Posted on 05/29/2013 4:56:46 AM PDT by SJackson
The Washington Examiner reported on Monday that Mark Everson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2003 to 2007, during the Bush administration, visited the White House exactly once while in office. Indeed he felt like he’d “moved to Siberia” so out of the ordinary political loop was he. But Douglas Shulman, Commissioner from 2008 to 2012, during the Obama administration, visited the White House 118 times just in 2010 and 2011. His successor, Steven Miller, also visited “numerous” times.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is a managerial position, not a policy-making one, although his input on the practical realities of tax collection and how the IRS is structured might well be very useful if the President was planning a big push on tax reform. But no such push has been forthcoming. Obama’s sole interest in the tax code has been to raise rates on high earners. So what was the commissioner doing going to the White House more than once a week on average?
One explanation would be the statutory involvement of the IRS in implementing Obamacare. But that bill was signed into law in early 2010. White House logs show on several occasions that he talked with White House staff about health care, but many other times no reason is given for his visit or whom he saw, which in itself is odd.
By his own admission he knew by the spring of 2012 (he resigned in November, 2012) that organizations with the words “Tea Party” in their names were being targeted for extra scrutiny. Is it really believable that someone who had a Wall Street career before coming to Washington five years ago was so politically naïve that he didn’t see the potential for scandal in that information and give the White House a heads-up? And, assuming he did so, is it believable that none of those White House staffers—who can hardly claim political naiveté—did not pass the information along to the president, leaving him to learn of it in the papers?
If so, there are a lot of potential customers to snap up the Brooklyn Bridge at a bargain rate.
Shulman was scheming with WH personnel...
Lighten up . Once he went there for the Easter Egg roll.
It's long past time for conservatives to treat the "I read about it in the paper" BS with the ridicule it deserves. Blood is in the water and the American people want to see some sharks.
What is there to say any longer. Our system is corrupt and most all in government jobs are corrupt. The ones who aren’t corrupt, well, most of them are more concerned with keeping their paycheck.
It sure would be nice to be proved wrong.
Save for a few conservative news junkies like us, few don't have a clue or could care less.
But if their smart phone crashes, well that's a problem......
118 times! That’s a lot of time to spend in that Easter bunny outfit.
With Robert Bauer.
It came down thru Bob Bauer the White House General Consul who met with Shulman over 118 times at the Whitehouse.
Then Shulman assigned it to Lerner. This scandal goes all the way back up to the top in the White House.
Read below on Bauer.
I hope that the GOP can tie this goon back to Shulman who visited the White House 122 times but couldn’t remember anything.
Read more about Bauer below.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-bauer/gIQAgz4w6O_topic.html
Outgoing White House Counsel (December 2009 to June 2011)
Why He Matters
Bauer is one of the nation’s pre-eminent experts on election and campaign finance law, and his views are enormously influential with Democrats.
Married to Anita Dunn.
Another article:
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/11/28/democratic-lawyerobama-advisor-bob-bauer-to-teach-at-nyu/
Bauer is returning to New York University Law School this spring to teach a seminar on political reform.
The course will encompass campaign finance, lobbying laws, voting rights and more—topics Mr. Bauer has had ample exposure to during his 30 years of practice as a lawyer, which include stints working for political campaigns and the Democratic National Committee.
It gets better.
Read the end of this paragraph.
During his time on the campaign trail, Mr. Bauer led challenges to new voter laws backed by Republicans—including suing the state of Ohio in July—and lobbied the Federal Election Commission to allow individuals to text in donations (as did his Romney counterpart). Mr. Bauer also sought to compel the well-funded Republican advocacy group Crossroads GPS to disclose the names of its donors, citing millions of dollars the group has spent on campaign ads attacking Democrats.
This is the guy who pulled the chains with the IRS on behalf of the White House.
You can’t make this stuff up. On May 21, 2013 Obama appointed Bob Bauer to A FEC Presidential Commission on Election Administration.
LOOKING TO STEAL MORE VOTES IN THE FUTURE.
Commission to identify practical, real-world solutions to long voter lines, access to polls.
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Presidential Commission on Election Administration was officially launched today, following President Barack Obama ‘s State of the Union pledge to identify non-partisan ways to shorten lines at polling places, promote the efficient conduct of elections, and provide better access to the polls for all voters.
The 10-member Commission will submit a final report to the President within six months of its first public meeting, which is expected to be held in Washington in June. Headed by Co-Chairs Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg , the Commissioners are experts in election administration, policy and procedures, or leaders from customer service-oriented businesses and industry.
“The President’s expectation is clear,” said Co-Chair Bob Bauer , who served President Obama as White House counsel from December 2009 until 2011, and as General Counsel to the President’s re-election committee and to the Democratic National Committee. “The Commission is charged with developing recommendations based on the best information available for administrative practices that afford voters the opportunity to cast ballots without undue delay and improve their overall experience.”
” The Commission was created by Executive Order 13644, Establishment of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. Commissioners were appointed by the President.:
Robert F. Bauer , Co-Chair and Member – Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Consider the source, but not so fast there, pardner...
"A majority of Americans believe the IRS scandal was part of a deliberate plan to harass conservative groups, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Only 31 percent in the new Washington Post/ABC News poll think the IRS’s targeting was an honest administrative mistake, while 56 percent believe it was deliberate. And 45 percent say the administration is trying to cover up facts about the scandal, while 42 percent believe it is honestly disclosing what it knew.
While there are sharp partisan divides on both of those questions, a wide majority of 74 percent of Americans believe the IRS’s actions were inappropriate. Fifty-one percent said the actions were likely illegal, and 44 percent said otherwise.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/poll-irs-scandal-91655.html#ixzz2UgpRKIss
Elsewhere, FReeper taildragger referred to the GOP rinos as "geldings."
These are frequent complaints. But IMO, the elected politicians still represent the people who elect them.
It is largely the American people who are the geldings more concerned with keeping their paychecks and their status quo. The older I get, the more it seems that most people would live like monkeys in a zoo, if their basic needs were guaranteed, reliably and predictably. Liberty and self-reliance aren't as dear as they were to past generations.
To borrow from Pogo, we have met the geldings and they are us.
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