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Piece of advice, if Joe and Mika are going to broadcast from the West Coast they should both take the previous day off so they can adjust their sleep patterns, they both look EXTREMELY tired.
Hey MSNBC you’ve gotta treat them better, I hit them a bit but they are the best you have in the barn and the only reason why they drive me as nuts as they do is because I like them and expect better from them than anyone else on the network.
There is no escape!
Photo by Lawrence Meade (forwarded by smitty)
Exit question, Compare this photo with this one of Stacy, Smitty and I. How is it that Ann looks like that in a fedora and we look like, well us?
Update: Little Miss Attila was a member even before Ann, but she has to be considered an honorary member in one sense. Her signature hat is a part of her identity and must trump even the Fedora.
Continuing the comments from candidates on the Shulman statement series I received the following comment from Will Gregory who is running for Congress in Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District.
The power to tax is a broad power of the federal government, and is easily abused. It’s no casual thing to levy additional taxes on Americans struggling to make ends meet. Just because the IRS has a sneaky regulatory loophole to take your property to force compliance with a sweeping federal invasion into the health care system, doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. The President promised us transparency — enough with the backhanded tactics.
Jim Himes the incumbent democrat only managed 51.3 percent of the vote in 2008. I’m thinking he might be wise to follow the Calvin Coolidge route that Mr. Olver did today on the subject.
Building on the IRS refund grab story this morning I talked to Patricia Sullivan running against MSNBC’s Favorite congressman Alan “die quickly” Grayson in Florida’s 8th district. She called it the “Tip of the Iceberg” in both our conversation and in the following release which she forwarded to me this morning:
IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman acknowledging Monday, while speaking to the National Press Club, that the recently passed Health Care Reform measure limits the IRS’s enforcement options to include the confiscation of individuals tax refunds as the “most likely way to penalize individuals” whom do not comply with the mandate. This is just the “Tip of the Iceberg to the Federal Government’s intrusion into the private lives of the American People” stated Patricia Sullivan, conservative Republican candidate for the 8th Congressional District in Florida. Shulman warns the public to “not read into anything about me doing it now” as he reports of being “just a busy guy” the myriad of enforcement capabilities and the private army health corps created by this Health Care Reform measure are definite cause for concern.
Don’t worry Mr. Shulman, as Patricia points out above the new IRS people that will be hired to enforce this monstrosity will be more than happy to do the heavy lifting for you.
I’m sure Mr. Grayson will be delighted to defend this for Ed Schultz or Chris Matthews, but closer to home I called up Congressman John Olver’s Fitchburg Office for comment, they referred me to his Washington Office and I left a message requesting comment from Liz Murphy from his press office. I’ll let you know what comment I get.
If you don’t remember Patricia Sullivan, Stacy McCain and I interviewed her at CPAC here.
Update: Heard back from Ms. Murphy, Congressman Olver has no comment at this time. It was a pretty prompt response and it speaks well that she got back to a mere fedora wearing blogger quickly. He is wisely taking Calvin Coolidge to heart:
