"I hate O'Malley"
"I hate O'Malley"
"I hate O'Malley"
"I hate O'Malley"
"I hate O'Malley"

I say that because he has raised taxes on us by RECORD setting mounts, continues to raise fees and continues to INCREASE STATE SPENDING while other states cut spending.

I agree with the others, if I wanted to read his pablum i would go to his blog. No need to parrot it here also.

So...you'd share this same view if Ehrlich were in office and Patch were re-publishing his blog?

Yes Tim, I would. I wanted to add that as O'Malely has raised OUR taxes to a record amount, he just LOWERED taxes on the millionaires he so now adores, the slot parlor owners! Thanks for nothing Marty.

LOL anon if you dont want to read it ...THEN DONT READ IT!!! It really is that simple.

Joe: OK, no problem. I can totally get behind the concept of not re-publishing blogs from governors of the state...provided the complaint is NOT based on party.

'cause you know, that's be laughably hypocritical...which I suspect many complainers here are (just not you).

Of course, this is specifically why I posted what I did.

Tim, the way I see it, the Patch is giving free campaign space to the Governor. It should be counted as in kind contributions.

No arguments here.

It's pathetic for you to have no understanding of the macro or micro economics at play in domestic and international agriculture. But of course you feel the need to comment about it anyways.

@jag

instead of demeaning, why not enlighten us?

number9dream, you are dreaming if you think you will get enlightened.

Jag, can you seriously please enlighten me if you have an intelligent point to make? Honestly, your comment as you stated it adds nothing to the discussion and I'm sure you would agree.

I imagine with jags comment he is in the business of "macro or micro economics at play in domestic and international agriculture". Sounds like an interesting occupation. What kind of skooling is needed for that? Is travel involved?

You need me to explain why it's important for us to grow our own food instead of being beholden to other countries for food? The economic impact of millions of farmers losing their livelihood and the environmental impact of shipping everything 3,000 miles before it reaches your door and the national security impact of having no control over the country's food source truly escapes you? I doubt it. At least I certainly hope it doesn't.

Your flip comment telling Maryland farmers to "go out of business" and not be "pathetic to get government handouts" (really? You think the dirt poor farmers are getting rich handouts? The resulting extremely low consumer food prices are a handout for YOU much more so than for them) was embarrassing. You know it and I know it. I trust if you had thought a moment longer you wouldn't have made the comment. You can't honestly be calling the people who work all day to provide you with a cheap, accessible, sustainable and secure food source "pathetic" because the government sometimes has to step in just to raise the farmers' wages up to the poverty line. Extremely short sighted and extremely amoral off-the-cuff comment.

Jag, I really think that you have a distorted notion of agriculture. Firstly, I seriously doubt our food would be coming from other countries, more likely it would come from other states. Secondly, you seem to think that agricultural goods are produced in this country by small family farms struggling to get by. The reality is that large agribusinesses are producing the most, not small family farms barely above the poverty line.

Jag, America is supposed to be a free enterprise system. If you can produce goods at a competitive price, people will buy them. Frankly, for you to suggest that the "low prices" as a result of farm subsidy is a hand out to consumers demonstrates that you lack any knowledge of macro and micro economics. Subsidy makes everything more expensive. Do you really think O'Malley's school lunch program is saving any money? You can't possibly. Maryland farms should compete on a level playing field or go out of business.

H.R, I already said "you are dreaming if you think you will get enlightened."

Puf, currently, 15% of our food already comes from other countries (largely China). Want to see what that turns into if the U.S. removed its subsidies (China already heavily subsidies their farmers - that's what we're competing with, in case you didn't know, which I imagine is likely)? You want to see us beholden to a country that feeds more than 15% of us? How about 30%? How about 50%?

