Opinion by AAABTonto:
The President has tried discredit the myriad of surrounding scandals as “phony” and implied that they are an intentional distraction form his ingenious efforts to help the middle class and reinvigorate America’s economy. There are many problems with the President’s assertions. These scandals are not phony. Wrong doing has been admitted by the IRS, obvious outright lies have been told by the Obama administration and an impotent, moderate GOP isn’t cunning enough to devise a single “phony” distraction—they’re too busy trying to find a way to get the media to say something nice about them.
During congressional hearings the IRS admitted targeting conservative, Christian and Right to Life organizations seeking 501C3 status. Yet, Jack Lew concludes that he can see “no evidence” that the IRS was politically motivated.
Jack Lew on IRS Scandal
Jack Lew is hack and a liar. How can he make such a claim when the IRS officials have testified that they indeed targeted said conservative groups? The Obama administration has, since their reelection, pushed the limits of the law and circumvention of the Constitution with Executive orders and bureaucratic rule making. We know for a fact that IRS officials shared information about conservative groups with other agencies, using their databanks to cherry pick information for other federal officials to bring legal action against conservatives. Emails between Lois Lerner, the Democrat at the center of the IRS probe, and a lawyer at the Federal Elections Commission, implicate Lerner and the lawyer in conspiring to try to discredit a conservative group in a case before the commission.
Did IRS Help Other Agencies Target Conservatives?
Lois Lerner Directly Involved in IRS Targeting, Letters Show
From the article:
Lerner, the director of the IRS exempt organizations office in Washington, D.C., signed cover letters to 15 conservative organizations currently represented by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) between in March and April of 2012. The letters, such as this one sent to the Ohio Liberty Council on March 16, 2012, informed the groups applying for tax-exempt status that the IRS was “unable to make a final determination on your exempt status without additional information,” and included a list of detailed questions of the kind that a Treasury inspector general’s audit found to be inappropriate. Some of the groups to which Lerner sent letters are still awaiting approval.
Lerner has denied involvement in the targeting, which she has blamed on a few “front-line people” in the agency’s Cincinnati field office. “I have not done anything wrong,” she told members of the House oversight committee on Wednesday. However, she then refused to answer any questions, citing protection under the Fifth Amendment. She has since been placed on (paid) administrative leave, and the committee may call her to testify again.
“One thing is clear: this correspondence shows [Lerner’s] direct involvement in the scheme,” wrote Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the ACLJ. “Further, sending a letter from the top person in the IRS Exempt Organization division to a small Tea Party group also underscores the intimidation used in this targeting ploy.”
The letters coincide with former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman’s March 2012 testimony before Congress, in which he said there was “absolutely no targeting” of conservative groups at the agency. Months later, an internal IRS investigation concluded that the agency had engaged in such targeting. Obama-administration officials have insisted the targeting stopped in May 2012, although a number of ACLJ clients have received similar requests for information from the IRS within the past year, according to chief counsel Jay Sekulow.
Of course, the Democrats never own up to responsibility … instead, they blame the victims or George Bush–whichever is more convenient:
Pelosi Blames “Bush Appointee” For “Politicized” IRS Scandal
However, the Republican Party has its own chip on its shoulder concerning the Tea Party and they are trying to make sure that conservatives don’t spoil their beltway buffet. House Speaker John Boehner has refused to appoint a special prosecutor claiming that it isn’t possible and would be ineffective. But we had one in Watergate and Iran Contra and White Water. You have to wonder if Boehner isn’t batting for the other team; Darrell Issa can’t investigate everything by himself and we need individuals with prosecutorial experience for each scandal!
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This is all standard operating procedure though and history shows us that fact.
Next, the Obama thugs came for Stanley Kurtz
The administration has NO respect for the congress, the law or the good people of this country. Obama is a despot; a dictatorial thug with a Marxian agenda that is utterly un-American! It isn’t bigotry to hold this opinion, it isn’t selfish to maintain self-interest, it isn’t criminal to defend oneself and isn’t “out of line” to question the motives of a man we have entrusted to uphold and defend the Constitution who is doing everything he can to circumvent the law and bypass same!
Obama’s “fundamental transformation” is a deliberate assault on Liberty!
