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Lawmakers and staffers have immunity from trading on the insider information they have access to. Insider trading of this kind by the public can result in prison time. Just ask Martha Stewart. Several lawmakers and Obama have managed to increase their fortunes dramatically while Americans have suffered. Stock trades are also a good way to hide political payoffs. Remember when Hillary Clinton made a quick $100,000 on cattle futures?

I see a lot of sacrifice going on, but I don’t consider it noble. It’s nothing more than legalized theft. And I see absolutely no sharing. The dishonesty of this whole scheme of welfare redistribution is quite literally without limit. -Dr. Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.

“Two days ago we learned that despite Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder repeatedly denying knowledge of Project Gunrunner over the years, Obama approved and signed the stimulus funding for its operations back in 2009. And during that same year, Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder bragged about Project Gunrunner at the arms trafficking conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico – as documented on the Department of Justice website”

Obama’s clueless AG says he only heard about the gun scandal in the last few weeks. Is he incompetent and inept as West says?

The scope of Eric Holder’s disastrous ‘Fast and Furious” ATF operation just keeps expanding. Now a single traffic stop in Phoenix has revealed 43 automatic weapons with serial numbers traceable to the the ATF scandal – taken from 4 illegal aliens arrested in the stop. How many AK-47s has this Administration put in the hands of gangs throughout the U.S. How many children will die in drive-bys using weapons Holder GAVE to criminals? And with the ATF Director now saying the DoJ obstructing the investigation, the House GOP must not stop until all responsible are rotting in jail. And what did Obama know and when did he know it? – by StandWithAZ

A better question is did Obama do it all for the union campaign help? Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) questions Mr. Ron Bloom, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury, on whether Mr. Bloom had said at a farewell dinner of the Auto Task Force in late July 2009, “I did this all for the unions.” Mr. Bloom denied the quote, but two independent sources have documented Mr. Bloom saying those words. As such, it appears that either a respected reporter or Mr. Bloom’s former boss in the Obama Administration have both given inaccurate accounts of Mr. Bloom’s comments to the public, or his testimony before Congress was not completely truthful.

Sen. Inhofe points out the widespread corruption at the EPA in doling out grant money to left wing groups that then sue the EPA and win funds. In one case grants went to a lobbying group and have even gone to Thailand and China.

The EPA even tacitly encourages such suits, going so far as to pay for and promote a “Citizen’s Guide” that, among other things, explains how to sue the agency under “citizen suit” provisions in environmental laws. The guide’s author — the Environmental Law Institute — has received $9.9 million in EPA grants over the past decade. – IBD

DOJ coverup of multi-departmental failed Operation Fast and Furious where not only were guns allowed to be bought and taken into Mexico but FBI funds were even used to buy some of the guns. How high does the scandal go? In carefully worded statements both Eric Holder and the White House have said that they did not “approve” the operation but did not deny knowledge of it.

Fast and Furious is the name of the deadly sting ATF operation that watched U.S. guns cross the border into Mexico and failed to keep track of them. Mexican lawmakers are now calling for the extradition of U.S. officials responsible for the failed operation to stand trial for the deaths of hundreds of Mexicans. Congressman Darrell Issa says the scandal leads to the top. Some believe the Obama administration allowed this deadly plan as a way to justify gun bans by executive order.