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6/3/2013

I Just Came Up With This Completely On My Own . . .

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:18 pm



. . . but boy, it sure seems like the GOP has engaged in overreach.

Signed,

JournoList Member.

29 Responses to “I Just Came Up With This Completely On My Own . . .”

  1. And here I thought that the “overreach” was from the government into e-mail accounts.

    Speaking of the Juicebox Mafia, it’s fun to watch Ezra Klein play Political Twister over the increases in projected costs due to Obamacare.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/06/03/democrats-new-argument-its-a-good-thing-that-obamacare-doubles-individual-health-insurance-premiums/

    Simon Jester (b7edb0)

  2. Well it’s a welcome departure from their usual reach around…

    Gazzer (2789fc)

  3. I overreached for a can of tomatoes in my pantry and boy is my back sore.

    I know this is going to be the lefty and MSM meme for the next few days, but everyone has to deal with the IRS — including independents.

    I think I can say on good authority that the IRS is not very popular. Probably less popular than overreaching Republicans. And, yes, I know how unpopular the GOP is according to polls.

    Ag80 (eb6ffa)

  4. You would think because everyone not only has to deal with the IRS, but also have a healthy fear of it, the scandal involving them would be a uniter. After all, talk about overreaching.

    Per usual, the ‘plumb line’ simply is not…

    Dana (292dcf)

  5. I’m just wondering: If I have some information that someone hasn’t paid a significant amount of taxes, will it help get him in trouble if I tell the IRS he’s a Republican?

    Diffus (4a5ca6)

  6. jay carney

    propaganda slut cum paid liar

    his mom must be so proud

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  7. It’s that fiercely independent thinking hive mind in action again.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  8. Hey Diffus, we’re still pals. Right?

    I was actually afraid to post this. Not because of Diffus.

    I swear I fully pay my taxes voluntarily. Really. You can look at my returns. And I like it.

    Look, what I really meant to say is that I like paying taxes and I may give some extra next year. There is nothing wrong with the IRS and I will fight any man who says so.

    You know what? Let’s just forget this. Please. Really, the IRS will do an outstanding job with healthcare enforcement. They are good people doing a hard job.

    As a matter of fact, let’s just increase their budget. That way, they can take more training to make sure they never do anything wrong.

    So, just so everyone knows: Ag80 thinks the IRS is great. I am not a Republican. I don’t know any Tea Party people. I don’t pray or read books. At least not subversive books. I do not know anything about the Constitution. Really, I don’t. They didn’t teach that when I was in school. I hate guns.

    Oh, crap, akdiaeeedszz………

    Ag80 (eb6ffa)

  9. next time a guy gets caught for bank robbery his attorney should declare his client as not guilty of robbery, but simply overreached

    steveg (794291)

  10. propaganda slut cum paid liar

    is that anything like being a prOn star Feets?

    and when are we meeting for tacos anyway?

    redc1c4 (403dff)

  11. This is hardly the first example. All too often, writers for completely separate papers or outlets use the same words and phrases, sometimes posted within minutes of each other, to describe the same events.

    It’s no accident. The propaganda ring lives.

    Lucky for us the leftist hacks who belong to “JournOlist 2” aren’t bright enough to paraphrase their talking point emails.

    Estragon (19fa04)

  12. Caught one of my JournO friends using the secret word yesterday. He didn’t understand my giggling.

    SarahW (b0e533)

  13. Hell, this is nothing.

    Keep in mind that journalism schools now are so hacktastically liberal the kids who are graduating today and tomorrow will make the likes of Ezra Klein by comparison look tame. Shizzle, Klein and his ilk will be scorned as being too conservative.

    By the end of this decade the media will be so idiotically liberal (BIRM), and will coordinate their Dem talking points in such lock step, so openly, so brazenly, it’ll make your head spin around.

    William Scalia (89a442)

  14. tacos this summer for sure Mr. red that is a promise

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  15. I reached for brass ring
    all I got was ring in nose
    and “A” for effort

    Colonel Haiku (59727e)

  16. It’s a pretty common word (used over 1,000 on this site alone). I’ve even used it to describe the GOP scandal-mongering long before this week.

    You know why you’re seeing that word a lot? Because it fits.

    Kman (5576bf)

  17. Kman,

    I see 307 comments on the site with that word, and 45 posts.

    Does your “over 1,000 on this site alone” statistic come from a Google search or something? Because that’s not really a very accurate counting method…

    Just sayin’.

