First, let me just say this to Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt status: it is impossible, not to mention dazzlingly mindblowing, to suggest in one breath that groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names were in fact singled out for increased scrutiny and unlawful requests for donor lists, then in the very next breath to maintain that the practice was not motivated by political bias, and somehow hope to remain credulous..
That is, if you have singled out a particular political group to harass and make extra-legal demands upon, you are by every conceivable definition evincing the motive of political bias. In fact, you are the objective correlative for political bias, with a side of poster child and a large, cold glass of prime fucking example.
So please. Enough with the bullshit. It’s perfunctory and it doesn’t sell.
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge:
It does make one wonder, just how far the IRS goes to make the lives of conservatives a living hell: will all 2012 tax audits be those who on their facebook profile admit to liking Ron Paul? And just how far does the IRS invade personal privacy to determine how any one tax filer is indeed, a “conservative?” But don’t worry – aside from the obvious persecutions, America is a free country for one and all.
One wonders: how long until “conservatives” engage in “tax-avoiding” blowback and really give the IRS reason to persecute them. Alternatively, one wonders the IRS is simply limited by logistical considerations, due to the notional difference in number of actual tax filings submitted by “conservatives” vs “liberals” and the prepondrance of one group over the other…
“Tax-avoiding”? Okay, I guess.
— Though I’d rather just find a harbor and dump some tea into the thing. There’s precedence there, you know. Not to mention, it would hard to miss the point.
(h/t Tom W)
It’s almost as if the IRS wants conservatives to abolish it.
Congress should be looking for something to kill. With its hands. Around the throat. Choking the life until dead. Period.
– I’m guessing that it would be far more effective just to dump as many Progressives as possible into the harbor. Nuance is lost on liars.
The Internal Revenue Service formally designates certain individuals as potentially dangerous taxpayers (PDTs).*
I want to find all those Leftists who mocked and derided all the reports from TEA party groups about the letters & forms the IRS sent them that wanted donors, screenshots of Facebook postings, etc and rub their snotty noses in this.
Now when is the IRS going to apologize to the wealthy Romney supporters who were “coincidentally” under audits once they declared for Romney?
No politics involved in that, eh?
They are. Unfortunately, it’s America.
They’ve all got new handles by now.
Of course they do. Once one persona gets caught, they need to create another that has clean hands.
There’s one snotty nose I’ve been hammering for months now: Angelo Carusone @GoAngelo, AKA @StopRush, @StopBeck. Also Media Matters for America’s Vice President. Which just so happens to possess that coveted 501(c)(3) tax exemption, a designation they are not qualified to keep given Carusone is deeply involved in running a paid organization designed to gut Conservative media, or at least a very visible part of it. MMFA is a den of snakes, closely aligned with another, Daily KOS.
Recent reports show that their paid ‘volunteers’, who work in round-the-clock shifts attacking Limbaugh’s sponsors with abusive hate-spam attacks that are re-Tweeted by sock puppets and by others in the left-wing hash tags, are slowly but surely reaching the goals these bastards seek: removing all opposition from AM and FM radio. Cumulus Media just confirmed that these organized MMFA boycotts are killing the industry.
Why doesn’t this get more attention I wonder ?
wait till they start deciding who gets a new kidney.
Well, let’s face it, it’s not fair that some people have two functioning kidneys when some people only have one, or even none.
hey orangeman
Perhaps somebody could remind the House Republicans that they have a majority on the oversight subcommittee?
Well, at least they’ll never be able to use my liver, a fifth of bourbon everyday will take care of that.
hmmm… anyone know whatever happened to Frank VanderSloot?
it’s not fair that some people have two functioning kidneys when some people only have one
Ruh roh*
*[I have 3]
It’s possible — on the heels of this story — to anticipate an epic Levin Radio show tonight, if not, beyond that, the Landmark Legal Foundation entering directly into litigation to expose this stinking pile of dung. This kind of abuse is right in their wheelhouse.
……Which asks the question….How in the hell did THIS slip through the Progressive sensors and appear on Yahoo…..and even more to the point does this indicate ABC is leaving the Leftwing plantation?
– Mayhaps they are finally getting tired of low ratings and revenue.
Oooo… the Leftard response runs the lines of the profanity-laced Wonkette that targeting the “teabaggers” made absolute and perfect sense!
that break the law
Y’know, those commandments written on stone tablets brought down from the top o’ the mountain. They’ve no idea how primitive they are at the Wonkette, do they?
they shouldn’t have apologized.
The talking point could have just been that groups with “tea party” or “patriot” were the fastest growing groups so they essentially tagged themselves for audit. The MSM would have easily passed that along. You and I would know is was BS but, it would have worked.
