Guess who is Obama’s new campaign co-chair? Oh you know him – the same man from whom Obama plagiarized parts of his speeches. That would be none other than Gov. Deval Patrick. Yep, he has now officially joined the Obama team.
But what you might not know about Gov. Patrick is a company on whose board he sat, and for which he was handsomely paid, ACC Capital Holdings. What’s the big deal, you ask? Well, this, according to the Daily Caller:
[snip] Beginning in 2004, Patrick served two years on the five-member board of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of Ameriquest Mortgage. He was paid a $360,000 annual salary for his efforts, according to “All The Devils Are Here,” a history of the financial crisis by Bethany McClean and Joe Nocera.
Ameriquest had already been the subject of numerous criminal complaints when Patrick joined the board of ACC. But despite its troubles, the mortgage company was the country’s “dominant subprime lender” in the years preceding the housing crisis, according to McClean and Nocera.
The company’s short-term success had much to do with the fact that it would loan money to just about anyone, regardless of income. In an effort to compete, other mortgage companies began issuing loans that were unlikely to be repaid, a practice that would eventually cripple the industry and later the American economy itself.[snip] (Click here to read the rest, and there is definitely more you will want to read.)
Ruh roh…I am certain Obama’s diehard minions will find a way to dismiss this, or sweep it under the rug. But those of us our here in the Reality-based community are actually able to connect the dots. And what a picture this paints, eh?
You know, at some point, I would hope that some of these folks will have the wool pulled from their eyes, put down the Kool Aide, the Hopium pipe, and hopefully, before November. Then they can sing along with The Band Perry:
Right? Great tune – love these young folks (they are siblings).
Speaking of Obama’s lies, Investors.com has a great piece detailing the big ones Obama told in his energy speech on Thursday. And does he have some doozies (what else is new?). Here is the first big doozy of a lie Obama told:
[snip] “We’re focused on production.”
Fact: While production is up under Obama, this has nothing to do with his policies, but is the result of permits and private industry efforts that began long before Obama occupied the White House.
Obama has chosen almost always to limit production. He canceled leases on federal lands in Utah, suspended them in Montana, delayed them in Colorado and Utah, and canceled lease sales off the Virginia coast.
His administration also has been slow-walking permits in the Gulf of Mexico, approving far fewer while stretching out review times, according to the Greater New Orleans Gulf Permit Index. The Energy Dept. says Gulf oil output will be down 17% by the end of 2013, compared with the start of 2011. Swift Energy President Bruce Vincent is right to say Obama has “done nothing but restrict access and delay permitting.” [snip] (Click here to read the rest of this informative article.
Whooey, that’s a big one right off the bat. Notice how Obama is all too quick to blame Bush for everything, and all too ready to take credit for policies Bush set into place? Yeah, that seems like his standard MO. Typical.
I am sure today will bring more lies from the White House and its respective spokesweasel, Jay Carney being chief among them. Did you catch it when he claimed Obama did NOT put the kabosh on the Keystone Pipeline? Oh, yes he did (and kudos to Jake Tapper for being a real journalist):
[snip] Jake Tapper: “How can you say that you have an all the above on approach if the President turned down the Keystone pipeline? And you blame the Republicans for making it political.”
Carney: “But the President didn’t turn down the Keystone pipeline. There was a process in place, with long precedent, run out of the State Department because of the issue of the pipeline crossing an international boundary, that required an amount of time for proper for review after an alternate route was deemed necessary through Nebraska at the request of the Republican Governor of Nebraska and other stakeholders in Nebraska and the region that needed to play out, to be done appropriately. You can’t review and approve a pipeline, the route for which doesn’t even exist.snip
Good grief. How does he not get dizzy with all of this spin? And you know on whom he blamed this non-existent route, or denial by Obama: the Republicans, of course:
“The Republicans were the ones who unfortunately decided because they were looking for scalps, I guess, or wins in a situation where they somehow found themselves on the wrong side of cutting taxes for 160 million Americans last December. They decided to play politics with this decision and attack the payroll tax cut extension. Even though it was made clear by the State Department that doing so would make it impossible for them to conduct the review responsibly, they did it anyway knowing what the result would be.” (Click here to read the rest.)
But, Mr. Carney, you JUST said this was a non-existent route, a State Department issue, blah, blah, blah, but now it’s the Republicans’ fault? Wow.
Jay Carney gives me a headache.
Good thing I have just the remedy for that. Tonight, this is what we will be doing:
We get to see “Celtic Woman, Believe!” Isn’t that incredible??? I cannot wait. Woohoo! Nothing like some beautiful music to ease the frequent head exploding that results in the news coming out of the White House, is there? Here is a fun one from the “Believe” show to ease the headaches from a double-speaking, duplicitous administration:
What’s on your minds today? What music helps to keep your head from exploding? Let’s hear it!
