Posted on 06/16/2014 7:33:53 PM PDT by Steelfish
House GOP investigators argue IRS targeting influenced by Obama June 16, 2014
House Republicans seeking a direct link between President Obama and the IRS targeting of conservative groups -- a connection Democrats say is essential for a legitimate White House scandal -- have released a report detailing dozens of examples that they say prove the president and fellow Democrats pressured the agency to act.
The influence campaign unofficially started during Obama’s January 2010 State of the Union Address in which he “delivered a stunning rebuke” of the Supreme Court decision in favor of the group Citizens United, among the IRS’s first and biggest targets, according to the 77-page report released Monday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The decision in part allowed campaign donors to remain anonymous.
“The Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests,” Obama said in the address. “I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse by foreign entities. ... And I’d urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to correct some of these problems.”
The report attempts to show that Obama combined his master oratory skills with the “indisputably powerful” presidential bully pulpit to sound a clarion call that was heard by news outlets shaping the national agenda and that led IRS official Lois Learner to start targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.
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It’s getting harder and harder to defend BO even for the dems.
Norm, you are scaring me .... only kidding Norm.
is he willing to disclose the name and address of ALL his donors for 2008 and 2012?
loads of sub-$500 anonymous donations from overseas helped push him into office
I agree. He could drop a bomb on Texas and the cowards in DC would pretend the dead were living.
Here hold the Witch’s Cabin Key ... She does not ask for Grace ....
Blacks here today can’t buy a job,
With him it isn’t racial obviously.
I think he is a moose limb and a marxist trying to help those causes.
Well his adviser Bill Ayres did say that population needed to be thinned by killing those that resisted the glorious liberal revolution. So he might do it.
Grace ... She died in the Lake ... Raving. We heard sweet words as her disguise ... Some told U.S. it was a dream.
Seen any burning up the talk shows? Me either.<<
Gawd!...I cant wait to see your FA on TV tomorrow..leading the charge!!!
GO NORM GO!
Am I wrong?
Exactly. We're not there yet. But if Dems are in danger of losing more seats because the public finally sees what's going on, they may very well vote Obama out.
You MUST have the public if you are going for an effective impeachment. Evidence is building. There's a stronger case this week than last with events in Iraq and the Lois Lerner "computer crash". Obama gained 8 points in DISAPPROVAL last week. If this continues, removal from office is a REAL possibility.
Please, don’t be fooled ... He has already fooled us twice.
*S*
pardon me ... I have ten thousand lined up counting on fingers and toes. They count all the grief!
Who has fooled us twice?
(Remember, now the Gowdy committee is at work and a Bergdahl committee has started amassing evidence. At least 3 fronts. And maybe more to come.)
They are responsible. <<
LMAO...”They” Norm??...WHAT ABOUT U YOU BLOWHARD!...See ya on TV tomorrow?....Naaah..I kinda doubted it too....*S*
Still waiting for you to show where anything I said is wrong. Ping me when you do.
I’ll agree with you ... cause I BELIEVE FReepers haunt this place.
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