Sessions heaps taxpayer "settlement" payoff money on Tea Party, just before 2018 election, decides IRS was guilty.

This is what happens when you turn the Justice Department into an activist arm of the Republican Party by a former Republican Senator. Who would believe them? This stinks. It's a settlement, and a sneaky way to bypassing a decision by our courts. Was anyone proven guilty? Nope, but red meat loving Trumpian's are loving it. Oh, the liberal groups targeted got nothing...odd?

Tea Party groups hit the jackpot:

Justice Department Settles With Conservative Groups Over IRS Scrutiny: The Justice Department on Thursday announced it has reached settlements in a pair of lawsuits led by conservative groups that claimed they had been unfairly scrutinized by the IRS. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement Thursday that the criteria IRS agents used to flag the groups was "inappropriate" and "disproportionately impacted conservative groups," though a government watchdog report released this month suggested liberal groups faced similar scrutiny. This month's report by the inspector general's office for the IRS showed the agency also used words like "occupy," "green energy" and "progressive" to flag groups for scrutiny as well.

Constitutional re-write, backed by Scott Walker, led by fired Tea Party Leader Jim DeMint! What could go wrong...

Former Senator and now former leader of the tea party movement at the Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint, has now set his sights on a Constitutional re-do.

These "constitutional conservatives," the great defenders of our founding document, will take their strict constructionist opinions and completely rewrite what apparently is a deeply flawed list of laws:

Jim DeMint, (who was) recently ousted as the head of the Heritage Foundation, has taken on a new mission for the conservative Tea Party Movement to amend the U.S. Constitution, USA Today reported Monday.

DeMint has joined The Convention of States Project, which reportedly aims to start a grassroots, state-led effort to amend the U.S. Constitution by scaling back its federal spending and power as well as address federal term limits.

DeMint’s new movement aims to do so by requesting a congressional convention (one occurred in 1787). “This is a perfect time for us,” DeMint said. “People are disgusted with Washington. They are ready to move power back closer to home.”

What do they want to do initially...because who knows how many other crazy ideas they'll come up with before they make this a reality:

Although three primary issues — reining in the U.S. government’s power over states, and imposing both “fiscal restraint” on Washington as well as term limits on federal officials — DeMint reportedly suggested that other amendments could be proposed to address issues surrounded the federal budget and ending lifetime appointments for Supreme Court justices.

The path to a constitutional convention?

Two-thirds, or 34 states, would need to make a formal request to hold a congressional convention, and then 38 states, or three-fourths, would have ratify the proposed amendment.  Twelve states reportedly are in support of the efforts of DeMint’s new group, and they hope to double their number by next year. 

Is DeMint the right guy for this immense task?

He called his sudden dismisal from Heritage "perplexing" after the conservative think tank's board of directors voted to remove him from his top position, citing "worsening management issues." Mark Meckler, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, will also be reportedly a leading figure in these efforts.

TrumpCare Tea Party Plan promises Higher Premiums, dumps those with Pre-Existing Conditions, and Strips Coverage for Everyone.

While hospitals and doctors focus on treating the sick, Republicans are focusing in on the real problem; cutting the cost to government all the while enriching the bottom line of insurance companies. Could it be the GOP believes doctors and hospitals work for insurers? Not only has the public changed their minds, but they really don't like the Trump/Ryan/MacArthur plan:

What is more surprising is GOP/Freedom Caucus' appreciation for the dysfunctional way things were, before the ACA, when fewer American got health care, prices skyrocketed and taxpayers paid for the sick in high risk pools. 

The latest version of Obamacare repeal and replace would leave it up to the states on how much insurers can charge older customers beginning next year. In 2020, it would allow states to apply for a waiver to change the 10 essential health benefits now required to be part of nearly all health insurance plans. How dramatically will they allow companies to scale back coverage? How many consumers would be pushed out of the market, because the cost of riders for certain benefits are beyond their reach?

Don't be fooled, insurers will not be taking anyone with pre-existing conditions: 

University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack said: "If you do away with the essential health benefit, you are opening the door to insurers doing overt and covert ways of trying to avoid covering unprofitable consumers. 

"Even though the amendment leaves in place the law's ban on pre-existing condition exclusions, that could effectively accomplish the same thing, by leaving out benefits like chemotherapy or care for HIV. So someone who did have problems like that would be forced to buy a plan—if they could find one—that was priced much higher."

