Battering ram becomes the Stone Wall.
Charles Krauthammer weighed in on the IRS targeting scandal Tuesday on Special Report after another day of IRS targeting the Tea Party hearings.
Sir Charles issued this warning to Democrats.
“Yes, the Republicans are up in arms but the Democrats are too. This thing will go on and it could be fatal.”
Charles Krauthammer weighed in on the IRS targeting scandal Tuesday on Special Report after another day of hearings. He issued a warning to Democrats.
“Yes, the Republicans are up in arms but the Democrats are too. This thing will go on and it could be fatal.”
Senate Dems ‘repeatedly and publicly’ pressured IRS to investigate conservative groups…
With Washington gripped by a trio of exploding scandals this week – from Benghazi to government spying on news outlets to thug tactics by the Internal Revenue Service – Senate Democrats seem to be hoping that if they just yell loud enough then voters will overlook a key role they played in at least one of them.
They quickly sensed the political toxicity associated with Friday’s admission by the IRS that they selectively targeted conservative organizations for special government scrutiny, and so Democrats didn’t waste any time springing into action. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana, for example, vowed congressional hearings and called the IRS actions “an outrageous abuse of power and a breach of the public’s trust.”
PETER BEINART: Yes, Democrats Can Be Racist. And at the moment, they appear to be in denial about it.
If Dick Harpootlian were a Republican, liberals would be jumping over one another to call him a bigot. In 2002 Harpootlian called Lindsey Graham, then running for a South Carolina Senate seat, “light in the loafers,” thus fueling a nasty whispering campaign about Graham’s sexual orientation. Last Friday he struck again, telling activists to “send Nikki Haley”—South Carolina’s Indian-American governor—“back to wherever the hell she came from.”
But Harpootlian isn’t a Republican. Until he retired last Saturday, he was chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. He made his comments about Haley at the party’s annual dinner, just before Joe Biden took the stage. And as a result, the liberal response has been muted. So far, neither Biden nor Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, whose candidacy for a South Carolina congressional seat has gained national attention, has repudiated Harpootlian’s comments. And for now, at least, conservatives are just about the only ones asking them to.
That’s a problem, because unless offenses like Harpootlian’s are slapped down hard, Democratic Party bigotry is likely to get worse. The reason is simple: the Republican Party is getting more diverse.
Also, Democrats are traditionally the party of racial bigotry. Bull Connor, remember, was a member of the Democratic National Committee. I know this may come as a shock to some, but it is also the Democrats own KKK terror group.