John Eastman, Constitutional law expert, law professor, former Dean of the Chapman School of Law and head of the National Organization for Marriage was in Oregon Congressman Earl Bow Tie Blumenauer’s cross hairs today at the IRS Hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee. And then it all went wrong for the smug, self satisfied millionaire Congressman who somewhere along in his career began to always think of himself as the smartest guy in the room. He showed the world what we constituents always knew: he’s not. 

Eastman accused the IRS of leaking the National Organization for Marriage list of donors to the Human Rights Project–the group specifically countering pro traditional marriage efforts. Eastman alleged the leak was a felony. He also averred that due to the intimidation of donors after the leak of their names, the pro traditional marriage effort was stalled.

I tweeted along Blumenauer’s statements which basically went like this: advoca

ting for gay marriage is public good and ok, advocating for marriage between a man and a w

When he got the chance to speak again Eastman let Blumenauer have it,oman is political speech, therefore your group was rightly targeted by the IRS. He also made an outrageous statement that it was somehow wrong for NOM to be against pornography. I need to get a direct quote on that. 

“Rep Blumenauer, it’s your kind of statements that empower the IRS agents to make determinations about which organizations qualify for the public good [applause breaks out] and which do not. The notion that defending traditional marriage does not qualify as a defense of the public good is beyond preposterous.” 

And let’s go back down memory lane, shall we, when Bow Tie Blumenauer upbraided Rep Todd Akin for calling the IRS goons a ‘goon squad.” This is when conservative groups started complaining about being targeted and Congressmen started asking about it.