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Obama’s propaganda group OFA which used to be his campaign team is now offering “special access” to big bucks Obama donors. NYT reports that ” Giving or raising $500,000 or more puts donors on a national advisory board for Mr. Obama’s group and the privilege of attending quarterly meetings with the president, along with other meeting meetings at the White House.” And we get to help pay for it! Formed as a non profit, donations to the group will be exempt from taxes so Obama’s rich Marxist friends won’t have to pay their fair share of taxes and U.S. taxpayers end up subsidizing their own destruction.

I know quite a few Democrats. Some are family, and many are close friends. Most voted for Obama in 2008. None at this point is inclined to vote for him in 2012. – IBD

In a vote 0f 23-17 Attorney General Eric Holder is held in contempt of congress for lying to and hiding documents from the committee investigating the botched gun scandal known as Fast and Furious.

The White House continues to block testimony of a key witness in the gun scandal known as Fast and Furious that contributed to the death of a US border agent and hundreds of Mexican citizens. The operation was conceived as apolitical stunt to actually increase the American guns used in Mexican drug cartel violence so that the Obama administration could have cover for using executive orders to impose gun restrictions without congress.

An “open society” in Soros terminology is one, at least in the U.S., which includes acceptance of abortion rights, gay rights, drug legalization, voting rights for felons, euthanasia, environmentalism, and rights for illegal immigrants and prostitutes. These movements, together with organized labor, make up the progressive left in America today.

New reports show that the White House was heavily involved in pressuring the DOE to approve the half billion dollar taxpayer guaranteed loan to Solyndra a solar company whose primary investor was a big Obama campaign contributor. -UPDATE: White House subpoena issued

White House political affairs director has ACORN / SEIU / Working Families Party connections. The ACORN front group Working Families Party has been shown to be in on funding and organizing the Occupy movement from the beginning.

The real power in the West Wing would reside upstairs from the Oval Office, in the second-floor quarters of Valerie Jarrett.

Already, the healthcare overhaul law, Obama’s signal achievement, is under attack in the courts. Republican attorneys general from 20 states have sued, insisting the law and its mandate to buy health insurance exceed Congress’ power and trample on states’ rights.

In his letter, Issa cited the Times story and said “not only are administration officials intentionally circumventing [federal law] by using private e-mail accounts, but the White House staff are also skirting the president’s own transparency initiatives, such as the online publication of White House visitor logs, by holding meetings with lobbyists outside of the White House to avoid creating records of the meetings.”