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Minnick, Obama, Smeed Mashup

This was then-candidate Walt Minnick fawningly groping for then-candidate Barack Obama in the Taco Bell Arena February 2, 2008.  Couldn't get close enough, soon enough, it appears.

 

This is what Caldwell's perennial "curmudgeon" (his word, others wouldn't be so kind) Ralph Smeed had to say about that event and this is what he thinks of President Obama (spoiler alert:  yes, he wants to see a birth certificate; more here):

This is what Congressman Walt Minnick thinks of his friend Ralph Smeed (and Rep. Ron Paul):

This is what Minnick told The New York Times about his reelection chances after voting against Democratic leaders on prominent issues ("hell no, you can't," if you weren't paying attention):

"I think I'll gain a lot more than I lost, to be honest," Mr. Minnick said, "and the president isn't on the ballot, so I feel pretty good."

Any questions?

Finally, here's a bit of trivia to dazzle your friends with:  What is one thing Ralph Smeed and Walt Minnick have in common, besides that they're apparently "best" friends?  They both attended the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Fransisco to participate in the nomination of  Barry "fanatics love me" Goldwater--Smeed as an Idaho State delegate; Minnick as assistant sergeant at arms from Washington State.

The Vietnam Service Lie (Update 2)

When does Idaho Congressman Walt Minnick plan to quit lying about his military service?  It's been a week since it was first pointed out that Walt had been misrepresenting his service on his campaign Facebook page and, as shown below, still no change.  Today that lie was repeated nationally by KIDO radio's Austin Hill.

Walt Minnick never served in Vietnam.  In fact as pointed out here, he tried desperately to avoid being drafted and did so by joining the Army Reserve.  He said so in his own words in The Native Home of Hope: People & the Northern Rockies, published in 1986.

“I went to law school during the Vietnam era when draft deferments were hard to get. I was admitted to Harvard Law school but my local draft board didn't want to let me go. My draft appeal finally worked its way up to the presidential appeals board. If I won, I would be able to finish my first year of law school and then get drafted. If the state of Washington won, I would have to go right away. I didn't mind going in the army, but I really wanted to finish law school first. So I joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps unit—that was a couple of years before ROTC got thrown off the Harvard campus.”

When called to fulfill his two-year active duty obligation, he was assigned to the Pentagon where he worked on economic aspects of Vietnamization.  He spent approximately 18 months of his two-year commitment there; the remainder was spent in the White House.

The Vietnam service lie is repeated at Boardroom Insiders, where they credit him with "a tour of duty in Vietnam," and at LivPAC.  "He served as a 1st Lieutenant in the Vietnam war.  He then returned home to serve in the White House," according to their biography.

And now the lie has been picked up by Austin Hill (on whose radio show Minnick appeared Thursday), published on his own blog and spread to the well-known conservative site, Townhall, where Hill calls Minnick a "veteran of the Viet Nam [sic] war."

Wonder how the family of Walla Walla Community College alumnus Daryl Meidinger, who actually did do a tour of duty in Vietnam but never returned, feels about Walt's avoiding the draft and the misrepresentations about his service?  Reports say that Meidinger was killed in action April 30, 1969, just a few days before Minnick received his JD from Harvard.  Bet he would have "really wanted to finish" something, too.

Update:  John Foster, campaign spokesman for Congressman Minnick, has responded:

Please correct your post and title immediately. Walt has never lied or misled anyone about his military service. While not permanently stationed in Vietnam, he did travel, work and serve there as part of his work in the Pentagon to improve the country's economy. (He also spent time in Afghanistan while working on drug issues.) Attacking someone's military service is the worst kind of attack, particularly when it is done by a fellow veteran.

Supporting and assisting veterans is an issue of top importance to Walt. During my time in his Congressional office, I watched our casework team help more than 700 Idaho vets get the benefits they were owed. I watched out Idaho staffers help honor vets and get them the commendations they had earned. And I watched our DC staff craft legislation to make it easier for rural vets to get the care they deserve. All because Walt makes this issue a priority for his offices.

As evidenced by the two biographies quoted in the post above, "serving his country in Vietnam" is not generally perceived to mean traveling there on occasion; it's generally perceived to mean in combat.  Veterans of all generations understand that embellishing or misleading others about one's military service is inexcusable.  It should also be noted that Minnick's Congressional biographies do not include the same misleading phrase.

Update 2:  Minnick's spokesman has advised that they consider the Facebook page referenced above "inactive" and their new official campaign page can be found here, with the first visible entry being made February 14.  The controversial phrase on the old page has been edited to avoid further confusion.

Minnick Votes Against Small Business Jobs Bill

Wednesday the U.S. House of Representatives passed a small business jobs bill giving small businesses $3.6 billion in tax breaks and which included a jobs-creation package giving local governments financing assistance for infrastructure improvements through programs like "Build America Bonds."  The measure passed on a 246 to 178 vote with neither of the Idaho delegation in support.  Congressman Walt Minnick was one of just seven Democrats voting against the bill while four Republicans joined the majority of Democrats on final passage, however Congressman Mike Simpson was not among them.

What did Walt Minnick vote against?  In part, the bill would:

• Increase the exclusion from capital-gains tax on small-business stock — normally 50 percent but raised by the Recovery Act to 75 percent for equity acquired in 2009 and 2010 — to 100 percent for stock acquired through 2011.
• Allow taxpayers to treat venture-capital loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration as “at-risk” financing, which would increase the amount of deductions a business could take.
• Temporarily increase, for 2010 and 2011, the deduction for small-business start-up expenses from $5,000 to $20,000, and raise the upper limit for deductible expenses (above which the deductible begins to phase out) from $50,000 to $75,000. 
• Limit the penalty for failing to report on a tax return a “listed transaction” — that is, a transaction that the Internal Revenue Service has formally identified as a scheme to avoid taxes.

Because of budgeting rules requiring legislation to be paid for (something Minnick also inexplicably voted against in February), The New York Times explained how the House would do that.

[T]he bill pays for these outlays by raising revenue from other sources, and what the House giveth small business, it taketh from large corporations, particularly multinationals. One provision would raise nearly $8 billion over 10 years by taking aim at complex global money movements that reduce taxes. The bill would prevent companies in offshore havens from funneling income earned in the U.S. through tax-deductible payments to subsidiaries in third countries.

The bill must also pass the Senate which, as the Times reports, is contemplating its own version of the legislation.

Why Minnick would vote against small businesses and job creation and in favor of allowing large multinationals to avoid taxes through "offshore havens" is unclear (that's not unusual these days), after all, earlier this month he was touting his vote in favor of a small business jobs bill (after initially abstaining and voting against it).

'Stop This Insanity,' Indeed

It appears that once again the Idaho Legislature, Governor Otter and Attorney General Wasden are a little premature--this time in spouting off about "states rights" and "unconstitutional mandates."  While Idaho's already bare-bones budget is being systematically dismembered due to lack of revenue (some would say, the lack of will to raise revenue), the Legislature passed the Idaho Health FreeDumb Act.

Then Governor Otter proudly declared "a high priority on sovereignty," publicly making a show of signing it into law and curiously becoming semi-notorious for doing so.  (Contrast that with his "cloak and dagger" swearing in... what was that all about?)

Not to be outdone, then AG Wasden (cheered on by "stop this insanity" Otter) announces that he's joined 12 other states in a lawsuit against the federal government and "it will not be inexpensive" to "protect" Idahoans from health care.

Now, it seems all of that is moot . . . or the political grandstanding it appeared to be.

From Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) discussing a provision of the legislation he authored saying, "You don't have to abide by it -- just set up your own plan." 

It's called the "Empowering States to be Innovative" amendment. And it would, quite literally, give states the right to set up their own health care system -- with or without an individual mandate or, for that matter, with or without a public option -- provided that, as Wyden puts it, "they can meet the coverage requirements of the bill."

Governor Otter, AG Wasden, Idaho Legislature:  Stop this insanity.  We don't have the money to waste on political grandstanding, your 15 minutes of shame or to refurbish your anti-gumment credentials. 

The Walt Minnick You Don't Know

[Editor's note:  Cross-posted at The Political Game.  This collaboration with the editor of The Political Game comes as a result of Congressman Walt Minnick's vote on health care reform legislation and from the opinion that his self-serving leadership is not beneficial to Idaho Democrats.]

