By Doug Patton ——Bio and Archives--June 7, 2013
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“The president’s Justice Department sold weapons to narco-terrorists south of our border, who killed one of our finest. The president’s State Department lied about Benghazi with false information provided by the White House. The president’s attorney general authorized spying on a Fox News reporter and his family for reporting on a North Korean nuclear test. The president’s Justice Department confiscated phone records of the Associated Press because they reported on a thwarted terrorist attack. The president’s Treasury Department uses the IRS to target political opposition. The president’s Health and Human Services secretary pressures insurance companies she is supposed to regulate to promote ‘Obamacare,’ which is the same law she uses to force citizens to pay for abortion-inducing drugs against their religious liberties. The president’s dishonesty, incompetence, vengefulness and lack of moral compass lead many to suggest that he is not fit to lead. The only problem is that his vice president is equally unfit and even more embarrassing.”Of course, since Brindenstine calmly delivered these blistering words on the House floor, more scandals have emerged from the most scandal-ridden administration in history. For example, we are learning that communications giant Verizon handed over to Obama’s NSA the phone records on as many as 100 million Americans, allegedly to fight terrorism. We learned during House Judiciary Committee hearings that the IRS deliberately leaked the names and addresses of the donors to a pro-marriage group in order to help the fanatical leftist bullies in the gay mafia (otherwise known as the Human Rights Campaign) harass their political enemies. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist (even Bill O’Reilly figured it out) to deduce that the Obama administration now has the goods on every member of Congress (or anyone else they would like to blackmail) who uses Verizon cell phone service. Do you believe they would hesitate to use such information? Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder defiantly announced that he has no intention of resigning. And why should he? He and his boss, Barack Obama, have spent the last four and a half years making the Congress of the United States largely irrelevant. And other than the handful of House members already mentioned — and perhaps a few senators like Ted Cruz — it is hard to imagine anyone in the congressional leadership who is willing to take the steps necessary to reclaim the constitutional authority they have allowed Obama to steal from them.
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(Editor’s note: Doug Patton passed away on February 27, 2014. He will be greatly missed.)
RIP Doug Patton – beloved husband, father and columnist
Doug Patton was s a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations.