Posted by: Parker at May 13, 2013 07:40 AM (YkW3i)

No but I think Inhof has actually mentioned it.

Posted by: Vic at May 13, 2013 07:36 AM (53z96)

He came off pretty well in that exchange.   But the real story on FNS yesterday was Kucinich being part of the panel and not feeling obliged to carry donk water on either Benghazi or the IRS horseshit.  For all of his major flaws, Kucinich is very media savvy and understands that donks trying to play politics on the deaths of 4 heroes is a big fucking mistake when the facts finally come out.  Plus he was against intervening in Libya so he gets to point out that he was right.  But his biggest surprise was when he remarked on all the phrases like "constitution" and "bill of rights" that were flagged by the IRS for groups and that even though he's a lib donk and has nothing to do with the Tea Party, it was a national scandal for them to be targeted.  Repubs should pay attention to him instead of fat fuck Rove when it comes to framing the story.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2013 07:44 AM (+98Gb)

You know what a real non-starter was?  McRINO's 2008 campaign.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 13, 2013 07:46 AM (DUsgr)

And to think I actually went down and stood in line in the rain to vote for that shit head. (But it was mainly for Palin)

Does this mean no more Gerbil Malodor?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2013 07:45 AM (+98Gb)

When I saw that he was on the panel, I thought that piece of shit Ailes had sold us out again to get party invitations from his lib friends.  I think Kristol and Kimberley Strassel were as surprised as I was by his performance.  Then again, he got redistricted out of a job so the donks could save the seats of worthless retards like Marcia Fudge so Dennis probably figures he doesn't owe those cocksuckers a fucking thing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2013 07:48 AM (O6Tmi)

Maybe we should be rooting for her to be the nominee in 2016??

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at May 13, 2013 07:52 AM (OWjjx)

The problem is the MFM is shielding him on the IRS.  They are blaming everybody but Obama.  And anyone with half a brain cell knows that for the IRS to do that the order had to come from him.

Pickering - listen closely to his interview at the end of Meet the Depressed.

They were not charged to look in to, nor did they ever look in to, the ever changing talking points and the cover up.

They only looked at the level of security that was present at Benghazi and who made those decisions.

They didn't look at the cover up at all

Posted by: real joe at May 13, 2013 07:55 AM (PD2ad)

Before the 2012 election I would have said OBama has poisoned the well for black politicians in national elections.  But it appears that it is impossible to poison that well.

THERE!

Got my chin firmly planted into a cupped hand with elbow planted astride the keyboard and single finger typing withe the other hand which means......

Good Morning/night...

slumber is mine......

"And even if you somehow managed to get rid of Obama, you would still get Biden."

Don't kid yourself - the reason we aren't seeing a worldwide depression right now is because of the Reaganesque tax agreement that Bitch McConnell was able to negotiate in a backroom deal with O'Biden.

O'Biden might be a shrill plagiarizing jackass of a papist nitwit [dull even by papal standards], but he doesn't hate this country with the seething nihilistic rage that O'Bammy does.

Our economy is sputtering along right now because of that deal.

Well, that deal, and the revolution in petroleum fracking.

Posted by: Vic at May 13, 2013 07:35 AM (53z96)

They could have authenticated pictures of her handing a lackey a giant poster dated 9-11-12 saying, "Do not send military forces to help Ambassador Stevens", and the MFM would still find a way to spin it to help her.

Horde.

*nods*

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2013 07:57 AM (O6Tmi)

We can't stand the sight of the JEF because he's such a lowlife grifter but to the LIV dumbasses he looks like an ok guy.  Rodham looks like some bag woman who escaped from the homeless shelter.  Her idea of personal hygiene is squirting some lemon Pledge in her pits and cooter.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo"

CBD, let's meet for cocktails!

