Baghdad Jim McDermott sounded like the old coot he is today during the House Ways and Means Committee’s IRS Hearing when he basically told the victims of the IRS that they deserved it. And they were PREPARED REMARKS. 

“If you didn’t come in and ask for this tax break, you would have never had a question asked of you. You could go out and say anything you want to world. And I get the feeling that many of you and [laughs] my Republican colleagues believe you should be free from political targeting but you believe you should be free from any scrutiny.” 

I’ll bet he tells that to allllll the rape victims. Following this absurd soliloquy, a Tea Party member corrected him by saying that 501c4 organizations don’t take food out of the mouths of starving children. Another Congressman corrected his lie about applications being four times the number they were before. 

In other words it was a typical day for Baghdad Jim. 

And Congressman Paul Ryan came back after McDermott: