You get the impression that an application would arrive...spend four months on the pile, then get handed to some guy who would spend an entire week trying to read twelve pages. At the end of the week....he just couldn’t make up his mind....tossed it back onto the pile, and a month later...another guy would spend a week reading it. Eventually, they’d rewrite the questions, and start the process over.
You just can’t do business this way. Part of the blame goes back to how Congress and the Senate devised the 501C business, and basically told IRS to make up its own rules and questions for those who would comply. There are twenty-nine categories within 501C....with likely a thousand pages of various rules, standards, and protocol involved. I wouldn’t even want to apply for a job like this.
Applying liberal logic to the IRS scandal:
Just as having an all-white, all-male Board of Directors is evidence of racial and sex discrimination (if there weren’t, the composition of the board would be more “diverse”), the fact that the IRS activity had the same effect as cheating is evidence of cheating.
I’ll bet if Mr. Ransom dug a bit deeper, he’d find those 24 liberal groups were approved in a couple weeks and didn’t have to provide much information, whereas the conservative groups suffered through 3 years of anal exam and had to disclose everything. Some budding groups folded up before even getting launched for fear that the founder’s lives would be destroyed by the IRS if they continued. This is unbridled tyranny.
“There continues to be no evidence that the targeting was directed by agency higher-ups, much less anyone related to the Obama campaign. In fact, there’s still not much evidence that the targeting was politically biased in intent, even as it was clearly politically biased in effect.”
Clearly wishful thinking.
“still not much evidence” YET. Just because there isn’t much evidence yet, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just means that it hasn’t been uncovered yet. Lots of shredding going on. Lots of emails being deleted.
And, in fact, I think there is already plenty of evidence. Klein and his ilk prefer to look the other way as if that makes it disappear.
The fact that everyone involved is stonewalling and stalling is also evidence. If they had nothing to hide, they wouldn’t be so desperately trying to hide it.
A proven lie. Let's see those names, then an an explanation as to why we haven't seen then trumpeted on MSNBC 24/7.