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(UPDATED) You’ll Likely Intensely Dislike Lois Lerner After Watching This
She’s not big on accountability, and she doesn’t seem to have any problem whatsoever with the IRS persecuting people who disagree politically with the left-wing bureaucrats who populate that agency. And she came to Congress today to let you know... (Continue reading)
It’s A Lot Easier Than You Think To Get A Fraudulent Obamaphone
Editor’s note: this comes from a friend of the Hayride whom we’ll call “Clarence.” He’s the guy Sen. David Vitter referenced on Monday when he did his photo op about ending the Obamaphone program… Yesterday I saw firsthand just how... (Continue reading)
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So They’re Debating A Budget Resolution In The Senate Today…
…and it comes to light that the Senate majority might attempt to slip in an increase to the debt limit as part of the conference report on the budget. That’s not a particularly smart thing for Harry Reid to do,... (Continue reading)
VIDEO: The Fantastic Rand Paul Apple Rant
This happened at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing this morning, at which the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, was being dragged forth to testify about all the nefarious practices that company was engaged in as a... (Continue reading)
Sarge: Tools
Dan Pfeiffer believes the entire universe owes Ambassador Susan Rice an apology. Why; because she is, as he is, Obama’s tool and a humble Gunga Din to the administration? Pfeiffer’s dumber than a set of white wingtips in a hog... (Continue reading)
VIDEO: Mike Kelly Destroys Steven Miller At IRS Hearings
It’s pretty clear from what came out of today’s hearings is that nobody of any intelligence or integrity is in charge of the IRS. And that agency has lost a ton of credibility as a result. When the head of... (Continue reading)
ALEXANDER: The IRS And The Red River Tea Party (UPDATED)
As American citizens, we all, I would respectfully suggest, maintain hope that our own federal government—which itself creates nothing but instead feeds voraciously of off the prosperity created by the sweat equity of millions of Americans—would treat its citizens fairly. And, while... (Continue reading)
Republicans Shouldn’t Solely Focus This IRS Scandal On Obama…
…because it could well be that trying to connect the persecution of conservative activists by IRS agents to the White House is going to be a dead end. This might not ultimately lead to Obama. Not that the White House... (Continue reading)
BOUSTANY VIDEO: Stonewalling And Evasion At The IRS
Rep. Charles Boustany has been screaming about the IRS audits and harassment of conservative groups for two years now, and he’s not impressed with the disclosures he’s seen so far out of the revenue agency. And he said so in... (Continue reading)
SARGE: The Serpent And The Frog
The thought Beaurat Obama’s minions would rape the Sabine Women so delicately courted with sensitivity and Obama’s chivalrous manner in the past, now lays violated and wounded for the act and shocked it happened. OH! The horror! Kool-aid drinkers like... (Continue reading)
VIDEO: Jeanine Pirro Sums Up Benghazi
This is about as good a summary of what happened in Benghazi last September 11, and it’s absolutely devastating to the Obama administration. It makes you wish she had a show on MSNBC or CNN rather than Fox News, because... (Continue reading)
SARGE: Obama’s Devalued Buck
Beaurat Obama’s got big trouble in River City to paraphrase Professor Higgins of the Broadway play, The Music Man. Scandal, a problematic vulture dealt with by politicians since Adam and Eve tried explaining away the applesauce stains on their freshly... (Continue reading)
Richmond: Criminals Use Guns For Violence, So You Need To Give Up Yours
That’s the gist of Rep. Cedric Richmond’s gun-grabbing essay at Politic 365 over the weekend… By driving on our roads, subject to their rules, we forgo the right to recklessly operate our cars and possibly injure others. By boarding a... (Continue reading)
VIDEO: Cassidy Pushes The Medicaid Accountability And Care Act
On Fox Business yesterday morning. It’s a little bit in the weeds, but he does point out some understandable problems with the current Medicaid structure and why it wastes tons of money, and how a better construct could make for... (Continue reading)
AUDIO: Is The State Department Blocking The Benghazi Survivors From Getting Lawyers?
Joe DiGenova is the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and he’s still quite plugged in with events in the justice system. And on WMAL-FM this morning, he weighed in on a couple of topics of interest –... (Continue reading)
BOUSTANY: Reject CLASS 2.0 And Address Medicaid’s Looming LTC Crisis
As we work to reign in wasteful spending and improve retirement security, our nation cannot afford to overlook Medicaid’s long-term care (LTC) financing crisis. We’re completely unprepared for the coming “age wave.” More than 15 million Americans will be 85... (Continue reading)
BEAM: Congress Now Targets Internet Sales For Taxes
Internet sales taxes and the Affordable Care Act are subjects of major interest here and elsewhere. Congress came closer than ever last week to requiring online merchants to collect state sales taxes. The ACA, often referred to as Obamacare, was... (Continue reading)
Stammerin’ Hank Strikes Again: Imagine A World Without Balloons
There’s dumb, and then there’s Hank Johnson (D-GA), who holds the title of the Derpiest Member of Congress. Johnson, who’s most famous for worrying that an increased military presence on Guam might cause that island to tip over, was agitatin’... (Continue reading)
Why Isn’t Cedric Richmond On Board With Gay Marriage?
Mother Jones took some time out from its Richard Nixon-Watergate wiretapping campaigns to gripe yesterday about the 18 House Democrats who have so far neglected to endorse gay marriage, and the hard-left publication focused their ire at Rep. Cedric Richmond... (Continue reading)
By The Way, Let’s Not Forget About Hillary And Benghazi…
…because that House report more or less disqualifies her from any future political office given what it tells about her putrid performance in providing security to the CIA facility-cum-consulate in the most dangerous city in the world… A congressional report... (Continue reading)
Quote of the day
Quote Of The Day, May 22, 2013
“Add up all the recent scandals and the message is clear: the Obama administration is showing that it cannot be trusted with the basic functions of government: law enforcement (surveillance of reporters), taxation (IRS scandals), and national security (Benghazi).”- John Yoo