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At the moment when IRS leadership learned that the IG of the organization was going to check this out...there should have been a question over what was going on, and how do we fix this... immediately put into place.

Even today...nothing has been done, and numerous organizations are approaching three years with no exemption still. I don’t see how you avoid being taken into court, and judges from southern states just might be willing to award fairly healthy damages.....into the tens of millions...for individual cases.

And no one ever briefed the President? That’s the shocking part.

You get the impression that an application would arrive...spend four months on the pile, then get handed to some guy who would spend an entire week trying to read twelve pages. At the end of the week....he just couldn’t make up his mind....tossed it back onto the pile, and a month later...another guy would spend a week reading it. Eventually, they’d rewrite the questions, and start the process over.

You just can’t do business this way. Part of the blame goes back to how Congress and the Senate devised the 501C business, and basically told IRS to make up its own rules and questions for those who would comply. There are twenty-nine categories within 501C....with likely a thousand pages of various rules, standards, and protocol involved. I wouldn’t even want to apply for a job like this.

Actually, it’s eleven different sleeper-cells. Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, LBJ, Kennedy, and Eisenhower.

If he’d get around to just doing his executive job, and stop playing candidate Obama...none of this would really be of significance. He’s still locked in...working hard in the election-mentality, and become more or less a boat anchor for the Democratic party...when they ought to be sailing.

When Congress and the Senate created the 501C exempt status....all they basically did was tell IRS to create some questions, and ensure only the proper folks get the exemption. Congress and the Senate didn’t write the questions or really lay out the way that you’d enter the ‘promised land’ of tax exemption.

There are 29 categories of the 501C....so you start to realize now that IRS has a vast “ZOO” of folks to go after, and write thousands of trick questions to get you into tax exempt status or fail you. A guy could put a cemetery on the back forty acres of his property, and likely qualify as a public cemetery (while only burying kin-folks).

I was wondering...why is Newsweek almost bankrupt?

It would seem time to recall the city council, and find real British gentlemen to replace them.

Go do some research on the twenty-nine exemptions to 501C. This is a mess. Congress and the Senate basically wrote a bunch of groups into this....then said that IRS would write some questions to determine if they fit, and only then would permission be given to fall into 501C.

Even Obama Care wrote itself a category into the twenty-nine exemptions.

We invited this mess into our house, and unless we stand up and admit the tax code is screwed-up....it’s just going to continue. I think we will have to make the entire 2014 election about tax reform, and just settle on one key repair....flat tax for everyone, and tossing out seventy thousand pages of code.

I went looking at 501C exemptions. Our dimwits in Congress and the Senate...have written twenty-nine groups into the exemptions.

The wideness of the exemption? I would imagine thousands apply for the 29 categories on a yearly basis. Our buddies in Congress and the Senate merely wrote that an exemption would exist and that in almost all cases...the IRS would write the questions to determine if they were legal or not. It’s kinda like saying you have permission to build a house, but there’s nothing on paper to say you need walls, doors, a bathroom, or sewage disposal.

In twelve months, I think we will agree that IRS is mostly broke because of the 70,000 pages of regulation and the way that the politicians have messed it all up. And I do believe that 2014 is now going to be shaped into a major discussion over tax reform. The Democrats may hate this, and prefer immigration reform, and the President may prefer talking something else, but tax reform is likely the only concrete thing we get out of this scandal.

I hate to make the comparison here....but Reagan would have likely turned to some four-star general and just said “move heaven and earth to help the guy”, and left the room. And someone would have taken the order and the liberal amount of permission given....to do some things that you wouldn’t normally get the privilege to do.

It is 768 votes that she lost this election by. Personally, if I were her....I’d be crossing the state every six weeks, and making at least two major speeches every month. She needs independent votes.

Course, if the Tea Party folks had been approved for action and actively got more donations....the 2012 election results would have been different. I think by 2014, those Tea Party tax issues will be resolved.

If I were one of the eight thousand....it’d take me about thirty seconds to make a bold decision....pack, move and go. If you wanted to chase wealth out of your country....just do what the French do. Make it a country of the poor, and accept the virtual destruction of the country.

The “Know-Nothing” administration.

