Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Missing E-Mail is the least of the IRS’s problems. “In 2014, every government agency should be storing every e-mail that goes in or out in an easily accessible format. That they weren’t bothering suggests that the IRS does not expect to deliver the kind of accountability that it routinely demands of taxpayers. That’s potentially a much bigger problem than anything Lois Lerner stands accused of…” No, they’re actually the same one – banana-republic style arrogance.

NBC/WSJ poll finds 54% have no confidence in Obama’s leadership.“This is the public saying your presidency is over.” We wish. He’ll still be playing golf, signing “executive orders” and leading with his behind on foreign policy. Oh, and climate change.

Hillary: There’s more to find on Benghazi and the IRS. What difference does it make, unless you’re running for some office or something.

Former US ambassador wonders why Kerry isn’t in Baghdad. Duh, the climate isn’t changing there, silly. Besides, there’s no place to dock his yacht, and Leonardo Di Caprio says the cuisine there is pedestrian.

Lois Lerner on IRS hard drive crash: “Sometimes stuff just happens”. How convenient.

Metropolitan Opera romanticizes one NYer’s murder. In 1985, Palestinian terrorists hijacked a cruise ship and shot a wheelchair-bound WWII vet in the head, then dumped his body overboard. NYC’s Met thinks this would make a good opera.

Famous Clinton courage exhibited in Hillary’s answer to Keystone question: “I can’t respond”. She would’ve said “What difference does it make?” but she’s used that one already.

Kerry: Protecting oceans from climate change a “vital security issue”. “With the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) advancing rapidly through Iraq… Secretary of State John Kerry hosted a conference on the world’s real ‘vital security issue’.” Don’t have to worry about doing stupid sh*t, Kerry beat ya to it.

Donald Sterling hires private investigators to dig up dirt on NBA owners, commissioner.“The gloves are off, as they say, have them dig up all the dirt they can find.” Looking for their own petards to hoist them on, he is.

Gallup: Majority says Obama not “honest and trustworthy”.“Fifty-one percent of the Americans who responded…” The other 49% said “Who’s Obama?” Just kidding. Maybe. Back in Nixon’s day, they called this a “credibility gap.”

Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” Moment. Obamalypse now.

In the Middle East, the End of the Beginning. “…we now can see clearly that there are no real nation-states in the Islamic world, only the ummah, of which the caliphate for which ISIS and other groups are fighting is its political expression. … At last we have met the enemy, and he is the same enemy he has always been.” Well, some of us can see that clearly, but we’d wager Obama is not one of them.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard heads to Iraq to take on ISIS. Our best hope is that they beat each other to a pulp and it ends in a draw with both sides exhausted, as it did in 1980-1988.

The Benghazi attackers reported to their bosses using stolen State Department phones. Just calling them to find out the title of that inflammatory YouTube video.

Biden: We need “constant, unrelenting stream” of immigrants. Well, we’ve had that from the Obama Administration the last five…. oh sorry, we thought that said “idiocy”, not “immigrants.”

Russian bombers fly within 50 miles of California coast. Probably just hoping to lure some businesses fleeing Moonbeamland to Moscow instead of Texas.

California judge strikes down tenure for public-school teachers as violating students’ right to quality education. “The plaintiffs argued that California’s current laws made it impossible to get rid of low-performing and incompetent teachers, who were disproportionately assigned to schools filled with poor students. The result, they insisted, amounted to a violation of students’ constitutional rights to an education.” So is the solution to get rid of bad teachers or simply make sure they’re distributed equally to all districts? Let’s see… teacher unions, Democrat politicians, campaign $$$$…. nope, we haven’t a clue.

Poll: Americans still hate Obamacare. Even after they found out what’s in it… “By a 55-38 percent margin, people wish the Affordable Care Act had never passed and the 2009 system were still in place. That includes a quarter of Democrats (25%), a majority of independents (58%) and most Republicans (85%).”

Are Democrats giving up on Obama? Yeah, five years late and several trillion dollars short. Thanks Democrats.

The president’s very real Military problem. “Now you know what members of our U.S. military are thinking and saying. They have lost all respect for their commander in chief.” A lot of that going around these days for some reason.

Watch what you say, the New Liberal Power Elite won’t tolerate dissent. “Leading figures of the Clerisy … argue that power should shift from naturally contentious elected bodies—subject to pressure from the lower orders—to credentialed ‘experts’ operating in Washington, Brussels or the United Nations. The popular will, according to the Clerisy and its allies, lacks the scientific judgment and societal wisdom to be trusted with power.” From the looks of things over the last decade, they aren’t too damn smart either. Bullet train to the bottom.

Psychologist worries “erratic” Obama may not be “sane”. “It really seems to me like this President is demonstrating behavior that is not only anti-American, but irrational and erratic and perhaps not exactly what we might want to deem sane.” His community is not organized… big surprise, eh?

Obama and Putin publicly ignored each other at D-Day Memorial. “But they did have an informal conversation for 10 to 15 minutes during a lunch… the White House said.” We can imagine how it went… Obama: “The cold war called, it wants its foreign policy back!” Putin: “Why don’t you trade me an aircraft carrier for a 1980 Trabant? You know you want to!” And so on, and so on…

Secret documents reveal Bergdahl declared jihad, fraternized with captors. “…’he became much more of an accepted fellow’ than is popularly understood. He even reportedly was allowed to carry a gun at times.” Yeah, we know, what difference does it make?

Harry Reid on Bergdahl Deal: “What difference does it make?” Dingy Harry either now thinks he’s Hillary or “What difference does it make?” has become the default excuse line when the Clown College effs up again. “Hey, we just traded an aircraft carrier to the Taliban for a ton of goat poop! What difference does it make?”