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Breaking: Lois Lerner Sued Christian Coalition In Largest FEC Action in History – Then Was Promoted
Gateway Pundit ^ | 5/22/13

Posted on 05/22/2013 4:17:01 PM PDT by hope

Under the direction of Lois Lerner, the Federal Election Commission sued the Christian Coalition in the 1990s. She harassed the Christian Coalition for three election cycles. She lost her case. Lerner even asked one conservative during the case if Pat Robertson prayed over him. (Sound familiar?)

These actions landed her at the IRS where she used the same tactics against conservatives and Christians – only on a much larger scale. 500 conservative and Christian groups were illegally targeted by the Obama IRS during her tenure. For twenty-seven months the Obama IRS refused to approve any Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status. At the same time the Obama IRS approved dozens of progressive applications.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 666; bhoirs; christian; christiancoalition; conservative; fec; irs; irsscandal; lawsuit; loislerner; politicalpersecution; radicalleft; religiouspersecution; warongod
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To: reasonisfaith

He is trying to inject reason into this, and warn us away from the cliff.

No one, and I mean no one, in Washington will push this. Politically you are either beating up a woman or the first black president. The Dems are hoping that Issa follows it right over the edge. Gives them great fodder for the next election cycle.

And while we were looking at this, they are going to pass amnesty. Which will be the end of the conservative movement for a generation (till the Hispanics realize they have been played. Which some already are figuring out).

Rush is right. There is no chance of this turning out well for the GOP. All laws are political these days, and the politics say that little Lerner will get a nice fat promotion for slamming Christians, again.


21 posted on 05/22/2013 4:43:05 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: 3D-JOY

Totally hard to believe that her counsel did not advise her that if she gave the statement and then invoked the Fifth, that she would/had, in fact, lose/lost her right to invoke the Fifth. I wonder why?


22 posted on 05/22/2013 4:43:29 PM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: lonevoice

You fool me with that GIF...I kept trying to squash the bug I really thought it was real....LOL


23 posted on 05/22/2013 4:43:39 PM PDT by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: lonevoice

LOL! You almost made me smash my monitor.


24 posted on 05/22/2013 4:43:54 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: 3D-JOY

The reason she took the fifth was so she wouldn’t contradict her previous testimony. She knows they are taking depositions Doesn’t know what they are saying. IRS lower employees usually hate the big shots who run the dept with a tyranical fist.
Have no doubt they’ll rat on their superiors


25 posted on 05/22/2013 4:46:16 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
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To: seeker41
I was trying to squash it as well.


26 posted on 05/22/2013 4:46:52 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: hoosiermama

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022709/posts

The Time Lois Lerner Failed To Investigate A Major Al Gore Fundraiser At The FEC


27 posted on 05/22/2013 4:49:06 PM PDT by maggief
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To: redgolum

The strategy of painting the IRS as a victim is not a guaranteed win. Not by a long shot.

And the first thing to do is exactly what will win this for the conservative side. And it’s exactly the opposite of what Rush is doing.

It’s called not being afraid.


28 posted on 05/22/2013 4:50:39 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: All
Lerner began her Congressional testimony by reading a self-serving statement, then declared that she’d answer no questions. Cong Trey Gowdy objected, insisting that once you start yapping in your own interest, you’re not allowed to clam up again.

Trey Gowdy knows more than anyone---we are dealing w/ practiced con artists---the logic of established law does not work w/ these cons. Trey needs to grill Lerner about this:

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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION APPROVES 50 MILLION DOLLARS IN AID TO KENYA. O'S HALF BRO READY TO CASH IN---RUNS THE TAX-EXEMPT "DO-GOOD" OBAMA FOUNDATION

NAMED FOR DEAR OLD DAD The tax-exempt “charity” named in honor of their Dad, is run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother Malik.

The tax-exempt Obama foundation, fast-tracked by Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status, is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.

As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......which it stupidly never applied for.

