 31st birthday, Gokool died in his bed, apparently during one of the violent panic attacks that had plagued him since the incident.

The suicide attack against the USS Cole (DDG 67) on October 12, 2000 while it was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden was carried out by two Muslims terrorists who used a small boat to drive 1,00-pound shape charge into the destroyer’s side.

Seventeen sailors were killed and 38 others, in addition to Gokool, were wounded in the blast.

President Clinton’s rules of engagement kept sailors from firing upon the boat as it approached without first obtaining permission from the Cole's captain or another officer. Petty Officer John Washak said that right after the blast, a senior chief petty officer ordered him to turn an M-60 machine gun on the Cole's fantail away from a second small boat approaching.

"With blood still on my face," he said, he was told: "That's the rules of engagement: no shooting unless we're shot at." He added, "In the military, it's like we're trained to hesitate now. If somebody had seen something wrong and shot, he probably would have been court-martialed."

Petty Officer Jennifer Kudrick said that if the sentries had fired on the suicide craft "we would have gotten in more trouble for shooting two foreigners than losing seventeen American sailors."

Clinton declared, "If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism, it was a despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable"

What did we do to avenge these young sailors?

29 September 2004—A Yemeni judge sentenced Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri the attack’s mastermind and Jamal al-Badawi to death for their roles in the bombing. Al-Nashiri, right, was sent to Gitmo.

5 February, 2009—All charges against al-Nashiri were dropped "without prejudice" and he was released to comply with Obama's order to shut down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

American president–—American traitor

Let us speculate… a little free-wheeling thinking in which “futurists” place great stock.

And at the same time, let’s pull back from telephoto and go wide angle concerning our national security; and while we are at it, let’s call it “the security of our nation” since “national security” no longer has psychological or emotional impact.

Our history

Which is better… “Defense Department” or “War Department”?

The Department of Defense  was created in 1947 to consolidate the War Department (founded 1789) and the departments of the Navy, Army, the Air Force.

And since the change from War Department to Defense Department, we have not fought a single war to win.

And as we have learned anew from TOTUS… words have meaning.

So… the defense of our nation would seem to be obvious, obligatory, and above all, the most important responsibility of our bloated federal government.

Yet today, our national defense is given far less consideration than petty political gains and even less important than a slight injury to one of POTUS’ sycophant's children: 

In what pool reporters are describing as a "very high speed and dramatic" motorcade trip, Islamosympathizer Barack Hussein Obama rushed to tend to "a minor injury with a friend who's travelling with the first family" which occurred "on the ocean."

He hadn’t had time to issue a statement about the attempt to spread 300 bodies over the Detroit landscape, but he had time to golf and even the time to interrupt his links priority to play unneeded nursemaid.

Is this a trustworthy commander-in-chief?

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," Obama wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father."

“The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

After college, Obama lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."

The question now is when does being a far-left democrat (in all branches of government) cross the line and become treason?

• When you admire and seek out Marxists, communists and anarchists; hire them, given them un-elected positions of power which directly control the lives of all Americans?
• When you are “uncomfortable” with the term “American victory”?
• When you release POWs who immediately return to building bombs and killing Americans? 
• When you say: “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.”
• When you persecute Navy SEALS for giving a subhuman raghead a fat lip after they risked their lives to capture him?
• When you investigate CIA agents for “brutal treatment of terrorism suspects” several years ago?
• When you announce in advance when and how you will retreat from the field of battle?
• When you literally bow and scrape before our enemies, dictators, communist to add a visual touch to all the apologies you’ve just made for America? 

The United States Constitution (which is dire jeopardy by this administration) states:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.  (Article III Section 3)

Has Obama, has the democrat party, individually and collectively “adhered to” and provided “aid and comfort the enemy”?

Does it give “aid and comfort” to the enemy to know that our intelligence agents can be fired or even jailed to doing their job?

Does it help them to know that if they occupy a mosque or even a sympathizers’ house from which to launch an attack that they will not be fired on?

