Sarah Palin vs. The...Tea Party?

by JASmius

Yes, my friends, it is true.  But hold that thought for a minute while we give you an update on Lernergate:

Former IRS supervisor Lois Lerner emailed colleagues urging them to be careful about what they put in their own messages because the information could be discovered by congressional investigators.

But her caution came back to bite her Wednesday as Representative Darrell Issa released her email that warned about the dangers of such electronic communications.

"I was cautioning folks about email and how we have several occasions where Congress has asked for emails," Lerner wrote on April 9, 2013. "We need to be cautious about what we say in emails."Lerner's message was written 12 days after she read a draft report on the targeting of tea party and conservative groups by the IRS inspector general and suggested that top agency officials communicated among themselves via an instant-messaging system that was not regularly archived.

I no longer refer to the IRS abuse of power against the Tea Party as "IRSgate" because it has been successfully and irrevocably compartmentalized to one Louis Lerner.  I say this because the 67,000 Lerner emails after the abuses began that were deliberately destroyed in the biggest mass act of obstruction of justice in the history of this and a dozen other galactic sectors, which no doubt contained enough "smoking guns" to arm another of Loki's Chitauri armies, have eliminated any and all evidentiary connections to the Obama White House - as was the rather day-glo obvious intent.  So Double-L is as far as the trail will ever go, and since she's already "retired," and will keep pleading the fifth from here to eternity, and will never be prosecuted for the contempt of Congress charge by Eric "The Red" Holder, Chairman Issa's investigation is, for all intents and purposes, done.

This, in turn, is why this Lerner "loose lips sink ships" email doesn't strike me as being much of a revelation.  Yeah, in it she's as much as admitting that a gargantuan cover-up is going on, but all her "lost" messages pretty well established that fact already.  Kind of like a clothed Wisconsin nudist publicly declaring, "We're all gonna go streaking!" with the entire, and bare, population of Green Bay standing behind him.

Hey, it's summer in Wisconsin, right?

This is one more bitter but practical reason amongst many why it would be a very bad idea to impeach Barack Obama, at least before the November midterms.  Which brings Sarahcuda back into this post.

To refresh your memories from thirty six hours ago:

And yet there were Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin last night, obliviously blithering on about "impeachment" and "stopping the president" and how the only thing preventing national salvation was "Republican cowardice".

If only it were that simple, lady and gentleman.  Because, y'see, if House 'Pubbies did as you're demanding, the result would not be what you seem to think it would be.  Much like denying King Hussein his now-$3.7 billion (up 85% in the past week) to fund his amnesty, which would also turn the tables on the GOP with under four months to go before the November midterms.

You, Mr. Hannity and Governor Palin (you could throw NRO's Andy McCarthy in as well), are playing mubbledypeg, and The One is playing four-dimensional tesseract chess.  He's already fundamentally transformed this country into a gigantic socialist hovel and you're all still drowning in cultural overhang and self-righteous delusion.

Please understand, I sympathize with Sean and Mr. McCarthy and Governor Palin.  I bow to nobody in my fond, cherished desire to see Barack Obama removed from power, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and jailed forever.  Or at least....deported.  To, like, Indonesia.  Or Kenya, where he could room with his half-brother George in his upscale hut.

But that is a fond, cherished desire that has no chance of happening in the real world.  And the real world is where we are compelled to live.  Recognition of that fact is not the "cowardice" or "lack of backbone" that 'cuda spits out there in her media "my penis is longer than yours" bull sessions.  It is, in fact, entirely rational.  Or, as I often say, before you can change the world you must first recognize it as it truly is.

Know who else has arrived at this unhappy but necessary conclusion?  Tea Party Republicans:

Several conservative Republicans pushed back Wednesday on calls for President Barack Obama's impeachment.

"Harry Reid's going to block anything we do in that regard," Georgia-10 Representative Paul Broun told the Hill on Wednesday.

Broun, a four-term congressman, said in February that he would vote to impeach Obama.

"There are a number of colleagues that would like to see an impeachment proceeding go forward against the president," he said. "I'm not sure our leadership would allow that to happen ... we've got to focus on what we can do."

Louisiana-4 Representative John Fleming told the Hill: "We'd like to do more, the problem is the avenues are just not available. Even if impeachment was to pass in the House, it wouldn't remove the president from office."  It's one of those things that if you can't see an end solution, why even get into that debate?" Fleming asked.

The conservatives said that any impeachment effort would die in the Democratic-controlled Senate and would backfire against Republicans in the November congressional elections. [emphases added]

Thank you, gentlemen; you renew my faith in the Tea Party that it is not, after all, overrun with kamikaze fetishists.  Or, in Governor Palin's parlance, "neo-RINOs" like Braun and Fleming have been "assimilated" into the "establishment" "collective".

Contrary to what Thomas Jefferson may have believed, one man with courage does not constitute a "majority"; far more often, such a courageous man constitutes a corpse.  Or an ex-congressman.  It's easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy to sit up in Wasilla and hold forth with stern, stentorian, finger-wagging pronouncements about all the risks and sacrifices that others should be taking and making with their political careers.  Where was 'cuda's courageous last stand?  What's her set-example for House Republicans to follow, "cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley'd & thunder'd; storm'd at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell rode the six hundred"?

Oh, yes, that's right, she.....quit and ran away, didn't she?

You might have thought that Sean Hannity would bring up that little detail on Tuesday night.

God knows I would have.