Making a Mockery - The IRS has its 18½ minutes.

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By Enemy Central

all John Koskinen a late bloomer. According to records on our hard
drive before we crashed it, he is 74 years old, thirty-three days short
of the magical 75. Before he caught Paul Ryan�s attention, we had never
heard of him. Now he�s unanimous victor in the EOW sweepstakes. Such
insolence, such arrogance, such contempt for all humanity we had not
seen in a public official since the last time we paid attention to
those who escaped from the losing side of World War II to some friendly
dictatorship in the southern parts of South America and got caught. Is
it any surprise that the Koskinen soccer stadium at Duke University is
named after him? Wonder where he picked up his expertise in soccer?

What about his lowly competition this week? The maestros at Politico
have hailed our president�s becoming �mocker-in-chief on climate change
skeptics.� Only problem is we have yet to hear him play mocker-in-chief
vis-�-vis, say, V.V. Putin, ISIS, Iran, cholera at the border, and the
leader responsible for our nation�s GDP shrinking by 2.9 percent last
quarter. No fair, this last charge? It was, after all, a very cold
winter. Climate changed in every wrong way. Oh, well, no need, Mr.
Prez, to apologize to those you have mocked. We expect the honorable
Mr. Koskinen will jump at the chance to do the job for you.

Another grand old man showed his true colors in holding on to his
Senate slot, for now. The New York Times sees Thad Cochran�s win in
Tuesday�s primary as a defeat for the Confederacy. �Now it�s time for
Mr. Cochran to return the favor by supporting a stronger Voting Rights
Act and actively working to reduce his party�s extreme antigovernment
policies,� it harrumphs. Now it�s also time for Mr. Cochran to return
to the party that birthed him. Nothing wrong with becoming a Democrat
again. It did wonders for Arlen Specter�s career.

Here�s someone whose career continues to take off: book writer Ms.
Hillary Clinton who, according to a hostile report, saw sales of her
new memoir �Drop Sharply in 2nd Week.� But not all is lost. �Given the
book�s focus on Mrs. Clinton�s travels and policies at the State
Department,� the report continues, �it is expected to do well outside
the United States.� Aha! Just the cover her presidential run will need
to bring foreign money into her campaign coffers. It can�t be a Clinton
presidency unless it�s foreign bought.

Republican genius is rewarded again. A day after Speaker John Boehner
announced he and his colleagues are filing suit against the leader of
the free world for his abuses of executive power, the Supreme Court
ruled unanimously against the incumbent president on those very
grounds. Great minds collude alike. What will EOW regular Dana Milbank
do about that? So far he�s only seen fit to mock (what else?) the
Prince of Orange (as he calls him) for sticking his neck out. A few
days earlier he had mocked (who else?) Oversight Committee Chairman
Darrell Issa for bringing rising Democratic star John Koskinen before
his committee. Perhaps we should be grateful for small favors. It�s one
of the few times anyone in the lamestream has bothered to say boo about
the most brazen political cover-up of the 21st century (and we�ve still
got two years to go with this administration and another eight with the
latest Clinton one).

So the official line must remain: Computers crash, dogs eat homework,
and Republicans have no standing to complain about anything or even be
in politics. A more nuanced take ridicules anti-science Republicans
suddenly claiming to be IT experts. Then there�s Joy Reid, mockingly
(how else?) waving off anyone remotely concerned with �the critically
important and urgently pressing matter of what happened to Lois
Lerner�s emails.� Easy for Joy to be so clever. She�s yet to come
before our committee to plead the Fifth in total innocence. Her 18�
minutes of fame are over, alas. Good to know we�ll always have John
Koskinen to kick around.


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So to recap:
Iraq is imploding
Russia is expanding
The US is being invaded
Vets are dying
IRS is lying
And Obummer is fundraising & golfing