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‘I’m not good at math’: The IRS’ public relations disaster
Washington Post ^ | May 10, 2013 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 05/10/2013 1:20:19 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

About a half-hour into a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon, senior Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner said something she will regret.

“I’m not good at math,” she confessed as she tried to summon a statistic.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irs; teaparty
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I am not good at math either...but, I get audited.

PatrioTEA


21 posted on 05/10/2013 1:58:08 PM PDT by Keli Kilohana (Editor, ZARR CHASM CHRONICAL [sic], Sore, WV)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hmm...well, the Tea Party is, after all, looking to cut the size of government. I wonder where we’ll start? Let me see, how about a large, corrupt, and abusive department of the federal government that has been misused to threaten and harass political opponents? Which one could it be, I wonder? Which one?


22 posted on 05/10/2013 1:59:41 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Right. And YOUR agency heavily penalizes HONEST taxpayers for HONEST mistakes.


23 posted on 05/10/2013 2:00:44 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
“I’m not good at math,” she confessed as she tried to summon a statistic.

Then she better be d@mn good lookin'......

24 posted on 05/10/2013 2:01:02 PM PDT by Castlebar
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To: Castlebar
Then she better be d@mn good lookin'......

No. No way. Not with Bill Clinton's dick. Not even with Hillary's.

25 posted on 05/10/2013 2:49:12 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Obviously a political appointee with no actual qualifications for the job.

26 posted on 05/10/2013 2:59:58 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I seem to recall a former Clinton official being fired as President of Harvard University after he made a comment about women and math.


27 posted on 05/10/2013 3:06:13 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

A thief doesn’t need to be good at math because they will steal everything, including the baby-rattle.


28 posted on 05/10/2013 3:09:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Billthedrill
Which one?

NOAA is one agency that could take a few cuts. Their weather forecasts are starting to cover health issues due to weather. Huh?

Many more bigger, important agencies but this one is getting away with more research, more resources with very little scrutiny.

But I'd settle for one of the obvious others if every employee had to write on the whiteboard the real meaning of "PATRIOT" before leaving the building.

29 posted on 05/10/2013 3:47:56 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: nickcarraway

They hate them as much or more as the administration.”

We can probably add Tokyo Rove to that list as well as the National Republican Senatorial group headed up by Cornyn. I suspect he will never forgive the TEA Party for electing Cruz.


30 posted on 05/10/2013 4:36:06 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A

No but you are good at doing the Fairway Kings bidding!
Will you claim the bonus from the DNC on your taxes B!


31 posted on 05/10/2013 5:06:58 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Do you mean the pollen count, for allergy sufferers?


32 posted on 05/10/2013 7:08:42 PM PDT by Fire_on_High (RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
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