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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • White House didn’t release illegals, they say

    Apparently, I was wrong when I said that the Obama White House was behind the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants from detention. The White House said today that it wasn’t their idea – US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau did it all on their own without even asking the White House if they could says the Washington Times;

    “This was a decision made by career officials at ICE without any input from the White House as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing resolution as well as possible sequestration,” spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

    He didn’t say whether the White House agreed with the decision, but seemed to defend it, saying that all of the immigrants released remain subject to deportation and are still being supervised either electronically or by being required to check in regularly.

    Yeah, I totally believe them. Just like I believe Bite Me when he said that he knows secret stuff about the Newtown massacres that he can’t tell us – especially after his performances over the last few days.

    “Twenty innocent babies riddled – riddled with bullet holes – were the press not here, I could tell you what is not public yet about how gruesome it was,” Biden said, revealing that he spoke to State Troopers about the investigation.

    Yeah, if it wasn’t for the press, you know those people who are supposed to keep the people informed, he’d tell us details that we can’t imagine for ourselves. They won’t even be forthcoming about the weapons that were used that terrible day, but we’re supposed to believe there’s more stuff that’s secret that would make us want more gun control.

    Call me when this administration tells the truth – now THAT would be a news story.

  • Note to Bite Me; Man fires shotgun to scare off burglars, arrested

    Someone send this article to Joe Biden, or Jill Biden. 22-year-old Trevor Lamont Snowden told police that when he went in his bedroom the other night, he encountered two burglars entering his window. they told to get out of the bedroom and to close the door;

    Thinking the suspects were going to rob him, he moved into the hallway and retrieved a shotgun.

    Moyers said Snowden fired through his bedroom door, then opened the door and fired several more rounds toward the window. Any suspects fled the area and could not be located by officers.

    Snowden was then charged with “reckless handling of a firearm” and released. So, I guess the police in Virginia Beach aren’t enamored with the Vice President’s advice that we should all go out on our balconies and fire indiscriminately into the air to scare off any lurking burglars.

    Thanks to SwoMyGosh for the link.

  • Hundreds of illegals released

    You’ve probably already heard this, but the Obama Administration has released hundreds of illegal aliens from custody in preparation for sequester cuts. Republicans say that the folks released were dangerous criminals, but folks who defend the release say that they shouldn’t have been detained in the first place. From the Washington Times;

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that runs the detention facilities, said that with sequesters and the annual spending bills looming, officials have tried to find places to cut, and releasing low-priority immigrants is one of those ways.

    “Over the last week, ICE has reviewed several hundred cases and placed these individuals on methods of supervision less costly than detention,” ICE said in a statement. “All of these individuals remain in removal proceedings. Priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety.”

    While being released from detention, the illegal immigrants are still subject to supervision — either by electronic device or by being required to check in with ICE by phone or in person.

    I’m kind of thinking that we’ll never see those people again, and I think it’s a bit of theater on the part of the administration. Just a few days ago Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that sequestration would allow dangerous criminals into the country because of staffing cuts, so they release a bunch that we already have in custody? I don’t understand why they didn’t at least send them back to their entry point. That would have saved even more money.

  • Taliban attacks report incorrect

    Before the election, the US-led coalition in Afghanistan reported that the number of attacks by the Taliban on UN forces was in decline, indicating that the taliban was being defeated. Now that the election is over, the coalition people who track those sort of things have found some data they forgot to factor in to the formula says the Associated Press;

    “During a quality control check, ISAF recently became aware that some data was incorrectly entered into the database that is used for tracking security-related incidents across Afghanistan,” said Jamie Graybeal, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition known officially as the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF.

    Graybeal said a subsequent audit determined that portions of the data from unilateral Afghan military operations were “not properly reflected” in the trends ISAF had reported in its monthly updates on security and violence.

    Yet another thing that was “not properly reflected” running up to the election. This is my shocked face.

    Graybeal said that even though the number of 2012 Taliban attacks was unchanged from 2011, “our assessment of the fundamentals of campaign progress has not changed. The enemy is increasingly separated from the population and the ANSF are currently in the lead for the vast majority of partnered operations.”

    Yeah, we’re going to believe you now. Right.

