The Liberal Union Behind the IRS

The American Spectator ^ | 5/16/2013 | Jeffrey Lord

[RoosterRedux]

The IRS?

It’s about a union: the National Treasury Employees Union. The NTEU. A left-wing union representing 150,000 employees in 31 separate government agencies, including the IRS. A union that not only endorsed President Obama for election and re-election, but a union whose current president, Colleen Kelly, was a 14-year IRS agent and now is both union president and Obama administration appointee (of which more in a moment).

It’s about 94% of NTEU union contributions going to Democrats in the Senate and House in 2012 — candidates who campaigned as vociferous opponents of the Tea Party.

And the recently released report from the Treasury Inspector General? You will not find a single reference to the NTEU. Whose members are both player and referee in the exploding controversy over the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

Which raises the obvious question: how many NTEU members were involved in the writing of the Inspector General’s report?

Even more to the point, what contact — what coordination — has the Obama White House had with their allies in the NTEU leadership as both the White House and the NTEU race to get on top of a scandal that is rapidly engulfing both?

Did I mention that the NTEU has no comment on all of this? And that when President Obama went in front of cameras to make his statement on the IRS scandal — he never once mentioned his very powerful union buddies that have the run of the IRS? Right down to the control of who gets a Blackberry? Literally.

Let’s first see how the IRS/NTEU game with the Tea Party and conservatives is played, shall we?

[RoosterRedux]

Excellent.

[ConservativeInPA]

The NTEU represents the following union scum members:

Dept. of Agriculture
• Farm Service Agency
• Food and Nutrition Service

Dept. of Commerce
• Patent and Trademark Office

Dept. of Energy

Dept. of Health and Human Services
• Administration for Children and Families
• Administration on Community Living
• Food and Drug Administration
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• Indian Health Service
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Office of the Secretary
• Program Support Center
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Dept. of Homeland Security
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Dept. of the Interior
• National Park Service

Dept. of the Treasury
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing
• Bureau of the Public Debt
• Departmental Offices
• Financial Management Service
• Internal Revenue Service
• Office of Chief Counsel
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
• Tax and Trade Bureau

Environmental Protection Agency

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Election Commission

National Credit Union Administration

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Securities and Exchange Commission

Social Security Administration
• Office of Disability Adjudication and Review

[hoosiermama]

Any way we can find out if any individuals in the groups listed in the following articles are also in this union

http://m.cnsnews.com/blog/mike-ciandella/soros-gave-61-million-groups-linked-pressure-irs-target-conservative-nonprofits

Were the four employees who “were just doing what the boss told them to do “ getting a bonus for their efforts? Where’d the money come from?

Two will be testifying Monday in front of congress

[SueRae]

Me too.

[NRA1995]

I’m certain that when the IRS was created (BTW, let’s quit calling it a “service,” it’s anything BUT a service), there were all kinds of assurances from the liberals of the day that taxation powers would never be used for political purposes or to squash a political party, oh how could you think such a thing, oh government would never stoop so low, etc, etc

[dead]

This is a monstrously important article.

This union is the ghost in the machine.

[RoosterRedux]

I emailed it to Bret Baier but have no idea if it will register.

[listenhillary]

I wish they could write articles to be read instead of designed to boost page hits.

[No One Special]

This should be in breaking news and stay there for a while. Very important article for ideals of conservatism and small government. Most of the important info is at the site as the article is excerpted. All freepers should read.

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks roosterRedux!

LucyT, MestaMachine, butterdezillion

Pinging y’all to this topic.

Also see post #22!

[RoosterRedux]

Thank you for spreading this story. It’s mindboggling how this has slipped by so far without being noticed.

[cripplecreek]

And this is exactly why public employee unions are unconstitutional.

[Carry_Okie]

This is the ‘chain of command’ Obama used. That way, the ‘orders’ are not traceable within the Administration.

[Envisioning]

I think it is time......this is utter BS!

[MrB]

I can’t think where they’d be unconstitutional,

but they definitely are inherently a conflict of interest to the detriment of the people of the USA.

[RoosterRedux]

Right.

Obama thinks he is so smart to have the unions controlling everything behind the scenes. Too smart by half.

I think Obama is going down.

[Mr. K]

Govt employee unions should be PROHIBITTED from using funds to support political candidates.

It is using tax dollars against taxpayers, plain and simple.

Government unions should be barred completely, in fact

[cripplecreek]

Public service unions are in a position to enforce their will through force and coercion.

Cop Union Boss Boasts of Beating Lawmakers With Flashlights: If Soldiers Don’t Have Unions, Why Do Police and Teachers? (Story from 2011)

"We intend to walk into Lansing after the summer break and ask the Republicans who have been so eagerly screwing us, 'who's next?' If we cannot earn their respect we will do what we have always done; hit it with a flashlight until we gain compliance."

[Graewoulf]

Impeachment File on B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the sovereign Nation of Indonesia.

[Carry_Okie]

Obama thinks he is so smart to have the unions controlling everything behind the scenes. Too smart by half.

These demonstrations of connivance and perfidy do add up in the public mind, in that for each, the likelihood of the connections necessary for attribution increase. It becomes a pattern of behavior, the fearful obsession for total power, a delusional and paranoid narcissist grasping at every straw and tossing garbage cans in the alley to avoid pursuit.