I know that with comments like this you are probably just baiting, but I will bite.
On one side there is you, on the other, a giant non-partisan majority believes what the IRS employees did was wrong. Including the non-partisan inspector general, and the democratic president in the white house and many in congress. There is something wrong with what they did. Extra scrutiny to groups applying for tax exempt status is fine as long as it is applied equally, which it wasn't.
And it is simply your opinion that they weren't interested in social welfare by your own subjective bias. Voter education is widely accepted as a social welfare initiative. Just because you disagree with the education they offer doesn't mean it isn't as legitimate as groups touting the danger of a voter id law experiencing the tax exempt status advantage.
and as a simple aside, if you don't like people "taking advantage" of tax code quit supporting politicians involved in writing tax laws with the ambiguity akin to the sexuality of
I am happy to admit my subjective bias. I wish Obama would call bullshit on this non-scandal too. And I don't support the tax code as it stands... We should reform it, but the Tea Party wants to destroy it.
This is an absolute non-scandal. No one should have been asked to resign. No one in the IRS should have apologized. Because of the bullshit Citizens United ruling, a swarm of bullshit political groups have been applying for tax-exempt status to take advantage of the ruling... none of these Tea Party groups care about social welfare... 100% of Tea Party groups are bullshit... None of them should be given tax-exempt status... the IRS was right to pay more scrutiny to their applications.
Wake up and turn off msnbc bro. Even most dems in washington know that what the irs did was wrong. The Tea Party is bullshit?? I'll never understand you people that are against the people standing up for a more fiscal responible government. But let me guess....the OWS makes your dick hard...right? :roll: :fp:
I am happy to admit my subjective bias. I wish Obama would call bullshit on this non-scandal too. And I don't support the tax code as it stands... We should reform it, but the Tea Party wants to destroy it.
You obviously haven't bothered to read the IG report or ANY articles directly relating to it so I will take what you have to say on the matter with a grain of salt.
It is clear to just about everyone but you that they targeted political opposition.
It isn't acceptable in what is supposed to be a republic free from gov't persecution for one's beliefs
that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
I am happy to admit my subjective bias. I wish Obama would call bullshit on this non-scandal too. And I don't support the tax code as it stands... We should reform it, but the Tea Party wants to destroy it.
You obviously haven't bothered to read the IG report or ANY articles directly relating to it so I will take what you have to say on the matter with a grain of salt.
It is clear to just about everyone but you that they targeted political opposition.
It isn't acceptable in what is supposed to be a republic free from gov't persecution for one's beliefs
these groups are not supposed to give money to candidates, correct?
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
I am happy to admit my subjective bias. I wish Obama would call bullshit on this non-scandal too. And I don't support the tax code as it stands... We should reform it, but the Tea Party wants to destroy it.
You obviously haven't bothered to read the IG report or ANY articles directly relating to it so I will take what you have to say on the matter with a grain of salt.
It is clear to just about everyone but you that they targeted political opposition.
It isn't acceptable in what is supposed to be a republic free from gov't persecution for one's beliefs
these groups are not supposed to give money to candidates, correct?
correct
edit:
not sure your point?
that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
point is, if your group is anti tax and has said so hundreds of times and you are going to support certain candidates, why apply for non-profit status? even if you get it, you can lose that status if you break the rules.
why did the irs under bush revoke the tax free status of a black church for speaking out against the iraq war?
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
point is, if your group is anti tax and has said so hundreds of times and you are going to support certain candidates, why apply for non-profit status? even if you get it, you can lose that status if you break the rules.
why did the irs under bush revoke the tax free status of a black church for speaking out against the iraq war?
Voter education on certain issues is a legitimate social welfare initiative. At least it is if you are pushing a democratic agenda apparently because progressive applications were approved during the time when NO groups with tea party sounding names were approved.
Not sure why bush was brought up...I don't care about partisan bullshit like bush did this in 2002 or Clinton did this in 1996...don't give a fuck. This is happening right now. Anytime a specific group is targeted for persecution by any gov't agency because of their name and implied political beliefs it is wrong.
They weren't given the chance to lose their status because they were purposefully delayed in the application process because of the name of their group. this is wrong no matter who it happens to...