This MSNBC interview asked all the right questions to Republican Rep. Mo Brooks, who ended up voting for the plan. He said he had sympathy for a hypothetical devastated families stuck in a state with an ACA exemption...(below I've included the important parts of the conversation only):

Rep. Mo Brooks: "...BUT at the same time, (if) you went with what I want, and that is a states rights approach, that families state could decide what their citizens can afford by way of pre-existing conditions."

Host: "Is the choice the family has is basically to move out of the state, is that what you're saying?"

Rep. Mo Brooks: "No that is not what I'm saying...I'm one of those that does not believe that Washington elected officials and politicians and bureaucrats are smart enough to be able to dictate all this to the entire United States...that's why I believe we should be deferring as much of this issue as possible to the individual state, let them decide what best fits their needs..."

Host: "Ultimately though that IS a politician in that state who will be deciding the fate... that's still the same thing is it not?"  

Rep. Mo Brooks: "Well I have much more faith and confidence in the ability of a local elected officials..."

Right, that "local" statewide know-it-all Republican official and their one-size-fits-all statewide plan is much better. Sadly, Republicans aren't in tune with their constituents, they're slaves to their ideological beliefs:


Republicans are even Forcing Insurers to Go Back in Time: Heck, not even the insurance industry wants to go back to something that failed miserably. This will force the collapse of the ACA, AND the entire individual market, which is a new wrinkle:

Health insurers, many of which have withdrawn from the exchanges, have said they don't want the country to return to a pre-ACA status quo. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois officials said yesterday that proposed changes being discussed in Congress could force the insurer to rethink its continued role on the insurance exchange and how it prices premiums.

Chris Jacobs, a conservative policy analyst, noted Wednesday that no Republican governors have expressed interest in applying for the waivers envisioned in the AHCA.

And High Risk Pool Lunacy? Republicans are trying to sell you the same broken long expired experiment no one but them wants to return to:

University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack said when states had high-risk pools, those patients cost $7,000 to $10,000 a year more than a typical customer. Providing adequate funding to help insurers make up the costs doesn't improve the federal budget picture. And that was when those high-risk pools contained lifetime limits. 

Bad GOP Economics feeds their "Free Market" Fanstasy: The Republican plan will cost everyone more:  

But a study from Milliman suggests ...  If all consumers share in the cost of maternity coverage, it costs $8 to $14 per person, per month. Being forced to buy a rider during childbearing years could cost 25% to 70% more each month than other customers the same age.

I'm not sure what where Republican received their medical training, but their expertise in health care knows no bounds. In another way to look at what the Freedom Caucus' Tea Party ghouls have done, despite warning from the entire medical community...:

A coalition of six physicians' groups (listed below) sent a letter to Congress critical of the latest version of the American Health Care Act, which would give states the option of scaling back Essential Health Benefits such as mental health coverage. "We believe that pending legislation proposals would dramatically increase costs for older individuals, result in millions of people losing their healthcare coverage, and return to a system that allows for discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions," the letter said.

That would be called a bad outcome. The revised bill is intentionally deceptive:

Although the draft language says the bill does not allow for discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, if insurers were allowed to charge more for policies that include chemotherapy infusion drugs, or inpatient behavioral health treatment, that could price people out of the market who need those services. 

The signatories included the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Osteopathic Association and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Stewart to Trump voting Republicans, "This country isn't yours, you don't own it, there is no 'real America!'"

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart said what should have been said a decade ago, so we wouldn't have had to listen to every self-righteous entitled whiner demand their big government leader Trump solve all of their problems for them:

Stewart: "You feel you're this countries rightful owners. There's only one problem with that, this country isn't yours, you don't own it, it never was, there is no 'real America.' You don't own it.

You don't own patriotism. You don't own Christianity.  You sure as hell don't own respect for the bravery and sacrifice of military, police and firefighters. Trust me, I saw a lot of people on the convention floor in Cleveland, with their Blue Lives Matter rhetoric who either remained silent or actively fought against the 9/11 First Responders Bill re-authorization. I see you and I see your bullshit."

Journalists receive Death Threats from War Hungry conservatives for Criticizing "American Sniper."

My conservative confidant and I have gone our separate ways. What happened? I simply said there's a growing feeling on the right that liberals are threat, and they're using that vilification to justify taking up arms against the government. He wondered where I ever got that impression.

