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we need to add up all the money spent by Repubs to pursue these *cough* "scandals" that turn-out to be nothing but purposely jazzed-up, rw snoozefests
Treating someone different than others because of their political views is okay? Auditing and targeting groups because of their beliefs is a good thing for you?
we need to add up all the money spent by Repubs to pursue these *cough* "scandals" that turn-out to be nothing but purposely jazzed-up, rw snoozefests
Treating someone different than others because of their political views is okay? Auditing and targeting groups because of their beliefs is a good thing for you?
Of course it is. He's a libturd. They have no problem with fascism.
There is evidence that Secretary of the Treasury knew about the IG investigation, they knew of wrong doing, so now we are to believe, they never spoke to the President about a scandal.
His cabinet seems pretty incompetent, thus making the President look stupid.
“I do not believe partisanship motivated the actions”—of the officials in the Cincinnati office. What actually happened, he went on, was “foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection.” Deluged with applications for tax-exempt status, many of which came from conservative groups with ties to politics, the officials took the “short cut” of looking for words like “Tea Party” and “patriots” in the names of groups that submitted applications. But nobody specifically “targeted” conservative groups. “There was no targeting because there was no intent,” Miller said. The applications that the agent put into a queue for further review came from groups from across the political spectrum, he reminded his inquisitors. Only seventy out of about three hundred had “Tea Party” or similar words in their names....nobody has come up with one iota of evidence to contradict Miller’s story. One of the congressmen asked George, the Inspector General of Taxes, if his staff had found any suggestion of political motivations on the part of the I.R.S. employees. “We did not,” George replied.
Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill : The New Yorker
Treating someone different than others because of their political views is okay? Auditing and targeting groups because of their beliefs is a good thing for you?
Of course it is. He's a libturd. They have no problem with fascism.
Thank you for your picture. It reminds of how the RW primarily functions by taking things out of context, photoshopping, and flat out lying about stuff.
I do not believe partisanship motivated the actionsof the officials in the Cincinnati office. What actually happened, he went on, was foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. Deluged with applications for tax-exempt status, many of which came from conservative groups with ties to politics, the officials took the short cut of looking for words like Tea Party and patriots in the names of groups that submitted applications. But nobody specifically targeted conservative groups. There was no targeting because there was no intent, Miller said. The applications that the agent put into a queue for further review came from groups from across the political spectrum, he reminded his inquisitors. Only seventy out of about three hundred had Tea Party or similar words in their names....nobody has come up with one iota of evidence to contradict Millers story. One of the congressmen asked George, the Inspector General of Taxes, if his staff had found any suggestion of political motivations on the part of the I.R.S. employees. We did not, George replied.
Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill : The New Yorker
This excuse has been proven to be false. There were not a 'massive' increase in tax exempt applications. This was one of the first lame attempts at justifying the illegal actions taken by the IRS--Citizens United was to blame!!
In fact, there were less applications submitted in 2009 than 2010, when the targeting of religious, both pro-life and pro-Israel Jewish organization, and conservative organizations for harassment by one of the most powerful federal agencies, The Internal Revenue Service, began.
The acting commissioner of the IRS lied to congress about a 'flood of applications'.
Why all the lies?
Not a single RW group turned down, zzzzzzzzz. Calm down, girls.
I do not believe partisanship motivated the actionsof the officials in the Cincinnati office. What actually happened, he went on, was foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. Deluged with applications for tax-exempt status, many of which came from conservative groups with ties to politics, the officials took the short cut of looking for words like Tea Party and patriots in the names of groups that submitted applications. But nobody specifically targeted conservative groups. There was no targeting because there was no intent, Miller said. The applications that the agent put into a queue for further review came from groups from across the political spectrum, he reminded his inquisitors. Only seventy out of about three hundred had Tea Party or similar words in their names....nobody has come up with one iota of evidence to contradict Millers story. One of the congressmen asked George, the Inspector General of Taxes, if his staff had found any suggestion of political motivations on the part of the I.R.S. employees. We did not, George replied.
Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill : The New Yorker
I really believe that The Rude Pundit correctly assessed what actually happened:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/polit...isn-t-a-scandal-but-it-will-get-annoying.html
Look, we know how this went down: Post-Citizens United, the Internal Revenue Service was flooded with applications for tax-exempt status for whatever organization a couple of fucksacks with a tricorner hat wanted to start. "Social welfare" groups, they were called, and they could not be involved with specific political candidates or advocacy (although, you know, c'mon). So the IRS told its low-level drones who had to look at all the fucksack applications to flag ones that looked hinky. So the low-level drones, who are overworked to begin with because Congress won't give the IRS the funding it needs to do its fucking job, used some search terms.
It's 2010 and who are the fucksacks who are everywhere? The "Tea Party" groups. So, sure, fine, let's fuckin' search that. Low-level drone 1 tells low-level drone 2 (and for god's sake, they live in the dull, dull, boring, dull city of Cincinnati, so give 'em a little break), "Hey, just use 'Patriot' as a search term and you'll get your job done faster because if there's one thing we know, it's that a whole bunch of these applications are from crazed fucksacks applying for tax-exempt status because they hate them that black guy in office." Low-level drone 2 might have said, "Oh, shit, that'll get us in trouble." But low-level drone 1 had a convincing argument by saying, "You wanna get to the bar sooner?" By the way, chances are that LLD 1 and LLD 2 have been LLDs forever, under at least one GOP president.
Spin spin spin spin..
you lefties are in full blown panic mode!
Love it.
Other than your obvious political bias, do you have probative evidence of intent on the part of any IRA employee? If so name them.
If not, you've provided more evidence to convince the reader you're a partisan hack who has nothing substantive to offer.
I do not believe partisanship motivated the actionsof the officials in the Cincinnati office. What actually happened, he went on, was foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. Deluged with applications for tax-exempt status, many of which came from conservative groups with ties to politics, the officials took the short cut of looking for words like Tea Party and patriots in the names of groups that submitted applications. But nobody specifically targeted conservative groups. There was no targeting because there was no intent, Miller said. The applications that the agent put into a queue for further review came from groups from across the political spectrum, he reminded his inquisitors. Only seventy out of about three hundred had Tea Party or similar words in their names....nobody has come up with one iota of evidence to contradict Millers story. One of the congressmen asked George, the Inspector General of Taxes, if his staff had found any suggestion of political motivations on the part of the I.R.S. employees. We did not, George replied.
Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill : The New Yorker
I tend to agree. It does not appear that political activism played a role, simply that certain phrases emerged as axiomatic with political entities which were, in fact, not entitled to tax-free status.
I see nothing wrong with it. But to be fair, if I were in fact a tea-tard, I probably would be outraged as well. Or at least feign as much.
