Sipsey Street Irregulars: Issa gets slapped. White House invokes executive privilege to prevent O'Reilly from testifying. "Are you gonna do something? Or just stand there and bleed?"

Friday, April 6, 2012

Issa gets slapped. White House invokes executive privilege to prevent O'Reilly from testifying. "Are you gonna do something? Or just stand there and bleed?"

From the Daily Caller -- Chaffetz: White House blocking access to ‘Fast and Furious’ witness who wants to testify.

From Dave Workman -- White House thumbs nose at Grassley, Issa over F&F request.

Johnny Tyler: Listen mister, I'm getting awful tired of your...

[Wyatt slaps him]

Wyatt Earp: Are you gonna do something? Or just stand there and bleed?

Tombstone, 1993.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Since the Whitehouse wants to block the testimony there is obviously something the O'Bummer administration wants to hide. Definitely does NOT pass the smell test and the stench goes all the way to the Prez. Time for him to GO.; April 6, 2012 at 9:42 PM
Cropduster said...: WTF !!!; April 7, 2012 at 5:01 AM
BadCyborg said...: I think we should all send Rep. Issa a handkerchief to catch the blood. If he had an ex-girlfriend attack I doubt there'd be anything for her to rip off.

"Tombstone" is one of my favorite westerns. There were 2 films about Wyatt Earp that came out around the same time. "Tombstone" with Kirk Russell and "Wyatt Earp" with Kevin Costner. Both had GREAT performances from their "Doc Holliday"; Val Kilmer with Russell and Dennis Quaid with Costner. Kurt Russell's mustache was light years better than Costner's feeble patch and Russell had a look that could freeze your soul. You gotta see the film to appreciate it.; April 7, 2012 at 6:25 AM
SWIFT said...: This so called investigation is amateur at best. Get an indictment against someone lower on the ladder, Bill Newell would do, but I'd prefer Hope MacAllister. Then, it's Monty Hall time. The prospect of doing some prison time has a way of lubricating a criminal's jaws. No deals unless the information produces significant results. I have to believe Issa already knows this, but is dragging his feet for reasons not shared with the unwashed masses. He doesn't want to know what I really think of him!; April 7, 2012 at 6:35 AM
Old NFO said...: Concur, the indictments need to start, THEN people will start talking.; April 7, 2012 at 7:21 AM
harp1034 said...: As long as Holder controls the Justice Dept. there will be no indictments.; April 7, 2012 at 11:59 AM
CowboyDan said...: "As long as Holder controls the Justice Dept. there will be no indictments."

Harp1034, you left off "in federal courts." Crimes were committed in several states: Arizona, California, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, and a few states in Mexico.

Sooner or later, someone in one of those states is going to file some charges and seal the indictments until the baddies are within reach of a friendly sheriff or local cop who's about to retire.

Surely one of those ATF dipsticks is in an area Holder can't reach.; April 7, 2012 at 1:22 PM
W W Woodward said...: Grand jury indictments are a lot easier to come by than are prosecutions. Most, if not all, County and District courts receive some form of federal funding. Threats to withdraw that funding are extremely effective in squelching prosecutions. I speak from experience and personal observation.

[W3]; April 8, 2012 at 5:28 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Issa gets slapped. White House invokes executive privilege to prevent O'Reilly from testifying. "Are you gonna do something? Or just stand there and bleed?"

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