Quotes of the day

Holder has Obama and Hillary by their gonads. He’s likely not going anywhere. If she wins, she’ll keep him.

Schadenfreude on May 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM

Who gave the orders to stand down on 9/11/12 to come out.

Schadenfreude on May 24, 2013 at 2:09 PM

Prez comes out of the closet from behind the curtain and reveals that there was NO ONE there.
nobar on May 24, 2013 at 2:06 PM

Schadenfreude on May 24, 2013 at 2:11 PM

CONCLUSION: It’s time for radical reform to the government and an insistence by the people that the media be cleaned out of ideologues (or else compelled to present their biases forthrightly), that Congress begin dismantling the regulatory branch of government, and that we return to our Constitution as the basis for legitimate governance — with all that entails: a fundamental reassertion of the Declaration and the Bill of Rights and the plenary powers the states reserved for themselves as a condition of creating a United States; and a reduction to the size and scope of the federal government in keeping with the 9th and 10th Amendments and the enumerated powers described in the Constitution.

To secure this, we must reform the court system and provide foundational, coherent linguistic safeguards on how laws are legitimately interpreted and applied.

This is to be a government by, of, and for the people. Today it is the opposite: it exists to further entrench a ruling class at the expense of the will of the people, many of whom are reduced to voting for pre-selected candidates who don’t represent their interests — the pitch being that these pre-selected candidates are the lesser of two evils. And what this scandal should be telling us is that the ruling class sees in the TEA Party a real existential threat to their attempts to establish and institutionalize the liberal fascist paradigm that by its very nature rewards those inside the government, inside the bureaucratic state, and those in the private sector with the capital to sell themselves as clients to the state in exchange for protections from competition.

We live in soft tyranny. And every day that we refuse to acknowledge this is one more day for the roots of despotism and cronyism to grow deeper, until they eventually strangle the lifeblood from the American Experiment.

As serr8d reminded me today on Twitter, I’ve written of this before — and laid out just who and what it is the ruling class is working together, with no concern for party, to destroy: it is the foundational idea of America itself, and in specific, those who have rediscovered that idea and have bravely used it to confront the usurpers who now run our government.

The time for asserting the people’s will is now. The time for insisting that the people’s will be obliged is drawing nearer.

Obama resurrected the TEA party like they couldn’t. It’s 2014, or never again.

I insist that Boehner, Issa, Cantor, Romney & co. knew of all the scandals, ahead of the 2012 election and did nothing.

They hate the TEA party folks as much as the leftist rats do.

They enable the left in the destruction of the land and are thus more guilty than the Utopian leftist ideologues.

Despise the right like none other. They are the trul destroyers. The prolongued and leading to little hearings are just b/s. I don’t care what any righties will call me for saying this. YOU are part of the problem too.

Schadenfreude on May 24, 2013 at 2:19 PM

They probably ALL knew. Damn them all.

Key West Reader on May 24, 2013 at 2:24 PM

+1 Good to ‘see’ you KWR. All the best.

Schadenfreude on May 24, 2013 at 2:28 PM

Second, it is important to remember that there has never been an investigation of what happened in the IRS. There was an internal IRS audit, not an investigation, carried out by an inspector general, who was careful this week to note to the House what he’d done was not an investigation. He was tasked to come to conclusions on whether there had been wrongdoing at the agency. It was not his job to find out exactly why it happened, how and when the scandal began, who was involved, and how they operated.

A dead serious investigation is needed. The IRS has colorfully demonstrated that it cannot investigate itself. The Obama administration wants the FBI—which answers to Eric Holder’s Justice Department—to investigate, but that would not be credible. The investigators of the IRS must be independent of the administration, or their conclusions will not be trustworthy.

An independent counsel, with all the powers of that office, is what we need.

Again, if what happened at the IRS is not stopped now—if the internal corruption within it is not broken—it will never stop, and never be broken. The American people will never again be able to have the slightest confidence in the revenue-gathering arm of their government. And that, actually, would be tragic.

The IG, Mr. George dated Michelle in college.

Schadenfreude on May 24, 2013 at 2:29 PM

NO one loves the land more than the TEA party folks, no one.

Schadenfreude on May 24, 2013 at 2:34 PM

That picture is hilarious.

Schadenfreude on May 24, 2013 at 2:35 PM