Leaving The Building: Shinseki 'Resigns', Carney Runs For Cover

The Obama Administration typically saves document dumps, information that reflects badly on the regime and other controversial news for Friday afternoons DC time, in order to allow the traditional weekend lull in the news cycle to diffuse things a little.

Today, the president finally dropped the ax on VA head General Norman Shinseki, announcing that he had 'agreed to accept Shinseki's resignation' after agreeing with his VA secretary that Shinseki had become a “distraction.”



Actually, this was planned as a distraction to allow President Obama some cover ('Look, he's doing something about it') and provide even members of his own party with a convenient scapegoat for a scandal the White House was deeply,deeply involved in.

Sloan D. Gibson, the deputy secretary of veterans affairs, is taking over as acting secretary until a permanent replacement for Shinseki is found and confirmed by the Senate. In view of President Obama's constant efforts to cut back and derail VA benefits from the beginning of his presidency, the new nominee ought to be interesting.

President Obama said in his press conference that the VA’s initial review showed that “the misconduct has not been limited to a few VA facilities, but many across the country.” He said that was “totally unacceptable,” adding: “Last week I said that if we found misconduct, it would be punished, and I meant it.”

'Punished'???  This is going to be contained and stonewalled. In the Obama regime, no one is ever accountable for anything unless Our Dear Leader decides otherwise. You see, in response to a question, the president answered that he was going to leave it to the Justice Department and AG Eric Holder to determine “whether there’s been criminal wrongdoing” within the VA system. No one is going to be 'punished',except perhaps some low level apparatchnicks as needed, who like Shinseki can be sacrificed to take the fall.

Another White House figure who's leaving is the regime's own Baghdad Bob, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. President Obama referred to Carney as one of his closest advisers and friends at the White House, and gave him a nice huggie.



"In April, Jay came to me in the Oval Office and said that he was thinking of moving on, and I was not thrilled, to say the least," he said. "But Jay has had to wrestle with this decision for quite some time."

Actually, I think, unlike Shinseki, Lyin' Jay actually did resign. At this point, I think he was having trouble looking himself in the mirror every morning, and even his allies on the press corps shunned him like the hideous jackal he had become. That image will fade with him out of the spotlight and give him a chance after a few months to rehabilitate his image and get a gig as a talking head on MSNBC or one of the alphabet networks.

Carney's deputy Josh Earnest will take over the job as the president's press secretary. Some people will literally do anything for money.

Hillary Clinton's Dilemma On Benghazi - Protect The Obama Administration or Herself

As Rep. Darrel Issa's House Oversight Committee began its investigation of the shameful events in Benghazi and what appears to be a clumsy attempt at an Obama Administration cover up, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the hot seat.

It's pretty obvious by now that virtually everything the Obama Administration told the American people after the deadly attacks was a lie.The above ad from the Heritage Foundation ad above does a pretty good job of laying out the timeline and showing what we were told versus the actual facts as they were revealed.

So we now have a congressional committee investigating what has become a normal situation with the Obama regime - who knew what and when did they know it.

Even though there's now conclusive evidence that the State Department knew withing 24 hours that this was a terrorist attack with al-Qaeda elements, the Obama Administration continued to lie and mislead the American people about that for over a week, insisting that the Benghazi assault was a 'spontaneous protest' directed at an obscure YouTube video. The political context in the middle of an election, with President Obama chest thumping about his supposed foreign policy expertise is obvious.

Mrs. Clinton and President Obama,both of whom made a point of promulgating this fiction sat down this morning to attempt to craft what's obviously a new political strategy to give to the president's spokesmouths and shillmeisters in an effort to tamp down a growing scandal, at least until after the elections.The new line is quite obvious.

Now,people like UN ambassador Susan Rice 'were working on the best intelligence they had available at the time' and spokesmouth Jay Carney insists he never said Benghazi wasn't a terrorist attack, in spite of numerous clips from September showing him doing exactly that:



What all this doesn't explain is why Ambassador Steven's concerns about security for the consulate were consistently denied, why no personnel inside the consulate were armed, including two ex-Navy SEALS, why even a request for a barbed wire fence was turned down and warnings from the Libyan government itself were ignored,or why a 16 man Special Forces Security Team and a six member mobile security team were removed from Libya one month before the easily predictable flash point of the anniversary of 9/11.