It's not by accident that among the first lines in nearly every current biography of Idaho Congressman Walter Clifford Minnick is a phrase about growing up on a wheat farm in Walla Walla, Washington. It makes for a nice narrative and effective imagery—small town boy, hard work, conservative values—things a guy running for political office in a rural western district would want to highlight, especially one running as a reluctant Democrat.

Like anyone would, there are things in Walt Minnick's past that he frequently highlights, things he would rather forget and things he just doesn't talk about. Depending on the audience, those things vary. However, some of those things he highlights have been distorted or are downright false and most of what you think you know about Walt Minnick, you don't. Somewhere beneath Walt's glossy, airbrushed, postcard version of the past is the grainy, less glamorous, washed-out truth.

In the airbrushed version, Walt spent two years in the Army and even, as his campaign Facebook page reads, “serving his country in Vietnam.” This assertion is repeated in other biographies, including the executive search site “Boardroom Insiders” and The Committee for a Liveable Future (LivPAC), the political action committee founded by Congressman Earl Blumenaur (D-OR). Actually a young Walter Minnick was desperately looking for a way to avoid the draft, and did so successfully. While scores of men his age, most with less means, spent their tours of duty in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Walt spent his time as an analyst in the Pentagon, with at least the last six months of his two-year obligation spent in the White House.

In the glossy version, Walt worked in the Nixon White House on drug policy and he did—with a budget that, under his watch, ballooned to over 13 times what it was when he began. But even though he requested and received a letter from the Watergate Special Prosecutor confirming he was never a target of the investigation, multiple sources place Minnick, at least temporarily, in the Special Investigations Unit. Known as the “Plumbers,” this brainchild of Nixon was tasked with preventing leaks of classified information and carrying out covert operations against his political enemies. Led by Minnick's boss, Egil Krogh, who would eventually plead guilty and spend time in prison, the Plumbers were the nucleus of illegal activity that would ultimately lead to the downfall of the administration.

In the postcard version, Walt “resigned in protest” after the Saturday Night Massacre (when Nixon fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox). It's not clear when Minnick actually decided to resign, let alone whether he “resigned in protest,” but if he was protesting, it wasn't very loudly. He stuck around for at least three months after that October Saturday of 1973.

The truth doesn't fit as nicely on an airbrushed postcard but to understand Walt Minnick's grainy past you have to start at the beginning.

Map of the Uninsured

What does Idaho's 1st District have to gain from health care reform and what will our esteemed Congressman Walt Minnick be voting against today?  Turns out a lot.

Walt Minnick Accuses Democrats of 'Willful Abuse'

If anyone was still holding out hope that Idaho Congressman Walt Minnick would have a last minute change of heart and cast a vote for health care reform this weekend, those hopes can be permanently laid to rest today.

U.S. House Republicans, in a last-ditch effort to derail reform, attempted to scold the Democratic leadership with a resolution condemning the rumored "deem and pass" procedure they dubbed the "Slaughter Solution."  The resolution failed on a 232 to 181 procedural vote with ten Democrats, including Walt Minnick, joining 171 Republicans against a motion to table the resolution.

In part, the resolution reads:

Whereas the Democratic leadership of the House has conducted a calculated and coordinated attempt to willfully deceive the American people by embracing the “Slaughter Solution”; 

Whereas resorting to the “Slaughter Solution” in this circumstance, is being done to intentionally hide from the American people a future vote that Members of Congress may take on the Senate-passed health care legislation;

Whereas the deceptive behavior demonstrated by the Democratic Leadership has brought discredit upon the House of Representatives; and

Whereas the Democratic leadership has willfully abused its power to chart a legislative course for the Senate health care bill that is deliberately calculated to obfuscate what the House will vote on, in an illegitimate effort to confuse the public and thereby fraudulently insulate certain Representatives from accountability for their conduct of their offices.

Walt Minnick joined Republicans in accusing the Democratic leadership of willful deceit, deceptive behavior, willful abuse of power and a whole host of other strongly worded, imagined offenses.

Yes, it's safe to say that Walt Minnick is not changing his vote.  

That's despite news from the Congressional Budget Office today that the reconciliation bill would cover an additional 32 million people and reduce the deficit by $130 billion in ten years.  Ezra Klein at the Washington Post distilled the merits of the reform bill and the CBO score for conservative Democrats.

