We head towards Thanksgiving with two disparate views of America beginning to form for the 2012 election cycyle. On the left we have the Occupy stupidity movement, which is rapidly devolving into juvenile chaos and violence. Powerline summarized the rot of Occupy well this morning:

If you have ever wondered what would happen in a society consisting entirely of liberals, the Occupier movement is providing the answer: devolution.

* In Portland, an Occupier was arrestedfor throwing a Molotov cocktail down the stairwell of a building.

* In London, employees of St. Paul’s Cathedral have had to clean up human waste left by Occupiers inside the cathedral. (What is it with the Occupiers and toilet issues?)

* In Portland, another drug overdose.

* In Vermont, a man was shot to death at the Occupy Burlington encampment.

Not to mention the deadly shooting in Oakland, CA. This is the vision for America on display from left wing nuts who really just can’t handle personal responsibility. Like the petulant children they are, they want their fair share of other people’s hard work – and now!

Yeah, just where I wan to go to get out of my upper middle class home of 20 years. Just the future we worked our all our lives to leave for our 4 children. There is no better sign of America’s possibilities than the rot of weeks’ old tent cities. Can’t wait.

Mountains of debt, high taxes, class (actually: ‘success)’ envy, an oppressive government, government handouts instead of jobs – this wondrous nightmare of liberal imagination. It’s like the entire Democrat Party is run by clones of Tim Burton.

Now on the right rises a man who came from the simplest of backgrounds. Son of a domestic helper and a chauffeur (among many other talents), Herman Cain rose from the lowest rungs of the middle class to the upper echelons of this nation based on hard work and dedication. Along the way he retained his honor, devotion and character. He epitomizes the American character of self reliance, hard work and a class act. Devoted husband and father, the man apparently was able to ascend without all the baggage the left seems to attract on its path to success.

From a family perspective – Herman Cain is no Bill Clinton!

Cain harkens us all back to some basic tenants of our youths (at least those of us hitting – or past – the half century mark). In the 1970’s we then young Americans were battered by two opposing views, just as America is now. We had the lingering aura of the Greatest Generation – the World War II generation. This is my parents’ generation, and my father is one of the few remaining veterans who fought true evil in The North Atlantic, in support of the Invasion of North Africa and in The South Pacific). That generation is best depicted in the pictures of Norman Rockwell, showing both the near-comical side of human imperfections while emanating the warmth of community. Rockwell’s images show strength and humble imperfection at all once.

Collding with such iconic American imagery we see in movies like  It’s A Wonderful Life was the other side of America at that time. The rebellious and nowhere near as great Hippie culture, which encompassed the Vietnam War protest movement. A movement that sadly consumed the civil rights movement at the time and turned the left from good to hapless.

The civil rights movement was born from the World War II generation’s experiences, where race did not dictate honor, bravery nor courage in battle. LIfe and death battles tend to burn away the nonsense, and it happened in WWII. It was by fighting side-by-side that the mythology of racism began to shatter. Martin Luther King and Jack Kennedy (a WW II Hero) both had wondrous views of where America would be if we could end segregation and become one people.

And today we can honestly say – outside the marginal nuts on the left and right (e.g., Panthers and Klansman) – those dreams have come true.

However, also at the time the anit-war movement coopted the civil rights movement, and became the dominant force on the left. It was the predecessor of today’s Occupy nonsense. It was a communist/socialist movement that cried out in anger against free market capitalism –  instead of the racists. It rose up against the military (which was whooping socialist and communist ass), not against the Klan. This anti-war, drug-induced movement was not righteous and broadly supported like the civil rights movement it attached itself to. An attachment that tenuously lives to this day.

The civil rights movement made the huge mistake of aligning with this socialist left wing movement – something it did not need to do to garner the respect of Americans and succeed in its mission. When these two became allies, the black community became the community of victim hood, fatherless families and living on government handouts. Not all, by a long shot. There is a very successful black middle and upper class in this country now. But for too many, the battles of the 60’s and 70’s are still being waged against mythical right wing Klansmen.

MLK had a dream of one America, color blind, marching as a community of neighbors into the future. Herman Cain heading the GOP ticket is the realization of that dream. And the left knows that – more than any other event in the last 5 decades – a Cain ascendency would shatter the old and tired Political groupings. They fear this more than anything else. They fear it because it would signal the end of the protest movement – because it would signal final success.

