The great IRS/Tea party scandle fizzles

[NoNukes]

What will the new 'scandal' be next week? Stay tuned.

 

[The Rabbi]

What will the new 'scandal' be next week? Stay tuned.

Watch for:
MOre info on current scandals, Fast n Furious, Benghazi, AP calls, IRS.
Info on new scandals.
Info on how some provision of Obamacare is actually worse than anyone realized.

 

[Katzndogz]

The next scandal should be Kathleen Sebelius asking for private donations to fund obamacare. That's the same principle that made Iran/Contra such a scandal.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Spin spin spin spin..

you lefties are in full blown panic mode!

Love it.

To all the Dems (spin, spin, spin)
There is a scandal (spin, spin, spin)
And a biased press to spread the talking points

A spin to be spread, a truth to hide
A spin to make, a truth to hide
A spin to kill, a truth to hide
A spin for fools, a truth to hide

And set to music:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4]The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! - YouTube[/ame]

Duh! Do you think she didn't intend that? Every nutter is a fucking genius. Legends in their own mind.

 

[NoNukes]

What will the new 'scandal' be next week? Stay tuned.

Watch for:
MOre info on current scandals, Fast n Furious, Benghazi, AP calls, IRS.
Info on new scandals.
Info on how some provision of Obamacare is actually worse than anyone realized.

Let us know how that works out for you. LOL.

 

[Katzndogz]

This entire regime is corrupt, that corruption is being exposed. There will be a new scandal, and another one after that, and one after that, because that's just the kind of people who were put in charge.

 

[NoNukes]

This entire regime is corrupt, that corruption is being exposed. There will be a new scandal, and another one after that, and one after that, because that's just the kind of people who were put in charge.

In your minds.

 

[Katzndogz]

The IRS scandal is growing as more and more groups come forward. The IRS targeted Christian and Jewish groups but not muslim groups.

 

[Foxfyre]

According to Rasmussen for week ending yesterday:

Another day, another controversy? It must have seemed that way lately to the Obama administration, but will it matter? Voters are sending mixed signals so far.

The strongest voter reaction can be found in response to the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups. Most voters believe the targeting was politically motivated and 57% think most of those involved should be fired or jailed. Fifty-five percent (55%) think it is at least somewhat likely that President Obama or his top aides were aware of the IRS’ actions.

However, the recent high-profile congressional hearings on events surrounding the murder of the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi have had no impact on public opinion. Before the hearings, 32% thought the administration had done a good job explaining what happened in Libya last fall. After the hearings, that number was 31%. Before the hearings, 78% thought it was important to learn what happened. After, that figure was 82%.

Voters are closely divided over whether the Justice Department’s secret seizure of telephone records from the Associated Press was an effort to protect national security or an attempt to bully the media. A narrow plurality believes the press already has too much freedom on national security issues.

In his latest weekly newspaper column, Scott Rasmussen says the Justice Department scandal is the most “nuanced” of the president’s current problems. “While the public is not up in arms over this issue, journalists are,” Scott explains. “So there is likely to be more aggressive reporting on some of the other challenges facing the White House.”

While the short-term implications are impossible to predict, Scott adds that the events of the past few days “will make the president's biggest uphill battle impossible to achieve - trying to build faith in the federal government.” . . . .
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week?s Key Polls - Rasmussen Reports?

 

[The Rabbi]

What will the new 'scandal' be next week? Stay tuned.

Watch for:
MOre info on current scandals, Fast n Furious, Benghazi, AP calls, IRS.
Info on new scandals.
Info on how some provision of Obamacare is actually worse than anyone realized.

Let us know how that works out for you. LOL.

No, the question is, How is it going to work out for you.

 

[NoNukes]

Watch for:
MOre info on current scandals, Fast n Furious, Benghazi, AP calls, IRS.
Info on new scandals.
Info on how some provision of Obamacare is actually worse than anyone realized.

Let us know how that works out for you. LOL.

No, the question is, How is it going to work out for you.

It appears to be working out just fine, thank you.

 

[The Rabbi]

Let us know how that works out for you. LOL.

No, the question is, How is it going to work out for you.

It appears to be working out just fine, thank you.

From our perspective, yes. Congress is getting its act together, calling for more hearings and subpoenas. Eventually there will be a special prosecutor. The media is finally waking up, plucking their heads out of their asses and realizing they have been plumping for the most corrupt administration since Baby Doc Duvalier. The Democrats are in chaos, with some realizing they better get ahead of this thing and do what's right. And the administration comes up with some of the biggest whopping excuses ever, contributing to the notion that they think we're idiots.
Yes, the night is young.

 

[NoNukes]

No, the question is, How is it going to work out for you.

It appears to be working out just fine, thank you.

From our perspective, yes. Congress is getting its act together, calling for more hearings and subpoenas. Eventually there will be a special prosecutor. The media is finally waking up, plucking their heads out of their asses and realizing they have been plumping for the most corrupt administration since Baby Doc Duvalier. The Democrats are in chaos, with some realizing they better get ahead of this thing and do what's right. And the administration comes up with some of the biggest whopping excuses ever, contributing to the notion that they think we're idiots.
Yes, the night is young.

Is this as sure a bet as Rick Perry being elected President in 2012?

 

[Dot Com]

The IRS scandal is growing as more and more groups come forward. The IRS targeted Christian and Jewish groups but not muslim groups.

ummm..... your link didn't post through

It all boils down to how many were denied you rw tool. Whats the total count?

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Spin spin spin spin..

you lefties are in full blown panic mode!

Love it.

Except it IS a non-scandal. I have posted previously that a friend of mine was an attorney for the IRS in D.C. Not an agent, but an attorney. He said the backlash against Obama's election created a flood of applications from conservative/Republicans for the 5014c status that far outweighed apps from progressive/liberal groups. The liberals were happy, their guy was elected. So not motivated to political action. The Tea Party swung into action with multitudes of fractions applying for independent status. And of course politically motivated, ergo the scrutiny.

But this "scandal", as was the AP records "scandal" (also perfectly legal to obtain phone records since the DOJ used the criteria that there was an Al Queda leak within the AP, so the Patriot Act applied) is all set up to keebosh Hillary Clinton's run in 2016. She received a lot of press last month for doing nothing. Just endless polls in the media about how popular she was and her percentages. GOP's gotta' act fast. Think of it as premature damage control.

 

[Crackerjaxon]

Nothing has fizzled. The investigations will continue and the truth will be revealed. Democrats tend to confuse the 24-hour news cycle with reality. Getting to the truth will take time, but it will happen.

 

[Crackerjaxon]

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.

After that collection of nonsense, perhaps he should change his name to the Screwed Pundit.

Has a nice ring to it.

 

[Dot Com]

how many Millions of taxpayer dollars are Issa (R) & Boehner (R) going to spend on this non-issue. :yawn:

 

[peach174]

Everybody knows that Chicago is the most corrupt political City and State in America, yet the people elected Obama and then re-elected him.
I don't know how anyone would think that there would not be any corruption, when the people elected Obama and then brought in all of the rest of the corrupt political Chicago group to Washington D.C.
You get what you voted for America.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/pols/ChicagoPolitics/leadingthepack.pdf

 

[Meister]

“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

So the government investigated itself and found nothing? I'm am shocked, just shocked!