Meet Obama’s Pick for Labor Secretary: ‘A Radical’s Radical’, Says Former DOJ Attorney

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 18: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with Assistant Attorney General of Justice Department’s civil rights division Thomas Perez (R) during a personnel announcement March 18, 2013 at the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. President Obama has nominated Perez to succeed Hilda Solis as the next labor secretary. Credit: Getty Images
WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — President Barack Obama gave a glowing rollout Monday to Thomas Perez, his choice to lead the Labor Department after an aggressive stint as the nation’s chief civil rights enforcer. But the nomination quickly ran into trouble as a Republican senator declared he would block the nomination until GOP concerns about Perez’s Justice Department tenure are addressed.
Further, former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams alleged that Perez a “radical’s radical” in an interview on Mark Levin’s radio show.
“This is a man for whom law is a nuisance … this is a man who is advancing a radical agenda by using his power in the Obama administration,” Adams told Levin.
As TheBlaze’s Meredith Jessup points out, Adams also alleges that Perez provided false testimony in the Black Panther voter intimidation case.
In 2010, former DOJ civil rights attorney J. Christian Adams resigned in protest of the Obama administration’s handling of a [voter] intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party. A month later, Adams told Fox News that Perez provided false testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights about the Black Panther case. In his testimony, Perez told the commission that the facts of the case – NBPP members dressed in military-style fatigues standing in front of a polling location armed with billy clubs — didn’t amount to voter intimidation under the law.
More from Fox News:
Sen. David Vitter said he objects because Perez enforced Louisiana’s voting rights laws in a way “that specifically benefits the politics of the president and his administration at the expense of identity security” of registered voters in the state. The Justice Department, he said, has not responded to Vitter’s 2011 letter on the subject.
But Obama and his allies pressed ahead with Perez’s debut in a new role, in which he would shift from the upper ranks of the Justice Department, saying they expect him to bring the same aggressive mindset to the Labor Department. Labor and civil rights groups predicted he would raise the agency’s profile and play a more prominent role in the Cabinet than Hilda Solis, who left the post in January.
Obama called Perez a “consensus builder” whose “story reminds us of this country’s promise.”
“Tom’s made protecting that promise for everybody the cause of his life,” Obama said in an appearance with Perez in the White House East Room.

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 18: U.S. Assistant Attorney General of Justice Department’s civil rights division Thomas Perez speaks during a personnel announcement March 18, 2013 at the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Credit: Getty Images
Perez is the only Hispanic so far to be named to Obama’s second-term Cabinet.
The son of Dominican immigrants who once worked as a garbage collector, Perez has led the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division since 2009. If confirmed by the Senate, he would take over the Labor Department as Obama pushes several worker-oriented initiatives, including an overhaul of immigration laws and an increase in the minimum wage.
But he could face spirited opposition from some Republicans lawmakers who say his tenure at Justice has been guided too much by political ideology. His nomination comes days after a report from the Justice Department’s inspector general found the agency’s voting rights section has been plagued by ideological divisions and unprofessional conduct over two presidential administrations.
“This is an unfortunate and needlessly divisive nomination,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who called Perez’s views on illegal immigration “far outside the mainstream.”
Vitter said Monday he would block Perez’s nomination until the Justice Department responded to the 2011 letter, in which Vitter complained about “spotty enforcement” of voting rights laws in Louisiana. Vitter claims the department made registration of welfare recipients a priority while ignoring a duty to remove ineligible voters from the rolls.
Before taking the job as assistant attorney general, the 51-year-old Perez was secretary of Maryland’s Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, where he vigorously enforced safety and wage violations, pushed through tough new consumer protections against foreclosure, and helped implement the nation’s first statewide living wage law.
“I think he will raise the profile of the Labor Department,” said Laura Murphy, director of the American Civil Liberty Union’s Washington legislative office. “I think he understands that the role of the federal government is to help ensure that the rules of the game are fair.”