I don't know why this is so hard to understand. I am just glad that most of those on the left side of the aisle understand that this is wrong in theory.
Extra scrutiny to groups is fine if it is applied equally, it appears here that it was not and that is wrong.
Agents of the IRS acted out of turn here and should be let go. I am not saying this is something that the President should be held accountable for, but people at the IRS should ABSOLUTELY be held accountable.
that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce on a second-term Democratic president they loathe, do not respect, and certainly do not fear. Sound familiar? Perhaps reminiscent of Bill Clinton’s second term, after the Monica Lewinsky story broke? During that time, Republicans became so consumed by their hatred of Clinton and their conviction that this event would bring him down that they convinced themselves the rest of the country was just as outraged by his behavior as they were. By the way, what was Clinton’s lowest Gallup job-approval rating in his second term, throughout the travails of investigations and impeachment? It was 53 percent. The conservative echo machine had worked itself into such a frenzy, the GOP didn’t realize that the outrage was largely confined to the ranks of those who never voted for Clinton anyway.
These days, the country is even more polarized, and the conservative echo chamber is louder than ever before. Many conservatives made it all the way to Election Day last November unaware that their White House nominee was falling short. How could Mitt Romney possibly lose when everyone they knew was voting for him? Except that he did lose, and it wasn’t even a very close race. Five other post-World War II presidential elections had closer outcomes.
The simple fact is that although the Republican sharks are circling, at least so far, there isn’t a trace of blood in the water. A new CNN/ORC survey of 923 Americans this past Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, pegged Obama’s job-approval rating at 53 percent, up a statistically insignificant 2 points since their last poll, April 5-7, which was taken before the Benghazi, IRS, and AP-wiretap stories came to dominate the news and congressional hearing rooms. His disapproval rating was down 2 points since that last survey.
In Gallup’s tracking poll, Obama’s average job-approval rating so far this year is 50 percent. For this past week, May 13-19, his average was 49 percent, the same as the week before. The most recent three-day moving average, through Sunday, May 19, was also 49 percent. Over the past two weeks, even as these three stories/scandals have dominated the news, they have had precisely zero effect on the president’s job-approval numbers. His ratings are still bouncing around in the same narrow range they have been for weeks.
Maybe that will change. Maybe these allegations will start getting traction with voters. But it might just be that Americans are more focused on an economy that is gradually coming out of the longest and deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Most economists say the current quarter will show a slowdown in economic growth from the first quarter’s 2.5 percent pace, but they expect the economy to be stronger in the second half of this year. People may be encouraged by housing prices rising and the stock market setting record highs—and their retirement accounts may actually be looking better. The University of Michigan’s widely watched Consumer Sentiment Index is at the highest level since 2007, before the recession. The Conference Board’s more volatile Consumer Confidence Index is also generally moving up, although it isn’t at the record level of the Michigan index. The National Federation of Independent Business’s Index of Small Business Optimism, which took a deep plunge after the election, increased last month and is on an upward trend since the beginning of the year. Maybe the people and businesses polled have written off Washington as a political cesspool, and so these stories don’t affect them much. Perhaps they see this town as a place that can’t seem to get anything right.
One wonders how long Republicans are going to bark up this tree, perhaps the wrong tree, while they ignore their own party’s problems, which were shown to be profound in the most recent elections. Clearly none of these recent issues has had a real impact on voters yet. Republicans seem to be betting everything on them, just as they did in 1998—about which even Newt Gingrich (who was House speaker that year) commented recently to NPR, “I think we overreached in ’98.”
Republicans and conservatives who are so consumed by these “scandals” should ask themselves why, despite wall-to-wall media attention and the constant focus inside the Beltway—some are even talking about grounds for impeachment—Obama’s job-approval needle hasn’t moved. The CNN/ORC poll suggests that people are aware of and watching the news, but they aren’t reacting, at least not yet. Clearly Republicans hope the public will begin to respond. But at what point do they decide that maybe voters might be more interested in other issues or worries than about politicians on one side pointing fingers and throwing allegations at those on the other side? At what point might the GOP conclude that it is just digging the hole a little deeper?
