Posted on 05/18/2013 7:01:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
More utter cluelessness from IRS employees, plus, as a bonus, some "Good German" excuses for why the targeting of conservative groups happened.
And not one of them raised an alarm? Not one of them evenAs could be expected, the folks in the determinations unit on Main Street have had trouble concentrating this week. Number crunchers, whose work is nonpolitical, don't necessarily enjoy the spotlight, especially when the media and the public assume they're engaged in partisan villainy.
"We're not political,'' said one determinations staffer in khakis as he left work late Tuesday afternoon. "We people on the local level are doing what we are supposed to do. . . . That's why there are so many people here who are flustered. Everything comes from the top. We don't have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive [emphasis added]."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
...don’t know, i was thinking more like Hogans Heroes....
Then the House (the Senate will only obstruct justice here) better get them to confess their crimes and get them to rat out their bosses just like prosecuters lean on the mob’s street thugs to get the bosses. I hope they can break the Dem’s code of omerta.
And, of course, there were no "tea party" or "patriot" or any other conservative group that "sailed through" the applications process. They were all hung up and delayed - no doubt for the sake of "consistency." And why questions about donors? About what prayers were said? About what the group was reading?
Just following orders? Where have we heard that one before?
The American Thinker got it right - and the Washington Post was played for fools... Nixon would have been our first dictator if the Washington Post reporters were as stupid then as they are today...
That's what Government workers do. It's their culture. This is why expanded government will eventually bankrupt this country. This is simply a fact.
Following orders.
And it conforms to their worldview.
Similar tactics have been used on the KKK and other groups. This is just an extension.
I have less than zero respect for anyone besides military who works for the Federal Government. Scum-sucking leeches, all of them.
“Why does anyone need a gun that holds thirty bullets?”
Amen!
“Next time this creep is questioned I hope the questions include “what kind of salary were you making” and “What do you expect your pension to be?” Then that pension needs to be taken away. After all he has confessed his incompetence.”
Take away his pension...AFTER he gets out of prison in 30 years.
What does it mean again when Muslims show you the soles of their shoes?
As bad as this appears it will come to nothing. It is not the worst thing the ostoner gang is doing. It is controlled by ostoner and can’t be pinned on him. He knows that and that is why it was “leaked” and got this whole mess started.
It will come to nothing while, out of scrutiny, something much worse is concluded.
It could backfire because of the arrogance of Miller and the outrage it sparks but I doubt it.
Just licking boots and kissing asses.
"IRS employees are members of the NTEU. The NTEU that is using money from these very same IRS employees to fund the campaigns of anti-Tea Party candidates like Baldwin, Donnelly, McCaskill, Pelosi and Hoyer. Not to mention all the rest of the Democrats who got a piece of the IRS employee money action.
As one would suspect, given the enormous clout of the liberal IRS union, it’s all about the politics. Liberal politics and the financing of the liberal welfare state...
...the NTEU, which gave 94% of its campaign money to anti-Tea Party candidates, has the clout within the IRS to demand a say in who can and cannot carry a Blackberry and receive other high tech communications equipment...
This doesn’t even mention the power the NTEU has inside the IRS to decide everything from promotion rules to size of employee workspaces and on and on.
So the obvious.
If you are working in the IRS, and you are an NTEU member, and you know your union leadership is funneling your union dues to anti-Tea Party candidates, and your union has so much raw power within the IRS that they even control whether you, an IRS employee, can get even such mundane tech gear as a Blackberry — what attitude are you going to display as you review Tea Party applications that must, by law, come in to the IRS for approval?
You already know what to do. And inside the IRS, that’s exactly what was done. The Tea Party, in the vernacular, was screwed. By IRS bureaucrats whose union money is being used to attack the Tea Party. Of course these IRS employees know what to do — most probably without even being asked. There is no need to ask. And if they don’t follow the union program — and want a Blackberry — tough luck..."
Nazi Germany all over again. Just shut up and follow orders.
During the hours of testimony on Friday, did anyone ask point blank:
“Did YOU instruct IRS staff to scrutinize conservative 501C4 applicants?”
Low level IRS bureaucrats calling winners and losers in our political system? Heady stuff. Swollen egos in little Cincinnati fiefdoms...
IRS agents made calls - not based on law - but by carefully applying one standard for liberals and a different standard for conservatives.
Same horror happened in the United States years ago ... back in the racist South...
Voting in the Jim Crow era was the same... blacks had to pass difficult test to get the right to vote - whites just signed a card. Sounds like our modern IRS agents...
Different victims - same evil...
Seems the IRS is deluding themselves. These folks could have worked out train schedules for Dachau without missing a wink of sleep. And the idiot reporter from the Washington Post wouldn't have had the wit to question any of it...
Impossible voter registration 'tests' for blacks - signature cards for whites... - in our time impossible standards for conservatives - easy OK's for liberals. .. Something has to be done.
Where is Chris Matthews and the NAACP on this issue? Would love to hear their excuses... Jesse Jackson - are you out there? Al Sharpton - doesn't this remind you of something???
Need to investigate NTEU minutes and emails ,web site and blogs.regarding their comments to members about tea party members. I bet you would find more smoking guns nationwide.
Immunity to the right IT guy would pay off...:^)
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