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From: TopCop1988@yahoo.com
On May 14, 10:17 am, RD Sandman wrote:
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> Zeppo wrote in-news:kms9b6$s25$14@dont-email.me:
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>> On Mon, 13 May 2013 19:23:29 -0800, linuxgal wrote:
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>>> Zepp the Lyin' Socialist Weasel wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 13 May 2013 18:54:50 -0800, linuxgal wrote:
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>>>>>> Scheiße-Tasche wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Just another case of Republicans trying to destroy a good
>>>>>>>> President simply because he's a Democrat and because they
>>>>>>>> can't win on the issues.
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>>>>>> If Bush used the IRS to harass Move On.org would that be an
>>>>>>"issue"?
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>>>> The problem is that the head of the IRS, whose term ended in
>>>> November of 2012, was a Bush appointee. It was he, not Obama,
>>>> who determined IRS policy.
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"The buck stops here."
--Democrat Harry Truman
"The buck never got here."
--Democrat Bill Clinton
"What's a `buck'?"
--Democrat Barack Obama
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>>>> It was his assistant, the acting commish, an Obama appointee,
>>>> who revealed this was going on and apologized.
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>>> They want to hang this on one office in Cincinatti but the targets
>>> were nationwide.
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>> Another point is that at least some of the targets may have been
>> legitimate. Any sleazy asshole can form a 501(k) with the word
>> "Patriot" in the title, and quite a few have.
>
> So that makes it OK for the IRS to pursue any entity with a somewhat
> like name?
>
"IRSgate" is growing by leaps and bounds; and the Democrats are
running away from it for their political lives:
Political storm bursts over IRS
By Bernie Becker - 05/13/13 08:31 PM ET
The White House and top lawmakers from both parties on Monday called
for broad investigations of the IRS as the scandal surrounding its
admission of singling out Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny
deepened.
The response from both parties — and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue
— illustrated how few in Washington want to be seen as defending the
IRS, an agency unpopular with the public even on its best days.
President Obama said targeting groups politically would be
“outrageous” and the agency would have to be held “fully accountable,”
while congressional Democrats said they would push the IRS for
answers. Leading Republicans called for resignations at the agency’s
highest levels.
“I don’t care whether you’re a Democrat, independent or Republican. At
some point there are going to be Republican administrations. At some
point there are going to be Democratic ones,” Obama said in a news
conference. “Either way, you don’t want the IRS ever being perceived
to be biased and anything less than neutral in terms of how they
operate.”
The top lawmakers at the House Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Dave
Camp (R-Mich.) and ranking Democrat Sandy Levin (Mich.), announced
Monday that their panel would hold the first congressional hearing on
the IRS’s actions Friday, one week after the news first broke.
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“The Committee on Ways and Means will get to the bottom of this
practice and ensure it never takes place again,” Camp said.
Steven Miller, the acting IRS commissioner who Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Marco Rubio have pressed to resign;
and Russell George, the Treasury Department’s inspector general for
tax administration, are scheduled to testify.
Details from a report authored by George helped spark the blowback
from Obama and others since Friday, when an official admitted that the
agency gave additional attention to groups seeking tax-exempt status
that had “Tea Party” or “patriots” in their name.
George’s report, parts of which were circulated by congressional staff
members over the weekend, asserts that Lois Lerner, the IRS official
who discussed the targeting on Friday, knew about it nine months
before agency officials publicly told lawmakers they weren’t singling
out groups for political reasons.
The audit also makes clear that the IRS’s extra scrutiny went beyond
just Tea Party groups, looking at organizations that focused on
government spending or taxes and those lobbying to “make America a
better place to live.”
“Americans expect the IRS to do its job without passion or prejudice,”
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Monday,
suggesting his panel would conduct a “full investigation” into the
inspector general’s findings.
“We need to get to the bottom of what happened here. I want to see all
the facts. We need to know who knew what, and exactly what mistakes
were made.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) backed Baucus’s efforts,
saying the reported targeting would be “a terrible breach of the
public’s trust.”
At the same time, the White House is facing accusations from GOP
lawmakers that the president and his administration shielded the truth
about last year’s attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Obama responded sharply to those charges on Monday, in stark contrast
to his concerns over the IRS situation.
Press secretary Jay Carney said the White House counsel heard about
the inspector general’s report in April, but that both he and the
president only found out on Friday. Even so, compared to the
developing IRS clamor, there remains more evidence that political
appointees were involved in the response to Benghazi.
The added attention heaped on to the IRS also has raised new questions
about the agency’s ability to implement ObamaCare, and about whether
the uproar will impede or give new momentum to lawmakers’ efforts to
overhaul the tax code.
The inspector general report, expected to be released publicly this
week, found that IRS employees began special searches for Tea Party
groups’ applications around March 2010.
In recent years, Tea Party organizations and other groups have
increasingly been seeking 501(c)(4) status with the IRS, a designation
reserved for social welfare groups that allows them to shield the
identities of their donors. The IRS says annual applications for that
status more than doubled between 2010 and 2012, and that the mistakes
that singled out Tea Party and conservative groups occurred at its
Cincinnati-area office.
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