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Topic: Rand Paul and Ron Wyden,
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Rand Paul and Ron Wyden,
Drone Odd-Couple
Daily Beast, by Eli Lake
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Posted By:garnet, 2/27/2013 9:04:38 AM
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| If you’ve followed the drawn-out saga surrounding John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director—with all the questions it has raised about drones and targeting of American citizens—you may have noticed something odd: one of the Senate’s longtime liberals, Ron Wyden of Oregon, has appeared to be very much on the same page as Rand Paul of Kentucky, arguably the most ardent Tea Partier on Capitol Hill. It turns out this isn’t just a fleeting alliance. For some time now, Wyden and Paul—along with two other senators, Republican Mike Lee of Utah and Democrat Mark Udall
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bumblebee, 2/27/2013 10:03:32 AM (No. 9198747)
Rand Paul, yes, just a chip off the old block??? Forget him!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/27/2013 10:38:23 AM (No. 9198825)
Rand just can´t bear the thought of those jihadists being killed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
trapper, 2/27/2013 11:19:56 AM (No. 9198962)
After yesterday´s "yes" vote on Hagel, and then his stunningly mindless justification for it, Rand Paul has confirmed that there must be a "crazy" gene running through the Paul family. Like his father, he has the ability to appear to make perfect sense, and then says or does something that is so opposite of what he just said that it leaves you cross-eyed and muttering "What???" Clearly the nut doesn´t fall far from the nut tree. Speaking of trees, the whole thing reminds me of the Lumberjack Song, complete with Tea Party chorus. Oh well, fooled again.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
yuban, 2/27/2013 11:20:37 AM (No. 9198966)
Rand Paul voted to confirm Hagel. nuff said. Next....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 2/27/2013 11:30:50 AM (No. 9198997)
Rand Paul: Conservative and not crazy. Works for me. Love how The Talk Show Host Party will give Rubio a pass on amnesty for 11-20 million illegal guests, which would fundamentally transform the electorate in favor of the socialists, but Rand Paul is public enemy number one because he confirmed an American war hero and Republican to the President´s cabinet. But what do you expect from a crowd that gave us Angle, Buck, Mourdock, Akin, etc, etc,
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Justifiable Cause
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Slate, by John Dickerson
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Posted By: garnet- 5/16/2013 7:25:16 AM
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It must get confusing in the IT department at the Associated Press: Are you talking about the hackers who hacked our Twitter account or the Justice Department hackers who hacked our phones? Monday, the Associated Press reported that the Justice Department had secretly obtained two months of records of phone conversations by its reporters. Meanwhile, the Washington Post revealed that the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups was more widespread than first reported. (Snip)The Obama administration is doing a far better job making the case for conservatism than Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, or John Boehner ever did.
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IRS official Lerner speedily
approved exemption for Obama
brother’s‘charity’
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Daily Caller, by Charles C. Johnson
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Posted By: garnet- 5/14/2013 7:50:27 PM
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Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by the president’s half-brother that operated illegally for years. According to the organization’s filings, Lerner approved the foundation’s tax status within a month of filing, an unprecedented timeline that stands in stark contrast to conservative organizations that have been waiting for more than three years, in some cases, for approval.
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The Grand Old Poseurs
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American Spectator, by David Catron
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Posted By: garnet- 5/13/2013 6:47:01 AM
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Last week, Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ostentatiously announced their intention to fight implementation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). They sent a letter to the President decrying the way IPAB will “impact America’s seniors … in the absence of the democratic process.” Sadly, the exercise was a charade. McConnell and Boehner know perfectly well that Obama has no intention of setting up this controversial board until after 2015.
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The Republican Party´s Road
Back to Victory
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Real Clear Politics, by Peter Wehner
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Posted By: garnet- 5/10/2013 9:38:30 AM
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President Obama’s second term is off to a rocky start, but that should not obscure for Republicans the fact that their party is facing many well-documented problems. They include everything from campaign mechanics and overly long presidential primaries to changing demographics and mediocre candidates. But there’s something more fundamental at play. The GOP doesn’t have a compelling, or even a particularly identifiable, governing vision. That may be sufficient for a congressional party committed to blocking President Obama’s agenda, but it’s not sufficient for a national party that wants to once again win presidential elections.
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The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi
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Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan
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Posted By: garnet- 5/10/2013 9:29:42 AM
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The Benghazi story until now has been a jumble of factoids that didn´t quite cohere, didn´t produce a story that people could absorb and hold in their minds. This week that changed. Three State Department officials testifying under oath to a House committee changed it, by adding information that gave form to a growing picture. Gregory Hicks, Mark Thompson and Eric Nordstrom were authoritative and credible. You knew you were hearing the truth as they saw and experienced it. Not one of them seemed political. You had no sense of how they voted. They were professionals.