Thus the lame smear campaingn against Cain which is clearly failing – spectacularly and ugly.

Recent Quinnipiac polls shows Cain beating Romney handily in FL and OH, and tied in PA. And last night a PPP poll in Ohio showed something that must be stunning the left wing muckrakers:

The poll shows Cain with 34 percent support, Gingrich with 20 percent support, and Mitt Romney with 19 percent support. No other candidate has more than 5 percent support.

The far left apparently thought even a hint of a black man stalking blond women would immediately call out the lynch mobs. The left’s obsession with race is becoming its own Achilles’ Heel this election cycle. America is very much color blind these days, and if we instead measure the content of character the left is a vacuum sitting in a cesspool. They are the ones taking political damage, not Herman Cain.

Cain’s support is rising – as is his campaign war chest – because he attracks the right enemies and projects the right positive image to Main Street America. If you compare Occupy Stupid (a twist on the ‘Don’t Get Stuck On Stupid” quote from Katrina) with Cain’s vision of America it is clear the Community Organizer would be whooped in the 2012 Election by the honorable businessman from Georgia. Because honestly, who wants to trade the American dream for smelly, violent tent cities run by left wing socialists?

Last night’s debate was interesting. Perry imploded (again, and with a bigger bang). Romney was invisible and irrelevant. Newt was Newt. The ‘also rans’ failed to make an impressions.

And Herman Cain won the support of the crowd. When Maria the flaming liberal went after Cain on the sexual assault crap, the crowd reacted angrily (heck, you should of seen the response on our house). And when they what’s-his-name-NBC-anchor tried to get Romney to back stab his fellow Republican, the crowd got even angrier (as did a lot of households watching I am sure).

And then Maria decided it was time to get back to substance – and the crowd cheered.

Spontaneous support for Herman Cain, which means no one but a left winger is buying the charges anymore.

But is that a clear indication Cain has survived this test? Nope – but Quinnipiac has a bunch of polls out that do!

• Florida: Cain 27, Romney 21; +6% Cain
• Ohio: Cain 25, Romney 20; + 5% Cain
• Pennsylvania: Cain 17, Romney 17; tie

These polls were taken through Nov 7, which means at the height of the smear campaign against Cain. Cain still leads Romney. Cain is still the preferred choice. Cain will survive.

Now I know why NBC networks are trolling the bottom of the ratings levels. The questions are moronic – I mean seriously moronic. Each questions is tinged with liberal bias. I am surprised the candidates are even answering them – as opposed to calling the questioners on their idiocy.

Best part so far, the moans as the CNBC went after Cain on the sexual harassment charges.

Worst responses are coming from Romney – who the questioners are trying to prop up. I have no idea what Romney is even talking about! He is getting 2 questions to every other candidate getting one.

This is the worst debate I have ever seen, and it is all because CNBC is a pathetic joke. CNBC morons on parade – that is all I can see.

BTW, I predict a big night for Newt – CNBC moderators are like dead fish lying at the bottom of a dry barrel

I have to laugh at the idiotic hand-wringing going on with the Cain sexual harassment/assault kerfuffle. Not that sexual harassment or assault is not serious (I am the father of 3 daughters so don’t even pretend to read too much into my views on Cain and his accusers). But the charges are lacking seriousness or credibility.

A sober analysis of Sharon Bialek’s claims quickly exposes a real possibility that Sharon Bialek is trying to gain some vengeance against the man whose organization fired her:

1. Sharon is working for National Restaurant Association (NRA) and loses job
2. Cain is the head of NRA at the time – so Sharon goes DC to meet Cain and ask for help getting a job?? Folks, think this through. She goes over the head of the people who fired her in the first place to get a job with the top guy? What happens when he compares notes with the ones who fired her? In what universe does this make sense?
3. Sharon flies to DC and corners the top guy of the company that fired her on the brilliantly stupid idea from her then boyfriend where supposedly she rebuffed his overtures. They meet for dinner, drinks and an evening drive – so she says.

But what if it was the other way around? What if she made a move on him in hopes of getting her job back?

I am not the only one who stepped back from the scandal-mongering mob-think and realized the roles might have been reversed, with Bialek the predator and making false claims against a good and honorable man:

Some of Kurtis’ observations on Bialek were as follows:

“She has a history.”

“There is a lot more to this story.”

“I can assure you that there will be far more to this story.”

