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IRS under fire: Vote for Obama stickers, campaign cheerleading commonplace
The Washington Times ^ | 9 Apr 2014 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 04/09/2014 7:06:57 AM PDT by mandaladon

Even as the IRS faces growing heat over Lois G. Lerner and the tea party targeting scandal, a government watchdog said Wednesday it’s pursuing cases against three other tax agency employees and offices suspected of illegal political activity in support of President Obama and fellow Democrats.

In one case the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates federal employees who conduct politics on government time, said it was “commonplace” in a Dallas IRS office for employees to have pro-Obama screensavers on their computers, and to have campaign-style buttons and stickers at their office. In another case, a worker at the tax agency’s customer help line urged taxpayers “to re-elect President Obama in 2012 by repeatedly reciting a chant based on the spelling of his last name,” the Office of Special Counsel said in a statement.

OSC said it is seeking “significant disciplinary action” against that employee.

Another IRS employee in Kentucky has agreed to serve a 14-day suspension for blasting Republicans in a conversation with a taxpayer.

“They’re going to take women back 40 years,” the IRS employee said in a conversation that was recorded. The employee also said that “if you vote for a Republican, the rich are going to get richer and the poor are going to get poorer.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: irs; irsscandals; lerner; obalatry; obama
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Obama people...no surprise here
1 posted on 04/09/2014 7:06:57 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Disband the IRS, its beyond salvaging.


2 posted on 04/09/2014 7:09:30 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: mandaladon

“Vote for the king of tax and spend — he gives more and more power for us!”


3 posted on 04/09/2014 7:09:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: mandaladon

They will claim religious freedom - Barack is the Obamasiah.


4 posted on 04/09/2014 7:09:55 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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To: mandaladon

We’re in a real mess in this country. A real mess. Too few realize it, unfortunately.


5 posted on 04/09/2014 7:10:17 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: mandaladon
“They’re going to take women back 40 years,”

I'm not a woman but this "IRS employee" can KISS MY ***! I'm not going back to the 70s! No way!

6 posted on 04/09/2014 7:10:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The debate, ANY DEBATE, is NEVER OVER!)
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To: mandaladon
Another IRS employee in Kentucky has agreed to serve a 14-day suspension for blasting Republicans in a conversation with a taxpayer.

Wow, with harsh punishments like this, they will surely think twice before they try anything again.

7 posted on 04/09/2014 7:12:02 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: mandaladon

if you vote for a Republican, the rich are going to get richer and “the poor are going to get poorer.” ......................... or even worse they may have to work for a living because of job creation. Dumb ass, stupid, imbecilic thinking, and they vote!


8 posted on 04/09/2014 7:12:07 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 an election or a coronation of a Queen?)
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To: mandaladon

And just think: They are in charge of collecting the ObamaCommieCare “fines”. Yes, no potential for abuse there. “Oh look, the conservative did not purchase ObamaCommieCare. Well about we raise that fine of his from $40 to $400,000 and the seize his assets.”


9 posted on 04/09/2014 7:13:28 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: mandaladon

> The employee also said that “if you vote for a Republican,
> the rich are going to get richer and the poor are going to
> get poorer.”

The demonRATs had control of Congress for over 40 years, and that’s exactly what happened.

It continues to happen under the 0bummer’s reign.

0bamaphones, EBT cards, section-8 housing, and crappy government “health care” are NOT wealth! They are the PRIME indicators of either poverty or FRAUD.


10 posted on 04/09/2014 7:14:14 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Pietro

Who? Congress? Be serious...


11 posted on 04/09/2014 7:16:25 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: mandaladon

Well, I voted for Romney and the rich got richer while the poor got poorer.


12 posted on 04/09/2014 7:18:13 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: mandaladon
Nothing to see here. Just a couple of people, in a remote office, acting of their own accord.

do i need the /sarc?

13 posted on 04/09/2014 7:22:07 AM PDT by wbill
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To: ilgipper

Least of all the people who actively seek government employment for its low threshold of required effort, arbitrary, intimidating, due-process-mocking power even for the lowliest bureaucrat and the individual and collective pathology that convinces them they are ‘making a difference.’

Combine these with a woefully poor standard of education that has also been tilted sharply left from kindergarten and you have a recipe for disaster.


14 posted on 04/09/2014 7:22:36 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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Disciplinary action for pimping Obama?
Mmmmm....that's gonna put a crimp in the IRS's daily routine.

Looks like they'll have to do a "Peter Sellers" and
subdue their natural instincts to smartly salute der leader.

And forced to take off those yummy brown shirts, too.

DNC-ISSUE BROWN SHIRTS

15 posted on 04/09/2014 7:24:41 AM PDT by Liz
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To: mandaladon
"In another case, a worker at the tax agency’s customer help line urged taxpayers “to re-elect President Obama in 2012 by repeatedly reciting a chant based on the spelling of his last name,”

mmm...mmm...mmm...Barack Hussein Obama.

On a side note, I distinctly remember seeing hordes of USPS workers in their uniforms tramping through airports covered with Obama regalia during the 2008 election cycle.

16 posted on 04/09/2014 7:27:29 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: mandaladon

I tell ya, if someone comes out with a two-plank platform of (1)repealing obamacare and (2)doing away with the IRS, I think they’ll win in a landslide.


17 posted on 04/09/2014 7:27:30 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: mandaladon

See the other article, watch it and puke your brains out. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/4/state-dept-misplaced-6b-under-hillary-clinton-ig-r/


18 posted on 04/09/2014 7:28:11 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 an election or a coronation of a Queen?)
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To: mandaladon
The employee also said that “if you vote for a Republican, the rich are going to get richer and the poor are going to get poorer.”

To which I would have responded WGAF!?

19 posted on 04/09/2014 7:28:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: mandaladon

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3080902/posts?page=23#23


20 posted on 04/09/2014 7:28:45 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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