`Gomer' Issa and the House Oversight committee ride around in a short yellow bus, right? Maybe they should spend less time making wallets and come over here to FR & read our tag lines. Maroons ...
Posted on 04/07/2014 2:56:38 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
A new report from the head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tries to discredit Democratic claims that the Internal Revenue Service targeted both liberal and conservative groups for extra scrutiny during the past two election cycles.
“These Democratic claims are flat-out wrong and have no basis in any thorough examination of the facts,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the panel’s chairman, said in an executive summary of the findings. Before the 2010 election, the IRS began using “be on the lookout” lists, or BOLOs, to screen for groups that might be involved in too much political activity to qualify for tax-exempt status. An inspector general’s report last year found that the agency inappropriately singled out applicants based on their names and policy positions.
Issa’s report, released Monday, revealed that all three of the IRS’s test cases involved conservative organizations — the Prescott Tea Party, the American Hunto and the Albuquerque Tea Party. Two of the groups dropped their applications as the review process dragged on, according to the findings.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Think of this in the same terms as a person of African persuasion trying to vote in Mississippi in 1959. There was a strange literacy test (probably written in Chinese), plus there was also a poll tax that had to be paid, and various other hoops to jump through, and the right to vote was STILL denied....
There is a civil rights violation here somewhere.
of course they did... because they were being used as a weapon to trip up political opposition
will anything be done about this blatantly illegal use of govt?
of course not.
will ANYONE go to jail over it?
of course not.
meanwhile, all these fedgov types will get paid while ‘investigating’
unless something gets done with the results, its all a total waste of money
I am expecting an apology from Elijah Cummings.
That guy who talked stuff about Obama at the prayer breakfast also got audited.
Coincidence or police state?
And yes, Nixon was “not a crook” by today’s standards.
`Gomer' Issa and the House Oversight committee ride around in a short yellow bus, right? Maybe they should spend less time making wallets and come over here to FR & read our tag lines. Maroons ...
So? Just what is Congress going to do about it? Write a “strongly worded” letter?
"Yes,m...dat's Issa up ahead. Youse wants me ta run ovah his contemptible hide?"
OBAMA HAS WEAPONIZED THE IRS AGAINST POLITICAL OPPONENTS ordering multiple covert campaigns of intimidation, threats, and persecution of tea party/conservative organizations, and those daring to criticize Obama's agenda.
<><> Seven lock-stepping Democrats scared-***tless of losing their seats ask the IRS to “Investigate” political opponents,
<><> Rep Elijah Cummings led the Democrat pack in smearing True the Vote patriot Catherine Englebrecht....
<><> der leader Obama said Tea Parties were a "threat to democracy."
<><> The IRS (a tax-funded L/E agency) takes its marching orders from Democrat;
<><> the FBI, ATF, the IRS, and OSHA were sicced on Catherine Englebrecht, as she valiantly tried to improve the US voting system.
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DEMS STOOP TO CONQUEUR--order IRS to act to save their seats
by Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 2/13/14
Senate Democrats facing tough elections this year want the IRS to play a more aggressive role in regulating outside groups expected to spend millions of dollars on their races. In the wake of the IRS targeting scandal, the Democrats are publicly prodding the agency instead of lobbying them directly.
Dems are also careful to say the IRS should treat conservative and liberal groups equally, but they’re concerned about an impending tidal wave of attack ads funded by GOP-allied organizations. Much of the funding for those groups is secret, in contrast to the donations lawmakers collect, which must be reported publicly.
One of the most powerful groups is Americans for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. It has already spent close to $30 million on ads attacking Democrats this election cycle.
“If they’re claiming the tax relief, the tax benefit to be a nonprofit for social relief or social justice, then that’s what they should be doing,” said Sen. Mark Begich (D), who faces a competitive race in Alaska. “If it’s to give them cover so they can do political activity, that’s abusing the tax code. And either side."
Asked if the IRS should play a more active role policing political advocacy by groups that claim to be focused on social welfare, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) responded, “Absolutely. Both on the left and the right,” she said. “As taxpayers, we should not be providing a write-off to groups to do political activity, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.”
Shaheen called the glut of political spending by self-described social welfare groups that qualify under section 501(c) (4) of the tax code “outrageous.” Shaheen is in a good position now but could find herself embroiled in a tight campaign if former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass) challenges her.
Sen. Mark Pryor (Ark.), the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent, said the IRS has jurisdiction over 501(c)(4) groups, as well as charities, which fall under section 5/01(c)(3) of the tax code and sometimes engage in quasi-political activity.
“That whole 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4) [issue], those are IRS numbers. It is inherently an internal revenue matter,” he said. “There are two things you don’t want in political money, in the fundraising world and expenditure world. You don’t want secret money, and you don’t want unlimited money, and that’s what we have now.” --SNIP--
Impeachment is NEVER going to happen. And even if it did nothing would come from it.
Anything short of civil disobedience is an act of futility.
Bad really bad. But worst of all, the Democrats have little to say about it. And if they have a word or two it is critical of the investigation.
They forget that the same IRS authority can be used against them. It is bad either way.
I think that it is more than Lerner that he is protecting. She is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Lock Lois Lerner and Elijah Cummings up, both in the same cell. Lois would probably enjoy that! They should both get prison time. They BOTH COMMITTED PERJURY BEFORE CONGRESS DURING HEARINGS. BOTH OF THEM DID.
LOL! Lois’ “let them eat cake” face is priceless. ROFL!!!!
The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.
(apologies to the late, great Rodney Dangerfield)
The second coming of Jesus Christ will happen before he apologizes.
The second coming of Jesus Christ will happen before he apologizes.
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