Posted on 05/26/2013 12:00:02 PM PDT by smoothsailing
May 26, 2013
The cover-up is worse than the crime. The crime is so heinous it requires a cover-up.
Now, heads are rolling as President Obama throws more supporters under a bus convoy.
The first was a fake, as Obama grandly displayed the “forced resignation” of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. Since he was already going to retire, the timing worked well, unless any reporters found out.
They did.
Within hours, the nation learned that Mr. Miller had already planned his June resignation well in advance of any public controversy.
Two low level employees whose crime is reportedly following orders have been allegedly reprimanded in some quiet manner.
Then Joseph Grant, commissioner of the agency’s tax exempt and government entities division, announced he will retire on June 3. As part of his duties, Grant oversaw the IRS division that illegally targeted tea party groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. Grant was only there for a few days. His predecessor escaped to run the Obamacare IRS office, where she’ll use her skills to protect the privacy of all Americans as she did with the dissident groups named “Tea Party,” “Patriot” and “taught the Constitution.”
The next one is former IRS Tax Exempt Unit Chief Lois Lerner, infamously in charge of the unit that illegally targeted conservative non-profit applicants.
She has chosen to “plead the fifth” at Congressional hearings investigating the depth and breadth of this administration’s use of the I.R.S. as a political weapon of harassment and intimidation.
Lerner joins such notables as convicted Republican political felon Jack Abramoff, mobster Joe Bonanno, former Clinton crony Webb Hubbell, psychic fraudster Miss Cleo and Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg in the rogues gallery of those who “take the fifth” for fear that telling the truth would cause each person to incriminate themselves.
Stunningly, there are Democrats still defending the Nixonian tactic of terrorizing innocent Americans with the threat of debilitating their lives with the most feared agency in the U.S. Government, the IRS.
Donna Brazile, a powerful Democratic Party operative you’ve likely seen on TV, wrote an amazingly puerile attempt to deflect attention from two of the current Obama administration scandals. She writes, “… two ‘scandals’ — the IRS tax-exempt inquiries and the Department of Justice’s tapping of reporters’ phones — have become lynch parties. And the congressional investigation of Benghazi may become a scandal in itself.”
What Brazile is saying here is that the perpetrators are the “victims”!
She writes, “Our democracy is endangered. Not by the Russians, North Korea, the Iran regime, or even terrorists. To quote Pogo: ‘We have met the enemy and he is us.’
According to Brazile, anyone who investigates these illegal actions of the Obama administration is threatening democracy… and they’re racists, as in “lynch parties.”
This is a woman who was fired from a Democratic Presidential campaign for spreading false philandering rumors about a Republican Presidential candidate and then went on to work for Bill Clinton as an advisor.
Hardcore Democrats like Brazile are wrong. A President spying on reporters and tapping their phone lines is a much greater threat to our nation than investigating the crime and still more of a threat than Brazile’s divisive race-baiting and rumor-mongering.
Even liberals such as the insufferable Piers Morgan confess such a violation of basic constitutional rights smacks of “tyranny,” a word he admittedly mocked on his cable show. (Note: Piers has also mocked the U.S. Constitution)
Brazile is only one of many supporters and Obama insiders helping to circle the wagons around these scandals.
Employees in the Cincinnati branch of the IRS have told reporters that they are not allowed to talk to the press under threat of being fired.
White House senior staff confessed knowledge of the IRS scandal, saying they kept it from the President. They knew, but didn’t tell him.
He learned of it from TV news.
Of course he did.
Will Americans believe the new Administration slogan that the President isn’t a crook, he’s just incompetent?
Or will there be traction to the epithet, “Richard Milhous Obama?”*
The cover-up is worse than the crime. The crime is so heinous it requires a cover-up.
Now, heads are rolling as President Obama throws more supporters under a bus convoy.
The first was a fake, as Obama grandly displayed the “forced resignation” of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. Since he was already going to retire, the timing worked well, unless any reporters found out.
They did.
Within hours, the nation learned that Mr. Miller had already planned his June resignation well in advance of any public controversy.
Two low level employees whose crime is reportedly following orders have been allegedly reprimanded in some quiet manner.
Then Joseph Grant, commissioner of the agency’s tax exempt and government entities division, announced he will retire on June 3. As part of his duties, Grant oversaw the IRS division that illegally targeted tea party groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. Grant was only there for a few days. His predecessor escaped to run the Obamacare IRS office, where she’ll use her skills to protect the privacy of all Americans as she did with the dissident groups named “Tea Party,” “Patriot” and “taught the Constitution.”
The next one is former IRS Tax Exempt Unit Chief Lois Lerner, infamously in charge of the unit that illegally targeted conservative non-profit applicants.
She has chosen to “plead the fifth” at Congressional hearings investigating the depth and breadth of this administration’s use of the I.R.S. as a political weapon of harassment and intimidation.
Lerner joins such notables as convicted Republican political felon Jack Abramoff, mobster Joe Bonanno, former Clinton crony Webb Hubbell, psychic fraudster Miss Cleo and Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg in the rogues gallery of those who “take the fifth” for fear that telling the truth would cause each person to incriminate themselves.