    In other disingenuous news, NATO is also reporting a decline in “insider attacks” by way of USAToday;

    The decline in insider attacks comes as overall fatalities U.S. forces has decreased sharply. This year, three U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan, down from 39 during the same period last year. The number of U.S. forces has been declining as Afghan forces take a lead role in security operations.

    The insider attacks have dropped largely as a result of “substantial” changes in tactics by Afghan and U.S. forces, Gurganus said in an interview from Afghanistan.

    Among the changes he cited:

    Coalition forces improved security tactics to enhance troop protection.
    Afghan commanders increased supervision and oversight of their troops.
    Afghans enhanced screening of recruits and took counterintelligence steps to screen for potential attackers.

    Yeah, and US troops were allowed to arm themselves around their supposed allies. Funny how that put a cork in the bottle, ain’t it? Another way to cause a decline in the number of these attacks is the way they classify them. We here at TAH know that some attacks on US troops weren’t reported as “insider attacks”, that unless someone was killed, ISAF didn’t even report it last year. So it’s impossible for us to track these things from way over here because of data that was “not properly reflected”.

  • Buy a shotgun, buy a shotgun.

    “Buy a shotgun” says Joe Biden.

    You have to stick it out to the end of this video for the full effect;

  • Oh, so now illegals are a national security risk, huh?

    The Washington Times is reporting that Janet Napolitano is threatening to let in more illegal aliens in the event that the sequester takes effect, you know, the same illegal aliens who last week we were supposed to make room for and coddle, but this week are are threat to our national security;

    “There’s always a threat,” she said at the White House. “We’re going to do everything we can to minimize that risk. But the sequester makes it awfully, awfully tough.”

    And she said there’s an increased risk of illegal immigrants crossing the borders.

    “Yes it does affect our ability to keep out illegal migrants,” she said.

    It’s odd that when a Republican says that illegals are a threat, he’s a racist, but when the Obama Administration says it, we’re supposed to scared into some kind of action.

    While we’re on the subject of sequestration, that right wing hack, Bob Woodward from that far-right rag, the Washington Post claims that Obama has been “inconsistent” on the facts of how the sequester came about. The President has said that it was purely a Republican Congress thing, but Woodward tells a different story;

    The finger-pointing began during the third presidential debate last fall, on Oct. 22, when President Obama blamed Congress. “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”

    […]

    My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of [White House chief of staff, Jack] Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

    Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.

    So, I guess when the recently-classified-as-dangerous illegal aliens flood across our borders because the sequester has cut the number of patrol officers, we can roundly blame the Obama Administration.

  • White House trolls Twitter

    Lance Cooley sends us a link from The Hill which reports that Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) and his staff uncovered an effort to troll his office with pro-gun-control Tweets;

    Stockman said that in response to Obama’s call for people to tweet their congressman in support of gun control legislation, he received just 16 tweets. But he said all of these messages were identical, and that a closer look at them revealed that only six were from real people.

    “The other 10 are fake, computer-generated spambots,” his office said in a press release. As evidence, he said these 10 tweets use default graphics and names, and have not engaged in any interaction with other people. Two of the tweets were sent at nearly the same time, and both follow just one person: Brad Schenck, Obama’s former digital strategist.

    So, I’m guessing that they can’t summon enough of the Obama For America crowd to have an impact on the gun issue. That should give them an indication of how the elections are going to go next year if they persist in this whole gun control thing.

  • Oscars? Meh

    Moochelle

    Several of you want express your outrage at the First Lady who graced us with her presence at the Oscars last night with some mannequins behind her. I don’t understand the symbolism of the military members behind her since she didn’t mention them or their service…but she is the First Lady and I’m sure, guessing by their wide smiles, the troops who were there were happy – and that’s all that matters to me, seriously.

    But folks on Twitter weren’t so happy about it, according to Twitchy. Jennifer Rubin had some stuff to say about it at the Washington Post. Drudge says she “crashed the Oscars”.

    But, since I don’t really care what happened at the Oscars because I’m too busy dealing with real life things here, it’s all just so much noise – from both sides. If you guys want to get exercised about Hollywood, knock yourselves out – I won’t think any less of you. In fact you can get exercised because I’m not exercised, if you want. Meh.