{"id":1639,"date":"2012-04-27T15:44:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T21:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2012-04-28T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T19:52:42","slug":"a-fish-rots-from-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"A Fish Rots From the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir James Porter\u2019s Observations on the religion, law, government, and manners of the Turks<\/em>, published in 1768, tells us, \u201cThe Turks have a homely proverb\u2026 they say \u2018the fish stinks first at the head,\u2019 meaning that, if the servant is disorderly, it is because the master is so.\u201d<\/p>\n

How could the Turks have known about Barack Obama so many centuries before he was born?<\/p>\n

From the day he announced his intention to seek the presidency, we knew that Obama was just another Democratic political thug from the streets of South Chicago with no more background and experience for the presidency than the average man on the street.\u00a0 And now, just three years into his faux<\/em> presidency, we find that he has fostered a culture of corruption that could only have been conceived at the feet of Marxist mentors, polished as a Saul Alinsky community organizer, and honed to a fine edge in the corrupt precincts of Chicago Democratic politics.<\/p>\n

In recent days the Obama brand of corruption has been exemplified by the serious misbehavior of a White House advance team in Cartagena, Columbia, as they made preparations for Obama\u2019s participation in a regional summit conference.\u00a0 More than a dozen members of his Secret Service advance team and 10 military personnel were recalled for excessive drinking and for consorting with prostitutes.\u00a0 Several Secret Service personnel have been either discharged or suspended.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks we\u2019ve learned of profligate spending by top officials of the General Services Administration (GSA).\u00a0 The scandal focused principally on the agency\u2019s 2010 conference in Las Vegas.\u00a0 Reports indicate that the GSA spent around $830,000 in taxpayer funds on the three-day internal conference.\u00a0 One GSA official allegedly paid the special $93 government rate for an additional night\u2019s stay in his $1,000 room, but then charged taxpayers for the full amount and pocketed the difference.\u00a0\u00a0 Three senior officials have been fired, including GSA Administrator Martha N. Johnson, and five others have been suspended.\u00a0 Fifty GSA employees received $500 to $1,000 bonuses for their role in planning the conference.<\/p>\n

Since moving into the White House in January 2009, the Obama\u2019s have demonstrated a total lack of \u201cclass,\u201d taking advantage of their position much like a group of unsupervised teenagers with a no-limit credit card and the keys to the family car.<\/p>\n

For example, in August 2010, Michelle Obama, daughter Sasha, and 40 \u201cclose friends\u201d spent four days at the Hotel Villa Padierna on Spain\u2019s Costa del Sol, where they occupied 60 or 70 rooms at a cost of $500 to $2,500 a night, each. \u00a0According to a report by Judicial Watch, taxpayers picked up a $199,323 tab for the use of an Air Force 757 aircraft (Air Force Two), $26,670 for a chauffeur-driven tour of the Costa del Sol, and $50,078 for a tour planner.\u00a0 Housing costs came to approximately $95,000 for some 70 security personnel, plus the cost of transporting a dozen or more automobiles for the First Lady\u2019s motorcade.\u00a0 The total tab picked up by taxpayers for Michelle\u2019s four-day vacation came to approximately $500,000.<\/p>\n

Andrea Tartaros, writing in the<\/em> New York Daily News<\/em>, referred to the First Lady as a \u201cmodern-day Marie Antoinette.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March 2012, the Obamas sent their 13-year-old daughter, Malia, a student at Washington\u2019s Sidwell Friends School, on a class trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, escorted by 25 Secret Service agents.\u00a0 Within hours of the first mention of the trip by Politico<\/em> and the Huffington Post, <\/em>White House operatives were on the phones and all details of the trip were scrubbed from the Internet.<\/p>\n

No president in history has spent as much time traveling on official business, on partisan political junkets, and on vacations.\u00a0 At an estimated cost of $181,757 per flight HOUR\u2026 plus the cost of transporting the Marine One helicopter, bullet-proof limos, the Secret Service, and local police overtime\u2026 Obama has spent at least $100 million flying around on Air Force One, plus another $100 million transporting his enormous entourage.\u00a0 According to Mark Knoller of CBS, during calendar year 2010 alone, Obama made 65 domestic trips over 104 days and six trips to eight foreign countries over 22 days\u2026 plus six vacation trips over 32 days.<\/p>\n

The only thing that would make Obama\u2019s appearance more appropriate to his extravagant lifestyle is a change of fashion.\u00a0 If it is true that \u201cclothes make the man,\u201d then what he needs in order to make an honest fashion statement are some pastel-shade polyester suits, white patent leather shoes, a white leather belt, and a heavy gold watch chain.<\/p>\n

