U.S. Democratic Party

BOB SCHIEFFER: When the burglars broke into Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate, a lot of us back then found it hard to believe. Why would anyone break into a political headquarters? What did they hope to find? Bumper stickers? Yard signs? Nobody is dumb enough to pull a stunt like that. But they were! I admit I had about the same reaction when I first heard the IRS had gone after the tea party last year. The tea party? Surely no one could be dumb enough to think you could get away with that in an election year. But they were! So, welcome to dumb and dumber. It did take awhile for the news to get to some quarters. We've heard that the President said he didn't find out about it until last week. Last week! Which qualified him for Washington's fastest-growing club: the longer and longer list of officials who suddenly don't know much about a lot of unpleasant things, from Benghazi to the Associated Press investigation. At this point, spare me the talking points and the excuses. No matter whether Republicans or Democrats are doing this kind of thing, this stuff is not just wrong, it's really stupid, and it will take more than firing a few temps and low-level bureaucrats to fix it. The president won re-election with a smart political team, but the election is over. Maybe he should look now for people of substance who know about other things who could help him govern.

Ann Coulter weighs in on South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian saying Republican SC Gov. Nikki Haley should "go back to wherever the hell she came from." Haley comes from Indian Sikh ancestry. ANN COULTER: A Republican would never say this. This is covered in my book, Mugged. All the racism, the Jim Crow laws, the slavery, this all came from the Democrats. Fortunately, Republicans now outnumber Democrats in the South. But you still get the vestiges of it with guys like this. SEAN HANNITY: Unbelievable. Imagine if a Republican said it, it would be all over the place. COULTER: No Republican would say it. This is classic Democrat behavior. HANNITY: Wait. There are people in the Republican party that say stupid things. COULTER: Stupid things, but racism is endemic to the Democratic party. Just causually, recently, Biden talking about Obama being clean and articulate. And Clinton saying, a few years ago, 'Oh, he would be getting my suitcase.' And Harry Reid, 'it's wonderful he doesn't speak in a negro dialect unless he wants to.' No Republican on earth would ever say those things. But Democrats think, 'Oh yes, we have you all on welfare and then destroy the black family in America, so we don't owe you anything else. Just keep voting for us and don't expect us to do anything for you, black Americans.'