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| Finding permanent IRS chief difficult job for Obama |
| 2013-05-17 |
[Chicag Tribune] President Barack ObamaI am the change that you seek... on Thursday chose a White House budget official to lead the beleaguered Internal Revenue Service temporarily and vowed to ensure that the tax-collection agency will not single out any more groups based on their political beliefs. Danny Werfel, the controller of the Office of Management and Budget who served as a point man on the controversial automatic spending cuts known as "sequestration," will start in the new post on May 22. The head of the Internal Revenue Service's tax exempt/government entities division also plans to retire, the IRS said on Thursday, marking the second personnel change at the agency after a scandal involving the targeting of conservative groups by IRS agents. "Joseph Grant, commissioner of tax exempt/government entities division, has announced his plans to retire on June 3rd," the agency said in a statement. Obama is racing to get out in front of a scandal that threatens to derail his second-term agenda as Republicans and conservative groups accuse his administration of using the levers of power to persecute political enemies. "I think we're going to be able to figure out exactly what happened, who was involved, what went wrong, and we're going to be able to implement steps to fix it," Obama said at an unrelated news conference with the Turkish prime minister. "It is just simply unacceptable for there to even be a hint of partisanship or ideology when it comes to the application of our tax laws," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Remember that thread from a few years ago when we were trying to come up with things we would do differently from what Obama's doing right now if our intent was to destroy the country? This is just the icing on the cake. |
| Posted by: Raj 2013-05-17 12:55 |
| #4 The damage done to the nation by O in using Federal Government agencies to attack political enemies is worse than any al Qaaeda attack because these actions destroy the trust of the general public toward their government. O has poisoned the well, put a turd in the punchbowl; call it any metaphor you want, but the damage will affect us all, even after O is long gone from office. The effects are profound. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-05-17 11:35 |
| #3 Finding loyal party apparatchiks and minders is indeed a difficult task. Overlaying a Chicago Machine template over the entire country and every federal agency is a challenge. While democrats in congress are a help, ward bosses and community organizers at the federal level simply do not exist. It is what it is. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-17 09:12 |
| #2 The head of the Internal Revenue Service's tax exempt/government entities division also plans to retire, the IRS said on Thursday, marking the second personnel change at the agency after a scandal involving the targeting of conservative groups by IRS agents. "Joseph Grant, commissioner of tax exempt/government entities division, has announced his plans to retire on June 3rd," the agency said in a statement. They failed to mention that: Grant's predecessor at the IRS was Sarah Hall Ingram, who is now director of the agency's Affordable Care Act Office. (OBAMACARE) Ingram was in charge of the tax exempt division when IRS agents first started targeting conservative groups. The IRS said Ingram's new assignment in the agency is to implement the health care law. |
| Posted by: junkiron 2013-05-17 06:21 |
| #1 Danny Werfel, the controller of the Office of Management and Budget Who knew? Damn gators. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-05-17 05:44 |