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The Real Side | Commentary by Joe Messina
| Monday, May 5, 2014

joemessinamugI have had this mindset that truth prevails, and I believe truth will always win, eventually, not always at first, but it will always win. The Bible calls the truth “light” and light always drives out darkness.

It seems in today’s society truth is a fleeting 140-character-or-less thing. Mainstream media can’t find it if you put it in a bag marked with flares. The President, being the constitutional scholar that he is, can’t even spell it.

When President Obama interviewed with Bill O’Reilly, he said there were no scandals. I guess he doesn’t know what a scandal is. According to Websters Dictionary, a scandal is:

an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage.
“a bribery scandal involving one of his key supporters”

synonyms:       (outrageous) wrongdoing, impropriety, misconduct, immoral behavior, unethical behavior, discreditable behavior, outrageous behavior

Let’s focus on the synonym “wrongdoing.” The IRS targeted 99 percent of applications received from conservative-sounding applicants using keywords like, liberty, constitution and freedom (very nasty words!). According to IRS rules, that was WRONG and evidence of this can be found in MANY emails sent by Lois Lerner and the other IRS personnel. Mr. President, that, according to the dictionary, is a classic example of a scandal.

Remember in the interview, Mr. Obama said there were no scandals. I guess they were just “FoxTales” (my words, not his.)

He might as well just say, “I have a pen and I’ll pass my own laws.” Those of you who are going to tell me that President Bush (and others) signed more executive orders than Obama, wake up! There are executive orders, and then, there are EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

Pardoning the turkeys on Thanksgiving is done by executive order, really deep. Re-writing the healthcare law by executive order circumvents the value of the three branches of government. That’s a problem. Mr. Obama sees this as a dictatorship, not a democratic republic, where he can say or do anything he wants because he is king. He has issued over 22 executive orders to modify a LAW. That is not the intent of an executive order.

Why doesn’t he follow the law he swore to uphold? Why not just acknowledge that we need to fix this law that was passed too quickly? Why? Because this administration has never done anything wrong. They take responsibility for nothing.

He has a default script in his teleprompter. The Republicans are blocking us. It’s because of climate change and if the Republicans would pass the bill we could fix this. If the speaker could get control of his members we could pass my jobs bill (that doesn’t exist).

We should move the White House to Walt Disney World and put it in the land of “make believe” where it belongs under this administration.

According to Forbes, “frustrated by the inability of Congress to pass immigration reform, Obama kicked off his own set of reforms by executive order, halting the legal deportation of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. illegally.” Another shining example of King Obama writing law on his own.

When the heat was on and Mr. Obama realized he wasn’t getting the cabinet members he wanted because they were being blocked by the democratic process and by rules set forth in the Constitution, he simply went around it and appointed 22 czars with the same responsibility as their counterparts in the cabinet.

And then there’s Benghazi! Yup. How many Democrats said Republicans were on a witch hunt? Democrats just wanted close it down and move on. An exasperated Pelosi said, “Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. Why aren’t we talking about something else?” Like a bunch of scared teenagers knowing they are about to be caught, they try to frustrate you or divert your attention. It’s breaking down and it’s about to get worse.

With retired admirals now coming out and telling the truth, it is only be a matter of time before soldiers and others involved come forward realizing that if they don’t, we all lose.

In the process, Hillary will be exposed, along with what Biden and others knew at the time. Democrats are running away from this administration, the lies told about the ACA scandal, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, drones and so much more.

Notice how they start to pop when asked questions hitting close to home. Hillary, Pelosi, Reid. The President, when asked by O’Reilly about the scandals, looks down at his shoes, grins and says, “there are no scandals.” WOW!

This administration will stand out in history as the dirtiest, least transparent, most corrupt since the Al Capone administration.

Forget the Democrat and Republican party lines. These guys are crooked. They are bad news and would be arrested for racketeering in most cities if it weren’t for the fact that they are a government agency.

DUDE! We are in so much trouble if we don’t vote in a bunch of steel-spined legislators this coming November.

 

 

Joe Messina is host of The Real Side (TheRealSide.com), a nationally syndicated talk show that runs on AM-1220 KHTS radio and SCVTV [here]. He is also the current president of the Hart School Board. His commentary publishes Mondays.

 

 

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  1. mememine69 says:

    News editors never mention that science’s consensus of “belief” for the worst crisis imaginable is just 32 years of nothing beyond; “could be’ and “95%”. Prove us deniers wrong and find us one IPCC warning that says; “inevitable” or “eventual” or “proven” or 100%…….
    32 years of science being; “95%” certain that THE END COULD BE NEAR is anything you want it to be and anything you want to “believe” but not; sustainable and “believable” for another 32 years of “could be”.Science is 100% certain the planet is not flat and 100% certain that comet hits are “inevitable” but are 95% certain that their own comet hit of a climate crisis “could” flatten the planet?
    And get ahead of the curve;
    *Occupywallstreet now does not even mention CO2 in its list of demands because of the bank-funded and corporate run carbon trading stock markets ruled by politicians.
    *Canada killed Y2Kyoto with a freely elected climate change denying prime minister and nobody cared, especially the millions of scientists warning us of unstoppable warming (a comet hit).

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