At Justice, Perez has reinvigorated a division tarnished by a political hiring scandal during President George W. Bush’s administration and run for years by political appointees hostile to many of its long-term policies. He launched a record number of investigations into civil rights abuses and other misconduct at local police departments around the country. That includes a lawsuit last year accusing the office of law-and-order Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio of racially profiling Latinos during a crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Perez also played a leading role in challenging laws in Texas and South Carolina that require voters to show photo identification in order to vote. A federal court later struck down the Texas law, saying it restricts minority voting rights, while another court delayed implementation of the law in South Carolina until after the 2012 election.
His nomination has broad support from labor and from the Latino community. Among those at the White House ceremony Monday were AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous.
The nomination likely was delayed by the release last week of the Justice Department report. It found that Perez gave incomplete testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights when he said the department’s political leadership was not involved in the decision to dismiss three of the four defendants in a lawsuit the Bush administration brought against the New Black Panther Party.
While the report concluded that Perez did not intentionally mislead the commission, it said he should have sought more information about the role of the agency’s political leaders who participated in the decision to dismiss those charges.
Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said Perez appeared to be “woefully unprepared to answer questions” from the Civil Rights Commission.
Other Republicans have cited his role in persuading the city of St. Paul, Minn., to withdraw a lending discrimination lawsuit from the Supreme Court. In exchange, the Justice Department declined to join two whistle-blower lawsuits against St. Paul that could have returned millions in damages to the federal government.
The St. Paul case had challenged the use of statistics to prove race discrimination under the 1968 Fair Housing Act, and Justice Department officials were concerned the court could strike down the practice.
Perez, once the top adviser to Sen. Edward Kennedy on civil rights, is a former career attorney at the Justice Department division he now leads.
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blackfeather
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:24pmwhere in hell does ovomit find these cretins??????
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carbonyes
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:04pmMost people don’t understand Obama because they try to put him in a category that he does not belong. There is literally nothing American whatsoever about Obama. Maybe the best way to put it is that Obama is a freak – not really a politician, definitely not an American. He has no connection whatsoever with any traditional beliefs nor moral values upon which either America or the Judeo -Christian culture or governmental functions are based upon.
One could say Obama is from another world, an anti-God world or perhaps more aptly put – from the dark side. Obama some time ago sold his soul, meaning that Obama is not redeemable. As a result any selections that he has made for any governmental offices have been selected by him to carry out Obama’s devilish agenda to transform America into something not in any way recognizable, as Obama himself said shortly before he was elected in 2008. Therefore there will never be a selection by Obama that would in any way be acceptable to any God fearing, traditional value oriented, liberty and freedom loving person who cherishes family and upholds property rights and moral and spiritual integrity. Barack Hussein Obama is anathema to all this and in stark contrast an emissary from Hell.
Until he is seen for what he is and who he is not, and treated accordingly whereby the appropriate forces, both spiritual and natural are marshaled against him, he will continue to wreck havoc upon this country and its people.
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barber2
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:22pmCARBON: I think you have summed up Barack Obama. When bi-racial Barry became Barack he made a choice . He crossed a line. The angry, black, male , Marxist mentors combined with his largely absent , radical , white mom / absent, Communist African dad all created the man you see. He is determined to ” change ” America . He is not your average American male. The radicals of the 60s, like Alinsky, planted destruction seeds in America. Barack is one of their garden products.
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carbonyes
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:36pmThese minions that are selected by Obama have come on the scene, if you will, to assist this under master Obama in carrying out this catostrophic destruction of this country, and what is really crazy is that the John McCain’s and the Mitt Romney’s of life were powerless to stop Obama, because neither of them were aware of the dark forces propelling Obama into the position he is now in. Obama is not just another man occupying the Oval Office. He is a usurper from Hell, and can only be stopped by the solicitation and engagement of the forces from Heaven
This is the real deal. These are not times for the timid or the faint of heart. Is if a time for prayer? Absolutely! It is also a time of a cleansing accompanied by commitment aligned with availability. This is the time for servant leaders – humble and meek but strong in spirit and heart, unwavering and fearless. Are there such? Indeed there are. The called out ones. These are not political leaders. These are warriors, ifor the time of political bantering is past. The time for guarded, but effective action is upon us. The time to take on and bring down these lying, deceiving, degenerate forces is now. There is not one who is untainted in the enemy camp, and there is nothing that they have to offer for they are all defiled who have cast their lot in with Obama and his minions.
