[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Lawmakers blasted the Internal Revenue Service this week for deleting records that a federal judge had ordered the agency to produce.
First, Sens. Orrin Hatch ...Republican Senator-for-Life from Utah. The state does have two senators but nobody can remember who the other guy is... and Ron Wyden demanded to know why a hard drive had been "sanitized" after a court ordered the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... to hand over records from that computer.
In a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen Wednesday, the pair of Republicans questioned the tax agency's record-keeping policies, which have come under fire for years thanks to a series of lengthy congressional investigations that were stymied by the IRS' failure to turn over key documents.
"For unknown reasons, the hard drive in question was not recycled, and in December of [2014] a FOIA request was issued that may have pertained to documents on the hard drive," Hatch and Wyden wrote of the wiped hardware. "In April 2015, the IRS subsequently 'sanitized' the hard drive, in potential violation of IRS procedure and the relevant litigation hold."
Impeach Koskinen and dare the Democrats to defend, in public, the head of the IRS. Time the impeachment for early April.
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I'd start firing top down with the proviso that the next layer might get spared criminal indictments and loss of pension if they turned
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Middle management is often the problem. Top management asks middle management for data. Middle management lies. Top management ends up being poweless. The answer? Reduction in force.
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Impeach Koskinen
That fella needs a bit more than impeachment. I guess that's about all I will say here.
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Meanwhile we little people still have to obey the law while our so called leaders flaunt the law. The peasants are revolting! The leaders say, "Why, yes they are."
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That happened last year in Denmark, Darth. Since a lot of the Progressives want us to be like Denmark, I'm for it.
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My post #2 is a warning to the next president. You will appoint new leaders. These leaders will ask to be briefed by the crooks in place. They new leaders will be lied to. What is plan B?
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they need to take lessons from the va: records vanish all the time and no fire (acountability): ask macdonald for a tutorial
[NEWS.VICE] A government attorney will file a motion in federal court on behalf of the State Department Friday seeking an additional month to complete its release of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ... State was supposed to release the final batch of emails next week in response to VICE News' Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, filed in January 2015, which sought all of Clinton's emails. The State Department now expects to complete its production by February 29. The government attorney, Robert Prince, asked VICE News whether we would consent to the extension. We said that we opposed it.
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Go ahead, give them another 30 days. Make the top leadership [pick any 15 or 20 Senior Grades] at Foggy Bottom sign an affidavit of compliance. Hold them responsible! If they are tardy for as much as 5 minutes, immediately jail them all in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary one year for every day their pink bow tied DoS minions are late.
Fully integrate the newbees. No two of the bastids in the same cell. No rights of re-employment upon release and no free airline ticket back to the beltway.
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Make them work overtime. Heck, I would settle for a full forty hour week. Deny the request and hold the lot of them in contempt of court for trying to run out the clock.
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[THEATLANTIC] Review publishes the movement-conservative case against the Republican frontrunner. If he gets the nomination they'll grumble he's not good enough. If he wins the election they'll say they supported him from the start. Once he's in office they'll oppose him every way they can. Once he leaves office they'll name airports in his honor. RNC cuts debate ties with National Review over anti-Trump issue
[FOXNEWS] The Republican National Committee announced late Thursday that the venerable conservative magazine National Review had been dropped as a debate sponsor after it published an issue devoted to why voters should reject Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
RNC front man Sean Spicer confirmed to Buzzfeed News that the magazine had been dropped as a sponsor of the Feb. 25 debate in Houston, saying "a debate moderator can't have a predisposition."
"We expected this was coming," National Review publisher Jack Fowler wrote in a blog post early Friday, calling the RNC move a "small price to pay for speaking the truth about The Donald."
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Like him or not, Pubs better get behind the Donald and as quickly as possible.
that is because the unelected bureaucracy runs america now just like it does in the UK and Australia
that is why the 2-party system is all there is - no real choice. That is why Ron Paul never got a look in
because the NSA/security agencies have omniscient spy powers, the only candidate to get in will be who they want. Anybody they dont want will have dirt from the past leaked or fabricated at a crucial electoral moment
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I love how furriners (even Aussies) think they're expert in our politics. Even our "political experts" have been stumped by Trump's campaign
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As someone else posted -
Did the GOP secure the border with control of the White House and Congress? NO.
Did the GOP balance the budget with control of the White House and Congress? NO.
Who gave us the TSA? The GOP
Who gave us the Patriot Act? The GOP
Who expanded Medicare to include prescription drug coverage? The GOP
Who created the precursor of Common Core in Race To the Top? The GOP
Who played the race card in Mississippi to re-elect Thad Cochran? The GOP
Who paid Democrats to vote in the Mississippi primary? The GOP
Who refused to support Ken Cuccinnelli in Virginia? The GOP
Who supported Charlie Crist? The GOP
Who supported Arlen Spector? The GOP
Who supported Bob Bennett? The GOP
Who worked against Marco Rubio? The GOP
The Left believes the fantasy that socialism is economically viable.
The Right believes the fantasy that its still a constitutional republic
Both lie to themselves that if only they got the right man in power, it'll all work
It's an oligarchy. As long as the power and money remain concentrated as they are you're not getting back to the old system. Those in power will not give it up politely or peacefully. You get rid of Pompey and his henchmen by backing Caesar.
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The RNC, not the GOP, is beginning to realize Trump is not going away. The GOPO will either embrace or die a slow death. Just ask the Blue dogs how resisting change went. The fact is pretty simple, even for those so call experts that all him a clown and gone in 30 days. This is a democracy, when we have had enough we will have a change in leadership, be it through voting, or if the government decides to become a tyranny through violence. We have a choice, Trump, who runs billion dollar business. He understands second order effects. Of Hillary, the elite of the elite, not a socialist or communist, but would become a dictator. Or Sanders, a devout communist/socialist. Don't like his hair, don't like his arrogance? America needs to toss out the current leadership and bring in new leaders. Starting at the top.
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And, I need to proof read and spell check...
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you're not getting back to the old system
Does history records any cases of successful "getting back to the old system"?
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Its happening and no one even notices. There IS a third party alternative to the Dems and the Republican party and it is rowing at an EXTREMELY rapid rate.
It will grow by at least 300,000 more voters this year alone. THAT growth will be the foot hold the third party needs to continue to accelerate its power rapidly.
MAS.
Mualim Anerican Society openly supported by Barak Obama who will be revered by MAS as an American party founder and supporter especially during the year2016 of his presidency. What else would history expect from a president with a muslim name who fooled an entire generation of Ammerixan non-muslims so easily.
Barak Hussein Obama. History will consider him one the greatest Muslim leaders of Islamic Expansionism in Islams 1400 year history.
Local. State. National.
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AND the U.S. political landscape will be too fractured to counter MAS effectively.
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Does history records any cases of successful "getting back to the old system"?
Yes, that's what the American revolution was about. Getting back to the benign neglect of the central government prior to the French and Indian/Seven Years War. London tried to establish its 'authority' over the colonies it hadn't prior. Thus the reaction. The Articles of Confederation were found to be too benign in face of reality and the Constitutional convention gave America a set of laws that worked for about two hundred years till once again centralized power got out of control.
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Trump is a train wreck. He talks a good game, but that's it. No track record - unless you count changing his mind on every imaginable issue multiple times a track record. Think Bill Clinton with a border wall ... maybe.
You guys are welcome to throw a Trump party. I will not attend.
[MEDIAITE] If the object now is to keep score of how many people of color are in an ad, Sanders' ad is no whiter than Hillary's closing argument, so maybe someone should give David Brock a sedative and wake him up when we get to South Carolina. It's Iowa, for crying out loud. This is another example of a Hillary surrogate pressing a point that they ought to leave alone. Bernie already has a problem with non-white voters, he doesn't need "help" from David Brock, especially when that "help" involves turning an issue that so many people care deeply about into so much political wordplay.
As for the ad itself, it's a great general election ad, and a stark contrast to the hollow warm fuzzies of the Sanders ad, but it shortchanges Hillary and the viewer by completely nullifying the ambition that her campaign has shown thus far. The "rainbows and unicorns" attack on Sanders, which the Hillary campaign has been ramping up, really needs some modulation for Democratic voters. We like a little bit of rainbow, a little bit of unicorn, in our policy tapas plate.
Hillary...
“helped get health care for eight million kids”
“helped a city rise again”
“stared down hostile leaders around the world.”
“The one candidate for president who has everything it takes to do every part of the job.”
“stop the Republicans from ripping all our progress away.”
“I’m listening to you, I’m fighting for you, and with your support, I’m going to deliver."
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David Brock. The albino Troll Doll
Snark of the day.
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[MEDIAITE] If the object now is to keep score of how many people of color are in an ad, Sanders' ad is no whiter than Hillary's closing argument, so maybe someone should give David Brock a sedative and wake him up when we get to South Carolina. It's Iowa, for crying out loud. This is another example of a Hillary surrogate pressing a point that they ought to leave alone. Bernie already has a problem with non-white voters, he doesn't need "help" from David Brock, especially when that "help" involves turning an issue that so many people care deeply about into so much political wordplay.
