Our intrepid reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro goes on a mission to find conservative rappers at CPAC. Watch.
Rep. Darrell Issa: Yep, I’m all for privatizing Social Security and abolishing Medicare, too.
Meet the new freak show group that’s way too right even for Bill O’Reilly.
They’re the ‘Oath Keepers’ and they’re trying to stop Obama from imposing martial law and turning America’s cities into concentration camps. To this end they want soldiers and police officers to disobey orders that are ‘unconstitutional’.
The president of the union that represents IRS workers doesn’t see the humor that Jed Babbin does in that suicide bomber who crashed his plane into the IRS offices yesterday.
Babbin’s the editor of Human Events, who introduced Grover Norquist this morning at CPAC, joking that he’d wondered whether it might not be Grover crashing his plane into the building since he’s so hardcore an enemy of the IRS.
A short while back Ann Coulter was on Rick Sanchez’s show on CNN while she was hanging out at CPAC. And Ann was going on about the pleasures of warlordism and the long twilight struggle against Islam. And suddenly Rick Sanchez brought her up short and asked her “You just compared the Iraq War to World War II. Do you think that’s an apt comparison.”
And for once, Ann was genuinely speechless. At least for a moment.
She eventually came up with, “Well, in the sense they’re both wars …” And then it pretty much went downhill from there.
See the video here.
One of the hallmarks of post-Buckley, Movement Conservatism has always been the conscious exclusion of the John Birch Society as an extremist group. But at this weekend’s CPAC conference they were finally allowed in. Here’s John Birch Society President John F. McManus, at the Society’s sponsor table.
In Japan, the Toyota recall saga is seen overwhelmingly as an American attack on a Japanese corporation — a perception strengthened vastly, though I don’t think accurately, by the fact that the US government is the main owner of the country’s biggest automaker.
In fact, though, there are many states and regions in the US — many in the South and border states — where Toyota is the ‘company’ in the company town just as much as GM and Ford are in Detroit. And quite a few politicians in Congress have deep ties to the company. In other words, Toyota has sunk deep roots in the USA, both economically and politically.
Check out our story on GM America vs. Toyota America.
We sent TPMDC’s Evan McMorris-Santoro to the scheduled CPAC Freestyle Rap Contest featuring conservative rapper Hi Caliber. But he was met by an eerie silence.
Things got a little easier for Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-PA) today. Gerlach had opted to run for governor, then changed his mind to seek reelection, but the establishment GOP already had backed businessman Steve Welch for the seat.
This morning, Welch reportedly ended his campaign to spare the Republicans a tough primary.