Remember this: greater is He who is within me than he who is in the world.
Prepare!
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:56pmBarber you nailed it! Heart and Soul you are the 1st to seem to catch that. Praise the Lord
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:57pmBarber you nailed it on the head. :)
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firearm
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:00pm@ BLACKFEATHER Progressive re-education camps.
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naughtycal
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:00amAmerican can survive an ignorant radical offical….But it can’t survive the voters that elect them.
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Rampart
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:17amTom Perez should be in prison for the actions he has taken as an agent of our government.
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kenboo1
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 9:19amWe need a senate that wont allow such a radical to serve in these positions. That’s not going to happen as long as the Senate is elected by the voters. Until the states are represented in the federal government this is what we can expect. visit http://www.repeal17.net for more info…
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IndyGuy
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 9:42amIsn’t it about time for these radical Anti-Americans to start disappearing???
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zoro51
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:16pmEND this SOCIALIXZATION of the usa IMPEACH OBAMA NOW END THE FINALCIAL RAPING OF AMERICA END THE RAPE OF AMERICA IMPEACH AMERICAS RAPIST FAKE PRESIDENT NOW.. end this crap
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:08pmAnother commie in the White House.
Is there any news today?
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GrayPanther
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:14amYes! Starting with the Ayers family paying for Barrie’s college and expenses up through his own selection of friends and the lack of “Vetting” of this Marxist soon to be president. Many shadow Communists in politics and out have provided the hand up to fellow travelers to enter government as well as all other elements of American life. From positions of authority they helped each other and finally took over the Democrat Party. Now we have seen the results including this Marxist, Tom Perez. No great surprise here. Let’s see if the Republicans can muster the strength to defy this nominee for Secretary of Labor in this Marxist administration.
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JacquesChirac
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:27amHeck no.
First Hagel, then Brennan, now this guy. You know the stupid sh*ts in the Senate are going to confirm the guy in the end anyway. Oh sure, there’ll be 25 or 30 who will vote the way ANY PERSON WITH ONE OUNCE OF COMMON SENSE WOULD VOTE, but when the smoke clears, Rand Paul, et.al., will once again vote to confirm the guy because “the POTUS should be able to build his cabinet the way he wants”…
Sheese – why do we even bother to vote? Even when they KNOW the candidate is a piece of crap, they vote to confirm her/him/it anyway.
Democracy at its finest, no?
Sweet dreams, America.
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team1blazer
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:07pmPush, push, shove, shove….until we get tired of this socialist crap and take action. Come on Congress, do your job….impeach this traitor NOW.
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Vision Harry
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:46pmRepublicans will huff and puff and blow each others little piggly wiggly people parts, until they finally bend over and take those little piggly wiggly people parts, out of the need for diversity and civility and bowing at the alter of the big “O”. I do believe Reparations have been paid in full by this administration.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:52pmIn a way, I am rather certain that you are right. After being a couple of blow hards with a lot of chest thumping I expect McCain and Graham to beat their way to the front of that line.
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The-Monk
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:46pm“…ran into trouble as a Republican senator declared he would block the nomination until GOP concerns about Perez’s Justice Department tenure are addressed.”
No, just block it; completely, 100%, now and forever. This man is so wrong for this position it’s just unfathomable.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:50pmHi MONK, Heck, do him the way that the Dems have always done so many of the right’s presidential cabinet and judge nominations. Ted Kennedy was a master at it, Bork him!
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Rileydj2
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:04pmDumbama hasn’t picked a “right” man for any of his minions!
And this one looks like a gofer, or more like a rat. It looks like a rat, it smells like a rat,…………
I certainly hope that the uninformed voters, most of whom pay no taxes, will someday realize what that have done in helping these socialist terrorists destroy the USA.
