Posted on 08/01/2013 3:35:07 PM PDT by rightwingerpatriot
The old adage says that where there's smoke, there's fire is getting truer with every new revelation in the ongoing IRS scandal. Since the onset of the scandal, America has been told a pack of lies from the Obama administration and various federal agencies. First they claimed that it was just a couple of rogue agents in the Cincinnati office, which has been refuted in that orders came down from Washington to interfere with conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Then we found out that other federal agencies got involved with harassing and intimidating tea party conservative groups. Next came the news that the IRS gave documents of said groups (which was illegal) to at least one liberal group, possibly more.
The lies kept piling on as time went by and Congress probed deeper. We were told that there was no conservative bias as liberal groups were targeted as well, but this was just a smokescreen. No liberal groups were denied tax-exempt status, unlike conservative groups and tea party groups who had previously gotten such status found themselves being audited. Finally, IRS official Lois Lerner pleaded the Fifth Amendment at her Congressional hearing as she is obviously up to her eyeballs in lawbreaking.
Now another shoe has dropped in the IRS harassment of conservative groups. Emails have surfaced that shows Lois Lerner colluding with an attorney in the Federal Election Commission to influence the FEC's votes on cases involving a conservative non-profit organization. As reported by National Review Online, the emails show that an FEC attorney received tax information on the American Future Fund, a conservative group, before recommending that the FEC prosecute the group for violating campaign financing laws. The IRS divulging such information is highly illegal, but it appears that Lois Lerner supplied such information.
Lois Lerner has ties with the FEC, where she worked from 1986 to 1995. At the FEC, Lerner showed the same draconian progressive zeal that she showed at the IRS later on by specifically targeting conservative groups. While she and her cohorts claim that her interest lied in diminishing the influence of money in politics, but statistics show that she was unconcerned with Democratic monetary influence and focused on Republican monetary influence.
This situation just continues to illustrate the workings of progressive liberals and their mindset. They ignore the law when it would harm their side and they use the full weight of government to grind down and destroy those they disagree with. That's why they continually work to expand the size, scope, and power of the government and why so many government workers are progressive liberals. Like a cancer, once they're entrenched, they only seek to spread by hiring others of their ilk and forcing out the unbelievers.
Sadly, the IRS scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. How many government agencies are pushing the progressive agenda through rules and regulations that Congress isn't even aware of? These scandals are not the result of a rogue worker or two, but a coordinated campaign across multiple federal agencies. We need to dramatically cut back the size and scope of government, but to do that, we'll need to elect politicians who actually believe in the Constitution and have a spine. Easier said than done.
Ranking House Committeeman Elijah Cummings has been saying that this is over for at least a month now and has been outspoken in his disputes with the Committee Chair, Daryl Issa! I guess that this is what is meant by phony scandal according to the President and his spokespeople.
This is like Nixon talking about that 3rd-rate burglary done at the Watergate.
To the corrupt Congress that BENEFITED from this evil,
this means nothing.
To the American people who have had their country
stolen by Indonesians, Mexicans, Iranians,
and al Qaeda invited in by the Impostor-in-Chief,
and an ultracorrupt DO”J” run by a hoodlum
who makes the evil Bulger look small in comparison,
there is NO more belief that the useless
docile, greedy Congress will EVER do anything
(except continue at their banks, troughs, and brothels).
THIS is what is going to happen in Health Care.....REPUBLICANS WON'T GET WHAT THEY NEED....DEMOCRATS will get MORE THAN THEY NEED!!!
Obamaphones and the IRS PROVE what I'm saying is correct.
Why all the lies and stalling tactics including taking the 5th by your people if it’s so phony. I’am sure there is a phony jail somewhere for those that committed phony crimes.
Check and see how many agencies are manned by the members of the same union then you’ll know how many agencies are involved in the “fake” scandle
With phoney baloney sandwiches and moldy oranges.
No wonder that bitch took the fifth and administrative lead.
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