“Let’s put Herman or Sharon in the car and say their roles may even have been reversed, given her track record here.”

Really! And the other accuser has a history of attempting to extort money from employers as well:

A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment,…

To settle the complaint at the immigration service, Kraushaar initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after the accident earlier in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale and a one-year fellowship to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, according to a former supervisor familiar with the complaint. The promotion itself would have increased her annual salary between $12,000 and $16,000, according to salary tables in 2002 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Kraushaar told the AP she considered her employment complaint “relatively minor” and she later dropped it.

Cain will not only survive this, but his support will grow. Americans will flock to defend a man wrongfully accused – and they will vent their righteous anger at a muckraking news media (‘news’ of course now being a complete fiction). As I said, the more the politically elite try to take him down, the stronger he grows in the eyes of the voters.

Tags: Bialek, Cain, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassent

For those who watched Cain’s press conference on the sexual allegations I can pretty much assume those outside the Beltway with an open mind (sorry libs, that leaves you out) are good with his statements and already are moving on. There are no facts behind the allegations, and calls to address trumped up charges in detail (I am talking to you Gloria@CNN) are idiotic. If they did not happen or Cain was not there, there is no detail to address.

The Political Industrial Complex is still shivering from the media spotlight applied to Cain – but the are truly like cockroaches who scamper away whimpering when the left does their staged smear-craft. O’Reilly nailed it – no facts and no hard evidence means the voters are not interested any more. While inside the Beltway shudders at the media generated noise, the rest of us just shrug.

Cain was professional, balanced and controlled the press conference, and he did not equivocate or dodge. It was very refreshing.

The media may try to squeeze more out of this, but parading a few women with probable axes to grind against Cain is not going to hold anyone’s attention.Update: As I wrote this post guess what hit Drudge:

A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment,…

To settle the complaint at the immigration service, Kraushaar initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after the accident earlier in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale and a one-year fellowship to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, according to a former supervisor familiar with the complaint. The promotion itself would have increased her annual salary between $12,000 and $16,000, according to salary tables in 2002 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Kraushaar told the AP she considered her employment complaint “relatively minor” and she later dropped it.

We have a serial alarmist here who abuses the system for personal gain. And these are tax payer dollars this quasi-extortionist was trying to wrangle here. This one’s done. – end update

They can come out it one’s, two’s or three’s – it ain’t going to change the conclusion. Cain is innocent until proven guilty, and there is not even a hint of proof he did anything – except vindictive women pretending to be victims. This story is spent.

As is the Occupy Boredom movement. They have yelled, pissed, rioted and slept in tents for weeks. Ho-hum. Like I tried to say before, this kind of petulant temper tamper does not impress America in 2011 like it did in the 1960’s:

Take me for instance. I grew up in the 60?s and 70?s and relished the dying days of the protest movement of those times. I grew up with protest rock, the generation of defiance, etc. But in the end my generation learned that while it was great to have and experience fantasies, reality was very, very different.

The protests are neither moving nor nostalgic nor intimidating. And they are rapidly losing their newsworthiness. Heck, even the homeless are getting tired of the occupiers. This movement is dying of boredom.

More importantly is what happened in the elections. They were closer than most people thought, and the left dodged some bullets (but not losing is not quite the same as winning). In Ohio the key vote of interest was not the union busting measures being rolled back, but the resounding defeat of Obama’s signature accomplishment in Ohio is telling.

66% voted against Obamacare in this bellweather state. That is the only success Obama has in his first term and people hate it. If 2012 is a referendum on Obama, then it looks to be a wipe out that will make 2010 look mild.

I am not surprised many of referendums and races did not go as well as some on the right hoped. The union busting may have been too much too fast in Ohio during economic hard times. A more measured and slower pace should win the day. The Personhood vote in MI was worded so badly I would have voted against it (why ‘clone’ was included is a mystery, but it could be read to say clones are people too). Races to eject long time and popular Democrats did not go well as hoped in VA.

But that is because people are not reacting in knee-jerk, mob mentality. They are thinking things through. Which is a good sign. It means stunts and spin and the other tools of the tiresome Political Industrial Complex are becoming useless. It means Cain can weather these hits if he just stays on message and swats these lame dirty tricks aside like he did last night.

