Posted on 05/30/2013 8:17:16 AM PDT by Biggirl
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New Obie distraction. Furlough notices are going out this week to DoD employees. On annual leave this week so I’ll sign mine next week.
Most likely will do this until Rush is back.
Looking at during the summer doing something like a one week thread, but still thinking it over.
Where is Rush?
I noticed that Mark Stein was sitting in for him yesterday.
Where’s Rush?
Waiting to tee off on the first hole of some course most of us couldn't have access too with people we see on the TV.
On vacation.
Maybe getting a Holder briefing???
He richly deserves one.
...and it’s a good bet he will spend half of next week telling us about it.
Rush has been very pessimistic lately; he thinks that the scandals will have no appreciable effect.
Rush has said that he would always tell his audience when it is time to panic and I assume that would be before it became obvious. Rush has also said that he could trust the American people. But with so many low information voters out there tacitly giving their blessing to corruption and tyranny, is it time to panic?
More news on Lois Lerner....
EXCLUSIVE: Lerner intrigue goes back to ‘96 Durbin/Salvi U.S. Senate race
CHICAGO - The IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics. Specifically, the 1996 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Congressman Dick Durbin and conservative Republican State Rep. Al Salvi.
More than a decade before his 2010 letter to IRS officials urging the agency to target conservative organizations, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s political career crossed paths with Ms. Lerner when she was head of the Enforcement Division of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and directly involved in the 1996 Illinois U.S. Senate race.
“She said, ‘If you promise to never run for office again, we’ll drop this case,’” Salvi recalled.
At the time, Salvi said, he figured it was probably just Dick Durbin’s way of getting him out of politics.
Salvi said he refused Lerner’s offer because he knew he had done nothing wrong and wanted to leave the door open for future campaigns. In 1998, Salvi ran for Illinois Secretary of State while the 1996 FEC case against him continued.
Nearly four years and a hundred thousand dollars in legal fees later, federal judge George Lindbergh dismissed the FEC case against him, leaving the FEC attorney Lois Lerner — who was present and actively arguing before the judge — shocked.
“The judge said to Lerner, ‘Let me get this straight - Mr. Salvi loaning himself money is legal, and you have no complaint against that, is that right?’” Salvi said. “Ms. Lerner agreed. Then the judge said, ‘You just don’t like the way his attorneys filled out the report?’ Lerner agreed.”
Case dismissed, the judge said shaking his head and pounding his gavel, as Lerner objected.
“We never lose!” Lerner said to Salvi afterwards.
Durbin Asks IRS For Help in 2010
After the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case, many incumbent politicians became concerned about the activities of organizations like Crossroads GPS, which had announced it would be running issue ads against Illinois’ Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate Alexi Giannoulias, who was campaigning to succeed Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.
In October 2010, Durbin wrote IRS Commissioner Shulman about the tax exemption status of Crossroads - a job that would find its way to IRS official Lois Lerner.
I write to urge the Internal Revenue Service to examine the purpose and primary activities of several 501(c)(4) organizations that appear to be in violation of the law.
One organization whose activities appear to be inconsistent with its tax status is Crossroads GPS, organized as a (c)(4) entity in June. The group has spent nearly $20 million on television advertising specific to Senate campaigns this year. If this political activity is indeed the primary activity of the organization, it raises serious questions about the organization’s compliance with the Internal Revenue Code.
Other 2010 letters to the IRS with similar requests from elected officials may be included in four Congressional investigations now scheduled to take place in the next few weeks.
Salvi says it will be interesting to see how Lois Lerner, Dick Durbin, the FEC, IRS, and Illinois politics intersect as these investigations continue.
Afternoon, Biggirl. Just checking-in; have to leave to run some errands. BBL...
The coutnry is so badly is divided. Safe to say there are a lot of stupid voters out there.
I agree with Rush. The scandals will have no effect with our many idiot voters.
Great info....the connecting of the dots.
And they don’t see that they have done anything wrong and I guess in their world they have not.
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