[NEWS.YAHOO] After a tumultuous four years overseeing a city long riddled with blight, corruption, crime, and historic financial issues, mayor Dave Bing has had enough, telling a stunned audience at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History Tuesday that he'd leave when his term ends in December.
The 69-year-old Bing, a hall-of-fame NBA player who spent most of his career with the Pistons and then was a successful businessman in Detroit had never run for office before narrowly winning the 2009 race to replace Kwame Kilpatrick, who in less than a term in office had gone from rising Democratic star to scandal-embroiled mayor to convicted felon. After winning a full term the same year, Bing tried to turn around a city that has been losing population and sinking into an ever-deeper economic hole for decades, with a City Council resistant to his plans for radical changes to save Detroit and the looming prospect of the Republican governor appointing an emergency economic manager who would effectively take control of the city's finances from its elected officials. When Governor Rick Snyder in March ended months of deliberation by appointing Kevyn Orr emergency manager, with sweeping powers to modify contracts and sell city assets, Bing, whose frustrations had been mounting, had enough.
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Bing seemed to have his heart and mind in the right place to try and turn it around. Unfortunately he had to deal with the Klepto-entitled racialist Detroit area politicians and citizens. Nobody gonna help you out Detroit. You sh*t the bed, clean it up yourself
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Yup, the folks still there are still pretty much in denial. The ones who get the extent of the problem now live in Dearborn.
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Detroit is a case study in what takes place when tax paying citizens depart and all that remains are the entitlement crowd led by the party of urban Amerika [sic]. Closer to home, the once highly desired suburban Atlanta neighborhoods of Forest Park, East Point, and Jonesboro are now crumbling, crime ridden ghettos.
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Detroit is, indeed, the Liberal Utopia - their 'Model City'.
People really need to pay attention to this.
What has been done in Detroit is being done even now in states like California and being pushed on a grand scale nationally. Do they really think that "this time we'll get it right"?
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A notional, purely cosmetic reaction by the POTUS. As understand it, Miller was a temp slated to depart next month anyway. If no Special Prosecutor is appointed over this, none will ever be appointed again over anything.
Interesting it all went down in Ohio. If anyone [besides myself] wondered where the Tea Party went during the last presidential election, we now know.
With individual States now gearing up for legal action, I fear the next scandal and coming distraction [and there will soon be another] could be the tipping point for our constitution. If power cannot be wrestled from these Chicago thugs, we are most certainly doomed. Our democracy is on it's death bed.
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LENIN is supposed to have referred to blind defenders and apologists for the Soviet Union in the Western democracies as "useful idiots." Yet even Lenin might have been surprised at how far these useful idiots would carry their partisanship in later years -- including our own times.
- Thomas Sowell
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Myles had been having lunch with the schools reading specialist, Barbara Rankin, when he told her he had an idea.He said if we have chocolate bullets, nobody would get hurt and nobody would be sad, Rankin said. Im going to start crying again because he was so insightful
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"He said if we have chocolate bullets, nobody would get hurt and nobody would be sad," Rankin said. "I'm going to start crying again because he was so insightful he's as stupid as I am ..."
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Insiders with ties to the Obama administration tell The Cable that U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has become the heir apparent to National Security Advisor Tom Donilon -- a post at the epicenter of foreign-policy decision making and arguably more influential than secretary of state, a job for which she withdrew her candidacy last fall amid severe political pressure.
More influential than Jahwn Kerry is a low bar to clear...
"It's definitely happening," a source who recently spoke with Rice told The Cable. "She is sure she is coming and so too her husband and closest friends."
"Susan is a very likely candidate to replace him whenever he would choose to leave," agreed Dennis Ross, a former special assistant to President Obama and counselor at the Washington Institute. "She is close to the president, has the credentials, and has a breadth of experience."
Both sources said the timing of succession was uncertain. "I don't believe Tom Donilon is about to leave but would be surprised if he were to remain for the whole second term," Ross said. "But in answer to your question, [Rice's appointment] is very logical."
Rice's candidacy for secretary of state imploded in November after she recited talking points about the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi on five Sunday talk shows that turned out to be erroneous.
So why would anyone think she can be the National Security Advisor? Everyone's going to be asking the same questions...
The question now is whether Benghazi's return to the spotlight will affect her potential appointment at a time when the White House is reeling from revelations about the IRS's scrutiny of conservative groups and the Justice Department's subpoena of the calling records of AP journalists.
For now, prominent Republicans don't seem inclined to make a fuss.
