Posted on 11/04/2014 1:39:31 AM PST by taildragger
Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obama’s political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative nonprofit groups during the 2012 election, according to letters exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) did not want to publicly release 2012 correspondences exchanged between the IRS and Jeanne Shaheen at her personal Washington office: the agency delayed releasing the information to a major conservative super PAC multiple times, even threatening to see the super PAC in court, according to emails. (RELATED: Lois Lerner And Fellow IRS Official Announced Targeting At 2010 Conference Before Both Of Their Emails Went Missing)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Yep. There were also a number of well publicized recall attempts in Wisconsin, including the governor. The net result in the tit-for-tat was that the liberals lost ground.
Article I, Section 5, of the United States Constitution provides that "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member."
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Expulsion_Censure.htm
I’m angry and I’m guessing there are quite a few others in the electorate who are angry. When anger takes action, it will crawl though broken glass to get to the voting booth. That should take Brown over the top.
The whole point of having 6-year terms in the Senate instead of 2-year terms in the House of Representatives is to insulate the senators from current public opinion and allow them to vote for measures that are good for the nation - even if unpopular at the time.
We can all see how that has worked.
It will be VOTER ANGER that will get Scott Brown elected.
It was also set up so that Senators were elected from the State. This made them accountable to the power within the state house. Since the change to make them popularly elected, they are just big Congressmen.
There was a reason it was set up the way it was. Of course, hardly anyone in the gen pop understands this.
Actually, the vote for Obamacare would have passed WITH Brown.
Brown’s vote was going to be the 60th to end cloture. Instead, the Senate passed the bill as it sat—not needing 60 votes, but a simple majority.
Brown’s election caused a change in the strategy of the Dems. It was a step that caught a lot of people off guard. Brown did was he said he was going to do.
After that he became a MA Liberal Republican RINO, which is the best we can do lately.
I hope he wins tonight, because I detested Shaheen when I lived in NH. But if anyone is expecting Bob Smith from Brown, they will be really, really upset.
Yes, you are so right. I should have mentioned that and the 17th amendment.
Right again - most people are not aware of this. I’ve mentioned this to several acquaintances who weren’t aware and who didn’t quite believe it. LOL
Why don’t we know all six senators that signed this letter? When I heard about this letter that Shumer wrote and some Senators had signed it, it was about 6 months, maybe a year ago and they named my Senator Merkeley-OR as one of them. Nobody in this state has mentioned it and are surprised when I tell them he signed the letter.
And they cannot grasp how a Senator beholding to the State’s political machine would benefit the STATE. But since 1865, we havent really given a hoot about the STATE.
“Live free or die”, forget it, after all this is Red Hampshire, where the truth never seems to come around.
What do they do if their elected Senator is sitting in Jail!?!?!?!?
I look forward to President Cruz's IRS Commissioner, Sarah Palin, returning the favor.
Borat Obola and Lowest Learner have proven that you can't destroy Conservatism by using the IRS as a weapon.
We will find out in a couple of years whether or not using the IRS against Liberalism will prove fruitful.
In TX, no state official of any kind can be recalled, but local officials can be recalled if permitted by city charters.
Actually it worked very well until the 17th Amendment. Senators were beholden to the State Legislature that appointed them. If the 17th amendment disappeared today the Republicans would have a 3/4 majority in the Senate.
Why don’t we know all six senators that signed this letter?
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See last link...
In this article, it calls out the rest of the democrats as well, like Hagan and Pryor.
Senate Dems Have as Much to Explain as the IRS
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brian-walsh/2013/05/14/senate-democrats-pushed-for-irs-tea-party-snooping-before-criticizing-it
From Max Baucus to Chuck Schumer to Jeanne Shaheen, key Senate Democrats publicly pressured the IRS to target groups that held differing political views and who, in their view, had the temerity to engage in the political process. The IRS listened to them and acted. And other Democrat senators like Kay Hagan and Mark Pryor said and did nothing about it.
6 Democrat senators were in on this: (call out the others too)
Senators Charles E. Schumer, Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Jeanne Shaheen and Al Franken
http://www.schumer.senate.gov/Newsroom/record.cfm?id=336270
I wish more people would remember and talk about that whole amazing election. Scott Brown ran for Ted Kennedy's seat in an off year election on voting against the health care law. Scott Brown an R won Ted Kennedy's seat of what 40 years? in Massachusetts to prevent the D's from getting their 60 vote majority come January.
Before he was seated, they rammed through the bill copying and pasting it to another passed house bill and knowing that even the MA voters had specifically voted in an R against impossible odds to send a message to the D's to NOT pass the bill, they did it anyway and made it take effect after the 2012 election purposely.
These people are evil, knowing they skirted the law shutting out half the countries representatives, but then to continue on the destruction of the tea party through the IRS puts them over the top as evil to the core.
yep, it was all calculated from the start to play it out that way.
the leftists are conniving, cunning, and evil to the core. they prey on the weak minded, and rely on the indifference of the fat, lazy electorate to not pay any attention to their illegal shennanigans, along with a complicit media to run cover for them.
they cheat when they need to win a particular election, and they get away with it, they have been doing this crap for decades.
Published too late for effective use by the Brown campaign.
When you have the MSM against you, you will not get any publicity on something like this, especially at the last minute.
And many TV local news folks won’t cover it as it is a late surprise and they will say they have no way of checking it out and it is prejudicial.
Nope. Rope.
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