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December 23, 2020 1:19 p.m. “You scratch my back,” the saying goes, “and I’ll scratch yours… and yours… and yours…” The latest list of presidential pardons and commutations Tuesday night not only featured a long list of the President’s political allies, but also an even longer list of people who recommended those allies for the greatest gift a president can give. The prime example was Steve Stockman, the Tea Partying former Texas congressman convicted of 23 felonies — what prosecutors called a “white-collar crime spree.” Stockman spent more than $1 million of donors’ money on personal expenses, including on a bumbling effort to spy on a political opponent and a trip to Egypt.
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which a lot of people thought would be bad politics. this is kath castro a democrat in florida, take a listen what it was like at her town halls. >> >> you work for us. you work for us. you're our hear our voice, hear our voice. hear our voice. hear our voice. hear our voice. >> now, that was effective. but there's also an argument, that she says this is not a leftist tea partying because newly engaged suburban activists hail from the broad ranging from center to left. the foundation rebuilders in many communities are newly mobilized interconnected grassroots groups led by middle america's mothers and grandmothers. >> we need to be clear what we're talking about. i don't even think that anybody on the left is getting to that level of harassment that was
utah, orrin hatch took a lesson from the defeat of bob bennett and metaphorically speaking orrin hatch put on a three corner hat and started tea partying right away and has survived. lindsey graham took that lesson it appears that eric cantor in his majority leader position, either wasn't able or chose not to be as conservative as his would appear to have been necessary to fend off this successful challenge from david brat, largely based on the issue of immigration. one in which while cantor did say he was going to try to pass something, never said it was going to be amnesty. didn't matter politically. >> lit me just review for viewers tuning. in house majority leader eric cantor has lost his political race to political newcomer dave brat an economics professor who ran in the last days saying a vote for eric cantor is a vote for open borders and lower wages. he said congressman cantor has now publicly declared his intention to pass amnesty as soon as he possibly can with president
until democrats are trusted to have fiscal responsibility, they are not going to be able to turn the corner. do you buy that? >> a couple of important things. one we treat it as completely historically given that the south is republican but that's fairly recent. these things do change. this is a point that the politico piece made. another is that, you know, the demographic of the south are changing the way they are for the rest of the country. and the republican party is not really speaking to that. another problem for the republicans and another opening for the democrats, the divisions within the republican party, the way, for example, the senate race in georgia, where michele nunn is running about five republicans running for the nomination, one out tea partying the other and the way the republican party isn't focused and the primaries within the republican party pushes them in a direction gives the democrats in the south an opening.
>> do you know of anyone that you would say in your opinion had political motives in the role of treating tea party groups? >> no, i do not. >> no, sir. >> reporter: by republicans weren't the only ones to jump to conclusions. the white house did, too. from the start tea partying happened far from washington at the irs tax exempt headquarters in cincinnati. >> there were employees who improperly targeted conservative groups. >> reporter: just employees in cincinnati? no. >> did you and other people in the cincinnati office feel that they were being unfairly blamed? >> i felt like a nuclear strike. i felt they were blaming us. >> reporter: but is this a phony scandal as the president now
president to silence opponents? they found in evidence of that. >> do you know of anyone that you would say in your opinion had political motives in the role of treating tea party groups? >> no, i do not. >> no, sir. >> reporter: by republicans weren't the only ones to jump to conclusions. the white house did, too. from the start tea partying happened far from washington at the irs tax exempt headquarters in cincinnati. >> there were employees who improperly targeted conservative groups. >> reporter: just employees in cincinnati? no. >> did you and other people in the cincinnati office feel that they were being untearily blamed? >> i felt like a nuclear strike. i felt they were blaming us. >> reporter: but is this a phony scandal as the president now calls it? >> with this endless parade of distractions and political
or is the tea party your first step into this arena about issues? >> weis are not tea partying. but we share philosophical concerns. we jealously guard human liberty. i would say my philosophical journey started 10 or 12 years ago. >> a: what about you, john? is this a full-time jofor you? >> i am the chairman of the national board of organization for marriage, but it's a volunteer position. we have a full-time staff. but my day job is a law professor atay chapman universi. >> greta: before this, you were involved in these issues? is this new to you? >> i ran for attorney general in california in 2010. that was as a tea party move was kicking into high gear. i probably spoke to every single one of the groups in california in that campaign of theynire terrific people, home-spun american who is have had enough what have is happening in our country and wanted to do something about it.
>> yeah, it was a really good question and i don't think that jay carney's dancing was enough to get him out of hot water. i don't understand how people can't be aware, especially at the higher up. you have to think about it. dug shulman testified before two committees when he pointedly was asked was his agency targeting tea partying, and pro israel and jewish groups and targeting pro life groups and he adamantly denied it not once but twice. it happened a year after lois learner and other managers, including their chief counsel at the irs, had several different meetings will where they discussed their agency was pointedly targeting tea partyers and pro life groups and pro israel groups so they were aware of it. the question becomes why did they ignore it? maybe it's because they wanted to wait for the story to come out after the election. >> i think that's probably a good point. leslie marshall, we know representative dave camp of the