So. The President met with an anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party. Is anyone — and I do mean anyone, including even Rick Moran (I’ve long believed that some centrist Republicans were the last of the credulous hold-outs, that the left knew all along who and what Obama was, and approved of both him and his methods) — at all surprised to learn of
May 2013
May 20, 2013
Not only is it unfair to thwart governmental attempts to hustle up revenue, it’s harassing
As some taunting Good Samaritans are finding out: A group of self-styled Robin Hoods who scamper around the streets of a New Hampshire city and feed expired parking meters for strangers has been hit with a harassment lawsuit. The city of Keene says its three parking inspectors have been taunted, insulted and followed by the group — to the point that one of them says he has suffered heart palpitations
May 19, 2013
Shorter White House Spokeshole: Shut-the-f***-up, peasants … [Darleen Click]
… how DARE you question Us! King Barry’s toady, Dan Pfeiffer is making the rounds of Sunday shows and is clearly demonstrating the abject contempt this administration has towards anyone who does less than lick the King’s ankles. “Republicans owe Susan Rice an apology” “the law around the IRS targeting of conservatives is irrelevant.“ “I can’t speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and
May 18, 2013
Friday Obama dump … “Me demand more taxes” [Darleen Click]
Fuck the rich productive! President Obama’s most recent budget request would reduce borrowing by $1.1 trillion over the next decade compared with current law — almost entirely through higher taxes on the rich, large estates and smokers, congressional budget analysts said Friday. In addition to raising nearly $1 trillion in new taxes, the president’s blueprint would also cut spending modestly, according to the analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
May 18, 2013
IRS Scandal? Eh … just a distraction. Really. Move on, wingnuts [Darleen Click]
NYSlimes sets about to shove criminal IRS behavior down the memory hole The Washington Post has two front-page above-the-fold articles on the scandal, a news story and an in-depth look at the IRS in the wake of the controversy. There’s also a tough lead editorial expressing renewed outrage at the IRS’s conduct and demanding thorough reform. Yet after the first dramatic day of congressional hearings, the New York Times has
May 17, 2013
Sunny nostalgia
Feel free to ignore this rehash of my old Citizen Journalist’s report. I’m actually re-posting it here so I can have it handy when I next go to my stylist. I think I want to return my hair to the configuration seen herein. I have to say, though, it holds up well. Ah. What could have been, right?
May 17, 2013
BREAKING: The Scandals are Falling Apart!
So says Ezra Klein, who may turn out to be one of the stupidest people ever to be given column inches in a printed medium of any variety. After reading Klein’s desperate attempt to map onto reality his own desires, written in the form of a serious news piece, I’m tempted to say something like “fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” But then, the
May 17, 2013
“Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election”
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
May 17, 2013
“Some question whether AP leak on al-Qaeda plot put U.S. at risk”
Oh, how I do love the “some” when deployed by the mainstream press. These are the people who exist in one instance to cast aspersions and float all sort of unsavory allegations against Republicans and conservatives (eg., “Some claim TEA Party groups ‘really really really despise Darkies, Beaners, and all manner of sodomites’”); while in other instances, they exist to minimize the impact of a blow against a preferred group