Posted on 12/09/2013 6:48:54 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Hey, remember the IRS scandal? You know, when the IRS specifically singled out conservative tea party groups for extra scrutiny and bullying in order to squash opposition to Barack Obama going into the 2012 presidential election? Remember when President Obama said he was outraged to find out the IRS had been abusing its power to intimidate those who disagree with the administration politically? Yeah...about that.
Last week during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews, President Obama pretty much dismissed the scandal as faux outrage from conservative groups because they were "on a list."
OBAMA: That’s not — that’s not something that’s reported about. If, on the other hand, you’ve got an office in Cincinnati, in the IRS office that — I think, for bureaucratic reasons, is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether a nonprofit is actually a political organization, deserves a tax exempt agency. And they’ve got a list, and suddenly everybody’s outraged.
At one point President Obama claimed he was outraged, but his interview with Matthews reveals it was all an act after his administration got caught (again) abusing its power in order to get him safely re-elected. As a reminder, that "list" Obama is referring to included more than 500 groups that were singled out for the following:
-Patriot
-People teaching about constitutional rights
-Tea Party
-"Anti-Obama" materials
-Constitutional
-Etc.
Over to you, Kim Strassel:
Was the White House involved in the IRS's targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was.
Obama Condemns IRS Scandal: 'I Have Got No Patience' For It
Did Chrissie Tingles Matthews forget this exists?!!!
We're back to that? I guess Benghazi was officially caused by a "hateful, anti-Muslim video."
“Was the White House involved in the IRS’s targeting of conservatives?”
A more direct, though inverted, question:
Would they have done it if it they thought that Obama would have disapproved or told them not to do it?
Can you imagine the outrage if W had done this?
This comment coming from a faux—O—dent with not one, but two (count ‘em, two) demonstrably faux birth certificates.
Face it, Obamadork, you are faux, and you’d lose an IQ contest with an aardvark.
Excuse city.
LIAR!
The reason he’s back to this is that the IRS is now doubling-down for the 2014 elections.
This guy AND the media are retards...
This is 2013!!! You CANNOT use the excuse that it was the office ALL the WAY in “Cincinnati”, and I’m in DC!!!
Sheesh, you’d think telephones, email, texts, fax, etc... have never been invented.
I despise being talked down to like this - as if if ALL happened by a couple of people in a remote office on the other side of the earth.
They have INSTANT access 24/7. Come on now...
"I want to know who pointed those agencies at us" .......
Funny. I don't recall that Chrissie Tingles Matthews asked this question while he was on his knee pads with his dear Reader.
Where is Boehner? Where is Issa? This is what they said when it all broke last June ...
Can you imagine the outrage if he received an IRS audit notice? I bet he’d change his opinion in a NY sec
You know, along with everything else, I am appalled at the low level of intellect in his responses. Our president is a lo information voter.
As with Caligula and Nero of Roman times past, Pres ZerO becomes more delusional and dangerous every day. His madness shared by a media and minion “Lewinskys” just as delusional and still trapped in blind worship of his false godness and isolated more from reality each passing day!
Spoken by the faux president.
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