Excerpts from http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/the_end_of_the_obama_illusion.html
The Associated Press, whose newsroom and reporters’ personal phone line records were secretly subpoenaed, is collectively owned by members of the mainstream media. As the largest newsgathering organization in the country, it stands for media freedom itself in their minds.
An attack on it is an attack on them.
The love they offered Obama all those years has not been reciprocated. The illusion of Obama the godlike light-bringer, the man who could bring us together, has dissolved into an uncomfortable, soon to be angry, memory.
And therein lies serious peril for President Obama.
The problem is that not only is Obama a liar; he is a phony. And bit by bit, the evidence is becoming clearer to more and more of the people who were taken in.
Once upon a time, Barack Obama rode as high as a politician can get, at least as the big media portrayed him. It’s a long way down.
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Great post. Love the chart.
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Thanks! Can’t take credit for chart. I just screenshot it at American Thinker. It’s in the article linked.
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It is worse than just the AP phones. They hacked into Congress… something called the Cloak Room was wiretapped.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloakroom#U.S._Congress
I was in the House Republican Cloak Room (as a guest of a Representative) on this trip to D.C.
I’m not sure that the Cloak Room phones were hacked or bugged (although I wouldn’t put it past this adminstration, and who knows what phone calls are archived by the NSA), but I think the Cloak Room phone number definitely was on the list of phone calls to/from members of the Associated Press. But yes, there is a separation of powers issue here when the Executive branch administration is monitoring the communications of the press and likely both their own party and the opposition party in the Legislative branch!
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Hmmmm. This sounds way more serious, to me, than the AP wiretaps. And something that might really motivate Congress to consider the I-word.
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The House could pass articles of impeachment, but conviction requires a 2/3 vote of the Senate (i.e. 67 Senators).
There are currently only 45 Republican Senators.
Which means that even if every single Repulbican voted to convict, there would have to be another 22 Senators (out of the 53 Democrats and 2 “Independent” Democrats) voting to convict in order to actually convict him of the crimes.
I just don’t believe that there are 22 Democrats who would be willing to vote to convict, REGARLESS OF WHICH LAWS ARE BROKEN. They simply will NOT convict “the first black pResident”.
Even if Republicans won EVERY SINGLE one of the 33 Senate races in 2014, they would only gain 20 seats (those currently held by Democrats), netting 65 Senators in the next Session of Congress (still 2 short of 67).
I think Obama knows that there is nothing he could do that would remove him from power before 1/20/2017. There is no check on his abuse of power, and he knows it. And the less successful he is in getting his agenda through Congress, the more he will use Chicago thug tactics to try to get what he wants.
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the comment regarding this matter came from a member of the House of Reps by the name of Dennis Nunes I think it was…. he did not sound happy.
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http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/16/did-a-gop-rep-accuse-the-doj-of-wiretapping-the-house-of-representatives-cloakroom/
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Thanks for the link, red. Clarifies the issue: “[Nunes] did not mean to refer to phone records of the cloakroom itself, but of the Capitol. This refers to the phone records for the AP from the House press gallery, which the DOJ admitted to looking at. He was explaining that if those phone records were seized, they would reveal a lot of conversations between the press and members of Congress, since reporters often speak to Members from the press gallery phones. The notion of the DOJ looking at phone records from the Capitol of conversations between Members of Congress and reporters is something that concerns Rep. Nunes, bringing up issues related to the separation of powers.”
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