Peggy Noonan, the cloistered nun from the Order of Our Lady of the Perpetual Martini, has written a column of such bracing stupidity that it would shock us if it did not so closely resemble every other piece of hyperbolic twaddle spewing forth from every conservative anus right now like a molten flow of verbal diarrhea. Shall we all down a couple of beta-blockers and dive into it together?
&quot;For the 296 total political campaign intervention applications TIGTA reviewed as of December 17, 2012, <b>108 had been approved,</b> 28 were withdrawn by the applicant, <b>none had been denied, </b>and 160 were open from 206 to 1,138 calendar days (some for more than three years and crossing two election cycles).&quot;
it shouldn&#039;t, it&#039;s not really correct bureaucratic behavior and god knows we&#039;re going to be paying for it in whinging for the next year.
See what your ethics got you? Y&#039;all probably could have fractional ownership of several of the elected officials that have oversight over you by now.
Iran-Contra is still bigger, and probably the Plame outing, and I&#039;m sure there are number of obscure agricultural subsidies; but the fact that Crossroads GPS is a 501(c)(4) is certainly a bigger scandal than any of this milkbone* shit we&#039;ve been forced to read about recently.
Nah, she hasn&#039;t had a fucking clue what anything means for at least fifteen years. When Ronnie snuffed it, she lost her tenuous hold on fantasy, and is now just chaotic.
Watergate was big, and is still big, because it represented an organized attempt by the highest level of the executive branch to subvert the electoral process, which is kind of central to the notion of a democratic republic.
If the IRS thing were shown to have been ordered at the Presidential staff level, it too would be a big thing. Since this doesn&#039;t appear to be the case, it is, instead, historical trivia.
Both Iran-Contra and Lies-for-Iraq had far greater direct <i>consequences</i>, in, terms of dead and wounded, than did Watergate, but neither of them were direct attacks on the electoral process that we hope (blindly) allows for correcting such excesses.
Keep going Geot... You&#039;re doing great.
Er, that is, not so great.
&quot;For the 296 total political campaign intervention applications TIGTA reviewed as of December 17, 2012, <b>108 had been approved,</b> 28 were withdrawn by the applicant, <b>none had been denied, </b>and 160 were open from 206 to 1,138 calendar days (some for more than three years and crossing two election cycles).&quot;
FROM THE FUCKING REPORT, NOT CNN, EMPHASIS MINE
You&#039;ll put yer eye out, kid.
the IRS targeting baggers makes me laugh.
it shouldn&#039;t, it&#039;s not really correct bureaucratic behavior and god knows we&#039;re going to be paying for it in whinging for the next year.
but it makes me laugh.
Thank you.
See what your ethics got you? Y&#039;all probably could have fractional ownership of several of the elected officials that have oversight over you by now.
Just keep the meta blockers away from Rebecca.
Death sounds good.
Of course it is. The President is black (and Democrat).
Iran-Contra is still bigger, and probably the Plame outing, and I&#039;m sure there are number of obscure agricultural subsidies; but the fact that Crossroads GPS is a 501(c)(4) is certainly a bigger scandal than any of this milkbone* shit we&#039;ve been forced to read about recently.
*Nobody knows what milquetoast means anymore.
And it will be a bipartisan concern when, and only when, the President is a Democrat.
While I&#039;ve always disliked her, when she was writing speeches for Ronnie, she really was pretty good.
Now, her stuff has all the excitement of a decayed carpet.
And yet, the WSJ still pays her to excrete nonsense. I guess that&#039;s okay because it&#039;s private charity and not public welfare.
Very, very black. Blacker than the blackest black budget, or the blackiyblackest black operation. Really, really fucking black.
Nah, she hasn&#039;t had a fucking clue what anything means for at least fifteen years. When Ronnie snuffed it, she lost her tenuous hold on fantasy, and is now just chaotic.
Watergate was big, and is still big, because it represented an organized attempt by the highest level of the executive branch to subvert the electoral process, which is kind of central to the notion of a democratic republic.
If the IRS thing were shown to have been ordered at the Presidential staff level, it too would be a big thing. Since this doesn&#039;t appear to be the case, it is, instead, historical trivia.
Both Iran-Contra and Lies-for-Iraq had far greater direct <i>consequences</i>, in, terms of dead and wounded, than did Watergate, but neither of them were direct attacks on the electoral process that we hope (blindly) allows for correcting such excesses.
Thank you.
I love the classics.