If you're a conservative House Democrat, then probably you support many of those policies, too. But you also get the single most ambitious effort the government has ever made to control costs in the health-care sector. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill cuts deficits by $130 billion in the first 10 years, and up to $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years. The excise tax is now indexed to inflation, rather than inflation plus one percentage point, and the subsidies grow more slowly over time. So one of the strongest cost controls just got stronger, and the automatic spending growth slowed. And then there are all the other cost controls in the bill: The Medicare Commission, which makes entitlement reform much more possible. The programs to begin paying doctors and hospitals for care rather than volume. The competitive insurance market.

Thirty-two million additional people covered; reducing the deficit by trillions--which core principle is it that Walt's standing on again?  Or maybe there's still not enough "bi" in the partisanship to suit him.  But ooh boy, accusing your own party of willful deceit and abuse of power--that's the sort of bipartisan solution Idahoans are looking for?  There may be more than just a few more Idaho Democrats hoping for the spotted weasel after that.

Senator Smyser Not Registered? (Updated)

Update:  Turns out there is a very logical explanation.  This just in from Betsie Kimbrough at the Secretary of State's Office:  "[Sen. Smyser] is currently registered in Canyon County and has been for many years. One of the main requirements for holding either a State Senate or State Representative position is that the individual is a registered voter as required by the Idaho Constitution. The reason her name did not come up on the Idaho Votes website is that she is registered as Melinda Sloviaczek-Smyser. You must enter her full last name on that website for it to appear."

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Keep government out of our lives.  That is the political philosophy embraced by Senator Melinda Smyser (R-Parma), except it seems Senator Smyser has taken that philosophy to the extreme.  Apparently, despite a long resume in Republican Party politics, Senator Smyser isn't even a registered voter.

Senator Smyser, appointed by Governor Butch Otter last year to the Senate seat formerly held by Lt. Gov. Brad Little, raised eyebrows earlier this legislative session when she switched her vote in committee, killing a bill banning tobacco candy, to the benefit of her tobacco-lobbyist husband, Skip Smyser.

This year Senator Smyser will stand before voters for the first time as the incumbent from District 11, eagerly filing on opening day.  However, unless she registers between now and the May 25 primary, she won't be able to cast a vote for herself, or for anyone else for that matter.

The Idaho Secretary of State maintains a voter information website called Idaho Votes.  On the site voters have access to information such as how to register to vote, locate a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot.  Voters can also verify whether they are registered to vote.  Plug in "Smyser" and "Canyon County" into the Election Information System there and get this:  A few Smysers, several with the street address listed for Senator Smyser on the Idaho Legislature website, but as of this posting, none for Melinda.

Why would a sitting State Senator not bother to have registered to vote in the State of Idaho or to have kept that registration current?  Who knows.  Maybe there's a logical explanation but without one, the better question is:  With such an aversion and apathy toward government, why would the voters of District 11 send her back to the Legislature?

H/T goes to a reader.

Uninsured Story Project: Dear Mr. Minnick

How could someone say no to health care reform?  "I think they never had to make the choice between seeing a doctor and putting food on the table," replies Margaret in McCall, Idaho, just one of the scores of uninsured Idahoans living in Congressman Walt Minnick's district and across the state.

Hear the rest of her story via Bill Thomas at Uninsured Story Project:

While Margaret and millions like her are making these unimaginably difficult decisions every day, Congressman Minnick has indicated he would have no trouble being the vote that kills health care reform.

Call Congressman Minnick now; tell him Margaret and millions like her can't wait.

Bryan Fischer: No Longer Master of His Domain

Before fleeing Idaho for more fertile ground in the national spotlight, Bryan Fischer, formerly of Idaho Values Alliance infamy, was more than than happy to hijack the tea party movement.  In fact, there he was last April in his blue puffy sweater and maroon turtleneck  running the show at the inaugural tax day rally in Boise.

Boise Weekly's Nathaniel Hoffman was on scene and gave us the visual and lyric.

Led by Boise theocrat Bryan Fischer, an accomplished emcee and master of Astroturf manipulation, the crowd cheered lines about "legalized plunder" and government assistance weakening the character of those who receive it.