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
This is an absolute non-scandal. No one should have been asked to resign. No one in the IRS should have apologized. Because of the bullshit Citizens United ruling, a swarm of bullshit political groups have been applying for tax-exempt status to take advantage of the ruling... none of these Tea Party groups care about social welfare... 100% of Tea Party groups are bullshit... None of them should be given tax-exempt status... the IRS was right to pay more scrutiny to their applications.
Wake up and turn off msnbc bro. Even most dems in washington know that what the irs did was wrong. The Tea Party is bullshit?? I'll never understand you people that are against the people standing up for a more fiscal responible government. But let me guess....the OWS makes your dick hard...right? :roll: :fp:
The only group that's had it's application denied is a liberal group. They were targeting political groups... as they should be. It just so happens that the latest fad of political groups trying to ride the gravy train is Tea Party groups.
The Tea Party will never accomplish anything and neither will OWS.
This is an absolute non-scandal. No one should have been asked to resign. No one in the IRS should have apologized. Because of the bullshit Citizens United ruling, a swarm of bullshit political groups have been applying for tax-exempt status to take advantage of the ruling... none of these Tea Party groups care about social welfare... 100% of Tea Party groups are bullshit... None of them should be given tax-exempt status... the IRS was right to pay more scrutiny to their applications.
Wake up and turn off msnbc bro. Even most dems in washington know that what the irs did was wrong. The Tea Party is bullshit?? I'll never understand you people that are against the people standing up for a more fiscal responible government. But let me guess....the OWS makes your dick hard...right? :roll: :fp:
The only group that's had it's application denied is a liberal group. They were targeting political groups... as they should be. It just so happens that the latest fad of political groups trying to ride the gravy train is Tea Party groups.
The Tea Party will never accomplish anything and neither will OWS.
some people said the same ting about the civil rights movement when Lincoln was shot.
Apparently the IRS has an appreciation for the Constitution after all – or at least the Fifth Amendment which protects American citizens from self-incrimination.
The Internal Revenue Service official who oversees the department responsible for targeting and harassing conservative non-profit organizations chose to invoke the Fifth Amendment in her testimony before Congress rather than shed light on this growing scandal. Clearly there is something serious the American people are not being told.
Who gave authorization to target American citizens based on their political beliefs? Where was the oversight? What did the White House know and when?
The American people deserve answers, but the woman who was in the know isn’t talking.
That’s why I have instructed the RNC Counsel’s Office to submit a FOIA request to the IRS. When the liberal group ProPublica filed a FOIA request with the IRS in November for information on conservative groups, the IRS released that confidential information to them within thirteen days. We hope the IRS handles our request for information with the same urgency. I will keep you updated.
Apparently the IRS has an appreciation for the Constitution after all – or at least the Fifth Amendment which protects American citizens from self-incrimination.
The Internal Revenue Service official who oversees the department responsible for targeting and harassing conservative non-profit organizations chose to invoke the Fifth Amendment in her testimony before Congress rather than shed light on this growing scandal. Clearly there is something serious the American people are not being told.
Who gave authorization to target American citizens based on their political beliefs? Where was the oversight? What did the White House know and when?
The American people deserve answers, but the woman who was in the know isn’t talking.
That’s why I have instructed the RNC Counsel’s Office to submit a FOIA request to the IRS. When the liberal group ProPublica filed a FOIA request with the IRS in November for information on conservative groups, the IRS released that confidential information to them within thirteen days. We hope the IRS handles our request for information with the same urgency. I will keep you updated.
another e-mail I got today.
Godfather.
From which politician and was there a fundraising appeal included?
Apparently the IRS has an appreciation for the Constitution after all – or at least the Fifth Amendment which protects American citizens from self-incrimination.
The Internal Revenue Service official who oversees the department responsible for targeting and harassing conservative non-profit organizations chose to invoke the Fifth Amendment in her testimony before Congress rather than shed light on this growing scandal. Clearly there is something serious the American people are not being told.
Who gave authorization to target American citizens based on their political beliefs? Where was the oversight? What did the White House know and when?
The American people deserve answers, but the woman who was in the know isn’t talking.
