Hold on to the handrails, folks, GorT is fired up.  It’s been one of those weeks.  You know the ones – craptastic service from Comcast at GorT’s place of business causing us to be without internet access for almost 2 days*, service tech for oven repair job at home blows his already-rescheduled service window and GorT has to reschedule again, and then we have the following news items:

1.  Hot on the trail of ‘Puter’s (he’s always right) rant, we have Chris Matthews speaking for “all white people.”  I kid you not.  Click here and listen yourself.  For those without audio, and ‘Puter, here’s the quote:

I mean a lot of people out there – I’ll just tell you one thing. And I’m speaking now for all white people, but especially people who have had to try to change the last 50 or 60 years. A lot of them have really tried to change and I’m sorry for this stuff. That’s all I’m saying.

GorT isn’t one for excessive profanity but I think I’m more than justified in saying, “Shut the fuck up, Chris Matthews.”  How in God’s holy name does this ass-clown still have a venue on TV to voice this kind of crap?  

But it gets better….

2.  Remember this:

Yeah, well Detroit just filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history.  This is on the democrats’ watch: specifically the super-majority of democrats in executive and legislative roles in Detroit.  It is democrat policies that got that city where it is today.  It’s all great that President Obama said that he wouldn’t let Detroit go bankrupt (even though he just did), it is really not his fault.  His issue is putting those words out there and then not backing it up with anything.

But wait, there’s more:

3.  Remember how the Affordable Care Act was going to be the end-all-be-all solution for our health care woes?  Remember how HHS Secretary Sebelius said, “So here are the facts: if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.” And Nancy Pelosi’s website includes the bullet, “Keep your doctor, and your current plan, if you like them.”   Well, the HHS website was recently updated and a question/response was posted, “Can I keep my own doctor?” with the first sentence of the response being, “Depending on the plan you choose in the Marketplace, you may be able to keep your current doctor.”   May.  Not will.  May.

And if we didn’t have enough crap going on in the country, we have this:

4. This week the IRS scandal was tied to the Washington office (from the Cincinnati office) and not just anyone in the Washington office, but the office of the chief counsel.  This is one of two Obama appointees in the entire agency.  This WSJ article breaks out the troubling information like so:

•  when the scandal broke in May, IRS leadership in DC claimed that the harassment of conservative groups was confined to the Cincinnati office
• Cincinnati IRS workers (i.e. Elizabeth Hofacre) pointed the finger back to DC office (Carter Hull)
• Carter Hull testified that applications by conservative groups were kicked upstairs in the DC office at the direction of Lois Lerner
• Specifically, his testimony was that Lerner’s guidance was to send these to the IRS chief counsel

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), with whom GorT would love to sit and have some Bessinger’s BBQ on GorT’s dime, describes this as the “evolution of the defense.”  Again, from the WSJ article:

First, Ms. Lerner planted a question at a conference. Then she said the Cincinnati office did it—a narrative that was advanced by the president’s spokesman, Jay Carney. Then came the suggestion the IRS was too badly managed to pull off a sophisticated conspiracy. Then the charge that liberal groups were targeted too—”we did it against both ends of the political spectrum.” When the inspector general of the IRS said no, it was conservative groups that were targeted, he came under attack. Now the defense is that the White House wasn’t involved, so case closed.

Rhetorically speaking, I don’t understand why these aren’t blowing up left and right.  Why are we facing protests about a local crime case in Florida but nothing major about any of these?

* – seriously, how can any company provision static IP addresses for a business (at no small expense), then, after the internet fails at said office, realize that those addresses were already provisioned for someone else and go through two iterations of provisioning new ones.  All the while, the local technician, who shows up without a computer and has no knowledge of basic network troubleshooting tools (ping, traceroute, netstat, for the geeks out there) is the one customer-facing.

GorT

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