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VIDEO: Joy-Ann Reid gets Ron Christie to admit head of #IRS “Mr. Shulman was appointed in previous administration”

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 3:54 pm 
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Joy-Ann Reid caused poor old Ron Christie to skid off GOP Talking Point Road and straight into a ditch:

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Ron, this was pretty much self-inflicted, but it was more than a little amusing watching a relentless Joy-Ann Reid force your hand with– What’s it called again? Oh yeah– the truth.

Joy:

Wait a minute, the IRS is not the Obama administration, Ron. The IRS is not the Obama administration.

Ron:

The IRS is not the Obama administration is a flat-out lie. The IRS commissioner is a political appointee by the president. (crosstalk)

Joy:

And who who appointed him? But who appointed him?

Ron

The president of the United States appoints the IRS commissioner.

Joy:

And who appointed?

Ron:

The president of the United states who appoints the Treasury Secretary.

Joy:

And who appointed… ?

Bashir:

Ron, Ron, Ron, I accept your assertion, but Joy is asking you very politely to answer that question: Who appointed the head of the IRS?

Joy:

Doug Shulman.

Bashir:

Doug Shulman. Who appointed… ?

Ron:

The IRS commissioner is appointed by the president of the United States.

Joy:

Who appointed him?

Bashir:

And who appointed Mr. Shulman?

Ron:

Mr. Shulman was appointed in the previous administration.

Bashir:

Thank you.

Ron:

My point to you, Martin, which, if you’ll listen to my point here…

Bashir:

Absolutely.

Ron:

… is that this is somehow “Obama’s above it all, this isn’t the Obama administration, the IRS is independent.” That is absolutely false. If President Obama had the ability to fire the acting IRS commissioner, that means that’s a person in the Obama administration. This is an Obama scandal. This is an Obama scandal.

Bashir:

One sec. We’re getting a bit confused about chronology.

Ron Christie gets a bit confused about reality.

Here is the entire segment:

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Former GOP state chairman, McCain fundraiser busted for Facebook scam

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 at 2:34 pm 
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Former Oregon Republican chairman, gubernatorial candidate, Florida financier, and creepy little fraud Craig Berkman was arrested for (allegedly) “bilking investors out of millions in a scheme to sell fake Facebook shares, ” per Newser.

He was claiming he had access to Facebook shares which was a big fat lie. And he managed to rake in $8 million by telling that big fat lie.

And this wasn’t the first time. He pulled the same kind of scams over at LinkedIn and other social media sites, but got nabbed for those, too.

Here’s his Wiki:

Craig Berkman (born about 1943) is a longtime venture capitalist and was an influential Republican politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. He was known as a big donor in national Republican circles. He chaired the Oregon Republican Party in the early 1990s, opposing the far right Oregon Citizens Alliance. He ran for chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1993 and for Governor of Oregon in 1996, losing the former race to Haley Barbour and the latter to Denny Smith in the primary election.[1]

Oregonlive.com described him this way in 2008:

“He was the hope of the old Republican moderate establishment.”

And check out Meet Craig Berkman, crooked McCain fundraiser.

Maybe this was his version of “outreach.” Another family values Republican bites the dust.

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VIDEO– Paul Krugman: Jeb Bush is “one of those people who says ‘frankly’ just before he delivers a big whopper.”

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Sunday, March 10th, 2013 at 11:42 am 
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The roundtable on This Week with George Stephanapolous included (thankfully) Paul Krugman who was in good form, as Paddy pointed out in her post Video- Ron Johnson (R-WI) Gets the Facts Wrong on Social Security.

In the clip above, Krugman zinged the easily-zinged Jeb Bush, who said this:

“I haven’t seen the seriousness of the president’s– efforts. I’d love to see a specific plan that really did reform– bend the cost curve for Medicare and the entitlement system. I haven’t seen it, so– if there is– through these talks, some kind of consensus that emerged, I don’t think you should say, “No, no, no–” about anything.

“Frankly, there was already been one of the largest tax increases in American history a month ago. And frankly, we ought to be focused on sustained economic growth, which grows more revenue for people and for government than any tax increase– that’s been suggested, so there are a lot of things that could be done to create a real grand bargain. And– let the process work. I’m hopeful that the president’s sincere about this.”

