{"id":22597,"date":"2014-04-21T20:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T00:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22597"},"modified":"2014-04-21T20:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T00:45:41","slug":"an-opinion-from-an-interesting-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22597","title":{"rendered":"An Opinion From An Interesting Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/04\/20\/former-democratic-lawyer-goes-after-the-irs-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article quoting <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cleta Mitchell\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleta_Mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Cleta Mitchell<\/a>, a partner at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Foley &amp; Lardner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Foley &amp; Lardner<\/a>, on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a> scandal,<\/p>\n<p>The article quoted Ms. Mitchell:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThis is a sea change! People need to understand \u2014 this has never happened before in my lifetime and I don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s lifetime, where you have <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">the president of the United States<\/a>, elected members of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Congress)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Congress<\/a> calling on the IRS to silence their political opponents, and having the IRS management and top brass doing what the politicians wanted them to do, and essentially taking sides in a philosophical and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Debate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">political debate<\/a> between conservatives and liberals,\u201d said Cleta Mitchell, a partner at Foley &amp; Lardner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThe more we allow government to mushroom and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Metastasis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metastasis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">metastasize<\/a>, we become more like the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Post-Soviet states\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-Soviet_states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">former Soviet Union<\/a> where you have the commissars who have laws for everybody else, the little people, that don\u2019t apply to them, and they use the government to go after their opponents and people are afraid of the government,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cI mean, this is happening. And we have to stop it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has become very obvious that the Obama Administration wants to silence anyone who is opposed to their policies. If they are successful in this, it is not a stretch to think that any future administration of either party will employ similar tactics.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=02c893c4-5523-4014-a63f-2e83de111ecf\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Daily Caller posted an article quoting Cleta Mitchell, a partner at Foley &amp; Lardner, on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, The article quoted Ms. Mitchell: \u201cThis is a sea change! People need to understand \u2014 this has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5845,174,7430,284,678,5865,135,285],"class_list":["post-22597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cleta-mitchell","tag-daily-caller","tag-foley-lardner","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-irs","tag-mitchell","tag-obama-administration","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22598,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597\/revisions\/22598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}