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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yep .. is called reshaping destiny.
Highly doubtful. He can do anyting. Nothing will happen to him.
Actually you have a Great Point ... We did surrender twice. Having looked ahead I’d say we are destine to surrender again ... but ... for the moslems ... I would not be on it.
be or bet ... We are in the morning ... deep beneath the Lake ... Yes, FReepers Haunt this Place.
>>And here you are again making excuses urging people to wait and see.
Do they pay you well? <<
I find that pretty damned condescending to a fellow freeper that actually made a “thoughtful” comment
(Do they still “pay you well” to beat your wife or boyfriend as your case may be?...Does he like it?)....
Do u see what I'm saying now???..no offense but that really hit me wrong!...Peace!
And I provided you with examples and told you where to find more.
Not much I can tell you if it hit you wrong. It is what it is. Nor condescending in the least. It’s a logical assumption based on more than a year of observation.
Seeing Norm ... Am seeking that darkness of the lake ....
I rest my case your Honor...He is what he is!
I’m sorry, but what makes any of you people believe anything is going to happen? Let me help you...NOTHING IS GOING TO COME OF THIS, AND OBAMA KNOWS IT!
There wasn’t a “solid majority” of the public behind Nixon’s removal. A group of Republicans advised him to resign.
Obama could barbeque a small child in the Rose Garden and you wouldn’t find a single Democrat critter with objections.
A Republican having committed any one of the myriad and multiple outrages Obama has done—most recently, ordering the IRS to destroy e-mails linking his office with persecution of conservatives—would be facing a drumbeat to resign from the MSM and a visit for Messrs McCain, Graham, McConnell, etc al.
Ok? So we conservatives are like ‘Billy’ in the movie ‘Midnight Express’ languishing in the Turkish prison: we’re tired of waiting, on the advice of those who would be quick to advise an honorable man to quit, and no one’s going to do it for us.
Who is “Mooch?” What does Hillary have to do with the IRS suppression of conservatives? Your post is hard to follow.
Our only real choice....Pray for some type of intercession by God.
What’s going to happen when odumbo decides he wants another term or two as POTUS? Who will impeach him then, if at all? We have become a nation of cowards and truly afraid we will be called “racists” should we act against him. I don’t care what color odumbo is, he is a plague on our country that needs to be removed.
Hyperbole much?
From FR’s front page:
“Free Republic does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government.”
All Norm wants is a little common sense conservatism applied at a “President” who surely deserves it in the form of impeachment. He owes no one an apology for that.
My fear: The people who put Obama where he is are heavily invested in the project of diminishing America. And, as he nears the end of his second term, Obama has become an electoral liability.
Having gained power, and the wherewithal to do their damage, will these people be willing to give it up -- with their goal almost within view?
I doubt it.
So, how might they extend their power? How might they turn Obama from an electoral liability into an electoral asset?
Let me say that I desperately hope the SOB survives his term!
IMHO..”what if” made a thoughtful post...very debatable in real terms...Do you agree??
Can you source me to the post? I’m trying to find it, searching this thread. Was it somewhere else? I’d like to make sure I’m reading the same thing you are.
Who's paying you!!!...U cant even do that much research?......*S*...
No one. I do it just to piss cheshires off. It makes me haZ a happy.
Consider it my contribution to the cause of spreading actual conservatism.
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