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The Lois Lerner Defense - File it the next time the IRS calls you up. (Mark Steyn)
National Review Online ^ | May 31, 2013 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 05/31/2013 5:39:29 PM PDT by neverdem

We have the president of the United States’ word as a gentleman that he knew nothing about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of his enemies until he “learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.”

Furthermore, although the commissioner of the IRS, Douglas Shulman, visited Obama’s White House no fewer than 157 times, which is 156 times more than his predecessor Mark Everson ever visited the White House, we know that this was for legitimate Easter-egg rolls, as he testified to Congress, and meetings to discuss Obamacare. The Easter Bunny, one should note, visits the White House two to four times as often as the average IRS commissioner did before Mr. Shulman came along. But you can’t make a health-care omelet without breaking Easter eggs: It is one of the many distinctive features of Obama-style “health” “care” “reform” that, while it has not led to the hiring of a single additional doctor, nurse, or hospital janitor, it did require the biggest expansion of the IRS since the Second World War. So, when he wasn’t rolling Easter eggs and advising the moppets on whether they needed to declare the luxury Belgian white chocolate balls with praline filling, he was participating in vital meetings on how many extra SWAT teams he was going to need to enforce the new colonoscopy non-compliance penalty.

Let us also overlook the excellent treatment received from the IRS by members of the president’s family. Although acting commissioner Steven Miller apologized for the “horrible customer service” conservative taxpayers had gotten, a gentleman by the name of Malik Obama received impeccable, express service when he took the precaution of mailing in his non-profit application from N’giya, Kenya, rather than notoriously slower mail processing centers such as Phoenix and Dallas...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irs; irsscandal; obamacare; ppaca
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

I like it. But I’m not brave enough or foolish enough to do it.

Yet.


21 posted on 06/01/2013 6:51:01 AM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: neverdem

Devastating Steyn indictment of the blatant criminality of Obama and the vile democrat corruption of the IRS that put Obama’s fraudulent re-election over the top.


22 posted on 06/01/2013 7:25:18 AM PDT by Amagi (Obama is never so animated as when he is assaulting the Constitution.)
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To: nascarnation

As long as their job and personal welfare is not in jeporady


23 posted on 06/01/2013 7:27:19 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....Obama Denies Role in Government)
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To: neverdem
It is one of the many distinctive features of Obama-style “health” “care” “reform” that, while it has not led to the hiring of a single additional doctor, nurse, or hospital janitor, it did require the biggest expansion of the IRS since the Second World War.

I don't see any way out of our current national and societal mess other than a break-up of the country or a coup.

24 posted on 06/02/2013 9:40:51 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: neverdem

25 posted on 06/02/2013 9:42:28 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: 4Liberty

I have never seen a single liberal anti-American who is.


26 posted on 06/24/2013 11:25:24 AM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: neverdem

One of Steyn’s best. The Darfur genocide connection might even penetrate a few liberal skulls.


27 posted on 06/24/2013 11:41:38 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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