Americans only spend a tiny fraction of their disposable income on food, compared to the historical norm of paying roughly 40% of one's disposable income to put food on the table. You don't see how that's beneficial to everyone? You can't see how that has driven generations of economic growth and innovation? You honestly think all "[s]ubsidy makes everything more expensive"? Oh well, enjoy your day. There's no point in talking further. So long as no one of power is as short sighted as you're currently being, I'm cool with it, I suppose. Bye bye.

Jag, food is cheaper than historical norms because of advances in agricultural technology. Something like 90% of the labor force was devoted to farming at one point. Now that farmers are among the most productive workers thanks to fertilizers, advanced tractors, etc. food prices have come down. To credit the drop in food prices as the result of subsidies is beyond ignorant. Furthermore, the cost of our food, when properly considered, includes portion of our tax dollars that provide the subsidies.

If China wants to pay for our food by providing subsidies to Chinese farmers, that's their stupidity. Just because they bang their head against a wall does not mean that we should, too.

Ugh, Puf. How can I make this any simpler? Of course advances in ag tech is part of the equation just as, of course, the subsidization of the industry not only directly leads to lower consumer prices, but also is the main driving force behind those tech advances. If the govt. pays X for a bushel of corn then you're going to try and get as many bushels out of your acre as humanly possible. Thus the huge rise in technological innovation and land-use efficiency even within the last 20 years. Get it now?

You don't care if we're beholden to China for our food source?!? The most basic tenant of national security (going back, literally, thousands of years) eludes you? Well, I guess we can all give thanks that you're as unimportant as you are.

Jag, government subsidy does not make food cheaper. The cost of food, when properly considered, includes the part of our tax dollars that pay the subsidy. Again, I point to O'Malley's school lunch program. Do you really think that program makes food cheaper? To suggest that government subsidies were the driving force behind ag tech is such an absurd idea that I won't waste time responding to it.

We are not beholden to China for our food. My word, do you have such little confidence in American agriculture that you think they can't compete with the Chinese who have to ship their food thousands of miles to us?

It is supremely arrogant and ignorant of central planners like yourself to think you're so much smarter than the market.

Don't forget the chicken poppers, burgers, fries, cookies and sugary water meant to look like juice. It's a disaster!

chicken poppers? Is that the kin to pink slime?

“…I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment — this was the time — when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.” – Barack Obama

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.” – Barack Obama

Well said about a man who pays 14% federal income tax.

Sorry Jack, I accept no responsibility for loss of lunch over Obama quotes. If I was like Obama I would say "I accept no responsibility for anything under my watch."

Terminator the orifice from which we all expel waste. Why should that rate be lower, fool?

FIFA and waste. A great pair.

Terminator, unoriginal, foul mouthed, ignorant, a Romney waste product. Hooray.

FIFA, a great 10 year old's rant. Your thoughtful response shows that your grey matter has turned to mush. Do your parent's know you are playing on their computer again?

And your 5 year old garbage. You have no intelligent arguments to make whe Romney pays 14%. Push the self destruct button, people see you for what you are.

Buckaroo the tax cheat throws in his 2 cents I see.

Time to finish your homework and put on your footie PJ's little FIFA.

Like I said, you only excel at name calling and are an ignorant fool. You have no arguments to support an unsupportable position. Good try, readers see you for what you are, an idiot.

Poor little FIFA. I can just see you on the floor, kicking and screaming. "That bad Terminator got the best of me again". I think a fresh pamper will make your boo boo go away. Now the boo boo's coming from your mouth are another matter. Maybe your parents can wash your mouth out with Lava soap.

Sorry Bug, I have no time for a fool like you who has nothing but insults to add to the conversation. Instead you are one who refuses to answer facts and instead spew from your anus, which has been also identified as your mouth. Bye Termite, Joe, Escariot, Steve(2). Whichever one is posting today.

FIFI where is that great tax knowledge? if Romney has no income, other than investments, of course he pays a lower tax rate than someone with both earned income and investment income.

Chrissy, I see you have failed to keep the conversation civil with me. Thus you encourage me to disparage you. Why?

