Underground Stories 062814

Weekend Edition Pt.1

Obama: The GOP Keeps Attacking Me With “Phony” Scandals

Forget those “lost” IRS emails America, there’s nothing to see here.
President Obama is accusing Republicans of using “phony scandals” to attack him, again.
“These are just Washington fights, their fabricated issues, they’re phony scandals that are generated, it’s all geared toward the next election of ginning up a base,” Obama said during a town hall meeting in Minneapolis yesterday.
The most powerful federal government agency targeting Americans all over the country is a “Washington fight”? Are thousands of missing emails that the IRS Commissioner said he would produce a “fabricated issue”? Hardly. According to recent polling, 66 percent of Democrats, yes Democrats, want Congress to investigate the IRS until someone is held accountable.
The only thing phony in the video above are President Obama’s statements. He has nothing left. Even Al Franken doesn’t want to campaign with him in November.
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Koch Brothers to Spend $300M on Fall Elections

The conservative billionaire Koch brothers and their allies plan to spend $300 million this election cycle to support conservative causes and fight new Obama administration regulations to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

The plans are being discussed at a retreat this weekend hosted by Charles and David Koch in Laguna Beach, Calif., The Daily Beast reports. The event will feature speeches by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and libertarian political scientist Charles Murray.

The Koch energy initiative comes as liberal billionaire Tom Steyer pledged $100 million for ads in several states to make climate change a priority in the November congressional elections, according to The Daily Beast.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced new regulations earlier this month that seek to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting the first national limits on the chief gas linked to global warming.

Among the groups expected to benefit from the Kochs are Americans for Prosperity, its political action committee, and the Libre Initiative, which seeks to attract Hispanics with its message of small government and free markets, The Daily Beast reports.

AFP is expected to spend as much as $125 million on ads attacking Democratic support for Obamacare and other issues leading up to the elections.

The new energy effort was developed by Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the Koch network's primary fund-raising group, according to an email the Daily Beast obtained.

The email was written by Kevin Gentry, a Koch vice president for special projects who also is vice president of the Republican Party of Virginia.

Freedom Partners, established in 2011, has about 200 members who each donate at least $100,000 every year.

The following year, the operation funneled more than $230 million to other Koch-backed nonprofits, according to 2012 tax data reported by The Daily Beast.

The details of the new energy initiative have not yet been announced, but it is expected to cost at least seven figures — and The Daily Beast cites two sources that a new nonprofit group is being developed to oversee the energy effort.

Caliphate being built by ISIS in Iraq: Obama has one in Washington

While the media wrings its hands over the formation of a caliphate by ISIL in Iraq, we should understand that we have been living under a mini-caliphate in the U.S. for nearly six years.

Barack Obama never wanted to be a “real” president of the United States. He much prefers to think of himself as a prophet. Obama came into office being hailed as a messiah, but “prophet” is more suitable to his goals during his administration.

What is happening in the Middle East with the formation of a terrorist army called ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) is no accident. Perhaps it was not the actual design of the Obama Administration, but the president’s foreign policy inexperience combined with his disinterest in international affairs, his Islamic leanings, his political correctness and his ultra-liberal ideologies have resulted in serious global consequences that are far more dangerous than we have the ability to control.
Sadly, while President Obama dithers about what to do in the Middle East, the enemy gains strength by the day.
Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters summed it up on “The Kelly File”: “When America is strong, the world complains. When America is weak, the world suffers.”

Hillary Clinton Slams Obama: ‘You Can’t Trust The Motherf—er!’

The latest book to hit the shelves about the “Blood Feud” between the Clintons and the Obamas is full of juicy details about the relationship that seems peachy on the outside but is truly nothing more than a political stunt to look good for the public. The best-selling author Ed Klein’s new book is sure to make liberals heads explode as the dysfunctional relationship between the Democrat Party’s most powerful players is exposed for what it is.
The entire premise of the book is that while the two couples make it appear as if everything is just fine and dandy on the outside, they actually loathe each other and have made some pretty hateful comments in the past.
According to TPNN, Klein’s book details a time roughly two months after Hillary stepped down from her position as Secretary of State under Obama and was discussing him with a group of friends over quite a few glasses of wine. “You can’t trust the mother***er,” while at the same time saying that “Obama has turned into a joke.”
The alcohol-fueled rant happened in May of 2013 at a French restaurant near Clinton’s mansion in New York, according to Klein. Hillary was apparently telling her friends about a deal her and Bill had made with the Obama’s to help him get reelected in 2012 if they would help her win the presidency in 2016.
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Obamacare and the economy: Titanic disaster dead ahead?

Something’s bugging this stock market as June’s rather unexpected (by the Maven) bull run seems to be running out of steam, not to mention volume. As of about 3:30 p.m. EDT, the Dow is off about 37, the S&P 500 is off 5, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ is off a bit over 11.