Well, the reaction to Clint Eastwood's film "American Sniper" is the latest and best example yet that sadly proves my point. Raw Story:

Two journalists, Rania Khalek and Max Blumenthal, have become the target of death threats and online harassment from conservatives and Tea Party supporters for their criticism of the pro-Iraq War film American Sniper.

Khalek wrote on Friday that she and Blumenthal had aired their grievances with the film, which they see as glorifying the U.S. invasion of Iraq and lionizing a bloodthirsty killer who boasted of his pleasure in gunning down some 160 to 250 Iraqi “savages” during the height of the war.

This “kicked off an endless flood in our Twitter mentions of outraged rightwing military worshippers who’ve whipped themselves into a hateful frenzy out of blind obedience to a mass killer,” Khalek said.

That's dangerous talk from the conservative right, that now seems to oppose free speech and opposing viewpoints. How long before threats like these not only dampen free speech, but morph into actual vigilante "justice," protecting our "freedoms?"

Michelle Malkin’s site Twitchy.com published a piece blasting Khalek and Blumenthal as “American Psychos,” far-left kooks trying to tarnish the memory of a great American. Blumenthal and Khalek were then flooded with death threats and harassment.

From the now-suspended account of one Robert Clemons came the exhortation, “BOTH OF YOU ASSHOLES NEED TO BE SHOT DEAD. DO ALL A FAVOR. GO KILL YOURSELVES.” Clemens also wrote, “@RaniaKhalek it is a DAMN SHAME he never had the chance to target YOU. YOU NEED TO DIE C*NT.”

Here's what some of those tweets looked like:

Stop placating the Angry, Incoherent Far Right!!!

It’s time we stop acting like a bunch of complete dupes. Are we really so dumb that we think Republicans won’t pass right-to-work, disband the GAB, expand vouchers, give Wisconsin up to mining, regulate and complicate voting, pretend Walker isn't running for president, won't dump women’s health care, reject the casino, and bounce the Supreme Court’s chief justice out the door? Seriously?

“Boots and Sabers” blogger Owen Robinson is another conservative space cadet the media swoons over, like the mind numbing recycled nonsense from Christian Schneider. Robinson put it all out there yesterday, proving to everyone these people are bat crazy and should not be sitting across the table from educated professionals.

Name calling? Well, have you seen Robinson’s list of “solutions?”

Any intelligent adult who knows anything about life, and governments roll managing the state, taxes and services, will be appalled at the following deconstruction of our state. It appears freeloading and handing the bill to our kids is the party platform now.

Lifted from a 70's bumper sticker reading “We live in a state that taxes, regulates and spends too much,” Robinson goes for the throat of everything that’s left to slash, leaving behind a wasteland of dangerous products and services in communities that don’t have safe drinking water, paved roads to drive on, fewer schools to teach, and more ozone to breath. Oh, and lets defund the UW:

But if the Republicans really want to move the needle … they need to advance some fundamental and seismic reforms. The state should:

■ freeze property taxes and take a chainsaw to the regulatory structure that shackles Wisconsinites;■ match massive tax cuts with massive spending cuts;■ abolish shared revenue as Gov. Scott McCallum wisely advocated years ago;■ cut funding for transportation;■ reform the criminal code and cut prison funding;■ cut the lavish funding for the University of Wisconsin;■ and continue to reform and cut spending on K-12 education.

"Lavish funding," for the UW? If you say so Owen...

According to the Postsecondary Education Opportunity report, Wisconsin’s investment efforts since 1980 have fallen by 54.3 percent, putting it in the top 10 worst in the country. Significant hikes in tuition have been a natural response at schools around the country.

 Sorry, now I'm debating this mindless time wasting lunacy.

Dissent will not be tolerated say our "Stand with Walker" right wing authoritarians.

Stand with Walker supporters had to bus in protesters!

The wacky right and their envious spokesperson Vicki "I am AFP" McKenna failed to convince very many people to turn out at the Capitol, especially knowing their Americans for Prosperity buses could only transport a limited number of seniors at a time.

That wasn't true of the hard working Wisconsinites who turned out to support all labor, including the vilified teachers in our classrooms.

The tea party "counter protests" were so small and embarrassing that there is no photographic evidence available anywhere.