– We are now witnessing the orchestration of a massive political train wreck folks. Unbelievable.
– All we need now is a bright red hammer and sickle flag flying over the WH.
We are now witnessing
Or not witnessing, as the case may be, it being an “off the record” orchestration between those of a feather flocking together.
Geez, BBH, howzabout a NSFW warning for the pictur at that link?!?!
Better still, NSP: Not Safe, Period.
Why’s Obama hugging one of the dwarves from The Hobbit?
…one of the uglier dwarves, that is.
Carney is lying his ass off in this presser.
– Why do you hate hobbits?
– Apparently the ABC article was the final straw. The drip, drip is now fast becoming Niagara Falls, as various “innocent” MSM sources begin the work of temporizing their positions up til now.
Carney is lying his ass off in this presser.
So status quo ante then, as he’s never been disposed to do anything other. The news regarding Jay Carney arrives when he chooses to tell the truth about anything, or in the alternative, about his incessant lying.
True enough, sdferr.
– Even if this “Great Technicolor Benghazi-Gate” brings down the entire Bumblefuck administration it won’t begin to undo all the damage the fucking Progressives/Demorats have done to our country.
– But it would be a good start.
It’s a start, BBH. I’m waiting for an unidentified spook from the CIA to throw Brennan and his O-ness under the bus. Brennan is a new hire, so there won’t be any institutional loyalty to him and O! has treated the CIA like shit since he took office. It could be payback time.
– Hillery is probably pacing back and forth in her office right now, screaming at underlings, and trying to get slick Willy on the phone.
– Treated them like shit, hell they tried to lay all this at the CIA’s doorstep.
– Has the presser started yet?
Choking the life until dead.
Times like this I almost regret not being a Calvinist. Regicide being just hunk-dory with them.
Carney’s spin is that the CIA went to the mattresses in order to save the striped pants crowd over at State…
Yeah sure, those two agencies just loooove each other that much.
– Yeh Leigh, he’s lying and double talking his ass off.
One of the sweetest aspects of the marvel the Framers bequeathed us was the mechanism of impeachment, precluding the necessity of regicide. If they hadn’t such a device, they’d have gone straight for the king’s throat right along with us.
But here we are, watching the abandonment of the tools provided. Can’t possibly bode well for the tyrant, can it?
I keep expecting Ashton Kutchter to come out and proclaim us all punk’d.
BBH, I’m loving this even though we aren’t learning anything new about the depths of the regime’s mendacity. The reporters are being disrespectful, interrupting and mocking his answers as bullshit. Asking to see original source material and wanting to know what the problem is with letting them see?
Heh.
Previously I’d conclude blaming Langley to be a tremendous mistake, but given that the Obamites have already shown themselves able to punish with impunity I doubt you’ll see them suffer any direct consequences.
Xenophon, Hiero, ch. 7;
*** When Simonides had listened to all this he asked: “Pray, how comes it, Hiero, if tyranny is a thing so vile, and this is your verdict, that you do not rid yourself of so great an evil, and that none other, for that matter, who has once acquired it, ever yet surrendered despotic power?” [12]
“Simonides,” said he, “this is the crowning misery of tyrannic power, that it cannot even be got rid of. For how could any tyrant ever find means to repay in full all whom he has robbed, or himself serve all the terms of imprisonment that he has inflicted? Or how could he forfeit a life for every man whom he has put to death? [13] Ah, Simonides,” he cried, “if it profits any man to hang himself, know what my finding is: a tyrant has most to gain by it, since he alone can neither keep nor lay down his troubles with profit.” ***
– Yeh Bumblefuck and Hildebeast are outright scapegoating them, and they seem to be content to roll over.
– Apparently there are so many Obomites in key positions in the agency, the “under-the-bus” designee’s are ok with it.
They go through underlings like socks. Maybe we have a double agent in there?
Presser here.
Shorter Carney: Hero of Benghazi disclosure has always been the Administration. Because Brennan confirmation.
This clown’s facial tells are even more entertaining than Hillary’s were when she lied to Congress.
Carney: Because Mitt Romney.
No, really.
This clown’s facial tells are even more entertaining than Hillary’s were when she lied to Congress.
No kidding. Carney and whatshisname at State, the fat guy who’s a spokeshole, Thomas V? V-something. Anyway, he gets the blotchy complexion all up his neck and across his forehead. He practically hauls out a handkerchief to mop his face.
Carney: RICE TOLD YOU EXTREMISTS WERE INVOLVED. YES, WE DID.
Carney: PLUS WE TOLD CONGRESS. YES. WE TOLD CONGRESS, THOSE JERKS.
