But not because they are politicized, or because their employees tend to give to Democrats overwhelmingly. The very suggestion is, as Chris Matthews would remind us, proof that right wingers cannot stand to be ruled by blacks, and that their racism colors (pardon me) every single issue they pretend to care about.
Instead, the IRS deliberately chose not to admit to the scandal before the election because it — unlike conservatives — isn’t racist. QED.
Incidentally, at this point I’m quite happy — and I realize this will strike some of you as heretical — that the election went the way it did. After all, it’s not like the GOP has done a thing in the House to roll back ObamaCare; it’s not like they didn’t go right along with the nonsense about a “fiscal cliff”; it’s not like they didn’t go right along (by caucusing with Democrats) on redefining violence against women as potentially mere speech; it isn’t like the GOP blocked tax increases on “the rich”; and it isn’t like deficits and debt haven’t continued to soar with the House in GOP control.
So as I’ve been saying all along, rather than lose more slowly, show Americans what it’s like to lose at the pace progressives and New Leftists demand. The result is that despite the media’s best efforts, the lies, the deceit, the rank politics, the scandal, and the tyranny the left wishes to purposely and by institutional design impose upon us is becoming so obvious that even some of the low info voters have started to look up from their “Glee” marathons and take notice.
Of course, Obama will weather the storms. He is, after all, historic — and any attempt to denigrate his legacy would be racist, and we all know how the GOP fears that label — so it isn’t like any but some fall guys will take personal hits from any of these scandals. Even so, the taint is there, and there’s very little at this point the press can do to recall its stink from falling over the body politic, save to try to suggest that these scandals are only scandals because the GOP publicly exposed them. And that’s playing politics with politics, which is itself an OUTRAGE!
But it won’t work. If the electorate, in the post-Obama era, votes to enshrine into power anyone with ties to the radical left — and yes, Hillary Clinton is one of them, and I worry that, come 2016, we’ll be told that “we can’t go there” by our sober, pragmatic betters, wielding their focus group polls — then they aren’t duped.
It will mean this is the kind of government they want. And if that’s the case, those of us who wish to return to a nation of laws and Constitutional protections might have to begin looking elsewhere for a home.
(h/t sdferr)
it was first and foremost the piggy piggy fascist propaganda sluts like at the Associated Press and the CNN and the New York TImes who dropped the ball with respect to uncovering this scandal before the election
nobody is holding foodstamp and his thuggy whores accountable
porky porky Chris Christie says Obama done did everything he promised
Totally agree. At some point “better than” just isn’t good enough, particularly when the comparison involves a Democrat.
This way we get vindication, and the entertainment value of a press in full damage control while it pretends to be “shedding light”.
I find that, when pressed, proggtards on the Twitter or elsewhere on the internetz cannot say with any accuracy what Watergate was about. Which tends to deflate their arguments when saying, “Well, this isn’t nearly as bad as Watergate!”
Trust me. This is much worse than Watergate.
It just irks me when people use “Watergate” as a boogeyman or a synonym for “The worst thing that ever happened in the history of ever except maybe Nazis (which you reichwingers are responsible for too)”.
Given the benefit of the doubt, assuming that the IRS hadn’t politicized this before (which I most certainly doubt), it most certainly politicized by not fessing up to scandal before election.
It was the IRS that politicized this scandal, even before the Republicans knew it was real.
They not only didn’t want to have the scandal harm Obama’s reputation before the election, they needed to keep the Tea Party/Conservative organizations applying for 501c status out of commission (i.e. suppress donations) before the election. If this had broke in May these groups would have raked in the dough on their victim status & had their applications fast-tracked. Win-win.
Hey, you can’t just run around comparing things to Watergate all willy nilly. Bob Woodward can though, so carry on.
“any attempt to denigrate his legacy would be racist”
Ha! Denigrate means “blacken.” Although I guess Mr. High Yellow could use a little blackening and in his case that wouldn’t be racist.
Bob Woodward can though, so carry on
– Well actually his point is it’s much worse than WaterGate, which it is, and contrary to what Ezra wishes for, the Congressional hearings are just getting started, as we learned from this mornings Ways and Means shindig.
– The Left is caterwalling that Boooooosh did it too, and to the NAACP no less, which, you know, for them is all the excuse they ever need for anything they want to get away with.