A catch phrase in 2025 when referring back to the eight-year period. Even the journalists of the period...will be referred to as “know-nothings”.

I get the impression after having eaten a McRib last summer....that they’ve changed the sauce in it, and it’s a bit more fatty than anything else.

I’m a big fan of the McRib and would probably have it at least once a week...at least back in the old days. I’m giving the Burger King guys a chance....maybe it’s better, and will be a permanent item on the menu.

Add it up....70,000 pages plus, which make up the code. Your Senators over the past ninety years have added a paragraph here and there. No expert really exists.

I’d see a reason now to split the IRS over...a personal tax crew, an industrial tax crew, and a medical insurance crew. No one single person in front of any of them. And I’d even suggest a national audit agency, independent of IRS to continually look at their failings....firing people who just aren’t up to the job.

If there ever was a reason for having a flat tax....this is it. The least amount of intrusion into a citizen’s life....is preferred.

I think the problem with the special prosecutor and this IRS episode....there just might not be a law violated. Ethics violations? Tons. But actual laws? It’s going to be hard to identify any such law that would affect the IRS technicians.

Personal lawsuits might get interesting...if you can prove any supervisor ordered delays....you could arrange a lawsuit in Alabama, and likely get a million in damages. That might be the more interesting thing to watch as each group engages in lawsuits and forces personal pains on the idiots who did the damage.

At present, around Fairfax and Arlington....McAuliffe might be pulling sixty percent of the local vote, and looks good. The rest of the state...he’s probably running at thirty-five percent. He’ll have to burn through a fair amount of cash and really get every single college kid in the state to vote for him...to get up to around fifty percent of the vote.

A simple prayer from a humble man:

Dear Lord

We ask you to send your angels to the IRS and help bring them to their senses.

We ask you to lift their blindness and give the IRS people sight.

We ask you to take the child-like ways of the IRS, and bring them into the world of maturity.

We ask you to take the devil in each IRS technician, and cast that devil out.

We ask you to lay your hands upon their incompetence, and give them brilliance.

We ask you to give the IRS folks compassion, where they have none.

And Lord, we ask that you tinker with the IRS rules a bit because we really don’t want to waste prayer upon the IRS. We have really more important things to ask your help on, and this ought not be in the top ten issues. Amen.

I watched probably thirty minutes of the questions directed at the guy. Having worked around the government, I’d say that he was a $40-a-word manager. He’s just there because he had the right degree from some ivy league college.

He has zero regard for ethics. I can’t say that he showed any remarkable common sense. And as for managing people....I’d say that he’d do OK at some Piggly Wiggly, but I wouldn’t put him in charge of a real business as an executive.

The one question I would have thrown at him...when you realized this mess last summer (June 2012)...what immediate actions did you take to fix the matter? It appears to me that he just said ‘hmmm, let’s just leave this for the next idiot’. It appears that he did nothing, and the same mess is sitting there today. Personally, I’d also bring in the HR folks who hired all these incompetent folks in the first place....and fire fifty percent of them at random. You folks recruited losers, and continued to do it on a yearly basis.

The last organization that ought to run the health care finance side....is the IRS. I’d hand it over to the National Park Service....before I’d give it to these folks.

I don’t think there’s anything legal that you can do on this case. You’d have to limit all religious efforts on a campus to make this work.

Now, if you really wanted to take the ‘brothers’ down a notch....just get every guy on a campus with a sense of humor to don a Washington Redskins “burka”, and walk in public with it, and attend classes wearing it. Use every bit of American-style humor to take the ‘brothers’ down. The legal idiots can’t ban humor, and they’d look stupid attempting to stand against humor.

There are 70k pages of tax regulations. I have doubt that there’s any law violated in this case (why would Congress have even written such a law?). The end-result? This will run for two months and there’s bound to be six people fired by the end....all low level. That’s it.

As for the President? It’s going to be eventually agreed that the President doesn’t know anything about whats going on, and probably even knows less than Justin Bieber on international events...except that he watches the news (which he continually admits is how he finds out about terrible things).

I think that scandal is parked for the fall period. There are probably a dozen scandals lined up, and the remaining three years will just be one after another. There’s virtually nothing that the administration can do in stopping them. Avoiding the special prosecutor simply helps make each one more painful.