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Stelex
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:10pmSee how its hard for the right and left to blur the lines since Obama’s come on board. He’s pushing so far left that its reveling how far left the right is. They want to, but the more he pushes the more it exposes the elite rights truly left agenda. What a pickle. Boehner is going limp.
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banjarmon
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:45pmCongress Take back your Power!!! Block BHO minions from Ruining the Nation!!
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:44pm“Lawmakers”?
lol.
Yeah, They make laws that benefit their Bosse’s (Global Elite aka “Banksters” ) agendas.
They LEGALIZE their CRIMES !!!!!
lawmakers….. yeah.
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Stelex
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:13pmOne illegal Government, two illegal paths to destruction. Wake up America, we’ve been sold out and are being played on a daily basis.
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mydh12
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:43pmAnybody who opposes this nomination will be labeled as a racist. Obama is counting on Republicans being afraid to oppose him for this reason. Obama is probably right because he knows that the lib media will go along with the racist labeling.
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:41pmI don’t care who he is as long as he keeps picking my fruits and vegetables. Bahahaha!
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:55pmYou wouldn’t think it was funny, if you knew that this new appointee now has the authority to seize everything you own and put you to work, with NO compensation (slavery)
Yeah, check out Executive order 13603.
Sec. 502. Consultants.
The head of each agency otherwise delegated functions under this order is delegated the authority of the President under sections 710(b) and (c) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2160(b), (c), to employ persons of outstanding experience and ability WITHOUT compensation.
Sec. 103. General Functions.
(b) Executive departments and agencies (agencies) responsible for plans and programs relating to national defense (as defined in section 801(j) of this order), or for resources and services needed to support such plans and programs, shall:
“assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in PEACETIME and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel;”
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13603
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypXvu9IoEiw
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barber2
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:40pmWhen will Obama issue the red berets and the fatigues for his Obama II cabinet ?
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:48pmBARBER2, LOL, in a way it would almost be expected. But, with this crowd of limousine liberals, even they might tell him to shove it before wearing a “costume.” I said it that way, because that is how I would expect them to view them, not as uniforms.
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barber2
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:14pmRJJ : Know what you mean. Barack always looks ” clean” ( Biden ) and stylish Michelle has a make up person and a **** person . And the Danbury Mint ( see Sunday’s Parade magazine ?! ) now has an Inaugural Ball Michelle in her long red gown – complete with the new bangs. The Obamas are the Kardashians ( sp ?) of politics. About as deep as a mud puddle and as American as the Black Power salute. Such a shame that they are punishing Americans living today for the “sins” done long ago…of course they would call it ” social justice.”
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:40pmObamas new pick for Labor Secretary is going to be a “radical Hispanic?” I’m shocked. I’m just. well. gob smacked. I don’t know what to do. Will we all get “free” tequila now? I hope. I hope.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:38pmIs it just me but as Obama’s picks become ever more radical, do they seem to be taking on a more rodent-like shape?
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Dushman Kush
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:38pmThomas Perez is a Comrade of the First Order, loyal to our Leader and to the Party. The country hasn’t had so worthy a Secretary of Labor since Comrade Reich served during the Clinton administration. That he is Hispanic will guarantee that increasingly important vote for the Democrats.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:53pmThanks for that warning, but I believe that most of us really knew that all along.
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The-Monk
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:59pmDushman Kush
You do remember what your Comrade Reich said about why we started Operation Desert Storm, right?
Do you remember? It wasn’t oil it was jobs. Remember that fine sunny day when Comrade Reich let that fact out? I do. Do you?
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:16pmHi MONK, DOUCHMAN KUSH is apparently too young to have that much of a memory. In the time frame to which you refer, he was probably busy trying to decide which sprinkles his mom was going to put on his ice cream.
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barber2
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:36pmThe Chicago radicals have just added another one to the Obama gang. Apparently, this guy ” will bring the same aggressive mind set to the Labor Department ” as he did to Justice where he said voter ID is discriminatory and where he gave incomplete testimony in that infamous Black Panther voter intimidation case. Yeah, Perez sounds like a real gem: a radical’s radical. Bill Ayers, who should still be in jail, and other old bomb-making , cop-killing Weatherman must be thrilled. This is so very disgusting to anyone who lived through the 60s .
