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Posted on 05/17/2013 2:39:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If you have been following the Internal Revenue Service scandal over the past 24 hours or so, you may be reeling, just a bit. And if you haven’t, you’ve missed an out-of-body experience in which the IRS, the administration and Democrats seem to think Americans are a bunch of dopes.
1. At his contentious hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, Steven T. Miller, the IRS’s outgoing acting commissioner, denied anything illegal was done. He denied targeting groups. But yes, groups with “tea party” and other conservative flags got different treatment. It was bad, what they did, he allowed. No buzz word like “progressive” was used to flag liberal groups. And he wants a bigger IRS budget. (Honestly, you can’t make this up.)
2. The IRS did not reveal the scandal before the 2012 election. The IRS falsely informed Congress the targeting wasn’t going on. Even NBC’s Lisa Myers could figure out, “Imagine if we — if you can — what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.”
3. Miller said this was a matter of “horrible customer service.”
4. Miller asserted that the woman who ran the group that engaged in this behavior and is now running the Obamacare unit is a “superb civil servant.” (Right about now, you might think he was pulling our leg, but he was sincere.)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
From the WP? Is the media turning on the great marxist messiah?
Federal employees are parasites.
Look at the masthead of the original article.
Oh. LOL
Rubin is the WasPost token establishment republican.
Have we only heard testimony from white people? Have the Obama bureaucrat turned on their white fellow travelers? And white marines hold his umbrella...
This was in the WP? In those famous words from Frank Barone....... Holy crap!
Ah, Mr. D1, you’ve got 237 bank note wrappers here on the floor, 2,233 consecutive bank notes, the bag with dye all over it, and what looks like the Anime wig used in bank robbery from down the street. Can you explain this?
Well, I don’t know where the bank note wrappers came from. They weren’t here when I sat down.
The bills on the floor were old and wrinkled when I put them there.
The bag, I haven’t seen before. I’m not sure who put it there.
As for the wig, I like to put it on and dream of being a back-up singer for Nicole Sherzingger. I can actually hit C two octives above middle-C when I’m happy. Whoopieeeeeee...
Okay Mr. Doughty. That sounds reasonable. If we need to have any other questions answered, we’ll get back to you.
Thank you Mr. Committee chairman.
Thank you members of Congress, members of the Senate.
Good day to you.
And thus another Capital hill investigation concludes, with nothing accomplished.
Anyone know where the closest local bank is?
The only POWER others have over you is the Power that you Grant them
Molon Labe
nuff said
TT
If this is true, maybe we'll see some investigative reporting on Obama's college transcripts and some of his other secrets.
IRS federal employees are UNION parasites. ♫ Look for the union label ♫
From the WP? Is the media turning on the great marxist messiah?
My thoughts exactly. Either they are in CYA mode or they’ve been blindsided too?
My Guess is it’s CYA and they’ve known for some time that ‘Something’ was going to break. However with the visceral hatred and fear the citizenry has for those three letters “IRS” is something they know is going to resonate and badly for their side.
Watching the hearings with my wife, she looked over and said, “At least, in Phrae [Thailand], the officials are openly and honestly corrupt.”
I’m still wondering how to respond. This puts our President and his Administration right on the path to Mugabe and ZANU PF.
I’d say Mr Miller his extended family deserve lifetime annual audit flags !
From the article and quite a bit off target. Dishonest? How about corrupt. Incompetent? How about malicious. Suspicions? Not at all, it was a known fact that government is tyrannical.
The 2012 general election is invalid
If you donate directly to a candidate for public office, it becomes a matter of public record. You may find your name and the donated amount in the morning paper.
If you donate to a 501-C, by law, you have the expectation of privacy. People donate to these entities for this reason.
Merely the act of requesting the donor lists from these applicants should then be a violation of law.
How then can the head of the IRS sit there and say he “doesn’t think” it is illegal? What burns me is he pretty much got away with it.
The targeting itself is a violation of equal protection statutes, the Hatch Act, and even the first amendment, as speech was indeed stifled with the actions of the IRS.
I’m not a lawyer, can someone set me straight if I’m wrong on this?
I know how you feel. My wife’s older cousin, from the Philippines, is visiting. Her cousin is pretty non-political, but I had her (the cousin) read an ABC News (hardly the paragon of conservatism) piece on the IRS scandal. She said to me “Just like in the Philippines.” Which is pretty bad: the corruption there has truly been a major factor in the country’s poverty.
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