Posted on 05/13/2013 12:33:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
No need to be quite so modest here, White House — as to the most ‘recent media reports,’ we already learned this weekend that high-up agency leaders knew this tea-party targeting had been going on was going on for at least a couple of years now and certainly didn’t bother to stop it, and the fact that this was all performed by a relatively small number of employees in the workforce-hugeness of the IRS is really not a mitigating factor. Via ABC:
In a statement this morning White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the president is “concerned” the conduct of a few employees of the IRS has “fallen short” of the integrity expected of government officials. “The President believes that the American people expect and deserve to have the very best public servants with the highest levels of integrity working in government agencies on their behalf. Based on recent media reports, he is concerned that the conduct of a small number of Internal Revenue Service employees may have fallen short of that standard. We understand that the matter is currently under review by the Inspector General. If the Inspector General finds that there were any rules broken or that conduct of government officials did not meet the standards required of them, the President expects that swift and appropriate steps will be taken to address any misconduct,” Carney said in the statement.
President Obama also glossed over the issue during his press conference with British PM David Cameron just before noon, obligatorily agreeing that it’s “outrageous,” that the “IRS as an independent agency has to act with absolute integrity” and that “I’ve got no patience for it and I will not tolerate it,” but ultimately demurring: “The IG is conducting their investigation and I’m not going to comment prematurely.” …Hmm, waiting for the IG report to comment? As fond as President Obama is of that politically safe route (where have we heard that before recently?), the IRS had been caught red-handed in official wrongdoing here, and it doesn’t look like the forthcoming IG report is going to be helping their case by any stretch of the imagination.
On MSNBC this morning, Tom Brokaw asserted that the time for action from the president is already nigh — and as Chuck Todd added, “Why aren’t there more Democrats jumping on this? This is outrageous no matter what political party you are.” Via Mediaite:
Maybe, but I no longer consider such antiquated epithets as having enough meaning to take seriously.
-PJ
Yup, just the bosses who gave the orders they received from the White Hut.
Yup, that's the ticket.
Dirty, rotten, lying bastards.
But... but... dismissing someone as “racist” is far easier than defending leftist policy and ideology!
Q: What integrity? (and) Expected by whom?
A: None (and) Nobody.
“President Nixon was the victim of some over zealous White House Aides.” Sprio Agnew
The spin was that this only happen in Cincinnati, but I heard one of the commentors say that Cincinnati is the center that handled all of the groups in the country that filed 501(c)4 claims.
That's just it. He thinks the rest of the people are just as stupid as the low information voters that voted him in.
I GAR-UH-TEE the IRS was directed by someone on the Obama political staff. These people are vile. I am old enough to remember Nixon and his thugs...these people are worse. I think they would engage in murder if they thought it would help their political agenda.
Thugs.
As in, who shall receive what service and when?
If they already have it in for patriots now, just wait until you need a lifesaving procedure.
A press conference for a select few, where the selected reporter asked a selected question and received a selected answer from the selected one on news he just learned from the selective media.
Which boils down into this. “How the hell did know what was going on ? I was out playing golf.”
I think the Obama cult intends to use this issue as an argument for increasing the number of IRS employees. Either that, or by taking the high ground, Obama hopes to sooth fears about the IRS’s role in Obamacare.
Notice there is no one in an orange jump suit. We know WHAT the crime was. We know WHEN and HOW it was done. We also know WHO did it. Try robbing a bank and see how long it takes to get you own orange jump suit once all these facts are known.
As lower-level IRS ‘scapegoats’ are named, more “whistleblowers” to come out of the woodwork, methinks.
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Well, if it’s only “a few”, then we can prosecute them and have them held criminally and civilly liable for their actions... unless, of course, they would like to finger someone higher up that told them to do it.
More liberal math like there are only a small few violent Muslims. When will a journalist ever challenge such a statement when it is made?
State your source Mr. pResident, for knowing that it was only a few?
No, there are no honest and real journalists thanks to a horrendous public school system and J schools filled with Communist professors who will not be challenged by youth who just received K-12 indoctrination.
We’re not stupid. This was done in your behalf and at your order. Everybody will lie for you because they’re ignorant...I would guess about 47%.
Of course it was. The list of groups to watch out for closely mirrors Napolitano's list defining who the terrorists are these days.
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