On a Day Like No Other

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! THANKS TO ALL OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED AND SACRIFICED TO KEEP AMERICA FREE.

Cry Havoc
Representatives of these organizations have cried foul in recent weeks about their treatment by the I.R.S., saying they were among dozens of conservative groups unfairly targeted by the agency, harassed with inappropriate questionnaires and put off for months or years as the agency delayed decisions on their applications.

But a close examination of these groups and others reveals an array of election activities that tax experts and former I.R.S. officials said would provide a legitimate basis for flagging them for closer review. (NYT, 5/26/2013)

Breaking its silence on the IRS targeting of conservative groups, the New York Times declares...it was all their own fault. 


Adjustments
Republicans simply want to see the entire law go away and will not take part in adjusting it. Democrats are petrified of reopening a politically charged law that threatens to derail careers as the Republicans once again seize on it before an election year. As a result, a landmark law that almost everyone agrees has flaws is likely to take effect unchanged. (NYT, 5/26/2013)

And as everyone knows, the New York Times has provided detailed coverage of the "flaws" in Obamacare. Just kidding!


Land of Confusion
Yet important new evidence — especially from California, the law’s most important test case — suggests that the real Obamacare shock will be one of unexpected success.
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So there will probably be a lot of administrative confusion as the law goes into effect, again especially in states where Republicans have been doing their best to sabotage the process. (Paul Krugman, NYT, 5/26/2013)

Not to worry, Krugman sees great success in Obamacare implementation... provided Republicans don't screw it up.


Spasms
In Stockholm and other towns and cities last week, bands made up mostly of young immigrants set buildings and cars ablaze in a spasm of destructive rage rarely seen in a country proud of its normally tranquil, law-abiding ways.
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The left, which dominated Swedish politics for decades and devised the cradle-to-grave welfare system, has blamed reduced state benefits and a modest shift toward the privatization of public services for the unrest, pointing to an erosion of the country’s tolerant, egalitarian ethos. (NYT, 5/26/2013)

Coming to America. (And it is all the fault of conservatives and their crazy ideas about the private sector.)