As you know, my argument is that the rate he pays, which is the statutory rate, is patently unfair to the working people of this country. Romney gets to pay 14% and did not have to pay FICA or Medicare on his investment earnings. While the working guy/gal pays 7.65% which is matched by his employer which totals 15.30 percent (temporarily lowered to 13.30) and we have not even gotten to income tax yet.

Investment income is "unearned" is a tax definition and punishes the workers of this country.

I'm fine, thank you. The repetitive nature of comments does bore me though. I have found it funny how Joe, Steve(2), Termite all write exactly the same but never post at the same time. Interesting coincidence, I don't think it is pure luck.

I bore easily with name calling, non-intellectual discussion that often just avoids the truth. Policy is a separate discussion from misrepresentation of the truth.

Frank, always chimes in with something a 6 year old wrote for him.

Jack, if you support a tax cheat for President that is your decision. I choose otherwise.

It's "crazy" to want a birth certificate which is a requirement to be president but it's normal to demand tax returns that aren't a requirement, yep sounds like a typical Obama position.....

He is the first presidential candidate in American history who has been asked to provide his birth certificate because he's the first one whose birthplace is unknown.

Obama will as far as I can find, be the first President to not have signed a Congressional passed budget!

If he cannot protect a simple building called an Embassy and its few people, how is he going to protect America?
If he sends out his people to LIE about a terrorist attack on the Embassy, how can wee trust him with anything he says?
He has no time for Netanyahu but plenty of time for Letterman and Jay Z and gold champagne bottles floor to ceiling!

@FIFA - You have no idea if Romney is a tax cheat. You are just making things up to support your guy.

The Obama regime lies about the Libyan terrorist attack and the slaughter of 4 Americans and the destruction of our embassies. They lie about what they knew and when they knew it. They put no extra security at the embassies to protect the people and property on the first anniversary or Sept 11 since the radical takeover of Libya with the full support of the Obama regime for the "rebels" who turned out to be the killers of our Ambassador. And you are more worried about tax returns! Priorities are screwed up my man.

@Frank... You and I both know tax returns are just a source document for opposition research. So are academic records. That is why Obama has spent millions to make sure they will not be revealed. There is so much about Obama that is being concealed, how can you possibly ask more of Romney?

And every time one of you anti-Romney folks calls him a tax cheat you are violating a fundamental American concept of innocent until proven guilty.

You disgust me.

@AG - one always hates to use the "innocent until proven guilty" defense.

The circumstantial evidence though is quite interesting.
1. Has/had Swiss Bank Accounts.
2. Has/had Cayman Island Accounts.
3. Has $100 Million IRA in the Cayman Islands.

AG, those are facts. I don't have any friends that have accounts there, do you? Why do you suppose he does? If the only thing in his tax returns are the 14% rate he pays he has already taken shots for that, so who would care that the rate was the same in other years.

The interesting conspiracy theory though is that he made use of the IRS amnesty program for Swiss bank account holders in 2008/2009, years in which he did not supply tax returns to McCain.

I don't care that he is wealthy and I don't care what people say or did 20-30 years ago, but what they have done recently does matter to me.

"I don't have any friends that have accounts there, do you?"
hehe, do you have any friends with that much money to invest?

"1. Has/had Swiss Bank Accounts.
2. Has/had Cayman Island Accounts.
3. Has $100 Million IRA in the Cayman Islands."

Any of that illegal? Do any Senators or Congresscritters have any of the same types of investments?

Regime lies and failure to protect property and lives of American and you are more concerned about tax returns? Priorities?

Joe - are you talking about GW Bush, Twin Towers and the Iraq War? Wow, you are right, they are more important.

You need to change the wording a little.

1. Has/had *A LEGAL* Swiss Bank Accounts.
2. Has/had *A LEGAL* Cayman Island Accounts.
3. Has *A LEGAL* $100 Million IRA in the Cayman Islands.

I will bet you never belly ached about all the tax dodges that Teddy Kennedy had in Fiji, that his family still maintains.

But the real telling lines is "I don't have any friends that have accounts there, do you?"

Spoken like a true class warrior! I don't have, so it needs to be taken away from him huh?

But on top of all that, why does it matter? We need to get the economy fixed. We need to get foreign affairs fixed.

BHO is in over his head.

"GW Bush, Twin Towers and the Iraq War"

No Fifa, I don't live in the past, i live in the now and NOW Obama is president and Obama failed to protect the embassy and its people. You can live in the past al lyou like but looking back will keep you form moving forward. Like that word FORWARD?

AG, you are a simpleton. "Legal". You are a fool. Drink the Kool-Aid, tastes great.

PS - welcome President Obama to his second term.

@FIFA - My goodness you are full of vitriolic hate.

But to quote Judge Learned Hand in Gregory v. Helvering

"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as
possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the
treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister
in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone
does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any
public duty to pay more than the law demands."

AG - avoidance we all do, evasion puts you in jail. Romney should be happy about amnesty programs, eh?

Jack, are you a Birther? Say it ain't so Jack!

On the "Birther Issue" I don't have a clue where Obama was born. But neither do you.

All I can say is what is Obama hiding?

Some claim, justifiably, that he is just a paranoid man who does not like sharing information. Others claim he was born in Kenya.

Which do you think is true? Can you give an explanation for all the information hiding?

Oh AG, do you know where Romney or McCain was born? How do you know if you know?

1. We don't know for sure where Obama was born because of all the secrecy. Obama has spent millions of dollars hiding his past. I don't want to question where he was born though, because that will cause all kinds of arguments that neither side can prove. What I will ask is "What is he hiding and why?"

2. I think all candidates should be required to provide irrefutable proof that they meet the requirements to hold the office of POTUS per the constitution

Oh my freaking God - from local produce to birthers? You guys really need to get a life.

AG why is it the first black guy has to produce documents the white guys don't? Coincidence?

@FIFA - Attention! Attention! A liberal pulls the race card!

What a surprise! FIFA joins the ranks of all the MSNBC and CNN news anchors!

Anyway, this is the first time there is some question, it is time to start enforcing the rules. All POTUS candidates should have to prove their eligibility.

I have no idea whether Romney is eligible, he should have to prove it too.

Experience? He voted "present" more often than not and is still absent form the scene or lying about what he is doing.

Jack, you blame him for all the bad, how is the Dow looking?

As a US Senator Frank or a State Senator? Where DID that stat come from?
Here is his voting record form the US Senate. I got through the first 10 pages of 10 votes each and he did not vote on 82 votes, "present" for 82% NO VOTE.
What the hell DID he do all that time?

Again you seem to make up numbers and offer no support.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/O000167/votes/page1/

My God Frank! Get help for your anger issues. I posted the facts form his US Senate seat and ASKED you what the 3% was form. And you go all anger mismanagement on me. PLEASE get help for that.
And you STILL fail to support your post. I supported mine.

Frank!!! HAHAHAHA Oh my I am laughing so hard..

Dude extrapolate this!

Frank, do you really believe that as he got closer to running for President he voted more? Well I went backwards briefly 10 pages Frank. And yes he did vote a little more often. But still more NV than yea or no. Absent just as he is in national security and economic issues. Blaming Bush is running short these days.

That's all they run on, screw the people that actually work they're all evil. Elect me and you can sit home and get your check which now has no work requirement, no drug test, no anything, just a free pay day..woohoo go Obama, if I could get one I'd be on board to. Sadly I am married, with kids, and actually go to a job and pay bills so i don't qualify for his "free living".

LOL What country are you going to move to? Back to Cuba?