When it comes to Act 10, this is how Wisconsin Republicans saw the mass turnout of protesters standing up for workers. Guess we don't want to see American redressing their government again anytime soon? McKenna actually wrote this on her Facebook page...

You'll love this comment...

"This is one of the reasons why education should be entirely privatized. Wisconsinite turned against Wisconsinite with such rancor because teachers' salaries & benefits became a public matter."

Paul Ryan Hides from Tea Party, works behind their backs.

Note to the tea party; Paul Ryan would have opposed your cause and the shutdown. He gamed you by not saying anything.

Politically astute, or political coward? I'll go for the latter when it comes to our dystopian loving Dickensian Paul Ryan.

Writing in his book, but not saying that he didn't have the political courage to come out against the tea party's government shutdown, Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer call attention to our cowering Representatives obvious response. Enjoy the word salad serving of obfuscation:



Oh sure, Ryan wanted party unity so much he let his colleagues shut the government down and blow $25 billion of taxpayer money, just so he could save himself the inconvenience of facing a tea party opponent in his reelection. Nice to back his convictions by taking a powerful position against a really bad idea?

I think not, no matter how Ryan tried to avoid the topic by scrambling his answer above.

Bob Schieffer: “In short, the strategy our colleagues have been promoting was flawed from beginning to end. It was a suicide mission, but a lot of members were more afraid of what would happen if they didn’t jump off the cliff.” I guess I would ask you first, why didn’t you say that back then?

Ryan: Because I want party unity.

Democrats slammed Rep. Ryan for his comments, “Congressman Paul Ryan’s misplaced priorities were on full display when he shockingly stated that Republican party unity is more important than preventing a government shutdown,” said Josh Schwerin of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. 

Tea Party turns on Big Business!!! Oops.

It looks like the tea party is purposely killing off the GOP’s major funding source, big business. Way to go Koch brothers.

The tea party pressure to actually be a “free market” utopia, while reducing the size of government, has just become a huge problem for Republicans and their corporate funders. Businesses are now worried they may lose most of their Republican favors and handouts. 

I noticed this article today from AP:

Faced with conservative opposition, House Speaker John Boehner is declining to take a position on renewing the Export-Import Bank … His new stance deals a blow to a top priority of the business community. "Some people believe that we shouldn't have it at all, others believe that we should reauthorize it … The government agency provides loans, loan guarantees and credit insurance to help foreign buyers purchase American-made products. Its charter expires in September, and without legislation, it would not be able to back new loans.

...but conservative groups are opposed, saying it amounts to corporate welfare and that the private sector can fill its place.

By coincidence, WaPo’s Greg Sargent noticed the same thing, and wrote a piece that highlighted the dangers of encouraging the radical right. I'm enjoying the irony:

The GOP is letting Tea Party predilections and preoccupations set the party’s agenda — at the direct expense of the business community’s priorities.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has vowed a major effort to defeat Tea Party candidates and invested $100,000 in Cochran’s victory. 

It’s unlikely House GOP opposition to the Ex-Im Bank will lead to a government shutdown, but that possibility cannot be ruled out entirely. Last fall’s government shutdown, of course, was a symbol for the business community of the perils of Tea Party influence over the GOP. Then there’s the Highway Trust Fund. If it becomes insolvent, it could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs … But GOP leaders’ ability to come up with a way to pay for this is already constrained by Tea Party hostility to government. Most glaring of all: Immigration reform … the general GOP posture is that this crisis makes reform less likely, when it should make it more urgent … the business community sees it as key to growing the economy.

What's next for the Tea Party, stoning gays?

The tea party is so likable, aren't they? 

Scott Esk reportedly said in a Facebook conversation, “I think we would be totally in the right” to stone gay people to death. He also quoted the bible — including Leviticus 20:13 — and added, “ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”

The Facebook conversation was ignited by a posting of Pope Francis’ “Who am I to judge?” comments last year. Esk apparently believes he is capable.

In another Facebook conversation, Esk said, “I never said I would author legislation to put homosexuals to death, but I didn’t have a problem with it."

This is the conservative state of mind. Any questions?

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis victim of Abbott's Supporters Abortion Barbie Poster.

I’m beginning to think we no longer have an actual opposition political party. Instead of the Republican Party, we have a politically active gang of immature bullies playing a game of chicken with the country.  These aren't really adults, are they?