– Anything is ok with Progtardia, just as long as the free shit keeps coming. Other than the most hard core of the clan cult Bumblefuck, I don’t think most Blacks share any of the Lefts mind fucked ideology, they just want the free shit.
I don’t think most Blacks share any of the Lefts mind fucked ideology, they just want the free shit.
This has been my experience, as well and also includes Mexicans and many of my Injun countrymen. Though , to be fair since we are still a white majority country, my trailer dwelling neighbors outnumber them all in the “Grab the brass ring of Free Shit” go-round.
Of course, the NAACP is a c3 that was doing direct politics, which is a no no. But let’s not let the facts get in the way of a good lather.
Via Drudge a Daily Mail headline quoting Rep. Kevin Brady (R- Tx): “Is this still America?”
To the sense Rep. Brady intends his question, we can simply answer “No. It isn’t.”
But we’d have to do some serious explaining to make our answer clear. Still, we understand what we mean. It’s a question of regime, and a change of regime — by which we do not intend the persons in government, but the constitution (small c on purpose) or idea under which the government acts or makes itself.
As with the example contemporary teachers (like Hadley Arkes, for one, referenced yesterday) are fond to cite, like the change from the Weimar Republic to the National Socialist dictatorship. Or in fuzzier terms, from this to that, this and that being distinct from one another.
So, was it bad, bad, bad when Booosh was doing it, too? Or was he just setting precedent for bad behavior?
– Actually its the go too for adolescents that are posing as adults. “She hit me first!”
Me, too. Boner and Romney would not have done a damn thing about ObamaCare. They would not have done anything about spending.
The fact is, if the current shitstorm that is pounding on the White House cannot turn the tide against progressives, then it’s over. As you said.
I’ll third that.
It seems to me that I didn’t say enough before:
The fact that Jeff “gets” that we’re still hosed even if *this* Republican party wins tells me that this site (unlike most of what’s out there) is dealing in reality.
When I deserted Malkin’s blog a few weeks back*, the slightly prevailing view among the comments was that Republicans were doing all they could, and didn’t have enough control in Congress to seriously effect change, and anyway, Romney would have had to win … blah, blah, blah. I’m so sick of the lame excuses. IF Republican representatives and senators seriously believed that the country was in dire straits, they would be doing anything to reverse the course. We’d see constant *real* filibusters in the Senate, and the House would have already passed a budget totally gutting Obamacare, and a huge chunk of other waste and abuse disguised as programs. When a press member dared to stick a mic in a Republican’s face, that press member would draw back a bloody stump (rhetorically speaking).
There is no fight in this bunch, and that says louder than anything that they don’t care. They’ll be fine, whatever happens.
*I left because of Disqus comments, not because I was in the minority. The tide did seem to be slowly turning.
I gave up reading anyone else blog over two years ago. I just don’t have the stomach for the tards that comment on most of them. My FB friends have deserted me (again) because I bite back and point out that they are full of shit when they are. Yet, I’ll admit it freely when I am wrong and I believe the same is true of most contributors here in Outlaw land. I’d rather stand over here with those whose eyes are open.
Somewhere in his past Matthews must have got a job or promotion over a black person and it still haunts him to this day. Either that or he just doesn’t have any other argument.
IF Republican representatives and senators seriously believed that the country was in dire straits, they would be doing anything to reverse the course.
The crop we’re currently stuck with is talking about IRS agents losing their jobs. If they had any guts at all, they wouldn’t be talking firings — they’d be talking prison time. If they had any wits at all, they’d put it in terms that people could understand and empathize with: “These lackeys of the Obama machine broke the law and abused their fellow Americans for two years. We have evidence of four dozen organizations that they abused. Four dozen times two years each is 96 years, which is the sentence these Obama minions should serve.”
Set the bar high, and then push back against every Obama apologist who protests, asking them what exactly it is about the chronic misbehavior at the IRS that they’re defending. And while they’re on the ropes, ask them how in God’s name we should support handing over our medical records and care to an organization that routinely abuses anybody to the right of Carter.
Alas! No guts, no wits. But hey — keep voting R, peeps!
About all that is missing from this story is having Media Matters caught trying to break into the Holocaust Museum
Mr. George, the IG for Treasury at the IRS, who testified today was visibly shaking. He knows shit just got real.