The real one, not the ones being promulgated by leftist journalists ignorant of the law:
The real scandal is that all these complicated tax rules exist. If we would just eliminate the corporate income tax, then people could organize groups, or not, just as they please. And the IRS would not be in the position of deciding what counts as excessive political activity.
Yes. The corporate income tax is an abomination, on many levels, and one of the causes of slowed economic growth.
It looks like it may have been planted.
Mysteriouser and mysteriouser.
Shikha Dalmia points out, once again, the absurdity of taking the Left seriously when they accuse others of being “anti-science.”
@ChrisCMooney, call your office.
I have some thoughts on a bad reboot of a terrible old show, over at PJMedia.
This war on fossil fuels is economically insane.
Thoughts on the asininity of Joan Walsh and others who seem to think that the Founders invented slavery.
Some disquieting thoughts about our inability to see evil.
Is it just coincidence that they’re all breaking seemingly at once, or something more?
The video magically appeared between edits two and three:
That’s when the video became the deus ex machina, the soon-to-be-visible hand of the bag of lies dumped on the electorate to prevent us from seeing the catastrophe of the Obama appeasement of radical Islam — a.k.a. “leading with the behind.” Saying “attacks” would have automatically put the Benghazi events in the context of the (banned concept) war against terror, whereas ”demonstrations” shifted the context — the whole Arab Spring thing consisted of lots of demonstrations, and the Obama crowd was basically pro-demonstration.
Indeed, Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice justified the demonstrations. How? By blaming them on the video. More evidence that the invisible video was hidden in the third edit.
You can tell they were scrambling to try to save the campaign narrative.
OK, so now it turns out that the Justice Department was spying on Associated Press reporters. That should further endear Eric Holder with the media.
Somehow, I’m not sure that this administration strategery of “distract them from the previous scandal a couple days ago with an even bigger one today” is going to work out all that well for them.
[Update a few minutes later]
Heh.
First time I’ve seen an agency do a Monday news dump bc a Friday news dump failed so spectacularly. It’s like a scandal fire sale.
— J.P. Freire (@JPFreire) May 13, 2013
So I guess the question at this point is: does one scandal distract from the other, or does it reach some kind of critical mass, in which the administration no longer has any credibility on anything?
[Update a few minutes later]
Government is just the word we use for things we do together, like audit political enemies and monitor journalists’ phone calls.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 13, 2013
And another one. Twitter is going nuts:
Come on, guys, lay off DOJ. It’s not like they greenlit selling guns to Mexican cartels that ended up being used to kill border patrol.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 13, 2013