And there Fischer was on his website (puffy sweater and turtleneck again) promoting the ideals of the tea party and the "renewed emphasis on individual freedom and responsibility."

Only now that the teabaggers seem to have taken a turn for the secular, Fischer is frightened.

"There's a libertarian streak in the tea party movement that concerns me as a cultural conservative,” said Bryan Fischer, director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association. “The tea party movement needs to insist that candidates believe in the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage."

Not content with letting a good rebellion slip away, Fischer insists that the rebels include his social agenda.  Hoffman, master of the word picture, called it:  "master of Astroturf manipulation."  Only now it seems Fischer has lost his grip on the rebels and their souls.

Frankly, that's hilarious.

Ravings of a Lunatic

Apparently, in the nether regions of Glennbeckistan there's a commie or Nazi hiding under every bushel and churches who do good works, you know helping the poor, the afflicted, the downtrodden, well, they're probably using, gasp, "code words" to trick you into, I don't know, taking away the freedom of the poor to be poor or something.

Apparently, in Glennbeckistan "sieg heil" is synonymous with "inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these..." and religion is just a haven for commie sympathizers.

Apparently, in Glenn Beck's commie hunting zeal he has officially gone completely stark raving mad.

Get a complete rundown of the latest from the lunatic fringer and his attempt to "enlighten" others with his hysterical findings.

Do They Endorse Violence?

Who could vote against condemning a terrorist attack on U.S. soil?  Two U.S. Congressmen did.  One is coming to Idaho in three weeks.

Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a resolution condemning the terror attack by suicide plane on the IRS employees in Austin, Texas and rejecting statements that would encourage or express sympathy for such actions.  This after the elevation of the terrorist to hero status by white supremacists and others on the radical fringe, as reported by Southern Poverty Law Center in their Hatewatch blog.

Stack bitterly railed against a wide variety of targets — big business, corporate executives, unions, the Catholic Church, the recent bailouts of various industries, and more — but he kept coming back to the alleged evils of American government in general and, more specifically, the Internal Revenue Service and tax law. That made him a hero in the eyes of many on the radical right — so-called tax protesters — who have long believed that federal taxes were illegal or simply voluntary. Although many tax protesters who call themselves “sovereign citizens” subscribe to a racist ideology, there was no indication that Stack entertained racist ideas.

The final vote on the resolution was 408 to 2, with Representatives Ron Paul of Texas and Don Young of Alaska the two opposed.

Congressman Paul often votes no on what he considers "unconstitutional legislation."  Just yesterday he voted against recognizing the importance of the Census.  But a congressman refusing to condemn an act of violence--in one's own state, even--could be seen as tacitly endorsing it.

With an explosion in the number of violent anti-government groups recently, it is especially troubling when that congressman has become the champion for many of those anti-government types and even more so, when supporters of that congressman sympathize with and have accused the government of prior knowledge of that attack.

That congressman, whose supporters have infiltrated and are attempting a coup of the Idaho GOP, is scheduled to make an appearance in Idaho, March 27.  Hosted by Idahoans for Liberty, Conservative Student Coalition, Idaho Rights Foundation, Idaho College Republicans, Idaho Freedom Foundation and others, Ron Paul will speak at the Morrison Center in Boise that night.

Idaho Republicans should distance themselves from the Ron Paul, radical fringe, and the groups who give them cover, or Idaho's version of Joe Stack, or the latest, John Patrick Bedell, will not be an aberration.  Given the climate lately, that version may already be set in motion.

The Vote That Kills

Today the Idaho Statesman reports that Congressman Walt Minnick "would have no trouble being the vote that kills President Barack Obama's health care plan — if it still doesn't include the aspects he'd like to see."  So what exactly are the aspects of health care reform that Minnick would like to see?

Last July, Congressman Walt Minnick crafted what he called " five core principles" that he "would use to evaluate proposals for reforms of our nation’s health care system."  They were:

• First, reforms must be fully funded.
• Second, comprehensive, affordable health insurance must be made available to all Americans.
• Third, no "socialized medicine.” The health care system of insurance must be private – not run by the government.
• Fourth, insurance companies must be required to make insurance available to everyone regardless of age, employment status or preconditions.
• And fifth, reforms must reduce costs, not just expand coverage.

