Posted on 05/22/2013 3:54:38 PM PDT by Kaslin
Things got awkward during the House Oversight Committee’s second IRS hearing on Wednesday when Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI), while seemingly making a larger point, couldn’t get former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman to acknowledge certain amendments to the Constitution.
After confirming that the IRS requires ethics training, Bentivolio was trying to figure out if the IRS required training on the Constitution. He may have got his answer despite Shulman’s response saying he couldn’t give one.
“Did you study the Constitution?” Bentivolio asked.
“I went to law school,” Shulman responded.
“You went to law school. Did you study the Constitution?”
“I believe I took Constitutional law, but I’m not prepared to take an exam at this time,” Shulman said with a chuckle. “Meaning I’ll answer any of your question but I can’t promise that I’m an expert.”
“Well, you know the First, Second Amendment and one of my favorites, the 19th, right? You know those?” Bentivolio asked.
“Excuse me,” a seemingly confused Shulman responded.
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I bet he can pass a toilet paper exam.
He apparently needs a broomstick exam.
I’ll confess I had to look up the 19th.
“I bet he can pass a toilet paper exam. “
I just received notification that you can purchase the Koran printed on a roll of TP. So now you can “wipe yourself” with a passage.
Yes, but you’re not in charge of a government agency that has to comply with the U. S. Constitution in all that it does.
This guy should have a very good grasp of what it is he has to comply with.
And certainly the bill of rights.
I did too
Lerner was a lawyer too.
It is amazing how many of these lib lawyer types don’t know the founding document.
Harvard and Yale must be so proud.
Agreed...
Even if these people knew the Constitution, they wouldn’t admit it or recite passages because they view it as an impediment to their agenda.
How stupid does he (Shulman) think we are?
Shulman also did NOT know what TEA stands for in the Tea Party!
They know the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, but they find it passé and very irritating when “the People” cite it.
I am second to no one in my hatred of the IRS. But I can’t fault him for not being able to recite the Constitution from memory.
I know I can’t.
I bet a home-schooled 5th grader would show up this scum. I doubt any public
schools would even have it IN the school let alone teach it!
Since he was a political appointment wasn’t he required to take an oath to defend the Constitution? He hasn’t got a clue about the Constitution he swore an oath to defend.
It would have been classic if he had been asked his opinion on the 16th amendment. I would bet he didn’t know that one either.
If he went to law school at an Ivy League school he DID NOT study the Constitution. They outlawed that back in the 60s.
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