    Patterico (9c670f)

  18. Kmart is a good little sycophant. Bless your heart, lapdog.

    JD (b63a52)

  19. Gunrunning, punishing whistleblowers, covering up Brian Terry’s murder, lying to Congress, claiming Executive Privilege to conceal complicity, withholding security, abandoning Americans fighting for their lives, sending women out to lie on TV, stonewalling Congress, using the IRS to illegally obstruct political opponents, etc, etc.

    So, is it really overreach or is it the sound squealing pigs make when they’re mired in corruption and wallowing in their own filth?

    ropelight (2ac165)

  20. I don’t at all understand the rationale that the IRS targeting political views for persecution has been sufficiently resolved and continuing to seek justice for that or the other phalanx of scandals is over reaching.

    It’s been repeatedly asserted in unison, and only a dishonest person would claim that this isn’t a coordinated strategy (indeed much of it comes from people who have been caught coordinating in this way in the recent past). But no one is explaining why justice has already been done on all of Obama’s scandals.

    We saw in 2006 how Pelosi led a campaign based on ‘the culture of corruption’. The entirely of the scandals she pointed to were comparably minor. Foley and his pages. That’s nothing compared to the Obama administration’s deceptions and use of government to inhibit political groups and lie about major events like Benghazi… all of this abusing its power to win an election.

    It’s bad enough that most liberal commenters… even the trolls, are not bothering to defend it. Only Kman, who has lost all his credibility ages ago for this lazy, uncreative repeating of talking points. His argument: “it fits”. He doesn’t explain why. The lefty talking point that makes no sense is true just because the bad guys need it to be.

    Dustin (303dca)

  21. Apparently Representative Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla) did not get the Dem memo on overreach.

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/03/not-fit-to-lead-gop-congressmans-scathing-1-minute-obama-critique/

    And wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about it if he did.

    Kudos to him for some simple straight talk’n and for ignoring the spin and BS.

    Note to Barack Obama: This is what real transparency looks like.

    Gary L. Zerman (3eb704)

  22. Great link, Gary.

    We need leaders who speak plainly and have values they won’t accept being compromised.

    Bush’s administration would never have done this, and neither would Reagan’s. Or Carter’s.

    Obama’s legacy will be that he was an inferior man and had an inferior presidency to those men. He didn’t have the right values. And those in the press demanding citizens let this ‘political issue’ go are betraying their readers and their profession.

    Hyperpolitical trolls on online forums snickering about ‘overreach’ are just doing their job correctly, I suppose.

    Dustin (303dca)

  23. The lefty talking point that makes no sense is true just because the bad guys need it to be.

    In other words, it’s a day that ends in ‘y’.

    Rob Crawford (e6f27f)

  24. The outrage machine has been turned up to 11 for so long that it has become ineffective. It’s no surprise that the word “overreaching” gets thrown around on the left. It’s an appropriate response whenever the word “impeachment” gets thrown around on the right.

    Sure, some of these “scandals” are troublesome. Arguably, some of Obama’s appointees to particular positions did not run a tight ship (just like Bush’s FEMA appointee was useless). And that’s not good.

    But it seems like every week several high-profile Republican or rightee journalist throws the I-word out there, while there simply isn’t anything to back it up. It doesn’t resonate because it’s wishful thinking. What other response is there other than “you’re overreaching”?

    Kman (5576bf)

  25. The Democrats know they badly overreached with this entire IRS thing.

    So they say we overreach.

    Projection’s not what they do, it’s who they are – self-righteous to the very core.

    Amphipolis (e01538)

  26. If the TEA Party didn’t dress like sluts, they wouldn’t get raped. Ex Rapist McDermott says so.

    SPQR (6b2dff)

  27. We saw in 2006 how Pelosi led a campaign based on ‘the culture of corruption’. The entirely of the scandals she pointed to were comparably minor.

    Dustin, you misunderstood Miss Nancy. She wasn’t campaigning against the culture of corruption, she was stating what it was gonna be when all of the dumb rubes voted for the DemoKrauts.

    peedoffamerican (ee1de0)

  28. http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/boy-suspending-for-saying-gun.html

    Boy Suspended for Saying ‘Gun’

    An 11-year-old boy who hopes to become a Navy SEAL was suspended from a Maryland school last December after he used the word ‘gun’ in a conversation on board a school bus.

    It’s official. The teacher’s union is at war with us.

    Steve57 (9b1cdb)

  29. The “gravitas” of the “overreach” is stunning.

    Loren (998d8f)


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