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.
B$. She has a victim of Tokyo Rove's vengance
The IRS War on Women.
Well, considering how many devil worshipers there seems to be in DC these days, I guess they feel threatened by someones past that doesn’t quite live up to there virtuous-less life.
Because she couldn’t have won anyway... Judge’s knowledge, like in sharia. The judges have a crystal ball so they know what would have been, and that’s all the evidence they need, to say that nobody was harmed by any of the corruption and crimes... God knows none of us are guaranteed a fair fight or due process, only a win if that has been pre-ordained according to the judge’s crystal ball...
Joe Miller, Sharon Engle, Christine O'Donnell, Herman Cain...et al destroyed by the GOP. They would rather have Obama, Reid, Murkowski and Coons than real limited government conservatives. The GOP is t he wolf amongst the sheep, they are the Washington Generals to the Dem Globe-trotters - they false alternative to despotism. The GOP kingmakers are really in shackles manufacturing. Corruption is in their blood.
Yep!!!
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
No offense, but? Been posted numerous times before, glad to read his thought on the matter, again. How does that pertain to my comment? MY beliefs/votes in how gov’t should run should not count, being non-religious?
You posted a response to this:
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.And your response was:
Sorry, but I take slight offense to that statement.So I thought you were not aware of John Adam's statement back in the day.
Your comment to me:
How does that pertain to my comment? [Explained above--Syncro] MY beliefs/votes in how gov’t should run should not count, being non-religious?Oh my I did not mean anything like that.
I posted the John Adams quote as an example as to why our government isn't working that well these days.
Thanks for the response, sorry for the miscommunication.
but democrat voters love and trust government , but don't trust private businesses. idiot democrats
MORE IRS CRIME!!!
Over-the-top-cops = Rogue Pork!
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