CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 05/09/2013

Benghazi: 139 Congressman calling for Joint Select Committee to Investigate  We are far from having all the details that we need and deserve regarding the 9/11/12 “Anniversary Attacks” in Benghazi, Libya. It has already been over eight months since the attack and we only have a portion of the truth, despite the hard and necessary efforts of the House’s Armed Services Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, Judiciary Committee, and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Simply put, we need more than 43 pages of investigative analysis that these House committees jointly released on April 23. Read More

Benghazi: Speaker Boehner reacts to criticism of his non-actions  Immediately following Wednesday’s Benghazi terror attack hearings in the House of Representatives, several conservative talk hosts and commentators, such as former Justice Department chief of staff Mark Levin, severely criticized the alleged failure of House Speaker John Boehner to prod the House and Senate into creating a special committee of lawmakers to intensify the investigation into the actions of President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and other members of the Obama administration during the eight-hour attack on the U.S. consulate. Read More

Benghazi/Watergate – What difference does it make?  Over 40 years ago the country came to a standstill as revelations of lying and a cover-up by the President of the United States were exposed. Watergate became a name synonymous with a scandal of proportions that could topple a president. Days of televised Congressional hearings with the often repeated phrase: “what did the President know and when did he know it?”— held the nation spellbound as politicians from both parties asked tough questions of the presidents staff. Read More

Seal Team VI families to expose alleged Obama culpability in deaths  On the day after the House Oversight Committee hears testimony on the Benghazi terrorist attack, the families of three fallen Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with the family of a National Guardsman deployed overseas and killed in-the-line-of-duty, will appear at a press conference today at the National Press Club in the nation’s capital, according to several members of the U.S. military’s special forces units.  Read More

The red tape around adoption  A new award-winning documentary may provide our political class with its last best chance to prove a bi-partisan solution for the common good on a vitally important issue is still possible. It’s only fitting the film is called Stuck, because that’s exactly how we feel whenever a politician in either party says, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” The movie depicts the plight of the estimated tens of millions of orphans essentially stranded in third world countries, where all too often their only options are deliverance via international adoption or becoming another statistic whose life ends tragically. Read More

ObamaCare Heading for a “Train Wreck”  ObamaCare was supposed to be a big success by now, according to predictions made by liberals who railroaded it through Congress in 2010. Instead, as admitted by one of its leading architects, Democratic Senator Max Baucus, it’s heading for a “train wreck” later this year. Read More