[IBD editorial writer]

Why tyrants hate tea parties, and what that says about the IRS.

[Graewoulf]

Having watched part of this morning’s US House Ways and Means Committee Hearing on Obama’s IRS, the thought occurred to me that there can be a strong case made for Obama’s IRS rapidly becoming a Domestic Terrorist Organization. A Middle Class, SELECTIVE Domestic Terrorist Organization, of course.

Second thought was that NONE of the Obamanation scandals are Bush’s fault.

[glorgau]

This is why the 2nd Amendment was written. It wasn’t about hunting deer.

[cripplecreek]

It looks like far left groups are trying to intimidate conservatives on twitter now. I’ve picked up a half dozen hard left followers like Unite blue today and other conservatives are noticing the same.

They’re watching us and considering my attitude and mouth, they ain’t happy. LOL

[cripplecreek]

Conservative writer/reporter Tom Gantert says he got unexpected scrutiny.

http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/18650

[Diogenesis]

"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt,
but protects the corrupt from you -
you know your nation is doomed."
-Ayn Rand

[mirkwood]

I wonder if “attackwatch” and several others were part of this irs criminality.

[Edgerunner]

usurpation after usurpation But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

[IrishPennant]

Why, why why are we grilling a temp who has been in the "Acting" position for a few short months?

Why is the tramp who now sits over deathcare for the IRS, and who oversaw this scandal as a living, not the first one frog marched into the committee?

Are we just this stupid???

Bring out Lois Lane, or whatever the 'eff her name is. Miller is a throw down gun!

[colorado tanker]

As Peggy Noonan said, Presidents set the tone of each administration. This one is run by a hyperpolitical, snarky, thuggish, Chicago-style politician. And that’s exactly the way the IRS acted here.

[PLM]

Isn’t it rich that the first black president and the first black attorney general have teamed up to preside over institutionalized civil rights violations?

[onedoug]

It’s islamism.

[unixfox]

Just think what would be happening if the IRS had targeted say...

The Black Panthers
Lulac
NAACP
SEUI

There would be blood in the streets.

[Tupelo]

Benghazi. IRS. AP telephone logs et al. Scandals as far as the eye can see. Every Conservative, Christian, Libertarian, Republican and even a few Democrats are all outraged and shocked. (shocked, I tell you) Congress is even “holding hearings”. I think the real question is; What if anything will be done about these scandals? In my opinion, all we may see is some career bureaucrat or low level appointee “held in contempt”. Being “held in contempt of Congress” sure shut Attorney General Eric Holder down did it not?
In the same manner, I figure that any bureaucrat or appointee that will be “held in contempt of Congress” will end up in with a better job at "higher wages. Expense paid and a car" (thanks Roger Miller)plus more and better benefits.
Once more: KUBUKI THEATER for the masses. WE the people can and do control our city, county and state governments, but the Federal behemoth is now too big to rein in. Not with the career politicians we have now.

[kevao]

Last night, Larry Kudlow interviewed a Tea Party guy in Texas who was put through the wringer for 26 months. His name is Rodriguez, a Latino, a *protected class*. So now the IRS criminal activities have been elevated to a hate crime.

[SueRae]

They’ll have a TEA Party for REAL this time. And it will make Boston look like a fairy tale. Every IRS office should have pickets.

Have Tar, need feathers.

[NormsRevenge]

Ma&Pa Kettle would have been refused too, I reckun.

What a sad commentary on those who hate this country all while they seek to dismantle and destroy whoever and whatever they deem worthy of their nefarious efforts.

[Albion Wilde]

From the article:

Italian communist theoretician Antonio Gramsci in particular considered [civil society groups] an obstacle even worse than overthrowing the state... Gramsci advocated establishing something he called "civil hegemony" as a means of subverting independent civil society groups and then merging them with the state as means of making the state supreme.

The 1960s radicals called this "the long march through the institutions."

They knew that without true civil society organizations to promote self-government, such as the Tea Party, all that's left is an all-powerful state that citizens must face alone.

[isthisnickcool]

[Travis McGee]

[Bon mots]

  

The I.R.S. - Obama's Gestapo.