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It didn't prevent anyone from doing a thing.Awesome post. I agree.
I also don't see the surprise in the fact that the IRS is giving extra scrutiny to groups who are part of a political movement that espouses the ideology that taxation is theft and people don't really owe the government any taxes.
Many of these additional hoops prevented these groups from participating in an entire election cycle. Their exemptions were eventually approved, after the election. That's a fair policy to you?
Being taxed = being prohibited???
It didn't prevent anyone from doing a thing.Awesome post. I agree.
I also don't see the surprise in the fact that the IRS is giving extra scrutiny to groups who are part of a political movement that espouses the ideology that taxation is theft and people don't really owe the government any taxes.
Many of these additional hoops prevented these groups from participating in an entire election cycle. Their exemptions were eventually approved, after the election. That's a fair policy to you?
Being taxed = being prohibited???
No big deal. When Republican win back the WH we're gonna go after all the lib groups the same way maybe appoint the Koch Brothers as IRS commissioners
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Why, yes....Yes he is.It didn't prevent anyone from doing a thing.Many of these additional hoops prevented these groups from participating in an entire election cycle. Their exemptions were eventually approved, after the election. That's a fair policy to you?
Being taxed = being prohibited???
Donors generally don't contribute to for-profit campaign groups, that's why MoveOn (who I'm sure you support) is tax exempt. That's why Organizing for America is tax exempt. Are you in favor of one side getting an IRS-sponsored advantage?
The far left is saying there is no scandal and that abusing their power by targeting opposing groups is perfectly fine.
Even Obama knows it's bad, which is why is he trying to distance himself from this mess. And it's why the IRS apologized. In the leftie world, an apology is all it takes for Dems to be totally exonerated and forgiven.
Another fucking moron who has no business talking politics.
After Watergate, there was a wall put up between the Executive Branch and the IRS. No POTUS can sic the IRS on anyone, and there are only two political appointments to the agency, the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner.
The Commissioner was appointed by Bush.
So why would a Bush appointee "target" conservatives?
The IRS "Scandal" Isn't a Scandal, But It Will Get Annoying
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.
Does this narrative need to be completed? Sure, fine: A mid-level IRS drone discovers what's happening and says, "Whoa, whoa, you can't just go after the costumed fucksacks. You gotta look at everyone." At which point at least one LLD contemplated suicide, surely. So MLD went to the higher-ups, like Lois Lerner, director of exempt organizations, who said, "Aw, fuck, don't you know that the fucksacks are gonna cause a ruckus over this shit? Change it up." And then the IRS started to look at any group that criticized "how the country was run." Then, because that stunk of Tea Party bullshit (even though it encompassed many groups), the standard was then changed to "political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform movement." And then, a year ago, that was changed to "organizations with indicators of significant amounts of political campaign intervention."
No group was denied anything because of the extra scrutiny. And as soon as someone higher than a low-level drone found out about what the LLDs were doing, it was addressed and changed. To say that Barack Obama had something to do with that is to say that Rupert Murdoch should be arrested every time Sean Hannity lies on the air.
If you want to call the IRS thing a scandal, well, shit, in this dumbed-down post-Clinton blow job era, the definition of "scandal" is meaningless, so why the fuck not? At least it looks like someone did something knowingly wrong, unlike Benghazi, which is a lonely penis looking for a hole to penetrate.
Hell, the Washington Post went all nutzoid on it, proving its street-cred to keep up the subscription rate among Republican readers: "One line of questioning should focus on how the IRSs procedures failed to catch this 'shortcut' before its employees began using it. Another should center on how this misguided practice came to light, and on what the IRS planned and plans to do about it." Umm, the IRS caught it shortly after it was used. And did something about it. Isn't that the end of the story?
But, no, really, there should be an investigation. Go the fuck ahead, GOP (and, yeah, Democrats who wanna show that they can be all mightily outraged at a black man, too). Call witnesses. Have mighty inquiries where you can preen for the base. It's not like you're gonna do anything better with your time. At this point, you've cried, "Wolf!" so many times that even the wolves are bored.
The president should have fully supported the IRS investigating these right wing terror cells. They should get raided by the feds as well.
A Libertarian is just an embarrassed Republican.Don't Republicans live in a constant state of blind outrage?
I am Libertarian.
Live in the real world.
IRS is evil and now they are in charge of the health care in this country.
Copy and paste an entire lame, profanity laced blog post because you don't really have anything to contribute. Yes, even the wolves are bored--that's why the Daily Show, NBC, ABC, even MSNBC are covering this story very closely. But they just want to pile on the poor ole 'black man'.
Laughably naïve and willfully ignorant, but hey whatever makes you feel better.
Why don't you give us YOUR definition of a "scandal" instead of posting what someone else has written? Or do you rely on others to do your thinking for you?
No big deal. When Republican win back the WH we're gonna go after all the lib groups the same way maybe appoint the Koch Brothers as IRS commissioners
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For the love of god don't. If republicans ever get back into power they should concentrate on getting things done that will actually help the country. Not just going on witch hunts to help the upcoming election.
Anyone not outraged by this is either an imbecile or a fascist... plain and simple.
Awesome post. I agree.
I also don't see the surprise in the fact that the IRS is giving extra scrutiny to groups who are part of a political movement that espouses the ideology that taxation is theft and people don't really owe the government any taxes.
Go ahead and encourage it, Blackie. Make my day:The president should have fully supported the IRS investigating these right wing terror cells. They should get raided by the feds as well.
The far left is saying there is no scandal and that abusing their power by targeting opposing groups is perfectly fine.
Even Obama knows it's bad, which is why is he trying to distance himself from this mess. And it's why the IRS apologized. In the leftie world, an apology is all it takes for Dems to be totally exonerated and forgiven.
Another fucking moron who has no business talking politics.
After Watergate, there was a wall put up between the Executive Branch and the IRS. No POTUS can sic the IRS on anyone, and there are only two political appointments to the agency, the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner.
The Commissioner was appointed by Bush.
So why would a Bush appointee "target" conservatives?