In November, Arizona Sen. John McCain pledged to "do everything in my power to block her from becoming secretary of state"; South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said, "I don't think she deserves to be promoted"; and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker said she'd make a better DNC chair: "I think most of us want someone who is more independent minded."
But now -- even as Benghazi fever reaches a crescendo following last week's dramatic "whistleblower" hearing and Wednesday's release of 100 pages of Benghazi emails -- the GOP's desire to check her rise has seemingly evaporated, and Republicans have few tools to prevent her appointment, which would not require Senate confirmation.
Ah, well, there's a problem...
When asked if he was concerned about a future National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Corker, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told The Cable he was sitting this one out.
"In the case of national security advisor," he said, "whomever serves in that position serves at the pleasure of the president. So it's totally his prerogative." When The Cable asked Graham and McCain the same question, their spokesmen declined to comment.
In some ways, the deflated interest in Rice is only natural. Though the testimony of State Department witnesses last week served to highlight the inaccuracy of Rice's talk-show appearances, new details of the editing process of her talking points show her nowhere near the drafting process -- just as the administration has long maintained.
She's still a liar. She knew what she was saying was false, she knew it was false for no compelling reason, and she knew that the lies dishonored good people. Yet she went and did it anyway.
Meanwhile, a more tantalizing GOP target has emerged in the form of Hillary Clinton, the overwhelming favorite to assume the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.
She was the overwhelming favorite in 2008 .. back in 2007...
Democrats, Republicans and witnesses fixated on Clinton 32 times during discussions in last week's hearing.
Rice spokeswoman Erin Pelton declined to comment for this article. White House National Security Council Spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said, "We don't have any personnel announcements to make at this time, and Mr. Donilon has no plans to depart at this point." She added that Donilon is "fully engaged in managing our national security agenda, from his recent trip to Moscow and major address on global energy, to planning for a trip to China in late May and more upcoming speaking events."
The administration hasn't shied away from heaping praise on Rice. Last week, at a gala for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Vice President Joe Biden told the audience that the U.N. ambassador has "the absolute, total, complete confidence of the president," and that when she speaks on issues of foreign policy, nobody doubts she's speaking for Obama.
In a strange way that's true, since you can't trust either of them...
Back in March, when colleague Colum Lynch first reported whispers of Rice's comeback, Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, spoke glowingly of Rice's relationship with the president. "Susan always maintains close relations with the president and his national security team, and that continues to be the case," he said. "If anything, the way she handled the Benghazi situation -- and then the withdrawal -- only enhanced her relations here, because she did so with grace and good humor."
The president himself has gone out of his way to wink at an expanded role for Rice within his administration. "I have every confidence that Susan has limitless capability to serve our country now and in the years to come, and know that I will continue to rely on her as an advisor and friend," Obama said in a December statement.
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Yuuuupp.
PRAVDA + LUCIANNE say the Bammer is prepping to promote her - first Condi, now Susan for the Nat SecAd position.
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It appears we are indeed destined to become Harare on the Potomac. I so wish it were not so, but the pattern of recent events can lead to no other conclusion.
[WYFF4] Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven Miller has said his agency has pinpointed two "rogue" employees in the agency's Cincinnati office as being principally responsible for "overly aggressive" handling of Tea Party requests for tax-exempt status over the past two years, a congressional source told CNN on Wednesday. So there. It's all over now. Leave Brittany Barak alone!
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Mr. Miller was a loyal and very useful apparatchik. We'll no doubt be hearing from him again within the regime. Enjoy your well earned sabbatical.
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I'm amazed they didn't throw a single lefty group under the bus to give themselves deniability. "No we didn't target conservative groups, we did a full rectal-level audit of Media Matters as well" that sort of thing.
I also think specific directions probably didn't come from the White House. They didn't have to. Folks involved knew what team they were on and felt they could do their part without thinking at all about the blowback if things were exposed.
Lastly I agree with the article the other day that those calling for impeachment (from the left) are doing so to lay some kind of trap or provide themselves protection from the next election and the GOP should let this play out as long as possible before doing anything. See which way the wind blows and force the left to choose their defense before you get involved so they can't pervert a standard sexual harassment trail into a sex-based witch-hunt in the public perception.
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Lawfare and other methods of strangulation are hallmarks of this regime and it's "culture of intimidation". The EPA actions against the American coal industry are but one example. Champ indicated in his 2007-2008 campaign that he would put the coal companies out of business. The EPA is his tool.
