By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
When the chairman of one of the tea party groups targeted by the IRS for special scrutiny saw the agency's questions, his first thought was that the queries were so outrageous that the Obama administration was engaging in campaign opposition research.
The Republican National Committee's new special panel to study where the party went wrong in this year's election is already taking heat from leaders who say the RNC's first priority should be addressing its own ineptitude and cronyism and reining in the rampant profiteering of consultants.
On Sept. 20, 2010, right after Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell became the GOP's U.S. senatorial nominee in Delaware, a political watchdog group filed two ethics complaints against her. Miss O'Donnell subsequently was dragged through the mud by the liberal
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is the keynote speaker at a GOP event in the early presidential caucus state of Iowa later this month, and a spokesman said Wednesday that the tea party favorite has "not ruled out" a bid for president.
An attorney for former Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell has told federal regulators the campaign could not afford finance professionals to oversee its early spending and is now trying to reconcile bank records with its federal spending reports.
Social and economic conservatives have worked together under the mantle of the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan made them the core of his 1980 coalition, but the alliance now may be fraying.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the dishonestly named DISCLOSE Act after weeks of backroom dealings
"Streamline? So you streamline by sending people requests and they have to submit 400 or 500 pages of stuff? That's streamlining?" she said.
Tea party group targeted by IRS suspected opposition research for Obama campaign →
Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who represents some of the organizations that were targeted, said that explanation makes no sense.
Tea party group targeted by IRS suspected opposition research for Obama campaign →
