Hump(ff) Day Jolt

Today on NRO JONAH GOLDBERG: Given the Left's own checkered foreign-policy history, its blame game on Iraq is a dangerous one to play. The Liberal Blame Game on Iraq. AMITY SHLAES: Casey Mulligan gets the Hayek Prize for proving that redistribution hobbles the economy over time. Mulligan for Hayek. ELIANA JOHNSON: The GOP's 2016 hopefuls pay their respects to GWB in Dallas. The Bush Pilgrimage. CELINA DURGIN: Boring, vacuous first daughter's purchases speak louder than her words. Here's How Little Chelsea Clinton Cares About Money, in Dollars. SLIDESHOW: The Devil's Dictionary. Morning Jolt . . . with Jim Geraghty June 25, 2014 Hump(ff) Day Jolt Dear Jolters, Good morning. Or is it? And what about last night? Yep, that's going to leave a mark. Personally, I think what went on from Biloxi to Yazoo City is going to haunt GOP politics for years (let's hope Jim G shares his reflections when he returns to this very place on Monday). But it's best now that you hear from the brains instead of the suits. The Mississippi elections — what, how, and why Thad Cochran prevailed in the senate GOP runoff — are much discussed on NRO today. Check out John Fund's take in The Corner, which concludes "Actually, the message was the antithesis of conservatism — that only an aging 76-year-old incumbent can bring home pork-barrel projects that largely benefit a business elite while the state's voters are saddled with more federal debt." (By the way, I strongly recommend you order John's new book Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department.) Speaking of justice: What recourse do we have in this evolving, growing, and maddening IRS corruption scandal? If you believe the answer in an Obama-appointed special prosecutor, Andrew McCarthy will disagree. The right answer is: impeachment of corrupt IRS officials. Says Andy: The IRS is deeply unpopular with the public and many Americans are offended by the Democrats' use of an intimidating bureaucracy to harass their fellow citizens — they may not be conservatives, but they know it could happen to them, too. Republicans, and any Democrats who still put their duty to the Constitution above their party loyalty, should be taking meaningful action. Let congressional Democrats defend the IRS and any other corrupt officials in the run-up to the midterm elections if that's what they want to do. So, Republicans: Impeach them now, worry about prosecuting them later . . . and please stop whining as if you are powerless to do anything. Back to the elections. Joel Gehrke says Congressman Jim Lankford's not-narrow win over former speaker T.W. Shannon in the Oklahoma GOP senate primary boils down to this: Voters had little reason to reject retiring Sen. Tom Coburn's pick. And please also check out the following: The "Crisis Management" edition of NRO's new weekly podcast, Money and Politics with Kudlow and Pawlenty, awaits your headphones. Jay Nordlinger's fresh ruminations and comments on all sorts of matters, as usual, brilliantly done. NR Institute Buckley Journalism Fellow Ian Tuttle's report on a troubling case — eugenics revisited? — in Virginia. Cooke and Williamson talking Thatcher in the new Mad Dogs and Englishmen podcast. It's conservative ear candy. The Export-Import Bank is a bastion of crony capitalism, and useless. Our new editorial says to shut it down. We've got a new blog, Postmodern Conservative. Enjoy. Friday is almost here folks. Vacation time looms for many of you. Don't spend it without your National Review baseball cap. Best, Jack Fowler Publisher Heck, I almost forgot! Get thee to www.nrcruise.com and book that cabin! To read more, visit www.nationalreview.com Why not forward this to a friend? Encourage them to sign up for NR's great free newsletters here. Save 75%... Subscribe to National Review magazine today and get 75% off the newsstand price. Click here for the print edition or here for the digital. National Review also makes a great gift! Click here to send a full-year of NR Digital or here to send the print edition to family, friends, and fellow conservatives. Follow Tweet NR Podcasts Send National Review, Inc. Order Today! The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits By Jim Geraghty Manage your National Review subscriptions. We respect your right to privacy. View our policy. This email was sent by: National Review, Inc. 215 Lexington Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10016