Well said Anon, We need someone in office that at least knows something about Governering how to grow jobs and at least have some values. This is the dirtest race I think I've every sn coming from within the White House. People need to wake up we need a person in the White House that cares about people and knows what it's like to work and knows how to get things done. I believe that man is Romney

Frank, Romney gave all or most of that inheritance to charity. You should be more informed before you make such false unsupportable comments.

"Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney amassed a fortune now worth an estimated $230 million during his career with Bain Capital. He would be wealthier still had he not set aside a trust for his five children in 1995, worth $100 million today. Also making a considerable dent in the former governor’s fortune has been his consistent charitable giving.

As a Mormon, Romney is expected pay a tithe, or 10% of his annual income, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In just the past two years, Romney has given the church $1.525 million and $2.6 million, respectively, according to his tax returns. Romney has also publicly stated on multiple occasions that the entirety of his inheritance from his father, who died in 1995, was donated to the BYU Marriott School of Management’s Institute of Public Management, which now bears his father George W. Romney’s name. Romney and his wife Ann also maintain a separate charitable foundation, established in 1999, the same year that Romney left Bain Capital to serve as CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics Organizing Committee. The couple has contributed approximately$13.6 million, including an initial gift of more than $3.6 million, to their Tyler Charitable Foundation, based in Boston, MA, over the past 13 years."

"Since the Tyler Foundation began making grants in 2000, its annual disbursements have averaged approximately $650,000 per year. The foundation’s most active years were 2003 and 2008, with approximately $2 million given away in each. In 2010, the most recent year for which data is available, the foundation hit its average, donating $650,000.

All told, Mitt and Ann Romney have doled out over $7 million via the Tyler Charitable Foundation. And although last year’s annual tax disclosure won’t be publicly available until this coming November, I would wager that the Romneys kept the pace in 2011, and that figure is now around $8 million. As of the 2010 disclosure, the Tyler Charitable Foundation had assets of more than $10 million."
So where does all the money go? From AIDs Action to the Wright Museum, Romney’s charities of choice are diverse; in fact, through 2010 the Tyler Foundation had made grants to nearly 100 distinct organizations. Many of the grants have gone to youth programs or health related charities. Of the bunch, the following are Mitt Romney’s top 10 favorite philanthropic targets in terms of total dollars awarded by the Tyler Foundation since 2000:"

"
1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: $4,781,000
2. Brigham Young University: $525,000
3. The United Way: $177,000
4. Right to Play: $111,500
5. The George W. Bush Library: $100,000
6. Operation Kids: $85,000
7. Center For Treatment of Pediatric MS: $75,000
8. Harvard Business School: $70,000
9. City Year: $65,000
10. Deseret International: $50,000
Weber State University: $50,000

All told, we have accounted for nearly $18 million of charitable giving by Mitt Romney to date, roughly 8% of what we currently estimate his net worth to be and three times Obama’s net worth. Yet it is very likely that we are undercounting Romney’s total lifetime giving by many millions, as any exhaustive log of Romney’s pre-2010 out of pocket donations is locked away in the presidential candidate’s historical tax returns."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/edwindurgy/2012/05/17/an-inside-look-at-the-millions-mitt-romney-has-given-away/

Dirtiest race you have ever seen coing out of the White House??? YouveGottaBeKiddingMe! Dirtier than Bush floating a rumor in South Carolina that Old John McCain fathered a bi-racial child out of wedlock? Dirtier than the Swift Boaters attack on John Kerry ???

Frank, you are whining about where a man gives his own money to by the hundreds of millions? He gives more away then you will ever make in your lifetime and you feel comfortable picking on his choices? Too funny man.

Joe - it is impressive that Romney has given a lot of his money to his church and other charities.

What will be much more impressive is the 20% across the board tax rate cuts he proposes. His very wealthy friends would be happy and very appreciative I'm sure with that charitable gift.

