Obama Cannot be Blamed for the IRS Scandal. Here’s Why:

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DainBramaged (37,736 posts)

Obama Cannot be Blamed for the IRS Scandal. Here’s Why:


 
Yes, the idiots at the Internal Revenue Service who are responsible for this idiocy need investigated and dealt with. But trying to tie this to the Prexy is nonsense. Here’s why:

Number A: the man in charge of the IRS when the activity was actually going on was an appointee of Bush The Dumber, held over while Obama tried to get Senate “Republicans” to confirm a new guy. The Bushie quit after a stop was put to the scandal crap.

Letter 2: the Obama administration still does not have one of their appointees in charge, because the aforementioned Repubs have blocked his nominees. So we’ve never had an Obaminoid in charge of the IRS, and that is the fault of the Puerile Pachyderms.

This means, Gentle Reader, that if one wishes to blame anyone at the top, that blame must be placed upon the Teapublicans.

Here’s a buck saying they never admit it. Any takers?

Mr. Blunt and Cranky

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/obama-cannot-be-blamed-for-the-irs-scandal-heres-why/

http://election.democraticunderground.com/10022849978

Our buddy Brain Damaged didn't write the OP, but it is the same line of (non) thinking that our buddy uses. 

[J P Sousa]

IRS Commissioner Shulman appointed by Bush.

As IRS Commissioner Shulman works under the supervision of Treasury Secretary Geithner.

Federal Election Commission records show Shulman donated $500 to the Democratic National Committee in 2004 while working as an executive at NASD.

[thundley4]

Number A

Letter 2

The stooooopid is strong with that one.  Trying to be clever and failing.

"Prexy"  sexy pres?   *shudder*

[DLR Pyro]

It happened on obama's watch.  He's accountable DUmbass.

[Delmar]

If Barry can't be blamed, then why did I see him sweating bullets on TV today?  Guilty!

[delilahmused]

Okay, DUmmies, but you just remember that rule when we have President Rand Paul and Vice President Ted Cruz! Oh, and Sara Palin for energy secretary...just because it piss you off and frighten you so much.

Cindie

[Duke Nukum]

For some reason, the OP's opening line reminds me of the scrawl found during the Jack the Ripper investigation.

[Big Don]

Bitch please, you assholes raised hell when Bush got rid of Clinton's trash in the US Attorney's offices...

[Doc Savage]

It happened on obama's watch.  He's accountable DUmbass.

Just like when the skipper of a Naval ship is asleep in his bunk and the OOD hits another boat.  The CO is held responsible. 

There was a commentator on CNBC this AM saying how separate the director of the IRS is from the administration.  He worked for the Clinton admin on his staff.  He said that there were only policy issues discussed when they met, no politics, nothing else.  But, that said, he is a political appointee, so if things go south in the department, he is the face of the department, he pays.  The President appointed him, it is his problem too.

[Gina]

So an Appointee of Bush had it out for the Conservatives?

[diesel driver]

Okay, DUmmies, but you just remember that rule when we have President Rand Paul and Vice President Ted Cruz! Oh, and Sara Palin for energy secretary...just because it piss you off and frighten you so much.

Cindie

I like! 

Add Ted Nugent as interior secretary, Rush Limbaugh as Sec. of Education, Rick Perry as Director of the EPA, and Ben Carson as head of HHS, we could rid this country of liberals within 2 years.  (A majority of them in 2 minutes, when their heads spontaneously combust!)

[BlueStateSaint]

I've heard a report that the Acting Director of the IRS was going to leave in June anyway, so firing him is window-dressing, pure and simple.

[Gina]

I've heard a report that the Acting Director of the IRS was going to leave in June anyway, so firing him is window-dressing, pure and simple.

yes and it makes Obama look even more inept if that is even possible. Hearing him say he is ANGRY is so fauxObama.  He better watch out or he will be labeled an angry black man 

[jtyangel]

Number A

Letter 2

The stooooopid is strong with that one.  Trying to be clever and failing.

"Prexy"  sexy pres?   *shudder*

Yeah I saw that too. Pathetic when a grown woman looks on an office like that and the person filling that position in terms of a damn teenager swooning over a rock star. Grow the hell up comes to mind.

