Let’s see now, quick takes: Shooting at Mom’s Day Parade in New Orleans Nepotism? What Nepotism? Debbie Wasserman-Schultz wants you to celebrate Mother’s Day by signing an online card for Michelle Obama. Do remember to provide your email and OFA will follow up to get your donation. Saturday Night Live feels that Gregory Hicks is Jodi Arias or something. Aaron Blake of WaPo “Too bad about that IRS thing. Oh

FOX/AP: Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general’s report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public statements by the IRS commissioner. […] The agency blamed low-level employees, saying no high-level officials were aware. But on June 29, 2011, Lois G. Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned

“Confiscate, confiscate, confiscate.” NJ Reps Loretta Weinberg (D-37), Sandra Cunningham (D-31), and Linda Greenstein (D-14), Nellie Pou (D-35) find your insistence that you wish to keep your “little guns” rather abhorrent and pitiful. As they make clear in captured audio turned over to a New Jersey Second Amendment group, who posted it to YouTube. You gun clingers and Second Amendment absolutists don’t care about keeping guns out of the hands

The last thing you want to do, Obama, is anger senior Republican leadership: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is calling on the Obama administration to conduct a government-wide probe in the wake of an admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it targeted conservative groups. […] McConnell says the admission is proof that his earlier concerns were well founded, adding the White House needs to review the agency’s actions.

First, let me just say this to Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt status:  it is impossible, not to mention dazzlingly mindblowing, to suggest in one breath that groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names were in fact singled out for increased scrutiny and unlawful requests for donor lists, then in the very next breath to maintain that the practice was not motivated by political

I realize we’re all supposed to pretend that we don’t recognize the enormous and surreal contradictions that are each and every day foisted on us by a cynical, self-serving government that drafts and forces upon us policy based on a rhetorical cocktail of emotional appeals and divisive identity politics, garnished with the tripartite tactic of shame, malign, and shun — everyone everyday is, at any given moment, either a racist,

On the off chance you happen to be one of those rah-rah political party guys or gals, I’d like to point something out to you. 1.  In the Senate, the 800+ page “comprehensive immigration reform bill” is going to make it out of committee thanks to the votes of two Republicans on the “Gang of 8,” Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham — both of whom rejected every effort by conservatives