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Good luck getting rid of the supervisors, they are probably going to claim this was their interpretation of policy, very doubtful anything significant will happen.
Yes, he's wrong. By his nature, Obama is timid and too willing to raise the white flag. The IRS actions were perfectly reasonable as the New York Times said today:
LOL.... the article you are citing says:
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The Internal Revenue Service was absolutely correct to look into the abuse of the tax code by political organizations masquerading as “social welfare” groups over the last three years. The agency’s mistake — and it was a serious one — was focusing on groups with “Tea Party” in their name or those criticizing how the country is run.
Nobody is questioning whether they should be investigating these types of organizations, I've bolded the issue for you. Please try and focus on it.
It's ridiculous that the only firing goes to an ACTING IRS Commissioner who wasn't even the Commissioner at the time this thing started and metatasized and whose acting term was supposed to be up on June, anyway....
He was in charge of the division that oversaw these investigations and testified twice before Congress. Even when aware of the situation and questioned about it he did not answer the question truthfully. He absolutely needs to be fired.
He was in charge of the division that oversaw these investigations and testified twice before Congress. Even when aware of the situation and questioned about it he did not answer the question truthfully. He absolutely needs to be fired.
I am not aware of the situation at the time but if he was under oath he should be charged with perjury but that is never going to happen and things are going to continue to go down hill as long as nobody in government is actually held responsible for their actions.
He was in charge of the division that oversaw these investigations and testified twice before Congress. Even when aware of the situation and questioned about it he did not answer the question truthfully. He absolutely needs to be fired.
He'll be rewarded with some private sector job at some liberal "think tank" for being loyal to The Party.
Bob, the objective here was to harass Conservative groups.
Bob fully knows what the objective was, and knows that what the IRS did was wrong. Bob just has an axe to grind over the SCOTUS Citizens United decisions. As he sees it, this single decision will be the undoing of our nation. The left's outrage over the decision is actually due to the loss of their near monopoly in fund raising. For decades, the left enjoyed a huge advantage in unrestrained funding from labor unions. The Citizens United decision essentially allowed management at the same companies where union members were employed to also donate like their union members. The decision held that corporations are free to speak publicly and donate to political candidate the same as private citizens. Once that occurred, the left began running around screaming about the sky falling.
I could possibly be persuaded to entertain any of the outrage from the left if they could clearly indicate how the corporate headquarters of a given company, as a group, differs in any way from the collective grouping of the members of a labor union at the same company. In other words, why was it completely fair, equitable, and ethical for the left to accept donations from unions, at times, against the will of union members for decades, but now it is bad form that corporate leadership can do the same?
“In one case, the IRS withheld approval of an application for tax exempt status for Coalition for Life of Iowa. In a phone call to Coalition for Life of Iowa leaders on June 6, 2009, the IRS agent ‘Ms. Richards’ told the group to send a letter to the IRS with the entire board’s signatures stating that, under perjury of the law, they do not picket/protest or organize groups to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood,” the Thomas More Society announced today. “Once the IRS received this letter, their application would be approved.”
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IRS Also Targets Graham and Other Religious Organizations
