[WASHINGTONTIMES] President B.O. defended the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... Tuesday in an interview with "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, saying the tea party-targeting scandal was actually Congress' fault for passing "a crummy law" and that the real problem is the agency doesn't have enough money.
Mr. Obama, who has overseen a series of scandals at the IRS, the Veterans Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and now the Office of Personnel Management, was asked why government didn't seem to be working on his watch.
But the president said he's not to blame, using the IRS as an example of how what went wrong wasn't his fault, and questioning whether tea party groups were ever targeted.
The IRS' internal auditor concluded that the agency did, in fact, target conservative and tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny, and Mr. Obama's own Justice Department is still conducting a criminal investigation into the targeting.
Mr. Obama, though, disputed that version Tuesday, according to the pool news hound traveling with the president.
Mr. Obama said Congress "passed a crummy law" that provided vague guidance to the people who worked at the IRS. And he said that employees implemented the law "poorly and stupidly."
The president went on to say that the "real scandal around the IRS is that they have been so poorly funded that they cannot go after these folks who are deliberately avoiding tax payments."
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Quick! I need a Kleenex, I'm getting a nose bleed.
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Koskinen admitted last month that he took people off the phone lines to spite taxpayers. Fuck both of them for purposefully making my job more difficult.
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More proof that the IRS was harassing conservatives:
In 2010, after receiving Baucus’s letter, the IRS considered the issue of auditing donors to 501(c)(4) organizations, alleging that a 35 percent gift tax would be due on donations in excess of $13,000. The documents show that the IRS wanted to cross-check donor lists from 501(c)(4) organizations against gift tax filings and commence audits against taxpayers based on this information.
A gift tax on contributions to 501(c)(4)’s was considered by most to be a dead letter since the IRS had never enforced the rule after the Supreme Court ruled that such taxes violated the First Amendment. The documents show that the IRS had not enforced the gift tax since 1982.
But then, in February 2011, at least five donors of an unnamed organization were audited.
An examination like that should, at worst, only result in a letter going out to the donor that they need to file a gift tax return. Instead, they use it to justify at least five full-blown field audits, which went against their own thirty-year policy on this issue. Fire everyone involved in those audits.
But please use a small nuke. I live about 60 miles from DC.
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I am heartsick. We have a president who lies about everything, an IRS that punishes conservatives, an EPA run amok, and a congress that will not act to oppose them. Why are not articles of impeachment filed against Obama, Koskinen and Mcarthy as a mimimum? Dont tell me that the senate would not convict. Just throw some poop into their end of the pool.
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Great. Now we have the reply. "No, we're not targeting MoveOn and dozens of socialists organizations and individuals than Obama targeted conservative organizations and individuals."
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and California Attorney General Kamala Harris demanding they investigate the Center for Medical Progress for the videotaped sting operation that revealed Planned Parenthood traffics in body parts of aborted babies. The letter was signed by three other Democrats, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA) and Rep. Yvette Clarke (CA). Good idea. Kill the messenger. That'll fix it.
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Did Schakowsky demand a similar investigation of Dan Rather back in 2006?
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Good. Smoked the biggest snakes in Congress out of the cave into the daylight.
Jan Schakowsky
Illinois, top supporter of Obama during his initial campaign for President
Champion of gun control, "assault weapons ban is only the beginning."
Boycotted Netanyahu's speech to Congress.
Called Joel Pollak "Jewish, Orthodox, Tea Party Republican" which caused a backlash from Jewish supporters which caused her to apologize. By the way this woman is a self hater, both her parents are Jewish.
Against the Keystone Pipeline.
For higher wages for fast food burger flippers, says it will create millions of jobs.
Against Iraq war.
For ObamaCare and one payer system.
Believes in Global Warming.
Believes in legalized marijuana
Husband, Creamer, convicted of Federal Bank Fraud and Tax Evasion.
Her stand for abortion and the dismemberment of aborted babies for profit is based on her leadership of Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, and Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Now the wicked witch wants to the regime to go after those who exposed her evil dominion.
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Mr. B - you're onto something there (#4). I think we need a new government program to regulate all those burning issues! All harvesters deserve have a right to equal treatment under the (soon to be written) law!
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Possibly Bobby, but lest we forget, whilst the numbers remain low, the scourge of faith-based unregulated midwifery also still haunts us. "Harvester regulators" might well put that right.
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Republicans should use the videos to demand ultrasounds prior to an abortion. When the mother sees the ultrasound they tend to see a baby and decide against the abortion which is why Democrats have fought against the Ultrasounds.
Such a position would come off as very reasonable and the left will look psychotic fighting against it.
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..from the last election, 51 percent. Well, actually, 33 percent would vote for Satan himself openly running as long as he espoused the Leftist trope, which by the way, he/she does (covet, bear false witness, steal, et al). So, that leaves about 18 percent asleep at the switch.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Republican Gov. Scott Walker issued an executive order Tuesday authorizing Wisconsin National Guard personnel to carry firearms while on duty in the wake of an attack on a pair of military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The governor's order directed Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, who oversees the Wisconsin National Guard, to arm guard personnel "as reasonably necessary." Walker also said in a news release that he ordered Dunbar to review the long-term security plans for all of the guard's facilities.
"Safety must be our top priority, especially in light of the horrific attack in Chattanooga," Walker said in the release.
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[MEDIAITE] President Barack Obama The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person... hasn't officially announced whether or not he'll be visiting Kenya during his tour of East Africa on July 22 and 23. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... rumors have circulated that the Hawaiian-born politician with paternal roots in the country would make a stop -- especially after a Kenyan Airways official allegedly leaked Obama's itinerary. Whatever the case may be, the members of Nairobi's Republican Liberty Party will be there to greet him.
That's because, according to The Nairobi Times, the president's visit has caused some consternation among Kenyans following his vocal support for the recent SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage. Although the country absolutely loves the fact that one of its own (albeit through familial relations) attained the highest political office in the U.S. executive branch, Kenya prides itself on being a very conservative African nation. This is especially true when it comes to same-sex marriage.
So in a letter addressed to Nairobi's Police Commandant, party leader Kidala Vincent wrote that the RLP "shall hold a peaceful procession": Colour Sergeant Bourne: The sentries report Zulus Naked Anti-LGBT Protesters to the south west. Thousands of them.
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Then of course he won't go.
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[RealClearPolitics] At a hearing scrutinizing President Obama's enforcement of federal immigration policy Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was involved in a heated exchange with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana about the number of criminal illegal immigrants released by the administration.
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You have really hit the mark there Mr. G. It has been my experience that in this country the ones who claim to be African American are so inclined. The Africans I have met have little in common with these people. Then I have seen them actively avoid African Americans because they are so full of hatred for everyone and each other. Now those of christian faith are different. Great interaction and more positive outlook on life.
I am not surprised we were not informed prior to Lynch being confirmed concerning her background. I believe it was a quality appreciated by the O group.
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When exactly did the USA left switch from being in love with Israel and it's kibbutz structure to hating Israel?
The change started after the 1967 war, when Yasser Arafat's Fatah became a Soviet client as the PLO, sold to the world as the romantically violent "native resistance" to Jewish colonization. It accelerated when Menachem Begin beat the Labour party to govern from the right, and Benjamin Netanyahu pulled an early Scott Walker, reducing the power of the unions and moving the economy in a capitalist direction.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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