The following is too bizarre to be taken lightly. This can’t be the next step in campaigning, or the way one party expects to run a country:

Karli Wallace, Campaign Organizer, Democracy for America: We're not talking about a relatively tame little sketch here. We're talking life-sized pictures of a mostly naked Barbie doll with Wendy's face plastered on it -- complete with a pair of scissors and a plastic baby stuck in its belly. I can't remember a political attack as vulgar and sexist as this one. There are no words for how disgusting this is: Last week, allies of Greg Abbott's increasingly desperate campaign covered bus stops and phone booths with posters depicting Wendy Davis as "Abortion Barbie."

This is the Republican Party today....

Is Gary Kiehne, a hotel owner and Arizona candidate for congress, just another outlier? Hardly:

Shocker: Tea Party "American Spring" Failed to overthrow Obama Administration.

It was just a few years ago tea party losers were disrupting town halls, preventing our elected officials from addressing a multitude of issues. Today, they want to throw the bums out, the ones that don't think like them.

The way I see it, the tea party movement is just getting started, working out the kinks. Perhaps their overblown expectations of leading their own "American spring" will jolt them into reality. Are you kidding. Those poor trolls...how will they ever explain this one.

Dealing with the delusional, reporter Jon Ralston summed this movement, from Cliven Bundy to the American spring with Rachel Maddow:



See the pictures of this debacle. You know I won't let them forget this one:

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Wonkette: America, your long national nightmare is almost over! As predicted, tens of millions of protesters have flooded into Washington DC, bringing the city to a halt and trapping the illegal so-called “leaders” of the illegitimate, unconstitutional “government” inside the walls of their marble fortresses — but only temporarily, as they will surely hear the call of We The People and step down in disgrace.

That’s what WND’s lede would have read if more than a few hundred teabagger loons had shown up for the big Depose Obama Rally scheduled for Friday. As it was, the brave coup leaders stood around and got rained on for a while before the weather cleared and they marched around some. But Obama still might resign in disgrace, just as soon as the other ten million or so demonstrators arrive later this weekend.

So far, we haven’t seen any definitive reports, but Wonkette Operative Princess Sparkle Pony sent along the above photo of a group of demonstrators filling not quite filling the National Mall in front of the Air and Space Museum, which seems like a pretty smart location to protect from drone attacks, since it’s a pretty good bet the Out Of Control Federal Government wouldn’t risk accidentally blowing up the Wright Flyer. There’s also this screengrab of a video from Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children (get it? USMC? So EDGY! So fetch!), showing an indeterminate number of people — we’re guessing between 3 and 17 million, it’s hard to say — milling around the Washington Monument.

RightWingWatch blogger Bryan Tashman has been tweeting some other images of the throngs.  

Idaho Governor Candidate Harley Brown in Media spotlight. Tea Party Gold?

Sorry about the obsession I have with Idaho Governor candidates Harley Brown and Walt Bayes, it really does hit my funny bone every time I see them talk. This is the real right wing, and growing.

Sadly, the Twitter trolls can't point to anyone on the left that even come close to these guys. Add to that the Cliven Bundy's of the world, and you've got the equivalent of a circus clown car of GOP politicians. And more just keep popping out.

Here's Harley Brown's appearance on Hardball with Chris Matthews, who I sense backed off out of sympathy:



In two parts, everything from Harley Brown and Walt Bayes. One thing: the debate hosts reactions are classic. Watch out Saturday Night Live:



Part 2...if you can stand it:

Conservative CNBC News anchor feels disconnected from his party, and boldly says so.

It’s refreshing to see this kind of honesty coming from an actual news man who admits to being a frustrated conservative, abandoned by his party.

Some might believe this is just another chance to GOP bash, but that would be a cop out. We can see it right there in a slew of recent polls showing the GOP being consistently out-of-step with their own voters opinions. From Talking Points Memo:

A "Morning Joe" panelist Donny Deutsch suggested that pocketbook issues weigh more heavily on voter's minds at the polls than Benghazi does, CNBC anchor Brian Sullivan disagreed. He said his conservative father frequently asks him why the media doesn't care more about the 2012 attacks in Libya.

"Can we stop saying 'the' Republican Party?" Sullivan said, making air quotes with his hands. "As somebody who grew up in a conservative household, I don't recognize the Republican Party of even my youth. I don't like what I see. I don't like the far right, I don't like the extremism."

He added that as a fiscal conservative who isn't religious, supports same-sex marriage and mostly supports marijuana legalization, he feels the GOP has pushed him away.

