Posted on 05/17/2013 3:46:18 AM PDT by SueRae
Was the White House involved in the IRS's targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was.
President Obama and Co. are in full deniability mode, noting that the IRS is an "independent" agency and that they knew nothing about its abuse. The media and Congress are sleuthing for some hint that Mr. Obama picked up the phone and sicced the tax dogs on his enemies.
But that's not how things work in post-Watergate Washington. Mr. Obama didn't need to pick up the phone. All he needed to do was exactly what he did do, in full view, for three years: Publicly suggest that conservative political groups were engaged in nefarious deeds; publicly call out by name political opponents whom he'd like to see harassed; and publicly have his party pressure the IRS to take action.
Mr. Obama now professes shock and outrage that bureaucrats at the IRS did exactly what the president of the United States said was the right and honorable thing to do. "He put a target on our backs, and he's now going to blame the people who are shooting at us?" asks Idaho businessman and longtime Republican donor Frank VanderSloot.
At the White House, President Obama addresses the IRS scandal, May 15. . Mr. VanderSloot is the Obama target who in 2011 made a sizable donation to a group supporting Mitt Romney. In April 2012, an Obama campaign website named and slurred eight Romney donors. It tarred Mr. VanderSloot as a "wealthy individual" with a "less-than-reputable record." Other donors were described as having been "on the wrong side of the law."
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Uh huh!
According to Spengler, in the end it all boils down to blood and money.
“O’s” textbook ‘Caesarism’ is fulfilling the complete Spengler blueprint...(”Decline of the West”)
Here we see the jaundiced view of America held by Obomba and his coterie of haters.
It is an article of faith among these progressives and socialists that all of our laws, rules/regs, our institutions, etc, serve only to preserve the "status quo"---a system that advances those they see as "unworthy" at the expense of others.
The poor, the less successful, the less ambitious, the less talented----these losers are all "victims" of capitalism---therefore it must be destroyed.
Along with the EPA, Dept of Education, HHS, Fannie and Freddie....I could go on, but it is all too exhausting when you have a compliant Congress. The average person who is paying attention, not the low information people, would have fired and dismantled this whole bunch of self-serving pigs along time ago.
Then I hear on the John Gambling show this morning that Senator Schumer sicked the IRS on the Tea Party. Apparently there is an e-mail trail.
Obama is a lying cowardly POS.
Obama didn't answer the question when a reporter asked him if the white house knew that the IRS was targeting conservative groups. It answered another one. what does that tell you that this creature knew and is lying.
The media is covering this superficially and didn't call Obama on this evasion. The IRS RIGGED the election for Obama and democrat congressmen in the 2012 election. through impossible 50 page questionnaires, threats of perjury Obam’s IRS intimidated many tea party groups from getting started. this rigged the election for Obama.
Come on you cowardly cretin, you Obama are responsible , man up and take responsibility and admit you created this IRS scandal.
impeach and imprison this cretin
As someone said, some of the questions themselves were illegal to ask. Not that anyone seems to care.
If enough IRS agents are water boarded, one will eventually spill all the beans.
Special prosecutor? How about ful bore inquisition, rack and all.
democrat senators also in on it but Obama is their leader. they don't do anything without this creep obama not ordering it .and plus the media and Obama want us to believe this creep didn't know that for 3 years the IRS was rigging the election for Obama. that's BS .the IRS was just following his directions
Did you not mean Fag@WhiteHouse.gov?
Especially Jarrett. Saw a clip on the news yesterday evening of Obama and military people discussing sexual harassment in the ranks. Who is sitting in the midst of them all? Valerie Jarrett!!!! She runs everything? I read that Valerie told the military to stand down the night of the Benghazi attack. Valerie finally gave the go-ahead for killing Bin Laden. I want Valerie Jarrett banished from the White House!!!!
I’m trying. My Congressman (Gerhlach) is on the Ways and Means Committee and my Senator (Toomey) on the Banking and oversight Committee. I’ve already called..and will do so until there is REAL action on this mess.
Sarah was right... sudden and relentless reform. I’m done with the nicey-nice crap. Hold those Town meetings again THIS year, it will make 2009 and 2010 look like an ice cream social.
Broom?
You must learn to be far less tolerant.
Gallows are what is required to end the scourge and deliver the historical message.
Start with George Soros.
Yes what OBAMA’S IRS did was illegal and unconstituional.
The IRS shut down tea party groups. we would have had many more conservative Republicans in congress .now with the IRS congress they are on the verge of passing Amnesty
someone must go to prison for this and it is the one who is the head of the IRS and the one responsible Barak Obama
I doubt anyone goes to prison for this. THIS will probably be continued, with a new veil. The GOPe has better things to do.
Revolt is coming.
Revolt is coming.
Yes it is.
5.56mm
Voter fraud at work.
Revolt is coming.
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