"Protecting The Crown"

by JASmius



Why do people continue to be shocked and surprised at the imperious corruption of Barack Obama and his palace guard?  Particularly members of that guard itself?

First, a background refresher:

Two years ago, the Secret Service was humiliated in a terrible scandal. Agents sent to prepare for a presidential trip to Colombia availed themselves of the local service industry, as it were. The local cops were called in when one agent refused to compensate a woman for services rendered, contradicting ancient advice about the oldest profession: You don’t pay for the sex; you pay for the hooker to leave. Hats off to the Cartagena constabulary for their diligence in enforcing contract rights. Ten agents lost their jobs.

On April 23rd, 2012, then–White House press secretary Jay Carney said there were “no specific, credible allegations of misconduct by anyone on the White House advance team or the White House staff.”

“Nevertheless,” Carney said, “out of due diligence, the White House Counsel’s office has conducted a review . . . [and] came to the conclusion that there’s no indication that any member of the White House advance team engaged in any improper conduct or behavior.”

If the Washington Post’s exhaustive exclusive this week is to believed, that was what experts would call a lie. Secret Service investigators told the White House that Jonathan Dach also had too good a time in Cartagena. Dach, then a Yale law student, was a volunteer for the White House advance team. The lead investigator for the Department of Homeland Security – which oversees the Secret Service – says he was told “to withhold and alter certain information in the report of investigation because it was potentially embarrassing to the administration.”...

The lead investigator and two of his aides say they were put on administrative leave when they questioned what they believed to be a naked political cover-up.

The proximate cause was Clintonesque, but otherwise the dynamic was no different from any of Sick Willie's scandals or Red Barry's malfeasances and transgressions: the Regime wanted to avoid potential embarrassment during The One's re-election campaign.  The exact same reason why they dreamed up the "Islamophobic video" excuse for the Benghazi debacle - circling the wagons, keeping voters from finding out about something "potentially" damaging to the national demigod.....protecting the crown.

But there's a funny thing about that corrupt impulse - it is extremely habit-forming.  It becomes a reflex to which the "crown" becomes inured and to which it increasingly comes to see itself as entitled, the more success they enjoy at it.  "How dare you think yourself worthy of holding me accountable to anybody - I am your KING!!!"  Just picture that thunderous exclamation enunciated with Steven Urkel's voice.  So of course the White House exiled those Secret Service investigators for the "treason" of actually doing their jobs.  It's a wonder they're still drawing breath.

Plus it didn't hurt that the aforementioned young Mr. Dach was the son of a big Obama contributor.  "Customer service" and all that.  Which is a rather unfortunate metaphor given the particulars of the "activities" under investigation, and yet so multifacetedly humorous as to be beyond the scope of this post, alas.

Mr. Goldberg asks the $64 trillion (This is the Obama Regime, after all) question:

[I]f the White House would falsify records and lie to the public about this, is it really so hard to imagine that it would deceive the public – and Congress – about larger issues like, say, Benghazi?

All together, now: Yes!  They!  Would!

Now that the table is set, enter the outraged Don Bongino:

A former Secret Service agent slammed the Obama administration Thursday for a "protect the crown approach" during a 2012 Colombia prostitution scandal — yet "readily throws … the people who would protect [the president] with their lives under the bus."

Don Bongino, a Republican candidate for Congress in Maryland, told "The Real Story" on the Fox News Channel "everybody on the ground knew there was a White House staff member involved" in a hooker scandal that rocked the Secret Service two years ago....

Bongino was outraged, noting recent security breaches at the White House ended with the resignation of the Secret Service Director Julia Pierson.

"Listen, this is a protect-the-crown approach by this administration, and it has been, frankly, a grotesque pattern of behavior … [the administration] so readily throws the rank-and-file members of the government, including the people who would protect him with their lives, under the bus," he said.

And "they will protect the crown no matter what."

One more time: Yes!  They!  Will!

But it's more than just political self-preservation that drives the Obamunists.  In fact, I'd say that is a minimal motivator at most at this point.  Rather, it is their pervasive, cosmic arrogance that has metastasized to the level of the old divine right of kings.  They are the rulers, we are the ruled; they are the royalty, we are the peasants; they are the master race, we are the untermenschen.  In the minds of Barack Obama and his followers, they are not accountable to anybody; they are morally supreme, entitled to do whatever they want with impunity - including banging Cartagena hookers.  The only "crime" in this equation is anybody with the seditious, blasphemous temerity to question their actions, as though we were worthy of rebuking our rightful "gods".  And the punishment for blasphemy is severe.

I will say that I'm moderately surprised that it was the Washington Post that ran this expose, though not in the slightest that they did so two years too late.  But I have no doubt whatsoever that there'll be some big-time dirt, real or fabricated, hurtling in Mr. Bongino's direction in the very near future - more than enough to keep him out of Congress.

And that'll just be for starters.