"I don't know who the Republican Party is anymore. I don't know if the Republican Party knows who the Republican -- because it's not a party, unfortunately Republicans, that I can get on board with," he said. "Because I don't like the small-minded attitude, a lot of the far right stuff that comes out -- I should go home now."

Media Plays Down Yes Vote to Nullify ObamaCare by nearly Half of the Voting Delegates!!!

Were GOP leaders at the secessionist convention really that embarrassed by their party agenda that included nullification of ObamaCare, an unquestionably unconstitutional act?

When 145 vote yes to nullify, and just 303 vote no, I'd say the party wheels are falling off. Nearly a third voted to arrest and prosecute federal officials carrying out the law. From WPR:

Republican Secessionists Convention #2 - Conservative Justice!

It looks like the Republican Secessionist mob at the convention just selected another “leader” for their ruggedly independent voting contingent; Waukesha DA Brad Schimel.

Get use to the word “projection” this election season, as we get inundated by laughably ridiculous characterizations that don’t come close to describing Democrats or their Party.

Projection: “An immature defense, the projection of one's negative qualities onto others.”

Nothing partisan here...?

Schimel has the balls to pretend he and his fellow conservative DA’s, judges and justices don’t have a strictly partisan agenda? Casting the liberal candidates as "radical" proves just how Schimel will dole out "justice" to his opponents:

Twitter/WSJ/Mary Spacuzza: Brad Schimel wins unanimous support as the Attorney General candidate at the GOP convention. AG candidate Brad Schimel says Democrats running for attorney general will pursue a "radical, activist agenda. 

Because our legal system is a conservative one, right?

Nullification and Secession the Big Issues for GOP Convention Goers....

Journal Sentinel's Dan Bice got a copy of the actual resolution the state GOP will vote on to secede, accept surprise, the even bigger topic is nullification of federal laws. We really are the northern most neo-confederate state. These teabillies are feeling pretty good about themselves and gerrymandered majority:

Wisconsin GOP can't stop slide into Tea Party's race to Dystopian Future.

Now we're supposed to believe tea party Republicans aren't as wacky as they appear, or that their dramatic move to the extreme right isn't a result of their general paranoid and authoritarian philosophy.

Suddenly, they're now the victims of their own party leaders, the same leaders they blindly followed using the same repeated talking points that replaced curiosity and information. Their own principled dictatorial conservative leaders are now coming after them.

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist … Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me."-Pastor Martin Niemöller

Oddly, the media always compares these right wing teabillies with "the left," who they say are just as extreme, pushing for higher minimum wages, pay equity, hedging our bets on climate change, health care for all and support for public education. Ouch, they nailed us. The next thing you know "lefties" will demand more open and free elections.

Here's what's playing out in Wisconsin against the poor radicalized neo-confederate tea party:

WSJ: Party activists are pushing a more conservative agenda, particularly opposition to the new Common Core standards and an attempt to censure party moderates.

Adams County GOP chairman Richard Church said "There are some that believe that the right path is to be more moderate and get more of the middle. There’s others that believe the right path is really to stay strong with conservative principles and get back to the party’s roots.

Dan Krueger, a Columbia County Republican (said) "What (Republican officials) are trying to do is marginalize the grass roots activists. They’re trying to make the constitutionalists look like fringe lunatics."

That would be hard to do. But one Republican State Senator pointed out a few other examples:

"They’re just upset with people who don’t agree with them on everything," State Sen. Luther Olsen said, ticking off several other issues where he disagrees with his party's right wing, such as repealing a law requiring DNA be taken from those charged with a felony, eliminating 4-year-old kindergarten, arresting government employees who implement Obamacare and retaining the right to secede.

GOP presents "Slipping into the Abyss" agenda.

The conservative clip dump is here. I decided not to do whole stories on the following videos, because they truly do speak for themselves. Rancher Cliven Bundy forever.

This conservative talker shows us how he sees you and me in the future oligarchy:



The right wing attack on voting. It's still hard to believe anyone with a functioning brain would think any of this makes sense:



What is it with Republicans and all their Nazi comparisons. Or the Obama dictatorship:



Drone Hunting? A creation of our national gun crazy mentality. Idiocracy is here:



Louie Gohmert's incredible look at the separation of church and state:



Castration in D.C. by Joni Ernst: