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