That is everything that is wrong with the Left these days...

Michale

Michale

The more that comes to light, the more that the story about a couple low-level IRS staffers is being exposed as the BS pack 0 lies that it is...

Michale

Let me put it this way...

According to ya'all, the GOP is targeting minorities with their voter ID laws in an effort to sway and election and ya'all go hysterically ballistic..

Yet, Obama's IRS targets conservatives for the same purpose and ya'all say it's no big deal...

How is this NOT hypocrisy???

Michale

As The Daily Caller has reported, at least five different IRS offices including Cincinnati, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois and El Monte and Laguna Niguel, California improperly targeted conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny between 2010 and 2012.

The IRS’ shenanigans, chronicled in a damning report by Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George, started when a “team of [IRS] specialists” came together in April 2010 to process the tax-exempt nonprofit status of conservative groups that might be “potential political operations” (page 13 of the IG report). The IRS added “additional specialists” to this effort in December 2011.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/27/washington-launches-four-different-investigations-into-irs-scandal/

Yea... No scandal there.. :^/

Michale

Lawmakers facing recall bids over strict gun laws in Colorado
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/28/lawmakers-facing-recall-bids-over-strict-gun-laws-in-colorado/#ixzz2UaHBbx5a

Apparently, the pendulum swings the other way now...

Politics is a fickle mistress....

Michale

Interesting article...

Michale

So, yer backing FoxNews???

Color me surprised... :^o

Michale

Yea.. Postulate a GOP Administration's IRS targeting groups for audits because they were black.

Har Har Har

Oh CW I have a new one for the list from this week - SaluteGate ;)

Spoken like a true military-ignorant person..

But, I have to give Obama credit.

It was real class for him to return to that Marine, apologize and shake his hand..

Michale

The AP scandal as CW alludes to in his column is the only real 'scandal' from the past couple of weeks.

Oh CW I have a new one for the list from this week - SaluteGate ;)

And Obama's IRS actions are like the census calling the cops and having families investigated because they put "black" on their census forms..

Michale

And yet, *ONLY* conservative groups had their applications investigated..

THAT is the entire point..

The determination factor that initiated the investigations was SOLELY and COMPLETELY based on the ideological makeup of the groups in question..

It's the EXACT same thing as if ONLY black groups had their applications investigated.

THAT would be racist, right???

So, why is it OK to base an investigation on political ideology but it's NOT ok to base an investigation on race??

Michale

"That's like claiming that a GOP Administration's IRS used words like "black" and "hispanic" to target tax-exempt groups and yet, there was NOTHING racist about it.."

No, your comment is like claiming the census is racist because it asks if you're black, white, or Hispanic. Its the mission of the IRS to enforce a law that says groups engaged in political activity do not qualify under 501(c). You can't do that without investigating applicants' politics! Its not rocket science. As always, you and the Republicans are simply lying.

You mean, other than the fact that the White House first lied about it and said no one at the White House knew...

Since they have a track record of lying over this, I wouldn't take their statements that Obama knew nothing at face value.

Michale

Not so, Michale. I have a sneaky hunch that it's all YOUR fault ... :)

That would be my next guess.. :D

DB,

The "Tea Party" is a political party. It says so right in the name. It has held political conventions. It had endorsed political candidates. It rightly deserves the additional scrutiny necessary to insure it complies with the law for the status it is trying to claim.

So, are you saying that a political group cannot perform social functions??

Because, it clearly states in the IRS regs (which I have posted in previous commentaries) that tax-exempt groups CAN perform protests and the like..

Equally "Tea Party Reenactments" who yearly dump (hopefully non-polluting)tea into Boston harbor along with demonstrations of 18th Century life and historical readings; would not receive scrutiny beyond that showing the non-political nature of their programs.

And yet, that group would have received further scrutiny solely and completely because it had "tea party" in it's name..

THAT is the point you are missing..

To say that targeting groups with "tea party" or "patriot" associated with it is NOT targeting conservatives is to say that targeting groups that are black or hispanic is not racist.

