The IRS said Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails were lost when a hard drive crashed.

A Republican congressman fired back…requesting metadata collected by the NSA snoopers, who should have a copy of every email in the world (it seems).

And now comes word the IRS has a rule that all IRS emails be printed out as well.

Next thing you know, we’ll hear that Obama’s dog Bo ate ALL the emails.

Why not?

He’d be immune from prosecution…even if AG Holder ‘grew a pair’ and arrested him.

The Senate  just passed another ‘we dropped the VA accountability ball for decades but NOW we’ll start doing our job’ bill…promising what’s been promised for decades.

The Republican weekly address covered basics, but it still boils down to gov’t care.

Live 40 miles from a VA clinic, to justify going to any clinic? Sounds like another job for a government worker, who will monitor the Google-mapping for compliance. Need a ‘timely’ appointment? Guess who decides the definition of ‘timely’? Yup, gov’t workers.

Laughably, then the Senator giving the weekly address says “Bureaucrats would no longer override veterans’ choices.” Like adding two more layers of government worker bureaucracy will suddenly, magically, make all the bad bureaucrats disappear.

Under this plan (as with the old plans), the closer an election, the more consideration vets will get…guess they better pray serious ailments time themselves accordingly.

This is legislation that “…will give veterans more health care freedom”…REALLY?

No amount of political promises will protect veterans from the ‘same-old, same-old’…

The only REAL fix is to allow all VA health care through free-market services.

Anything else is just empty promises – and you know how that feels, right?

Remember when you forgot to feed your dog for a couple of days? FINALLY you realize it, guiltily fill his bowl to overflowing…and get him to roll over so you can rub his belly.

And the dog wags its tail, licks your hand…and all is well.

Sort’a feels like that, doesn’t it?

Good dog…Sergeant…good dog.

Stay close, buddy…in a little while, we’ll play ‘fetch the vote’.

Mark M. emails a YouTube video of a Tesla factory in operation, assembling cars.

The automation and efficiency on display in the video is awesome…and sends a very powerful message to those who ask why raising the minimum wage is problematic.

Every robotic function you see during the video was cost-justified by politicians raising the minimum wage to the point where automation is cheaper than human labor.

The “3000 employed” caption displayed during the presentation could very well have been 10,000…were it not for meddling (and, okay, some well-meaning) politicians.

So every time you hear a minority or low-income group complain about joblessness within their demographic, this video should be played for them, or referred to them.

Raising the minimum wage increases costs for every business…

…and there’s a robot waiting around every corner.

Consumers want affordable products; businesses comply by keeping costs down.

Nothing’s more contradictory, than demanding higher wages and affordable goods.

When even the respected Andy McCarthy joins the ‘blame Bush’ crowd, it’s on!

Writing in National Review, he reminds all that it was then-President Bush who signed a Status of Forces Agreement (SoFA) with Iraq, setting U.S. troop withdrawal timelines.

But key to that fact is timing…it was just weeks before Obama assumed the office. Is there any doubt that ‘W’ kept his soon-to-be successor in the loop, encouraging input?

And it’s odd that Mr. McCarthy ignores the 800-lb gorilla in the room: Obama has no problem breaking or ignoring every law he doesn’t like…but meekly follows W’s SoFA?

The SoFA agreement put in place just before Obama took office was, as McCarthy puts it “…the best deal he (W) could get in an Islamist country that despises America”.

We would add “…and was the deal the incoming president agreed to, and probably demanded.” But of course, this current Teflon president would never admit to that.

Obama had 5-1/2 years to make a better deal, as conditions on the ground dictated; conditions, we might add, that weren’t escalating like this at the time ‘W’ left office.

So, enough with the Bush-bashing, Republicans. Democrats do that relentlessly…

…they don’t need your help.

(Besides incompetence) there’s one, and only one, HUGE reason an otherwise lawless Obama chooses to ‘lead from behind’ on certain issues, such as his Iraq travesty…

…so he can blame EVERYONE but himself.

The media won’t point it out; Democrat’s sure as hell won’t…but Republicans should.

Just when you thought establishment Republicans couldn’t make you laugh any harder.

Hats off to Mark Tapscott, of the Washington Examiner…he skewered Cantor’s pick.

Now the IRS claims they lost all Lerner’s emails to the White House.

Specifically, “IRS said it cannot produce emails between Lerner and the White House, Treasury Department, Justice Department, FEC, or other Democrat offices.”

Wouldn’t it be odd if those agencies couldn’t find Lerner’s emails either?

No problem…

The House investigation should subpoena those agencies for emails from/to Lerner…

…and advise that every agency’s top echelon and their staff will have their paychecks ‘lost’ until all the Lerner emails are provided to the House Ways & Means committee.

The House of Representatives controls gov’t. spending…give them something to do.

What American wouldn’t approve drone-bombing crazed ‘beheader’ convoys?

He’ll drone-strike a wedding in Yemen, but not berserk, rampaging medieval terrorists?

Lined up, on the road to Baghdad, beheading any who dare resist them. Known al-Qaeda affiliates, openly flying their colors in convoy, a target-rich situation.

If a civilian wedding can be bombed, where 1 suspected al-Qaeda is believed to be in attendance…wouldn’t you think convoys of murderous flag-waving al-Qaeda qualify?

The only thing missing from this current equation is formal wedding attire. We presume that, if these murderous savages were wearing tuxedos, there’d be a Hellfire missile with their name on it headed their way…or is it the institution of marriage he hates?

Drone strikes can’t be proven as American-led…it’s a perfect cover for this lead-from-behind kind of guy who (by the way) ‘killed UbL’ and ‘has al-Qaeda on its heels’…

…yet he does nothing?

Jimmy Carter was a Conan the Destroyer compared to this guy.

Leading from behind beyond, the Soother-in-Chief reassures America’s youth:

“The world is less violent than it has ever been.”

(Translation: pay no attention to those beheaded Iraqi police and soldiers.)

From his hiding place, Prime Minister al-Maliki could not be reached for comment.

Once again, anti-gun wingnuts go to the ’emotion well’ to make their point.

The Everytown group maps out a deceptive list of ‘school shootings’ since the Sandy Hook incident, to hype the need for more gun-control laws.

But nearly half the list includes random violence crimes, suicides, self-inflicted injuries, and shootings NOT on school property, all done (evidently) to inflate the numbers.

Deceptive data leads to cynicism…

…when they have to lie to make a point, it tells you all you need to know.

Sooner or later that ’emotion well’ goes dry.

Now we learn the administration knew of VA secret wait-lists since before March 2010.

Remember what was happening during that time? Democrats were forcing Obamacare through…you know…that gov’t-controlled health care system just as great as the VA?

The Inspector General review was conducted between March and June 2010, which means they had knowledge of the problem before March 2010, and probably in 2009.

While they touted virtues of the VA system to convince us Obamacare was gonna work.

Now why do you think they wanted to keep secret VA wait-lists from the public?