That’s why I have instructed the RNC Counsel’s Office to submit a FOIA request to the IRS. When the liberal group ProPublica filed a FOIA request with the IRS in November for information on conservative groups, the IRS released that confidential information to them within thirteen days. We hope the IRS handles our request for information with the same urgency. I will keep you updated.
another e-mail I got today.
Godfather.
From which politician and was there a fundraising appeal included?
it dosn't matter and yes they want money but I also get the same stuff from the obama camp and they want money also...they're friggin politions
Apparently the IRS has an appreciation for the Constitution after all – or at least the Fifth Amendment which protects American citizens from self-incrimination.
The Internal Revenue Service official who oversees the department responsible for targeting and harassing conservative non-profit organizations chose to invoke the Fifth Amendment in her testimony before Congress rather than shed light on this growing scandal. Clearly there is something serious the American people are not being told.
Who gave authorization to target American citizens based on their political beliefs? Where was the oversight? What did the White House know and when?
The American people deserve answers, but the woman who was in the know isn’t talking.
That’s why I have instructed the RNC Counsel’s Office to submit a FOIA request to the IRS. When the liberal group ProPublica filed a FOIA request with the IRS in November for information on conservative groups, the IRS released that confidential information to them within thirteen days. We hope the IRS handles our request for information with the same urgency. I will keep you updated.
another e-mail I got today.
Godfather.
From which politician and was there a fundraising appeal included?
it dosn't matter and yes they want money but I also get the same stuff from the obama camp and they want money also...they're friggin politions
Godfather.
Oh, no doubt. I was just curious who it was using this as a fundraising appeal and giving instructions to the RNC Counsel's office.
some people said the same ting about the civil rights movement when Lincoln was shot.
Godfather.
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WHAT Civil Rights movement when Lincoln was shot? You mean, Dr. Martin Luther King, right?
...well I was refering to freeing the slaves but MLK will work also.
Godfather.
...
You know... the Civil War ended in 1865 and the Civil Rights Acts that banned discrimination in employment practices and public accommodations, restored voting rights, and banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing were in 1968. You may have even been alive for the latter.
So, it was 100 years or so between the two. The end of the Civil War did not mean equal rights for the former slaves. Americans still treated them as not quite human for the next 100 years.
Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
Hail, Hail!!!
that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
I think we all got the point, but to compare this situation to the civil rights movement is really ridiculous... offensively ridiculous actually. No Tea Party member had has their life ended, or their general well-being threatened. They just might be having a hard time convincing the IRS that they shouldn't have to pay taxes on the money they collect... because they are supposed to be spending a majority of their time promoting social welfare, rather than promoting a political agenda.
I think we all got the point, but to compare this situation to the civil rights movement is really ridiculous... offensively ridiculous actually. No Tea Party member had has their life ended, or their general well-being threatened. They just might be having a hard time convincing the IRS that they shouldn't have to pay taxes on the money they collect... because they are supposed to be spending a majority of their time promoting social welfare, rather than promoting a political agenda.
that isn't the only communication the IRS sent out. That was simply to one group. They asked for things that are almost impossible to provide. They asked a pro-life group what are the content of your members' prayers? do you think that is acceptable, and do you think it is possible to provide the content of all member's prayers?
I don't think there is any denying that targeting a group for extra scrutiny because of its name is a way we want to go forward. Which is why the non-partisan inspector general recommended changes to make sure it doesn't happen...I am not sure how you get to the conclusion they did nothing wrong when the IRS admitted what they did was not the right way of doing things or how they should proceed in the future...
that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
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I am happy to admit my subjective bias. I wish Obama would call bullshit on this non-scandal too. And I don't support the tax code as it stands... We should reform it, but the Tea Party wants to destroy it.
Wake up and turn off msnbc bro. Even most dems in washington know that what the irs did was wrong. The Tea Party is bullshit?? I'll never understand you people that are against the people standing up for a more fiscal responible government. But let me guess....the OWS makes your dick hard...right? :roll: :fp:
You obviously haven't bothered to read the IG report or ANY articles directly relating to it so I will take what you have to say on the matter with a grain of salt.
