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An IRS political Timeline
WSJ ^ | June 6, 2013 | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Posted on 06/07/2013 8:36:07 AM PDT by yoe

Perhaps the only useful part of the inspector general's audit of the IRS was its timeline. We know that it was August 2010 when the IRS issued its first "Be On the Lookout" list, flagging applications containing key conservative words and issues. The criteria would expand in the months to come.

What else was happening in the summer and fall of 2010? The Obama administration and its allies continue to suggest the IRS was working in some political vacuum. What they'd rather everyone forget is that the IRS's first BOLO list coincided with their own attack against "shadowy" or "front" conservative groups that they claimed were rigging the electoral system.

[snip] Aug. 9, 2010: In Texas, President Obama for the first time publicly names a group he is obsessed with—Americans for Prosperity (founded by the Koch Brothers)—and warns about conservative groups. Taking up a cry that had until then largely been confined to left-wing media and activists, he says: "Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads . . .

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: americans4prosperity; irs; irstimeline; kochbrothers; obamasfault
Obama the community organizer, bad mouthed American Conservatives along with his anti-capitalist rhetoric while taking large donations from Wall Street. Never has there been such a man elected as POTUS who deliberately lies about his obsession with Conservatives....he alone started the hate speech against those who did not fall into line with his Socialist/Communist agenda....
1 posted on 06/07/2013 8:36:07 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe
Didn't you ever wonder why Obama was “uber” confident about winning the 2012 election even when polls said otherwise?

The opposition was smashed by the IRS, and Obama knew it better than anyone else. It's the Alinsky/Chicago way.

My spouse and I figure that we and our small business sustained losses in excess of $80,000 fighting the IRS. And that was just the money. The toll it took on our bodies, minds, and business also was substantial. Eventually we more or less prevailed, but what a price we paid.

2 posted on 06/07/2013 8:44:15 AM PDT by July4
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To: yoe

Needs more dots. He really went off on the SCOTUS before then at the SOTU in January, 2010. That’s when the dog whistle was sounded. He was throwing a temper tantrum and his minions ran with it..


3 posted on 06/07/2013 8:49:24 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: yoe

I’m glad someone put this timeline together,shows the traitor in the White HUT is the one who wrote the invasive questions for the IRS.


4 posted on 06/07/2013 9:09:35 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: yoe

The 2010 census took place that summer.


5 posted on 06/07/2013 9:22:05 AM PDT by polymuser ("We have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!" (HRC))
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To: ballplayer

Definitely. Obama himself let loose the dog of war (government dogs in this case) against his political enemy. And we the people are his enemy.


6 posted on 06/07/2013 9:27:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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Definitely. Obama himself let loose the dog of war

This timeline makes it obvious that Obama/Axelrod was pushing the IRS to go after it's enemies. I remember Obama & Hillary also bleating about all the U.S. guns making it into Mexico...then the Fast & Furious scandal surfaces.

This admin doen't just talk...they "make things happen". Ironically, it looks like the Tea Party movement + conservative pushback in 2010 triggered the Obama IRS criminality that will cost them dearly.

7 posted on 06/07/2013 9:52:06 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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CONNECT THE DOTS: Obama's stranglegold on Treasury via COS Rahm Emanuel's dual role

THE TARGETING PAPER TRAIL BEGINS: Soon as they occupied the WH, Obama and the Chicago con artists (a) took control of the US Census; (b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (the IRS).

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THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.

When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

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The meticulously researched timelines posted here, and elsewhere on FR, are significant since they chronicle the times the Tea Party began heating up---holding massive rallies, and showing up at townhalls to protest Obamacare.

The arrogant, self-entitled Obamatons surely went ballistic. Does not take much imagination to know the WH con artists were thinking up demonic ways to stop the Tea Partiers who stood in their path.

SIGNIFICANT Remember that the Obamatons also took over the census. When Rahm Emanuel landed at Treasury, he had all the tools at his disposal to target individuals, tea parties, patriot groups, and so on.

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NOW HEAR THIS---CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND THE LOCAL MEDIA WITH THIS MESSAGE: All of the Treasury factotums doing Rahm's bidding need to be identified and brought before Congress to testify under oath. We need to know the specifics WRT Emanuel's activities at Treasury including dates and times when Emanuel consorted w/ the IRS.

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TALKING POINTS--WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.

When he got to Treasury, White House COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

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MOMENTS TO REMEMBER Obama was fond of saying "Tea Parties are a threat to democracy."

Obama told Hispanics "we will punish our enemies, and reward our friends."

Valerie Jarrett ominously warned, they "would not forget" which Americans did not worship Obama.

8 posted on 06/07/2013 12:24:52 PM PDT by Liz
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...”This current era appears to have begun sometime after the 2008 election of Barack Obama as president, though the Obama campaign itself offered something of a preview. As the Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel has noted, in the summer of 2008 Obama campaign General Counsel Bob Bauer urged the Justice Department’s criminal division to investigate the officers and donors of a group called the American Issues Project after it ran a negative ad about Mr. Obama.

The organization was a client of Ms. Mitchell’s, so she learned firsthand about the tactics of the Obama campaign and Mr. Bauer: “He would send a letter to the Justice Department demanding that my clients be criminally prosecuted for exercising their First Amendment rights. And then I would write a response, and then he’d write another letter, and I’d immediately write a response.”

Mr. Bauer was named White House counsel in late 2009, shortly before the IRS appears to have begun its harassment of conservatives. Now in private practice, he seems like the kind of former official that conservatives might want to question under oath. Could it happen?”...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323844804578528193656378164.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_Opinion

I hadn’t read this before...


9 posted on 06/08/2013 12:28:24 AM PDT by bronxville (Margaret Sanger - “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,Â)
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