Now, as Republicans appear to have decided on who will have the honor of being November\u2019s \u201cExterminator in Chief,\u201d the American people are made aware of just how closely the Obama administration has duplicated the methodology of Adolph Hitler\u2019s Third Reich.<\/p>\n

In a recently discovered speech by EPA Region VI Administrator, Al Armendariz, we are given a rare glimpse inside the hearts and minds of those whom Obama has chosen to assist him in his goal of \u201cfundamentally transforming the United States of America.\u201d\u00a0 In a videotaped speech, Armendariz described his \u201cgeneral philosophy\u201d toward regulating the oil industry under the Obama administration.\u00a0 He explained, \u201cIt was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean.\u00a0 They\u2019d go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they\u2019d find the first five guys they saw and they\u2019d crucify them.\u00a0 Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years\u2026 It\u2019s a deterrent factor.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the weeks and months after Armendariz explained the Obama administration\u2019s approach to environmental enforcement, the EPA initiated smear campaigns against natural gas producers in Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming, insinuating that the new hydraulic fracturing technology used by natural gas producers resulted in water contamination\u2026 a claim that has been found to be totally without merit.\u00a0 And while Armendariz has been forced to apologize for his intemperate remarks, when considered in context with the administration\u2019s \u201cFast and Furious\u201d gun-walking project, which has resulted in the deaths of hundreds, they were not especially cruel or brutal.<\/p>\n

Was the appointment of Mr. Armendariz a fluke, a simple mistake?\u00a0 Not likely.\u00a0 From what we know of the Obama administration\u2019s hiring criteria, he is quite typical.\u00a0 To quote Vice President Joe Biden, \u201cWay back in the transition period, before we were sworn in, when Barack Obama and I were literally sitting at a desk in a high rise in Chicago, beginning the plan on how we would try to get this economy out of a ditch, literally, the first guy I called was (former Senator, former New Jersey Governor) Jon Corzine. \u00a0It\u2019s not a joke. \u00a0It\u2019s not a joke. \u00a0First of all, he\u2019s the smartest guy I know in terms of the economy and on finance, and I really mean that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, just over three years later, federal investigators are still trying to find some $1.2 billion of depositor funds that Corzine \u201cmisplaced\u201d while serving as CEO of MF Global.<\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that, when the man at the top of the power structure is so without honor, so without redeeming values, the men and women of the rank-and-file, the peons<\/em> of the Obama administration, would also feel it\u2019s okay to behave like college kids on spring break and to squander taxpayers funds willy-nilly?<\/p>\n

As Inauguration Day approached in January 2009, one wondered how the non-political White House staff would react to Obama.\u00a0 Would they show him the same level of respect they\u2019d shown Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush?\u00a0 Would the members of the president\u2019s Marine detachment choose to serve an illegitimate president, or would they request transfers to other duty\u2026 such as combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan?<\/p>\n

Is there a serviceman or a veteran alive who does not cringe every time they see news film of Obama bounding down the steps of Marine One on the south lawn of the White House, while the young Marine standing at the foot of the steps comes to attention and salutes him?\u00a0 How will those young Marines ever explain to their children and grandchildren the shame they felt each time they saluted Barack Obama, a man who masqueraded as commander in chief of U.S. Military forces, while lacking the personal courage to ever wear a U.S. military uniform?What is critically important, but what is being totally glossed-over in the mainstream media\u2026 including Fox News\u2026 is the extent to which lack of respect for Obama within Secret Service, FBI, and active duty military ranks has contributed to a general breakdown in morale, good order, and discipline.\u00a0 Is it even a remote possibility that Secret Service agents and White House military personnel would have drunk to excess and consorted with prostitutes while advancing an overseas mission for Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush?\u00a0 The answer is no; it would have been unthinkable.<\/p>\n

It comes as no surprise that it took the bogus Obama Administration, which soils everything it touches, to soil the reputation of the Secret Service, a squeaky-clean organization whose motto has always been, until now, \u201cWorthy of Trust and Confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

So let me be among the first to suggest that it is<\/em>, in fact, a lack of respect for Obama within military and civilian ranks that has led to the many scandals that now wrack his administration.\u00a0 Just as Ronald Reagan\u2019s \u201ctrickle down\u201d economics gave the American people the greatest period of economic growth in the past century, providing both George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton with an era of full employment and near-zero inflation, Barack Obama\u2019s \u201ctrickle down\u201d sleaze will make the Obama experiment of 2008 our nation\u2019s most dangerous historic gamble. \u00a0\u00a0As the Turks understood, a fish does rot from the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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