It is clear to just about everyone but you that they targeted political opposition.
It isn't acceptable in what is supposed to be a republic free from gov't persecution for one's beliefs
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
correct
edit:
not sure your point?
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
why did the irs under bush revoke the tax free status of a black church for speaking out against the iraq war?
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Voter education on certain issues is a legitimate social welfare initiative. At least it is if you are pushing a democratic agenda apparently because progressive applications were approved during the time when NO groups with tea party sounding names were approved.
Not sure why bush was brought up...I don't care about partisan bullshit like bush did this in 2002 or Clinton did this in 1996...don't give a fuck. This is happening right now. Anytime a specific group is targeted for persecution by any gov't agency because of their name and implied political beliefs it is wrong.
They weren't given the chance to lose their status because they were purposefully delayed in the application process because of the name of their group. this is wrong no matter who it happens to...
I don't know why this is so hard to understand. I am just glad that most of those on the left side of the aisle understand that this is wrong in theory.
Extra scrutiny to groups is fine if it is applied equally, it appears here that it was not and that is wrong.
Agents of the IRS acted out of turn here and should be let go. I am not saying this is something that the President should be held accountable for, but people at the IRS should ABSOLUTELY be held accountable.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
Republicans’ Hatred of Obama Blinds Them to Public Disinterest in Scandals
http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-hatre ... 37919.html
Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce on a second-term Democratic president they loathe, do not respect, and certainly do not fear. Sound familiar? Perhaps reminiscent of Bill Clinton’s second term, after the Monica Lewinsky story broke? During that time, Republicans became so consumed by their hatred of Clinton and their conviction that this event would bring him down that they convinced themselves the rest of the country was just as outraged by his behavior as they were. By the way, what was Clinton’s lowest Gallup job-approval rating in his second term, throughout the travails of investigations and impeachment? It was 53 percent. The conservative echo machine had worked itself into such a frenzy, the GOP didn’t realize that the outrage was largely confined to the ranks of those who never voted for Clinton anyway.
These days, the country is even more polarized, and the conservative echo chamber is louder than ever before. Many conservatives made it all the way to Election Day last November unaware that their White House nominee was falling short. How could Mitt Romney possibly lose when everyone they knew was voting for him? Except that he did lose, and it wasn’t even a very close race. Five other post-World War II presidential elections had closer outcomes.
The simple fact is that although the Republican sharks are circling, at least so far, there isn’t a trace of blood in the water. A new CNN/ORC survey of 923 Americans this past Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, pegged Obama’s job-approval rating at 53 percent, up a statistically insignificant 2 points since their last poll, April 5-7, which was taken before the Benghazi, IRS, and AP-wiretap stories came to dominate the news and congressional hearing rooms. His disapproval rating was down 2 points since that last survey.
In Gallup’s tracking poll, Obama’s average job-approval rating so far this year is 50 percent. For this past week, May 13-19, his average was 49 percent, the same as the week before. The most recent three-day moving average, through Sunday, May 19, was also 49 percent. Over the past two weeks, even as these three stories/scandals have dominated the news, they have had precisely zero effect on the president’s job-approval numbers. His ratings are still bouncing around in the same narrow range they have been for weeks.
Maybe that will change. Maybe these allegations will start getting traction with voters. But it might just be that Americans are more focused on an economy that is gradually coming out of the longest and deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Most economists say the current quarter will show a slowdown in economic growth from the first quarter’s 2.5 percent pace, but they expect the economy to be stronger in the second half of this year. People may be encouraged by housing prices rising and the stock market setting record highs—and their retirement accounts may actually be looking better. The University of Michigan’s widely watched Consumer Sentiment Index is at the highest level since 2007, before the recession. The Conference Board’s more volatile Consumer Confidence Index is also generally moving up, although it isn’t at the record level of the Michigan index. The National Federation of Independent Business’s Index of Small Business Optimism, which took a deep plunge after the election, increased last month and is on an upward trend since the beginning of the year. Maybe the people and businesses polled have written off Washington as a political cesspool, and so these stories don’t affect them much. Perhaps they see this town as a place that can’t seem to get anything right.
