So Peggy Noonan went to the Fainting Couch Superstore over the IRS this week and got a few new pieces. It was bad enough in her eyes that anyone would dare question the notion that Tea Party groups were perfectly non-political and deserve tax-exempt status, the real issue is that President Uppity “T-Bone” YoungBuck dared …
I’m At WKRAP In Cincinnati
Hey kids, guess what the local Fox affiliate here in Cincy found about the regional IRS office last night? FOX19 has exclusively learned that as many as four people may be the first Cincinnati Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees to face disciplinary action, and possibly even criminal charges, for allegedly targeting Tea Party and Liberty …
Rubin Con, Crossed Again
Jen Rubin, World’s Worst Hack(tm) on Eric Holder and the AP subpoenas being the worst thing ever: It’s time to clean house, get some real legislative oversight and make certain there are consequences (legal or political) for those responsible. And the president needs to come forward and answer lots and lots of questions. Worst thing …
The WIN THE MORNING Guys Pee Themselves, Just A Little
Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei declare DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. The town is turning on President Obama — and this is very bad news for this White House. Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama — and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now. Establishment Democrats, never …
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The True Measure Of The Nation’s Courage
Measured in gigaderps per second (GDPS) that is. Would nation have the courage to remove its first black president IF proved he is corrupt? — MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) May 14, 2013 “You support impeachment and removal of President Obama because you have the courage to not play the race card, right?” he said, playing the …
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Internal Relativity Service
K-Drum on the IRS: But understandable or not, they bungled it horribly, leaving themselves open to equally understandable charges of politicizing the IRS. Conservative groups are as outraged as liberals would be if the Bush-era IRS were flagging groups with “environment” or “progressive” in their names. So even if, as seems likely, this whole thing …
And The Things That We Fear Are A Weapon To Be Held Against Us
And speaking of rampant paranoia and wingers on epistemic closure vindication highs over this IRS nonsense, I wonder what our friends on the right would make of the fact that, unlike the current case of extra scrutiny of Tea Party organizations for non-political tax-exempt status that resulted in zero actual investigations, when a liberal Episcopal …
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