Do enemy combatants both here and around the world know that they can maim and murder, and yet the worst punishment is and air conditioned, heated, cell with cable, three meals a day, “public option” health care, and even early release back to Yemen for a new suicide vest?

Enough of the rhetorical.

None of this is happenstance, “smart power diplomacy”, or “change” and certainly not “hope”.

Barack Obama is the Manchurian Candidate… all of this and more—far more—is intentional and coordinated; and the purpose is to overthrow the United States as a proxy for our sworn enemies… “foreign and domestic”.

Don’t believe it? Can’t happen here?

Bull…. has and is.

Benedict Arnold was traitor, the Rosenbergs were traitors,  Major Hassan is a traitor,  CIA Agent Aldrich Ames, Aaron Burr, FBI Agents Earl Pitts, Robert Hannsen, U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard, “American Taliban” John Phillip Walker Lindh and Lynne F. Stewart a lawyer working for terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.

All traitors. And there are hundreds more.

If our state department, the vice-presidency, our military, our congress, and our intelligence agencies have been penetrated by enemy agents why is it impossible that 68 million Americans have elected one of them president?

Obviously, by the verdict of Obama’s actions…. it isn’t.

Screw the 2010 elections and “wait ‘til 2012”… if we do not impeach this son of his bitch and rid the nation of his co-conspirators, we will die as a democracy and we will die in the tens of thousands at the hands of our enemies.

We must quit fixating on the recent past or even right now… we must stay a step ahead of this coup and stop it dead.

If we do not, we fail our nation, our future and we fail millions of Americans who died to preserve our liberty and freedom.

And if we fail, we too are traitors.

How’s that hope and change workin’ for ya….. ?

As a holiday air traveler I missed the disaster of “additional security” by a scant few hours because I took a 7 a.m. flight out of Portland, figuring that early Sunday morning after Christmas would be the easiest.

It was, but that was just hours before the Homeland Security’s Bionic Lesbian Jan Napolitano ordered that passengers be subjected to additional and more intrusive searches, delays and Gestapo-lite attitude. It was quickly ordered that you—as in you—must now arrive four hours before your flight to get your fair share of abuse, and remain seated for the last hour of your flight

And why all this? Because that’s what the Obama administration does when faced with terrorism… one way or another we pay; not the ragheads, not the accumulated forces that stand against us, not the murderers and torturers.

The latest domestic terrorist attack on Obama’s watch. 

In the skies over Detroit on Christmas Day a committed IslamoNazi detonated one or more vials of chemical explosive PETN (widely used in the plastic explosives terrorists used to blow up airplanes in the 1970s and 1980s, and used by “shoe bomber” Richard Reid).   

• Abdulmutallab likely had the syringe device encased in a condom and strapped to his left leg, against the body of the plane.
• The make shift detonator was likely filled with nitroglycerin
• Just 100 grams of PETN can destroy a car

His attack would have killed some 285 passengers and crew were it not for a faulty detonation and a couple of passengers who reacted immediately.

Here’s the America you live in after the Bush Administration thwarted every attempt after 9/11 for almost eight years.

Muslim terrorist charged in the attack, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, of Nigeria:

• may have been able to board Northwest Airline’s Flight 253 with help from another person and without a passport.
• He was on the government “watch list” for two years; unfortunately, no one watched him.
• was even turned into U.S. authorities by his own father.
• before the detonation he spent 20 minutes in the bathroom.
• told FBI agents there were more just like him in Yemen who would strike soon.

Fortunately, Napolitano immediately reassured us that “the system worked”, but that was before she said the “system did not work”.

Napolitano also said that Abdulmutallab’s claimed ties to Al Qaeda were “part of and on-going criminal justice investigation” and that there was no evidence of a wider terrorist plot.

Apparently she hasn’t yet learned of the man who assisted the bomber get on the plane and who might have helped him obtain the explosives and fashioned them into a sophisticated bomb capable of bringing down the aircraft.  

And how does she explain the purpose of her “watch list” when it comes to vaporizing planeloads of people?