Except, apparently there really wasn't very much "core" in those principles and they've been modified somewhat.

Minnick's spokesman John Foster told the Statesman Wednesday that as Minnick has said in the past, he would like to see tort reform and a better way to control costs throughout the country. He also wants to make sure there is no public option, and that whatever is passed doesn't add to the overall cost of the deficit.

So according to John Foster (who strangely enough was commenting on a policy issue despite having taken a leave of absence to work on the reelection campaign), Minnick's health care reform "core principles" now look more like this:

• First Fourth, reforms must be fully funded.
• First, tort reform.
• Second, comprehensive, affordable health insurance must be made available to all Americans.
• Third, no "socialized medicine.” The health care system of insurance must be private – not run by the government.
• Fourth, insurance companies must be required to make insurance available to everyone regardless of age, employment status or preconditions.
• And fifth, Second, reforms must reduce costs, not just expand coverage.

Notice what's now missing from Minnick's list?  That would be the actual reform--the things that help the uninsured get access to health care.  Not only that, but everything else on Minnick's list, including the latest addition—tort reform, is now included in President Obama's current proposal.

Nearly 45,000 people die each year from lack of health care and Walt Minnick wouldn't mind being the vote that kills health care reform.  Apparently he does not have a conscience.

Update:  This is how Foster responded yesterday evening to The Huffington Post:

"Like his constituents in Idaho, Walt continues to hold out hope that the president will propose a bill that will actually reduce their costs of insurance and be something that they will support. It's not surprising that the liberal Huffington Post wouldn't understand his position," said Minnick's campaign spokesman John Foster.

He Googled It!

As others have pointed out, in a week full of hilarity at the Idaho Statehouse, this has to be one of the most hilarious statements made by an Idaho Legislator.  This week, that's saying something.

It comes courtesy of the Idaho Press-Tribune and features Rep. Bob Schaefer (R-Nampa) who seems to know that voter fraud is taking place because, well, he googled it.  

Before speaking in support of the voter identification bill, IdahoReporter.com reported, Schaefer said he entered the phrase “voter fraud” into an Internet search engine and received more than 900,000 results, which he cited as proof that voter fraud is occurring.

Seriously?

The Press-Tribune goes on to report that the voter ID bill that's making its way through the Legislature this week "could slow the election process" or "force the county to hire more poll workers."

Nice.

Some days you don't know whether to laugh or cry.  This is one of those days.

IdaBlue has more discussion here.

Minnick Still Says 'No'

News came yesterday that Idaho Blue Dog Congressman Walt Minnick has not changed his mind on health care reform and will vote against it regardless what iteration of the legislation comes before the U.S. House again.  This after months of posturing that turns out to be just that.

Since first voting no on the legislation in November, Minnick indicated in town halls across the 1st District that he hadn't made up his mind how he would vote on a reconciliation package, saying he would have to see what was in the final draft.  He even touted his own "leaner, meaner" proposal that he admitted didn't do much but hey, on the bright side, didn't cost much either and looked remarkably similar to the House Republican plan.

Must be that allegiance to big business thing again.

In other Minnick news, word came Friday that spokesman John Foster was taking a leave of absence from the congressional office to work on the Minnick reelection campaign.  He made sure to emphasize that this was an unpaid leave of absence, which should be noted, is not to say that he's not being paid, just not by the taxpayers.  This is a bit of a change from his predecessor, Wayne Hoffman, lately of FreeDumb Foundation notoriety, who continued to work in both the campaign and the congressional offices of Bill Sali during the 2008 cycle.

Foster did not make clear whether he would continue receiving federal benefits, including health insurance, while on leave, however.   If not and the Minnick campaign operates as it did in the previous cycle, he won't be receiving health insurance through the campaign and his young family would join the hundreds of thousands of Idahoans without employer sponsored coverage or just going without.

My guess is he's keeping his federal benefits. 

Too bad his boss thinks 30 million people without health insurance is acceptable in the richest country on earth.

Pining For the 19th Century

For members of a religious institution whose history includes persecution by tar and feather-wielding angry mobs to now be part of an angry mob calling for the persecution of others by tar and feathering, requires a special sort of malevolence.

Read all about it.