Paul Krugman didn’t waste an opportunity:

“So, I just learned something really important from this interview about Jeb Bush which is he’s one of those people who says ‘frankly’ just before he delivers a big whopper. So that ‘frankly’ we’re going to deal with the deficit by economic growth. Come on. He has no plan. Anyway, that was impressive. It’s an object lesson. I mean, he’s just shown us the perils of political pandering. He wrote a book for the immigration debate the way it was a few months ago and got caught flat-footed by the way it shifted.”

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Here is the entire segment:

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“Staunchly Republican, conservative Catholic” Pa. Supreme Court justice convicted of corruption

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 at 3:54 pm 
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Two “staunchly Republican, conservative Catholic” sisters are in legal hot water. Did I mention one of them is a Supreme Court justice in Pennsylvania? The other is a Supreme Court aide. Or was.

Via Philly.com:

PITTSBURGH – A member of Pennsylvania’s highest court was convicted Thursday of corrupting the election process in her campaigns to win a seat on the bench, triggering renewed calls to change the system of electing state judges.

Justice Joan Orie Melvin was just the second known Supreme Court justice to be convicted in nearly three centuries, and her conviction may soon set in motion political campaigns by would-be justices vying to replace her.

Melvin and her sister, Janine Orie, were convicted of corruption for allegedly misusing state-paid staffers to do campaign work.

At least justice was served. And a Justice is serving.

Here’s a fun fact: A third sister — former state Sen. Jane Orie — is already in state prison for using her state-paid staff to run her campaigns.

All in the family (values), as they say:

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Former state senator Jane Orie, right, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, center, Janine Orie, left,
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Nebraska GOP Lt. Gov. resigns abruptly after newspaper reports 1000s of late-night calls to women

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 at 5:36 pm 
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Nebraska, you’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do. Well, not all of Nebraska, just their Republican Lt. Governor Rick Sheehy. In fact, he owes Nebraska thousands of ‘splanations.

(CNN) – Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned on Saturday following a newspaper report that he used his state-issued cell phone to place thousands of late-night calls to women.

The Omaha World-Herald reported it had uncovered around 2,000 calls to four women. The calls were “long conversations held in the wee hours of the night,” according to the paper, which said it had requested records related to the calls.

Gov. Dave Heineman said, “I had trusted him and that trust was broken.”

Sheehy and his wife had filed for divorce last year. They’d been married for 29 years, a marriage his ex called “irretrievably broken.” Gee, can’t imagine why. He seems like such a fine, trustworthy sort.

UPDATE via the L.A. Times:

Sheehy sometimes made calls numerous times a day, with the conversations lasting anywhere from a few minutes to more than an hour. One woman he frequently called, Dr. Theresa Hatcher of Bellevue, Neb., told the Associated Press that she and Sheehy had maintained a long-term relationship after they met during a meeting of emergency responders Texas in 2008.

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Republican Las Vegas woman arrested after trying to vote twice

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 at 1:39 pm 
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Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller said that the FBI has arrested a Republican Las Vegas woman, charging that she tried to vote twice in the presidential election.

Roxanne Rubin first voted at an early voting place in Henderson and then, that same day, she tried to vote again at a polling site in Las Vegas. She denied that she’d already voted.

Via CBS Las Vegas:

Rubin was arrested around 4 p.m. at the Riviera hotel-casino, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. She was charged with one felony count of voting more than once in the same election.

It’s the Republicans that have tried to suppress the vote in several Republican-run states, and from the reports I’ve seen, it’s Republicans who have been caught committing voter fraud.

Voter I.D. fraud is nearly non-existent, and, of course, the GOP-generated Voter I.D. laws affect mostly Democratic voters.

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Here we go again: “Friday Night Lights” creator asks Romney to drop show line from stump speech

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Friday, October 12th, 2012 at 1:19 pm 
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Republicans often get into hot water with creative types. Here are a few examples:

Team Romney is no exception:

Now it’s October 12, 2012, and the creator of the TV series “Friday Night Lights” is all over Willard for using the show’s regularly-used phrase “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose” in the candidate’s stump speech. He called it “plagiarism” but didn’t threaten any legal action.

The L.A. Times:

“Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series,” [show creator Peter] Berg wrote. [...]

Berg said use of the expression “falsely and inappropriately” associated the GOP campaign with the hit television show.

He said the only character on the show who might appropriately be associated with Romney would be the character of the car salesman, Buddy Garrity, who gives up on American autos to sell Japanese makes.

Ouch.

Closed eyes, full of crap, can lose.

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