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Just ‘youthful nihilism’
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Boston Herald, by Editorial
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Posted By: garnet- 5/6/2013 2:47:07 PM
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"The whole narrative confirms that while the radical motivations of the Tsarnaev brothers — and perhaps, it remains to be seen, some of their training — came from international jihadist movements, the bombing was also the product of family dysfunction, youthful nihilism, and a pattern of low-level crimes escalating into a very major one.” — Boston Globe editorial May 3. Dear Officer Krupke — of “West Side Story” fame — please call your office. Clearly these boys just have a social disease, so take ’em to a social worker. It takes a lot for our competitors on Morrissey Boulevard
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Such a Dynamic Duo
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American Spectator, by R. Emmett Tyrell
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Posted By: garnet- 5/4/2013 9:51:01 AM
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WASHINGTON — It has happened again! Our gaffe-prone president has filed another blunder on his presidential record. At the dedication of George W. Bush’s presidential library he invoked history with his usual mastery of detail. He placed President John F. Kennedy in Air Force One, “On the flight back from Russia, after negotiating with Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War.” Actually the flight was returning from Vienna, not “Russia,” and not much “negotiating” had been done.
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Officials on Benghazi:
"We made mistakes,
but without malice"
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CBS News, by Sharyl Attkisson
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Posted By: Drive- 5/17/2013 3:02:24 PM
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Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath. The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it's important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect "incompetence rather than malice or cover up.
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Watergate 2.0 -- why the
IRS scandal is far worse
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Fox News, by Matt Kibbe
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:59:17 AM
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In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse. The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings. Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests,
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Lew asks Congress for debt increase,
says it’s ´not open to debate´
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The Hill, by Peter Schoeder
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Posted By: DW626- 5/18/2013 6:12:33 PM
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday urged congressional leaders to raise the debt limit and insisted that the White House is not going to negotiate over the increase because lawmakers have "no choice." "We will not negotiate over the debt limit," Lew wrote. "The creditworthiness of the United States is non-negotiable. The question of whether the country must pay obligations it has already incurred is not open to debate." Lew said that while President Obama is willing to discuss plans to reduce the nation´s deficit with Congress, those talks must be kept separate from any effort to raise the nation´s debt cap.
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McCaskill Calls For Firing Of All
Involved In IRS Targeting Scandal
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KMOX [St, Louis], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 5/18/2013 2:46:31 PM
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Washington – Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, issued a video statement Friday in response to reports that the Internal Revenue Service unfairly targeted conservative nonprofit groups. (Snip) “There’s a reason Lady Justice wears a blindfold in America. That is because in America, we don’t apply the law based on who you are, who you know, or what you believe. We apply the law equally.” “We should not only fire the head of the IRS, which has occurred, but we’ve got to go down the line and find every single person who had anything to do with this and make sure
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Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case
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Wall Street Journal, by John D. McKinnon*
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/17/2013 10:23:18 PM
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The Internal Revenue Service´s watchdog told top Treasury officials around June 2012 he was investigating allegations the tax agency had targeted conservative groups, for the first time indicating that Obama administration officials were aware of the explosive matter in the midst of the president´s re-election campaign. The disclosure to the Treasury general counsel and the deputy secretary was a cursory one, according to J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. He said he didn´t reveal conclusions of the probe, which was in its early stages, and his disclosure came as part
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Rep. Issa subpoenas Benghazi
auditor Thomas Pickering
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Julian Pecquet
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/17/2013 3:53:45 PM
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The lawmaker leading the charge to investigate the Benghazi terror attack on Friday subpoenaed the co-author of a report that slammed the State Department but didn´t interview Hillary Clinton. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) formally demanded that retired ambassador Thomas Pickering submit to being deposed by the committee next Thursday. The subpoena comes in the wake of a series of acrimonious public exchanges this week between the two men. Issa didn´t issue a subpoena to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, who co-authored the Benghazi report with Pickering.
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Evidence emerges that Obama
administration official knew of
IRS targeting during 2012 campaign
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CBS News, by Margaret Brennan
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/18/2013 9:01:39 PM
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WASHINGTON - There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS´ targeting of conservative groups. Inspector General Russell George said he informed a deputy at the Treasury Department in June of 2012 about the probe into the IRS. The Treasury Department confirmed the timeline but said they did not know the details of the investigation until last week.(Snip)Marcus Owens ran the tax-exempt division at the IRS for 10 years. He said it isn´t difficult to figure out who´s doing what at the agency.
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