The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Doug Shulman: IRS Fall Guy?

Just a few thoughts while watching today’s House Oversight Committee hearings about the IRS scandal: Thought bubble over Doug Shulman’s head: “Y’know, in retrospect, I should have pleaded the Fifth, too.” #Guilty #Perjury — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 22, 2013 Shulman is now picturing himself on the evening news getting perp-walked in an orange [...]

Portrait of a Thug: IRS Union Boss

Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union By now, you’ve probably seen the news: Report: Head of IRS Employees Union Met With President Obama the Day Before Tea Party Targeting Began Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union which represents employees of the Internal Revenue Service, met at the White [...]

Our Lawless President: Obama’s IRS Thuggery Certainly Was No Coincidence

Dan Collins calls attention to Obama’s dog-whistle tactics, as described by Kimberly Strassel in the Wall Street Journal: The way to limit Romney money was to intimidate donors from giving. Donate, and the president would at best tie you to Big Oil or Wall Street, at worst put your name in bold, and flag you [...]

‘People Need to Be Sent to Jail’

“Our goal is for ‘We the People’ to be an educated and informed electorate, involved in our government, and working with and holding our elected representatives accountable to their oath of office to uphold the Constitution.” – Laurens County (S.C.) Tea Party mission statement In 2009, Diane Belsom was one of millions of Americans who [...]

S.C. Primary: Will Tea Party Rally Behind Curtis Bostic Against Mark Sanford?

Family values: Curtis Bostic with his wife and five children Dana Loesch this morning expressed disappointment that disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford finished first in the South Carolina GOP congressional special-election primary. But it’s a runoff state, and Sanford only got 37 percent of the vote, while former Charleston City Councilman Curtis Bostic was second with 13 percent [...]

The Great Karl Rove Super PAC Scare

Having said nothing about all this previously, my inclination is to discourage pre-emptive panic among grassroots conservatives. Until we get down to cases — in a clear-cut situation where a Republican primary pits a solid conservative against a Establishment RINO type hand-picked by Karl Rove — there’s no point getting all angry or frightened about [...]

Obama ‘Has Brought Us to Our Knees. He Is Lowering Our Standard of Living.’

Jennifer Stefano of Americans for Prosperity was a guest today on Neil Cavuto’s show, and she wasn’t pulling her punches: “The president has lied on a number of issues. He promised not to raise taxes on the middle-class — he raised taxes on us today. . . . If any of us are stupid enough [...]

The Bloody Mess at FreedomWorks

Memeorandum today features two stories on the ugliness: FreedomWorks Feud: War Inside Tea Party Group Gets Nastier – David Corn, Mother Jones FreedomWorks tea party group nearly falls apart in fight between old and new guard – Amy Gardner, Washington Post The latter article tells this story: The day after Labor Day, just as campaign [...]

David Welch, Snake for Hire

In May 2010, during Michael Steele’s chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, research director Jeff Berkowitz resigned and was replaced by David Welch, a 30-something operative who had previously worked on John McCain’s presidential campaigns and for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Welch lasted about a year at the RNC gig and used his “former research director” [...]

Is Norquist Thinking Wishfully?

by Smitty The whole clip is interesting, but the interviewer brings up the Tea Parties ~9:55. Grover’s premise is that Obama’s economic policies are going to have such a negative effect as to trigger a small-business backlash against Obama, presumably because after BHO has, say, doubled unemployment, there will be more loose people to demonstrate: [...]

Gadsden Phoenix Rises. Detractors Can Kiss Her Ashes.

by Smitty Instapundit liked the tweet last night: At the local Tea Party meeting. For ~70 dead people, these zombies are kinda spun up. — Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) November 13, 2012   There was some admission of the suckage of the situation, and discussion that we need to get over the fact that (to paraphrase) [...]

‘Benghazi Story’, A Tea Party Protest

by Smitty Retired General Norwood gathers some Tea Partiers in Florida to protest CBS 10, demanding the media do their jobs and investigate the Benghazi attack: Barack Obama had better hope he loses next Tuesday. You can’t sit behind the Resolute Desk with this much albatross hanging from your neck. via Bluegrass Pundit Update: Instalanche! [...]

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