Jay Leno: Obama should close IRS instead of Gitmo, Imprison IRS agents there

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Voter Fraud in Florida and Ohio

Apparently the person involved in the Florida fraud case was also campaigning in the race that saw a Democrat beat Congressman Allen West in what turned out to be a very close race.  From Fox News:

The top staffer for Florida Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia resigned this weekend after being implicated in a voting-fraud scheme. 

Chief of Staff Jeffrey Garcia resigned Friday after taking responsibility for the plot and being asked by the congressman for his resignation. . . . 

Several hours before the resignation, law-enforcement investigators raided the homes of Giancarlo Sopo, the congressman's communications director, and John Estes, his 2012 campaign manager. . . .

And there was a conviction for vote fraud four times in Ohio.  Apparently there are vote fraud cases in the courts against several other people in the same county.

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Caddell, Schoen, and LeBoutillier provide an interesting discussion of the politics of the Obama Scandals

Some of the points: The scandals seem to be hurting Democrats across the board.  The Obama administration seems to be willing to do whatever is necessary to go after their political enemies.  Caddell: "Big government as a threat and big government at its worse."  People are worried that these government abuses could impact their own lives.

-- Caddell and Schoen worked in White Houses and Caddell believes that you don't go to the White House 157 and not have politics going one.

Caddell: "Who was he meeting with.  You have to be a fool(!) to believe that a head of an agency that is separate is meeting in the White House and not doing politics."


Others who went to the White House frequently.
43 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
48 Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner


-- It doesn't sound as if a special prosecutor will be appointed.

-- Holder can hold on in the short term.

UPDATE: Obama appears to be coming down strongly in Holder's corner.  Politico has this headline on Wednesday, June 5th: "Dark skies brighten for Holder"

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More than 2xs as many signatures as needed turned in for Democrat Colorado State Senate President Recall over new gun regulations

Does the Democrat Colorado State Senate President John Morse really think that he is going to be able to disqualify enough signatures to keep the recall from occurring?  Mayor Bloomberg is going to be throwing in a lot of money to fight to keep Morse in office.  From Fox News:

A group of gun-rights activists seeking to oust a top Democratic state lawmaker in Colorado over the passage of strict gun control legislation on Monday turned in double the signatures needed to force a recall election.
KDVR reports the group turned in over 16,000 signatures, more than double the 7,178 valid signatures needed, to the Colorado Secretary of State's office in the effort to recall Colorado Senate President John Morse.
“This sends a strong message,” Rob Harris, who delivered three boxes full of petitions to the office, told KDVR. “We’ve obtained enough signatures to recall a state legislator for the first time in the history of Colorado.”
The Secretary of State’s office now has 15 days to determine whether enough of the signatures  are valid, and then Morse's office has another 15 days to contest the validity of the signatures.
Morse tells KDVR he is going to fight the recall effort. “We’ll go through these signatures with a fine-toothed comb,” Morse told the station. . . .

The battle is generally over whether there should be a tax on gun ownership, whether poor individuals should be priced out of being able to own guns.

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Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's fictional alter ego "Richard Windsor" received multiple awards

From the Washington Times:

Richard Windsor never existed at the EPA, but the agency awarded the fictional staffer’s email account certificates proving he had mastered all of the agency’s technology training — including declaring him a “scholar of ethical behavior,” according to documents disclosed late last week. . . .
The new records show the Windsor account was awarded certificates showing he has “satisfactorily competed the online email records management training”; took the 2010 “No FEAR Act Training Module”; and a completed a “Cybersecurity awareness training” course in 2011, where he scored 83 percent.
Windsor was also awarded the “scholar of ethical behavior” each year from 2010 through 2012. The only training Ms. Jackson appears to have done under her own name was for cybersecurity awareness in 2010. . . .

Apparently Cass Sunstein, who is now at Harvard Law School and was the ORIA director who dealt with EPA regulations, knew that Jackson was using this fake email address.  The Lisa H. below is obviously Jackson, so Cass is clearly playing along with her in pretending that Richard was a real person. 

Vitter also released emails showing that Jackson used the account to correspond with White House officials. “I have your special email from my friend Lisa H. — hope that’s okay!)” Cass Sunstein, then-White House Information and Regulatory Affairs administrator, wrote Jackson in 2009. . . .

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"Special Report" Online: Is IRS Still Targeting Conservatives?

Liberal groups have kept on getting IRS approval quickly.  Yet, not so apparently for at least some conservative groups.  Watch this video here.

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Obama keeps trying to pick winners with taxpayer money

If these co-ops were such a great deal, they would get loans on their own.  Taxpayers wouldn't have to pick up the bill.  Don't worry it will only cost a couple of billion dollars.  From the Washington Post:

“They are basically starting new insurance companies from ground zero, and that’s very difficult,” said retired heart surgeon and health care analyst Roger Stark of the Washington Policy Center, a Seattle think tank that promotes free-market policies. “I’m all for giving consumers a lot of choices, but most of these start-up loans come from taxpayers, and a lot is going to go to waste.” 

Criticism of the program, combined with pressure to reduce federal spending, has already resulted in successive congressional budget deals that slashed funding from $6 billion to $1.9 billion; co-ops in 24 states instead of all 50 got loans. . . . .

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