One wonders how long Republicans are going to bark up this tree, perhaps the wrong tree, while they ignore their own party’s problems, which were shown to be profound in the most recent elections. Clearly none of these recent issues has had a real impact on voters yet. Republicans seem to be betting everything on them, just as they did in 1998—about which even Newt Gingrich (who was House speaker that year) commented recently to NPR, “I think we overreached in ’98.”
Republicans and conservatives who are so consumed by these “scandals” should ask themselves why, despite wall-to-wall media attention and the constant focus inside the Beltway—some are even talking about grounds for impeachment—Obama’s job-approval needle hasn’t moved. The CNN/ORC poll suggests that people are aware of and watching the news, but they aren’t reacting, at least not yet. Clearly Republicans hope the public will begin to respond. But at what point do they decide that maybe voters might be more interested in other issues or worries than about politicians on one side pointing fingers and throwing allegations at those on the other side? At what point might the GOP conclude that it is just digging the hole a little deeper?
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
The only group that's had it's application denied is a liberal group. They were targeting political groups... as they should be. It just so happens that the latest fad of political groups trying to ride the gravy train is Tea Party groups.
The Tea Party will never accomplish anything and neither will OWS.
some people said the same ting about the civil rights movement when Lincoln was shot.
Godfather.
WHAT Civil Rights movement when Lincoln was shot? You mean, Dr. Martin Luther King, right?
Hail, Hail!!!
...well I was refering to freeing the slaves but MLK will work also.
Godfather.
The Internal Revenue Service official who oversees the department responsible for targeting and harassing conservative non-profit organizations chose to invoke the Fifth Amendment in her testimony before Congress rather than shed light on this growing scandal. Clearly there is something serious the American people are not being told.
Who gave authorization to target American citizens based on their political beliefs? Where was the oversight? What did the White House know and when?
The American people deserve answers, but the woman who was in the know isn’t talking.
That’s why I have instructed the RNC Counsel’s Office to submit a FOIA request to the IRS. When the liberal group ProPublica filed a FOIA request with the IRS in November for information on conservative groups, the IRS released that confidential information to them within thirteen days. We hope the IRS handles our request for information with the same urgency. I will keep you updated.
another e-mail I got today.
Godfather.
From which politician and was there a fundraising appeal included?
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
it dosn't matter and yes they want money but I also get the same stuff from the obama camp and they want money also...they're friggin politions
Godfather.
Oh, no doubt. I was just curious who it was using this as a fundraising appeal and giving instructions to the RNC Counsel's office.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Chairman, Republican National Committee
Godfather.
Thanks.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
You know... the Civil War ended in 1865 and the Civil Rights Acts that banned discrimination in employment practices and public accommodations, restored voting rights, and banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing were in 1968. You may have even been alive for the latter.
So, it was 100 years or so between the two. The end of the Civil War did not mean equal rights for the former slaves. Americans still treated them as not quite human for the next 100 years.
Hail, Hail!!!
Godfather.
you kind of mixed the metaphors but I got it.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
"I did nothing wrong" - next breath - "but I won't explain any further"
I think we all got the point, but to compare this situation to the civil rights movement is really ridiculous... offensively ridiculous actually. No Tea Party member had has their life ended, or their general well-being threatened. They just might be having a hard time convincing the IRS that they shouldn't have to pay taxes on the money they collect... because they are supposed to be spending a majority of their time promoting social welfare, rather than promoting a political agenda.
Here is a copy of that dreaded letter from Lois Lerner: http://media.aclj.org/pdf/lois-lerner-t ... 6-2012.pdf
Doesn't quite match up to Jim Crow.
that isn't the only communication the IRS sent out. That was simply to one group. They asked for things that are almost impossible to provide. They asked a pro-life group what are the content of your members' prayers? do you think that is acceptable, and do you think it is possible to provide the content of all member's prayers?
I don't think there is any denying that targeting a group for extra scrutiny because of its name is a way we want to go forward. Which is why the non-partisan inspector general recommended changes to make sure it doesn't happen...I am not sure how you get to the conclusion they did nothing wrong when the IRS admitted what they did was not the right way of doing things or how they should proceed in the future...
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan