“So the scandal—the real scandal—is that 501(c)(4) groups have been engaged in political activity in such a sustained and open way. As Fred Wertheimer, the President of Democracy 21, a government-ethics watchdog group, put it, “it is clear that a number of groups have improperly claimed tax-exempt status as section 501(c)(4) ‘social welfare’ organizations in order to hide the donors who financed their campaign activities in the 2010 and 2012 federal elections.” …
Campaign finance operates by shaky, or even nonexistent, rules, and powerful players game the system with impunity. A handful of I.R.S. employees saw this and tried, in a small way, to impose some small sense of order. For that, they’ll likely be ushered into bureaucratic oblivion.”
On last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Better Know’d Wisconsin’s 4th district with openly black Congresswoman Gwen Moore.
Spying on The Associated Press
The 7-year-old, second-grade student at Downtown Montessori Academy wrote a letter to Vice President Joe Biden and other officials a few months ago with a simple idea for making the world safer. His teacher Jenny Aicher says his letter suggested that if guns shot chocolate bullets, no one would get hurt.
Wisconsin boy gets handwritten response from Biden - Yahoo! News
Reporter: IRS Pressured Me After I Asked Obama Tough Questions
KMOV’s Larry Conners says “the IRS has been pressuring me” since his April, 2012 interview with the president. “Can I prove it? At this time, no.”
All together, roughly one-third of House committees are engaged in investigating some aspect of the Obama administration.
“Republicans think by a 74/19 margin that Benghazi is a worse political scandal than Watergate, by a 74/12 margin that it’s worse than Teapot Dome, and by a 70/20 margin that it’s worse than Iran Contra.
One interesting thing about the voters who think Benghazi is the biggest political scandal in American history is that 39% of them don’t actually know where it is.”
Rand Paul: Obama is working with ‘anti-American globalists plot[ting] against our Constitution.’
Why is Paul lending his name to this sort of thing?
“Think of this for one second, if it was Malia or Sasha or if it was Chelsea Clinton in Benghazi, pinned down with mortars coming in…don’t you think we’d be asking different questions?”
Fox News’ Eric Bolling asks the important questions, like how weird would it be if President Obama’s daughters were in charge of protecting the embassy in Benghazi.
Uh, we know exactly what the questions would be like:
MSNBC: “Why are children protecting our diplomatic compounds? Did Newt Gingrich become president and no one noticed?”
Fox News: “Why is the president spending taxpayer money to hang out with Muslims on vacation? Oh, it’s because sharia and socialism, impeach, impeach, impeach.”
CNN: “Who pooped on this poop cruise and when did they do it?”
(via ccindecision)“No one knew Congress, or the buttons to push with every key lawmaker, better than LBJ. It worked like a charm in his famous 89th, Great Society Congress, largely because he had overwhelming majorities of his own party in both houses. But after the awful midterms in 1966, when those swollen majorities receded, LBJ’s mastery of Congress didn’t mean squat.”
Rachel Maddow To Politifact: ‘You Are Terrible’ And Someone Should ‘Sue You’ - HuffPo
If Darryl Issa (R-CA) thinks the only way he’s going to get people to pay attention to his Benghazi hearings is if he hypes them like a summer blockbuster, then this panel needs more Ryan Gosling,
“2. Telling her he didn’t want to include a vow to be faithful in his wedding vows.
“A short while before the wedding, when Mark and I were picking readings and vows, Mark told me that he didn’t want to use a wedding vow that included the promise to be faithful. He was worried in some odd nagging way, he said, that he might not be able to remain true to that vow. In retrospect, I suppose I might have seen this as a sign that Mark wasn’t fully committed to me, and with the benefit of the knowledge I have about Mark now, I could point to this moment as a clear sign of things to come.”