OH, AND REPUBLICAN POLITICIZATION. BASTARDS.
WE DIDN’T TELL YOU THEN BECAUSE WE’RE TELLING YOU NOW. SEE? HERE I AM.
Judas Maude, this is what we’ve come to.
Has he covered the “we already talked about this months ago” part yet, even though months ago they put it off?
That’s always good for a chuckle.
#Carney’s Furrowed Brow of Concern.
The child.
I doubted the Obamites would succeed in pushing any major legislation following Sandy Hook.
I’m equally doubtful they will suffer any consequences from this debacle. The media’s interest in this is only to assure that their own curiosity has been sated.
Once they feel they’ve gotten a handle on the actual facts they’ll recognize further action does not serve their own desires and then they tell the rest of us it is time to move on.
– Watch in the coming days how hard they try to make sure Bumblefuck is kept out of any “accidental” exposure to unscripted settings, or unscripted reporters questions. Same with Billery.
– What ever they’re paying Carney, it probably isn’t enough.
“- Watch in the coming days how hard they try to make sure Bumblefuck is kept out of any “accidental” exposure to unscripted settings, or unscripted reporters questions.”
There will be no Sam Donaldson ‘shouting’ inaudible questions over the rotor wash with this administration.
White House holds Benghazi briefing with reporters — off the record; Update: More whistleblowers coming? Update: “Deep background”
have some fresh outrage
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES UNCONSTITUTIONAL SPEECH CODES AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES NATIONWIDE
Who knew that Obama had instituted the American Left’s version of Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice?
they maybe proggslims
Well, so much for the ‘one free grope’ rule.
– Carney on Benghazi edits: “Need I remind you that a certain Mr. Mitt Romney tried to make political hay of the attack?”
– Because, you know, the lying and incompetence and dead Americans isn’t the important thing here. Its that Mittens had the audacity to even mention it when fearless leader was in the middle of a campaign.
– Look closely folks. What you are seeing is the classic case of selling ones soul for a paycheck and a seat at the tyrants table.
When you have to start explaining, you’re losing. Just a pro-tip for Jay Carney.
And Barky’s Carnival countered with Big Bird. The media circus obligingly followed their lead.
No one?
I’ll answer that bit of speculation myself then.
We’ve more on our side who’d rather spend time in ivory towers than in bloody courtyards. But the Left? Never lacking for ‘volunteers’ to man a mace.
Damn, but I miss Breitbart.
Asking uncomfortable questions=making political hay.
I didn’t realize the equation was that simple.
if the listener takes offense to sexually related speech for any reason, no matter how irrationally or unreasonably, the speaker may be punished.
– So the standard, based on the newly discovered Constitutional clause Ia that sexual speech is prohibited means that the next fucking Progturd that accuses anyone of homophobia is in the shit.
– Ok.
bbh, just ask the proggturd if they are pro gun control and pro abortion.
Tell the proggturd they are racist for supporting gun control and abortion on demand.
Step back so as not to get hit by debris from exploding proggturd head.
– Black on black crime.
On Friday, TMZ caught up with Rodman, who implied that he was just picking up President Obama’s slack when it comes to negotiating Bae’s release. “We got a black president (who) can’t even go talk to (Kim),” Rodman told the paparazzo.
“Obama can’t do s–t, I don’t know why he won’t go talk to him.”
– Denis won’t be getting any invites to the right parties anymore.
10 crazy things the IRS asked Tea Party groups
baracky’s liv base hardest hit
Dennis Rodman
RIPS OBAMA OVER N. KOREA
‘He Can’t Do S**t’
Need I remind you that Romney was making political hay out of the asinine statement from YOUR Cairo embassy (which you later retracted) before the Benghazi attack ever happened and you’ve been conflating Benghazi with absolutely everything else ever since, you fucking scumbag?
…was right?
“you fucking scumbag?”
oh please mr carneybarker is with the cool crowd.
Wake me up when the shooting starts.
Everything else is just farts in the wind at this point.
I got better shit to do than belabor the obvious….
Previously I’d conclude blaming Langley to be a tremendous mistake,
I have it on good authority that Langley has the capacity to capture and save every. last. byte. that traverses their network, and that they can reconstruct any e-mail, any text message, any document that went out on the wire, and link it to the NICs whence it originated and arrived.
Depending, of course, on what kinds of archives they keep.
Cumulus is trying to explain it’s tepid earnings. You know, Cumulus, the network that decided it needed a Rush alternative that wasn’t so icky.
And thus…
Well, let’s face it, it’s not fair that some people have two functioning kidneys when some people only have one, or even none.
I don’t like the sound of this.
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