Worries persist of course over Putin’s intentions in the Ukraine and the Islamofascists’ intentions in Syria and Iraq, although we know none of these players are up to anything that might exactly benefit the American people. But likely haunting the market, which tends to be forward-looking by roughly 6-9 months, could be the generally expected rise in interest rates as well as the elephant hiding in the room: that great big, hulking Obamacare monster whose full fury, via a likely unconstitutional executive order, is waiting to pounce after the November elections.

We’re referring, of course, to the unilateral delay in implementing this unpopular law as it applies to small and large businesses that now won’t be hit with the consequences until FY 2015. That said, we’re wondering how the Administration plans to finesse the likely very large price increases carriers will be implementing for 2015 insurance rates that should be unveiled (we think) in late September in preparation for the 2015 enrollment period.

This also assumes, of course, that the still dysfunctional software in Federal and local exchange systems is actually working properly by the fall which, in light of past experience, is a dubious assumption at best. It also assumes that companies will happily carry the usual full roster of full time employees and opt to cover at least a portion of their health coverage as before.

The big unknowns: how many employees will be reduced to “part time” status to avoid corporate coverage expenses; how many jobs will never materialize because they’ve now become too expensive per non-robotic employee; how far wages and raises will be damped to absorb the new costs; and, perhaps most interestingly, how many employees will simply be jettisoned to deal with the malfunctioning Obamacare websites on their own as companies opt to get out of covering employees entirely.

To change our metaphor a bit, this whole mess, which should have been out there and been dealt with by now, is still the underside of a huge, hulking iceberg, the submerged portion no one sees, the part that could gouge a huge hole in the side of the U.S.S. Titanic Government and sink it quickly with scarcely any warning to those on board—mainly U.S. taxpayers.

McDaniel Supporters Barred From Reviewing Voter Rolls in Nine Mississippi Counties

The Chris McDaniel campaign identified multiple Mississippi counties in which enough improper ballots were cast that a legal challenge to the outcome of the election is warranted.

This comes after 25,000-35,000 Democrat votes helped push Thad Cochran to victory over Chris McDaniel (by 6,880 votes) in the June 24 runoff.
The McDaniel campaign has already found 1,000 examples in one county of Democrats who voted in the June 3rd primary as Democrats and then crossed over into the Republican primary this week. This is illegal and their votes should not be counted.
Update—– Lindsay Krout, a volunteer working in Mississippi, was barred from reviewing voter rolls in Lafayette County Mississippi Friday morning.
Lindsay said when she went to the Lafayette County courthouse this morning and was forced to wait for an hour. Then the county clerk told her the Secretary of State’s office said the county had to redact the Social Security number and addresses from the voter rolls. The clerk said it will take until Wednesday to redact the information. And, the county will charge McDaniel supporters for the extra work.
Mississippi law states that the clerk must allow public viewing of the election documentation:

Lindsay said McDaniel supporters in Lowndes County and Lauderdale County faced similar pushback from the local officials. The clerks also said they would have to schedule the time so county officials could be present.
There are reports that Governor Phil Bryant wants to certify the election on Monday.
UPDATE: McDaniel supporters are facing the same pushback in Stone County.
UPDATE: The McDaniel supporters say they are facing a similar situation in Marshall County, Quitman County and Coahoma County
UPDATE: Lindsay writes, “Add Forrest County and Smith County to the list.”

Dick Durbin: Obama to 'borrow' Constitutional power to rule on immigration

If House Republicans do not act on immigration in the way Barack Obama wants soon, then the president will simply "borrow" Congress' legislative powers and unilaterally rule on the issue, bypassing Congress once again, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Thursday.
"I don't know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today," Durbin said. "And if he does not, the president will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration."
Democrats have issued an ultimatum to Republicans in the House, telling them that if they do not do Obama's bidding on immigration by the end of July, the president will simply adopt the mantle of dictator and rule on his own.
"We're at the end of the line," Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., told reporters. "We're not bluffing by setting a legislative deadline for them to act."
On Wednesday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., repeated his call for unilateral action when he declared immigration dead in the House and demanded Obama issue an executive order to curb deportations.
“Having been given ample time and space to craft legislation, you failed, the president now has no other choice but to act within existing law to ensure that our deportation policies are humane, that due-process rights are protected, that detention conditions are as they should be, and most importantly — that the people we are deporting are detriments to our communities, not assets to our families, economy, and society,” he said.
But the Constitution does not allow for Obama to simply "borrow" congressional power as Durbin suggests or write laws when he believes Congress is not acting as he wishes.