Also, the general concept of taking down the Republican dealerships...was to have more influence on local and state elections. Well...they couldn’t touch the imports or the Ford company. So they picked up the slack.

I think the IRS is finished on managing the health care side of this. I’d put more trust into the National Park Service, or the Arlington Cemetery folks managing this. Any idiot Senator who doesn’t agree....has ethics issues.

I would agree...the 501C gimmick was hand-crafted for Soros and company. I think everyone was shocked that others soon figured out the model (very quickly), and crafted their own mechanism for 501C.

The thing now is...the IRS will be quickly forced into a massive acceptance...just in time for the 2014 election. You can figure a healthly Tea Party vote in 2014, and the political figures will have to craft a new wording for 501C operations....to wipe them out before 2016....my humble prediction.

You get the impression that a bunch of amateurs were drafted into the White House and the various agencies in 2008, and they just weren’t up to the job. So after four years, you are beginning to see the problems with a two-star crew, and we might have to continue watching this for the remaining period.

I think you’d get better analysis from five guys down at the local barbershop, than with Bob Schieffer.

If Hoover had come in and worked ten years and left....his legacy probably would have stayed intact. Instead, he became his own worst enemy in the end, with few people really trusting him or his vision ahead.

When the M1911 arrived...in 1911...it was probably an immediate hit with military and law enforcement...and probably also labeled an assault weapon on day one of production. We’ve come a long way.

Well...isn’t Kwame up for another couple of years in federal prison? He was convicted back in mid-March, and the judge is still working on the sentence (takes a while, I will admit), but they think he’ll get five to ten years.

There’s another odd piece to the Kwame story, in that he wrote a book over the whole mess. They’ve sued to claim part of the profits off the book, and his lawyer has done some tricky stuff to avoid that....with a bench warrant issued because the lawyer wouldn’t even show up for the court episode.

Wherever Kwame goes...it’s bound to be a mess.

These shrugs worked the first couple of years. I’d say that he’s reached maximum shrug capability now. The 2014 elections now look pretty dismal if you look at the ad potential here. If I were a democrat out in the heartland and hoping to put up a successful election....things just got a lot tougher, and it’s probably not worth the effort of running for anything much in 2014. Skip the election and hope that all is forgotten by 2016.

In this region of Alabama (I’m from there), I’d make a guess that one out of every twelve guys are doing either legally acquired or illegally acquired Oxycoten. Between high school football, college football, or industrial accidents...it’s the only thing that dulls permanent pain. The problem is that it’s really not something you want to take for the rest of your life.

To have thirty CIA guys at one site....either they are having a bar-b-q for Larry who is retiring...or they are running a CIA prison of some type. It’s curious that the media hasn’t shown much of anything from their compound...we always get the burned-out video from the ambassador’s compound. If there were a large quantity of rooms over at the CIA compound....it’d lead me to suggest the prison site.

Long term career? Probably better off.

What isn’t mentioned? Strong belief that this will have to repeat by January of 2014, and it could go back to 22 days. There’s enough hostile feelings about this now....but a repeat? A number of guys will just add up retirement time, and call it quits if they can.

Here’s the odd part of this story, which the media hasn’t discussed. When this story came out via the AP over the terrorist action...it was highly sensitive and the CIA didn’t want it in the public view. The CIA got real insistent on finding out who dropped the secret. They basically demanded that the President pursue the guilty party.

Well...the problem is that it probably wasn’t the CIA guys, and likely a White House player. But to make everyone in the room happy...the President said pursue the guilty party. So a prosecutor did up the request and a judge said sure.

So far, they haven’t said anything about success with this, and I think they are probably shocked at the lack of contact now with AP reporters....everyone in the White House is absolutely quiet and won’t discuss nothing with them. So the bugging really hasn’t done much....except to confirm that the guilty party hasn’t called back.

The piece to this? They need to fix this ASAP, give the info back...say they are sorry, and just plain shut down this mess. If they don’t....a special prosecutor will be required, and he’ll just dig deeper into a bigger mess. Expect this whole thing to be fixed by Monday, and the AP accepts their apology.

