While Inspector General J. Russell George appears to be a decent, honest public servant, giving off that persona while testifying at the Congressional hearings, his report smacks of avoidance, or in the parlance of the federal government, CYA.  A more benign statement on what went wrong and why at the IRS could not have been written.  It’s as if he knew what a bombshell his report would be, so he couched his critique in a blanket.  We give him credit for his courage however, since in this political atmosphere, with a tyrant at the helm and a monstrous group of apparatchiks doing his bidding, it takes a brave soul to issue a report even this milquetoast.

Read it here.

If you read these pages at all you understand I am cynical when it comes to Democrats.  Over the years I’ve learned it is the wisest way to view them and what they do.  Not only don’t I trust them, I’ve come to know them as unthinking, unfeeling, immoral, hateful people who have absolutely no concern for where their philosophy will take humanity, only how it satisfies their personal need for power.

My hatred for liberals is tied directly to my hatred for hypocrisy.  Not that conservatives are never hypocritical, but we conservatives are rarely shy about calling each other out for being so.  The foundation of liberalism is hypocrisy, the worst kind, a subtle hypocrisy which appears to take the shape of concern for their fellow human beings, but is really a sinister plot to render them politically, socially and morally impotent.  Why do they pursue such a course?  There are myriad reasons, perhaps as many as are those who think the way they do, but the one common thread is their commitment to elitist misanthropy.   Simply put, liberals truly believe there are two classes of human beings, them and their lessers.  In order for life to be livable, they must be in control of every aspect of their lessers’ lives, it does not matter whether such control is morally wrong and destructive, “what difference does it make? “ “It’s irrelevant…”  “The law is irrelevant.” (Hillary Clinton before Congress and Dan Pfeiffer, Obama advisor, speaking on Sunday political talk shows 5/19/13).

When their opposite numbers kick against the goad, liberals become angry, very angry, but they will not fight it out on the field of philosophies and ideas, they will do what they do best, make every effort to undermine the opposition, to lie, cheat and otherwise assault conservatives in order to rouse the great unwashed who can always be counted on to do their fighting for them.  Their battle plan is best illustrated by the infamous Rahm Emanuel statement: …never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

Now we have not one, but three political crises and probably many more on the horizon.  But the Obama administration believes it’s been saved by a very real crisis, the tornado devastation in Oklahoma.  Obama will use it today.

Once a spoiled egg is cracked, the evil product pours out in all its foulness.

Today you will witness Barack Obama visiting Oklahoma and using the tornado disaster as a crisis “to do things (he) did not think (he) could do before,” to paraphrase again Rahm the Butcher’s callous, craven statement.  It will be terrible to watch as Mr. Obama ostensibly mourns the loss of so many lives and promises to help rebuild the areas affected when we will all know on the inside what he cares about is how far this crisis will go to shift attention off his own political problems.  Against the background of his present scandals however, it won’t be enough to salvage his presidency.

Most of us truly mourn Oklahoma’s loss, that is what we do as Americans.  We show it by being tremendously generous in every way.  We are good people who come together in a real crisis faster, better and more sincerely than anyone else in the world.  In those moments we are one people though the vastness of our country separates us in so many ways.  It will sicken Americans to watch another Obama charade meant not to salve Oklahoma’s open wound, but to make political use out of it.  But it won’t work.

This time, Obama and company will have to answer for their actions.  Half the nation may not care, but there is the other half and we have our teeth in him, we are not about to let go.  These are serious crises, they won’t go to waste.

On April 4, 2004 I wrote a piece I’d hoped would be picked up by one of the many publications dealing with points of immediate political interest, it was entitled, “A War We Can See…And Love.”  George Bush was president of course, but his administration was straining under the media’s onslaught over the war in Iraq.  Clearly, defending the war was a fulltime job for him.  As in every case where a president is occupied with the daily routine of facing an aggressively hostile media, it takes time from his real job, leading the country.  What he needed was a domestic enemy everyone hated, one he could turn his executive guns on without fear of media repercussions in view of the fact the entire country would be supporting him almost to a person.  My political suggestion to him was a simple one which, had he acted on it would have yanked him out of the political doldrums into the political sunshine and would have set in gold a legacy which would have made the war in Iraq a minor footnote.

I’m loath to do it, but I now offer the same prescription to a man who does not deserve it, but the people of America do.  Should Barack Obama, a man for whom I have no respect whatsoever, take this advice, he will sail through his last term and go down in history as the man who conquered the people’s enemy with swiftness and decisiveness.  Obama should begin the process of dismantling the Internal Revenue Service and completely reforming the tax code.

