Posted on 05/19/2013 8:39:00 AM PDT by chessplayer
"Can you see in your mind's eye a way that this might not have been political, that this was a misguided stupid way to sort, but that they didn't intend it to be some kind of political attempt to harass the Tea Party?"
Bush would have won even more had the military votes not been mishandled.
Candy has been smoking some wacky tobacky. Or she is working for Obama.
Is MonIca Crowley an in-law to Colmes?
Just heard something like that once.
Is it possible that Candy is 300 Pounds without an ounce of intellectual honesty?
Candy Crowley is a lot dumber than she looks. Geesh. What a moron.
In a word, YES.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3021235/posts?page=8#8
Harassment on this level by this many agencies is NOT NOT NOT initiated by low level functionaries. Coordination of this many agencies could ONLY have come from the VERY HIGHEST LEVELS!!!!!!! >
RE: My opinion that “The election was a fraud committed by government employees. Treason.” of course refers to election 2012.
That's a no-brainer. We repeal the 16th amendment, eliminate all forms of income tax, and have a flat consumption tax like the Fair Tax.
Or a system where the Feds bill the states, and the states collect the taxes from the individual citizens.
How many media types and perhaps congressmen are the recipients now of “offers they can’t refuse” like their relatives being allowed to continue in health? That seems like such a Democratic thing to do. LBJ played it that way and Billious Clinton. I would suspect it of FDR but that was beore my time.
Republicans in their right mind are not what you might suspect. Their right mind is progressive and servile. The more optimistic Republicans are trying hard to be the Official Opposition in a one party State. The more pessimistic Republicans are praying that the monster will eat them last and are in permanent kowtow mode as a means of propitiation.
not possible
Read the New York Times only if you suffer from low blood pressure and prefer not to spring for the drugs.
No. It isn’t possible. Next stupid question?
That sounds good but who sets the rate of how much the states are to be billed? Why the Congress of course! Here we go again.
Well that was the system set up in the original Constitution. It obviously had its problems, but at least there was no provision for the Feds to collect from individual citizens which is the main problem with the IRS.
Repealing the 17th amendment would help keep the power even more balanced. Congress would be less likely to vote really high rates if the were appointed by state senators and reps who were elected directly by the people.
You can’t do things if you lost the election.
Those who started screaming in the early stages, about the president going around congress with executive orders or refusing to enforce the law or appointing czars for everything instead of letting the Senate approve appointments, were viewed as crazy right-wing fanatics.
Now that he has become more blatant, and has won a second term with his lawbreaking, it may be too late.
Moral: Listen to the crazy right-wing fanatics. They see things before it is too late.
I heard that these people were visited by homeland security and the FBI as well... this is not some low level rogue in the IRS this was/is policy
Quite simply, no. Had the same IRS memo that called for groups with Tea Party, patriot, or 9/12 in their name had a list of equally common buzzwords used by leftist organizations seeking 501c3 status that might also be thought potentially political (e.g. progress, progressive, community) flagging them for identical treatment, and been updated to include the word “Occupy” when that became a leftist meme, then the defense that they were simply trying to make sure that essentially partisan political groups were not falsely gaining tax exempt status might fly. As it is, this was plainly the use of the IRS to harass political opposition to the Obama administration, and as such, criminal. Add prima facia evidence that the IRS was passing the Obama administration information about Romney donor and the disproportionate application of audits to wealthy Romney donors (in comparison to the general population of similarly wealthy individuals), and the criminality of the IRS under Obama is absolutely manifest.
How the workload was "sorted" is not the issue. It is how the cases were handled after they were sorted that is the problem. In handling a large volume of cases, it may be legitimate to sort them into predetermined groups for more efficient processing, but to apply a different review standard based on the grouping is clearly improper. There is no way to justify the invasive nature of some of the inquiries regardless of who they were directed to, but it is the fact that they were only directed to certain groups based on ideological or religious grounds that raises the specter of political motivation.
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