Rusty Hardin: Joe Straus' (and Bill Powers') "Bloody, Poisoned, Dwarf"

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
Isaiah 5:20

Marxists follow patterns.  Their power built on lies, they must demonize the truth.  Enemies of the state must be eliminated.  What was true for Soviet Russia in 1937 applies equally to the University of Texas in 2014.  In the 'purifying' thunderstorm of Soviet 'justice' that is the Wallace Hall impeachment, Rusty Hardin is Nikolai Yezhov.

Rusty Hardin's 'report' is an astonishing, though strangely entertaining, act of chutzpah.  Using innuendo and petulance, the $157,000 (and counting) 'report' concludes that Wallace Hall is a big meanie: "Hall acted like a roving inspector general in search of a problem rather than a solution." (2)  Specifically, the 'report' charges Hall with making people work late, 'violating' irrelevant federal privacy laws, being mean to Bill Powers, and demanding basic financial accountability as grounds for impeachment.  We haven't heard a powerful, politically-connected, Texan whine this much since we were last in a room with Jim Keffer.  But at least Rusty Hardin got his 30 pieces of silver.

Hardin echoes Jim Pitts' original resolution that Hall made "numerous unreasonably burdensome, wasteful, and intrusive requests for information" (44)  Waaah!!!  The 'report' shrieks for 30 pages about Hall's supposed misdeeds.  Examples include: making people work late (49), personally visiting campus (55), meeting with the Office of the Attorney General (59), sayin' mean stuff (61), that "have negatively impacted employee morale" (79).  Sounds to us like due diligence.

Hardin's greatest slight of hand, however, concerns Hall's alleged abuse of 'confidential' information while investigating improper relationships between the UT administration and state legislators Jim Pitts and Judith Zaffirini.  At issue is an interpretation of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974.  In the gray area of FERPA interpretation, Hardin uses a convenient standard set by the U.S. Department that contradicts directly with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the 2002 Case Owasso Independent School District vs. Falvo.  The Court ruled unanimously that only an institution, not an individual, can violate FERPA, reducing Hardin's argument to legalistic sophistry.  A conservative lawyer with whom we spoke described this section as "sloppy" to the point "I would be embarrassed to put my name on it."

Of course, Wallace Hall's greatest 'transgression' is that he was mean to poor Bill Powers.  Following revelations about corruption at the UT Law School, "Hall's focus tightened on former law school dean Powers and what Hall perceived as Powers' failings." (117)   This January, following Powers' questionable testimony to the impeachment committee, "Hall sent [former U.T. Chancellor Francisco] Cigarroa a lengthy and detailed critique of President Powers's [sic] sworn testimony." (87)  He even had the nerve to follow up two weeks later!!! (88)  Clearly, Wallace Hall is worse than parents who eat their children's Halloween candy:



UT's most serious malfeasance, however, concerns the $215 million software donation scandal.  In 2007 and 2010, UT's geology department received valuable in-kind donations from a third party, which they counted towards their capital campaign using a favorable interpretation of a legal grey area.  In 2011, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) explicitly closed the loophole.  Caught with their pants down, UT panicked (93).  Hall refused to acquiesce to the cover-up (98).  Hall was eventually proven correct (95).  Clearly, the solution is to get rid of Wallace Hall.

An old legal cliche states: "[W]hen the law is on your side, argue the law.  When the facts are on your side, argue the facts.  When neither the law nor the facts are on your side, pound the table."  Rusty Hardin's 'report' pounds...something.  It combines the precise legal analysis of Joseph Stalin with the rhetorical subtlety of Khrushchev at the United Nations.  But the University of Texas is the biggest special interest in this state, and enemies of Bill Powers and Joe Straus must be punished.  FORWARD fellow comrades!!!

Obama Administration Continues to Leak Sensitive Information to the New York Times

Today, I was on the bus home from work when I saw a paper copy of today's New York Times; the following headline was blared across the front page:

U.S IS TRACKING KILLERS IN ATTACK ON LIBYA MISSION...PREPARING RETALIATION...Secret Teams Focusing on Militant Group, Officials Say

The article, which details the planned retaliation against Libyan targets, reveals a stunning amount of detailed information to the enemy about U.S. sources and methods.

First Paragraph:

The United States is laying the groundwork for operations to kill or capture militants implicated in the deadly attack on a diplomatic mission in Libya, senior military and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.

 Second Paragraph:

The top-secret Joint Special Operations Command is compiling so-called target packages of detailed information about the suspects, officials said....[T]he command is preparing the dossiers as the first step in anticipation of possible orders from President Obama...

 Third Paragraph:

Potential military options could include drone strikes, Special Operations raids like the one that killed Osama [sic] bin Laden, and joint missions with Libyan authorities.