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calebjim
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:31pmRadicals usually support one another. Poor at the DOJ and probably worse in this job. The Feds need to clean the riff raff out!
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PAUL GULLO
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:27pmThis guy would look great on the wrong end of a firing squad.
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PalmettoLonghorn
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:37pmIf he were receiving the firing squad’s output, that isn’t the wrong end…
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scrapadapolis
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:26pmJust like I said In his second term Obama will increase his minion czars to the communist regime with known people out in the open about their socialistic ways.They are nolonger in hiding and they want you to know it.This started with saul alinsky’s parden.This is a show of communist force and who is appointed to positions of powed KNOWING full well Americans have no say.
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neverending
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:34pmIt was well known what he intended and how he felt about his second term – just go back and listen to what he said to Medvedev and it is pretty obvious he knew the mic was on. He now has nothing to lose and all to gain to finish complete his goal.
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HumbleCitizen
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:26pmPerez told the commission that the facts of the case – NBPP members dressed in military-style fatigues standing in front of a polling location armed with billy clubs — didn’t amount to voter intimidation under the law.
Reverse that and see how fact it becomes intimidation under the law.
Equality (God’s way) under the law. It’s wrong for me then it’s equally wrong for you.
Social justice (Satan’s way) It’s wrong for YOU but …it’s ok for me … to make up for whatever (insert victimization here) .
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jblovesAmerica
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:25pmThis is another Van Jones type.
The Liberals keep nudging. Pushing, “probing the wire”
This guy like Jones-needs to go-feet 1st if needed.
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ares338
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:25pmCan he NOT pick someone who is a radical to serve his administration? Guy looks like a dumbass skinny grape picker. Oh wait he is a…….radical……..skinny……Dumbass…….grape picker!
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Sgt Lamb
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:44pmyou forgot wormy looking…………………………..
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quiltgal
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:24pmYet another incompetent socialist puppet get a tap on the shoulder from Obama.
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eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:22pmA “radical’s radical”? Come on – please name one person in obama’s rogue government who isn’t a “radical’s radical”.
This nomination comes as no surprise, and it WILL BE no surprise when Republicans CAVE IN again, and gleefully confirm this guy – AND, no doubt, it will be the same batch of irresponsible, oath-violating Republicans who voted for Brennan … RUBIO, McCAIN, MURKOWSKI, GRAHAM, et al..
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carbonyes
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 4:10amThis is part of the enormity of the war that we are in. This is a war for the very survival of America, and what do we have? The likes of a McCain or a Graham or a Murkowski, and possibly a Rubio, least he wake up and stand for truth and righteousness. Another who is a moderate, Rob Portman, having equivocated in the past, now jumps on the gay marriage band wagon. We not only have to fight the flaming anti-God liberal Progressives. We have to fight RINO’s and “go along to get along’s” in our own party, led by the likes of a Karl Rove and the lunatic political operatives who managed Romney’s campaign and McCains as well.
It has gotten to the point where w have to watch one another’s back because we certainly can not trust the Republican Party leadership. Perfect example: John Boehner states yesterday that he trusts President Obama. What has Boehner been doing the past 4 years plus? Sleeping at the switch or smoking some loco weed. Unbelievable!
This is no time for wishful thinking or hoping against hope. This is time to get down in the dirt upon your knees, pray the prayer of faith and guidance, roll up your sleeves and get to work. All stops must be pulled. The plans must be laid out and carried out. This is a time where whom ever is not for us, is against us. As said before, this is not a time for the timid or faint of heart. We are at a place very similar to the American on the plane that went down in in PA. We have certainly met the enemy; time to roll.
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thibx
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:19pmanother screw-up
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denkat56
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:15pmIf half of what they say is true, workers are in trouble. He’s a loose cannon on a leash held by Obama.
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