And it means the Dems are in real trouble, because in the end they are not popular centrists in Southern Virginia. If that was the heart and soul of the Democrat Party they would have a chance. But they have slid so far left they have become a serious minority in America:

Self-professed conservatives now outnumber self-professed liberals in the United States, 42 percent to 21 percent, according to a Gallup poll published Monday. Another 37 percent described themselves as moderates.

Conservatives now outnumber liberals 2 to 1, and are on par with ‘moderates’ – which is a catch all term of no meaning. So when voting comes, the conservative always start with a 2 to 1 advantage. I think the libertarian Tea Party portion of the electorate is even larger. It would consume a good portion of the moderates, while maybe losing some social conservatives who want to use government to brow beat people into behaving the way they want them to. My guess is the Big-Government verses Limited-Government split is also 2-1, but with very few non-committed (unlike the ‘moderates’ category).

If so, 2012 will usher in a Sea Change of attitude towards government – one the Political Industrial Complex is scared out of their wits to see happen. The rest of us just can’t wait to see it happen.

Tags: 2011 Elections, Cain, Obamacare, Sexual Harassment

I noticed something quite vicious Sharon Bialek said on TV recently, something which could be a signal that her motives are more vindictive than victim hood. Recall the timeline here:

1. Sharon is working for National Restaurant Association (NRA) and loses job
2. Cain is the head of NRA at the time – so Sharon goes DC to meet Cain and ask for help getting a job?? Folks, think this through. She goes over the head of the people who fired her in the first place to get a job with the top guy? What happens when he compares notes with the ones who fired her? In what universe does this make sense?
3. Sharon flies to DC and corners the top guy of the company that fired her on the brilliantly stupid idea from her then boyfriend where supposedly she rebuffed his overtures. They meet for dinner, drinks and an evening drive – so she says.

But what if it was the other way around? What if she made a move on him in hopes of getting her job back? Now that sounds like an idea a dumb boyfriend or girlfriend might cook up! What if she thought she could seduce her job back (or at least try some black mail  – no pun intended).

What if the one doing the rebuffing was the straight laced Cain?

Here’s Sharon’s line that triggered this train of thought:

“You know what I want to say to Herman is? If not for yourself, okay, to come forward and admit this — what is his wife going through? You know, that’s who I feel for the most in this whole thing,” Bialek said on CNN’s “American Morning.”

Sorry, but I am calling B*ll Sh*t on you Sharon! If you were concerned about his wife you would have kept your mouth shut like you did for 14 years (supposedly). And if you really did care about her, you would never have mentioned her n this at all. You wanted the media lens on her.

This has all the signs and sounds of vengeance. Sharon wants Gloria Cain to hurt, because she wants Herman Cain to hurt, because he ran the company that fired her ass! This drips with anger and meanness.

Now this makes much more sense than the story she’s weaving. Cain would not wine, dine or provide a suite to someone his company just fired! No way – not if they had good reason to fire her (like she royally screwed up or did something unethical). When fired that usually means never to be seen again.

What I hear is a fantasy from Allred and Bialek, one that has been running around Sharon’s little head for a while now. One that involves a plan to get back at ‘the man’. I bet Cain did not even give her the time of day in DC, just like he blew her off at the Tea Party event a few weeks ago. She is a woman scorned.

Now that makes a lot more sense – while were playing fiction anyway.

LOL Upudate! OK, this really is a pathetic joke. One of the accusers works for the Obama administration:

Karen Kraushaar currently serves as a communications director at the Inspector General’s Office of the Treasury Department, a position she has held since last year. She did not return phone messages left by The Daily.

What a joke. And if you think there is no money on the table (later) you’re naive. As I said, this has all the earmarks of an incompetent smear. Which given the level of incompetence in this White House on display since inauguration (lame gifts to heads of state, stimulus bills that fail, the Obamacare debacle, the 2010 election debacle, etc, etc, etc) it is no surprise this muckraking attempt would implode. – end update

This afternoon Herman Cain is going to hold a press conference to address the string of dirty-trick smears being spewed by the Obama White House and DNC operatives. And if anyone doubts the coordination source for this muckraking is from the left, realize no GOP candidate would survive executing such low-brow dirty tricks in the GOP as a whole. Not to mention all the coordinated messages (subliminal and obvious) surrounding the news from various ‘news’ sources. This is a left wing hit job – plain and simple.