Looming Coal-Plant Shutdowns Are Already Doubling Electricity-Price-Contract Bids for 2017

On Neil Cavuto’s Your World, a furious Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, rails against Barack Obama’s “incompetent” and “evil” energy policies, which have already doubled the prices that power utilities are forced to bid on advance contracts for electric energy in 2017. Of course those price increases will ripple through everything we buy or do because electricity is critical to all of it.
According to Murray, 411 coal-fired power plants will be forced to shut down by EPA policies, and they are the cheapest source of electrical energy at only 4 cents per kilowatt-hour. By comparison, wind and solar cost about 22 cents per kilowatt-hour.
The price of energy is surely the single-most-powerful control lever that Washington’s ruling-class politicians and federal agency bureaucrats have ever lusted after. And as those prices soar, we can be sure of still more agency interventions for price controls, subsidies, rationing, and other Big-Government “fixes”.
And what’s it all for? According to Murray, it will produce a decrease in atmospheric CO2 of less than 1/20 of one percent — in other words, a negligible impact on the environment. And tens of thousands of men and women who mine coal to power America will lose their jobs.
All this misery is being brought to us by the “people who care” as they exude their unearned moral superiority and sacrifice still more of our individual freedom and prosperity at the altar of their beloved Big Government — all of course “for our own good.”

Obama provoking American rebellion, say governor and policy expert 

It's quite possible that President Barack Obama and his administration's minions are provoking many Americans to stage an actual rebellion, former NRA editor and leading weapons policy maven, John Snyder told the Examiner on Thursday. In addition, Snyder points out that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal also accused President Obama and other Democrats of waging war against religious liberty and education and said that a rebellion is brewing in the U.S. with people ready for "a hostile takeover" of the nation's capital.
"Is President Obama provoking rebellion? It's quite possible he is," Snyder said. " [And] that seems to be the opinion of Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and others, as well."
Gov. Jindal is quoted by Fox News as saying he could "sense right now a rebellion brewing amongst these United States where people are ready for a hostile takeover of Washington, D.C., to preserve the American dream for our children and grandchildren."
Gov. Jindal spoke in Washington, D.C, at the annual Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. During his presentation he accused Obama, his minions and sycophants of waging war against certain American values. "The Pelican State governor is right on," said Snyder, who is also on the board of advisers for the National Association.
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The controversial speech blasting Rahm Emanuel you have to see

Could the all-powerful Mayor Rahm Emanuel be unseated in the Democrat machine stronghold of Chicago? The same city ruled with an iron fist by the Mayor Richard J. Daley? The political birthplace of President Barack H. Obama?
The answer is yes and yes and yes.
Rahm’s national political ambitions notwithstanding – he has been mentioned as a vice presidential running mate for Hillary Clinton or a Clinton replacement if she is a no-go – the former White House Chief of Staff to President Obama still has to overcome the hurdle that is his 2015 mayoral re-election bid.
And so far the political numbers are not in his favor.
A recent poll shows that only 29 percent of those Chicagoans polled would vote for Emanuel if the election were today.
Sensing political blood in the Chicago water, conservative TV producer William J. Kelly tossed his hat into the mayoral ring this weekend. At an appearance with former White House advisor Dick Morris at Chicago’s Palomar Hotel, Kelly blasted Emanuel and his record. He also took some shots across the bow a former President Bill Clinton, who was in Chicago raising cash for Emanuel’s campaign.
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U.S. Senator thanked for exposing DHS aiding terrorist sympathizers in U.S.

Thirty-one former government officials, national leaders, and public policy activists expressed appreciation to U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) for his efforts to get to the bottom of yet another scandal festering in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Center for Security Policy said on Tuesday through email communications.
The Center said that their appreciation to Grassley was attributed to press reports that an internal DHS Inspector General investigation was conducted into allegations by a whistle-blower that the Department has taken steps to facilitate the entry into this country of terrorist sympathizers and possibly actual terrorists.
Last month, Breitbart reported that Grassley released emails that described the alleged terrorist “hands off” list at DHS that deleted records of an individual, named, Jamal Badawi, who was allegedly a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a close associate supporter of “Hamas, Hizbollah, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The Investigative Project noted that in May of 2012, Badawi made recorded statements in 2009 in support of suicide bombings.

In the email to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson on February 3, 2014, Grassley said in part,” I’m puzzled how someone could be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, be an associate of [redacted], say that the US is staging car bombings in Iraq and it is ok for men to beat their wives, question who was behind the 9/11 attacks, and be afforded the luxury of a visitor visa and de-watchlisted.”
“It doesn’t appear that we’ll be successful with denying him entry tomorrow but maybe we could re-evaluate the matter in the future since the decision to de-watchlist him was made 17 months ago.”

However, since the investigation, Sen. Grassley has been running into strong resistance in his efforts to obtain the results of the IG’s investigation which is putting the United States in danger by not cooperating.
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