Posted by: Miss Marple at May 13, 2013 08:13 AM (GoIUi)

Doesn't the Catholic Church have some rule about "forceful and obstinate disregard for the tenants of the Church"?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2013 07:50 AM (BeSEI)

Plus if you say she's the target, it allows her to ramp up her threats and intimidation against whistleblowers.  If she thinks she's safe, she might just lighten up.  This allows you to come out later and say that, in light of recent testimony, her actions warrant further review which was the plan all along.

Oh there you are! I couldn't access comments and thought comments were down. Must have just been my crappy internet connection.

I'm convinced this IRS thing is more broad and pervasive than we are being led to believe. And, I believe it goes farther than non-profits, too.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 13, 2013 08:16 AM (sbV1u)

I was thinking more along the lines of heresy in the first degree. That for which you should be excommunicated.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 13, 2013 08:17 AM (sbV1u)

Biden's a fucking lowlife liar who should be in jail.  Everybody gives him a pass like a slow child but he's as malicious a prick as they come, like when he was smearing the driver of the truck that killed his first wife in an accident that she caused stating that he'd been drinking at lunch even though there was no mention of that in the police report.  Once shit like that gets out then his dumbfuck supporters start spreading it as well and you have a good man's reputation flushed down the shitter thank to a vindictive asshole like Biden.

Posted by: Vic at May 13, 2013 07:34 AM (53z96)

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You're right, it wasn't the collapse of the auto industry it was the city leadership.When men who had some business sense like Marx, Couzens, Lodge, and Cobo were in charge, the city was doing okay. Then along came Coleman Young and it was all downhill after that.  I spent a lot of time with family in Detroit back in the 50s and 60s.  It was a great place to live.  All the houses they lived in are gone but one, and that neighborhood is pretty awful. 

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 13, 2013 08:18 AM (GEICT)

You need to listen to him.  He's right.

>>>And whatever happened to excommunication?

Screw that, how about Interdiction? Deny it for whole fkn countries until they get rid of toads like him.

If IRS and Labor Dept went after people, what other Depts went after people in a discriminatory manner? Is it possible there were more? There are so many Depts with onerous regs, this could be so much more widespread than Congress knows. Was HHS or Medicare or EPA or DOJ used against people? What about that guitar case? Wasn't that political?

Posted by: Baldy at May 13, 2013 08:24 AM (tyDFN)

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My HR Dept Manager received an obnoxious letter from the DoL demanding payroll information broken out by ethnic group and sex. They wanted us to report weekly for the next year. When I found her responding to the DoL requests, I shut it down. I then got several phone calls from the DoL insisting that I do this for 'a study'. I told them we won't be 'participating' and they could not force us to report.

Morning, Morons.   Sorry IÂ’m late.  Here are a couple of stories about the great Boris Karloff:

He enjoyed doing horror films, but he never pretended that they were anything other than what they were.  “My wife,” he once said, “is a woman of great taste.  She has seen very, very few of my pictures.”

By the end of his life, Karloff was forced to wear a metal brace on one leg.  “I canÂ’t breathe and I canÂ’t walk,” heÂ’d joke about his declining health.  “Must be the result of carrying too many bodies upstairs!”

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

"And yet, as far as I can see, no one in the church has said or done a damn thing about it. Same as quite a few other prominent Catholic members of the Dem party."

This.

I've waited my entire life for a pope who would excommunicate these child-murdering politicians.

And all I've heard for my entire life: Crickets.

Crickets.

Crickets.

Chirp. Chirp. Chirp.

Crickets.

For Vatican City, it's all about the power.

Daren't upset the apple cart.

Gotta keep them shekels flowing.

Obsequiousness to The Prince of This World, as Pope Francis called Him the other day.

Obsequiousness to The Prince of This World.

Something the Papists are intimately familiar with.

Obsequiousness to The Prince of This World.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2013 08:26 AM (9Bj8R)

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Kucinich was/is a flake but he had some ethics at least.  I'm not surprised by his answer, he often talked about the government targeting groups. Of course they were usually Liberal groups but once in a while he'd stick up  for a Moderate or even Conservative group. I think his flakiness includes some conspiracy theories on government power.

173 Vic - I love your breakfast! Eat eggs every day; and bacon:

http://tinyurl.com/d2fex2h

Be gentle with me.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 13, 2013 07:47 AM (GEICT)

Needs cowbell.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2013 08:44 AM (9Bj8R)

Eh there have been plenty of meltdowns in larger tournaments than that.  Sergio just happened to get into a "who can be the bigger asshole" contest with Eldrick, which upped the attention.  Woods wasn't exactly classy or conciliatory in his responses.

"They're our brothers and sisters in arms in the fight to get this nation back so just fucking zip all the stupid shit."

Actually, they aren't.

Importing all the Catholics in the late 19th / early 20th Century, for their cheap manual labor, was what tipped this country electorally away from the classical principles of the Founders and into the Socialism which the Frankfurt School was pushing.

Over the years, the WASPs have been the only group which has shown any consistent adherence to the founding principles.

For whatever reason, by and large, the Catholics just don't "get it".

If they have to choose between the guaranteed flow of shekels versus actually doing something proactive about all of God's children being murdered in the wombs of their mothers, then the Vatican will choose the guaranteed flow of shekels, every time.

It's just their nature - they can't seem to help it.

*comes tumbling into thread as, in the background, a small private jet collides with a massive yacht called the Cocaine Cutie, leading to a massive explosion*

*stands up*

*dusts self off*

Whew!  What a week!  Sorry to have been MIA, all, but as you can tell from the smoldering wreckage behind me, I've been carrying out a series of covert guerilla attacks on certain     South American and eastern European drug    interests,#     so I had to keep    my whereabouts     on the down low.       What'd I miss?

*glances at various headlines of the past week*

Oh.  

*glances at some more*

Oh my.

*glances at even more*

AH.    So   shit status    =    real?      SWEET.

I've got to go away for extended periods more often!   I bet if I took a    TWO week vacation I'd come back to find Obama impeached    and Hillary in leg shackles.

*starts planning*

#Actually I was in PA visiting my sister and her husband, but that sounds infinitely less interesting.

Posted by: RWC at May 13, 2013 08:50 AM (fWAjv)

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Actually the Chief Counsel that had a meeting about this mess is an Obama  appointee so the Bush thing doesn't fly anyway.  And Chief Counsel is hardly low-level.  I think that fact more than anything else made it something the LSM couldn't ignore.

199 Regular Moron:

Ugh! Sounds exactly like my scenario. If the House Leadership had any balls they would investigate the IRS from cellar to attic. This can be a campaign issue we can ride, too.

Posted by: chemjeff at May 13, 2013 08:55 AM (BBWjt)

It's the Jell-O.         The word     "salad" should never be connected to Jell-O in any way.     There oughta be a law.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at May 13, 2013 08:58 AM (fwARV)

*checks Washington Nearsider's basement well*

Just checking...

22IBD throws the BS flag on IRS lower level employees being the culprits in the current scandal.
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It can't be a good sign when your initial attempt at damage control is demolished immediately. Does bad things to future credibility regarding the case.

Posted by: Deanna at May 13, 2013 08:55 AM (c2Y3j)"

Bush appointee my ass, the president has the choice to replace or keep this person, this is the Obama administration per fucking iod.

Good grief.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 13, 2013 08:55 AM (GEICT)

Some of us thought you were dead... or acosted... or something.

Welcome back.

Gomen!

I    do   apologize for going silent.   My sister's computer is a tottering old thing that takes FOR. EV. ER. to    open a browser window, let alone load an actual SITE.     Just loading Drudge takes   something ridiculous, like fifteen minutes.   I'd never have been able to keep up with the pace of comments here at the HQ.   By the time a comment of mine had posted    three new threads would have   gone up!   

And it was actually quite nice to take a break from the idiots in DC and in the MFM for a week.     It gave me the    opportunity to focus on other things, like the idiot PA    and    CT     drivers who can't keep their damn cars from colliding with each other and/or      stationary objects, even in perfect     weather    conditions.  

245 Its ridiculous on its face that this doesn't come the whole way down from the very top. After all the SCOMF is a community organizer. This was probably the FIRST practice that was ordered upon taking office.

We are going to find out that Synagogues and Churches were targeted, too, plus Christian Schools, Homeschools, Christian Charities, etc.

Miss Marple -

Wake me up when someone in Vatican City excommunicates a pro-abortion descendant of Joseph Kennedy Sr [which, AFAIK, would be all of the descendants of the old man].

I'll be expecting to hear from you no earlier than about 3792 AD.

If then.

TTYL.

Posted by: RWC at May 13, 2013 09:02 AM (fWAjv)

I hear the reason NBC cancelled "Rock    Center"   isn't because Brian Williams is a pompous ass with no charisma     and the intellectual capacity    of a walnut, but because they kept getting swamped with complaints about the smell of    horseshit    wafting from the soundstage.

True story.

Posted by: Tami at May 13, 2013 09:12 AM (X6akg)

Gee, who could've seen that coming?   Why, it's almost like Libya    is an AQ infested rathole     that should have been bombed into glass on September 12, 2012.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2013 09:13 AM (O6Tmi)

Best one-liner?  I have always held another in that slot.

Philip of Macedon decided he was going to invade and conquer Sparta during the Third Sacred War.  He sent a messenger to the Spartans warning them:

"You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army on your land, I will destroy your farms, kill your people and raze your city."

The Spartans replied:  "If."

Posted by: chemjeff at May 13, 2013 09:18 AM (BBWjt)

If it had been the Baptists they would have thrown liquor bottles at it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 13, 2013 09:13 AM (GEICT)

A fleet    of    tanker trucks filled to the brim with Febreze     couldn't     get rid of the stench of 30 Rock.     It will linger for   decades, until    future generations associate    "stench of rotten punchlines and leftwing    mouth farts"    with    "NBC Studios,"   the same way   the medley of     mothballs and urine    is    associated with          crazy cat ladies.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 13, 2013 09:19 AM (XYSwB)

Why it's almost as if this administration is rabidly anti-American and is using its power to destroy all political opposition.

Posted by: Vic at May 13, 2013 09:15 AM (53z96)

I'd tell you it isn't the eggs and bacon but I don't feel like banging my head against the wall today.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 13, 2013 08:52 AM (GEICT)

On the other side of things, the church has to be concerned that going out and doing the open "Excommunication!" thing is going to have a boomerang effect.

Look, the church is not well loved by the secular left, so painting a target on it's back in order to do something that doesn't really help anyway accomplishes...what?

Silly Joe will still go up to mass, he'll still present for communion and all you've done is put your parish priest into a media firestorm he didn't want to be in. (Unless Smoking Joe only goes to the bishop's parish I guess.)

And frankly, (no offense to Bannion here whose got more cannon law chops, looking at this from an entirely different perspective) we've got bigger subtler problems that excommunicating Shotgun Joe won't fix.

We've got to squelch other organizations that actually have a semblance of influence over people who are drifting (to put it mildly) away.  I was at my usual meeting of a certain group that may have gone out over the edge in supporting Obama Care and is still unconcerned about the birth control thing.  The Bishop that came said "Listen, y'all may not care, but I've got to deal with parents who think it's a good idea to give their teenagers birth control!"  And rather than take the story as what it was (a caution against the sliding standards of the new morality of secularism) some dipshit actually stood up and told the bishop he "didn't understand" and those poor girls probably "were going on birth control to help them perform better in school."

So yeah.

Sheriff Joe? Tiny problem.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 13, 2013 09:21 AM (sbV1u)

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Hey now.

Bouncing balls are so 90's. 

CharlieBrown:

http://tinyurl.com/8yrrtux

For your edification.

