Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sebelius.

First the venal.

President Barack Obama's health secretary nominee got nearly three times as much political money from a controversial abortion doctor as she told senators.

The Health and Human Services Department said Monday that the omission was an oversight that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius would correct.
In a response to questions from the Senate Finance Committee made public last week, Sebelius wrote that she received $12,450 between 1994-2001 from Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers.

But in addition to those campaign donations, records reviewed by The Associated Press show that Tiller gave at least $23,000 more from 2000-2002 to a political action committee Sebelius established while insurance commissioner to raise money for fellow Democrats.

Sebelius did not tell senators about that additional money, although Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., asked specifically about any Tiller donations to her PAC.

Now I realize that financial irregularities are nothing new to the Obama Regime. But in this case Sebelius directly lied to Senators during her confirmation hearings about her connection to a man who will perform abortions up to any point before the umbilical cord is snipped. How can she be trusted – especially after her efforts to spare her donor from criminal investigations? Obama must withdraw her nomination, or the Senate must reject her.

On the other hand, there is Janet Napolitano whose department has now released a report declaring folks with mainstream conservative positions to be potential terrorists.

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says.

Got that? Oppose abortion? Napolitano’s agency has just declared you to be a potential terrorist. Support increased border security and oppose amnesty for illegals? You need to be watched as a potential violent extremist. Believe in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution? You are a potential danger to the United States. Think that the Second Amendment gives you the right to own guns? You could be about to engage in domestic terrorism. Oh, yeah – and you are especially a concern if you are a veteran. And what is the evidence for this assessment? Well, by the admission of the reports author in the text of the report itself, NONE WHATSOEVER.

Now there is an attempt to claim that past reports have looked at left-wing groups, but there is a difference – those reports had to do with groups that had actually engaged in domestic terrorism here in the United States, and were limited to those groups. That isn’t what happened here.

That this report was produced and disseminated is, my friends, an utter disgrace. It tars a great many patriotic Americans as potential extremist terrorists simply for supporting things that are part of the platform of the Republican Party. Not only is does it unreasonably question the patriotism and loyalty of a good 40-50% of the American public, it also is precisely the sort of thing that will stoke the fears not just of the small fringe of extremists, but of a great many mainstream conservatives. As head of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano is responsible for the production and dissemination of this garbage. If she does not have the decency to resign in disgrace, Obama needs to fire her to retain any credibility whatsoever with conservatives in America.

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