The following is an excerpt from my 2004 article:

“Consider the political benefits of smashing that most hated agency.  This is not to say selling a flat tax, national sales tax, value added tax or some amalgamation of all three to the American people will be easy, it won’t, but there is enough intrinsic political shock value in dismantling the IRS to make whatever scheme floats to the surface a veritable non-issue.”

This one act will put Benghazi to rest (unjustly) and make the AP scandal as important to Americans as English soccer.

For more on the intricacies of the various schemes to replace the present IRS code, please see the actual article here.

In any case, if Obama was smart, he’d do precisely what I’m telling him to do, but he’s not that smart, plus, he’s driven not by a shrewd sense of his legacy, but by a fantastic view of himself.  Moreover, his ideology will never allow him to take out of government its most Gestapo-like agency.  How would liberals govern without their primary bludgeoning tool?

Perhaps the next president will take my advice. If he or she does, not only will history glorify him or her, but contemporary Americans will as well.

Being brought up in the Little Italy of Utica, New York, cynicism was a religion, you strayed from the path at your peril.  My crew of guys not only suspected everyone of lying, we assumed they were the minute they opened their mouths and words escaped.  We even had a unique response for the product of inveterate prevaricators and pathological liars.  It was a derivative of, “Yeah, right,” which we’d already truncated to a disgusted, head-bobbing, “Yeahhhh.”  But that wasn’t enough for Italian-American kids who needed a more powerful exclamation of incredulity.  We wanted to publicly humiliate the liar, to call him (or her) out at the same time as crushing his individual identity, to make sure that everyone within the sound of our very, very loud voices knew that we knew verbal feces when we heard it and that it was the height of insult for the vessel of that crap to try throwing some in our direction with the expectation we’d buy it.  So we took, “Yeah, right,” and “Yeahhhh,” threw them overboard and came up with something new, distinctly Italian-sounding and insanely derisive; a caustic, loud, angry, “DAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!”  which means, “You expect me to believe that?  You have the temerity to suggest I would be so completely stupid and ignorant of the facts of life in general and your propensity for lying about everything that I would buy into what you just said?  It isn’t happening…ever, and now I hope you suffer with hemorrhoids for the rest of your life.”

Over the years of course, age and a modicum of wisdom taught me I must take some people at their word, but always with caution based on a conviction that no matter who the human being is, no matter his or her level of integrity, the quality of their characters, they have agendas and will bend the truth to fulfill them.  So, I grade people upon meeting them using a scale of 1 to 5.  I do this consciously in a split second, you might do it too.  I believe nothing a 1 says to me no matter how eloquent, articulate, logical and convincing he or she may be.  I believe most of what a 5 tells me, but only after knowing the 5 for a prudent period of time.

Ones are pathological liars, they simply don’t know the difference between a lie and the truth.  In fact, there are those Ones who no matter how often you catch them in their lies, they will never admit they were lying much less acknowledge that what they said was in fact a lie because they don’t believe they’ve lied.

By now you’re expecting me to rail on about how much of a One Barack Obama is, but it is far worse than that.  Barack Obama is a 0 because he is incapable of telling the truth.  Though he knows the difference between a lie and the truth, he prefers to lie because he believes the truth will somehow make him look bad and a person like Obama cannot live with the idea of looking bad since his substance ends there.  Unlike a One who doesn’t know the difference between truth and untruth, Obama indeed knows the difference, but is megalomaniacal enough to think everyone else is incapable of making the distinction.  You’ve seen this before, in children.

Little children are entirely self-centered, that’s not news.  Their world is the only world, everyone in it is there to care for them.  It’s why parenting is a subtle art rather than a craft.  Parents need to guide their children into the real world in which there are others with whom they will have to interact.  Part of successful human interaction is projecting the needs of others in conjunction with our own and building toward a mutual satisfaction through quid pro quo.  In the process of learning how to interact properly, children test their limits while parents push back gently at times, more strongly at others always conscious of the balance necessary for helping a child’s spirit grow rather than over-disciplining and crushing it altogether.  A child’s spirit is fragile while at the same time in need of effective guidance.

Some children push without a parent pushing back.  They keep pushing and finding no resistance push into forming characters which never grow beyond total self-centeredness.  They never develop characters sufficient to value other people for the value they have expectations of receiving in return.  Barack Obama is a child who was never taught to value other people.  He was taught to value only himself and it is more evident today than ever before.