Either Cain bows out today, or he slams this with so much fact it collapses – because either its true or not. My guess it is not. A string of 5 women coming out within a week is not coincidence – it is stagecraft. And this 4th person has some serious character issues – apparent from all the way across the Atlantic:

A ‘gold digger’ embroiled in legal and financial difficulties who has always lived above her station and will do anything to never have to work again.

This is the portrait that has started to emerge of the fourth woman to accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment – the first to come out publicly.

Though her lawyer Gloria Allred painted a respectable and prestigious education and employment history for Sharon Bialek, 50, just a day later it has been revealed that she has not held a job for more than two years and has filed for bankruptcy twice.

This story looks to be the usual hit job. Not well crafted and made for TVLand IQ types. Cain and his supporters are not that the kind of people to fall for B Movie fiction like this, and are probably more than capable of building a case on why this woman is not credible. The story looks ripe for blowing holes through.

If this plays out as I suspect, blowing this accuser out of the water will blast all of them out of the water and make any future accusations against Cain completely suspect unless they come with bullet proof evidence. This is the day where Cain ascends or descends.

Tags: Herman Cain, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassent

Good Lord, save us from armchair experts with no backbone, morals or standards.

Fox News spent an hour  claiming HermanCain has now been destroyed by unfounded accusations (clearly designed to destroy the peoples’ preferred choice).  Fox News has demonstrated why the Political Industrial Complex right and left don’t understand what is happening outside the Beltway on Main Street America.

Supposedly, even though there is no proof of the latest allegation being true or in character, Brit Hume, Jonah Goldberg and Charles Krauthammer have once again ordained Cain doomed and Romney the only option to beat Obama.

Their so called thinking is that winning the election is more important than sending a libertarian outsider like Cain to DC to lead real change in DC. Somehow we are only going to look at variations of the same big government candidates so these people can remain the center of America.

What a joke.

Well, all I can say is the crow is being prepared and these political experts are going to be eating piles of it when Cain’s ascension to the GOP presidential nominee continues. What I am hearing on the ground is this October Surprise is not much of a surprise, not credible and not the prime issue for this election cycle. When the Super Committee fails and we see more of the same dysfunction from DC it will be clear Romney is too timid, too small thinking, too much like Obama to waste our time with. Cain will survive this hiccup.

When Obama and Romney are two sides of the same coin, and the anger from the 2010 election has not been soothed by a serious change in direction in DC, it will be clear We The People are not kidding – no matter what muckrakers like Allred try and fling.

Addendum: I have actually been out of the political loop this past week, so I am confident I don’t have DC Insider blindness on this subject. What amazes me is someone has not realized that the same electorate that refused to take Clinton down for sex on the job with an intern, or take Bush down for a DWI, or take Obama down because of the birther nonsense, has become deaf to the scandal mongering from DC.

It’s called crying ‘Wolf!’ – and it doesn’t work anymore.

Tags: 2012 Election, Csin, Fox News, Sexual Harassent

My apologies for the light posting, massive meetings and travel recently.  And thanks to DJStrata for stepping in while I was engaged elsewhere.

Not too surprisingly, the one man who represents the biggest threat to business as usual in DC is on the receiving end of a character assassination hit job from DC’s Political Industrial Complex. The same old dirty politics from the usual DC incompetents (who have screwed up so many things that our economy is now on the verge of collapse) are out gunning for Herman Cain. It is a sign of Cain’s rising stature that the knives are now out.

But what the Political Industrial Complex does not yet understand is how each attack on Herman Cain is now a sign to the voters that Cain is the right choice in 2012. As the left and right begin to shudder with the realization Cain would end the gravy train for all (instead of switching out Donkeys or Elephants at the head of the trough) they have decided it has to be anyone but Cain. Which means the voters are all flocking to Cain since he has elicited such panic and froth from those responsible for our current mess.

While there are lots of speculation on who was behind the “Clarence Thomas treatment” of Cain, I see one similarity that stands out quite obviously. In 2004 the Illinois Senate race was upended when personal details of the GOP candidate’s divorce were illegally unsealed by a liberal judge who wanted to toss the race to one Barack Obama:

Ryan married actress Jeri Ryan in 1991; together they have a son, Alex Ryan. They divorced in 1999 in California, and the records of the divorce were sealed at their mutual request. Five years later, when Ryan’s Senate campaign began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have the records released. On March 3, 2004, several of Ryan’s GOP primary opponents urged release of the records.^[5] Both Ryan and his wife agreed to make their divorce records public, but not make the custody records public, claiming that the custody records could be harmful to their son if released. On March 16, 2004, Ryan won the GOP primary with 36 percent to 23 percent against Jim Oberweis who came in second.^[6] Obama won the Democratic primary, with 53 percent to 23 percent against Dan Hynes, who came in second.