The German stance is based on the idea that only a university grad is capable of teaching kids (having lived in Germany for more than 15 years, I can attest to their belief).

The general issue is that there’s a whole different education system in Germany, and the general public gets to what I would amount to as a 10th grade education, with three-year period of trade school. Probably sixty percent of the public fall into this category. The question would be....if you opened up the front door...would all of Germany society be able to provide a decent education to a kid...by US standards? The answer generally...is no.

I believe we are at a point where a special prosecutor would have to be appointed, but the President might not want such a character asking questions. So I have doubts that such a person will be appointed.

As for the 2014 elections? At present point....the IRS is in big trouble and will simply pump up the Tea Party folks even more. I’d give better than average odds that the Republicans maintain their number and even pick up four more Senate seats. This wasn’t the WH plan for 2014, but we are mostly in a lame-duck situation now....for the remaining time. Nothing of significance to be accomplished, if you ask me.

Carney is mostly finished. I figure he’s given notice to the White House and will announce his quitting within the next month. This is the one job...even if you offered me a million a year....I’d turn down the job. It’ll be hard to recruit the next WH press guy.

I think after the defense lays out all the evidence...most of the public is going to have a fairly negative opinion about this kid. “Saint Skittles” will go down as a punk kid who was likely doped up...picked on the wrong guy...and is six feet under. Sadly, both parents should have intervened months before the attack and done something to straighten out “Saint Skittles”.

If the IRS had not slowed down the momentum here....I suspect that an additional twenty Representatives, and maybe five more Republican Senators would have walked into new jobs after the election. This really says alot about what was going on in 2010.

Here’s the thing...once the toxicology report is laid out...and if there is both weed, and some other upper mixed with it...then this case if finished for the prosecutor.

The problem with the administration’s scenario...is that we are watching from hindsight now. At the moment when the ambassador was begging for help....it could have been an hour left for his life, or six hours. By doing nothing, they were saying that nothing in terms of time mattered. If this is the case....it’s best to admit they really didn’t care much for the situation or the ambassador’s life.

I have this thought that the President had anticipated the Supreme Court would have wiped out ObamaCare last year...as part of the grand plan, and then use the episode to declare full-scale war with the election against the Republicans.

I suspect they are sitting there now with no idea of how to stop the mess, except to move onto the 2014 election and watch a massive Republican and Independent vote.

Later this week...comes the deep-deep background brief.

Then by next Saturday....comes the deep-deep-deep background brief.

Then by next week....comes the deep-deep-deep-deep background brief.

Maybe by the next weekend? Yeah...the deep-deep-deep-deep-deep background brief.

Who is the deep-messenger?

I’ve lived in Arlington, VA for three years....and often used DC Metro. The best advice I can give....if you ever have to cross the river and get into the Gallery Place or Chinatown area....you need to pick the time carefully. Between 6AM and 6PM....it’s reasonably safe. Otherwise, just too many punks in the area. The Metro cops need to have a dozen guys constantly walking in those two areas....fights, robberies, and just crazy people on the loose.

I would offer this analysis...the History Channel is killing network TV show options. No weird shows, no gay characters, just plain historical themes. I suspect the networks are in desperation mode right now and trying to figure an angle out to trip up the situation. At present time, you could bring the Beverley Hillbillies, and actually have a four-star hit on your hands.

Just seems logical that someone needs to be fired. But apparently, no one is capable of doing that.

Let the Catholic Church go full-turbo now on getting Latino Catholics back into the church. Let’s see how fast the locals jump to erase this measure. The Catholic Church is the wildcard in this whole thing...if they’d just recruit and bring young Latino priests into the inner city area....they’d change the whole dynamic.

If they raise meal costs by $2 each...the public will go into a huge fit. The lowest cost of living standard in the US...I think...for a city of its size...is Detroit. You can still buy a house for $50k in the inner city.

It bothers me...there was a standard procedure, and standard marks to make....and they simply went the other direction...inventing as they went along. That’s never a dependable method to handling business.

Whoever made the management decision....needs to either be disciplined (suspended for 90 days), or just let go. It would be curious if they consulted DC...asked for advice, and who gave it.