FIFA, you must also mention that the plan includes cutting some tax breaks so that the rates are lower but the credits are less. It is a well documented fact from Kennedy to Reagan that when rates are cut receipts increase. 2007 saw a RECORD amount of taxes collected after the 2 Bush tax cuts.

Joe,,,,,,,,,,, but Romney nor Ryan will not say what tax breaks go away, will they?

Joe,,,,,, using your logic the rates should be Zero and then what do we do after that?

The farming industry in MD is comprised of very large corporations, not small family farms. Most of the small family farms could never compete with massive corporate farms....The organic farmers for the most pert are the small family farms, and Omalley has failed to make that distinguishable difference with this signing....it supports the chemical industry over the small family farm...kind of sucks actually..

If the voters want a "fundamentally transformed" America into a socialist redistributive state, they will vote for it. When the voters can vote themselves more "free" goodies they will vote for it. When enough vote for that the Democrats will have a permanent dependent voter base.

Tit for tat over the illusion of point spread is pointless....our nation will continue to get the screws either way this time around..

I agree Buck! Either way is bad, Romney doesn't excite me at all as a Republican, I just see him as the better option.

Joe - our country's tax structure since the birth of federal taxes is redistribution. The more money you make the more you pay in taxes and that money goes to people who pay less. So has our country been Socialist for the last few hundred years?

@John, prior to the income tax (16th Amendment 1913) taxes were not directly levied based on income. I contend that the 16th Amendment was the Unites States first real step toward socialism. We have seen a 100 year march towards more socialism every year, with the government taking larger and larger slices of the GDP, consuming more and more, and redistributing what is left.

What is really funny is that corporations and the very wealthy participate in this "socialism/redistribution" as you guys call it. The have their own special set of tax preferences they lobby for and cry out loud when threatened to lose them.

The 16th Amendment to the Constitution was NEVER fully ratified by the states...can't be proven...still in limbo...non amendment..

@Buck Harmon - It was a sad day when the SCOTUS said that ratifying the 16th amendment was close enough for government work!

ROTFLMAO I'll bet you a dollar to a doughnut he is also a "Agenda 21" UN Conspiracy Nut.

Frank, feel free to dispute the facts posted. I guess you don't believe former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy?

I find it quite interesting that when you have nothing else you go after the source. What a weak reply.

You beLIEve Obama and his Choom Gang but not a former Federal prosecutor who prosecuted the blind sheik?
"CBS: Witnesses say there never was an anti-America protest at the consulate in Benghazi, only a planned attack"
" Witnesses of last week’s deadly attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya have told CBS News that the alleged anti-American protest that U.S. officials say morphed into the assault never actually took place.

The new details add to the widening rift between U.S. and Libyan accounts of the attack as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to brief members of Congress behind closed doors Thursday. On Wednesday, a top U.S. counterterrorism official told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the assault was “opportunistic,” but a “terrorist attack.”

Clinton’s briefing comes amid calls from Capitol Hill for more information on the attack, and complaints that the Obama administration has not been forthright."

How is saying "mainstream liberal media" an attack? It is only descriptive and no way an attack.

Frank opines "Use of the term "Mainstream liberal media" implies that the hundreds of news media organizations act in concert"

Headlines: "Open Mic Catches Reporters Coordinating Questions Ahead Of Romney Press Conference"
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/open-mic-catches-reporters-coordinating-questions-ahead-of-romney-press-conference/

"September 20, 2012
Resignation calls fly at Justice Dept. spokeswoman over Media Matters "

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/20/resignation-calls-fly-at-justice-dept-spokeswoman-over-media-matters-collaboration/

Frank, I don't make things up.

Frank, watch the entire video for yourself. I don't make things up. Here is Barry Sotero on Univision. Why is MSNBC/NBC/CBS/ABC/NPT/LSD/ not asking these questions in Washington DC at a news conference?
Watch and open your mind.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/20/obama-slammed-on-fast-and-furious-in-spanish-language-tv-interview-shouldnt-you-fire-eric-holder/

Frank, you call others names like crybabies because I showed you that yes indeed they act in concert. I offered 2 examples in the past few days. Now I am a cry baby? Because you were wrong?