“You have to understand that you need information that is specific and credible if you are going to actually bar someone from air travel.” 

And where, you may ask, is the man most responsible for our national security?

He may have a statement about the failure of his government to take the war on terror seriously “in a few days”. First, he needs to check the polls before having someone write him a teleprompter speech.

Meanwhile POTUS mouthpiece Robert Gibbs as referred to Flight 285 as a “potential terrorist attack”, and said that “The President has asked that a review be undertaken to ensure that any information gets to where it needs to go, to the people making the decisions”.

… thus striking fear into the hearts of jihadists around the world.

Remember how the left viciously pilloried President Bush for taking as long as “seven minuets” after having been told we were under attack, to take his leave of a grade school class without scaring the kids?

“Man-made disasters”

Terrorist world-wide are laughing their collective ass off as America, the helpless, bumbling giant, stumbles about then settles for doing nothing.

Even when their attacks fail, they win and we are punished.

Col. Bob Howard, MOH, passes away at 70

I regret to inform LM31 readers that Col. Bob Howard, Special Forces legendary combat leader and Medal of Honor Recipient, passed away yesterday of cancer in Waco Texas. 

Colonel Howard enlisted at 17 and retired after 36 years in the U.S. Army.

He served 56 months conducting combat missions in South Vietnam,  North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; and was nominated for the Medal of Honor three separate times in a 13-month period.

In addition to the nation's highest award for valor, Col. Howard was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star and the Bronze Star with "V" device. 

He was wounded 14 times and received eight Purple Hearts.

His death at 70, leaves 91 surviving Medal of Honor Recipients.

Read more here.

Rider on a pale horse

Well America, it appears that we are on our way to medical care provided by the Postal Service and the DMV.

We are one small step from the destruction of our medical care and the scuttling of our economy and here’s just a preview of what may happen to you and yours.

Birmingham, England:

A grandmother died after 'gross failures' by NHS doctors who injected her lungs with a chemical that was ten times the recommended strength, a coroner ruled today.

Rosemary McFarlane, 64, spent ten days in 'burning agony' after receiving the lethal dose during what should have been a routine procedure.

The caustic chemical, phosphate buffered saline, burned the inside of her lungs. Read more here.

“But GA, terrible mistakes happen all the time, even in our present system.”

Gosh, I wasn’t aware of that but, and it’s too bad; the difference here is that England has been operating a socialized medical care system forever, and still can get it right.

And we’re going to turn our system over to to people who brought you “The Bridge to Nowhere”, “Cash for Clunkers”, the bail-outs, Obama Motors, the IRS, Fannie May and Freddie Mac?

And, like Obama, the government has absolutely no idea how in hell to run anything, let alone medicine.

You will suffer and you will die… or as Chairman Barack Hussein Obama has patronized: “sometimes, it better just to take the pain pill.”

I’m sure they gave poor Rosemary McFarlane pain pills, but by then she would have preferred arsenic.

A year or two ago I received some meds from the VA which I routinely do, but they—a blood pressure medicine—had not been prescribed.

On my next appointment, I took them back to the VA and the response was “huh, don't know how that happened.” 

I could only think of what if an 88-year-old disabled vet had received them… and trusting his government, his socialized medicine, he took them as directed.

Your ever tried to sue the federal government?

A blatant crime has been carried out as we watched Harry Reid bulldoze a secret bill through in the dead of night over the Christmas holiday.

It is the out and out bribery of a public official to support Obama care… in fact, it should be more than a crime; bribery would be Reid using his own money to buy votes…. but he used your money to buy votes from Landrieu and Nelson and who know how many others?

But GA, he was using leverage to get money for his state.

And that’s the whole damned problem…. legislation by the pimp and whore system.

When did Landrieu and Nelson come to believe that placing their state over the nation’s best interests was anything less that failure of their oath to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”?

There is such a thing as being a “national senator”… of  course that was when there were still a few statesmen in the Senate.

May Reid and his ilk rot in hell and very soon.