Posted on 02/08/2014 11:18:48 AM PST by jazusamo
The IRS scandal is so bad that Democrats are unleashing total war in an attempt to beat back a full airing of the abuse. The old adage, "The best defense is a good offense," is all the more valid when the major media outlets are on their side. It is not necessary to have any actual facts to use as rebuttal for the indefensible; it is enough to simply throw a cloud of dust, so as to discredit any charges - in the eyes of supporters and media sycophants.
President Obama's absurd contention to Bill O'Reilly that there was "not a smidgen" of corruption despite his initial expression of "outrage" over the IRS's behavior is part of this strategy. But another part consists of an attempt to discredit anyone who threatens to come up with genuine investigatory pay dirt. Such a man is Treasury Inspector General Russell George. Josh Hicks of the Washington Post reports:
Two House Democrats on Thursday called for an investigation of a federal auditor who accused the Internal Revenue Service of gross mismanagement and targeting advocacy groups for extra scrutiny based on their names and policy positions.
Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Matt Cartwright (D-Penn.) on Wednesday filed a complaint with a special watchdog council questioning the independence of Treasury Department inspector general J. Russell George.
The congressmen, both of whom serve as top Democrats on House oversight committees, said George produced a "fundamentally flawed performance audit" that was "incomplete" and "outright misleading." They also alleged that he held briefings with Republican members of the House Oversight Committee without the knowledge of Democrats on the panel. (snip)
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Someday........Maybe, maybe not. Our party is so split up that it may never regain leadership, and there will be some very self satisfied people, many of them posters on Fr, who will be patting themselves on the back for their purity.
Someday........Maybe, maybe not. Our party is so split up that it may never regain leadership, and there will be some very self satisfied people, many of them posters on Fr, who will be patting themselves on the back for their purity.
The GOP “Leadership” has chosen to ignore this assault on our constitutional rights. Boehner has never directly engaged Obama regarding this and barely speaks a word about it. Yet he has plenty of time to cut vet pay and play games with amnesty.
If some of those assaulted by our government chose to no longer support the GOP that is all due to the failure of the GOP to represent those who elected them (us).
Start holding the GOP accountable for their failure to be an engaged opposition party to the rampaging Dems. Until the GOP feels the heat they will continue to do nothing. You seem ok with that. I never will be.
This is like when Whittaker Chambers outed fellow commie Alger Hiss. The Truman justice dept. went after...Chambers
Folks at the IRS who lie under oath about this will face more than impeachment...
It's not rocket science. It's either political cowardice at the cost of integrity, or fear of blackmail. No other explanation makes sense.
I assume these business as usual eunuchs can read, and that character counts for much more than reelection.
Hopefully so...I wonder how many more will take the fifth, too many I'm afraid.
I am so cheesed off.
The enemedia’s burying this in favor of Olympics coverage.
YAAAARRGGGHHH!!!!
Absolutely right...The enemedia will use any story or event they can to cover for the RAT in the WH and his criminal administration. Hell, they cover for him without anything else to report on of news value.
They did the same damn thing here in Colorado last year.
When TWO ‘rat senators were booted out of office in a recall election that has NEVER happened here before....
There were some floods, and the enemedia was like:
“Well in an historic reca-——SQUIRREL!!!!”
Makes me want to vomit.
I’m sending Mrs Engelbrecht a donation after hitting this into the FR Zone.
egg their houses
Connolly is the ‘rat rat who kept insisting during the last hearing that there was “no evidence” of any wrongdoing - of course there isn’t - there’s been no investigation - of the 41 clients represented by Jay Sekulow who’ve claimed they were denied their rights by the IRS, exactly zero, nada, zilch, none of them has even been interviewed about their complaints by the FBI, which is supposedly looking into the issue - the next time some ‘rat tries the no evidence bit, some Republican should demand he or she produce a report of one completed reputable investigation demonstrating there was nothing done wrong - or shut up......
Hmm, remember Serpent Head calling Kenneth Starr a pervert?
Well said...I was not familiar with this rabid leftist before this took place, he’ll say anything to belittle and attack whether true or not and from this performance very little that comes out of his mouth is true.
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