{"id":59387,"date":"2016-06-29T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59387"},"modified":"2016-06-26T11:50:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:50:42","slug":"59387","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59387","title":{"rendered":"A Banana Republic, If You Can Keep It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The IRS has released a list of nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jun\/5\/irs-reveals-list-of-tea-party-groups-targeted-for-\/\"><span class=\"s2\">500 conservative groups it targeted<\/span><\/a> for extra scrutiny to delay their fundraising abilities and thereby allow Democrats to outraise, outspend and out-advertise their way to winning the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019m so old that I can remember the President of the United States insisted there was <a href=\"http:\/\/a.aproductmsg.com\/asw\/pir\/305\/2564619\/2\/o.html?cdm=xads.zedo.com&amp;a=2564619&amp;x=3981&amp;g=172&amp;c1=305040535&amp;c2=305040535&amp;i=0&amp;n=305&amp;s=4576&amp;1=48&amp;2=1&amp;tg=1465247599&amp;vr=2&amp;m=167&amp;w=26&amp;os=3&amp;p=8&amp;h=3367074&amp;f=3508244&amp;b=14400&amp;o=20&amp;y=1757&amp;v=1&amp;t=i&amp;u=b5qhmlapT5yQNWUHE7y3AA**~053116&amp;z=0.8970738518130866&amp;mb=141&amp;dm=.zedo.com&amp;pt=Advertisement&amp;q=&amp;sk=&amp;l=&amp;cd=&amp;adm=c13.zedo.com&amp;r=2&amp;ldm=l1.zedo.com&amp;exp=0&amp;cm=&amp;tt=0&amp;wm=Transparent&amp;dnt=0&amp;tsad=0&amp;p1=&amp;p2=&amp;p3=&amp;p4=&amp;p5=&amp;ctg=zSample%3A40&amp;prfl=&amp;ct=0&amp;awd=axp.zedo.com&amp;cl4=true&amp;ce=UTF-8&amp;pu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2Fjun%2F5%2Firs-reveals-list-of-tea-party-groups-targeted-for-%2F&amp;tz=-05_00&amp;rc=0&amp;csv=1&amp;atd=1&amp;dtd=1&amp;dct=2067&amp;dmf=&amp;dvm=&amp;dsr=&amp;djs=2063&amp;dhs=2065&amp;patt=2&amp;ptg=1465247599549&amp;zpu=www.washingtontimes.com____2_&amp;tpu=&amp;osn=Windows&amp;osv=7&amp;brn=Internet+Explorer&amp;brv=11.0\"><span class=\"s2\">not even a smidgen of corruption at the IRS<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">With this new information, I guess the President will be outraged to learn he was misled, heads will roll, people will be fired and prosecuted.\u00a0 Hell, the President might even step down out of sheer embarrassment, knowing that his party intentionally violated the civil rights of millions of Americans for the benefit of Democrats in Congress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ya gotta have faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The IRS has released a list of nearly 500 conservative groups it targeted for extra scrutiny to delay their fundraising abilities and thereby allow Democrats to outraise, outspend and out-advertise their way to winning the election. I\u2019m so old that I can remember the President of the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59401,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59387\/revisions\/59401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}