RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, I mentioned a name to you working at the Heritage Foundation. His name, Jason Richwine. What is happening to Jason Richwine is inexcusable. What do I often say I do on this program as a means of helping people, new listeners understand what happens here? I get up every day, I do show prep, I watch TV, I read the news. I absorb whatever I can — and whenever I see the things I believe in under assault, I come here and defend them.
Whenever I see people that are involved in advancing the things I believe in under assault, I defend them. So whenever there is an attack on what I believe in, I come here and defend it. When there is somebody that the left is trying to destroy because they are involved in advancing things I believe in, I defend them. But never once do I get up and ask myself, “Who can I attack today?” I’m portrayed as just the opposite, that I come here and I attack.
No, I defend.
I react to assaults on the traditions, the institutions, and the people and I think are important — and Jason Richwine is one such person. But I’ll tell you: It actually goes beyond him.
The left is now targeting the Heritage Foundation. Jason Richwine is a fellow. He works there. He’s a Harvard University PhD. If you recall from yesterday, he coauthored a study that pegs the cost of the amnesty bill to $6.3 trillion. Now, the lead author is a guy named Robert Rector. We quote him often on this program, too. He’s a former office of personnel management analyst. He is the leading intellectual warrior on welfare and welfare reform in all of Washington. He holds a master’s degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University. Continue reading
Tea Party leaders refused to accept an apology from the IRS Friday in which the agency acknowledged that it inappropriately flagged conservative groups for additional review during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots, said she wants to see resignations over what she called the “disturbing, illegal and outrageous abuse of government power.”
Republican lawmakers also seized on the acknowledgment, after having complained about the suspected harassment more than a year ago. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell called for a “government-wide review” to assure “these thuggish practices” are not in use elsewhere. House Republican Leader Eric Cantor later said the House would investigate.
Reaction was swift and harsh after Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups, acknowledged the issue at a conference Friday sponsored by the American Bar Association.
She confirmed that organizations were singled out because they included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for tax-exempt status.
In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, she said.
“That was wrong. That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate,” Lerner said. “The IRS would like to apologize for that.” Continue reading