 Eleventh Paragraph:

Both American counterterrorism officials and Benghazi residents are increasingly  focused on the local militant group Ansar al Shariah [sic] as the main force behind the attack.

Twelfth Paragraph:

In the hours after the Benghazi attack, the American official said, spy agencies intercepted electronic communications from Ansar al Shariah fighters....Another intercept captured cellphone conversations by militants on the grounds of the smoldering American Mission in Benghazi...

Twenty-First Paragraph:

Moving ahead with a roster of potential targets, the military planners in Washington started by culling pre-existing lists of suspects that are continuously updated by the Joint Special Operations Command and the C.I.A.

 Twenty-Second Paragraph:

American officials say that since the Benghazi attack, Special Operations planners have sharply increased their efforts to track the location and gather information on several members of Ansar al Shariah as well as other militants with ties to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

Twenty-Third Paragraph:

But military and counterterrorism officials said that Libyan authorities has helped by at least identifying suspected assailants based on witness accounts, video and other paragraphs from the scene.

Twenty-Fourth Paragraph:

"They are putting together information on where these individuals live, who their family members and their associates are, and their entire pattern of life," said one American official briefed on the planning.

 Twenty-Fifth Paragraph:

And to help prioritize which militants to watch, the Pentagon has stepped up its use of surveillance drones flying over eastern Libya, collecting electronic intercepts, imagery and other information that could help planners compile their target lists.

This is outrageous.  The Obama national security team  continues to leak detailed information about sources and methods that any terrorist with a 56k modem can read.  Bob Gates said it best.

Semi-Serious Eric Holder Prediction

Well, with the news this morning, it certainly looks like the you know what is starting to hit the fan for Attorney General Holder.

Let me put it this way: if Eric Holder, or some other prominent Obama administration official, suddenly ends up on a plane to Switzerland, then you heard it here first.

For the record, I first said this on Facebook three hours ago.

Adam Cahn
Austin, TX
6/20/2012; 2:12 PM

Obama’s Strategic Objectives and Ted Cruz

Mission Statement: To properly define Obama’s strategic objectives and call Congress to action.

How:

-          Illustrate how Obama’s Actions clarify those Strategic Objectives
-          History: Woodrow Wilson and Hugo Chavez
-          Solutions: Congress not POTUS race

Why: Obama is advancing long-term strategic objectives that, if successful, will radically alter the relationship between citizens and the government.  Our solutions, therefore, must focus on neutralizing and reversing Obama while restoring the constitutional balance the founders intended.  In 2012, we need to teach the public about Obama’s real intentions and begin to take EFFECTIVE countermeasures if we want to have any sort of country left by 2013.

Why Ted Cruz: Ted Cruz says he wants to lead.  Does any other Conservative Candidate Combine Cruz’s Credentials on the Constitution and Cuba?!?  That’s why Ted Cruz is in a unique position….

What’s in it for Ted Cruz: Mostly, doing the right thing for the country; that said, if Ted Cruz properly defines Obama’s strategic objectives and proposes effective countermeasures he’ll become a hero to conservatives that will make him a shoo-in in his election.

What downside exists for Ted Cruz: That depends on whether you want to stay under the media radar; they’ll target you, but you don’t need them.

Details:

1)       Illustrate how Obama ruthlessly peruses strategic objectives to which he’d NEVER admit in Public

a)       Obama’s broadest strategic objective is to replace individual sovereignty with rule by technocracy and to do it he’s willing to provoke a constitutional Crisis while daring the rest of us to stop him.

i)         We’re not living in normal times, normal times ended when they passed Obamacare

ii)       The survival of the U.S. as a constitutional republic is in peril.

(a)     President Obama treats consent of the governed as an afterthought

iii)      Obama is at War with a Constitution he views as a ‘document of negative liberties’ that inhibits his ambitions.

(a)     President Obama regularly exceeds the bounds of his Article II authority, doing his will first and waiting (or not) for the courts and Congress to catch up; paraphrase of a Jonah Goldberg quote about Woodrow Wilson.

iv)      If you listen closely to President Obama’s December speech in Kansas, he’s openly and proudly hostile to individual sovereignty.

b)       In order to accomplish this broad objective, President Obama is pursuing three sub-strategies: transform policymaking, transform the economy, and entrench as much as possible before January 2013.

i)         Transform Policymaking: Replace the Article I powers of Congress with fiat from unaccountable, extraconstitutional, and potentially dictatorial commissions and czars.

(a)     President Obama believes that most Americans are bitter rubes clinging to guns and religion with antipathy towards people who are not like them; they need a socialist aristocracy to force them to live the ‘proper’ way.

