Posted on 07/19/2013 7:41:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It may turn out that within the IRS abuse of Tea Party, conservative, Jewish and other groups was another layer of abuse: women. Catherine Engelbrecht so far has the most harrowing story to tell, of abuse by multiple executive branch agencies after she founded the grassroots election security watchdog True the Vote. Now former Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is naming names, saying that her tax information was compromised the very day she announced her Senate candidacy. That same day, the IRS slapped a lien on a house that it believed she owned, only to withdraw that lien when the agency discovered that she no longer owned it.
O’Donnell ran for Senate in 2010. She only found out about the breach of her private information this year.
The phone message earlier this year shocked the battled-scarred candidate, a tea party favorite who knocked off Republican mainstay Michael Castle in the primary before losing in a bid to win Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s former seat.
“Ms. O’Donnell, this is Dennis Martel, special agent with the U.S. Department of Treasury in Baltimore, Md. … We received information that your personal federal tax info may have been compromised and may have been misused by an individual,” he said in the January message left on her cellphone.
For Ms. O’Donnell, the message immediately raised red flags.
On March 9, 2010, the day she revealed her plan to run for the Senate in a press release, a tax lien was placed on a house purported to be hers and publicized. The problem was she no longer owned the house. The IRS eventually blamed the lien on a computer glitch and withdrew it.
That’s an awfully coincidental computer glitch.
Now Mr. Martel, a criminal investigator for the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, was telling her that an official in Delaware state government had improperly accessed her records on that very same day.
Beyond that, Ms. O’Donnell and Senate investigators who have tried to help her have run into a wall of silence, leaving more questions than answers about whether abuses of the IRS system extend to private individuals and not just the tax-exempt groups already identified as victims.
“I don’t know. And I’d like to know,” Ms. O’Donnell told The Washington Times in her first interview about the case. “Because whether it’s one, eight or 80 [cases], it’s an abuse of power at the IRS. It’s using the IRS as a political weapon, and that shouldn’t be done.”
Ahead of a new hearing on IRS abuse today, the Treasury Department told Sen. Chuck Grassley that at least four politicians — that could be candidates for office or officeholders, we don’t know — had their private information improperly accessed through the IRS since 2006. Evidently O’Donnell is one of them.
So have women been even more unfairly abused by Obama’s IRS than others? Well, at this point we don’t know. But it has been obvious for years that liberals reserve special venom for women who happen to be conservatives. The left pushes a narrative that it “stands for women” — that was the Texas Democrat Party’s exact line during the recent battle to pass a modest abortion law — but the reality is that while it does stand for some women it by no means stands for all women. Juanita Broaderick found out how little sympathy women who stand up against powerful Democrats will get.
When women disrupt that narrative, as state Sen. Donna Campbell, state Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, state Rep. Stephanie Klick, state Rep. Stefani Carter and other women did by championing the abortion bill through the Texas legislature, leftists either denounce them or pretend that they do not exist. Either tactic is demeaning and dismissive of women who happen to disagree with the left’s lines on issues. Carter, who is black, is running for statewide office now on the Republican ticket. As a black woman running as a conservative and pro-life Republican, Carter can expect to become the left’s next target of unreasoned hate. Battleground Texas is probably already building an arsenal of hate to unleash on her.
Sarah Palin has endured years of misogynistic abuse from the left for being a working mom who was a successful governor who happens to be a pro-life conservative. During my own years at Hot Air and on the Laura Ingraham Show I saw liberal abuse of notable conservative women up close. The abuse liberals heap on conservative women every single day is quite real and it reaches insane levels. It remains to be seen whether the IRS reserved any special scrutiny for women who stand for themselves as anything other than Democrat.
Dissolve this government and begin anew. Due to gross corruption and lack of morality among those in office, it is a stinking corpse that cannot be revived.
Pres. Washington was correct in recognizing that a nation can only be free when the people are committed to religious faith. Alexis de Tocqueville echoed the same belief. We are finished.
“Since this happened BEFORE the primary election, wouldn’t it seem more likely that this occurred at the behest of someone in the GOP?”
Everyday I am more convinced that the Democrat Party and the Republican Party are both corrupt public faces of the same shadow organization. The corruption is entrenched and the body politic is rotting from the inside. The situation is beyond the point where it will be eradicated at the ballot box. We are headed for dictatorship, revolution, or anarchy.
Until this week I was a registered Republican for 40 years. Yesterday I went to the board of elections and changed my party to “unaffiliated”. I am pleased to no longer have my name associated with any corrupt political organization.
It was noteworthy when I changed my registration I was not asked for any kind of identification. I filled out a completely new voter registration application. I did not have to prove residency or citizenship. More proof that those who claim they are being denied the right to vote are lying.
“Joe Miller / Lisa Murkowski redux.”
Yup, the NRSC and the RNC backed, not the Republican nominee, not the choice of the people, they supported the incumbent who ran as an independent.
How long have you suspected Karl Rove?
Absolutely!
The problem with that is the media is hugely powerful and now control election results, thus cementing a corrupt virtual one-party control over everything. It will stop being virtual when the GOP finally collapses due to decades of week and impotent leadership.
Only a revolution will reverse the course we are on.
So all we have to do is wait for the courts to say Christine O’Donnell has no standing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a COD victory would have meant an obamacare defeat. Aside from that most importan point, who among us doesn't have ‘quirks’? I'll gladly take a true patriot over a polished ivy league Marxist schmuck any day.
And as some are alluding to, Ms. O'Donnell is not hard on the eyes either...most conservative women are that way.
So you are ok with the IRS targeting people you don’t like them? Her tax problems became a huge issue in her campaign, but to you it is a big joke.
Pray for America to Wake Up
At some point all of us have to wake up to the ugly truth... democrats are totalitarian thugs. The 'soft side' of them is a cover... sheep's clothing on a wolf.
10%? Wishful thinking.
In Chile, their’s runs 17+% and you never hear much crying about it.
democrats think they have the right to go into personal and private information and use it against it normal people. And the democrat is NEVER prosecuted.
Joe the Plumber.
“computer glitch “
They really take us for fools.
5.56mm
Didja ever notice coincidences always favor Democrats? Vote recounts always move the totals to them. IRS data "accidentally" leaks about people and organizations, and it's always conservatives. Now the IRS "accidentally" put a lien on what they thought was her house.
Ooops! Either Democrats are gaming the bureaucracy against us or their the luckiest damned people on the planet. Which do you think it is?
And this is why Elmer Fudd wins points claiming the Pubs are waging a war on women. And this is why a self-avowed Marxist is elected, with the help of the Whig Party in DE.
I want to know why Christine hasn’t revealed who the low-down POS is. Is she planning a law suit? Better to expose him and have him arrested.
And to the NSA trolls, FU.
Well, Joe Miller did survive the ‘accident’ on the night he won the primary.
When the GOP-E immediately announced that they would not support her, it was open season on her.
It is time to GET RID of THE IRS...and LIBERALS!!
So what can she do about it? I have never seen our government so out of control.
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