McCarthy also said the way the Department of Justice worded its denial may prove to be significant. The DOJ said Rahman’s “release” was not being considered, however, the question was whether or not his “transfer” to Egypt was being discussed."

Tax returns? Really?

You are an amazing buffoon, keep up the good work.

PM, another drive by idiot who cannot post anything of substance and full of bile towards others.

PM, you are free to dispute the post instead of being a childish buffoon yourself.

Joe,

You have posted about 40% of all comments on this article. You provide zero value to any article on the website. Just your typical right-wing meandering half-truths that anyone with reason will know is not true.

You have no right to call anyone childish with your incessant ranting. (I apologize if you have to look up some of the words)

Frank is making stuff up again I see. I ONLY dish it as a reply to those who act childish and are so quick to insult and so slow to explain.

PM, I looked and you have not disputed ANY of what I posted. So feel free to do so if you can. If what I post is "half-truths" then it would be easy even for you to debate them. I see you haven't or can't so what I post stands.
Now go back into the rectal orifice you call home.

TWO Top JustUs Dept officials have stepped down and some may be subject to criminal investigations. Top WH aide refused to talk to the investigators. From the report of the IG.
"Officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. attorney's office in Phoenix "provided demonstrably inaccurate and conflicting information" to Justice Department officials as they drafted a later-retracted response to questions from Sen. Charles Grassley about the probe. However, the report adds, "the Department is ultimately responsible for representations that it makes to Congress.""
"Kenneth Melson, the former acting ATF director whose retirement was announced Wednesday, "was not well served" by his subordinates. However, as an experienced prosecutor, Melson "should have asked basic questions about the investigation, including how public safety was being protected." And after developing concerns about the probe in 2010, he failed to warn Holder's top aides and "lacked sufficient urgency" about the issue."

"Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein, who resigned when the report was released, "was the most senior person in the Department in April and May 2010 who was in a position to identify the similarity between the inappropriate tactics used in Operations Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious." Notes from an April 2010 meeting about the earlier operation show Weinstein "did not admonish ATF," and the meeting "focused instead on how to avoid negative press.""

Criminal Division chief Lanny Breuer failed to warn Holder or his deputy about concerns about Operation Wide Receiver, a 2006-2007 gun probe that used similar tactics, when he learned about them in April 2010. Breuer admitted that in testimony to Congress in November.

-- Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney in Phoenix, "failed to exercise responsible oversight and failed to provide the leadership and judgment required of a United States attorney." Burke resigned in 2011, as investigations into the probe gathered steam."

WH Aide Declined Interview With IG; 'White House Did Not Produce Any Internal White House Communications'

Seems serious to anyone without ObamaBlinders on.

Frank, keep up sweety. My reply was directly to Steve's false meme of "Another Republican witch hunt that amounted to nothing....."

I just showed again how wrong he is. Keep up Frank as hard as it may be for you.

"How did this thread get from local produce to "Fast and FFffftt?

Oh - Joe stepped in - that will do it every time..."

How did this thread get from local produce to "Fast and FFffftt and national politics?

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/20/obama-slammed-on-fast-and-furious-in-spanish-language-tv-interview-shouldnt-you-fire-eric-holder/

If your attention span is not long enough, listen form about 2:10 into the video on Univision. Some here question the use of foreign media unless it is Al Jazeera, but this is Univision for Gods sake. Or start at 3: 20 with the quaestion about "Eddie Holder" in Fast and Furious. If it takes Mexican media to ask the question so be it.
Listen to Obama dissemble, twist and flat out lie about the failure to protect the American people AGAIN!

Only in your twisted mind would a Spanish interview connect local produce and Fast and Ffftt - I guess there must be some connection via undocumented migrant farm workers, eh?