Stunningly, there are Democrats still defending the Nixonian tactic of terrorizing innocent Americans with the threat of debilitating their lives with the most feared agency in the U.S. Government, the IRS.
Donna Brazile, a powerful Democratic Party operative you’ve likely seen on TV, wrote an amazingly puerile attempt to deflect attention from two of the current Obama administration scandals. She writes, “… two ‘scandals’ — the IRS tax-exempt inquiries and the Department of Justice’s tapping of reporters’ phones — have become lynch parties. And the congressional investigation of Benghazi may become a scandal in itself.”
What Brazile is saying here is that the perpetrators are the “victims”!
She writes, “Our democracy is endangered. Not by the Russians, North Korea, the Iran regime, or even terrorists. To quote Pogo: ‘We have met the enemy and he is us.’
According to Brazile, anyone who investigates these illegal actions of the Obama administration is threatening democracy… and they’re racists, as in “lynch parties.”
This is a woman who was fired from a Democratic Presidential campaign for spreading false philandering rumors about a Republican Presidential candidate and then went on to work for Bill Clinton as an advisor.
Hardcore Democrats like Brazile are wrong. A President spying on reporters and tapping their phone lines is a much greater threat to our nation than investigating the crime and still more of a threat than Brazile’s divisive race-baiting and rumor-mongering.
Even liberals such as the insufferable Piers Morgan confess such a violation of basic constitutional rights smacks of “tyranny,” a word he admittedly mocked on his cable show. (Note: Piers has also mocked the U.S. Constitution)
Brazile is only one of many supporters and Obama insiders helping to circle the wagons around these scandals.
Employees in the Cincinnati branch of the IRS have told reporters that they are not allowed to talk to the press under threat of being fired.
White House senior staff confessed knowledge of the IRS scandal, saying they kept it from the President. They knew, but didn’t tell him.
He learned of it from TV news.
Of course he did.
Will Americans believe the new Administration slogan that the President isn’t a crook, he’s just incompetent?
Or will there be traction to the epithet, “Richard Milhous Obama?”*
* Thanks to WDEL listener Jerry for the Nixon epithet.
Also see,
Obama’s History of Intimidation and Duplicitous Behavior
Nixon did love America and was keen on foreign policy.
This is an insult to President Nixon.
The White House press hounded Nixon. Today they won’t ask Obama one direct honest question. They are not journalists. They are colluding wimps.
Nixon was a real American citizen. We know where he was born. Unlike the current POS POTUS.
I fail to see the comparison. It’s an insult to Nixon.
Agreed...the difference between Nixon and Obama is that the press HATED Nixon while they adore Obama...they will do what they can to protect their messiah.
Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy, the two most vilified men of the 20th century. Both undeservedly so. Don’t believe me. Just look at their records and the records of those that scream “Nixononian” and “McCarthyism” the loudist.
True,a great way to piss off an Obama lover is to compare them to Nixon, though. Believe me, it drives them up the wall.
Indeed. Nixon had more honesty, integrity and love for America than Obama has ever had. Plus, Nixon did serve in the Armed Forces during World War II.
I think the Liberal Messiah is losing touch with reality. Notice how he doesn’t make anywhere near as many public appearances (isolation). His treatment of the media smacks of paranoia. I wouldn’t be surprised if before we get to serious talk of impeachment there’s an invocation of the 25th Amendment (which would make Biden the Acting President).
Impeach both together (make a big “effing” deal of it). Even John Boehner would be a vastly better president.
It is indeed.
Nixon loved America, this clown wants it destroyed.
Even the Statesman Journal is seeing the light (Statesman Journal articles can’t be posted on FR)
AND THIS (from the side bar) —
“I actually noticed the transformation last summer. He was in the Rose Garden at some ceremony for the doctor who had delivered him in Kenya when I noticed little beads of perspiration sparkling in the sunshine on the President’s upper lip. This wouldn’t have been unusual, except it was 43 degrees that morning and there was a cool breeze coming off David Axelrod.” !!!!!
“Richard Milhous Obama?”*
*Thanks to WDEL listener Jerry for the Nixon epithet.
Heck, Mark Levin’s been saying “Barack Milhous Obama” for 8-10 months, at least.
Indeed. Though it saddened me when I learned that Nixon’s daughter Julie supported Obama in 2008. Why would she support a candidate who most likely hated her father and is well to the left of anything George McGovern was accused of being?
“Richard Milhous Obama?”*
*Thanks to WDEL listener Jerry for the Nixon epithet.
Heck, Mark Levin’s been saying “Barack Milhous Obama” for 8-10 months, at least.
Mark Levin Has been Calling Obama that since he became ‘P’resident.
Campared to Obama, Nixon was a choir boy.
Obama lies about almost everything - there is no one else in his league.
Just about the only time he wasn’t lying is when he said he wanted to fundamentally transform America.
He has done his best to keep that promise.
He ignores the US Constitution and implements socialism in every action he takes.
That sidebar comment is a hoot! :)
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