The Current Events, News, and Politics Thread
.
09-29-2012, 09:26 AM
#3083
Boost Czar
Thread Starter
iTrader: (62)
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,501
Total Cats: 4,080
That's why I voted for Ross Perot all those years ago--protest vote. California is a one-party state. You can all thank us for that when all you other states bail us out in a year or two.
Reply
0
0
09-29-2012, 07:33 PM
#3087
The 2,700 (!) page law is nothing. Each page refers you to 100 additional pages. Just like taxes, a five foot stack of tax laws could be distilled down to a post card, but then half of Washington wouldn't be able to justify their existence.
Reply
0
0
10-01-2012, 11:22 AM
#3089
parallel universe
Univision report connects Operation Fast and Furious scandal to murders of Mexican teenagers | The Daily Caller
So of the hundreds killed in Fast and Furious, 16 teenagers at a party and two Americans are included. This is from a US GOVERNMENT PROGRAM that sent guns to criminals in Mexico, WITHOUT MEXICO'S KNOWLEDGE. Univision says they found an additional 57 unreported guns, and there may be more programs like F&F that have gone unreported.
Am I missing the part where this isn't a major international scandal?
So of the hundreds killed in Fast and Furious, 16 teenagers at a party and two Americans are included. This is from a US GOVERNMENT PROGRAM that sent guns to criminals in Mexico, WITHOUT MEXICO'S KNOWLEDGE. Univision says they found an additional 57 unreported guns, and there may be more programs like F&F that have gone unreported.
Am I missing the part where this isn't a major international scandal?
Reply
0
0
Totally. How dare Obama start selling guns to Mexico in 2006 while he was a state senator in Illinois.
10-01-2012, 11:50 AM
#3092
Boost Czar
Thread Starter
iTrader: (62)
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,501
Total Cats: 4,080
Obama, last week:
“I think it’s important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration,” the president said. “When Eric Holder found out about it, he discontinued it. We assigned a inspector general to do a thorough report that was just issued, confirming that in fact Eric Holder did not know about this, that he took prompt action and the people who did initiate this were held accountable.”
The Bush's 2006 programs, Operation Wide Receiver, were not "field-inititated" and were not on-going into Obama's term.
Last edited by Braineack; 10-08-2019 at 09:48 AM.
Reply
0
0
