If there were a J. Packington Paco LEGO man...

...he would probably look something like this.

Hey, Europe

How’s all that multi-culti, religion-of-peace stuff working out?

Related: Piers Morgan’s terminal beclownment.

Note to Congress

You are not exactly powerless to bring the IRS to heel. Take a gander at the 16th Amendment:

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Do us all a favor: scrap this monster and start afresh. Government bureaucracies that have far-reaching power, almost unlimited resources and a culture of non-accountability inevitably attract petty tyrants whose management strategies, whether motivated by ideology or simply the desire for personal advancement, facilitate tyrannical excesses of a distinctly non-petty variety – a particularly destructive tendency when these excesses are in harmony with the political goals of a chief executive who sees America as a socialist laboratory. The IRS is not an independent fourth branch of government; stop letting it act as if it were.

Stonewalling

Lois Lerner, a high IRS panjandrum and one of the most important figures in the controversy over IRS targeting of conservatives, has announced through her attorney that she intends to plead the Fifth if she is called before Rep. Issa’s Oversight Committee.

Hey, this is shaping up to be almost as interesting as the Kefauver hearings - although the subject matter is different: one of these committees pertains to the investigation of a massive criminal enterprise and its corrupting influence on government and society, and the other pertains to the Mafia.


"We wuz just fruit-wagon goombahs next to dis crowd youse got."

Update: The Joseph Goebbels brigade to the rescue?

Haw!

Jay Carney, goalie for the White House dart team.

The stupid is strong in this one

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-bag, Rhode Island), tries to tie the recent terrible flurry of tornadoes to Republicans and their skepticism about global warming.

Testing the Tea Party

Virginia has a couple of strong Tea-Party-style candidates for governor and lieutenant governor in, respectively, Ken Cuccinelli and E.W. Jackson. Jackson is particularly interesting, because he is a conservative African-American (who, incidentally, disparages the label: he states that he is "not an African American, but an American”), and a graduate of both Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School.

Looks to be a fascinating election.

(H/T: the ever-vigilant Captain Heinrichs).

Update: Ross Kaminsky has a considerably different take.