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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

Keep going Geot... You're doing great.

Er, that is, not so great.

"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 28 were withdrawn by the applicant, 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)."

FROM THE FUCKING REPORT, NOT CNN, EMPHASIS MINE

Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

You'll put yer eye out, kid.

fuflans's avatar

the IRS targeting baggers makes me laugh.

it shouldn't, it's not really correct bureaucratic behavior and god knows we're going to be paying for it in whinging for the next year.

but it makes me laugh.

bobbert's avatar

See what your ethics got you? Y'all probably could have fractional ownership of several of the elected officials that have oversight over you by now.

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Just keep the meta blockers away from Rebecca.

bobbert's avatar

Of course it is. The President is black (and Democrat).

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Iran-Contra is still bigger, and probably the Plame outing, and I'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've been forced to read about recently.

*Nobody knows what milquetoast means anymore.

bobbert's avatar

And it will be a bipartisan concern when, and only when, the President is a Democrat.

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While I'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's okay because it's private charity and not public welfare.

bobbert's avatar

Very, very black. Blacker than the blackest black budget, or the blackiyblackest black operation. Really, really fucking black.

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Nah, she hasn'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.

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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'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.

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I love the classics.