Today, Eric Nordstrom, a regional security officer who left Tripoli about two months before the attack, told the committee that Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Programs Charlene Lamb wanted to keep the number of U.S. security personnel in Benghazi “artificially low.”

And Lt. Col. Andy Wood, the head of a 16-member special operations team that left Libya in August, said Stevens wanted his team to stay in the country. As I mentioned previously, he was appalled , and said it was unbelievable to him that the State Department withdrew the security teams when they did because of the 13 security incidents before 9-11.

Secretary Clinton is on a major hot seat here.

Rep. Issa has not called on her to testify yet, and indeed he's compared her desire to cooperate quite favorably with that of Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice on Fast And Furious. But sooner or later, some awkward questions are bound to be asked.

Since the State Department knew within 24 hours that this was a highly organized and planned terrorist attack, why did Mrs. Clinton repeat an obvious lie about a spontaneous protest and a reaction to a video? Were she and other administration figures taking direction from President Obama and pushing a false narrative to shield him from taking a well-deserved political hit?

Or, if she claims she was unaware of the intel the State Department she runs was fully aware of, doesn't that call to attention her incompetence and unfitness for the position she holds?

If the president and administration figures knew that their story about the YouTube video was false, aren't they guilty of giving it extra publicity and thus exacerbating the assaults on our embassies after the Benghazi attack?

Why has there been no mention by the Administration of the fact that Ambassador Stevens body was sodomized and mutilated after his death? Are they afraid that the truth might outrage Americans and destroy the carefully nurtured  narrative of the Arab Spring and pragmatic, peaceful Islamists?

Why were the security teams removed leaving the consul and its personnel defenseless? Why were their lives and safety entrusted to a small group of  rag tag Libyan security that appears to have been infiltrated by al-Qaeda and their affiliates?

None of these are going to be easy questions to answer, and Secretary Clinton may very well be put in a position to either admit that President Obama and his team asked her and other administration figures to lie for political purposes to protect his candidacy or to fall on her sword and take a bullet by appearing naive and incompetent.

Obama Spokehole Jay Carney Won't Answer When Asked Where Israel's Capitol Is

At today's press briefing in response to repeated questions, White House press secretary and all purpose tool Jay Carney refuses to answer when asked for the Obama Administration's position on where Israel's capitol is situated.

All he can do is repeat 'our position hasn't changed' while refusing to state what that position is.

I almost long for Gibbsey's smooth malevolence and ability to lie ad lib at times like this. He was a worthy target. Carney is simply pathetic.

WH Press Sec Carney tries To Spin On Budget But Soils Himself

You have to wonder about a creature like White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Does he actually believe what comes out of his mouth, or is he just there to do a job and pay the bills?

Notice that when FOX News anchor Brett Baier asks simple questions - with 51 democrat votes in the senate,why hasn't a budget been passed and why did President Obama's own budget go down to defeat 441-0 without even a single Democrat voting for it - Carney's response is to try and yell over him and repeat the same non-answer over and over again. It's like watching a small child in grown up's clothes covering his ears and shouting 'la la la, can't hear you!'

Could it be because Harry Reid and President Obama don't want vulnerable senators in Red States like Jon Tester and Claire McKaskill on record in an election years as voting for a ridiculous budget that calls for another $1.3 trillion deficit this year and a cool $901 billion deficit next year?

As a matter of fact, President Obama's little screed yesterday that Carney keeps mentioning on the budget was anything but detailed and factual, as Rep. Paul Ryan points out.

I won't even bother to discuss Carney's response to Baier's question about the propriety of a sitting president attempting to bully the Supreme Court on a matter pending before them.

This is an excellent example of why nine times out of ten it's pointless to attempt to debate with the Left. Not only do the vast majority lack even a semblance of intellectual honesty, but to them this is what passes for their religion, so you just end up going in circles.

Carney, of course, is on a career path. After he finishes at the White House, he'll be in line for a seven figure gig as a talking head at one of the alphabet networks.

But you have to wonder what goes on inside these people's heads.

Psychologists will tell you that when people knowingly lie over a period of time, the mind plays a nifty little trick so that the lie actually becomes a kind of 'truth' for them. Is Jay Carney at that stage? Or is just a means to an end and he's simply doing this for that future golden paycheck?