"I know nothing"

This administration must be watching old reruns of Hogan's Heroes, especially Sargent Schultz and his favorite saying: "I know nothing".

With a trifecta of scandals consuming Washington the Obama regime is in full "I know nothing" mode. The temporary head of the IRS didn't know about the targeting of Conservative groups, the past head of the IRS didn't know, and the woman in charge of the Exempt Division of the IRS involved took the 5th amendment during hearings "on grounds that it may incriminate her"...hmm. During a press conference Obama was asked if anyone at the White House knew about the IRS scandal. His response: "I can tell you that I didn't know until I heard about the IG report". His law school training kicked in with a "non -answer" to the question. In fact it later came out that the White House Counsel and Obama's Chief of Staff knew about it and "claim" they didn't tell him.

No one at the top claims to know exactly what happened in Benghazi - Hillary didn't know and Obama didn't know; in fact most of the senior people involved say they didn't know.  One of Obama's senior advisers was asked repeatedly on the Sunday talk shows;:  "What was the President doing the night while our embassy was being attacked?" His response: "I don't know, and it is irrelevant"; sounds like Hillary's "What does it Matter".

Our Attorney general during a hearing regarding the wire tapping of email and phone calls of 20 AP lines involving 100 reporters responded over and over "I can't answer that, it was my deputy, so I don't know". Then it was revealed that he approved monitoring reporter James Rosen (and even his parents), on the basis of possibly violating the Espionage Act. This was after testifying under oath that he was never involved in the process of secretly monitoring the press.

Who is running this country?

These scandals are not going away. If the President were Republican the left wing media would be in full attack mode. But the DOJ attacking journalists seems to have triggered some real animosity toward this administration and it seems like the left media now wants some answers, and maybe even the "truth". The IRS scandal gets larger by the day starting with "two rogue agents in Cincinnati" and now possibly hundreds of agents involved including managers at high levels - the question, how high will this go?

These investigations will continue for weeks, probably months, so who knows what truths will come out. I am reminded of two proverbs: "Where there is smoke there is fire", or even more prophetic: "A fish rots from the head down".

"Chuckie D's in trouble"

The IRS scandal is common news by now even to the "low information voter " as Rush Limbaugh would say. But there appears to be much more to the scandal than targeting "Tea Party", "Patriots", or "People that want America to be better", and who knows how many other individuals or organizations.  Some reports say "Pro Life", "Pro Israel", and "Evangelical" organizations also were targeted for harassment.

Even a reporter in the mid-west who last year before the election asked Obama some very difficult and not flattering questions says that he was audited for the first time in his life 6 months after that interview. Who knows? Some conspiracy theorists even say that if you write a Blog criticizing the Obama administration, you may be a target...uh, oh.

Barack I was just kidding! I do remember saying you had a "golden voice", so that should be worth something. And referring to you as the puppet "Howdy Doody" in one of my Blogs was just a joke...common man.  OK, I did say you were incompetent and had no leadership capability. But don't take that as a "negative", look at your competition - other politicians.

Barry I hope you won't have the IRS audit me...I was just kidding! But if you do I guess I'll just have to tell the truth. Is that weird or what? Bet you never thought of doing that.

OK, no I wasn't kidding about you. Those that read this Blog know I have a very low opinion of the current slate of politicians, but especially you and your administration.  I have been voting for 50 years and have never seen this level of incompetence in Washington - on both sides. And it's only fitting Barry, that you are the "cream at the top".

"Is Conservatism Dead?"

After Obama's election, many are now saying "yes" - they say the "takers" in the country are outnumbering the "producers", and the takers will always vote democratic because it is the party of free stuff. They say the entitlement society is here to stay and as long as the voters are getting free stuff they will vote the democrat party line.

The results of the election seem to indicate that possibility – more than 96% of blacks voting for Obama and in the heavily populated areas of Philadelphia and Cleveland over 99%. According to election results more than 90% of the African American community turned out to vote and 59 voting districts recorded -0- votes for Romney. The experts say it is highly unlikely that that percentage of voters turned out, and hard to believe not even one vote for Romney, but since it did not make a difference in the election, no one really followed up and investigated.

I am not denigrating blacks, but being 13% of the population and 48% of the welfare rolls they have a vested interest in the entitlement society. Why such a large proportion of blacks are on welfare is the subject of another Blog, but they certainly are not a voting block that will promote conservatism...at least not yet. A lot of very impressive young black conservatives may change that. After all, at some point young ambitious blacks will start asking themselves: "What has the Democratic party done for me?"

Obama received 71% of the Hispanic vote, even though the Hispanic culture tends to be somewhat conservative - strong family and religious values and generally hard working people. But large numbers of Hispanics are receiving federal assistance of some kind so maybe the fact they are getting free stuff in large numbers, the democrats have that voting block locked up. I don't think so. The GOP did a poor job this last election of reaching out to Hispanics, and I don't mean "accepting" illegal immigration; studies have shown that large portions of the US Hispanic population are also against illegal immigration.  They want jobs and opportunity to achieve.

Single women and young people also went for Obama. Some say single women look at the government as their "safety net". Young people educated in our public schools and colleges are indoctrinated in liberalism and as a result, until they get into the real world most of them are democrats.

All of this should indicate that the democrats are in the driver’s seat for a long time, maybe for good.

I don't believe it. I believe there is something in the human spirit that makes most people want to work and produce something. But in this economy that is difficult for millions of people, and call me an optimist but I think many of those "takers" want a good job and the government out of their lives.

After all what is Conservatism?

* The freedom to pursue your goals with unlimited opportunity and without a massive regulatory government.
*  Reasonable taxation - enough to run the government for the purposes our founders intended, but not to burden the populous with meaningless wasteful programs, and a government that lives within its means.
* Care for the old, the poor, and the disabled but not redistribution of income from successful people to able bodied workers.

I believe the problem this election was the messenger.  Romney was not able to articulate what conservatives really stand for... Reagan did it in 1980. Conservatives need to dump the old guard GOP and find a leader that can preach that message. Luckily we have bench of talented young conservatives and hopefully they will start taking power from the GOP dinosaurs that have lost their way.