(b)     Briefly touch on Philip Dru

(i)       This is evil stuff; Dr. Mengele was a czar who reported to a comission

(c)     Evidence: Medi/Obamacare IPADP and CFPB; rule by czars

ii)       Transform the Economy: Obama doesn’t want productive economic activity as we’ve traditionally defined it, he wants an economy where everyone is a welfare recipient, a government employee, or working with some nominally ‘private’ or ‘non-profit’ entity aligned with the political agenda of the government.

(a)     Obama understands that once he gets a business or a citizen on welfare, no matter how much they might hate it, the Government owns their soul.

(i)       Nearly half of Americans receive government so-called ‘benefits’

(b)     Extended periods on welfare destroy initiative and degrade the soul, which is why President Obama repeatedly expands corporate subsidies and extends unemployment ‘so-called’ benefits.

(c)     If Obama were sincerely interested in productive economic activity, he would have changed course by now.

(i)       Keystone Pipeline is the most recent example

(ii)     ‘Whose ass to Kick’ in the middle of Gulf Oil Spill

(d)     Whatever Obama claims about Corporate America, he loves to use bailouts, corporate subsidies, and crony socialism to expand and entrench the reach of a corrupt and malevolent government

(e)     Evidence: EVERYTHING he’s done economically

iii)      Entrench EVERYTHING: President Obama knows that if he can entrench government goodies and unaccountable, extraconstitutional, potentially dictatorial commissions and czars in 2012; Mitt Romney’s cautious, callow Washington D.C. will hesitate to unwind them in 2013.

(a)     Evidence: Non-recess “Recess” Appointments

2)       History:

a)       Hugo Chavez:

i)         History teaches us to take the words of narcissistic demagogues with delusions of grandeur VERY seriously.

ii)       Still working on the details but the broad similarities are obvious!

b)       Woodrow Wilson:

i)         IT ALREADY HAS happened here

(a)     Re-hash Jonah Goldberg paraphrase

(b)     Longer Exposition on Philip Dru

(c)     Most of Wilson’s police state didn’t emerge until his second term

ii)       Larger exposition on Wilson’s vision for the League of Nations and Obama’s Actions in Libya

(a)     U.N. Security Council and Arab League have usurped Congress; Congress approved Iraq.

(b)     Wilson openly boasted about how WWI wasn’t in the national interest

(c)     Responsibility to Protect

(d)     “While George W. Bush embraced certain aspects of Wilsonianism out of regrettable ignorance, at least he had Congressional approval in doing so; President Obama embraces full throated Wilsonianism out of conscious malevolence.

(e)     Quick note on Agenda 21

3)       Countermeasures:

a)       The Long-Term Solution is Perry’s Uproot and Overhaul

i)         Washington D.C. should have the lowest property values in the nation

b)       In the shorter run, the Presidential Election is a distraction and a trap; the REAL ACTION IS IN CONGRESS!!!

i)         Obama’s tactical political objective is to draw Congressional Republicans into a never-ending debate over process, while demonizing the GOP POTUS nominee, to demoralize and distract the public while Obama entrenches his strategic objectives.

(a)     ‘Do-Nothing Congress’ is a rhetorical ploy to allow President Obama to claim a ‘mandate’ to permanently sideline Congress in the event of a (God Forbid) second term

ii)       Although Obama would love another five years, one cannot overstate the potentially permanent damage Obama can inflict between now and January 2013.

iii)      Obama, the Democrats, and the Media will attempt to deceive and intimidate Congressional Republicans into abandoning the Tea Party; they do this because losing Obama’s rubber stamp and exposing their own corruption and malevolence frightens the ever-loving daylights out of them

iv)      Until Republicans in Congress grow a spine, the Tea Party is the only brake on Obama.

v)       We’re calling on Congressional Republicans to grow that spine.

vi)      In 2012, Congressional Republicans can atone for the squandered gifts of 2011.  No matter what they do, President Obama intends to accuse Congressional Republicans of obstruction while his czars and commissions (both domestic and foreign) usurp their authority under Article I, so why not actually obstruct?!?

vii)    The purpose of the constitution is to obstruct potential demagogic dictators like Barack Obama

c)       Congress needs to re-assert its Article 1 authority by imposing an escalating set of parliamentary, legislative, and financial sanctions on the administration backed by the CREDIBLE SET OF IMPEACHMENT should President Obama refuse to comply.

i)         If President Obama continues to provoke a constitutional crisis in direct defiance of Congress and the American People, he does so at his own political peril.

ii)       “We Don’t Control the Senate” is a bogus excuse

(1)     Call Allan West out by name.

iii)      In 2012, THE MORE TIME OBAMA SPENDS MEETING WITH DEFENSE COUNCIL, THE LESS TIME HE HAS TO INFLICT NEW DAMAGE