On March 29, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider ruled that several of the Ryans’ divorce records should be opened to the public, and ruled that a court-appointed referee would later decide which custody files should remain sealed to protect the interests of Ryan’s young child.^[7] The following week, on April 2, 2004, Barack Obama formally established his position about the Ryans’ soon-to-be-released divorce records, and called on Democrats not to inject them into the campaign.^[8] The Ryan campaign characterized Obama’s stance as hypocritical, because Obama’s alleged backers had been emailing reports about the divorce records prior to Judge Schnider’s decision.^[8]

Anyone note how a Los Angeles judge was able to upend an Illinois election? What everyone needs to remember about this was neither Jack nor Jeri Ryan wanted these records exposed – only his opponents. There was defending this action, which arguably led Obama to the White House and our current situation.

If I am correct, this White House is frightened to death about Herman Cain as a challenger. As Dennis Miller quipped, with would be Cain (or “can”) versus “Unable”. That fear is causing them to go all out against Cain (and which why they keep pretending Romney is the opponent they most fear – apparently because he is so close to Obama in many ways).

The more the Political Industrial Complex attacks Cain on what are simply normal human imperfections, and attempt to prop up the government bureaucracy as the be-all end-all, the more attractive Cain looks to the average voter. And for good reason.

When the 2010 election dust settled, DC was faced with a massive influx of libertarian driven (not leaning, but driven) representatives and senators. The comments about the Tea Party members from the established members was telling and it showed the fear of this movement.

Harry Reid complained about radicals wanting to shrink government to within its means. He was one of many pols who could not fathom a world were the government was a minimal factor in the lives of America (see here for one more example). The result was old school versus new school, with old school incapable of doing what the voters wanted.

Now that DC has decided to once more ignore the American voters, continue with business as usual, the voters now realize they are not done sending fresh blood and perspective to DC. Not by a long shot. And the one candidate who is not a life long government busy-body, know-it-all is Herman Cain.

He does not know all aspects of useless and pointless policies – a good sign. He does not get stuck in the mental quicksand of government driven solution details. He is not enamored with idea of tuning government (see Obama, Romney, Perry, et al for variations on this theme). He is for identifying the pointless and useless in government and ending it – giving people back their country.

He is We The People. And the more the Political Industrial Complex lashes out, the more we know we have the leader that will begin the long process if transforming DC – instead of transforming America.

Tags: Cain, Obama, Perry, Romney, Ryan, Scandals

Today the House has subpoenaed all White House documents relating to Solyndra.

By a 14-9 party-line vote the Energy and Commerce Committee’s investigative subcommittee authorized issuing a subpoena for any White House documents related to Solyndra, which received renewable energy loan guarantees under President Obama’s stimulus program. The request for documents could include details of the president’s own travel and communications.

Democrats said it was “unprecedented” to subpoena documents from the president’s executive office like this, but Republicans said they’ve run out of patience with White House “stalling.”

“We simply cannot allow the executive branch at its highest levels to pick and choose what they will produce, or whether they will produce anything at all,” said Rep. Cliff Stearns, the Florida Republican who runs the investigative panel.

Finally we have some Congressmen with a moral compass. It only took a year of being the majority in the House, but I’ll take it. Anything attempts to stop, stall, and/or reverse the immoral, unlawful acts of this Administration. The Democrats and the Administration are trying to claim that the Republicans are acting in bad faith.

Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican and chairman of the full committee, said several new boxes of documents were released to the press Wednesday night even before they were turned over to the committee. Those documents reportedly show the Obama administration mulled bailing Solyndra out just days before the solar panel manufacturer collapsed.

Emphasis mine. I’m pretty sure sending documents to the press prior to the investigating body is acting in bad faith. If you provided the press with evidence prior to notifying the police you could be charged with obstructing an investigation. “Documents the GOP has already obtained show approval was sped up despite the concerns of some officials.” I’m pretty sure that is probable cause to request more information. With this knowledge it is no longer a fishing expedition. Democrats shut up and step aside. This Adminstration and anyone involved will pay for the injustice done to the tax payers.

DJ Strata