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The Liberal Union Behind the IRS
The American Spectator ^ | 5/16/2013 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 05/16/2013 4:46:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

The IRS?

It’s about a union: the National Treasury Employees Union. The NTEU. A left-wing union representing 150,000 employees in 31 separate government agencies, including the IRS. A union that not only endorsed President Obama for election and re-election, but a union whose current president, Colleen Kelly, was a 14-year IRS agent and now is both union president and Obama administration appointee (of which more in a moment).

It’s about 94% of NTEU union contributions going to Democrats in the Senate and House in 2012 — candidates who campaigned as vociferous opponents of the Tea Party.

And the recently released report from the Treasury Inspector General? You will not find a single reference to the NTEU. Whose members are both player and referee in the exploding controversy over the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

Which raises the obvious question: how many NTEU members were involved in the writing of the Inspector General’s report?

Even more to the point, what contact — what coordination — has the Obama White House had with their allies in the NTEU leadership as both the White House and the NTEU race to get on top of a scandal that is rapidly engulfing both?

Did I mention that the NTEU has no comment on all of this? And that when President Obama went in front of cameras to make his statement on the IRS scandal — he never once mentioned his very powerful union buddies that have the run of the IRS? Right down to the control of who gets a Blackberry? Literally.

Let’s first see how the IRS/NTEU game with the Tea Party and conservatives is played, shall we?

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; criminalunions; democrats; fraud; govtabuse; impeachnow; irs; irsbrownshirts; irsscandal; irsunion; liberalunion; nteu; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tyranny; unioncorruption; unions; unionthugs
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To: sarasmom

The IRS union started in 1938.


101 posted on 05/16/2013 4:18:55 PM PDT by ObligedFriend
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To: ObligedFriend
Excellent find!

Get it out there.

102 posted on 05/16/2013 4:24:06 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama's Chechens are coming home...to roost.)
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To: RoosterRedux

http://www.nteu.org/PressKits/PressRelease/PressRelease.aspx?ID=1652

“As a small gathering of Tea Party activists outside the Capitol chanted “shut it down,”

“You have to be from Wonderland to believe that you can make severe cuts in government spending without sending the economy into a tailspin and cutting critical services Americans depend upon. It is time to put aside ideological stances and for Congress to agree on a budget that serves the American people”

“Yet a handful of ideologues and their political supporters gathered today to ignore the obvious negative effects and continue to push for unrealistic cuts that will result in a loss of vital services for all Americans”

“House Republican leaders must not kowtow to extreme elements”


103 posted on 05/16/2013 4:39:35 PM PDT by ObligedFriend
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To: uncitizen

This is stuff that has to be done at the local level, then to the state. Career politicians have to placate the unions—we don’t.


104 posted on 05/16/2013 4:40:55 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: RoosterRedux
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105 posted on 05/16/2013 4:54:23 PM PDT by ObligedFriend
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To: ObligedFriend
You have to be from Wonderland to believe that you can make severe cuts in government spending without sending the economy into a tailspin

Making severe cuts in government spending and power would send the economy into the stratosphere.

KaBoom!

106 posted on 05/16/2013 5:15:21 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama's Chechens are coming home...to roost.)
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To: ObligedFriend
Got a link for that statement?

Because I couldn't find it in a few quick searches.
And I am not in the mood to play with Libertarians who think all taxes and all government and all religions are inherently evil.

107 posted on 05/16/2013 6:04:40 PM PDT by sarasmom (The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
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To: sarasmom

What statement? Can you be specific.


108 posted on 05/16/2013 6:25:19 PM PDT by ObligedFriend
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To: mazda77

Pretty sure Hayes writes for the Weekly Standard.


109 posted on 05/16/2013 9:07:58 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is dead. Let's not pretend otherwise.)
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To: RoosterRedux

BUMP!


110 posted on 05/16/2013 11:10:57 PM PDT by WhirlwindAttack (There is so much I could say. But I'm smart enough not to.)
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To: RoosterRedux

government employees should not be unionized. period.


111 posted on 05/17/2013 2:28:22 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: RoosterRedux
Here's the link to the IG report:

IRS Inspector General Report on Tax-Exempt Scrutiny of Political Organizations

This is from the report:

Figure 3: Criteria for Potential Political Cases (June 2011)


112 posted on 05/17/2013 8:42:56 AM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Just added to the list is the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. They voted (only 30% yes votes required to pass) to be represented because some of them may have to share office space (with offices with really thin walls) during an upcoming renovation. WHAT! What’s next? Having to actually do your job. Sad bunch of wimpy book-keepers sounds like to me.


113 posted on 05/17/2013 9:20:41 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: EBH

bump


114 posted on 05/17/2013 10:41:26 AM PDT by WhirlwindAttack (There is so much I could say. But I'm smart enough not to.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“It’s also astonishing that the IRS is actually controlled by a liberal, Obama-loyal union, the NTEU...whose very president is, in a separate matter, an Obama appointee to a committee which decides the salaries of federal employees.”

Hopefully the next Republican administration will pull a Clinton and fire everyone. And when the media goes after them, audit every last person.


115 posted on 05/17/2013 12:51:21 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
I have been thinking on this matter this afternoon and think that it is extremely important that Obama and the NTEU have been outed as being linked.

The NTEU represents most Federal Agencies (not the Dept of ED) and Obama and his henchmen have co-opted the management of the U.S. government through this back door.

This has all been part of the plan. And now his plan has been discovered.

This is the new front of this war that Obama and his henchmen are waging against America. And now we see his strategy...right out in the open for all to see.

Defang the unions...and defang Obama.

Or better yet...send Obama to jail!

116 posted on 05/18/2013 3:44:10 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama's Chechens are coming home...to roost.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

bkmk


117 posted on 05/19/2013 6:37:08 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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