Posted on 05/27/2013 9:18:32 AM PDT by Nachum
CHRIS WALLACE: Why single out Crossroads when you didn't mention a single liberal group, and there were a bunch that were applying for tax-exempt status at exactly that point with the name "progress" in their name.
SEN. DICK DURBIN: I can just tell you flat-out why I did it. Because that Crossroads organization was boasting about how much money they were raising as a 501(c)(4). Let's get back to the basics. Citizens United really unleashed hundreds if not thousands of organizations seeking tax-exempt status to play in political campaigns. The law we wrote as Congress said that they had to exclusively be engaged in social welfare and not politics and campaigning. And, so, here is the IRS trying to decide whether or not these organizations really comply with the law. Crossroads was exhibit A. They were boastful about how much money they were going to raise and beat Democrats with.
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It’s a shame how we continue to allow scum to live among us.
He’s lieing ~ and however Congress wrote the law, the USSC said most of it was bull cr*p
Amen to that buddy! And no good will ever become of it.
But ‘successful’ liberal (quote)501(c)4 groups(unquote) are legitimate charities.
Got it.
He lives up to his nickname Turban Durbin suppressing free speech and opposition to his way of thinking of how we all should be treated. He’s a worthless person to be in this leadership role. He should be concerned of the abuse of the IRS targeting citizens. Corrupt Jerk.
> The law we wrote as Congress said that they had to
> exclusively be engaged in social welfare and not politics
Hey, Dicky-do, you filthy, slimy apologist for Mohammedan murderers and antisemitic genocidal savages, that “law” is Unconstitutional, because the framers of the 1st Amendment prohibitions against freedom of speech had POLITICAL speech specifically in mind, not the kiddy-porn you’ve downloaded from the web.
Senator Dick has a most enchanting way of denying he is a rectal orifice.
But then, you wonder how he is even able to talk, if not through that means.
So, he is admitting that he openly called for the violation of the Civil Rights of US citizens. What is the penalty for Civil Rights violations? Where is the ACLU on all this?
Spin spin spin
Co conspirator!
To whom did he address the letter?
The Jim Crow party, still at it after all these years.
What about “moveon.org” boasting that they’d BOUGHT the Democrat party, lock, stock and barrel???
Durbin is one of ‘them’ ~ and ‘they’ are just like him.
Or the unions bragging about spending hundreds of millions to elect democrats.
“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an IRS agent describing what the Obama Administration had done to conservative groups in their own Country, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for the Rule of Law. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Democrats in the treatment of their politicaL opponntts.”
The nazis definitely used similar methods. Things like seizing banking records to see who owned what and who was doing business with who all for targeting purposes.
I’m trying to figure out how to promote getting everyone to call the democrats the Jim Crow party.
It was a political witch hunt....period.
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