Posted on 07/01/2014 10:05:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Do you remember what President Obama initially said about the Internal Revenue Service scandal? Do you recall his professed outrage?
Obama wanted us to know how furious he was. He said, "The misconduct that (the inspector general's report) uncovered is inexcusable." "It's inexcusable," he repeated, "and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency -- but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives."
He declared that the "responsible parties" would be held "accountable." He reported that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew "took the first step by requesting -- and accepting -- the resignation of the acting commissioner of the IRS (Steven Miller) because given the controversy surrounding this audit, it's important to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward." He said he had directed the agency to implement recommendations from the inspector general to ensure that this outrageous conduct would not be repeated.
Please don't snicker at this, but Obama also promised that his administration would work "hand in hand with Congress to get this thing fixed."
Be advised that he was reading from a prepared statement, which means he wasn't shooting from the hip and said precisely what he intended to say.
What has he done since? Let's just look at a few developments.
Former IRS official Lois Lerner has twice invoked her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to avoid answering congressional questions. Just recently, her lawyer said she did so to avoid congressional bullying. I guess I was not in class the day my law school professor informed us that "fear of congressional bullying" is a legitimate basis on which to assert the privilege.
In January, we learned that the Justice Department selected Barbara Kay Bosserman, a strong political supporter of Obama's and contributor to him, to lead the criminal probe into the scandal. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter complaining, "The Department has created a startling conflict of interest."
In March, Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said Obama had reneged on his promise to have his aides cooperate with the investigation, forcing the committee to conduct a dragnet for emails and documents needed to uncover the truth. He said federal agents conducting the investigation hadn't talked to a single target of the IRS at that point.
The IRS promised to turn over all its emails and then, more than a year after it discovered they were missing, said it had lost emails because of crashed hard drives. There was not just one crashed hard drive; there were six or seven. And the lost emails "coincidentally" covered the very period the targeting went on. During this same period, the IRS reconfigured its backup system and deleted its backups of the pertinent emails. Hardly anyone outside of Obama's and Harry Reid's families is buying this complex fable. Polls show that 76 percent of Americans believe that the emails were deliberately deleted.
All of this makes me wonder what could be so incriminating on these emails that Lerner and her cronies would prefer having three-fourths of the country believe they deliberately destroyed the evidence over disclosing what was on the emails.
Just as troubling are Obama's subsequent statements about the scandal. Far from still being "angry" (as if he ever was), he told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that there was "not even a smidgen of corruption" in the IRS affair. He even denied that the IRS had targeted conservative groups for political purposes. "That's not what happened," he said. Instead, IRS officials were confused about how to implement the law governing tax-exempt groups. "There were some boneheaded decisions."
One of the most damning revelations surfaced just last week, and it's surprising more isn't being made of it. We discovered that Lerner had received an invitation addressed to Sen. Chuck Grassley and personally ordered an audit based on it. This is an abuse of power on a scale we've rarely seen.
There is much more, but this is enough to make what I'm going to tell you next an unmitigated outrage.
What's that? It's that Obama, just last week, pranced to the microphone to accuse Congress of making all this up for political reasons. He said these allegations involved only "Washington fights" and "fabricated issues. They're phony scandals that are generated. It's all geared towards the next election or ginning up a base; it's not on the level."
Opportunistically pivoting from "outrage" to "phony scandals" would have been bad enough if no additional incriminating facts had been uncovered between his polar-opposite statements, but almost everything we learned in the interim points to far worse corruption, not less.
How does anyone believe anything Obama says anymore, except when he boasts that he's going to advance his liberal agenda lawlessly, without Congress, which he did again last week?
Obama once quipped to French President Francois Hollande, "That's the good thing about being president; I can do whatever I want."
People thought he was joking.
if you know who he is you can trust he will do what advances his goal.
I trust him to lie, cheat and steal to get to his goal.
You can always trust Obama to do what furthers his agenda of destroying America and elevating Islam.
He calls it “Fundamentally Change” but we know his goals are to reduce America to a shambles and aid the spread of Islam.
Trust Obama?
ROFLMTO...that is the biggest piece of lying crap to ever walk the face of the earth...
ODrama tell the truth? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahaha!
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. P. J. O’Rourke
Yup.
Government is in the business of intentionally deceiving the public.
In a properly EDUCATED public, it should be natural to distrust and suspect whatever these politicians SAY or DO.
Instead, and since the voters have been so successfully dummied down... we NOW have the reverse of what OUGHT to take place. The public actually looks to government as a child looks to a parent for help and support.
THAT is never what OUR government was meant to be. Americans have become fat, lazy cattle who want to be indulged and spoiled even more.
Sure. Muslims and all enemies of America, Western Civilization, and freedom.
I heard an Obaba administration flack being interviewed on the radio and the interviewer asked how he could take that position when the administration had taken the oppostive position just months earlier. He said, “As long as you can win the moment the past doesn’t matter”. That is the philosophy these dishonest dictators live by.
Because he’s the messiah! All messiahs can be trusted, right?
He’s been high on Pie Crack this whole time.....
Well according to the man himself....
“American Pie” + Crack.....
Is this some sorta Ghey Porn Re-make of the American pie movie???
Sorry I went there.
that’s because he’s a closet mooselimb.
Kinda funny cause moosies don’t care for fags.
Kinda funny cause moosies don’t care for fags.
A large percentage of Moosies ARE FAGS....
What closet?
One cannot trust Obama ever.
Not even a smidgen.
Yep - the moozies hate fags.
They only engage in homosexualism themselves because the goats and sheep don't always cooperate and those burkas are so difficult and time consuming to open up and you never know what is lurking inside.
I go even farther with one smidgen of a smidgen whatever that is.
They can’t.
Some people just don’t know it yet.
We can trust him to weaken our national economy, to damage private business, to inhibit production of goods and services, to prohibit access to natural resources. We can trust him to damage military preparedness, to eliminate necessary weapons and other hardware, to damage morale and corrupt the military culture. We can trust him to support depravity, perversion, dependency, and social degradation. We can trust him to insult our allies and pander to our enemies in any manner that will degrade our national security. We can trust him to leave our southern border undefended in the face of hordes of illegal aliens while harassing American Citizens for their "papers, please". Except, of course, when voting.
Everything about this man is a fraud and has been from the get go.
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