[Gina]

BITCH PLEASE! (not jty)
This is sexy

 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

You little tyrants are full of shit. Here's why:

Senate Dems Have as Much to Explain as the IRS


By  Brian Walsh

They quickly sensed the political toxicity associated with Friday's admission by the IRS that they selectively targeted conservative organizations for special government scrutiny, and so Democrats didn't waste any time springing into action. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana, for example, vowed congressional hearings and called the IRS actions "an outrageous abuse of power and a breach of the public's trust."

He was joined by a chorus of other Democrats including Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire who called it "completely unacceptable," Kay Hagan of North Carolina who called it "disturbing and troubling," and Mark Pryor of Arkansas who tweeted that he's "working to get to bottom of this so we can fire those responsible & ensure this never happens again."

Fortunately, voters won't need to look very far. The willful ignorance and revisionist history demonstrated by Senate Democrats on this issue has been breathtaking, even by Washington standards.

Over the last three years, Democratic senators repeatedly and publicly pressured the IRS to engage in the very activities that they are only now condemning today. At the same time, Republicans repeatedly and publicly warned against this abuse of government power and pointed to a series of red flags that strongly suggested conservative political organizations were being targeted by the IRS. Those warnings were deliberately ignored by the Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress.

As the New York Times reported back in 2010 :


With growing scrutiny of the role of tax-exempt groups in political campaigns, Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Democrats by warning about the possible misuse of the Internal Revenue Service to audit conservative groups….And the Republicans are also upset about an I.R.S. review requested by Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who leads the Finance Committee, into the political activities of tax-exempt groups. Such a review threatens to "chill the legitimate exercise of First Amendment rights," wrote two Republican senators, Orrin G. Hatch of Utah and Jon Kyl of Arizona, in a letter sent to the I.R.S. on Wednesday. ... Democrats dismissed the Republicans' complaints as groundless.

You read that correctly.

The same Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee who this week is calling for hearings into IRS activities, specifically called on the IRS to engage in that very conduct back in 2010. And he wasn't the only one. Just last year, a group of seven Senate Democrats sent another letter to the IRS urging them to similarly investigate these outside political organizations.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brian-walsh/2013/05/14/senate-democrats-pushed-for-irs-tea-party-snooping-before-criticizing-it

[txradioguy]

And here's where I blow their stupid "theory" out of the water:

Number A: the man in charge of the IRS when the activity was actually going on was an appointee of Bush The Dumber, held over while Obama tried to get Senate “Republicans” to confirm a new guy. The Bushie quit after a stop was put to the scandal crap.

"Federal Election Commission records show Shulman donated $500 to the Democratic National Committee in 2004 while working as an executive at NASD."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/douglas-shulman/gIQAjjnrAP_topic.html

Letter 2: the Obama administration still does not have one of their appointees in charge, because the aforementioned Repubs have blocked his nominees. So we’ve never had an Obaminoid in charge of the IRS, and that is the fault of the Puerile Pachyderms.

IRS Employees Disproportionately Donate to Obama

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which maintains an online database of political contributions, individuals listing their employer as “IRS” or “Internal Revenue Service” donated a total of $48,827 to Obama in 2012 and gave just $20,361 to Romney. That disparity is mild compared with that of 2008, when IRS employees donated $59,959 to Obama, and just $1,950 to his challenger John McCain.

Slightly over 100 IRS employees donated to Obama in 2012, while only 25 contributed to Romney, according to the database, and most contributed less than $1,000. At least one of the IRS employees who donated to Obama in 2012 — Kim Kitchens — appears to have worked in the agency’s Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements office in Cincinnati, Ohio, as of October 2012, according to IRS documents.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348417/irs-employees-disproportionately-donate-obama


You idiots may not have a guy in the top spot...but it doesn't matter...he's still got virtually the entire IRS supporting him and doing his bidding.

[jtyangel]

BITCH PLEASE! (not jty)
This is sexy

 

That's true. I like the one of him carrying brush on his property. Big difference I think for us is how hot he is would not excuse impeachable behavior or criticism. And lest the dummies think I'm a bigot, Shemar Moore is a 'hella hot' mixed race man... Obamalanga..,not so much.