So. The President met with an anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party.
Is anyone — and I do mean anyone, including even Rick Moran (I’ve long believed that some centrist Republicans were the last of the credulous hold-outs, that the left knew all along who and what Obama was, and approved of both him and his methods) — at all surprised to learn of this?
Now, we’ll be told that no laws were broken, that the meeting was over something else entirely, that the timing was completely coincidental, and that we’re all racist (and likely even white supremacists) and misogynist for even noting the meeting, much less its proximity to the targeting of the TEA Party and other small government groups.
But honestly, doesn’t that faux-outraged denial just make you want to slap a bitch at this point? The President told us he’d learned of this IRS scandal from news reports. And yet the Treasury knew about the investigation and the targeting before the 2012 election. Now this.
Does Obama really expect us to believe his own political appointees kept him in the dark? And that he’s nothing more than an absent and incompetent puppet who is otherwise out of the loop?
His ego is too big to let that kind of thing stand, fortunately, so we should press it as our narrative of his increasingly absurd and dismal presidency. That way, before all is said and done, I believe if somebody asks him the right set of questions, he may just cop to ordering the code red on Private Santiago.
And then we could all bathe in the cleansing waters of Ezra Klein’s endless tears.
(h/t Darth Levin and sdferr)
I thought I would continue the metaphor in that after admitting he ordered the code red, Obama would then order someone else to rip off our heads and crap down our necks, seeing as how he doesn’t like to get his hands dirty doing it himself. But I thought better of it.
Or not.
chicago trash is trashy
Obama ordered a Code Red, but he meant one of those Mountain Dew flavors.
Smoking is bad, and guns are evil, and linking smoking guns to The Lightworker is RAAAAACIST!
Crazy coincidence that Romney donors and these conservatives filing for 501c status all had the personal finances AND business audited by the IRS , and somehow also attracted the attention of other federal agencies – OSHA, ATF, etc. – eh?
Just crazy.
Since we’re doing movie references, apparently, the President dreams of going Bulworth.
Apparently, he’s ready for the mask to come all the way off…
Ignore the awful grammar above.
Somewhere, Saul Alinsky smirks at his most accomplished acolyte’s accomplishments. Then he frowns that BHO didn’t learn how to cover his tracks better.
Barky’s hoping for a Bill Clinton – Bill Ayers exit, one that has no real consequences for him to bear;, perhaps even with a permanent UN post awarded by President HRod Clinton.
I think Alinsky is as gleeful of the little god-king’s failures as of his successes. He strikes me as a “likes to watch the world burn” kind of guy.
Back in the day when I did voicemail system programming and installations, I worked with a great tech. Knew lots of stuff about lots of different voicemail and PBX systems, and more importantly was a good guy who was free about sharing his information with us younger up-and-comers.
On one such installation, we were trying to integrate our model of voicemail system to a Rolm PBX. In the room were me, Mike the Tech, and the Rolm vendor. Rolm guy and Mike were union, I (being eeeevil management, technically) was not. The lines of demarcation were thus, voicemail guys touch only voicemail gear, cables from the voicemail system to the punchdown block, and the punchdown block. The PBX guy touches the PBX and his cables.
The installation wasn’t working, and it was painfully obvious to Mike what the problem was. The polarity was reversed on the PBX side of the punchdown, and the wrong station type was programmed into the Rolm. But Rolm Guy didn’t want input, and stood on union rules about who could touch what. Rolm guy was on hold with his tech support and the wait time was about an hour.
At this point, Mike said to Rolm Guy, “You’re about due for a 20 minute smoke break, right?”
“Yeah, but I’m on hold.”
“Listen to me very carefully,” said Mike. “Take a 20 minute break, you don’t need to log out of the PBX. Just take a 20 minute break. And when you get back, everything will be fine.”
“But…”
“Take a break for 20 minutes, and everything will be fine.”.
So Rolm Guy finally took the hint and took a break. Mike then reversed the punchdowns, got on the PBX admin terminal and fixed the bollixed programming, and we did quick testing to confirm that it was working. Rolm Guy came back, we did his side of the testing, and wrapped up in time to get dinner and a beer.
My point being: Obama knows what he wants to happen, and his flunkies all know what he wants to happen. So Sebelius, Holder, IRS people, State, CIA, all tell him everything will be fine. Then Obama leaves the room to take a smoke or fly to Vegas and knows that it will all turn out, and he didn’t have to give one incriminating order.
“There are four lights!”
I’m kind of stubborn that way.
Aaaaaand…now we find that both the WH Counsel and Bumblefuck’s Chief of Staff knew of this weeks ago. So, either Obama is lying or his staff doesn’t tell him shit, presumably because they don’t find informing him to be a productive use of time.
Carney noted that the practice by the IRS workers ended in May 2012.
Sorry, but I doubt it. Hell, there are still organizations that haven’t received a fair hearing from since 2010 to this day.
Never believe an established liar, especially when his job is to lie for another liar.
Public Sector Unions are contrary to the American political order, a priori pitting the government workers against the people they nominally serve. As such, they deserve to be banned by law.
Does Obama really expect us to believe his own political appointees kept him in the dark? And that he’s nothing more than an absent and incompetent puppet who is otherwise out of the loop?
Oh, there’s a WHOLE lot of stuff in the category #WhatArentTheyTellingObama.
Poor sap should just resign, or sumthin.
Giving us PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN!
“Then Obama leaves the room to take a smoke or fly to Vegas”
See also: “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
Ah but then when Biden tries to advance the same pile of shit we will then be able to demonstrate it ism’t the color of the moron’s skin but the moron’s policies.
Of course we will be dealing with “liberals” which mean such object lesson will be a complete waste of time.
He strikes me as a “likes to watch the world burn” kind of guy.
He was definitely more interested in the gamesmanship of ousting the powerful than in actually improving things. In fact, he stated outright that when the have-nots got into power, they were just as bad as the former haves.
Which, that didn’t bother him a bit. Because it gave him new people to agitate against.
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