Totally self-centered people stop growing psychologically, intellectually and morally by the time they are thirteen, especially boys.  Their characters are completely formed by then, but they move laterally for the rest of their lives believing that successful manipulation of other people is the same as successful interaction with them.  They may do well in school, but it’s usually a function of someone else’s assistance.  In short, people like Obama are always looking for a way to fake it, to get over on the system, to game it.  They are so practiced at faking it rather than making it, faking it becomes their profession.  Their entire lives are phony and they like it that way, it’s vastly easier than working and producing.  But at the level of the presidency, faking it is a problem, a very real large and growing problem since there is one thing fakers never seem to figure out before they go down in flames with collateral damage, inevitably, inexorably the fake fails as the impact of incompetence and reality smashes into that fantasy world.

The reason this nation has suffered under Barack Obama is his total incompetence as a president masked by his total competence as a faker.  He has been able to fake it thus far with a complicit media whose racist undercurrent should be a source of real hatred for Obama, and perhaps is vis a vis the AP scandal.  The fawning media is constructed of the same people who, when they are in the company of black people, try to sound like them.  So desperate for acceptance into that fantasy club of chic elites, the media will never bring themselves to face the fact that they put Barack Hussein Obama in office in spite of the fact he was and remains completely inadequate to the task.  He has no clue what to do at this level and so what he does is what he’s capable of doing, he makes speeches, golfs and sleeps.  He does not how to work because he’s never had to do a day’s worth in his life.

Of course he wasted a trillion dollars in “stimulus” money.  Of course we have 50,000,000 people on food stamps.  Of course he blew the national debt to $17 trillion and growing.  Of course he saddled us with a multi-trillion dollar health plan that is sure not to work.  Of course there was Fast and Furious.  Of course there was Benghazi, the AP debacle and now the truth about the Internal Revenue Service under this president’s control.  What did any thinking, rational human being think was going to happen with a Zero running the show?

He was never the smartest guy in the room and the proof is in the above paragraph.  He is a treacherous, nefarious, self-absorbed character who is at the center of all the above and more we don’t know.  He must be.  No one as incompetent as Barack Obama could do anything other than excel at being a failure.

The child president did what he always did and expected he’d get away with it.  He believes looking good somehow equates to working good.  He ignored morality, the law and common sense his entire life, so why bother with them now when doing what he’s always done, make a real good show of it all, works?  He, as Zeroes usually do, believed his own legend, and why not?  All his life he’s been indulged instead of disciplined.  He skated on the color of his skin and the fact that no one pushed back when he tested the limits.  Barack Obama was bound to end up awash in scandal for one very simple reason, he is an incompetent boob who thinks he’s not.

This administration is so completely rudderless, were Americans, even the lowest of low informationists aware of how out of control government has become under Obama they would be more frightened than if a nuclear bomb was set to go off in their front yards.  The ship of state is floundering, not because there isn’t a captain, but because the captain doesn’t know how to steer, he’s never been on a ship before much less captained one.

Mr. Obama, you didn’t know about Fast and Furious?  You had no clue about Solyndra and the other companies who gave you campaign money in return for hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars?  You had no knowledge whatsoever when four Americans were being shot to pieces in Benghazi?  You know nothing about your Justice Department seizing the personal records of reporters?  You weren’t aware of the IRS targeting conservative and religious groups in the lead-up to the 2012 election?  And all these things hushed up or obfuscated until after it?  “DAAAAAAAHHHHHH!”

By now any New York resident who is slightly more than a “low-information voter” and any United States taxpayer who is more politically aware than say, a cockroach, has heard about Governor Andrew Cuomo’s use of $140,000,000…that’s right, MILLION dollars of Hurricane Sandy relief money for an ad campaign touting New York as the state in which one should do business.  He says things have changed in New York and that “tens of thousands” of new businesses are being started as we watch and listen.  The ad states that taxes are the “lowest in 60 years” and on and on about what a great business climate exists here.  Most of it is a lie, some a twisting of the facts, all a slap in the face of every American who believed their tax dollars were going to help those affected by a disaster.

The facts of course tell a different story, especially Upstate where in most of the major cities whole neighborhoods look like Dresden after the war and unemployment is consistently in the double digits.  Business development at best is anemic, in some Upstate communities, nonexistent.  There is wholesale emigration form the region with families being torn apart by the lack of economic opportunities for the young.  According to a survey by ChiefExecutive.net, between 2010 and 2011 alone “net migration” from the state was 113,757.  Taken in perspective, it means the flight of the whole populations of both Schenectady and Utica from the state.  People don’t leave a place where opportunity is obvious.

