CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 05/18/2013

IRS scandal increases concerns over Obamacare management, says Senator  As the IRS scandal metastasizes, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., appearing on Your World with Neil Cavuto on the Fox News Channel on Wednesday afternoon told the show’s audience that he and other Republicans have serious reservations about the Internal Revenue Service managing Obamacare. Sen. Coburn told Cavuto that hearings in both houses of the U.S. Congress must probe the reliability of the IRS to manage a program that’s one-sixth of the U.S. economy and that will make decisions on something as important as citizens’ health care. Read More

Tea Party Leaders Slam IRS  The Internal Revenue Service’s actions are unconstitutional, not potentially. Any government behavior that would “chill” free speech is unconstitutional. Read More

Administration getting caught in its own tangled web of deceit  Journalist Bernie Goldberg, a newsman with CBS for 28 years, wrote a book that best describes the Obama administrations treatment by the main stream media. The title, “A Slobbering Love Affair,” describes how the media has fawned over President Obama. An excerpt from the book jacket best describes it: “From the day Barack Obama announced his candidacy to the moment he took the oath of office, the mainstream media fawned over him like love-struck school girls. Even worse, this time they went beyond media bias to media activism.” But this week saw a chink in that journalistic love affair as one scandal after another descended upon the White House.  Read More

Obscure White House climate warrior wields vast powers  Who is Jon Powers? That’s not a spoof on “Atlas Shrugged,” which begins with “Who is John Galt?” — but a serious question about one of the more obscure power brokers in the Executive Office of the President. Powers is a former U.S. Army officer who was appointed last year by President Obama to a position with the improbable title of federal environmental executive. It suggests a fantasy story — perhaps “Lord of the Things” — about a cunning warrior promoted to be nature’s CEO. However, Powers’ job is anything but a joke. Read More

“A nickel isn’t worth a dime today”  On Sept. 22, 2011 in a speech to business executives Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “Debt is the biggest threat to U.S. national security.” When the leader of the people famous for $800 hammers and $640 toilet seats has to lecture business leaders about the perils of deficit spending we know capitalism in America has jumped the track. Read More

Progressive Dementia: Claiming Kopel Doesn’t Know Gun Laws  I normally don’t get into the pit with mudwrestlers, but the gob of muck that flew past my desk today was too rich to ignore. One of Colorado’s lefty pressure groups is claiming that the Independence Institute’s Research Director Dave Kopel fed the 2013 Colorado legislature false information on gun bills. II’s “credibility . . . has been permanently damaged,” the author opined. (You can almost hear the suppressed giggle.) The author also encompassed Kopel’s title in quotation marks, just like any other junior high schooler might do. But more than the juvenality, the core of this assertion is its towering level of ignorance. Read More