Monday, October 21, 2013

Where in the world is Kathleen Sebelius?

(My new American Thinker post)

 Let's paraphrase "Little star" or that pop classic by The Elegants:  "Twinkle twinkle Kathleen, how I wonder where you are"?

 Nobody has seen Secretary Kathleen Sebelius these days. 

 Is she recovering from the John Stewart interview?  By the way, let's give John Stewart a little credit for asking the Secretary questions that the real media does not ask.

 Where are we as a country when a comedian is trying to hold public officials accountable?

 It may not be fair to blame Secretary Sebelius for everything that went wrong with the ObamaCare rollout.  At the same time, she was the woman responsible for the project and that's how it goes in the real world. 

 If not Secretary Sebelius, who else are we going to hold responsible? 

 President Obama? 

 The editorial board of The New York Times, the plan's biggest cheerleader? 

 The Democrats who voted for something that they didn't read?

 Frankly, I would have a bit more sympathy for Secretary Sebelius if she would open up and admit that something wrong.  Instead, they are hiding, as we read in the WSJ editorial:   
"Eventually Mrs. Sebelius will have to make a real accounting of this government failure to someone other than the TV comic Jon Stewart, and perhaps she can also explain why the people who can't build a working website also deserve the power to reorganize one-sixth of the U.S. economy. For now, the Administration that styles itself as the most transparent in history won't reveal the truth--perhaps because it is afraid of what the public will find."
From "Fast & Furious" to "Benghazi" to "Solyndra" to the "ObamaCare rollout", there is a terrible arrogance to the Obama administration.  They don't think that they have to explain anything except telling us 1,000,000 times that President Obama made the decision to kill Osama Bin Laden.

 Maybe the "cultists" in the media will continue protecting their investment a.k.a. Obama.   

 Maybe someone in the media will wake up if they hear that there is "a Pulitizer" in the future for the reporter who has the guts to investigate the inner workings of this corrupt administration.

 There is a lot to investigate. They can start with the company that got the ObamaCare website  contract.

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'No se puede' ObamaCare website but 'Si se puede' spying on the Mexican president

(My new American Thinker post)

 Thank God that something works in Washington.  We can't do a website site for ObamaCare but we can get in the Mexican president's system and read his emails.

 This is from Spiegel & news reports:  
"The National Security Agency (NSA) has a division for particularly difficult missions. Called "Tailored Access Operations" (TAO), this department devises special methods for special targets. That category includes surveillance of neighboring Mexico, and in May 2010, the division reported its mission accomplished. A report classified as "top secret" said: "TAO successfully exploited a key mail server in the Mexican Presidencia domain within the Mexican Presidential network to gain first-ever access to President Felipe Calderon's public email account."
According to the NSA, this email domain was also used by cabinet members, and contained "diplomatic, economic and leadership communications which continue to provide insight into Mexico's political system and internal stability."
The president's office, the NSA reported, was now "a lucrative source."
This operation, dubbed "Flatliquid," is described in a document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, which SPIEGEL has now had the opportunity to analyze. The case is likely to cause further strain on relations between Mexico and the United States, which have been tense since Brazilian television network TV Globo revealed in September that the NSA monitored then-presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto and others around him in the summer of 2012. Peña Nieto, now Mexico's president, summoned the US ambassador in the wake of that news, but confined his reaction to demanding an investigation into the matter."
The good news is that we can do something right.  Maybe President Obama should have used these people to create the ObamaCare website.  It's not easy breaking into another country's email system to read their emails.

 The bad news is that this is going to blow up US-Mexican relations.

 Seriously, what were trying to find out? 

 It's a necessity to spy on your enemies or countries openly hostile to the US. 

 I don't put Mexico in that category.  I've been critical of Mexico on these pages but this is too much.  Mexico has been fighting a costly and deadly war against cartels supplying our appetite for illegal drugs.  In other words, Mexican soldiers are dying because we can't control our consumption of illegal drugs!

 This "email incident" comes on top of The Fast & Furious" story plus the one about grenades going south too.

 I hope that the press will ask President Obama about this. This whole thing makes no sense.

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President Obama should read what the late Bum Phillips said about leadership

(My new American Thinker post)
Coach Bum Phillips died over the weekend.  He was 90 and a dictionary definition of a Texan. 

He took the Houston Oilers (now the Tennessee Titans) to the AFC championship game back to back.  He lost both times to the Steelers who went on to win the Super Bowl against Dallas and the LA Rams.

My favorite part is that Phillips was the author of great quotes about coaching and leadership.

It would do President Obama some good to read them:
"You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else."   
This is how I felt after President Obama blames everybody for everything!
"Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do."
This is a good one for ObamaCare!

Bum never became president but he could teach President Obama a thing or two, specially about blaming other people.

RIP Bum Phillips. 

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