In truth, the entire ad campaign is a lie meant not to lure businesses, but to bolster the Cuomo-Democrat image in preparation for the next elections and to build on the fable that is Andrew Cuomo.  Here at home it is an insult hurled at all New Yorkers, even those automatons from Downstate who eat such tripe for sustenance.  For the rest of the country, it is theft of your tax dollars apparently sanctioned by the Obama administration.

Here are the facts about New York, and they are undisputed:

1. New York ranks 49^th in states conducive to business activity.

2. New Yorkers have the least freedom of any state in the Union.

3. Thumbtack.com’s Small Business Survey for 2013 gave New York a D average for “Small Business Friendliness.”

4. At a joint announcement of New York’s first $55 million dollar wave of ad campaign money, G. Thomas Tranter, Jr., President of Corning Enterprises was in the midst of finalizing plans to build an $800,000,000 LCD glass plant in China.

5. Only California is considered to be worse towards business than New York, but that is this year.  Years previous New York ranked 50^th.

Cuomo’s ad campaign is a total farce, a theft of government money earmarked for Hurrican Sandy relief, a more cynical, tyrannical approach to governing has not been seen since the days of Tammany.  The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Nahmias’ article makes the case brillianty.  While other states receiving major disaster relief funds funnel them through “nonprofit group(s) with disaster relief experience”, Cuomo is using political cronies to fool with the funds.  Ms. Nahmias writes, “Four of the Empire State Relief Fund’s board members are top campaign fundraisers for Mr. Cuomo. None have disaster-relief experience. On the fund’s website, donors were directed to send checks to Richard Sirota, a private investor and consultant who is Mr. Cuomo’s 2014 re-election campaign treasurer. The address was changed after inquiries from The Wall Street Journal last weekend.”

A blatant, potentially unlawful use of $140,000,000 of taxpayer relief funds for an unauthorized ad campaign should be seen for what it is, fraud.  As of April 27, 2013, the Huffington Post reported the “Homeless Still In Thousands In New York and New Jersey.”  Victims are relying not on the billions Congress authorized for New York relief alone, but on a massive garage sale organized by Mayor Bloomberg.

To spend $144,000,000 on an ad campaign touting a fantasy should be unconscionable, but in an age of Democrat control with media complicity and voter lethargy, not to mention voter pathology when it comes to party loyalty it is not even close.  Where is the outrage?  There is none, and there won’t be any.  When corruption becomes the norm, there can be no outrage.

Bill O’Reilly’s treatment of Laura Ingraham on his show garnered this response from a viewer…me.

Bill:

You and I are the same age.  Remarkably, we were both teachers, both did our MPA’s and both grew up pretty much the same, you in an ethnic Irish household, me in an Italian one.  I suppose your father disciplined his son(s) the same way mine disciplined his.  There were shouting matches, but they were extremely rare.  My father was lord of the manor, to incur his wrath was the unhealthiest thing one of his sons could do.  He never hit us although the threat of the unknown instilled a sufficient amount of fear to make us conscious of never being stupid enough to test that particular limit.

Perhaps like your father, mine insisted we be gentlemen, especially as the term applied to women.  I say, “insisted” for it was his deep belief that if a man were less than genteel, he was no better than a common bum, deserving of no respect whatsoever, in fact deserving of his betters’ condemnation.  As you know, respect is an enormously valuable commodity among the Italian people.

Which brings me to you and your “debate” with Laura Ingraham.  You are a bully sir, and your conduct was not that of a gentleman.  You interrupted her, prevented her from making her point(s) and generally acted as if the concept of decorum when speaking to a woman even on such an intellectual level is one with which you never became familiar.  You claim you gave her “two minutes” to speak, but you made it abundantly clear you were not listening, nor would you brook any deviance from your point of view.  One sits and waits for the day you will shut someone up with, “It’s my show, that’s why!”

The subject matter of the so-called debate is of no consequence in the context of your actions.  I know Ms. Ingraham is capable of defending herself on any intellectual level, but clearly, your influence at FOX is evident and I think you use it as a stick to browbeat those who if they were to call you out for the bully you are, would never see the inside of a FNC studio again.

Your ego will preclude shame, but perhaps your vaunted senses of justice and righteousness would subordinate your ego for the moment you need to apologize to Laura Ingraham for being less than a gentleman.

I have opined, now here’s my name and town for the record:

Peter J. Fusco, Sr.

Albany, NY