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Nothingburgers and Fake Outrage

When an apparent scandal breaks the safest thing for any politician to do is to declare their outrage and demand an investigation, but in the case of the IRS, I have a feeling the impending investigation will disappoint a lot … Continue reading
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The Impeachment Caucus = The Crazy Caucus

So far, here are the Republicans who are demanding impeachment proceedings: Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) Rep. … Continue reading
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And Now Begins the Onslaught of IRS Targeting Conspiracies

Every conservative fire-eater who gets a letter from the IRS will now insist that he’s being targeted. One of many crappy side-effects of this scandal. For example: Larry Connors, a veteran local news anchor at KMOV Channel 4 in St. … Continue reading
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If You’re Freaked Out by the AP and IRS Scandals, Blame a Republican

My Wednesday column and blame where blame is due: Call me a hopeless dreamer, but there ought to be a rule in politics banning anyone who caused a crisis from later bitching about the crisis. For the last four years, … Continue reading
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Big Money

Artist – John Cole In other news, Mark “Appalachian Trail” Sanford will be officially sworn into office tomorrow. And you thought Congress couldn’t be any more embarrassing. I can’t wait for the first time he calls for an ethics investigation … Continue reading
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Quote of the Morning

“I’ve got no patience with it, I will not tolerate it and we will make sure we find out exactly what happened on this.” President Obama on the IRS scandal Had this been the Republicans or the Bush White House … Continue reading
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10 Examples of Bush and the Republicans Using Government Power to Target Critics

My Tuesday column and some history… They say two wrongs don’t make a right, but ignoring one of those wrongs while vilifying the other is intellectually dishonest and violently hypocritical, among other things. And certainly that’s the case surrounding news … Continue reading
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The IRS Was Doing Its Job

Oh, listen to right wing conservatives tell it, you might believe that Tea Party groups allegedly being “targeted” by the IRS for secondary looks is the greatest affront to their most noblest of anti-government endeavors. The number of groups filing … Continue reading
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Delete Your Old Emails or Else the Government Can Read Them

Ugh. Yes, really: IRS documents released Wednesday suggest that the tax collection agency believes it can read American citizens’ emails without a warrant. The files were released to the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act request. … Continue reading
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Another Theory

via Yglesias, one possible explanation for why Romney is refusing to make more financial disclosures is his possible participation in an amnesty program for disclosing Swiss bank accounts. Wealthy U.S. taxpayers, concerned about an Internal Revenue Service crackdown on the … Continue reading

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