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Just as he said he was going to 'get in their faces' - the IRS was his tool for that. He didn't have to know the details - just give general direction that getting in the faces of conservatives and Tea Party groups would be 'much appreciated' (wink-wink, nudge-nudge).
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Austin service center Dallas and and some lame spooks down there also worked for Clinton Chicago Machine bunch of phucking dorks left evidence all over the place been going on for years! Peace
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Military in service centers 4 of them in a elevator go figure!
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Of course Bambi told them to do it - he didn't have to say the words "audit everyone who doesn't worship agree with me."
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the federal employee at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting of conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, was given $42,531 in bonuses between 2009 and 2011.
That figure was included in data provided by the IRS in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Washington Examiner. Lerner is director of the IRS exempt organizations division, which processes and approves or denies applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status.
Lerner received $17,220 for 2010, $14,691 for 2011 and $10,620 for 2012, the most recent year for which the IRS said data was available.
Her annual salary in 2009 and 2010 was $172,200, and $177,000 in 2011 and 2012. With the bonuses, Lerner was paid a total of $740,931 for the four-year period.
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To my now dated recollection within DoD, Federal Annual Bonuses were funded from excess personnel budget. That is, if you were authorized 10 personnel, budgeted for same, but only hired 9, funding for the empty billet was divided [equally or non-equally] among the 9 as opposed to being returned to the treasury and taxpayers from whence it came. The entire process simply became an entitlement.
An interesting aside. Also funded from the personnel budget were local civilian personnel legal actions and employee union grievance settlements. Keep the natives happy and the lawyers at bay; enjoy the entitlement benefits. Pay now, or pay later. You decide.
[KSL] President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... on Wednesday announced the ouster of the top official at the Internal Revenue Service following disclosures that the agency targeted conservative political groups.
Obama, who has been criticized for appearing passive in his response to the matter, declared, "I am angry about it" and said the American people had a right to be angry as well.
Feelings are passive. It is, oddly enough, actions that are active.
Before announcing the departure of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, Obama conferred with brass hats from the Treasury Department, which oversees the IRS. The White House scheduled the meeting a day after the release of an inspector general report that showed ineffective management at the IRS allowed agents to improperly single out tea party groups for special review during a period of more than 18 months.
Miller became acting commissioner in November, after Commissioner Douglas Shulman completed his five-year term. Shulman had been appointed by President George W. Bush.
The president has proceeded cautiously since the IRS controversy was made public Friday. While he initially said the accusations were "outrageous," he also said he wanted to wait until the inspector general's report was released before addressing what should be done to hold accountable those responsible.
Besides seeking Miller's resignation, Obama said his administration would put in place new safeguards to prevent a recurrence of the IRS actions and said he insisted the IRS implement the inspector general's recommendations immediately. The IRS had agreed to seven of nine recommendations contained in the report.
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Obama said his administration would put in place new safeguards to prevent a recurrence of the IRS actions from ever being discovered again.
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Yes, we've got a few items that need attention:
Fast & Furious
Solyndra
Pigford
New Black Panthers
Lightsquared
ACORN
SIGA
Sebelius-Gate
Wiki-Leaks
Navy Seal Leakgate
Benghazi
Fort Hood Workplace Violence
IRS-Gate
Project Gunrunner
Blago
Tony Rezko
Drone Zapping
AyPee-Gate
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"I'm angry about it" of course he's angry that it's all coming out.
I'm reminded of this Payback moment: Payback clip
can't wait until the link is made to the top. If he's only getting his info when we are how is he running the country.
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Class action law suit to strip the individuals of their protection for their actions as government employees because the acts 1 - are disavowed by their 'superiors' and 2 - so egregious in their nature to the fundamentals of constitutional government. Throw in 'social justice' a couple times just to make the Lefties cringe.
And he didn't become head of the agency until last November...well AFTER the targeting was initiated.
This is a Kabuki moment.
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Also waiting to see when he actually leaves office. Could be in about three weeks.
If it's indeed a three week (or so) timeframe, O is caught (by me anyway) in a baldfaced lie tailored to look like he actually did something, but an action without consequence.
Not breaking out the kettle corn yet, but I know where it is if I need it.
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The IRS picking and choosing which orgs will and will not be sounds a lot like...death panels.
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Told you yesterday what would happen, the boss gets blamed, and the (PRIME, SUSPECT) workers get away with it, then a NEW boss is found, and the whole thing starts all over again, just with new names.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the federal employee at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting of conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, was given $42,531 in bonuses between 2009 and 2011.
[KSL] President 