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The tax-exempt Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by Abon’go “Roy” Malik Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama. The foundation’s mission statement is “to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond.” Its guiding principle is “the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.”

(same old, same old sap-happy do-goodniks)

Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesn’t seem to have done much. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building an imam’s house as well as some “proposed latrines,” but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to “mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance,” as the site says.

Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporter’s passport and govt ID, along with a description of the article’s “motivation” and “slant.”

Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organization’s voicemail and were not returned.

Obama's half-brother Malik holds up photo of Obama in Muslim
dress taken on a trip to Kenya when Ohaha was about 23-24 yo.

29 posted on 05/22/2013 4:53:00 PM PDT by Liz (To learn who rules over you, determine who you are not allowed to criticize. Voltaire)
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To: Mygirlsmom

“She’s not the one who will be leading healthcare.”

Within the IRS, I thought she was.


30 posted on 05/22/2013 4:56:43 PM PDT by Durbin
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To: hope

Ok. Using kindle, patience.

One thing about this Lerner woman no one’s mentioned yet, she comes across as one of the most arrogant people ever. S he does not photograph well.

Relubs would do well to do a minute clip of some of herl snide responses. Even the lo.fo voters will despise this woman.


31 posted on 05/22/2013 4:57:31 PM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; lonevoice

>> How many people has that bug fooled?

It got me... I have had a couple gnat things in the office all day — I thought it was one of ‘em.


32 posted on 05/22/2013 4:58:21 PM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: reasonisfaith
The strategy of painting the IRS as a victim is not a guaranteed win. Not by a long shot.

And the first thing to do is exactly what will win this for the conservative side. And it’s exactly the opposite of what Rush is doing.

It’s called not being afraid.

Rush is a great salesman for the virtues of conservatism. I learned with Bush v Gore in 2000 that Rush doesn't always grasp what is going on in real time. Carefully sorting through FreeRepublic offers insights Rush can't begin to match.

I love Rush, but he often embarrasses himself.

33 posted on 05/22/2013 5:04:59 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

#9 re the bug. Didn’t fool me. Tasted like “chicken”.


34 posted on 05/22/2013 5:07:13 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 3D-JOY

RE Lerner being in “big doo-doo now”.

Remember, in the Obama regime, the biggest turds always seem to rise to the top of the toilet and float away unscathed.

Time that Congress flushed them “DOWN” permanently with contempt citations, subpoenas and the always wonderful “DEPOSITION”.

Perjury, thy name is “Obama official”.


35 posted on 05/22/2013 5:09:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Senator_Blutarski

It’s comforting to hear you say that.

Because if not grasping it doesn’t explain Rush’s behavior, then I’d wonder if he was on the take.


36 posted on 05/22/2013 5:09:38 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: hope

Lerner’s demeanor reminds me of Sebelius. Where do they get these fembots? They have no moral compass. Do they enjoy selling America out so they can buy nice clothes?


37 posted on 05/22/2013 5:09:41 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: redgolum

If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Its time to stand tall.

Rush is dead wrong about this. You do what is RIGHT and JUST, without fear. Period.


38 posted on 05/22/2013 5:12:04 PM PDT by rintense
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To: hope

Pattern of discrimination by the government.

How does the rest of that go? Doesn’t it involve federal judges, orders for reparations, constant oversight by some commission, etc?


39 posted on 05/22/2013 5:15:36 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Durbin
No. That would be that "delightful young lady" (cough) in the pic.

Sarah Hall Ingram became Division Commissioner of the Tax Exempt & Government Entities (TE/GE) Division – the head of the division that included the group that targeted Tea Party groups - at the IRS in 2009, a congressional source told Fox News' Mike Emanuel. She was then assigned to head up the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at the IRS in 2010 after the law was enacted. handles health care law.

40 posted on 05/22/2013 5:16:36 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom ("I am not the President, I just play one after I watch some TV")
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