And yes, "Elect Black Folks" would deserve, and rightfully receive, additional scrutiny if they were to apply for tax-exempt status.

And yet, there is NO evidence that such groups (like BLACK AMERICANS FOR OBAMA) DID receive any such scrutiny....

No matter how you slice it, Obama's IRS moves was bigoted, illegal and completely un-American..

That's what the majority of Democrats say, anyways.. :D

. I haven't heard any Democrats blaming the Republicans

Of course you haven't...

That's because the majority of the MSM protects the Left..

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/20/democratic-senator-goes-on-anti-gop-rant-over-climate-change-as-tornadoes-hit-oklahoma/

But, just because you didn't hear about it, doesn't mean it didn't happen.. :D

Michale

We're back at it.

Any number of "Black" or "Hispanic" groups have and can perform many valuable social welfare services. They do not exist solely for political purposes. Their tax-exempt applications warrant the scrutiny necessary to insure they comply with the law.

The "Tea Party" is a political party. It says so right in the name. It has held political conventions. It had endorsed political candidates. It rightly deserves the additional scrutiny necessary to insure it complies with the law for the status it is trying to claim.

And yes, "Elect Black Folks" would deserve, and rightfully receive, additional scrutiny if they were to apply for tax-exempt status. Equally "Tea Party Reenactments" who yearly dump (hopefully non-polluting)tea into Boston harbor along with demonstrations of 18th Century life and historical readings; would not receive scrutiny beyond that showing the non-political nature of their programs.

BTW it's the RWMO that claim the OK tornado was a test of the Obama Weather Weapon. I haven't heard any Democrats blaming the Republicans beyond wanting to remind the OK Republican Senators of the speeches they made refusing help to Hurricane Sandy victims.

Not so, Michale. I have a sneaky hunch that it's all YOUR fault ... :)

This is why I hate Democrats..

They just can't WAIT to use a tragedy and innocent victims to blame Republicans..

Whether it be a mass shooting in CT, a brutal tornado in OK or an infrastructure in WA, Democrats are the first to start fixing blame.

Maybe if they spent a TENTH of the time fixing the problem instead of trying to fix the blame, this country would be a LOT better off...

Yea, I know I know..

It's *ALL* the Republicans fault.....

Michale

Oh com'on LD!

That's like claiming that a GOP Administration's IRS used words like "black" and "hispanic" to target tax-exempt groups and yet, there was NOTHING racist about it..

Sometimes I wonder if you really comprehend how utterly biased your claims are...

Michale

The more I learn about Eric Holder and how he operates the United States Department of Justice, the less I trust him.

In other words, the more you learn about Eric Holder, the more you realize how dead on ballz accurate about him I was, eh? ;D

Michale

Likewise, the facts are clear that the IRS scandal is, in fact, manufactured. The IG report never said only conservative groups we're targeted, it criticized using key words in names to flag apps, not the keywords themselves, and said some of the follow up questions were burdensome and unnecessary. It also found that most of those flagged should have been flagged. That only 1/3 we're conservative groups. That only progressive groups' apps we're denied. And that no one received extra scrutiny. The overworked, understaffed IRS office used the terms to flag apps for specialist inspection, instead of inspecting all apps, because of the volume of apps. And, of course, all of this he was, and is, known to the Republican Congressional "investigators" fomenting an misrepresenting this "scandal." Finally, there's the revelation that, under the law, no one engaged in political activity is supposed to qualify for tax-exempt 501(c) status!

Like Benghazi, eight months and counting, still attempting to find proof of the scandal all Republicans have "known" all along, Democrats insist on helping Republicans hype this trash, by validating it in knee-jerk attempts at "damage control," and treating a press that could care less about the truth and only wants sensational headlines to attract eyeballs and sell ads, as objective reporters serving the public interest. This country's government is nonfunctional because it has three branches and the forth estate, and none of them work honestly or in the public interest.