A retired Army general and Fox News analyst told a Tea Party group that he would lead a military coup against the U.S. government, if only reluctantly.
Paul Vallely, a retired major general and senior military analyst for the conservative news channel, told the Surprise, Arizona, Tea Party Patriots during a Dec. 3 speech that other retired military personnel and veterans groups had contacted him about the possibility.
“I had a call this afternoon from Idaho, the gentleman said, ‘If I give you 250,000 Marines to go to Washington, will you lead them?’” Vallely said as the group laughed and gasped. “I said, ‘Yes, I will, I’ll surround the White House and I’ll surround the Capitol building, but it’s going to take physical presence to do things.”
Vallely, who has suggested a variety of extra-constitutional remedies to remove President Barack Obama from office, said extraordinary means were necessary to achieve the legislative results he wanted.
“Writing letters to these senators and congressmen, I am so frustrated because nothing happens,” Vallely said. “I’m not inciting a revolution, but we’ve got to get more physical and stand up and protest.
He said such a protest would be a continuation of Tea Party activism.
Sure, you're not inciting a revolution. But you wouldn't have any problem with one, or leading one if given the opportunity. That seems like a sane, responsible thing to do, right?
But what of Obama's hundreds upon hundreds of executive orders that must spark a second American revolution to bring him down? Surely these patriots of justice wouldn't be lying about his 923 executive orders, would they, Snopes?
The item reproduced above purports that President Obama has so far issued a whopping 923 executive orders (compared to about thirty each for previous presidents) and offers supposedly alarming provisions of some of those orders. However, the entirety of this item is erroneous.
First of all, the number of executive orders issued by President Obama is grossly exaggerated here. Through the first five years of his presidency (i.e., as of 20 January 2014) the count of all executive orders issued by President Obama was 168, not 923. Moreover, compared to President Obama's predecessors in the White House, this is not an unusually large number of orders for a modern president: President George W. Bush issued 291 executive orders during his eight years in office, while President Bill Clinton issued 364 such orders over the same span of time.
So then, far fewer executive orders than Bush 43 or Clinton (and it turns out far fewer than Eisenhower's 484, Nixon's 346, or Reagan's 381.) Poppy Bush issued 166 order in 4 years, Ford 169 in 4. In other words, Obama has issued the fewest number of executive orders per year of any modern President, not the most.
Turns out if you really do want to see a President who issued a metric crapton of EOs, take a look at either Roosevelt. Teddy issued over a thousand, and FDR over thirty five hundred.
But Obama is, you know, Kenyan and stuff. So WOLVEREEEEEEEEEEENES!
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Bloomberg: HSBC Judge Approves $1.9B Drug-Money Laundering Accord
Lack of proper controls allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico and the Norte del Valle cartel inColombia to move more than $881 million through HSBC’s U.S. unit from 2006 to 2010, the government alleged in the case. The bank also cut resources for its anti-money-laundering programs to “cut costs and increase profits,” the government said in court filings.
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