Hot Air » 2012 http://hotair.com The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Sat, 25 May 2013 18:31:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Why did the IRS keep the scandal quiet until after the election? Update: Treasury Dep’t knew last year http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/17/why-did-the-irs-keep-the-scandal-quiet-until-after-the-election/ http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/17/why-did-the-irs-keep-the-scandal-quiet-until-after-the-election/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 18:01:57 +0000 Allahpundit http://hotair.com/?p=261134

"The terrain would have looked very different."

Via the Standard, let’s approach the question this way: If it wasn’t the prospect of Precious losing the election that kept the lid on this until November had safely come and gone, what was it? As Lisa Myers notes below, lots of people knew that something smelly was going on and yet no one said [...]

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"[I]t could have changed the outcome of the general election."

Sounds like a dream ticket: Gingrich, with his famously poor favorable ratings, and Santorum, a punching bag for Team O’s Akin-fueled “war on women” attacks on social conservatism. Joshua Green, who broke this news for Business Week, previews the media take on the ticket from an alternate dimension in which they beat Romney: “Newt-Santo 2012: [...]

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]]> http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/22/too-good-to-check-gingrich-and-santorum-considered-teaming-up-to-defeat-romney/feed/ 206 Dick Durbin to Gabby Giffords’s husband: We should have held a hearing after the Tucson shooting http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/30/dick-durbin-to-gabby-giffordss-husband-we-should-have-held-a-hearing-after-the-tucson-shooting/ http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/30/dick-durbin-to-gabby-giffordss-husband-we-should-have-held-a-hearing-after-the-tucson-shooting/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:46:16 +0000 Allahpundit http://hotair.com/?p=241965

Just words.

Mark Kelly’s a smart guy — an astronaut, as you likely know, with a degree in aeronautical engineering — so I think he must know the reason why there was no hearing after his wife was shot. And if he knows the reason why, he must be seething internally listening to Durbin gladhand him this [...]

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