Tea Partiers hold rally outside of White House. Talk soon turns to lynching.

On Wednesday a group of Tea Party enthusiasts gathered outside the White House to protest immigration reform. And then thinks got just a touch racist.

Courtesy of Right Wing Watch:  

“Hang the traitor!” 

“Hang the lying Kenyan traitor!” 

“We’ve got rope.” 

“Plenty of trees in the front yard, wouldn’t be the first one hung on one of them trees.” 

“Whatever happened to those good ol’ days?” 

“Don’t snap his neck, you watch him choke to death.” 

“He’s just biding his time until Satan takes him home to where he belongs.” 

Gosh isn't it great that we live in a country where just about any toothless inbred dipshit can stand outside the home of the President of the United States and discuss exactly how they would hang him from a tree?

I simply cannot imagine why people keep insisting that the Tea Party is racist. Can you?

Republican Congressman Peter King believes that President Obama should invite Darren Wilson to the White House. Oh yeah, that's good idea.

Courtesy of Politico:

Rep. Peter King has a suggestion for the White House in dealing with the latest developments in Ferguson — invite Officer Darren Wilson over. 

“I think it would be very helpful if President Obama went and met with the police officer, or invited him to the White House and said, ‘You’ve gone through four months of smear and slander, and the least we can do is tell you that it’s unfortunate that it happened and thank you for doing your job,’” the New York Republican told Fox Business on Tuesday. 

“I thought it was terrible how, over the last four months, a narrative was put out there by our national leaders and by many in the media presuming that the police officer was guilty,” King said. 

Yes poor, poor Darren Wilson. Who somehow was able to get the St. Louis prosecuting attorney to skew the results of a Grand Jury decision by providing, and promoting, evidence to exonerate him.

Something essentially unheard of.

And now Peter King thinks the President should slap the African American community in the face by inviting this man to the White House?

Gee, it's almost like Rep. King were trying to convince the President do something that would enrage black Americans and convince them they were betrayed by the first black President elected to the White House.

Gosh I wonder why he would want to do that? (#2016.)

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is resigning today. Sources say that he is being forced out. Update!

Courtesy of Business Insider: 

A senior administration official subsequently confirmed to Business Insider that Hagel would resign. They said Hagel would announce his decision alongside the president at 11:00 a.m. 

 "A successor will be named in short order, but Secretary Hagel will remain as Defense Secretary until his replacement is confirmed by the United States Senate," the official said. 

The official characterized Hagel's decision to step down as normal administration turnover in the wake of the midterm elections earlier this month. 

That is the official response to why Hagel is leaving, however the unofficial response is much different:   

Senior defense officials confirmed to NBC News Monday that Hagel was forced to resign. 

The officials say the White House has lost confidence in Hagel to carry out his role at the Pentagon. According to one senior official, “He wasn’t up to the job.” 

Another senior administration official said that Hagel has been discussing a departure from the White House "for several weeks."

As we know President Obama is incredibly loyal to his people, so for Hagel to be "forced out" is a real recognition of his lack of confidence in the Defense Secretary's abilities.

Apparently there will be a press conference in about an hour so there will be more to add to this post then.

So I guess Monday's starting off with a bang.

Update: I just watched the Hagel press conference, and my take away is that he might have been forced from his job for incompetence, but his friendship with the President and Vice President Joe Biden seems quite genuine and deeply affectionate. 

At times it almost looked like the President and Chuck Hagel were both there against their will, and Joe Biden simply looked pissed off.

I think in the weeks ahead we will learn more about what instigated this resignation, but I am pretty confident that it was not due to any friction between Hagel and the President.