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The new Obama “budget” adds billions more to the billions of taxpayer dollars poured into failed green energy companies and programs most of which went to companies with Obama campaign connections.

One of two Republicans to vote against Holder’s nomination to Attorney General, Senator Cornyn says Holder “twists the law” to suit Obama’s leftist agenda. He discusses the outrageous Fast and Furious gun running scandal and Holder’s attack on voter ID laws.

[T]he White House continues to stall, refusing to turn over documents and blocking key staff from talking to investigators,” said Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican and chairman of the committee. – Washington Times

[W]ith the widespread knowledge of gun-walking among federal officials in Arizona, Coulson said there’s “no way” people in Washington, D.C., at ATF headquarters and in the Department of Justice didn’t know what was going on. – Daily Caller

Obama took his union pandering to another level, installing Griffin with far less scrutiny than Becker received. There was no vetting of Griffin’s background. He never went through the normal background check performed by the Senate. He never filled out the usual questionnaire, or met with any Republican senators. – NRO

Fourteen months since Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed by weapons from the ATF gun scandal. The Justice Department has provided only 8% of the documents requested by the Congressional Oversight committee investigating the scandal. Many of the documents they have provided are so redacted that they provide nothing.

Eric Holder is threatened with contempt of congress as he continues to withhold documents pertaining to the Mexican gun smuggling scandal known as Fast and Furious which has led to the death of one American and many Mexicans.

It made no sense from a legal, law-enforcement or national security point of view. It bore all the marks of a White House political operation to sway U.S. public opinion in favor of gun control as the bodies piled up.

Issa wrote that Holder and the DOJ are “actively engaged in a cover-up” of activities related to Operation Fast and Furious, a scandal-plagued and ill-fated “gunwalking” program designed to track firearms from U.S. gun shops to drug cartels in Mexico. The operation used “straw purchasers” who purposely — and with government permission — bought guns with the unlawful intention of moving them across the border. – The Daily Caller

A pimped out press slavishly covering for corrupt leftist regimes while bringing down the opposition is nothing new. It happens openly every day in places like Cuba and Venezuela. But here in the land of the free press? – American Thinker