This Week In Crazy — May 24th Edition
May 24th, 2013Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the wildest attacks, conspiracy theories, and other loony behavior from the increasingly unhinged right wing. Starting with number five: 5: Paul Gosar Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) got his baseless accusations mixed up on Wednesday, when he blasted former IRS commissioner Doug Shulman for
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If The Election Were Held Today, The GOP Could Lose The House
May 23rd, 2013You know by now that the Republican Party used their 2010 landslide to gerrymander an electoral map that would make it nearly impossible for them to lose the House of Representatives until 2022. Well, the impossible could happen if the GOP doesn’t change direction. Democrats lead Republicans in the generic congressional ballot by a margin
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Tea Party Group Protesting IRS Has History of Questionable Political Involvement
May 23rd, 2013Tea Party Patriots, originally formed as a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation in 2009, has a history of questionable electoral activity. Nevertheless, as one of the largest of the movement’s national factions, it is taking advantage of the so-called IRS scandal to re-ignite the anger of Tea Partiers, encourage their (false) sense of victimhood, and increase their
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Obama Defends Drones, Condemns Guantánamo In National Security Speech
May 23rd, 2013President Barack Obama outlined new regulations for drone strikes and reiterated his desire to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay in a wide-ranging speech about the future of American national security. President Obama’s speech, which was delivered at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., examined how the United States can replace the post-9/11 mentality
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How Obama’s ‘Scandals’ Will Hurt The GOP
May 23rd, 2013More astute Republicans are well aware that their so-called “scandals” can end up damaging them more than President Obama — just as the impeachment of President Clinton wounded the GOP in 1998. “Watch the way the Republicans are handling today’s controversies and it’s easy to see how their tactics could backfire again,” Bloomberg‘s Ramesh Ponnuru
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