Posted by: An Observation at May 13, 2013 09:25 AM (ylhEn)

But when premiums are skyrocketing it will all the Republicans fault. Just because it always is

General Sir Charles James Napier

I may be    wrong,   but I always thought the Napier quote was in regards to the Indian tradition of    sati,    in which a    widow is burned to death on her husband's funeral pyre.

"This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."

It's such an awesome quote, though, that I could very   easily be mistaken.  It's   genesis     may have been misattributed at some point in the last,    what?   Nearly 200 years?      Talk about    playing Telephone!

Fox: Car bomb explodes near a hospital in Benghazi.

*Sigh*  Won't these right-wing Tea Partiers ever stop protesting Obamacare.

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 13, 2013 09:23 AM (GVxQo)

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I've got you beat.  Our church doesn't even have a church.

Posted by: Jones in CO at May 13, 2013 09:27 AM (8sCoq)

BWAHAHAHA!

*ROLLING ON GROUND, LAUGHING!!*

*wiping streaming eyes*   Whewwww!   *SNORT*  Sorry, sorry.  I just...  LOL!  That's the funniest thing I've read in at least a   week!   Thanks, JiC!

Posted by: Miss Marple at May 13, 2013 09:30 AM (GoIUi)

Touchy feely Catholicism!  Meh.

I know it used to be the "kiss of peace" but let's be clear, that was an epoch ago in a different time.

I don't want to kiss you, nor hug you, GET OUT OF MY FACE.

Sorry Flashbacks to College

(I actually stopped going to the college student mass in college, College Church was a functioning parish so I just went to the Sunday Morning mass, I hate touchy feely Catholicism.)

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 13, 2013 09:29 AM (GVxQo)

with all these stories I read I'm so very thankful for the church I attend. It's very traditional and Mass is still the pre-Vatican 2 Tridentine Mass.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 13, 2013 09:30 AM (sbV1u)

Wait did I stumble into one of those "let's roll back VII!" things?

Because...erg...I may be crazy, but I'm not THAT crazy.  I happen to be OK with a few of the changes.

Oh but lifeteen.

Lifeteen MUST BE DESTROYED.

I hate that shit with every fiber of my being.  It's ass backwards anyway.  Most of my friends who were involved in it ended up bolting from the church. (So clearly it's not working) and those that didn't are still attached to it even in their 30s.

Posted by: Miss Marple at May 13, 2013 09:38 AM (GoIUi)

Vatican II opened the door for all of the Church lefties to run wild. Funny how let's update the Church crowd is updating it right out of existence

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 13, 2013 09:36 AM (sbV1u)

If you're talking about the one used during the distribution of communion if memory serves it's to prevents the crumbs of the body from falling upon the ground (sacrilege!)

Of course we've made great strides in really really stiff hosts in recent years.  (OK that's snark, but I personally don't really like someone getting that close to my personal space.)

I'm personally not actually opposed to the whole handing the body to the recipient.  It does seem to me that (especially in light of the reassertion of the importance of the laity after VII) that the faithful should be able to hold their savior in their hands before taking to their mouth.  This I think is a good thing.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 13, 2013 09:45 AM (sbV1u)

Fair point.

But there were theological points when the alter faced forward that are gone now too.  There are tradeoffs across the board, weight them and make the proper decisions as needed.

But lines do need to be drawn.  Just because the alter has been turned around doesn't mean people get to circle around it during mass, sorry Lifeteen nuts, that's just wrong. (And creepy.)

(Yes, a thousand burning suns.  That's how much I don't like it.)

Posted by: Regular Moron at May 13, 2013 09:53 AM (U2UQk)

Prezzy Wonderful, isn't it true that the mean Republicans just want to ruin the glorious peoples' revolution that you are creating?

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 13, 2013 07:43 AM (DUsgr)

Absolutely right.  This is part of a  full-out assault on the Bill of Rights.